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Rita Flynn
Rita Flynn (born Edith Flynn; August 16, 1905 – December 31, 1973) was an American film actress. She is known for starring in Fatty Arbuckle comedies and for appearing alongside James Cagney and Jean Harlow in ''The Public Enemy'' (1931). Early life She was born as Edith Flynn on August 16, 1905. Flynn was Miss San Francisco at the Atlantic City All-American beauty pageant in 1925. From then, she became a theater performer and was known as Mickey Flynn. Career Flynn began her stage career in a New York musical comedy, receiving a favorable reception from Broadway theatre, Broadway critics. She later left theater to become a film actress around 1929 when sound film became popular. Believing her theater monicker was not "ritzy enough" for film work, upon signing a contract with First National Pictures in 1929, she insisted from that point that she would identify as Rita Flynn. Among her earliest film work was as a chorus girl in the 1929 films Broadway (1929 film), Broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Public Enemy
''The Public Enemy'' (''Enemies of the Public'' in the UK) is a 1931 American all-talking pre-Code gangster film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The film was directed by William A. Wellman and stars James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Donald Cook and Joan Blondell. The film relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in prohibition-era urban America. The supporting players include Beryl Mercer, Murray Kinnell, and Mae Clarke. The screenplay is based on an unpublished novel—''Beer and Blood'' by two former newspapermen, John Bright and Kubec Glasmon—who had witnessed some of Al Capone's murderous gang rivalries in Chicago. In 1998, ''The Public Enemy'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot As youngsters in 1900s Chicago, Irish-Americans Tom Powers and his lifelong friend Matt Doyle engage in petty theft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Mama (film)
''Sweet Mama'' is a 1930 American pre-Code talkie comedy drama film with songs, which was directed by Edward F. Cline and produced and distributed by First National Pictures. The film stars Alice White, David Manners, Kenneth Thomson and Rita Flynn. Planned as a full-scale musical, and released as such for a short time in the summer of 1930, most of the songs were cut from general release prints by the autumn of 1930 due to the public's aversion for musicals. Plot When the film begins we find Alice White stranded several hundred miles away from New York with a burlesque troupe. She receives a telegraph that her boyfriend, played by David Manners, is in jail. White boards a train headed for New York without a ticket because she has no money. When the conductor discovers she has no ticket she is almost thrown off the train. A detective, played by Robert Elliott, befriends White and offers to let White borrow the money she needs for a ticket. When she arrives in New York she find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crashing Hollywood (1931 Film)
''Crashing Hollywood'' is a 1931 American pre-Code short comedy film directed by Fatty Arbuckle. Cast * Virginia Brooks * Rita Flynn * Phyllis Crane * Edward J. Nugent * Wilbur Mack * Walter Merrill * Bryant Washburn * George Chandler * Betty Grable (credited as Frances Dean) See also * List of American films of 1931 * Fatty Arbuckle filmography __NOTOC__ These are the films of the American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Roscoe Arbuckle. Films marked with a diamond (♦) were directed by and featured Arbuckle. He used the name William Goodrich on the films he di ... External links * 1931 films 1931 comedy films Educational Pictures short films American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Roscoe Arbuckle American comedy short films Films with screenplays by Jack Townley 1930s American films {{short-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cisco Kid (1931 Film)
''The Cisco Kid'' is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Warner Baxter. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and is a follow up to Fox's hugely successful 1928 ''In Old Arizona'' and 1930's '' The Arizona Kid'', both of which had starred Baxter as the same character ''The Cisco Kid''. A copy is preserved at the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', page 31, c. 1978 by The American Film Institute. Cast *Warner Baxter as The Cisco Kid *Edmund Lowe as Sergeant Michael Patrick "Mickey" Dunn *Conchita Montenegro as Carmencita *Nora Lane as Sally Benton *Frederick Burt as Sheriff Tex Ransom *Willard Robertson as Enos Hankins *James Bradbury Jr. as Dixon, U.S.A. *John Webb Dillon as Bouse, U.S.A. * Charles Stevens as Lopez *Douglas Haig as Billy *Marilyn Knowlden Marilyn Knowlden (born May 12, 1926) is an American f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be Yourself!
''Be Yourself!'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Fanny Brice and Robert Armstrong. The plot involves an entertainer (Brice) managing a boxer (Armstrong). The cinematographer was Karl Struss and the running time is 65 minutes. Cast *Fanny Brice as Fannie Field * Robert Armstrong as Jerry Moore *Harry Green as Harry Field *G. Pat Collins as "Mac" McCloskey *Gertrude Astor as Lillian Thorpe *Budd Fine as Step *Marjorie Kane as Lola, chorus girl *Rita Flynn as Jessica References External links * *''Be Yourself!''in ''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 ...'' 1930 films 1930 musical comedy films American musical comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Thornton F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Byron Of Broadway
''Lord Byron of Broadway'' (1930), also known as ''What Price Melody?'', is an American Pre-Code musical drama film, directed by Harry Beaumont and William Nigh. It was based on a best selling book by Nell Martin, which "was widely praised by critics as an extremely true and amusing romance of stage life." It was filmed in black and white with two-color Technicolor sequences. Plot Starting and ending relationships gives a composer (Charles Kaley) ideas for songs, until he meets and marries a woman Marion Shilling. Cast *Charles Kaley as Roy Erskine *Ethelind Terry as Ardis Trevelyn *Marion Shilling as Nancy Clover *Cliff Edwards as Joe Lundeen *Gwen Lee as Bessie ("Bess") *Benny Rubin as Phil *Jack Byron as Mr. Millaire (as John Byron) *Gino Corrado as Riccardi *Iris Adrian (uncredited) *Jack Benny (uncredited) *Ann Dvorak (uncredited) Soundtrack Charles Kaley recorded two of the songs for Brunswick Records (Record Number 4718). These songs were "Should I" and "A Bundle of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Man (1928 Film)
''My Man'' is a 1928 black and white part-talkie American comedy-drama musical film directed by Archie Mayo starring Fanny Brice and featuring Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. It was Brice's feature film debut at the age of 37. She was a star in the Ziegfeld Follies before she started acting in motion pictures. At the time Warner Bros. made this film there were still some silent movies in production and being released. ''My Man'' used intertitles but included talking sequences, synchronized music, and sound effects using a Vitaphone sound-on-disc system.Progressive Silent Film List: ''My Man'' at silentera.com It was not until 1929 that talking movies would completely take over, but Warner Bros. had completely stopped making silent movies and switched to sound pictures by the end of that year, either part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph M
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese language, Portuguese and Spanish language, Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yusuf, Yūsuf''. In Persian language, Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of The United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point of federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." The court holds the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law. However, it may act only within the context of a case in an area of law over which it has jurisdiction. The court may decide cases having political overtones, but has ruled that it does not have power to decide non-justiciable political questions. Established by Article Three of the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockbroker
A stockbroker is a regulated broker, broker-dealer, or registered investment adviser (in the United States) who may provide financial advisory and investment management services and execute transactions such as the purchase or sale of stocks and other investments to financial market participants in return for a commission, markup, or fee, which could be based on a flat rate, percentage of assets, or hourly rate. The term also refers to financial companies, offering such services. Examples of professional designations held by individuals in this field, which affects the types of investments they are permitted to sell and the services they provide include chartered financial consultants, certified financial planners or chartered financial analysts (in the United States and UK), chartered strategic wealth professionals (in Canada), chartered financial planners (in the UK). The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority provides an online tool designed to help understand professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakland Tribune
The ''Oakland Tribune'' is a weekly newspaper published in Oakland, California, by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group. Founded in 1874, the ''Tribune'' rose to become an influential daily newspaper. With the decline of print media, in March 2016, parent company Digital First Media announced that the ''Tribune'' would fold into a new newspaper entitled the ''East Bay Times'' along with the company's other newspapers in the East Bay starting April 5, 2016. The former nameplates of the consolidated newspapers will continue to be published every Friday as weekly community supplements. Origin The ''Tribune'' was founded February 21, 1874, by George Staniford and Benet A. Dewes. The ''Oakland Daily Tribune'' was first printed at 468 Ninth St. as a 4-page, 3-column newspaper, 6 by 10 inches. Staniford and Dewes gave out copies free of charge. The paper had news stories and 43 advertisements. Staniford, the editor and Dewes, the printer, were credite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
