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Robert McWade
Robert McWade (January 25, 1872 – January 19, 1938), was an American stage and film actor. McWade was born in Buffalo, New York. He was the third actor named Robert McWade, after his father and grandfather. In 1902, McWade debuted on stage with the Murray Hill Stock Company. From 1903 to 1927, he appeared in at least 38 Broadway productions, his last being ''Devil In The Cheese'' (1926), with Bela Lugosi and Fredric March. McWade also appeared in 83 films between 1924 and 1938, for example ''42nd Street'' with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler (1933). His older brother was character actor Edward McWade. McWade was married to Minne Lee, and they had two sons. On January 19, 1938, McWade died of heart disease in Culver City, California, at age 65. Selected filmography *'' Second Youth'' (1924) - Department Store Clerk (uncredited) *''New Brooms'' (1925) - Robert Bates Sr. *''The Home Towners'' (1928) - P. H. Bancroft *''The Sins of the Children'' (1930) - Joe Higginson *'' Goo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Hur (play)
''Ben-Hur'' was an 1899 theatrical adaptation of the novel '' Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' (1880) by Lew Wallace. The story was dramatized by William W. Young and produced by Marc Klaw and A. L. Erlanger. The stage production was notable for its elaborate use of spectacle, including live horses for the famous chariot race. The hippodrama had six acts with incidental music written by American composer Edgar Stillman Kelley. The stage production opened at the Broadway Theater in New York City on November 29, 1899, and became a hit Broadway show. Traveling versions of the production, including a national tour that ran for twenty-one years, played in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. By the end of its run in April 1920, the play had been seen by more than twenty million people and earned over $10 million at the box office. There have been other stage adaptations of Wallace's novel, as well as several motion picture versions. History After Wallace's novel was publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's A Wise Child (film)
''It's a Wise Child'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Laurence E. Johnson. The film stars Marion Davies, Sidney Blackmer, James Gleason, Polly Moran and Lester Vail. The film was released on April 11, 1931, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cast *Marion Davies as Joyce Stanton *Sidney Blackmer as Steve *James Gleason as Cool Kelly *Polly Moran as Bertha * Lester Vail as Roger Baldwin *Marie Prevost as Annie Ostrom *Clara Blandick as Mrs. Stanton *Robert McWade as G. A. Appleby *Johnny Arthur as Otho Peabody *Hilda Vaughn as Alice Peabody * Ben Alexander as Bill Stanton *Emily Fitzroy Emily Fitzroy (24 May 1860 – 3 March 1954) was an English theatre and film actress who eventually became an American citizen. She was at one time a leading lady in London for Sir Charles Wyndham. She made her film debut in 1915. Her debut i ... as Jane Appleby References External links * 1931 films American comedy films 1931 comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Of Crestwood
''The Phantom of Crestwood'' is a 1932 American pre-Code murder-mystery film released by Radio Pictures, directed by J. Walter Ruben, and starring Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Anita Louise, H.B. Warner, and Pauline Frederick. Morley plays Jenny Wren, who plans to extort money from various wealthy ex-lovers, after she lures them to a ranch called “Casa de Andes” near Crestwood, California. The picture features what Leonard Maltin called an "eye-popping" flashback technique, where the camera seems to whirl from one scene to the next, although William K. Howard had actually pioneered this technique earlier that year in ''The Trial of Vivienne Ware''. The film was based on a radio serial that was heard on NBC Radio's ''Hollywood on the Air'' for six weeks from August 26 through September 30, 1932. The radio program ended on a cliffhanger, with the solution to the murders to come in this film. A contest offered more than 100 prizes totaling $6,000 ($ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once In A Lifetime (1932 Film)
''Once in a Lifetime'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film based on '' Once in a Lifetime'' by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, directed by Russell Mack and stars Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox and Aline MacMahon. It is preserved at the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Feature Films The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' by The American Film Institute, c.1978 Plot The immense success of ''The Jazz Singer'', the first all-talking picture, results in the cancellation of a booking for three song-and-dance vaudeville performers: Jerry Hyland, May Daniels and George Lewis. Jerry, convinced that talkies are the future, decides they will head to Hollywood to break into the fledgling movie industry before others get the same notion. May comes up with the idea to open a school of elocution to teach actors how to speak on film. On the train there, May encounters an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flaming Gold
''Flaming Gold'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ralph Ince and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and John F. Goodrich. The film stars William Boyd, Pat O'Brien, Mae Clarke, Rollo Lloyd and Helen Ware. The film was released on September 29, 1933, by RKO Pictures. Plot Dan Manton and Ben Lear are partners in an oil drilling operation in Mexico. The object of sabotage from competitors, the tables are turned when the competitor's rigs catch fire. After the fires are under control, local saloon owner Tampico Tess Terrill recruits Martin and Lear to help her develop a similar oil operation. Cast * William Boyd as Dan Manton * Pat O'Brien as Ben Lear * Mae Clarke as Claire Gordon * Rollo Lloyd as Harry Banning * Helen Ware as Tampico Tess Terrell * Robert McWade Robert McWade (January 25, 1872 – January 19, 1938), was an American stage and film actor. McWade was born in Buffalo, New York. He was the third actor named Robert McWade, after his father an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back Street (1932 Film)
''Back Street'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by John M. Stahl and starring Irene Dunne and John Boles. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Fannie Hurst, it tells the story of a woman who spends her life as the secret mistress of a wealthy married man. The devotion and love of the woman to the married man determines that she will be the “back streets” of him in the whole life; a story of a love that was not destined. This was the first of three film versions of Hurst's novel; remakes were released in 1941 and 1961. Plot In early 1900s Cincinnati, young and beautiful Ray Schmidt (Irene Dunne) works in her father's shop by day and stays out late drinking beer and dancing with various men by night, although her stepmother disapproves. Ray dates for fun, mostly going out with traveling salesmen passing through town, and neither she nor her dates are interested in any permanent attachment. An exception is Kurt Shendler, who owns a bicycle shop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movie Crazy
''Movie Crazy'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Harold Lloyd in his third sound feature. The film's copyright was renewed in 1959. Plot Harold Hall, a young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in the movies. After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a screen-test, and goes off to Hollywood. At the studio, he does everything wrong and causes all sorts of trouble. But he catches the fancy of a beautiful actress, and eventually the studio owner recognizes him as a comic genius. Cast * Harold Lloyd as Harold Hall / Trouble * Constance Cummings as Mary Sears * Kenneth Thomson as Vance * Louise Closser Hale as Mrs Kitterman * Spencer Charters as J.L. O'Brien * Robert McWade as Wesley Kitterman, Producer * Eddie Fetherston as Bill (assistant director) * Sydney Jarvis as The Director * Harold Goodwin as Miller * Mary Doran as Margie * DeWitt Jennings as Mr Hall * Lucy Beaumont as Mrs Hall * Arthur Housman as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Year
''The First Year'' is a 1932 American pre-Code film based on a 1920 play of the same name that originally ran on Broadway at the Little Theatre. The play was written by Frank Craven and produced by John Golden. It closed in 1922 after 760 performances. In 1932, a film adapted from the Craven play was written by Lynn Starling. The film starred Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and was directed by William K. Howard. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics '' Seventh Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), and '' Lucky Star'' (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927). Cast * Janet Gaynor as Grace Livingston * Charles Farrell as Tommy Tucker * Minna Gombell as Mrs. Barstow * Dudley Digges as Dr. Anderson * George Meeker as Dick Loring * Robert McWade as Fred Livingston References External links * * *1947 ''Theatre Guild on the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Racketeer
''Madame Racketeer'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film featuring Alison Skipworth, Richard Bennett and George Raft. The movie was directed by Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Alexander Hall.Everett Aaker, ''The Films of George Raft'', McFarland & Company, 2013 p 28 It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast * Alison Skipworth as Countess/Martha Hicks * Richard Bennett as Elmer Hicks * George Raft as Jack Houston * John Breeden as David Butterworth * Evalyn Knapp as Alice Hicks * Gertrude Messinger as Patsy Hicks * Robert McWade as James Butterworth * J. Farrell MacDonald as John Adams * Jessie Arnold as Frankie * Anna Chandler as Stella * Oscar Apfel as J. Harrington Hagneya * Arthur Hoyt as Shiffem * Irving Bacon as Gus, Desk Clerk * George Barbier as Warden George Waddell * Frank Beal as Appleby, Bank Director * Robert Homans as Chief of Police * Winter Hall as Minister * Ed Brady Ed John Brady (born June 17, 1962) is a former Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Hotel (1932 Film)
''Grand Hotel'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by William A. Drake is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' by Vicki Baum. To date, it is the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated in any other category. The film was remade as ''Week-End at the Waldorf'' in 1945, as Menschen im Hotel in 1959, and also served as the basis for the 1989 Tony Award-winning stage musical ''Grand Hotel''. A movie musical remake, to take place at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel, directed by Norman Jewison, was considered in 1977, and again in 1981, but eventually fell through. ''Grand Hotel'' has proven influential in the years since its original release. The line "I want to be alone", famously delivered by Greta Garbo, placed number 30 in '' AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes''. In 2007, the film was sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies Of The Jury
''Ladies of the Jury'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Lowell Sherman and written by Marion Dix, Edward Salisbury Field and Eddie Welch based on the 1929 play of the same name by John Frederick Ballard. The film stars Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Ken Murray, Roscoe Ates and Kitty Kelly. It was released on February 5, 1932 by RKO Pictures. Plot Middle-aged Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected to serve on a jury for the murder trial of French ex-showgirl Yvette Gordon, who is accused of killing her rich, much older husband. The prosecutor calls only two witnesses, a doctor and Mrs. Gordon's maid, Evelyn Snow. Snow testifies that after she found Mrs. Gordon kneeling beside the body of her husband holding the gun, her employer offered to pay her to attest that Mr. Gordon committed suicide. Mrs. Gordon claims that Snow had demanded money to tell the police that story. On the witness stand, Mrs. Gordon claims that she had gone away for a week but returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls About Town (film)
''Girls About Town'' is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Kay Francis and Joel McCrea. Plot Wanda Howard (Kay Francis) and Marie Bailey (Lilyan Tashman) go out with two balding, middle-aged businessmen from out of town (for $500 apiece) to help Jerry Chase (Alan Dinehart) close a sale. However, the women, who share a luxurious suite in an apartment building, have their African-American maid Hattie (Louise Beavers) disguise herself as their mother, waiting at the window, to avoid having to invite the men inside. Wanda is getting tired of how she makes a living, but she and Marie go aboard a yacht the next night to divert rich practical joker Benjamin Thomas (Eugene Pallette) and his handsome business associate Jim Baker (Joel McCrea). Jim knows that the women are paid "entertainment", but quickly finds himself falling for Wanda anyway, and vice versa. (When Jerry pays her for her efforts, Wanda tears up the check.) Once Jim realiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
