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Nedda Harrigan
Nedda Harrigan Logan (August 24, 1899 – April 1, 1989) was an American actress. Early life Harrigan was the youngest of 10 children of entertainer Edward Harrigan and his wife, Annie (Braham) Harrigan. Her grandfather was conductor David Braham, and one of her brothers was actor William Harrigan As a child, she sometimes appeared on stage with her father. Her first experiences in acting came at the National Park Seminary in Washington, D.C. Stage In 1918, Harrigan was the leading lady in a production of ''Common Cause'' in San Francisco. She acted in stock theater companies, including the Woodward Players at the Majestic Theater in Detroit. Decades later, Harrigan reflected on the education that she gained from working in stock theater. "There were no ctingschools then," she said. "But you see, there were a lot of stock companies. You learned an awful lot in stock. I played stock every year and learned by just doing." In 1984, Harrigan was production consultant for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Laughing Lady (1929 Film)
''The Laughing Lady'' is a 1929 sound film melodrama directed by Victor Schertzinger, starring Ruth Chatterton and produced and released by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation. It is based on a 1922 British play, ''The Laughing Lady'', by Alfred Sutro. The play was brought to New York in 1923 and put on Broadway starring Ethel Barrymore. A 1924 Paramount silent film retitled ''A Society Scandal'' starred Gloria Swanson. It is now lost. In 1930 a sound version, A Kacago Asszony, was produced by Paramount at its studio in Joinville, France, in Hungarian with a Hungarian director and cast. :fr:Kacagó asszony It was released in the US by Paramount in 1931. Jeanne Eagels was to star in the film but died before production began. Cast *Ruth Chatterton - Marjorie Lee *Clive Brook - Daniel Farr *Dan Healy - Al Brown *Nat Pendleton - James Dugan *Raymond Walburn - Hector Lee *Dorothy Hall - Flo *Nedda Harrigan - Cynthia Bell (*as Hedda Harrigan) *Lillian B. Tonge - Parker *Marguerite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Stage Actresses
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Film Actresses
The following American film actresses are listed alphabetically. It contains both actresses born American and those who acquired American nationality later. Some actors who are well known for both film and TV work are also included in the list of American television actresses. Key to entries: : born in ''Nation'': this person was born abroad but was American by birth : ''Nationality''-born: this person acquired American citizenship later in life : a range is ''birth''–''death'' years : if year of death only is known, that is stated explicitly A * Beverly Aadland 1942–2010 *Mariann Aalda born *Caroline Aaron born *Diahnne Abbott born *Rose Abdoo born * Paula Abdul born *Donzaleigh Abernathy born *Whitney Able born *Candice Accola born *Amy Acker born *Jean Acker 1893–1978 *Bettye Ackerman 1924–2006 *Amy Adams born (born in Italy) * Brooke Adams born *Edie Adams 1927–2008 * Jane Adams born *Joey Lauren Adams born *Julie Adams 1926–2019 *Lillian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Deaths
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 Births
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Street To Broadway
''Main Street to Broadway'' is a 1953 American romantic musical comedy-drama film by independent producer Lester Cowan, his final credit, in collaboration with The Council of the Living Theatre, which provided tie-up with a number of well-known Broadway names. The backstage story features Tom Morton as an aspiring playwright who hopes to stage a Broadway production, Mary Murphy, as a young lady from Indiana, and radio-TV humorist Herb Shriner in a rare acting role as a hardware store owner. Tallulah Bankhead is featured in a parody sequence of herself. The list of Broadway luminaries also playing themselves, in smaller cameos, includes Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore (in his last film), Shirley Booth, Louis Calhern, Faye Emerson, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, Lilli Palmer, John Van Druten and Cornel Wilde. Included is New York baseball manager Leo Durocher. Many others are unidentified, such as Vivian Blaine, glimpsed in a theater lobby. In one scene, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle On The Hudson
''Castle on the Hudson'' (UK title: ''Years Without Days'') is a 1940 American film noir drama (film and television), drama directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien (actor), Pat O'Brien. A thief is sent to Sing Sing Prison, where he is befriended by the reform-minded warden. The film was based on the book ''Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing'', written by Lewis E. Lawes, on whom the warden (played by O'Brien) in the film was based. ''Castle on the Hudson'' was actually a remake of an earlier Spencer Tracy prison film, ''20,000 Years in Sing Sing'' (1932), also based on Lawes's book. Plot Tommy Gordan (John Garfield), a cocky, arrogant career thief, is finally nailed by New York City authorities after pulling a big heist. He is sentenced to a minimum seven years at the state prison in Ossining (village), New York, Ossining, aka Sing Sing, on the shores of the Hudson River. There, he meets prison warden Walter Long (Pat O'Brien (actor), Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honeymoon's Over (film)
''The Honeymoon's Over'' is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Eugene Forde and written by Leonard Hoffman, Hamilton MacFadden and Clay Williams. It is based on the 1921 play ''Six-Cylinder Love'' by William Anthony McGuire. The film stars Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Weaver, Patric Knowles, Russell Hicks, Jack Carson and Hobart Cavanaugh. The film was released on December 14, 1939, by 20th Century Fox. Plot Cast * Stuart Erwin as Donald Todd * Marjorie Weaver as Betty Stewart Todd *Patric Knowles as Pat Shields * Russell Hicks as J.P. Walker *Jack Carson as Tom Donroy *Hobart Cavanaugh as Avery Butterfield *June Gale as Peggy Ryder *E. E. Clive as Col. Shelby *Renie Riano as Annie *Harrison Greene as Charlie Winslow *Lelah Tyler as Mrs. Geraldine Winslow *Harry Hayden as Roger Burton *Nedda Harrigan as Mrs. Molly Burton * Frank McGlynn Sr. as Thin Man *Robert Greig Robert Greig (December 27, 1879 – June 27, 1958) was an Australian-American actor who appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandal Sheet (1939 Film)
''Scandal Sheet'' is a 1939 American crime film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Otto Kruger, Ona Munson and Edward Norris.Dick p.244 Cast * Otto Kruger as Jim Stevenson * Ona Munson as Kitty Mulhane * Edward Norris as Petty Haynes * John Dilson as Chris Durk * Don Beddoe as Chick Keller * Dorothy Comingore as Marjorie Lawe * Eddie Laughton as Hal Lunny * Nedda Harrigan as Seena Haynes * Selmer Jackson as Douglas Haynes * Frank M. Thomas as District Attorney * Eddie Marr as Bert Schroll * James Craig as Mann * John Tyrrell as Dillon * Beatrice Blinn as Secretary * Dick Curtis as Guard * William Lally as Guard * Hermine Sterler as Mrs. Kopal * Barbara Pepper as Rena * Kathryn Sheldon as Miss Vittie * Gertrude Sutton as Frieda * George Hickman as Copy Boy * Robert Homans as McHale * C. Montague Shaw as Dean Crosby * Richard Fiske as Student * Robert Sterling as Student * James Millican as Student * Robert Spencer as Student * Charles McAvoy as Hickey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Trial (1939 Film)
''On Trial'' is a 1939 drama film directed by Terry O. Morse and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is based on the 1914 Broadway play by Elmer Rice. Warners had previously filmed Rice's play in 1928 as an early talkie, also called '' On Trial'', and, earlier, in 1917, Essanay Studios had made a silent version with the same title."Notes" Cast * as Mae Strickland * as Robert Strickland * |
Men Are Such Fools
''Men are Such Fools'' is a 1938 American romantic comedy directed by Busby Berkeley and written by Norman Reilly Raine and Horace Jackson. The film stars Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Hugh Herbert, Johnnie Davis, and Penny Singleton. The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 16, 1938. The movie is adapted from the novel by the same name, ''Men Are Such Fools'', by Faith Baldwin. Plot Linda Lawrence is an assistant to an executive Mr. Bates at a New York advertising agency called Americo. She badly wants to reach new levels in her career and strives to do her best work at Americo as to not be the traditional woman. She has a few ideas she would like to pitch to Mr. Bates in order to advance in her career, but is repeatedly interrupted by Jimmy Hall, an ex-football star now turned co-worker. Hall claims he loves her, and Lawrence entertains him and eventually does fall in love with him, however she wants her primary focus to be her career. As she tries to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
