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Norman Leavitt
Norman Turner Leavitt (December 1, 1913 – December 11, 2005) was an American film and television actor. Life and career Leavitt was born in Lansing, Michigan. He began his stage career in 1935, appearing as a wedding guest in the Broadway play ''How Beautiful With Shoes''. Leavitt made his film debut in 1941. in 1946 he appeared in ''The Harvey Girls''. During the 1940s and 1950s he mainly appeared in films in uncredited and supporting roles. Films he appeared in during the 1950s and 1960s including '' It's a Dog's Life'', ''The Long, Long Trailer'', ''Stars and Stripes Forever'', ''Somebody Loves Me'', ''The Merry Widow'', ''Hannah Lee: An American Primitive'', ''O. Henry's Full House'', ''California Passage'', '' Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell'', ''Harvey'', ''The Killer That Stalked New York'', '' Wabash Avenue'', '' The Inspector General'', ''A Woman of Distinction'', '' Off Limits'', '' The Luck of the Irish'', ''Showdown at Boot Hill'', ''God Is My Partner'', ''Valerie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing, Michigan
Lansing () is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The population of its metropolitan statistical area ( MSA) was 541,297 at the 2020 census, the third largest in the state after metropolitan Detroit and Grand Rapids. It was named the new state capital of Michigan in 1847, ten years after Michigan became a state. The Lansing metropolitan area, colloquially referred to as "Mid-Michigan", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, commercial, and industrial functions. Neighboring East Lansing is home to Michigan State University, a public research university with an enrollment of more than 50,000. The area features two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, and two law schools. It is the site of the Mich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ride, Vaquero!
''Ride, Vaquero!'' is a 1953 American Western (genre), Western film photographed in Ansco Color (print by Technicolor) made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It was directed by John Farrow and produced by Stephen Ames from a screenplay by Frank Fenton (writer), Frank Fenton and John Farrow. The music score was by Bronislau Kaper and the cinematography by Robert Surtees (cinematographer), Robert Surtees. The film stars Robert Taylor (American actor), Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Anthony Quinn, and Howard Keel with Kurt Kasznar, Ted de Corsia and Jack Elam. Movita Castaneda, Movita appears uncredited in a small role. Plot Mexican bandit Jose Esqueda resents settlers in the Brownsville, Texas region, and conducts raids against them. He threatens to burn down their homes, and has burned down the ranch house King Cameron has just built for his wife Cordelia. Rio, raised like a brother to Esqueda, joins forces with him at first. But in time he forms a partnership with Cameron instead, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fury At Gunsight Pass
''Fury at Gunsight Pass'' is a 1956 American western film directed by Fred F. Sears and starring David Brian, Neville Brand and Richard Long. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Plot Bank robbers hold townspeople hostage, threatening to kill one of them every thirty minutes until $35,000 from an earlier robbery, hidden by a deceased accomplice, is found. Cast * David Brian as Whitney Turner * Neville Brand as Dirk Hogan * Richard Long as Roy Hanford * Lisa Davis as Kathy Phillips * Katharine Warren as Mrs. Boggs * Percy Helton as Peter Boggs * Morris Ankrum as Doc Phillips * Addison Richards as Charles Hanford * Joe Forte as Andrew Ferguson * Wally Vernon as Okay, Okay * Paul E. Burns as Squint * Frank Fenton as Sheriff Meeker * George Keymas George Keymas (November 18, 1925 – January 17, 2008) was an American film actor, film and television actor.Martin p.68 Keymas graduated from Springfield (Ohio) High School. Keymas began his Hollywood career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ten Commandments (1956 Film)
''The Ten Commandments'' is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. Based on the 1949 novel ''Prince of Egypt'' by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, the 1859 novel ''Pillar of Fire'' by J. H. Ingraham, the 1937 novel ''On Eagle's Wings'' by A. E. Southon, and the Book of Exodus, ''The Ten Commandments'' dramatizes the biblical story of the life of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince who becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and thereafter leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. The film stars Charlton Heston in the lead role, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, Debra Paget as Lilia, and John Derek as Joshua; and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Seti I, Nina Foch as Bithiah, Martha Scott as Yochabel, Judith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow On The Window
''The Shadow on the Window'' is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by William Asher and starring Philip Carey, Betty Garrett and John Drew Barrymore.. The screenplay involves a boy (Jerry Mathers) who is traumatized after seeing his mother being terrorized by thugs. Plot Upon seeing his mother Linda terrorized by three thugs, young Petey (Jerry Mathers) is traumatized and wanders off. Truck drivers find him and the boy is taken to police headquarters, where he is recognized as the son of detective Tony Atlas (Philip Carey). Petey is in shock and cannot even recognize his dad, much less explain what happened. Three young men - Joey (Gerald Sarracini), Gil (Corey Allen), and Jess (John Drew Barrymore) - are holding Linda Atlas hostage in the home of a man named Canfield (Watson Downs), for whom she had been working freelance as a Shorthand, stenographer. In the course of robbery, Canfield has been killed and the three are now arguing incessantly about whether to also ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way To The Gold
''The Way to the Gold'' is a 1957 drama film directed by Robert D. Webb and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Sheree North, and Barry Sullivan. It was released by 20th Century-Fox. Plot Joe Mundy (Hunter) is being released from prison and an old convict, whom he has befriended, tells him the location of stolen gold. Leaving the prison, Joe is followed to Glendale, Arizona by Little Brother Williams (Neville Brand). There he meets Henrietta Clifford (North), who befriends him after he's badly beaten by Williams. Eventually, Joe and Henrietta go searching for the gold themselves. Cast *Jeffrey Hunter as Joe Mundy *Sheree North as Henrietta 'Hank' Clifford, waitress *Barry Sullivan as Marshal Hannibal *Walter Brennan as Uncle George Williams *Neville Brand as Little Brother Williams Production The film was based on a novel by Wilbur Daniel Steele. In August 1954 Darryl F. Zanuck recommended 20th Century Fox by the screen right prior to publication. (Zanuck had left the studio but still held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie (film)
''Valerie'' is a 1957 American Western film directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg and Anthony Steel. The film was apparently inspired by Akira Kurosawa's 1950 classic ''Rashomon''. Plot Rancher John Garth is arrested for critically wounding his wife Valerie and killing her parents. During Garth's trial, contradictory flashback sequences are depicted. Cast Production Filming for ''Valerie'' started in December 1956. It was the only film that Anthony Steel and Anita Ekberg made during their marriage. Reception ''Variety'' called the film "a challenging experiment." In a contemporary review in Baltimore's '' The Evening Sun'', reviewer Hope Pantell wrote: "This opus opens with an assortment of bodies, then proceeds to show, sometimes in painfully long-winded fashion, how they got to be so stiff." Writing in ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', reviewer Samuel L. Singer assessed the lead actors' performances: "Lovely Anita Ekberg, Swedish beauty, displ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God Is My Partner
''God Is My Partner'' is a 1957 American drama film directed by William F. Claxton and written by Charles F. Royal. The film stars Walter Brennan, John Hoyt, Marion Ross, Jesse White, Nelson Leigh and Charles Lane. The film was released in July 1957, by 20th Century Fox. It cost $150,000 and returned more than $750,000. Plot Cast * Walter Brennan as Dr. Charles Grayson * John Hoyt as Gordon Palmer * Marion Ross as Frances Denning * Jesse White as Louis 'The Lump' Lumpkin * Nelson Leigh as Rev. William Goodwin * Charles Lane as Judge Warner * Ellen Corby as Mrs. Dalton * Paul Cavanagh as Dr. James Brady * Nancy Kulp as Maxine Spelvana * John Harmon as 'Long Shot' Ben Renson * Lyle Talbot as Dr. Warburton * Charles H. Gray as Ross Newman * Gloria Blondell as Tree Critic / Wife * Edgar Dearing Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films. Biography Born in 1893, Dearing start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showdown At Boot Hill
''Showdown at Boot Hill'' is a 1958 American Western film directed by Gene Fowler Jr., written by Louis Vittes, and starring Charles Bronson, Robert Hutton, John Carradine, Carole Mathews, Fintan Meyler and Paul Maxey. The film was released on May 1, 1958, by 20th Century Fox. It was the first film Gene Fowler Jr. made for Regal Films. Plot An unusual western plot that is character driven and reaches beyond right/wrong morality, requiring its male and female leads to develop and act on introspection. Bronson portrays a Marshall who has turned bounty hunter explicitly as a reaction to his being "short" and unable to command the allegiance of those he is to protect. His beliefs and lifestyle are challenged by Doc played by John Carradine who sees something of his younger self in this angry man with a gun. Also driving the psychological elements of the film is the Marshall's growing attachment to Jill (Carole Mathews) and her daughter Sally (Fintan Meyler). Cast *Charles Brons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Luck Of The Irish (1948 Film)
''The Luck of the Irish'' is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Henry Koster, and starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter. The film was based on the 1948 novel ''There Was a Little Man'' by Guy Pearce Jones and Constance Bridges Jones. Plot Stephen Fitzgerald, a newspaper reporter from New York, meets a leprechaun and beautiful young Nora, while traveling in Ireland. When he returns to his fiancée Frances, and her wealthy father David C. Augur in the midst of a political campaign in New York, he finds that the leprechaun and the young woman are now in the big city as well. Stephen is torn between the wealth he might enjoy in New York or returning to his roots in Ireland. Cast Awards and nominations * Best Supporting Actor (nomination) - Cecil Kellaway Radio adaptation ''The Luck of the Irish'' was presented on ''Lux Radio Theatre'' on CBS December 27, 1948. The adaptation starred Dana Andrews, Baxter, Kellaway, and Stanley Holloway Stanley Augustus Holloway (1 Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off Limits (1953 Film)
''Off Limits'' is a 1953 comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell. Hope plays a manager who enlists in the army to keep an eye on his boxer, who has been drafted. The picture was written by Hal Kanter and Jack Sher, and was released in the UK as ''Military Policemen'', as the characters played by Hope and Rooney join the military police. Plot Wally Hogan (Hope) has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley (Stanley Clements), a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. Life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn, however, when Bullet gets drafted. Hogan's gangster partners persuade him to enlist and keep an eye on the fighter, who is subsequently declared psychologically unfit for the Army. Enter Herbert Tuttle (Mickey Rooney), a draftee eager to have Hogan turn him into a fighter. Hogan reluctantly agrees only after he discovers Tuttle's aunt is the beautiful singer (Marilyn Maxwell) at a ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
