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Olive Blakeney
Olive Blakeney (August 21, 1894 October 21, 1959) was an American actress. Early years Blakeney was born in Kentucky and attended the Cincinnati School of Expression. Career Blakeney played as a super in visiting stage shows at $1 per performance. She made her screen debut in England in 1932. In the early 1910s, Blakeney acted with the Pittsfield (Massachusetts) Stock Company. In 1914, she was engaged with the Lucille La Verne stock theater company. After working as William Gaxton's partner in vaudeville, she acted on stage in England. While there, she helped to introduce the play ''Broadway'' to British audiences. Her Broadway credits include ''The Royal Family'' (1951) and ''The Browning Version / Harlequinade'' (1949). Blakeney portrayed the mother of Henry Aldrich in seven consecutive films about The Aldrich Family. On television, Blakeney played the housekeeper in the syndicated medical drama '' Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal'' (1955-1956)Erickson, Hal (1989). ''Syndica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Uncertain Feeling (film)
''That Uncertain Feeling'' is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas and Burgess Meredith. The film is about the bored wife of an insurance salesman who meets an eccentric pianist and seeks a divorce. The screenplay by Walter Reisch and Donald Ogden Stewart was based on the 1880 French play ''Divorçons'' by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac. Plot At the suggestion of one of her friends, Jill Baker visits psychoanalyst Dr. Vengard for her intermittent hiccups, which appear when she gets nervous or irritated. He soon has her questioning her previously happy marriage to her business executive husband Larry. In Vengard's waiting room one day, Jill meets a very odd and individualistic pianist, Alexander Sebastian. He considers himself the best in the world when playing for a single listener, but has trouble performing in front of a large audience. She eventually invites him to an important dinner for Larry's prospective in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leave It To Blanche
Leave may refer to: * Permission (other) ** Permitted absence from work *** Leave of absence, a period of time that one is to be away from one's primary job while maintaining the status of employee *** Annual leave, allowance of time away from work while continuing to be paid *** Leave (military), a period of time in which a soldier is allowed to be away from his or her assigned unit ** Leave to enter, permission for entry to the United Kingdom granted by British immigration officers ** Leave to remain, permanent residency in the United Kingdom ** Leave to appeal, granted to the loser in a court case to appeal the verdict ** Leave to prosecute, permission to bring a private prosecution of a criminal case ** ''Leave of the house/senate'', the term used to describe unanimous consent in Westminster system parliaments * The pro-Brexit side of the Brexit debate (opposite of "Remain") Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Leave'' (film), a 2010 film by Robert Celestino Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Are Husbands Necessary? (1942 Film)
''Are Husbands Necessary?'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Ray Milland and Betty Field. It follows the misadventures of a wacky wife and her sometimes exasperated, but loving, banker husband. The film's screenplay was adapted by the husband-and-wife writing team of Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis, from the novel ''Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage'' by Isabel Scott Rorick. This novel would later be a source for the related 1948 radio series ''My Favorite Husband'' starring Lucille Ball, which itself would evolve into the television series ''I Love Lucy''. A one-hour ''Lux Radio Theatre'' adaptation of the film, featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen, aired February 15, 1943, on CBS Radio. Cast *Ray Milland as George Cugat *Betty Field as Mary Elizabeth Cugat *Patricia Morison as Myra Ponsonby *Eugene Pallette as Bunker * Philip Terry as Cory Cartwright *Richard Haydn as Chuck *Charles Dingle as Duncan Atterbury *Kathleen L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry And Dizzy
''Henry and Dizzy'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Hugh Bennett and written by Val Burton. The film stars Jimmy Lydon, Mary Anderson, Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney and Maude Eburne. The film was released on June 5, 1942, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast *Jimmy Lydon as Henry Aldrich * Mary Anderson as Phyillis Michael * Charles Smith as Dizzy Stevens *John Litel as Mr. Sam Aldrich *Olive Blakeney as Mrs. Mary Aldrich *Maude Eburne as Mrs. Bradley *Vaughan Glaser as Mr. Bradley *Shirley Coates as Jennie Kilmer *Olin Howland as Mr. Stevens *Minerva Urecal as Mrs. Kilmer *Trevor Bardette as Mr. Weeks *Carl Switzer as Billy Weeks *Warren Hymer as Tramp *Noel Neill as Jean *Jane Cowan as Pamela Rogers *Eleanor Counts as Dizzy's Girl *Isabel Withers as Mrs. Stevens *Frank Orth as Joe McGuire *Edgar Dearing as Police Sergeant McElroy *Mary Currier as Mrs. Michael * William Wright as Announcer *Anne O'Neal Anne O'Neal (born Patsy Ann Epperson; December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glamour Boy (film)
''Glamour Boy'' is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Val Burton, F. Hugh Herbert and Bradford Ropes. The film stars Jackie Cooper, Susanna Foster, Walter Abel, Darryl Hickman, Ann Gillis, William Demarest and Jackie Searl. The film was released on December 5, 1941, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Former child star Tiny Barlow is all grown up now but desperate to regain his old fame. He grabs credit for landing aspiring actress Joan Winslow a part that was intended for bigger star Brenda Lee, then tries to persuade studio head A. J. Colder to remake the film that made him a star. Tiny's schemes land him a part in a new film, but he quits when others mock him on the set. A new child star, Billy Doran, hides in the trunk of Tiny's car, and they end up taking shelter on a farm hundreds of miles from Hollywood, where young Billy decides to pretend he's been kidnapped. Joan's pleas convince Tiny and Billy to return. Cast * Jackie Cooper as Tiny B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-Faced Woman
''Two-Faced Woman'' is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Greta Garbo in her final film role, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, and Roland Young. The movie was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Garbo plays a wife who pretends to be her own fictitious twin sister in order to recapture the affections of her estranged husband (Douglas), who has left her for a former girlfriend (Bennett). The film is generally regarded as the box-office flop that ended Garbo's career in an unsuccessful attempt to modernize or "Americanize" her image in order to increase her shrinking fan base in the United States. By mutual agreement, Garbo's MGM contract was terminated shortly after ''Two-Faced Woman'' was released, and it became her last film. Plot Fashion magazine editor Larry Blake (Melvyn Douglas) marries ski instructor Karin Borg (Greta Garbo) on impulse, but she soon learns he expects her to be a dutiful wife, and not the independent woman she was whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy The Kid (1941 Film)
''Billy the Kid'' is a 1941 American Western film, a color remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film features Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett renamed "Jim Sherwood" in the film. Directed by David Miller and based on the book by Walter Noble Burns, the cast also included Gene Lockhart and Lon Chaney Jr. The film was not as well received as the 1930 original, ''Billy the Kid'', which had starred Johnny Mack Brown and Wallace Beery and been shot in an experimental widescreen process. Plot The year is 1880 and William Bonney ( Robert Taylor) is already a famous gunslinger, known as "Billy the Kid". In Lincoln, New Mexico, Billy helps his friend Pedro Gonzales (Frank Puglia) escape from jail, where he was put by mean sheriff Cass McAndrews (Cy Kendall). Later, Billy and Pedro go back to a saloon from which Pedro was thrown out earlier by the locals because of his ethnicity. One of the cattle barons, Dan Hickey (Gene Lock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Finger, Left Hand (film)
''Third Finger, Left Hand'' is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. The screenplay concerns a woman who pretends to be married to fend off would-be suitors and jealous wives, then regrets her deception when she meets an artist. Plot New York magazine editor Margot Sherwood "Merrick" (Myrna Loy) invents a husband (who is conveniently away in remote corners of the world) mainly to safeguard her job; the magazine publisher's jealous wife has had the last two women in her position fired after mere months. It also comes in handy keeping aggressive men at bay, as Margot is determined to succeed in her career. Magazine photographer August Winkel (Felix Bressart) helps by writing letters supposedly from "Tony Merrick". One day, she goes to meet a friend arriving on a passenger ship. However, when she enters her friend's cabin, she finds some paintings, but no friend. Soon after, art dealer Mr. Flandrin (Donald Meek) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangway (film)
''Gangway'' is a 1937 British musical film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Nat Pendleton and Alastair Sim. Its plot involves a young reporter goes undercover to unmask a gang of criminals who are planning a jewel heist. AKA as Sparkles in Australia and on Australian release 78rpm records. Jessie Matthews was nicknamed SPARKLE in the film. Plot Newspaper film critic Pat Wayne (Jessie Matthews) boards an ocean liner to New York to interview glamorous movie star Nedda Beaumont (Olive Blakeney). Once aboard, Pat somehow gets mixed up with a gangster (Nat Pendleton), and a Scotland yard inspector (Barry MacKay), who both mistake her for a female jewel thief called "Sparkle." Main cast * Jessie Matthews as Pat Wayne * Barry MacKay as Bob Deering * Nat Pendleton as Smiles Hogan * Alastair Sim as Detective Taggett * Olive Blakeney as Nedda Beaumont * Noel Madison as Mike Otterman * Patrick Ludlow as Carl Freemason * Liane Ordeyne as Greta Brand * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Get Me Wrong (film)
''Don't Get Me Wrong'' is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It was made at Teddington Studios with sets designed by Peter Proud.Wood p.89 The film was made by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers, made on a considerably higher budget than many of the quota quickies the studios usually produced. Unlike several of Miller's Teddington films which are now lost, this still survives. Synopsis Miller plays a fairground performer who meets a professor who claims to have invented a cheap substitute for petrol. They team up and persuade a millionaire to finance them to develop and market the product, while unsavoury elements are keen to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is diluted coconut oil, and the genius professor is an escaped lunatic. The millionaire finds himself taking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Maxims
''Three Maxims'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati and Leslie Banks. It was released in the United States under the alternative title '' The Show Goes On''. Separate French and German language versions were filmed 1935 in Paris. The film's sets were designed by Wilcox's regular art director Lawrence P. Williams. Premise A love triangle causes major disruption to the harmony of a trapeze act. Cast * Anna Neagle – Pat * Tullio Carminati – Toni * Leslie Banks – Mac * Arthur Finn – Hiram K. Winston * Olive Blakeney – Mrs Winston * Miki Hood – Valentine * Anthony Ireland – Val * Nicolas Koline – Niki * Gaston Palmer – Juggler * Leonard Snelling – Prodigy * Winifred Oughton – Prodigy's Mother * Beatrix Fielden-Kaye – Madame Thomas * Laurence Hanray – Thomas * Tarva Penna – Doctor * Vincent Holman – Cafe Proprietor * Henry Caine – Stage Manager * Horace Hodges – Mike Other film ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two's Company (film)
''Two's Company'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Ned Sparks, Gordon Harker and Mary Brian. It was made at British and Dominions Elstree Studios.Wood p.93 Premise An American millionaire rents a country house from an English aristocrat and the two constantly fight. However, their children have secretly fallen in love. Cast * Ned Sparks as Al * Gordon Harker as Muggridge * Mary Brian as Julia Madison * Patric Knowles as Lord Jerry Wendower * Henry Holman as B. G. Madison * Olive Blakeney as Mrs. Madison * Morton Selten as Earl of Warke * Robb Wilton as Mr. Muddlecombe * Gibb McLaughlin as Toombs * H. F. Maltby as Otto Stump * Syd Crossley as Ives * Robert Nainby Robert Nainby (1869–1948) was an Irish male actor. Filmography References External links * 1869 births 1948 deaths Male actors from Dublin (city) Irish male film actors 20th-century Irish male actors {{Ireland-actor-stub ... as Assistant J.P. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
