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Rudolph Anders
Rudolph Anders (December 17, 1895 – March 27, 1987) was a German character actor who came to the United States after the rise of Hitler, and appeared in numerous American films in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Biography He was born Rudolf Franz Amendt in Waldkirch, Baden, Germany. In the United States during the 1940s, he used the stage name of Robert O. Davis, and after the War used the name Rudolph Anders. His German-accented English confined him largely to "accent roles", and during World War II to villain parts, although not leading roles as his small build, wide eyes, soft voice and naturally quiet demeanor did not allow him to appear overly menacing. He was naturalized an American citizen in 1934, and was married. Anders died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. Partial filmography *''Ludwig II, King of Bavaria'' (1930) - Diener (uncredited) *'' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1932) *''Primavera en otoño'' (1933) - Tristán * ''When Strangers Marry'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Demons (film)
''She Demons'' is a 1958 American independent film, independent black-and-white science fiction film, science fiction horror film, produced by Arthur A. Jacobs and Marc Frederic, directed and co-written by Richard E. Cunha, that stars Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, and Victor Sen Yung. Made in the tongue-in-cheek style of Men's adventure magazines, Nazisploitation, and ''Island of Lost Souls (1932 film), The Island of Lost Souls'', the film was distributed by Astor Pictures in March, 1958 as a double feature with Cunha's ''Giant from the Unknown''. Plot During a tropical storm, a pleasure boat is shipwrecked on an uncharted island and is presumed lost with all hands after the storm clears. The four survivors' shipboard radio can receive but not transmit, and they hear that their castaway island will soon be used by U.S. Navy aircraft as a bombing target. Finding strange-looking human footprints and hearing the sound of jungle drums, three of the party explore the island. They soon d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here's To Romance
''Here's to Romance'' is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Nino Martini, Genevieve Tobin and Anita Louise.Solomon p. 359 Synopsis The wife of a music teacher, who has been angered by her husband's philandering, arranges to send one of his male students to study opera in Paris as her protégé. This causes complications when he falls in love in France with a woman who is upset about his relationship with his patron. Devastated he ends up back in New York as a sheet music salesman. Things soon change when he is reunited with his true love and is invited to perform by the Metropolitan Opera. Main cast * Nino Martini as Nino Donelli * Genevieve Tobin as Kathleen Gerard * Anita Louise as Lydia Lubov * Maria Gambarelli as Rosa * Ernestine Schumann-Heink as herself * Reginald Denny as Emery Gerard * Vicente Escudero as Spanish Gypsy Dancer * Adrian Rosley as Sandoval * Mathilde Comont as Viola * Elsa Buchanan as Enid * Miles Mander as Bert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espionage Agent
''Espionage Agent'' is a pre–World War II spy melodrama produced by Hal B. Wallis in 1939. Directed by Lloyd Bacon, ''Espionage Agent'', like many Warner Bros. movies, clearly identifies the Germans as the enemy. This was unlike many other movie studios during this period that did not want to antagonize foreign governments. The film was released on September 22, 1939, the day after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Neutrality Act allowing "Cash and Carry" provisions for countries fighting Germany and a little over four months after another Warner Bros. anti-Nazi film ''Confessions of a Nazi Spy''.Michael E. Birdwell, Celluloid Soldiers - Warner Bros.'s Campaign against Nazism (New York University Press, 1999) Plot The film opens with a description of the Black Tom explosion of a munitions supply located in Jersey City on the Hudson River. The explosion, which occurred during World War I was an act of sabotage by German agents. Barry Corvall (Joel McCrea), the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conspiracy (1939 Film)
''Conspiracy'' is a 1939 American spy drama film directed by Lew Landers, from a screenplay by Jerome Chodorov, based on the story, "Salute to Hate", by John McCarthy and Faith Thomas. The film stars Allan Lane, Linda Hayes, and Robert Barrat, and was produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, who premiered the film in New York City on August 23, 1939, with a general release on September 1. Plot Steve Kendall is an American working as a telegraph operator aboard a cargo ship. He inadvertently discovers that his ship is carrying contraband arms, when a revolutionary agent forces him to send a message to his fellow revolutionaries ashore. The secret police catch the two together and the revolutionary is shot dead as he attempts to jump overboard. Having seen the two of them together, the police mistakenly believe Kendall to be in league with the local revolutionaries. As they near port, Kendall dives overboard and swims ashore. Being chased by the militia and police, he wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confessions Of A Nazi Spy
''Confessions of a Nazi Spy'' is a 1939 American spy political thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros. It was the first explicitly anti-Nazi film to be produced by a major Hollywood studio, being released in May 1939, several months before the beginning of World War II and over three years before American entry into the war. The film stars Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, Paul Lukas, and a large cast of German actors, including some who had emigrated from their country after the rise of Adolf Hitler. Many of the German actors who appeared in the film changed their names for fear of reprisals against relatives still living in Germany. The film's story is based on a series of articles by FBI officer Leon G. Turrou, recounting his investigation of Nazi spy rings in the United States. Parts of the film are drawn from thRumrich Nazi Spy Case the first major international espionage case in American history. Plot In Scotland in 1937, the postma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Broadcast Of 1938
''The Big Broadcast of 1938'' is a Paramount Pictures musical comedy film starring W. C. Fields and featuring Bob Hope. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of ''Big Broadcast'' movies that were variety show anthologies. This film featured the debut of Hope's signature song, "Thanks for the Memory" by Ralph Rainger. Plot In what is being billed as "The Race of the Ages," the new forty-million-dollar “radio powered” Streamlined Ocean Liner S.S. ''Gigantic'' (“America’s Challenge for Crossing Record”) is about to race its rival, the slightly smaller S.S. ''Colossal'' across the Atlantic from New York’s Pier 97 to Cherbourg in two-and-a-half days. ''Gigantic'' owner T. Frothingill “T.F.” Bellows (W. C. Fields) intends to send his nearly identical younger brother S.B. (also Fields) to sail aboard the ''Colossal'', hoping he will cause trouble and sabotage the rival ship, enabling the ''Gigantic'' and his own Bellows Line to win. However S.B., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Met Him In Paris
''I Met Him in Paris'' is a 1937 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Wesley Ruggles, written by Claude Binyon, and starring Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, and Robert Young. It was the first film shown at Washington, D.C.'s Newton Theater when it opened in the Brookland neighborhood on July 29, 1937. Cast * Claudette Colbert as Kay Denham * Melvyn Douglas as George Potter * Robert Young as Gene Anders * Lee Bowman as Berk Sutter * Mona Barrie as Helen Anders * George Davis as Cutter Driver * Fritz Feld as Hotel Clerk * Rudolph Anders as Romantic Waiter * Alexander Cross as John Hanley * George Sorel as Hotel Clerk * Louis LaBey as a Bartender * Egon Brecher as Emile, Upper Tower Man * Hans Joby as the Lower Tower Man * Jacques Vanaire as the French Masher * Eugene Borden as a Headwaiter See also * 1937 in film The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length anim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thin Ice (1937 Film)
''Thin Ice'' is a 1937 American comedy/romance film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Tyrone Power and figure skater Sonja Henie. Plot The plot follows skate instructor Lili Heiser (Henie), who works at a local luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. She falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning (Power). She thinks he's an everyday tourist, not knowing that he's a prince trying to escape the pressures of royal life. The movie showcased Sonja Henie's skating talents. After winning gold in the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics, Henie became a professional film actress in 1936. The film also features Tyrone Power in the beginnings of his career. Reception The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Dance Direction The Academy Awards for Best Dance Direction was presented from 1935 to 1937, after which it was discontinued. Winners and nominees References {{Academy Awards Dance Direction ... for the 'Prince Igor Suite'. ''Filmink'' called it "Very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Champagne Waltz
''Champagne Waltz'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Gladys Swarthout, Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie. It is one of five movies produced by Paramount in the 1930s featuring Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst Fegté working with Hans Dreier. The costume designer was Travis Banton. Production This is a light musical with elements of screwball comedy. It documents the rivalry between a Vienna Waltz studio and the American jazz band that moves in next door. Franz Strauss is stressed because his waltz palace is losing business to the jazz club. Fred MacMurray is the trumpet-playing headliner. He pretends to be the US Consul when he encounters Swarthout, the daughter of the waltz studio owner. He changes the story to be an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We're In The Legion Now!
''We're in the Legion Now'' is a 1936 American adventure comedy film directed by Crane Wilbur and shot in Magnacolor. The film is also known as ''The Rest Cure'' (American reissue title), which was the title of the 1934 original J.D. Newsom story the film was based on. Plot Two petty criminals are pursued by a gangster from the United States to Paris, France, where they enlist into the French Foreign Legion to escape. After being drafted to a garrison in North Africa, they fall foul of military authority and are sent to a sadistic punishment camp, where they lead an insurrection against its commanding officer, and then help to defeat a native Mohammedan revolt. Cast * Reginald Denny as Dan Linton *Esther Ralston as Louise Rillette *Vince Barnett as Spike Conover *Eleanor Hunt as Honey Evans *Claudia Dell as Yvonne Cartier * Robert Frazer as Capt. Henri Rillette *Rudolph Anders as Sgt. Groeber *Francisco Marán as Abdul Ben-Abou *Merrill McCormick William Merrill McCormick (Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls' Dormitory
''Girls' Dormitory'' is a 1936 American romance film directed by Irving Cummings based upon the 1934 play ''Mature'' by Ladislas Fodor, and adapted for the screen by Gene Markey. Plot Set in the fictional Montreaux School for Girls in Switzerland, the main focus of the film is Dr. Stephen Dominick, the school's popular director who is secretly admired by teacher Professor Anna Mathe and the 19-year-old French student Marie Claudel. At a state fair, the girls draw lots to see who gets to ask Dr. Dominick for a dance. Marie wins and nervously asks Dr. Dominick. Because he thinks it is inappropriate to dance with a student, he refuses, causing Marie to burst out in tears and run away. Thereby, she is late for the bus, returning to the boarding school. A week later, Professor Augusta Wimmer, a strict, unlikable woman, goes through the personal belongings of her students and finds a discarded love letter. Dr. Dominick and Professor Mathe are assigned to find out who wrote the letter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Arrow (1936 Film)
''The Golden Arrow'' (1936) is an American comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Bette Davis and George Brent. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon is based on a story of the same title by Michael Arlen published in the September 14, 1935 issue of ''Liberty''. Plot Johnny Jones (Brent) is a penniless newspaper reporter assigned to interview Daisy Appleby (Davis), heiress to the Appleby Facial Creams fortune and the target of numerous suitors anxious to latch onto her wealth. What neither they nor Johnny know is that she is really a cafeteria cashier hired by a public relations team to impersonate the socialite. She proposes a marriage of convenience that will free her from the cads pursuing her so she can find her ideal man and allow Johnny leisure time to finish his novel. He agrees, and after they wed the company's board of directors try to place him under their control, as well. When Johnny rebels and begins dating oil heiress Hortense Burke-Meyers in retaliation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
