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Ship Ahoy (film)
''Ship Ahoy'' is a 1942 American musical-comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton. It was produced by MGM. Plot Tallulah Winters is a dancing star who is hired to perform on an ocean liner. Before she leaves, she is recruited by what she believes is a branch of the American government and asked to smuggle a prototype explosive mine out of the country. In fact, she is unknowingly working for Nazi agents who have stolen the mine. Meanwhile, Merton Kibble, a writer of pulp fiction adventure stories suffering from severe writer's block, is on the same ship, and soon he finds himself embroiled in Tallulah's real-life adventure. The brief finale takes place in front of a Navy recruiting station. surrounded by a chorus of sailors. The guys and their girls—and Dorsey's orchestra —are all in uniform, singing “Last Call for Love.” Cast * Eleanor Powell as Tallulah Winters * Red Skelton as Merton K. Kibble * Bert Lahr as "Skip" Owens * Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ship Ahoy! (film)
''Ship Ahoy!'' (Swedish: ''Skepp ohoj!'') is a 1931 Swedish comedy film directed by Gustaf Edgren and starring Fridolf Rhudin, Weyler Hildebrand and Brita Appelgren.Qvist & Von Bagh p.55 It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm and on location in Gothenburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne Åkermark. Cast * Fridolf Rhudin as Fridolf Svensson * Weyler Hildebrand as Julius Göransson * Brita Appelgren as Mary * Edvin Adolphson as Alvarado de Gotho * Georg Blomstedt as Lövgren, Karlshamn's chief of police * Erik Bergman as Captain on 'Ingeborg' * Wilhelm Högstedt as Captain on 'Fritiof' * Yngve Nyqvist as Detective * Nils Ekstam as Detective * Carl Andersson as Man * Helge Andersson as Man * Anna-Lisa Berg as Girl selling chocolate * Gunnar Björnstrand as Young man * Rulle Bohman as Rulle, sailor * Berns De Reaux as Black man * Bertil Ehrenmark as Sailor on 'Ingeborg' * Göran Eklund as Sailor on 'Ingeborg' * Einar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Sewell
Blanche Irene Sewell (October 27, 1898 – February 2, 1949) was an American female film editor. She was known mainly for working at MGM Studios from 1925 until her death in 1949. Early life Sewell was born on October 27, 1898, in Oklahoma. However, she grew up in Idaho, and later moved to Los Angeles. Sewell was one of, technically, seven children. She had four older brothers, one younger brother, and two younger sisters. Although, one of her younger sisters that was born in 1907 died that same year in infancy. Her mother died in 1910 after giving birth to her youngest sister, Ida Grace. Her father was a Methodist minister. She graduated from Hollywood High School. Career At an early age, Sewell turned down acting opportunities to work behind the scenes and ended up working as a negative cutter. She started working while still in high school in 1917, and worked during her summer vacations. She then went on to work for Marshall Neilan at First National Pictures as an as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Nedell
Bernard Jay Nedell (October 14, 1898 – November 23, 1972) was an American film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1916 and 1972. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California. He was married to actress Olive Blakeney. In the early 1920s, Nedell acted with the T. Daniel Frawley Company. Selected filmography * ''Bachelor Apartments'' (1921) - Janitor * ''A Knight in London'' (1928) - Prince Zalnoff * '' The Silver King'' (1929) - Capt. 'Spider' Skinner * ''The Return of the Rat'' (1929) - Henri de Verrat * ''The Man from Chicago'' (1930) - Nick Dugan * ''Call of the Sea'' (1930) - Ramon Tares * ''Shadows'' (1931) - Press Rawlinson * ''The Innocents of Chicago'' (1932) - Tony Costello * '' Her Imaginary Lover'' (1933) - Davidson * ''The Girl in Possession'' (1934) - De Courville * '' Lazybones'' (1935) - Michael McCarthy * ''Heat Wave'' (1935) - Gen. Da Costa * '' The First Offence'' (1936) - The Boss * '' The Live Wire'' (1937) - James Cody * '' O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Emery (actor)
John Emery (May 20, 1905 – November 16, 1964) was an American actor. Early years Born in New York City, Emery was the son of stage actors Edward Emery (c. 1861 – 1938) and Isabel Waldron (1871–1950). He was educated at Long Island's La Salle Military Academy. Film Through the late 1930s to the early 1960s Emery appeared in supporting roles in many Hollywood films, beginning with James Whale's ''The Road Back'' (1937) and ranging from Alfred Hitchcock's '' Spellbound'' to ''Rocketship X-M''. Stage Emery appeared on Broadway in ''John Brown'' (1934), ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1934-1935), ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1935), ''Flowers of the Forest'' (1935), ''Parnell'' (1935-1936), ''Alice Takat'' (1936), ''Sweet Aloes'' (1936), ''Hamlet'' (1936-1937), ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1937), ''Save Me the Waltz'' (1938), '' The Unconquered'' (1940), ''Liliom'' (1940), ''Retreat to Pleasure'' (1940-1941), '' Angel Street'' (1941-1944), ''Peepshow'' (1944), ''The Relapse'' (1950) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stump And Stumpy
Stump and Stumpy were a tap dance/comedy/acting duo popular from the mid-1930s to the 1950s, consisting of James "Stump" Cross, and either Eddie Hartman or Harold J. Cromer as "Stumpy". Their act was mostly jazz tap, and comedy expressed through song and movement. History James "Jimmy" Cross and Edward "Eddie" Hartman traveled around the United States, managed by Nat Nazarro, on what was often called the "Black Vaudeville" circuit. On the circuit, Cross met Norma Catherine Greve, with whom he had a daughter, June Cross (born in 1954). Cross was cast in the United States Army's ''This Is the Army'' (1943) film, with William Wycoff as his "partner". Stump and Stumpy's first big success was appearing in the movie ''Boarding House Blues'' (1948), after which Hartman had become unreliable as a performer and was replaced with Cromer. Appearances *Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, Cab Calloway headlining (May 17–23, 1940) *Flatbush Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, Duke Ellington headl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Post Jr
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writer's Block
Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown. Mike Rose found that this creative stall is not a result of commitment problems or the lack of writing skills. The condition ranges from difficulty in coming up with original ideas to being unable to produce a work for years. Writer's block is not solely measured by time passing without writing. It is measured by time passing without productivity in the task at hand. History Throughout history, writer's block has been a documented problem.Clark, Irene. "Invention." ''Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing''. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2012. Professionals who have struggled with the affliction include authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Joseph Mitchell, comic strip cartoonist Charles M. Schulz,Downey, Bill. ''Right Brain – Write ON!''. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1984. c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulp Fiction (genre)
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap Pulp (paper), wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid, exploitation fiction, exploitative, and sensational subject matter, even though this was but a small part of what existed in the pulps. Successors of pulps include paperback books, digest magazines, and men's adventure magazines. Modern superhero S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", alluded to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which Hitler and the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945 after just 12 years when the Allies defeated Germany, ending World War II in Europe. On 30 January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the head of gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Explosive
An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure. An explosive charge is a measured quantity of explosive material, which may either be composed solely of one ingredient or be a mixture containing at least two substances. The potential energy stored in an explosive material may, for example, be * chemical energy, such as nitroglycerin or grain dust * pressurized gas, such as a gas cylinder, aerosol can, or BLEVE * nuclear energy, such as in the fissile isotopes uranium-235 and plutonium-239 Explosive materials may be categorized by the speed at which they expand. Materials that detonate (the front of the chemical reaction moves faster through the material than the speed of sound) are said to be "high explosives" and materials that deflagrate are said to be "low explosives". Explosives may al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film and it is derived from the classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1930s, comedy films took another swing, as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. In '' The Screenwriters Taxonomy'' (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story. Therefore the labels "drama" and "comedy" are t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
