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Remember The Day
''Remember the Day'' is a 1941 film released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Henry King, and starring Claudette Colbert and John Payne. Plot Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell reflects on her life and teaching career while waiting to see Dewey Roberts, formerly her student and currently a presidential nominee. This film is reminiscent of ''Cheers for Miss Bishop'' (1941) and ''Good Morning, Miss Dove'' (1955). Cast *Claudette Colbert as Nora Trinell * John Payne as Dan Hopkins *Shepperd Strudwick as Dewey Roberts (as John Sheppard) *Ann E. Todd as Kate Hill Roberts *Douglas Croft as Dewey Roberts as a boy *Anne Revere as Miss Price *Frieda Inescort as Mrs. Roberts *Harry Hayden as Mr. Roberts *Francis Pierlot as Mr. Steele *Marie Blake Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald (August 21, 1895 – January 14, 1978), also known as Blossom Rock, was an American actress of vaudeville, stage, film and television. During her career she was also billed as Marie Blake or Blossom MacDonal ...
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Henry King (director)
Henry King (January 24, 1886June 29, 1982) was an American actor and film director. Widely considered one of the finest and most successful filmmakers of his era, King was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director, and directed seven films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Biography Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres and first started to take small film roles in 1912. Between 1913 and 1925, he appeared as an actor in approximately sixty films. He directed for the first time in 1915 and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and '30s. He was twice nominated for the Best Director Oscar. In 1944, he was awarded the first Golden Globe Award for Best Director for his film '' The Song of Bernadette''. He worked most often with Tyrone Power and Gregory Peck and for 20th Century Fox. Henry King was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scien ...
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Charles Bradshaw (musician)
Charles Bradshaw (1805 – 18??) was a merchant and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Bradshaw was a merchant in Melbourne from 1843. He was an Auditor for Society of St George in 1845, manager of the Union Bank of Australia The Union Bank of Australia was an Australian bank in operation from 1837 to 1951. It was established in London in October 1837 with a subscribed capital of £500,000. The foundation of the bank had followed a visit to England by Van Diemen's Land ... 1850-1852 and commissioner Savings Banks in 1859. Bradshaw was a nominated member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1 August 1854 replacing Andrew Knight. Bradshaw remained a member until the original unicameral Council was abolished in March 1856. In December 1860, Bradshaw sailed for England. References   {{DEFAULTSORT:Bradshaw, Charles 1805 births Year of death unknown Members of the Victorian Legislative Council ...
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1941 Films
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, '' Citizen Kane''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1941 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 17 ''Gone with the Wind'' goes into general release after touring in a roadshow version during 1940. Becoming a cultural phenomenon, it sells an estimated 60 million tickets this year alone. Adjusted for inflation with numerous rereleases, it remains the highest grossing domestic film of all time with $1.8 billion. *March 24 - Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie '' Sun Valley Serenade'' for Twentieth Century Fox *May 1 – '' Citizen Kane'', consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, is released. *July 2 – '' Sergeant York'', the film biopic of World War I hero Alvin C. York, starring Gary Cooper in the title role, premieres in New York City. It is the highest ...
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Selmer Jackson
Selmer Adolf Jackson (May 7, 1888 – March 30, 1971) was an American stage film and television actor. He appeared in nearly 400 films between 1921 and 1963. His name was sometimes spelled Selmar Jackson. Jackson was born in Lake Mills, Iowa and died in Burbank, California from a heart attack. Jackson gained early acting experience in stock theater, working with groups such as the Des Moines Stock Company. Jackson's screen debut was in the silent film ''The Supreme Passion'' (1921). On March 30, 1971, Jackson died of a heart attack in Burbank, California. He was 82. Filmography * ''The Supreme Passion'' (1921) – Clara's Beau * ''Thru Different Eyes'' (1929) – King (defense attorney) * ''Why Bring That Up?'' (1929) – Eddie * ''Lovin' the Ladies'' (1930) – George Van Horne * ''Brothers'' (1930) – Assistant Defense Attorney (uncredited) * '' Madonna of the Streets'' (1930) – Kingsley's Partner (uncredited) * ''Dirigible'' (1931) – Lt. Rowland (uncredited) * ''Subw ...
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Chick Chandler
Fehmer Christy "Chick" Chandler (January 18, 1905 – September 30, 1988) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 130 films from 1925 through the mid-1950s. Chandler was known for his starring role as Toubo Smith in the Universal-produced 1955 syndicated television series '' Soldiers of Fortune''. Early life Born Fehmer Christy Chandler (named after his uncle, well-known architect Carl Fehmer), in Kingston, New York, to Colonel George F. Chandler and the former Martha Schultze (a sportswriter and daughter of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Carl Schultze), by the age of 12, he was appearing as a dancer and entertainer in local stage shows. His father, an army surgeon and organizer of the New York State Police, enrolled him in a military academy, The Manlius School, which he attended for three years, serving with distinction and rising to the school rank of corporal. At 16, though he was being groomed by his family for a military career, he dropp ...
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Marie Blake
Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald (August 21, 1895 – January 14, 1978), also known as Blossom Rock, was an American actress of vaudeville, stage, film and television. During her career she was also billed as Marie Blake or Blossom MacDonald. Her younger sister was screen actress and singer Jeanette MacDonald. Rock is probably best known for her role as " Grandmama" on the 1960s macabre/black comedy sitcom ''The Addams Family''. Personal life Blossom Rock was born on August 21, 1895, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the second of three daughters born to Anna May (née Wright; July, 1871 – May 16, 1947) and Daniel McDonald (April, 1869 – August 8, 1924). The family later changed the spelling of their last name to MacDonald. As a youth, Blossom first performed in vaudeville with her younger sister, Jeanette. She had an elder sister, Elsie Wallace MacDonald (1894–1970), who had also been a vaudeville performer and then operated a dance school until 1962. ...
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Francis Pierlot
Francis Pierlot (July 15, 1875 – May 11, 1955) was a stage and film actor with over 90 film credits between 1914 and 1953. The Massachusetts-born actor's first film credit was in 1914, but he did not begin appearing in films full-time until 1940, when he was 63 years old. He specialized in playing grey-haired well dressed characters in small parts including judges, priests and lawyers. One of Pierlot's larger roles was as Jean Simmons' manservant in his final film, the biblical epic ''The Robe'' (1953). He died in Hollywood, California, at age 79. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. Partial filmography *''The Path Forbidden'' (1914) - Bug Hicks *''The Night Angel'' (1931) - Jan *''Escape to Glory'' (1940) - Professor Mudge *'' The Captain Is a Lady'' (1940) - Roger Bartlett *'' Strike Up the Band'' (1940) - Mr. Judd *'' Always a Bride'' (1940) - Pete Bond *''Victory'' (1940) - McKenzie (uncredited) *''The Trial of Mary Dugan'' (1941) - John ...
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Harry Hayden
Harry may refer to: TV shows * ''Harry'' (American TV series), a 1987 American comedy series starring Alan Arkin * ''Harry'' (British TV series), a 1993 BBC drama that ran for two seasons * ''Harry'' (talk show), a 2016 American daytime talk show hosted by Harry Connick Jr. People and fictional characters * Harry (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Harry (surname), a list of people with the surname * Dirty Harry (musician) (born 1982), British rock singer who has also used the stage name Harry * Harry Potter (character), the main protagonist in a Harry Potter fictional series by J. K. Rowling Other uses * Harry (derogatory term), derogatory term used in Norway * ''Harry'' (album), a 1969 album by Harry Nilsson *The tunnel used in the Stalag Luft III escape ("The Great Escape") of World War II * ''Harry'' (newspaper), an underground newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland See also *Harrying (laying waste), may refer to the following historical ...
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Frieda Inescort
Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play ''Hay Fever'' on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production ''Escape'' and Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Early years Born in Edinburgh, Inescort was the daughter of Scots-born journalist John "Jock" Wrightman and actress Elaine Inescourt, who was of German and Polish descent. They married in 1896 but parted ways when their daughter was still a young child. While she lived in Britain, Inescort wrote for a newspaper in London and worked as secretary to Lord Astor. (Another source says that she was secretary to Lady Astor.) After going to the United States, she not only acted but also worked as associate editor of ''The Exporter's Encyclopedia''. Stage Inescort's acting debut came in ''The Truth About Blayds'' (19 ...
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Anne Revere
Anne Revere (June 25, 1903 – December 18, 1990) was an American actress and a progressive member of the board of the Screen Actors' Guild. She was best known for her work on Broadway theatre, Broadway and her film portrayals of mothers in a series of critically acclaimed films. An outspoken critic of the House Un-American Activities Committee, her name appeared in ''Red Channels, Red Channels: The Report on Communist Influence in Radio and Television'' in 1950 and she was subsequently blacklisted. Revere won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Academy Award for her supporting role in the film ''National Velvet (film), National Velvet'' (1945). She was also nominated in the same category for ''The Song of Bernadette (film), The Song of Bernadette'' (1943) and ''Gentleman's Agreement'' (1947). She won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Tony Award for her performance in Lillian Hellman's play ''Toys in the Attic (play), Toys in the Attic'' in 1960. Ea ...
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Good Morning, Miss Dove
''Good Morning, Miss Dove'' is a 1955 DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope film that tells the sentimental story of a beloved schoolteacher who reflects back on her life and former students when she is hospitalized. It stars Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Kipp Hamilton, Robert Douglas, Peggy Knudsen, Marshall Thompson, Chuck Connors, and Mary Wickes. The screenplay was adapted by Eleanore Griffin and based on the bestselling novel ''Good Morning, Miss Dove'' by Frances Gray Patton, which was based on three short stories she had written for ''The Ladies Home Journal'': "The Terrible Miss Dove", '"Miss Dove and Judgment Day" and "Miss Dove and the Maternal Instinct". The film was directed by Henry Koster. A 60-minute TV adaptation, with Phyllis Kirk in the main role, was seen in 1956 as part of the weekly anthology ''The 20th Century-Fox Hour''. Plot Miss Dove (Jennifer Jones), commonly referred to as "the terrible Miss Dove," is a prim and proper geography teacher who governs her classr ...
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Cheers For Miss Bishop
''Cheers for Miss Bishop'' is a 1941 American drama film based on the novel ''Miss Bishop'' by Bess Streeter Aldrich. It was directed by Tay Garnett and stars Martha Scott in the title role. The other cast members include William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway, Dorothy Peterson, Marsha Hunt, Don Douglas, and Sidney Blackmer. This film marked the debut of Rosemary DeCamp. ''Cheers for Miss Bishop'' was produced by Richard A. Rowland and released through United Artists. Plot Miss Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) is a teacher at Midwestern University. The story is told in flashback and takes place over many years, from the 1880s to the 1930s, showing her from her freshman year to her retirement as an old woman. At the beginning, she lives with her mother and her vixenish cousin Amy ( Mary Anderson); she remembers when her father had a farm near the town. Ella is an inhibited girl whose frustration grows as she approaches womanhood. She dreams of becoming a teacher. When she gr ...
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