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Rose Hobart
Rose Hobart (born Rose Kefer; May 1, 1906 – August 29, 2000) was an American actress and a Screen Actors Guild official. Early years Born in New York City, Hobart was the daughter of a cellist in the New York Symphony Orchestra, Paul Kefer, and an opera singer, Marguerite Kefer. Her parents' divorce when she was seven resulted in Hobart and her sister, Polly, going to France to live with their grandmother. When World War I began, they came back to the United States and went to boarding schools. By 1921, she was a student at Kingston High School in Kingston, New York. Career When Hobart was 15, she debuted professionally in ''Cappy Ricks'', a Chautauqua production. She was accepted for the 18-week tour because she told officials that she was 18. At that same age, she was cast in Ferenc Molnár's ''Liliom'', which opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hobart's Broadway stage debut was on September 17, 1923 at the Knickerbocker Theater, playing a young girl in ''Lullaby' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes MacArthur ( Brown; October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned 80 years. She eventually received the nickname "First Lady of American Theatre" and was the second person and first woman to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award (an EGOT). She was also the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting The Triple Crown of Acting is a term used in the American entertainment industry to describe actors who have won a competitive Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award in the acting categories, the highest accolades recognized in American film, t ...; to date, the only other person to have accomplished both is Rita Moreno. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in greater Washington, DC, si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Hopkins
Ellen Miriam Hopkins (October 18, 1902 – October 9, 1972) was an American actress known for her versatility. She first signed with Paramount Pictures in 1930. Her best-known roles included a pickpocket in Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy '' Trouble in Paradise'', bar singer Ivy in Rouben Mamoulian's '' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' and the titular character in the controversial drama ''The Story of Temple Drake''. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1935 film ''Becky Sharp'', by which she earned the distinction of being the first performer nominated for a performance in a color picture, and a Golden Globe nomination for ''The Heiress''. She co-starred with Joel McCrea in five films. Her long-running feud with actress Bette Davis was publicized for effect. Hopkins later became a pioneer of TV drama. She was considered a distinguished hostess in Hollywood and moved in intellectual and creative circles. Early life Hopkins was born in Savannah, Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredric March
Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 1940s.Obituary ''Variety'', April 16, 1975, page 95. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for '' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1931) and ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' (1946), as well as the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for ''Years Ago'' (1947) and '' Long Day's Journey into Night'' (1956). March is one of only two actors, the other being Helen Hayes, to have won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice. Early life March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown Marcher (1863–1936), a schoolteacher from England, and John F. Bickel (1859–1941), a devout Presbyterian Church elder who worked in the wholesale hardware business. March attended the Winslow Elementary School (established in 1855), Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compromised (1931 Film)
''Compromised'' (1931) is an all-talking pre-code drama film produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., and directed by John G. Adolfi. The film stars Rose Hobart, Ben Lyon, Claude Gillingwater and Florence Britton. It was based on a play by Edith Fitzgerald. .Retrieved July 10, 2018 this film is presumed lost Preservation No film elements are known to survive. The soundtrack, which was recorded on disks, may survive in private hands.Cast [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chances (film)
''Chances'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code war drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. It is based on the 1930 novel by A. Hamilton Gibbs. According to Fairbanks, the film was a hit. Plot In 1914, brother officers Jack (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and Tom Ingleside (Anthony Bushell) are in London, headed home on furlough. In the dense fog, Jack bumps into a young woman and tries to pick her up. She laughs at him, promises they will meet again, and rides off in a cab. When the brothers arrive at the family home, their mother is having tea with Molly Prescott (Rose Hobart), a childhood neighbor who has grown up to be a lovely young woman—the woman in the fog. Tom tells his mother he has always loved Molly. Jack, who is known as a lady's man, is newly smitten. He confesses to sowing some wild oats, but “all this time I've been looking for you.” Mrs. Ingleside is holding a benefit ball for the Red Cross, and Archie, Ruth and Sylvia, friends of the boys, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandal For Sale
''Scandal for Sale'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Russell Mack and starring Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart and Pat O'Brien.Schindler p.25 The film's sets were designed by the art director Charles D. Hall. Cast * Charles Bickford as Jerry Strong * Rose Hobart as Claire Strong * Pat O'Brien as Waddell * Berton Churchill as Bunnyweather * J. Farrell MacDonald as Treadway * Buster Phelps as Bobby Strong * Betty Jane Graham as Mildred Strong * Tully Marshall as Simpkins * Claudia Dell as Dorothy Pepper * Harry Beresford Harry J. Beresford (4 November 1863 – 4 October 1944) was an English-born actor on the American stage and in motion pictures. He used the professional name Harry J. Morgan early in his career. Career Harry Beresford began his acting career i ... as Brownie * Hans von Twardowski as Affner * Mitchell Harris as Carrington References Bibliography * Colin Schindler. ''Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Of Borneo
''East of Borneo'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known ... adventure film directed by George Melford, co-written by Edwin H. Knopf and Dale Van Every, starring Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar, and Noble Johnson, and released by Universal Studios. In 1936, artist Joseph Cornell edited this feature film into his Short film, short experimental film ''Rose Hobart (film), Rose Hobart'' which runs about 19 minutes. Plot Linda Randolph looks for her husband on the island of Marado just east of Borneo. Although Linda is warned that Marado's jungles are "entirely too dangerous" for a white woman, she persists through dangerous raft rides and wild crocodiles. She discovers that her husband is now the personal physician t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lady Surrenders
''A Lady Surrenders'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by John M. Stahl and starring Genevieve Tobin, Rose Hobart, Conrad Nagel, and Basil Rathbone. A copy exists in the Library of Congress. Plot summary A man is left by his wife and assuming her to be gone forever, he remarries. Complications ensue when his original wife returns home. afi.com; accessed August 3, 2015. Cast * as Winthrop Beauvel * as Isabel Beauvel * Genevieve Tobin ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (; April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor, known for directing '' 7th Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), '' Bad Girl'' (1931), '' A Farewell to Arms'' (1932), ''Man's Castle'' (1933), '' History Is Made at Night'' (1937), ''The Mortal Storm'' (1940) and ''Moonrise'' (1948). Biography Borzage's father, Luigi Borzaga, was born in Ronzone (then Austrian Empire, now Italy) in 1859. As a stonemason, he sometimes worked in Switzerland; he met his future wife, Maria Ruegg (1860, , Switzerland1947, Los Angeles), where she worked in a silk factory. Borzaga emigrated to Hazleton, Pennsylvania]in the early 1880s, where he worked as a coal miner. He brought his fiancée to the United States, and they married in Hazleton in 1883. Their first child, Henry, was born in 1885. The Borzaga family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Frank Borzage was born in 1894, and the family remained there until 1919. The couple h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Farrell
Charles David Farrell (August 9, 1900 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including '' 7th Heaven'', '' Street Angel'', and '' Lucky Star.'' Later in life, he starred on TV in the 1950s sitcoms ''My Little Margie'' and played himself in ''The Charles Farrell Show''. He was active in business and civic affairs in Palm Springs, California, serving for a time as mayor. Biography Career Born in Walpole, Massachusetts, he began his career in Hollywood as a bit player for Paramount Pictures. Farrell did extra work for films ranging from ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' with Lon Chaney, Sr., Cecil B. DeMille's ''The Ten Commandments'', and '' The Cheat'' with Pola Negri. Farrell continued to work throughout the next few years in relatively minor roles without much success until he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Film Corporation
The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film Company (founded 1913). The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, but in 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood, California to oversee the studio's new West Coast production facilities, where the climate was more hospitable for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. After the Wall Street crash of 1929, William Fox lost control of the company in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners began conversations of a fusion with Twentieth Century Pictures, under founders Joseph M. Schenck and his friend Darryl Zanuck. Schenck, Zanuck, and Spyros Skouras merged the Fox Studios with T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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