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Old Acquaintance
''Old Acquaintance'' is a 1943 American drama film released by Warner Bros. It was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Henry Blanke with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay by John Van Druten, Lenore Coffee and Edmund Goulding was based on Van Druten's 1940 play of the same title. The film stars Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Roscoe Karns and Anne Revere. Plot In 1924, author Kit Marlowe returns to her hometown to speak and to visit her childhood friend Millie. Millie has married Preston Drake and is pregnant, and she has written a romance novel. Millie asks Kit to present her book to her publisher. Eight years pass, and Millie has become a very successful writer, with a string of romance novels. This has made her arrogant and condescending, and the Drakes' marriage is slowly disintegrating. In an interview with a reporter, Preston is shown to feel secondary to his wife's success. In a private moment betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Sherman
Vincent Sherman (born Abraham Orovitz, July 16, 1906 – June 18, 2006) was an American director and actor who worked in Hollywood. His movies include '' Mr. Skeffington'' (1944), '' Nora Prentiss'' (1947), and '' The Young Philadelphians'' (1959). He began his career as an actor on Broadway and later in film. He directed B-movies for Warner Bros. and then moved to directing to A-pictures. He was a good friend of actor Errol Flynn, whom he directed in '' Adventures of Don Juan'' (1949). He directed three Joan Crawford movies: '' The Damned Don't Cry'' (1950), '' Harriet Craig'' (1950), and '' Goodbye, My Fancy'' (1951). Early life Sherman was born Abraham Orovitz to Jewish parents. He was born and raised in the small town of Vienna, Georgia, where his father was a dry-goods salesman. Not long after graduating from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, he became a professional actor. Career Sherman arrived in New York City to sell a play and soon became a stage director and actor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Moran
Dolores Jean Moran (January 27, 1926 – February 5, 1982) was an American film actress and model. Early years Moran was born named Jaqueline in Stockton, California, the daughter of James G. Moran and his wife, Esther Moran and attended elementary and secondary schools there. She won the Northern California Oratorical Contest and starred in school plays. Film career In 1942, aged 16, Moran, was signed by Warner Bros. to a seven-year contract, with her parents' permission. Moran's brief career as a film actress began with uncredited roles in such films as ''Yankee Doodle Dandy'' (1942) as "the Pippirino" (with whom George blows off a date to go out with Mary). By 1943, she had become a pin-up girl appearing on the cover of such magazines as ''Yank''. She was given supporting roles in films, such as ''Old Acquaintance'' (1943) with Bette Davis. Warner Bros. attempted to increase interest in her, promoting her along with Lauren Bacall as a new screen personality when Baca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Shearer
Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, winning Best Actress for '' The Divorcee'' (1930). Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen". Early life Shearer was of Scottish, English and Irish descent. Her childhood was spent in Montreal, where she was educated at Montreal High School for Girls and Westmount High School. Her life was one of privilege, due to the success of her father's construction business. However, the marriage between her parents was unhappy. Andrew Shearer was prone to manic depression ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Smith
Frank Kent SmithGordon, Dr. Roger L. (2018). Supporting Actors in Motion Pictures: Volume II'. Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing. pp. 130, 131. . "Kent Smith: Frank Kent Smith was born on March 19, 1907, in New York City. ..He was married to Betty Gillette from 1937 until their divorce in 1954. They had one daughter. He married actress Edith Atwater, who appeared with him in the national company of ''The Best Man'', in 1962. Kent Smith passed away from heart disease at age 78 in Woodland Hills, California on April 23, 1985." (March 19, 1907 – April 23, 1985) was an American actor who had a lengthy career in film, theatre and television. Early years Smith was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Smith. He was born in New York City and was educated at Lincoln School, Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and at Harvard University. Stage Smith's early acting experience started in 1925 when he was one of the founders of the Harvard University Players, which lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Wood
Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS Television show, television series ''Mama (American TV series), Mama'' (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi (biblical figure), Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in ''The Story of Ruth'' (1960); and her final screen appearance as Virgilia, Mother Abbess, Mother Abbess in ''The Sound of Music (film), The Sound of Music'' (1965), for which she received nominations for both an Academy Awards, Academy Award and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award. Career Mary Margaret Wood was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator. She studied voice in France with soprano Emma Calvé. Wood was an early member of the Actors' Equity Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Cowl
Jane Cowl (December 14, 1883 – June 22, 1950) was an American film and Theatre, stage actress and playwright who was, in the words of author Anthony Slide, "notorious for playing tear jerkers, lachrymose parts". Actress Jane Russell was named in Cowl's honor. Biography Cowl was born Jane Bailey in Boston, Massachusetts, to Charles Bailey and Grace Avery. She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York City, followed by some courses at Columbia University. She made her Broadway debut in New York City in ''Sweet Kitty Bellairs (play), Sweet Kitty Bellairs'' in 1903. Her first leading role was ''Fanny Perry'' in 1909 in Leo Ditrichstein's ''Is Matrimony a Failure?'', produced by David Belasco, and then she played stock. This was followed by ''The Gamblers'' (1910), her first great success, and by ''Within the Law (play), Within the Law'' (1912), ''Common Clay (play), Common Clay'' (1915), and other successes (New International Encyclopedia). She was known for her int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Whorf
Richard Whorf (June 4, 1906 – December 14, 1966) was an American actor, writer and film director. Life and acting career Whorf was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts to Harry and Sarah (née Lee) Whorf. His older brother was linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. Whorf began his acting career on the Boston stage as a teenager, then moved to Broadway at age 21, debuting there in ''The Banshee'' (1927). He played a famous painter who had resorted to drinking in the 1960 episode "The Illustrator" of ''The Rifleman'', starring Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford. Directing career He began his film directing career with the 1942 short subject ''March On, America'' and the 1944 feature film '' Blonde Fever''. He directed a number of television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including early episodes of ''Gunsmoke'', the entire second season of ''My Three Sons'', and 67 episodes of '' The Beverly Hillbillies''. He directed the short-lived series '' Border Patrol'' and the 1964–1965 ABC sitc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auriol Lee
Auriol Lee (13 September 1880 – 2 July 1941) was a popular British stage actress who became a successful West End of London, West End and Broadway theatre, Broadway theatrical producer and director. Biography She was born in Maddox Street in the London district of St George's Hanover Square, the daughter of Katie and Robert James Lee. Auriol Lee's father was a medical doctor who, according to her ''New York Times'' obituary, was a distant relative of Robert E. Lee. Auriol was educated both in England and at schools in Europe, where she also received her training for the stage at La Monnaie in Brussels before making her London debut at around the age of twenty. Auriol made her Broadway debut in November 1903 with the Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Forbes-Robertson Company in Rudyard Kipling, Kipling's ''The Light that Failed''. The previous month, while her troupe was in Boston, she played a round of golf with Alec Campbell (golfer), Alec Campbell, the golf pro at a prestigious C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morosco Theatre
The Morosco Theatre was a Broadway theatre near Times Square in New York City from 1917 to 1982. It housed many notable productions and its demolition, along with four adjacent theaters, was controversial. History Located at 217 West 45th Street, the Morosco Theatre was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp for the Shubert family, who constructed it for Oliver Morosco in gratitude for his helping them break the monopoly of the Theatrical Syndicate. It had approximately 955 seats. After an invitation-only preview performance on February 4, 1917, it opened to the public the next day with a production of ''Canary Cottage'', a musical theatre, musical with a book by Morosco and a score by Earl Carroll. The Shuberts lost the building in the Great Depression, and City Playhouses, Inc. bought it at auction in 1943. It was sold in 1968 to Bankers Trust Company and, after a massive "Save the Theatres" protest movement led by Joe Papp and supported by various actors and other theatric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Mower
Jack Mower (September 5, 1890 – January 6, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 520 films between 1914 and 1965. He was born in Honolulu and died in Hollywood. After studying at Punahou College, in Honolulu, Mower moved to the mainland, and performed in vaudeville and in musical comedies on stage. His work on screen included serials and silent films. Mower was a leading man in silent films, but played bit parts after sound films came into vogue. He was in Goodwill Pictures films. Selected filmography ;1920s * '' The Beautiful Gambler'' (1921) * '' The Rowdy'' (1921) * '' Short Skirts'' (1921) * '' Silent Years'' (1921) * '' Saturday Night'' (1922) * ''Manslaughter'' (1922) * '' When Husbands Deceive'' (1922) * '' Pure Grit'' (1923) * '' The Last Hour'' (1923) * '' The Shock'' (1923) * ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1927) ;1930s * ''Bad Company'' (1931) (uncredited) * '' The Phantom Express'' (1932) (uncredited) * '' The Pride of the Legion'' (1932) * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Mayo (actor)
Frank Lorimer Mayo (June 28, 1889 – July 9, 1963) was an American actor. He appeared in 310 films between 1911 and 1949. Biography He was born in New York City, the grandson of famous stage actor Frank M. Mayo, and he died in Laguna Beach, California, from a heart attack. Frank Mayo's first wife was Joyce Eleanor Moore. He was married to actress Dagmar Godowsky from 1921 to 1926. The marriage was annulled in August 1926 because divorce decree of Frank Mayo and Joyce Moore was never written. He married Margaret Louise Shorey in August, 1928. Mayo was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. Selected filmography * '' The Red Circle'' (1915) * '' Shadows'' (1916) * '' Sold at Auction'' (1917) * '' The Bronze Bride'' (1917) * '' Easy Money'' (1917) * '' Betsy Ross'' (1917) * '' The Burglar'' (1917) * '' The Purple Lily'' (1918) * '' The Interloper'' (1918) * '' A Soul Without Windows'' (1918) * ''Tinsel'' (1918) * '' Lasca'' (1919) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Dale
Esther Dale (November 10, 1885 – July 23, 1961) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Esther Dale died in the summer of 1961 following surgery in Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood. Her husband, writer-director Arthur J. Beckhard, had died four months earlier. Early years Dale was born in Beaufort, South Carolina. She attended Leland and Gray Seminary in Townshend, Vermont. In Berlin, Germany, she studied music and enjoyed a successful career as a singer of ''lieder'' on the concert stage. Her singing career included appearances with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At one point, Dale was head of Smith College's vocal department. Stage In America, Dale transferred to the acting stage and cultivated a career as an actress in Summer stock. She starred in ''Carrie Nation'' on Broadway in 1933. Her other Broadway credits include ''Harvest of Years'' (1947), ''And Be My Love'' (1944), and ''Another Language'' (1932). Film Dale's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
