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Onslow Stevens
Onslow Stevens (born Onslow Ford Stevenson; March 29, 1902 – January 5, 1977) was an American stage, television and film actor. Early years Born in Los Angeles, California, Stevens was the son of British-born character actor Houseley Stevenson. Career Stevens became involved in performing in 1926 at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where his entire family worked as performers, directors and teachers. His Broadway debut came in ''Stage Door'' (1936). He performed in over 80 films, at first as the lead actor, but mostly in character roles later in his career. Death He spent the last years of his life in a nursing home in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, where, according to his wife, he was abused by his fellow residents and that his death was neither from natural causes nor an accident. He died of pneumonia after suffering a broken hip in 1977, at the age of 74. His interment was in an unmarked grave located at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hands Across The Border (1944 Film)
''Hands Across the Border'' is a 1944 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Plot summary Cast *Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers * Trigger as Trigger, Adams' horse *Ruth Terry as Kim Adams *Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Teddy Bear *Onslow Stevens as Brock Danvers *Mary Treen as Sophie Lawrence *Joseph Crehan as Jeff "Bet-a-Hundred" Adams * Duncan Renaldo as Juan Morales *LeRoy Mason as Sheriff * Janet Martin as Rosita Morales *Harry Wiere as Harry *Herbert Wiere as Herby *Sylvester Wiere as Sylvester *Bob Nolan as Bob *Sons of the Pioneers as Musicians Soundtrack * "Hands Across the Border" (Music by Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics by Ned Washington) * "Dreaming to Music" (Music by Phil Ohman, lyrics by Ned Washington) * "The Girl with the High Button Shoes" (Music by Phil Ohman, lyrics by Ned Washington) * "When Your Heart's on Easy Street" (Music by Phil Ohman, lyrics by Ned Washington) * "Hey, Hey (It's A Great Day)" (Music by Phil Ohman, lyrics by Ned Was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Patrol (film)
''Radio Patrol'' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn, written by Tom Reed and Richard Schayer, and starring Robert Armstrong, Russell Hopton, Lila Lee, June Clyde, Sidney Toler and Andy Devine. It was released on June 2, 1932, by Universal Pictures. Plot Cast * Robert Armstrong as Bill Kennedy *Russell Hopton as Pat Bourke *Lila Lee as Sue Kennedy *June Clyde as Vern Wiley *Sidney Toler as Sgt. Tom Keogh *Andy Devine as Pete Wiley * Harry Woods as Kloskey *Onslow Stevens as Carl Hughes *John Lester Johnson as Smokey Johnson *Noel Madison as Tony *Dewey Robinson Dewey Robinson (August 17, 1898 – December 11, 1950) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 250 films made between 1931 and 1952. Career Dewey Robinson was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1898, and made his Br ... as Little Erny * Herman Bing as Schwabacher, the Funeral Director (unaccredited) References External links * 1932 films 1930s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crosby Case
''The Crosby Case'' is a 1934 American pre-Code crime film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Warren B. Duff and Gordon Kahn. The film stars Wynne Gibson, Onslow Stevens, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Alan Dinehart, Warren Hymer, William Collier, Sr. and John Wray. The film was released on March 5, 1934, by Universal Pictures. Plot Cast *Wynne Gibson as Lynn Ashton *Onslow Stevens as Francis Scott Graham *Richard "Skeets" Gallagher as The Reporter - Miller *Alan Dinehart as Inspector Thomas *Warren Hymer as Sam Collins * William Collier, Sr. as The Detective - Sgt. Melody * John Wray as Willie McGuire *Edward Van Sloan as Professor Franz Lubeck *J. Farrell MacDonald as The Doorman - Mike Costello * Barbara Weeks as Nora *Paul Fix Peter Paul Fix (March 13, 1901 – October 14, 1983) was an American film and television character actor who was best known for his work in Westerns. Fix appeared in more than 100 movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Side Of Heaven
''This Side of Heaven'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by William K. Howard, written by Zelda Sears, Eve Greene, Edgar Allan Woolf and Florence Ryerson, and starring Lionel Barrymore, Fay Bainter, Mae Clarke, Tom Brown and Una Merkel. It was released on February 2, 1934, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Premise Personal and professional problems eventually drive a man to attempt suicide. Cast *Lionel Barrymore as Martin Turner *Fay Bainter as Francene Turner * Mae Clarke as Jane Turner * Tom Brown as Seth Turner * Una Merkel as Birdie * Mary Carlisle as Peggy Turner * Onslow Stevens as Walter * Henry Wadsworth as Hal *Edward Nugent as Vance *C. Henry Gordon as William Barnes * Dickie Moore as Freddie * Edwin Maxwell as R.S. Sawyer *Mickey Daniels as Stinky Bliss *Helen Hayes as Actress on screen in theatre, Uncredited Cameo (Clip from ''Another Language'') * Robert Montgomery as Actor on screen in theatre, Uncredited cameo (Clip from ''Another Language ''Anot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombay Mail (1934 Film)
''Bombay Mail'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Tom Reed. The film stars Edmund Lowe, Ralph Forbes, Shirley Grey, Hedda Hopper, Onslow Stevens, and Jameson Thomas. The film was released on January 6, 1934, by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the Lawrence Blochman novel of the same name which was originally published in 1933 in the pulp magazine '' Complete Stories''. According to Lal Chand Mehra, an Indian who acted in and advised numerous Hollywood films in the first half of the 20th century, the entire movie was filmed in elaborate sets. "it was necessary to build an entire Indian train —the ‘Imperial Indian Mail'—to construct several stations and to see that each and every character, from brahmins to untouchables, were correctly costumed and correctly dressed", he said in an interview in the ''Madera Tribune''. Plot The governor of Bengal is assassinated on the ''Bombay Mail'' somewhere between Calcutta and Bomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only Yesterday (1933 Film)
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''Only Yesterday'' may refer to: * ''Only Yesterday'' (1933 film), an American drama starring Margaret Sullavan * ''Only Yesterday'' (1991 film), a Japanese anime film released in North America in 2016 * "Only Yesterday" (song), a song by the Carpenters * ''Only Yesterday'' (album), a greatest hits album by the Carpenters * '' Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story'', a 2007 British TV documentary * ''Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s'', a 1931 work of non-fiction by Frederick Lewis Allen * ''Only Yesterday'', a 1945 novel by S. Y. Agnon Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( he, שמואל יוסף עגנון; July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (). In English, his works are published und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagana (film)
''Nagana'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ernst L. Frank and written by Don Ryan and Dale Van Every. The film stars Tala Birell, Melvyn Douglas, Miki Morita, Onslow Stevens, Everett Brown and Billy McClain. The film was released on February 1, 1933, by Universal Pictures. Plot According to the British Film Institute, ''Nagana'' is the “story of a white doctor's struggle against fearful odds to discover a cure for sleeping sickness.” Cast *Tala Birell as Countess Sandra Lubeska *Melvyn Douglas as Dr. Walter Tradnor *Miki Morita as Dr. Kabayochi *Onslow Stevens as Dr. Roy Stark *Everett Brown as Nogu *Billy McClain as The King *William R. Dunn as Mukovo *Frank Lackteen as Ivory Trader *Noble Johnson Noble Johnson (April 18, 1881 – January 9, 1978), later known as Mark Noble, was an American actor and film producer. He appeared in films such as ''The Mummy'' (1932), ''The Most Dangerous Game'' (1932), ''King Kong'' (1933) and ''Son of ... as Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg O' My Heart (1933 Film)
''Peg o' My Heart'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code film adaptation of the play of the same name by J. Hartley Manners. It starred Marion Davies as a poor Irish girl, Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell, who stands to inherit a fortune if she satisfies certain conditions. Plot summary Sir Gerald Markham turns up with the news, telling Peg's father that she must spend three years in England learning to be a lady and remain separated from her father during this period. She is sent to London to live with her aunt, the penniless Mrs. Chichester, and her daughter, Ethel, and spoiled, over-indulged son, Alaric. The Chichesters put up with the arrangement because they are paid 5000 pounds a year for hosting Peg. Cast * Marion Davies as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell * Onslow Stevens as Sir Gerald Markham * J. Farrell MacDonald as Patrick Shamus O'Connell * Juliette Compton as Ethel Chichester * Irene Browne as Mrs. Chichester * Tyrell Davis as Alaric Chichester * Alan Mowbray as Captain Christopher Brent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Of The Blue Room
''The Secret of the Blue Room'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas and Edward Arnold. The film's plot concerns a group of wealthy people who stay at a European mansion that features a blue room that is said to be cursed, as everyone who has stayed there has died shortly after. Three people suggest a wager that each can survive a night in the blue room. ''The Secret of the Blue Room'' is based on the German film '' Geheimnis des blauen Zimmers'' and was Universal Studios' least expensive feature of 1933. Universal later remade the film as '' The Missing Guest'' (1938) and ''Murder in the Blue Room'' (1944). Plot A woman's suitor named Tommy challenges his two rivals to each spend a night in a blue room in which several murders had occurred years before at 1 a.m. Tommy sleeps there on the first night but disappears at 1 a.m. The second man sleeps there the next night. At 12:30 a.m, he starts pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counsellor At Law
''Counsellor at Law'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Elmer Rice is based on his 1931 Broadway play of the same title. Plot The story focuses on several days in a critical juncture in the life of George Simon, who rose from his humble roots in a poor Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become a shrewd, highly successful attorney. Earlier in his career, he allowed a guilty client to perjure himself on the witness stand because he believed the man could be rehabilitated if freed. Rival lawyer Francis Clark Baird has learned about the incident and is threatening to expose George, which will lead to his disbarment. The possibility of a public scandal horrifies his socialite wife Cora, who plans to flee to Europe with Roy Darwin. Devastated by his wife's infidelity, George is about to leap from the window of his office in the Empire State Building when his secretary Regina, who is in love with him, comes to his res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungle Mystery
''Jungle Mystery'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code Universal Pictures, Universal 12-chapter Serial (film), movie serial directed by Ray Taylor (director), Ray Taylor. The serial was based on a book called "The Ivory Trail" by Talbot Mundy. A 1935 feature version was also released, edited down to 75 minutes. Plot Various expeditionary parties head to Zanzibar to search for a legendary cache of ivory and a missing explorer named Jack Morgan. Tom Tyler played the hero, Kirk Montgomery, and Cecilia Parker played the heroine, Barbara Morgan, who is searching for her missing brother Jack. Boris Shillov and his henchman Comrade Krotsky are also searching for the ivory. The "jungle mystery" pertains to a half-man, half-ape creature named Zungu. Cast * Tom Tyler as Kirk Montgomery * Noah Beery Jr. as Fred Oakes * Cecilia Parker as Barbara Morgan * William Desmond (actor), William Desmond as John Morgan (Barbara's father) * Philo McCullough as Georgie Coutlass * Carmeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heroes Of The West (1932 Film)
''Heroes of the West'' (1932) is a Universal Pre-Code movie serial that depicts the dangers and thrills of building a transcontinental railroad. This was the 82nd serial (and the 14th serial with sound) to be released by Universal. It was remade in 1938 as ''Flaming Frontiers'' (serial). Plot overview John Blaine – helped by his teenaged son and daughter, Noah and Ann – work to build a section of a transcontinental railroad "through the heart of the wild and wooly west." Their section threads through Wyoming territory, dangerously close to hostile Indians. In addition to tribulations inherent in the Old West, work is hindered by crooked foreman Rance Judd, who is "secretly in the pay of a rival contractor and aims to make Blaine lose his government railroad contract by fouling up construction in any way he can" with help from his henchmen Butch Gore, Bart Eaton, and Buckskin Joe. Blaine is aided by a group of men also working on the railroad: surveyor Tom Crosby, scout Noah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
