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Ralph Staub
Ralph Staub (July 21, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois – October 22, 1969, Los Angeles, California) was a movie director, writer and producer. Three of his short subjects in the '' Screen Snapshots'' series have been nominated for the Academy Award and he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1752 Vine Street in Hollywood, California, USA. Partial filmography * As Director ** '' What, No Men!'' ( 1934) ** ''Art Trouble'' (1934) short; film debut of James Stewart ** '' Keystone Hotel'' (1935) ** ''Carnival Day'' (1936) ** ''Sitting on the Moon'' (1936) ** '' Country Gentlemen'' (1936) ** ''The Mandarin Mystery'' (1936) ** ''Join the Marines'' (1937) ** '' Navy Blues'' (1937) ** ''Affairs of Cappy Ricks'' (1937) ** ''Meet the Boyfriend'' (1937) ** '' Mama Runs Wild'' (1937) ** ''Prairie Moon'' (1938) ** '' Western Jamboree'' (1938) ** ''Swing Hotel'' (1939) ** ''Chip of the Flying U'' (1939) ** ''Yukon Flight ''Yukon Flight '' (also known as ''Renfrew of the Royal Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Join The Marines
''Join the Marines'' is a 1937 American action film directed by Ralph Staub and written by Joseph Krumgold and Olive Cooper. The film stars Paul Kelly, June Travis, Purnell Pratt, Reginald Denny, Warren Hymer and Irving Pichel. It was released on January 25, 1937 by Republic Pictures. Plot New York policeman and Olympic javelin thrower Phil Donlan is on his way to the 1936 Olympic Games when he meets lovely Paula Denbrough on the ocean liner to Europe. Paula is planning to marry playboy Steve Lodge, but her father, a colonel with the Marine Corps, uses his influence to prevent the marriage. Paula believes that Phil is at fault and exacts revenge by exaggerating some of Phil's pranks into a scandal that causes his expulsion from the Olympics team and later from the NYPD. Paula and Phil fall in love on the return trip, but Phil has no career prospects and wishes to impress Paula, so he joins the Marines. When Paula and Phil's romance ends, Phil declares that he will become an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Deaths
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 Births
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood In Uniform
''Hollywood in Uniform'' is a 1943 American short documentary film directed by Ralph Staub as part of the '' Screen Snapshots'' series. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 16th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (One-Reel). Cast * Eddie Albert as Himself * Desi Arnaz as Himself * Gene Autry as Himself * Art Baker as Narrator * John Carroll as Himself * Jackie Cooper as Himself * Glenn Ford as Himself * Clark Gable as Himself * Van Heflin as Himself * John Howard as Himself * Alan Ladd as Himself * Bela Lugosi as Himself * George Montgomery as Himself * Wayne Morris as Himself * John Payne as Himself * Tyrone Power as Himself * Gene Raymond as Himself * Ronald Reagan as Himself * Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Himself * Robert Stack as Himself * James Stewart as Himself (archive footage) * Rudy Vallée Hubert Prior Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986), known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Bandits (1940 Film)
''Sky Bandits'', also known as ''Renfrew of the Royal Mounted in Sky Bandits'', is a 1940 American action film directed by Ralph Staub and released by Monogram Pictures, starring James Newill, Louise Stanley, Dewey Robinson and William Pawley. The film is a remake of the film '' Ghost Patrol'' (1936) with a musical/action formula, similar to the format of the "singing cowboy" films of the era. Plot Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Constable Kelly ( Dave O'Brien) fly in search of a missing aircraft flown by Buzz Murphy (Eddie Featherston). Murphy was carrying a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Local radio announcer Uncle Dimwittie (Dewey Robinson), has bugged the mine office, and is secretly transmitting information about gold shipments, in the guise of reading children's stories on the air. The messages are picked up by a gang led by a crook named Morgan (William Pawley). They have forced Professor Lewis (Joe De Stefani) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger Ahead (1940 Film)
''Danger Ahead'' is a 1940 American adventure film directed by Ralph Staub and written by Edward Halperin. It is based on the 1933 novel ''Renfrew's Long Trail'' by Laurie York Erskine. The film stars James Newill, Dorothea Kent, Guy Usher, Maude Allen, John Dilson and Al Shaw. The film was released on January 22, 1940, by Monogram Pictures. Plot Dorothea Kent played the romantic interest as the commander’s daughter, Genevieve, who studied criminology in college and is determined to help Renfrew solve the case, much to his disgust. When one of the Maxwell Company’s armored cars disappear with a gold shipment, the missing driver, Bob Hill, is suspected of theft. In actuality, Maxwell and his henchmen had poured acid on the truck’s brake lines, causing the vehicle to crash into a mountain lake. Genevieve theorizes that Maxwell and Hatch, the bank president, are involved in the caper. When Sergeant Renfrew discovers a trail of clues leading to Maxwell, he and Corporal Kelly ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukon Flight
''Yukon Flight '' (also known as ''Renfrew of the Royal Mounted in Yukon Flight'') is a 1940 American Western film directed by Ralph Staub and starring James Newill, Louise Stanley, Dave O'Brien and William Pawley. Released by Monogram Pictures, the film uses a musical/action formula, similar to the format of the "singing cowboy" films of the era. Plot When an aircraft from the Yukon and Columbia Mail Service crashes, Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien), of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, suspect murder because they find the control stick jammed. Louise Howard (Louise Stanley), a mine owner reports that her superintendent is missing. When he is found murdered, it also is made to look like an accident. The new mail service pilot, Bill Shipley (Warren Hull), had trained with Renfrew, is a good pilot but reckless. The Mounties find Louise's assistant Raymond (Karl Hackett) owns the airline managed by "Yuke Cardoe" (William Pawley) and both men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chip Of The Flying U (1940 Film)
''Chip of the Flying U'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by Ralph Staub and starring Johnny Mack Brown. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and is a remake of their silent epic starring Hoot Gibson. Cast * Johnny Mack Brown as 'Chip' Bennett * Bob Baker as 'Dusty' * Fuzzy Knight as 'Weary' * Doris Weston as Margaret Whitmore * Forrest Taylor as J.G. Whitmore * Anthony Warde as Ed Duncan * Karl Hackett as Hennessy * Henry Hall as Banker Wilson * Claire Whitney as Miss Robinson * Ferris Taylor Robert Ferris Taylor (March 25, 1888 – March 7, 1961) was an American film actor and vaudeville performer. Biography Taylor owned a vaudeville company, the Taylor Players. Besides his acting, Taylor sometimes sang in vaudeville programs. ... as Sheriff * Cecil Kellogg as Red * The Texas Rangers as Musicians References External links Chip of the Flying U at IMDb.com* 1939 films 1939 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Jamboree
''Western Jamboree'' is a 1938 American Western film directed by Ralph Staub and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Jean Rouverol.Magers 2007, p. 124. Based on a story by Patricia Harper, the film is about a singing cowboy who goes up against a gang of outlaws who are looking to steal the valuable helium gas beneath the cowboy's ranch.Magers, pp. 124–125. Plot Ranch foreman Gene Autry (Gene Autry), his sidekick Frog Milhouse (Smiley Burnette), and the rest of the men at the Circle J ranch are anxious about the new owner, Van Fleet, who recently purchased the property. While awaiting his arrival, they learn that outlaws are searching for a helium gas floe on the property—gas they can sell to foreign powers for use in dirigibles, which are banned by the United States government. After one of the ranch hands is attacked, Gene and Frog go after the outlaws. At an abandoned house near the trail they find old Dad Haskell (Frank Darien), who tells Gene that his daughter Betty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prairie Moon
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type. Temperate grassland regions include the Pampas of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and the steppe of Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. Lands typically referred to as "prairie" tend to be in North America. The term encompasses the area referred to as the Interior Lowlands of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, which includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter, hillier land to the east. In the U.S., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and sizable parts of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and western and southern Minnesota. The Palouse of Washington (sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mama Runs Wild
''Mama Runs Wild'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Ralph Staub and written by Gordon Kahn and Hal Yates. The film stars Mary Boland, Ernest Truex, William "Bill" Henry, Lynne Roberts, Max Terhune and Joseph Crehan. The film was released on December 22, 1937, by Republic Pictures. Plot Alice Summers becomes an honorary police captain after she helps two bank robbers get caught using fingerprints they left in her purse, now she her objective is to keep criminals out of her town. Cast *Mary Boland as Alice Summers *Ernest Truex as Ernest Summers * William "Bill" Henry as Paul Fowler *Lynne Roberts as Edith Summers *Max Terhune as Applegate *Joseph Crehan as Tom Fowler * Dorothy Page as Mrs. Hayes *Dewey Robinson as Greengable *Julius Tannen as C. Preston Simms *Sammy McKim as Boy * John Sheehan as Snodey *James C. Morton James Carmody Lankton (August 25, 1884 – October 24, 1942), known professionally as James C. Morton, was an American character actor. He app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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