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Otto Yamaoka
Otto Yamaoka (April 25, 1904 – June 5, 1967) was an American actor and businessman who worked in Hollywood primarily during the 1930s. He was one of only a handful of Japanese-descended actors working in the industry at the time. His sister, Iris, was an actress. Biography Otto was born in Seattle, Washington, to Ototaka Yamaoka and Jho Watanabe. The family moved to Los Angeles in the 1920s, and he and his sister Iris both developed an interest in acting; both primarily played smaller roles. His brother, George Yamaoka, became a prominent lawyer. Otto's career in Hollywood ended around 1940, and he then began working as an importer in the Los Angeles area. The Yamaoka family was sent to the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming during World War II following the signing of Executive Order 9066.Ancestry.com. ''Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II''. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2005. Partial filmography * ''The Ship from Shanghai'' (1930) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Yamaoka
Iris most often refers to: *Iris (anatomy), part of the eye *Iris (mythology), a Greek goddess * ''Iris'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants *Iris (color), an ambiguous color term Iris or IRIS may also refer to: Arts and media Fictional entities * Iris (''American Horror Story''), an ''American Horror Story: Hotel'' character * Iris (''Fire Force''), a character in the manga series ''Fire Force'' * Iris (''Mega Man''), a ''Mega Man X4'' character ** Iris, a ''Mega Man Battle Network'' character * Iris (''Pokémon'') ** Iris (''Pokémon'' anime) * Iris, a '' Trolls: The Beat Goes On!'' character * Sorceress Iris, a ''Magicians of Xanth'' character * Iris, a kaiju character in '' Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris'' * Iris, a '' LoliRock'' character * Iris, a '' Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals'' (1995) character * Iris, a '' Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations'' character * Iris, a ''Ruby Gloom'' character * Iris, a ''Taxi Driver'' (1976) character * Iri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before Midnight (1933 Film)
''Before Midnight'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery crime film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer and Claude Gillingwater. Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures, it was the first in a series of four films featuring Inspector Steve Trent of the NYPD.Backer, p. 195 Bellamy featured in all three sequels ''One Is Guilty'', ''The Crime of Helen Stanley'' and ''Girl in Danger''. Synopsis NYC Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the estate of wealthy Edward Arnold around sixty miles outside NYC on a stormy night. Arnold has had a premonition that he is going to be murdered that night. Cast * Ralph Bellamy as Police Inspector Steve Trent * June Collyer as Janet Holt * Claude Gillingwater as John Fry * Bradley Page as Howard B. Smith * Betty Blythe as Mavis Fry * Arthur Pierson as Dr. David R. Marsh * George Cooper as Stubby * William Jeffrey as Edward Arnold * Joseph Crehan as Police Capt. Frank Flynn * Otto Yamaoka as Kono * Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Waitress
''Night Waitress'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and written by Marcus Goodrich. The film stars Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Hayworth, Marc Lawrence and Billy Gilbert. The film was released on December 18, 1936, by RKO Pictures. Plot A waterfront waitress (Margot Grahame) and her boyfriend (Gordon Jones) know too much about a murder and gold. Cast *Margot Grahame as Helen Roberts * Gordon Jones as Martin Rhodes *Vinton Hayworth as George Skinner *Marc Lawrence as Dorn *Billy Gilbert as Torre *Don 'Red' Barry as Mario Rigo *Otto Yamaoka as Fong * Paul Stanton as District Attorney * Arthur Loft as Borgum * Walter Miller as Police Inspector *Anthony Quinn as gangster (uncredited) *Willie Best William Best (May 27, 1913 – February 27, 1962), known professionally as Willie Best or Sleep n' Eat, was an American television and film actor. Best was one of the first African American film actors and comedians to become well kn ... a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy To Take
''Easy to Take'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Glenn Tryon and written by Virginia Van Upp. The film stars Marsha Hunt, John Howard, Eugene Pallette, Richard Carle, Douglas Scott and Robert Greig. The film was released on November 6, 1936, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast * Marsha Hunt as Donna Westlake *John Howard as Rodney Garfield *Eugene Pallette as Dr. Reginald Kraft aka Doc *Richard Carle as Attorney Olney *Douglas Scott as Wilbur Wentworth Westlake *Robert Greig as Judd *Jan Duggan as Miss Higgie *Marilyn Knowlden as Gwen Ferry *Josephine Whittell as Mrs. Ferry *Carl Switzer as Alfred Bottle * Charles Lane as Skip *Billy Lee Billy Lee is a former Gaelic footballer and former manager of the Limerick county football team. He is from Newcastle West. Player Lee played for Limerick. He became a selector when Liam Kearns managed the team between 1999 and 2005, and t ... as Bill Ardmore Jr. References External links * 1936 films Paramount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libeled Lady
''Libeled Lady'' is a 1936 screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy, written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan, and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway (film-maker), Jack Conway. This was the fifth of fourteen films in which Powell and Loy were teamed. ''Libeled Lady'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was remake, remade in 1946 as ''Easy to Wed'' with Esther Williams, Van Johnson, and Lucille Ball. Plot Wealthy Connie Allenbury is falsely accused of breaking up a marriage and sues the ''New York Evening Star'' newspaper for $5 million for libel. Warren Haggerty, the managing editor, turns in desperation to former reporter and suave ladies' man Bill Chandler for help. Bill's scheme is to maneuver Connie into being alone with him when his wife shows up, so that the suit will have to be dropped. Bill is not married, so Warren volunteers his long-suffering fiancée ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Boulevard (1936 Film)
''Hollywood Boulevard'' (1936) is a comedy film directed by Robert Florey and released by Paramount Pictures. Plot The film portrays, in a comic expose of gossip magazines of the time, has-been actor John Blakeford (Halliday) agreeing to write his memoirs for magazine publisher Jordan Winston (Gordon). When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia (Hunt), asks him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford (Marsh), he attempts to break his contract with Winston. Cast Production The casting was announced in June 1936. Many former silent era actors had small roles. Reception Frank Nugent of ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...'' was critical of the film: "It is, as you may judge, a pretty hoary melodrama and slight enough excuse for a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythm On The Range
''Rhythm on the Range'' is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, and Bob Burns. Based on a story by Mervin J. Houser, the film is about a cowboy who meets a beautiful young woman while returning from a rodeo in the east, and invites her to stay at his California ranch to experience his simple, honest way of life. ''Rhythm on the Range'' was Crosby's only Western film (apart from the remake ''Stagecoach'', 1966) and introduced two western songs, " Empty Saddles" by Billy Hill and "I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)" by Johnny Mercer, the latter becoming a national hit song for Crosby. The film played a role in familiarizing its audience with the singing cowboy and Western music on a national level. Plot Doris Halliday (Frances Farmer), the daughter of a wealthy New York banker, is engaged to wed a rich man she doesn't love. Her Aunt Penelope (Lucile Gleason), an outspoken Arizona rancher, objects to their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petticoat Fever
''Petticoat Fever'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by George Fitzmaurice and written by Harold Goldman. The film stars Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Reginald Owen, Winifred Shotter and Otto Yamaoka. The film was released on March 20, 1936, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Telegraph operator Dascom Dinsmore, who has been living in an isolated cabin in Labrador for two years, has a bad case of "cabin fever," caused by his many months without seeing any women. His Eskimo servant Kimo tries to interest him in two native women, but Dascom wants nothing to do with them. His near desperate fever is abated when aviator Sir James Felton's plane makes an emergency landing nearby and Dascom discovers that Jim's companion is the beautiful Irene Campion. Though Jim warns Irene that Dascom is a bit crazy and unkempt, when she arrives at the cabin, Dascom has transformed himself into a well groomed English gentleman. Later, to impress her, he wears a tuxedo and prepares a formal dinner par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Affair Of Susan
''The Affair of Susan'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Zasu Pitts, Hugh O'Connell and Walter Catlett.Lowe p.1968 It is a remake of the 1928 silent film '' Lonesome''. Two lonely people meet at an amusement park on Coney Island. Partial cast * Zasu Pitts as Susan Todd * Hugh O'Connell as Dudley Stone * Walter Catlett as Gilbert * Tom Dugan as Jeff Barnes * Inez Courtney as Mrs. Barnes * James Burke as Hogan * Nan Grey as Miss Skelly * Irene Franklin Irene Franklin (June 13, 1885 - June 16, 1941) was an American actress on stage and screen, vaudeville comedian, and singer. Biography Irene Franklin was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1885. While many sources have suggested her birth year as ... as Miss Perkins * William Pawley as Policeman References Bibliography * Lowe, Denise. ''An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930''. Routledge, 2014. External links * 1935 films 1935 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedding Night
''The Wedding Night'' is a 1935 American romantic drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten. Written by Edith Fitzgerald and based on a story by Edwin H. Knopf, the film is about a financially strapped novelist who returns to his country home in Connecticut looking for inspiration for his next novel and becomes involved with a beautiful young Polish woman and her family. The film was produced by Samuel Goldwyn and filmed at Samuel Goldwyn Studios from early November to early December 1934. It was released in the United States on March 8, 1935. The film received generally positive reviews, with ''The New York Times'' calling it "both pictorially and dramatically striking". Despite the reviews, the film did poorly at the box office, earning only $174,081. King Vidor won the Volpi Cup for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival in 1935. ''The Wedding Night'' was released in DVD format by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on May 22, 2007. In February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Flies East
''Death Flies East'' is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Conrad Nagel, Florence Rice and Raymond Walburn. The action takes place on an airline flight with a murderer aboard. The film was an early example of the aviation "disaster film" genre. Plot On a transcontinental flight from California to New York, a police detective (Fred Kelsey), found slumped in his seat is, dead, poisoned. The passengers include Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice), a nurse on parole for a murder she did not commit. The victim had also died of poisoning. The elderly doctor she worked for is still in prison. Evelyn is attempting to clear her name and bring the real killer to trial, a convict on death row at Sing Sing who can confess to the killing, if only she can get there in time. Another passenger is John Robinson Gordon (Conrad Nagel), a college instructor who becomes involved in Evelyn's plight. He is carrying a secret armament formula to deliver to the Secretary of the Navy in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limehouse Blues (film)
''Limehouse Blues'' (also known as ''East End Chant'') is a 1934 American crime film, directed by Alexander Hall. The film is set in the Limehouse district in the East End of London and its Chinatown, London, Chinatown. Among the stars of the film were George Raft and Anna May Wong. The film is named after the song "Limehouse Blues (song), Limehouse Blues". It is also known as East End Chant. Plot The film starts in a riverfront slum in Limehouse. ''The Lily Gardens'', a local club, is owned by Chinese Americans, Chinese-American immigrant Harry Young. Young uses the club as a center of operations for his lucrative smuggling operation. Young is a recent arrival in London, but he has managed to take over crime operations in his area. Rival criminal Pug Talbot is increasingly driven out of business. Talbot is enraged over the situation, and his anger causes him to abuse his own daughter, Toni. The girl has been raised to be a Pickpocketing, pickpocket and is under her father's con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
