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Raymond Greenleaf
Raymond Greenleaf (born Roger Ramon Greenleaf; January 1, 1892 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor, best known for ''All the King's Men'' (1949), '' Angel Face'' (1952), and '' Pinky'' (1949). Early life He was born as Roger Ramon Greenleaf on January 1, 1892 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Career In the early 1920s, Greenleaf acted with the Jack X. Lewis Company in summer stock theatre. He had earlier performed with stock theater companies in Boston and in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the fall of 1921, he was with the Orpheum Players in Ottawa, Canada. Greenleaf's Broadway credits include ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1947), ''Yellow Jack'' (1947), ''A Pound on Demand / Androcles and the Lion'' (1946), ''King Henry VIII'' (1946), ''Foxhole in the Parlor'' (1945), ''Decision'' (1944), ''Jason'' (1942), and ''Your Loving Son'' (1941). Death Greenleaf died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 71 and is buried at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Of New York (film)
''Port of New York'' is a 1949 American film noir/crime film directed by László Benedek with cinematography by George E. Diskant and shot in semidocumentary style. The film is notable for being Yul Brynner's first film appearance. The film, which is very similar to ''T-Men'' (1947), was shot on location in New York City.. Plot Narrator Chet Huntley introduces two federal agents, Mickey Waters of the U.S. Customs Service and Jim Flannery of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. They are out to stop the distribution of an opium shipment stolen from the S.S. Florentine in the Port of New York. The leader of the thieves is the suave drug dealer Paul Vicola (Brynner). The ship’s purser was murdered in the heist. Toni Cardell was a passenger on the ship and girlfriend of Vicola. She played a part in the smuggling, is upset about the murder, and wants out. When Vicola refuses to stake her for a new life elsewhere, Toni calls the police to become an informant. She has a rendezvous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Side, West Side (1949 Film)
''East Side, West Side'' is a 1949 American melodrama crime film, starring Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, and Ava Gardner. Based on the 1947 novel of the same title, written by Marcia Davenport, screenplay by Isobel Lennart, produced by Voldemar Vetluguin, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Opening narration by Barbara Stanwyck "Yes, this is my town. It's not new to you — you've read books about it... you've seen it in movies. People are always talking about New York — it's the most exciting city in the world they say... the most glamorous, the most frightening and, above all, the fastest. You hear a great deal about the tempo of this city — its speed, its pace, its driving heartbeat. Perhaps it's true... for visitors. But I was born here... I live here... and the only pace I know is the pace of my own life... the only beat I hear is the beat of my own heart and, like for millions of others, New York is home. The days follow eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Tall Men
''Ten Tall Men'' is a 1951 American adventure film starring Burt Lancaster about the French Foreign Legion during the Rif War in Morocco. Though co-written and directed by Willis Goldbeck, Goldbeck walked off the film due to disputes with Lancaster (whose own company, Norma Productions, produced the film) with the movie being completed by Robert Parrish. Credited as an associate producer, Robert Aldrich was a production manager on the film where he met Lancaster, which led him to direct '' Vera Cruz'' for him. Robert Clary made his debut in the film as an Arab batman. Portions of the film were filmed in Palm Springs, California. The story was released as a Fawcett Movie Comic #16 in April 1951. Plot After capturing an important Rif prisoner in an undercover operation, Sergeant Mike Kincaid (Lancaster) is imprisoned himself for striking a lieutenant ( Stephen Bekassy) who beats a French woman (Mari Blanchard) with his riding crop for preferring Kincaid to him. Kincaid has a longst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Family Secret (1951 Film)
''The Family Secret'' is the title of three separate unrelated films: * ''The Family Secret'' (1924 film), an American silent drama film directed by William A. Seiter * ''The Family Secret'' (1936 film), a Swedish comedy film directed by Gustaf Molander * ''The Family Secret'' (1951 film), an American crime film directed by Henry Levin * "The Family Secret!, a 1989 episode of ''The Raccoons'' * '' The Family Secret'', a 2003 album by Oteil and the Peacemakers {{DEFAULTSORT:Family Secret, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Millionaire For Christy
''A Millionaire for Christy'' is a 1951 American comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Fred MacMurray, Eleanor Parker and Richard Carlson. The film is a screwball comedy, in which Christy Sloane (Parker) is a legal secretary from San Francisco who is sent to Los Angeles to inform radio host Peter Lockwood (MacMurray) that he has just inherited $2 million. Plot Christabel "Christy" Sloane (Parker) is a legal secretary in San Francisco whose desire for finer things is at odds with her desperate financial straits, causing her to lament to her coworker Patsy (Una Merkel) that she needs to find a millionaire to marry. Her boss orders Christy to go to Los Angeles to inform Peter Ulysses Lockwood (MacMurray) of an inheritance of 28,000,000 pesos ($2,000,000) that a deceased uncle has bequeathed him and obtain the necessary legal documents. The pragmatic Patsy sees the assignment as the opportunity Christy has been waiting for and counsels her to romance the heir before t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Of Convict Lake
''The Secret of Convict Lake'' is a 1951 American Western film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore and Zachary Scott. The film was a critical and commercial success. The story is fiction, based on legends of Convict Lake, located in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of northern California. and a short story by Anna Hunger and Jack Pollexfen. The film is the final role for Ann Dvorak before her retirement from the screen. Plot The film opens with the narrator (Dale Robertson in an early, uncredited role) laying the foundation of the story. In 1871, six convicts escape from a Carson City prison. One of them freezes to death during a blizzard. The others—Canfield, Greer, Cockerell, Anderson and Maxwell—make it to Lake Monte Diablo, where eight women live in a settlement while their men are away prospecting. Granny is the elder, watching over Marcia, Rachel, Barbara, Susan, Harriet, Mary, and Millie. Frightened, the women relucta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As Young As You Feel
''As Young as You Feel'' is a 1951 American comedy film starring Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, and David Wayne, with Marilyn Monroe in a small role. It was directed by Harmon Jones. Plot When printer John R. Hodges is forced to retire at age 65 because of a company policy, he decides to do something about it. Dyeing his hair black, he poses as Harold P. Cleveland, the president of his former employer's parent company, and goes on an inspection tour of his old workplace, with the firm's nervous, mystified executives in tow. While walking around the plant, Hodges runs into Joe Elliott, the boyfriend of his granddaughter Alice, and winks at him to let him in on the joke. Afterward, Hodges complains about the lack of experienced, older employees, causing company president Louis McKinley to promise to rescind the retirement policy and rehire all those affected by it within the past year. However, before he can depart, Hodges finds that McKinley has arranged for him to address the loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier 23
''Pier 23'' is a 1951 American noir crime film directed by William Berke and starring Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage and Edward Brophy. It was distributed by the independent Lippert Pictures as a second feature. It was intended for television as well as the cinema.PIER 23 Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 18, Iss. 204, (Jan 1, 1951): 377. Plot Cast See also *'' Danger Zone'' (1951) *''Roaring City'' (1951) References External links *''Pier 23''at TCMDB Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atl ...''Pier 23''at BFI {{William Berke 1951 films 1950s English-language films American crime films 1951 crime films Lippert Pictures films Films directed by William A. Berke American black-and-white films 1950s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storm Warning (1951 Film)
''Storm Warning'' is a 1951 American film noir thriller directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day and Steve Cochran. Lauren Bacall was originally cast in the part eventually played by Rogers. Bacall turned it down and was put on suspension by Warner Bros. for her defiance. Plot Marsha Mitchell (Ginger Rogers), a traveling dress model, stops in the town of Rock Point to see her newlywed sister, Lucy Rice (Doris Day). Within minutes of entering the town she notices unusual behavior by the townsfolk, such as dozens of people closing up shop and getting out of sight. As she walks down the almost-pitch-black main street, she hears loud noises coming from the police station. She hides and witnesses a drunken KKK mob, lynching a man whom they had just broken out of jail. The man untangles himself from their clutches and only manages to run two or three yards before getting cut down by shotgun blasts, striking him in the torso and the head. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Jennings Of Oklahoma
''Al Jennings of Oklahoma'' is a 1951 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring Dan Duryea and Gale Storm. It is based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney. Premise Ex-lawyer becomes leader of notorious bandit gang, goes to prison but emerges later to resume legal career. Cast * Dan Duryea as Al Jennings * Gale Storm as Margo St. Claire * Dick Foran as Frank Jennings * Gloria Henry as Alice Calhoun * Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Lon Tuttle * Raymond Greenleaf as Judge Jennings * Stanley Andrews as Marshal Ken Slattery * John Ridgely as Railroad Detective Dan Hanes * James Millican as Ed Jennings * Harry Shannon as Fred Salter * John Dehner as Tom Marsden Production The film, directed by Ray Nazarro on a screenplay by George Bricker and a subject by Al J. Jennings and Will Irwin, was produced by Rudolph C. Flothow for Columbia Pictures and shot in Iverson Ranch at Chatsworth, Los Angeles Chatsworth is a suburban neighb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Craig
''Harriet Craig'' is a 1950 American drama (film and television), drama film starring Joan Crawford. The screenplay by Anne Froelick and James Gunn (screenwriter, born 1920), James Gunn was based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1925 play ''Craig's Wife'', by George Kelly (playwright), George Kelly. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman, produced by William Dozier, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. ''Harriet Craig'' is the second of three cinematic collaborations between Sherman and Crawford, the others being ''The Damned Don't Cry'' (1950) and ''Goodbye, My Fancy (film), Goodbye, My Fancy'' (1951). Plot Harriet Craig (Crawford) is a neurotic, manipulative, and controlling perfectionist. She is obsessed with maintaining her ideal of perfection in the appearance of her home, her social life, and herself. She seems to believe that those around her exist only to fulfill her ideal life. Achieving this goal makes life miserable for everyone around her. Harriet shares her home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Isle Of Samoa
''On the Isle of Samoa'' is a 1950 American south seas adventure film directed by William Berke and starring Jon Hall. It was a rare villainous role for Hall. Plot A thief crashes on a tropical island. Cast * Jon Hall as Kenneth Crandall * Susan Cabot as Moana * Raymond Greenleaf as Peter Appleton * Henry Marco as Karaki * Al Kikume as Chief Tihoti * Rosa Turich as Waini Production Susan Cabot was hired to co star in March 1950.Article 2 -- No Title The Christian Science Monitor 6 Apr 1950: 4. References External links''On the Isle of Samoa''at BFI''On the Isle of Samoa''at IMDb''On the Isle of Samoa''at TCMDB Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of A ... * 1950 films 1950 adventure films American adventure films Films directed by William A. Berke Films set in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
