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Russell Collins
Russell Collins (born Russell Henry Collins, October 11, 1897 – November 14, 1965) was an American actor whose 43-year career included hundreds of performances on stage, in feature films, and on television. Early life Born in 1897 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Russell Collins was the middle child of Emma (''née'' Hughes) and Martin F. Collins' five children. He had a younger brother and sister, Raymond and Maxina, as well as an older brother and sister, Oren and Irene."The Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910" enumeration date April 25, 1910, Center Township "Part of Precinct" Marion County, Indiana. FamilySearch. Retrieved ... [...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] |
Tyrone Power
Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) was an American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His better-known films include ''Jesse James'', '' The Mark of Zorro'', ''Marie Antoinette'', '' Blood and Sand'', '' The Black Swan'', ''Prince of Foxes'', ''Witness for the Prosecution'', '' The Black Rose'', and '' Captain from Castile''. Power's own favorite film among those that he starred in was '' Nightmare Alley''. Though largely a matinee idol in the 1930s and early 1940s and known for his striking good looks, Power starred in films in a number of genres, from drama to light comedy. In the 1950s he began placing limits on the number of films he would make in order to devote more time to theater productions. He received his biggest accolades as a stage actor in ''John Brown's Body'' and '' Mister Roberts''. Power died from a heart attack at the age Family background and early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunrise At Campobello (play)
''Sunrise at Campobello'' is a 1958 play by American producer and writer Dore Schary based on U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's struggle with polio. The film version was released in 1960. Background Schary obtained the rights to the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1957. The original Broadway production was presented at the Cort Theatre by The Theatre Guild and Dore Schary and directed by Vincent J. Donehue. It opened on January 30, 1958 and closed on May 30, 1959 running for 556 performances. Production The Scenic and Lighting Design were by Ralph Alswang; the costumes by Virginia Volland. The play starred Ralph Bellamy as Roosevelt. Others in the cast included Henry Jones as Louis Howe, Mary Fickett as Eleanor Roosevelt; Anne Seymour as Sara Delano Roosevelt and, in his Broadway debut, James Earl Jones. Bellamy repeated his role in the film version of the play. Campobello Island was Roosevelt's summer home in New Brunswick, Canada. Early scenes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina Fair
''Sabrina Fair'' (subtitled "''A Woman of the World''") is a romantic comedy written by Samuel A. Taylor and produced by the Playwrights' Company. It ran on Broadway for a total of 318 performances, opening at the National Theatre on November 11, 1953. Directed by H. C. Potter, with sets and lights designed by Donald Oenslager, it starred Margaret Sullavan and Joseph Cotten, with Cathleen Nesbitt, John Cromwell, and Russell Collins in major supporting roles. The critic for ''The New York Times'', Brooks Atkinson, praised both the script and the production for its droll wit, writing that "One of the most attractive qualities of ''Sabrina Fair'' is the opportunity it provides for enjoying the foibles and crises of some fairly scrupulous human beings." For Atkinson, the play's clever dialogue placed it beyond a Cinderella romance and into the more exalted realm of high comedy, in the tradition of S. N. Behrman, Philip Barry, and W. Somerset Maugham. The play has been adapted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Iceman Cometh
''The Iceman Cometh'' is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939. First published in 1946, the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple times. The work tells the story of a number of alcoholic dead-enders who live together in a flop house above a saloon and what happens to them when the most outwardly "successful" of them embraces sobriety and reveals that he has been on the run after murdering his "beloved" wife. Characters * Harry Hope: Widowed proprietor of the saloon and rooming house where the play takes place. He has a tendency to give free drinks, though he constantly says otherwise * Ed Mosher: Hope's brother-in-law (brother of Hope's late wife Bess), a con-man and former circus man * Pat McGloin: Former police lieutenant who was convicted on criminal charges and kic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carousel (musical)
''Carousel'' is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play ''Liliom'', transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. The story revolves around carousel barker Billy Bigelow, whose romance with millworker Julie Jordan comes at the price of both their jobs. He participates in a robbery to provide for Julie and their unborn child; after it goes tragically wrong, he is given a chance to make things right. A secondary plot line deals with millworker Carrie Pipperidge and her romance with ambitious fisherman Enoch Snow. The show includes the well-known songs " If I Loved You", "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" and " You'll Never Walk Alone". Richard Rodgers later wrote that ''Carousel'' was his favorite of all his musicals. Following the spectacular success of the first Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, '' Oklahoma!'' (1943), the pair sought to collaborate on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morning's At Seven
''Morning's at Seven'' is a play by Paul Osborn. Its plot focuses on four aging sisters living in a small Midwestern town in 1928, and it deals with ramifications within the family when two of them begin to question their lives and decide to make some changes before it’s too late. The original Broadway production, directed by Joshua Logan, opened on November 30, 1939, at the Longacre Theatre, where it ran for 44 performances. Director Logan chose to set it in 1938, which at the end of the Depression and the beginning of World War II seemed to make it less palatable to the audiences of that time. The cast included Dorothy Gish, Jean Adair, Enid Markey, and Kate McComb. After 16 previews, the first Broadway revival, directed by Vivian Matalon, opened on April 10, 1980, at the Lyceum Theatre. The cast included Nancy Marchand, Maureen O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Wilson, Teresa Wright, Lois de Banzie, and David Rounds. This production, set back to its original 1920s period, was a grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star-Wagon
''The Star-Wagon'' was a 1937 Broadway drama written by Maxwell Anderson, produced and staged by Guthrie McClintic, with scenic design by Jo Mielziner and musical direction by Albert Pearl. It ran for 223 performances from September 29, 1937 to April 1938 at the Empire Theatre. Plot A fantasy of time-travel Cast * Burgess Meredith as Stephen Minch * Lillian Gish as Martha Minch * Whitner Bissell as Park * J. Arthur Young as Mr. Arlington * Jane Buchanan as Hallie Arlington * Howard Freeman as Apfel * Mildred Natwick as Mrs. Rutledge * Edmund O'Brien as Paul Reiger * John Philliber as Misty * Kent Smith as Duffy * William Garner as Oglethorpe * Russell Collins as Hanus Wicks * Edith Smith as Della * Muriel Starr as Angela and as herb woman * Barry Kelley as first thug * Charles Forrester as second thug * Evelyn Abbott as Christabel * Alan Anderson as Ripple Adaptations N.Y. Times, Jan. 7, 1938: “The purchase of Maxwell Anderson’s ‘The Star Wagon’ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waiting For Lefty
''Waiting for Lefty'' is a 1935 play by the American playwright Clifford Odets; it was his first play to be produced. Consisting of a series of related vignettes, the entire play is framed by a meeting of cab drivers who are planning a labor strike. The framing uses the audience as part of the meeting. The play debuted on Sunday, January 6, 1935, at the Civic Repertory Theatre on 14th Street, as part of a benefit performance for ''New Theatre'' magazine. It premiered on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on March 26, 1935, under the auspices of the Group Theatre, a New York City theatre company founded by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, of which Odets was a member. The company was founded as a training ground for actors, and also to support new plays, especially those that expressed the social and political climate of the day. The play was requested by many theater and labor groups in numerous other cities around the United States. It premiered in London in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Till The Day I Die
''Till the Day I Die'' is a play by Clifford Odets performed on Broadway in 1935. Description The play is a seven-scene drama written by Clifford Odets. It was originally written as a piece to accompany ''Waiting for Lefty''. Productions It was produced by the Group Theatre and staged by Cheryl Crawford, and ran for 136 performances from March 26, 1935, to July 1935 at the Longacre Theatre. When the New Theatre in Sydney, tried to stage it in 1936, following its production of ''Waiting for Lefty'' earlier that year, the German Consul General in Australia complained to the Commonwealth Government and the play was banned. However the theatre defied the ban and staged the play in private premises, and (after a similar controversy), it was staged to large audiences in Melbourne's New Theatre. Terminology The play contains the first documented use of the phrase "male chauvinism". Broadway cast * Margaret Barker as Tillie * Abner Biberman as fourth Orderly * Roman Bohnen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Eagle Guy
''Gold Eagle Guy'' is a 1934 Broadway five scene drama written by Melvin Levy, produced by the Group Theatre with D. A. Doran, Jr., staged by Lee Strasberg, choreography by Helen Tamiris with scenic design by Donald Oenslager and costume design by Kay Morrison. It ran for 65 performances from November 28, 1934, to January 1935 at the Morosco Theatre. Cast * Luther Adler as Emperor Norton and as Tang Sin * Stella Adler as Adah Menken * Alan Baxter as MacNaurty and as Kohler and as postman * Roman Bohnen as Macondray * J. Edward Bromberg as Guy Button * Morris Carnovsky as Will Parrott * William Challee as Pearly and as Ah Kee * Russell Collins as a deserter and as Ed Walker * Walter Coy as Adam Keane * Jules Garfield as sailor and as Mackay * Elia Kazan as Polyziodes * Alexander Kirkland as Lon Firth * Lewis Leverett as a miner and as Captain Roberts and as André * Bob Lewis as Gus and as Okajima * Sanford Meisner as Ortega and as Guy, Jr. (in Act 3) * Clifford Ode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men In White (play)
''Men in White'' is a 1933 play written by American playwright Sidney Kingsley. It was produced by the Group Theatre, Sidney Harmon and James Ramsey Ullman, directed by Lee Strasberg with scenic design created by Mordecai Gorelik. It ran for 351 performances from September 26, 1933 to July 28, 1934 at the Broadhurst Theatre. The play won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was included in Burns Mantle's ''The Best Plays of 1933–1934''. Cast * Luther Adler as Dr. Gordon * Alan Baxter as Dr. Crawford and as Mac * Phoebe Brand as Barbara Dennin * Morris Carnovsky as Dr. Levine * J. Edward Bromberg as Dr. Hochberg * Grover Burgess as Dr. McCabe * William Challee as Dr. Michaelson * Russell Collins as Dr. Cunningham * Herbert Ratner as Dr. Vitale * Walter Coy as Dr. Bradley and as Peter * Robert Harper as Mr. Drummond * Alexander Kirkland as Dr. Ferguson * Bob Lewis as Dr. Otis and as Shorty * Sanford Meisner as Dr. Wren and as Mr. Smith * Ruth Nelson as Mrs. Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
