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Russ Powell
Russ Powell (September 16, 1875 – November 28, 1950) was an American film actor. He appeared in 186 films between 1915 and 1943. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''The Fashion Shop'' (1915, Short) - Fat Customer * ''The Tale of the Night Before'' (1915) - Henry's friend * ''Fat and Furious'' (1917) - Merta's Father * '' Clean Sweep'' (1918) - The Butcher * ''Smoldering Embers'' (1920) - Tramp * ''Dangerous Days'' (1920) - Bartender (uncredited) * ''The Slim Princess'' (1920) - The Governor General * ''The Soul of Youth'' (1920) - Patrolman Jones * ''One Stolen Night'' (1923) * ''Kindled Courage'' (1923) - Marshal * ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (uncredited) (1923) * '' A Boy of Flanders'' - Baas Kronstadt (1924) * '' Open All Night'' (1924) (uncredited) * '' Dynamite Smith'' (1924) * '' The Wheel'' (1925) * ''The Red Mill'' (1927) * ''Tillie the Toiler'' (1927) (uncredited) * ''Soft Cushions'' (1927) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion County was 977,203 in 2020. The "balance" population, which excludes semi-autonomous municipalities in Marion County, was 887,642. It is the 15th most populous city in the U.S., the third-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, and the fourth-most populous state capital after Phoenix, Arizona, Austin, Texas, and Columbus. The Indianapolis metropolitan area is the 33rd most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with 2,111,040 residents. Its combined statistical area ranks 28th, with a population of 2,431,361. Indianapolis covers , making it the 18th largest city by land area in the U.S. Indigenous peoples inhabited the area dating to as early as 10,000 BC. In 1818, the Lenape relinquishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vamping Venus
''Vamping Venus'' is a 1928 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline, written by Howard J. Green and Ralph Spence, and starring Charles Murray, Louise Fazenda, Thelma Todd, Russ Powell, Joe Bonomo and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. It was released on May 13, 1928, by First National Pictures. Plot A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician ('Charlie Murray') is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. Cast *Charles Murray as Michael Cassidy / King Cassidy of Ireland *Louise Fazenda as Maggie Cassidy / Circe *Thelma Todd as Madame Vanezlos the Dancer / Venus *Russ Powell as Pete Papaglos / Bacchus *Joe Bonomo as Simonides the Strongman / Hercules *Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Mars *Spec O'Donnell as Western Union Boy / Mercury *Fred O'Beck as Vulcan *Gusztáv Pártos as Shopkeeper *Gustav von Seyffertitz as Jupiter *Janet MacLeod as Juno *Yola d'Avril Yola d'Avril (8 April 1906 – 2 March 1984) was a French-American actress, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady And Gent
''Lady and Gent'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Stephen Roberts for Paramount, featuring a young Charles ("Durango Kid") Starrett, Syd ("Three Mesquiteers") Saylor and an early supporting role by John Wayne. Plot A young boxer named Buzz Kinney, fresh out of college, is able to knock out Stag Bailey when the veteran fighter becomes cocky. His manager, Pin Streaver, is left despondent as he had bet a huge amount of money on Stag, including a large percentage of the prize money, and can't pay what he owes. When Stag's attempts to borrow the cash fails, Pin tries unsuccessfully to rob the boxing arena's safe and is killed by a security guard while escaping. Stag manages to bring Pin's body to another location and tells police that Pin apparently shot himself, so that Pin won't go down as a criminal. Pin's school-aged son Ted shows up, and Stag and his girlfriend Puff help raise the boy, while trying to dissuade him from a career in boxing. Later in the film, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sin Of Madelon Claudet
''The Sin of Madelon Claudet'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht was adapted from the play ''The Lullaby'' by Edward Knoblock. It tells the story of a wrongly imprisoned woman who turns to theft and prostitution in order to support her son. Plot When neglected wife Alice (Karen Morley) decides to leave her doctor husband Lawrence ( Robert Young), his friend Dr. Dulac (Jean Hersholt) stops her and tells her the life story of another woman, the French Madelon Claudet (Helen Hayes), who was persuaded by her American boyfriend, artist Larry Maynard ( Neil Hamilton), to run away with him. Eventually, he has to return to the U.S. because his father is sick. Once there however, he betrays her and marries a woman whom his parents approve of. Unbeknownst to him, Madelon gives birth to a son. When her lover does not come back, her father (Russ Powell) gets her to agree to marry Hubert ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An American Tragedy (film)
''An American Tragedy'' (1931) is a pre-Code drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel ''An American Tragedy'' and the 1926 play adaptation. These were based on the historic 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake in upstate New York.''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-1940'' by the American Film Institute, c. 1993 The novel would again be adapted in the 1951 Paramount release '' A Place in the Sun''. Cast *Phillips Holmes as Clyde Griffiths * Sylvia Sidney as Roberta Alden *Frances Dee as Sondra Finchley *Irving Pichel as District Attorney Orville Mason * Frederick Burton as Samuel Griffiths *Claire McDowell as Mrs. Samuel Griffiths *Wallace Middleton as Gilbert Griffiths *Emmett Corrigan as Belknap * Charles B. Middleton as Jephson *Lucille La Verne as Mrs. Asa Griffiths *Albert Hart as Titus Alden *Fanny Midgley as Mrs ... [...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] |
The Sin Ship
''The Sin Ship'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by the actor Louis Wolheim in his only directorial effort. The film marks the last contribution Wolheim made to the film industry prior to his death from cancer one month shy of his fifty-first birthday. In addition to directing, Wolheim also starred in the picture, alongside Mary Astor and Ian Keith. The screenplay was written by Hugh Herbert (who also acted in the film), from a story by Keene Thompson and Agnes Brand Leahy. The film was released in April 1931, two months after Wolheim's death, and is preserved at the Library of Congress. Plot Smiley Marsden is a bank robber on the run from the police, traveling with his moll, Frisco Kitty. Cornered, they arrive at the San Francisco docks, where they convince the captain of a small cargo ship, Sam McVeigh, to take them aboard on his run to Mexico, mostly because he is enchanted with Kitty. Marsden is posing as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grand Parade
''The Grand Parade'' is a 1930 American drama film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott and Richard Carle.Kennedy p.306 It is now considered to be a lost film. A struggling minstrel show entertainer's life is turned around by the young woman who cares for him. Cast * Helen Twelvetrees as Molly * Fred Scott as Kelly * Richard Carle as Rand * Marie Astaire as Polly * Russ Powell as Calamity Johnson * Bud Jamison as Honey Sullivan * Jimmie Adams as Jones * Lillian Leighton as Madam Stitch * Spec O'Donnell as Call Boy * Sammy Blum as Sam * Tom Malone as Dougherty * Jimmy Aubrey Jimmy Aubrey (23 October 1887 – 2 September 1983) was an English actor who worked with both Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, having gone with Fred Karno's theatrical company to America in 1908. However he left to start on his own in v ... as The Drunk References Bibliography * Kennedy, Matthew. ''Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood's Geni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Check And Double Check
''Check and Double Check'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code comedy film produced and released by RKO Radio Pictures based on the ''Amos 'n' Andy'' old-time radio, radio show. The title was derived from a catchphrase associated with the show. Directed by Melville W. Brown, from a screenplay by Bert Kalmar, J. Walter Ruben, and Harry Ruby, it starred Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden, in blackface, in the roles of Andy and Amos, respectively, which they had created for the radio show. The film also featured Duke Ellington and his "Cotton Club Orchestra". Plot Amos and Andy run the "Fresh Air Taxicab Company, Incorporated", so named because their one taxi has no top. Their old vehicle has broken down, causing a traffic jam. Stuck in the traffic jam are John Blair and his wife, who were on their way to meet an old family friend at the train station, Richard Williams. When the Blairs do not show up, he makes his own way to their house, where he meets their daughter, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Trail
''The Big Trail'' is a 1930 American pre-Code Western early widescreen film shot on location across the American West starring 23-year-old John Wayne in his first leading role and directed by Raoul Walsh. In 2006, the United States Library of Congress deemed this film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry, saying "the plot of a trek along the Oregon Trail is aided immensely by the majestic sweep provided by the experimental 70mm Grandeur wide-screen process used in filming". Plot A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. Breck Coleman is a young trapper who just got back to Missouri from his travels near Santa Fe, seeking to avenge the death of an old trapper friend who was killed the winter before along the Santa Fe Trail for his furs, by Red Flack and his minion Lopez. At a large trading post owned by a man named Wellmore, Coleman sees Flack and suspects him right away as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safety In Numbers (1930 Film)
''Safety in Numbers'' is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film. Directed by Victor Schertzinger, it stars Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and features Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, and Carole Lombard (in an early role). Plot William Reynolds is set to inherit $350 million on his next birthday, but his uncle says he must learn the ways of the world beforehand. His uncle hires three follies girls to guide William around New York. Cast *Charles "Buddy" Rogers as William Butler Reynolds *Kathryn Crawford as Jacqueline *Josephine Dunn as Maxine * Carole Lombard as Pauline *Roscoe Karns as Bertram Shapiro *Richard Tucker as F. Carstair Reynolds *Francis McDonald as Phil Kemptom *Raoul Paoli as Jules *Virginia Bruce as Alma McGregor * Geneva Mitchell as Cleo Carewe *Louise Beavers as Messalina *Lawrence Grant as Commander Brinker (uncredited) *Tom London as Motorist (uncredited) *Russ Powell as Doorman (uncredited) * Charles Sullivan as Taxicab Driver (uncredited) Reception The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailor's Holiday (1929 Film)
''Sailor's Holiday'' is a 1929 American pre-Code sound comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and produced and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film was also released in a silent version. The film 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'', p. 157 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Plot Cast * Alan Hale as Adam Pike *Sally Eilers as Molly Jones * George Cooper as Shorty *Paul Hurst as Jimmylegs *Mary Carr as Mrs. Pike *Charles Clary as Captain * Jack Richardson as Captain *Natalie Joyce as The Fast Worker *Phil Sleeman as Her Secretary *Ray Cooke as Sailor in Cafe (uncredited) * Russ Powell as Midway Customer (uncredited) *Randolph Scott as Undetermined Role (uncredited) *Rolfe Sedan as Ferris Wheel Barker (uncredited) * Slim Summerville as Midway Photographer (uncredited) *Grady Sutton Grady Harwell Sutton (April 5, 1906 – September 17, 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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