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Nick Grindé
Nick Grinde (January 12, 1893 – June 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Biography Born Harry A. Grinde in Madison, Wisconsin but nicknamed "Nick," Grinde graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He later moved to New York and worked in Vaudeville. Grinde became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema's early B film specialists. Notable films include ''The Man they Could Not Hang'' with Boris Karloff, and Ronald Reagan's first motion picture: ''Love is on the Air'' (1937). As a screenwriter, he is credited as a co-writer of Laurel and Hardy's '' Babes in Toyland'' (1934). Throughout his career, Grinde was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. Prime exam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-largest in the U.S. The city forms the core of the Madison Metropolitan Area which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties for a population of 680,796. Madison is named for American Founding Father and President James Madison. The city is located on the traditional land of the Ho-Chunk, and the Madison area is known as ''Dejope'', meaning "four lakes", or ''Taychopera'', meaning "land of the four lakes", in the Ho-Chunk language. Located on an isthmus and lands surrounding four lakes—Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Kegonsa and Lake Waubesa—the city is home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Wisconsin State Capitol, the Overture Center for the Arts, and the Henry Vilas Zoo. Madison is ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Sleep
''How to Sleep'' is a short comedy film written by and starring humorist Robert Benchley. Filmed and released by MGM in 1935 (as part of their "Miniatures" series), it features Benchley as a narrator as well as film subject, discussing four parts of sleep - causes, methods, avoiding sleep, and waking up. The production was inspired by a Mellon Institute study on sleep commissioned by the Simmons Mattress Company. It was filmed in two days, and featured Benchley as both the narrator and sleeper, the latter a role Benchley claimed was "not much of a strain, as ewas in bed most of the time." The film was well received in preview screenings, and promotions took over, with a still from the film being used in Simmons advertisements. The only group not pleased was the Mellon Institute, who did not approve of the studio mocking their study. The early success of ''How to Sleep'' prompted MGM to rush two more short films featuring Benchley, ''How to Train a Dog'', a spoof of dog-training ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convicted Woman
''Convicted Woman'' is a 1940 crime film starring Rochelle Hudson and directed by Nick Grinde Nick Grinde (January 12, 1893 – June 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Biography Born Harry A. Grinde in Madison, Wisconsin but nicknamed "Nick," Grinde graduated from th .... It is also known as ''Dames'' and ''Daughters of Today''. Plot Cast References External links * * 1940 films 1940 crime films American black-and-white films American crime films Columbia Pictures films 1940s English-language films Women in prison films Films directed by Nick Grinde 1940s American films {{1940s-crime-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before I Hang
''Before I Hang'' is a 1940 American horror film released by Columbia Pictures, starring Boris Karloff. The film was directed by Nick Grinde (under the working title ''The Wizard of Death'') and was one of several films Karloff starred in under contract with Columbia.Pitts, 2010, p. 9Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011 pp. 260–261 Plot Dr. John Garth (Boris Karloff) is on trial for murder after performing a mercy killing on an elderly friend. In the trial, he reveals that he had been researching a cure for aging but had not had time to perfect it before his friend's pain became unbearable. Despite his pleas for mercy, the judge sentences him to be hanged in three weeks' time. As he awaits his execution, Dr. Garth is allowed to continue his experiments, thanks to support from the prison warden ( Ben Taggart) and another scientist who is interested in his research, Dr. Ralph Howard (Edward Van Sloan). Using the blood of a recentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man With Nine Lives (film)
''The Man with Nine Lives'' is a 1940 American horror science fiction film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Boris Karloff.Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011 p 258-259 Both ''The Man with Nine Lives'' and ''The Man They Could Not Hang'' were based in part on the real-life saga of Dr. Robert Cornish, a University of California professor who, in 1934, announced that he had restored life to a dog named Lazarus, which he had put to death by clinical means. The resulting publicity (including a Time magazine article and motion picture footage of the allegedly re-animated canine) led to Cornish being booted off campus. Plot Dr. Tim Mason (Roger Pryor), a medical researcher experimenting in "frozen therapy" visits the deserted home of Dr. Leon Kravaal (Boris Karloff), the originator of the therapy, who has been missing for ten years. After discovering a secret passage in the basement, Dr. Mason and his nurse (Jo Ann Sayers) discover Kravaal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman Is The Judge
''A Woman Is the Judge'' is an American 1939 drama film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Frieda Inescort, Otto Kruger, Rochelle Hudson, Mayo Methot, Gordon Oliver, and Arthur Loft. The film tagline is ''Love bridges the gulf between a judge and an underworld girl''. This is an early film exploring such themes as gender equality and female lawyers. The film is based on the play by Alexandre Bisson. Plot A famous female lawyer (Frieda Inescort) at the peak of her career has to resign in order to defend her estranged daughter (Mayo Methot), with whom she lost any contact some 20 years ago, against a murder charge. A prosecuting attorney (Otto Kruger) has a secret crush on the judge. Cast *Frieda Inescort as Mary Cabot *Otto Kruger as Steven Graham * Rochelle Hudson as Justine West *Mayo Methot as Gertie *Gordon Oliver as Robert Langley *Arthur Loft as Tim Ryan *Walter Fenner as Harper *John Dilson as Ramsey *Ben Hewlett as Wolf *Beryl Mercer Beryl Mercer (August 13, 1882&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man They Could Not Hang
''The Man They Could Not Hang'' is a 1939 American horror film directed by Nick Grinde from a screenplay by Karl Brown. It stars Boris Karloff as Dr. Henryk Savaard,Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011 pp. 246-247 a scientist who develops a procedure for bringing the dead back to life. When he is arrested and sentenced to be executed for murdering a young medical student who volunteered to be killed to test the procedure, Savaard vows retribution on the individuals responsible. Alongside Karloff, the film's cast includes Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, and Roger Pryor. ''The Man They Could Not Hang'' is the first in a series of four similarly-themed but otherwise unrelated horror films produced by Columbia Pictures, all starring Karloff, informally known as the "Mad Doctor Cycle." It was followed by '' The Man with Nine Lives'', '' Before I Hang'' (both 1940), and '' The Devil Commands'' (1941). A fifth, '' The Boogie Man Will Get You'' (1942) ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Million Dollar Legs (1939 Film)
''Million Dollar Legs'' is a 1939 American comedy film starring Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Hartley and Donald O'Connor. The film has no relation to the W. C. Fields movie from seven years earlier also entitled '' Million Dollar Legs''. Plot summary Cast * Betty Grable as Carol Parker * John Hartley as Greg Melton Jr. * Buster Crabbe as Coach Jordan (as Larry Crabbe) * Donald O'Connor as Sticky Boone * Jackie Coogan as Russ Simpson * Dorothea Kent as Susie Quinn * Joyce Mathews as Bunny Maxwell * Peter Lind Hayes as Freddie 'Ten-Percent' Fry (as Peter Hayes) * Richard Denning as Hunk Jordan * Phil Warren as Buck Hogan * Edward Arnold Jr. as Blimp Garrett * Thurston Hall as Gregory Melton Sr. * Roy Gordon as Dean Wixby * Matty Kemp as Ed Riggs * William Tracy as Egghead Jackson * William Holden as Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited) Production Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan were married at the time and had appeared together the previous year playing suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delinquent Parents
''Delinquent Parents'' is a 1938 American crime film directed by Nick Grinde and written by Nicholas T. Barrows and Robert St. Claire. The film stars Doris Weston, Maurice Murphy, Helen MacKellar, Terry Walker, Richard Tucker and Charlotte Treadway. The film was released on July 15, 1938, by Progressive Pictures. Plot In the closing days of the Great War, Edith Ellis secretly marries Charles Wharton Jr., a young army lieutenant from an influential family. The Armistice of 11 November 1918 occurs just prior to her husband's sailing to France, his influential family successfully seeks to have their weakling son's marriage annulled. Edith is injured in an automobile accident with Edith and her family keeping her pregnancy secret, putting her child up for adoption. Edith's daughter is adopted and raised as Carol Caldwell, but in a fit of rage her adoption is revealed to her circle of friends by her former friend. Shamed by not knowing she was adopted, Carol cruelly turns her back on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mis Dos Amores
''Mis dos amores'' is a 1938 American Spanish-language drama film. Directed by Nick Grinde, the film stars Tito Guízar, Blanca de Castejón, and Emilia Leovalli. It was previewed in New York City on August 11, 1938, and opened in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 4. During production, its working title was ''Mi primer amor'', and it was the first of a series of films produced by U.S. film studios aimed at the Spanish-language market in North and South America. Cast list * Tito Guízar as Julio Bertolin * Blanca de Castejón as Rita Santiago * Emilia Leovalli as Mercedes Bertolin * Romualdo Tirado as Rafael Bertolin * Juan Torena as District attorney José Miranda * Carolina Segrera as Ana Celia Ramos * Carlos Villarías as Don Antonio Santiago * Evelyn Del Rio as Anita Ramos * Paul Ellis as El Chato * Martin Garralaga Martín Garralaga (10 November 1894 – 12 June 1981) was a Spanish actor who worked in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was married to opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exiled To Shanghai
''Exiled to Shanghai'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Nick Grinde and Armand Schaefer and starring Wallace Ford, June Travis, and Dean Jagger.Dooley p.242 Production Despite its exotic-sounding title, none of the film is actually set in Shanghai. The film's sets were designed by art director John Victor Mackay. Cast * Wallace Ford as Ted Young * June Travis as Nancy Jones * Dean Jagger as Charlie Sears * William Bakewell as Andrew * Arthur Lake as Bud * Jonathan Hale as J.B. Willet * William Harrigan as Grant Powell * Sarah Padden as Aunt Jane * Syd Saylor as Maloney * Charles Trowbridge as Walters * Johnny Arthur as Poppolas * Maurice Cass as Hotel Manager * Minerva Urecal Minerva Urecal (born Florence Minerva Dunnuck; September 22, 1894 – February 26, 1966) was an American stage and radio performer as well as a character actress in Hollywood films and on various television series from the early 1950s to 1 ... as Claire * Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
