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Sidney Lanfield
Sidney Lanfield (April 20, 1898 – June 20, 1972) was an American film director known for directing romances and light comedy films and later television programs. The one-time jazz musician and vaudevillian star started his first directing job for the Fox Film Corporation in 1930; he went on to direct a number of films for 20th Century Fox. In 1941, he directed the Fred Astaire film ''You'll Never Get Rich'' for Columbia Pictures, then moved to Paramount Pictures. There Lanfield worked on a number of film comedies. He is probably best remembered for directing actor Bob Hope in a number of films including ''My Favorite Blonde'' (1942), ''Let's Face It'' (1943), '' Where There's Life'' (1947), and ''The Lemon Drop Kid'' (1951). Lanfield's most profitable film, however, was the first teaming of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson in 1939's ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. In the early 1950s the reputedly strict taskmaster-director moved to television where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman ( ; born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007)"Actress, Philanthropist Jane Wyman Dies" Jane-Wyman.com Retrieved September 10, 2007. was an American actress. She received an , three Golden Globe Awards and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Wyman's professional career began at age 16 in 1933, when she signed with |
Where's Raymond?
''Where's Raymond?'' is an American sitcom that aired on ABC, starring Ray Bolger. The series aired from October 1953 to April 22, 1955. The series' title was spurred by Bolger's Broadway stage hit ''Where's Charley?''. In the 1954–1955 season, the series was renamed ''The Ray Bolger Show''. Synopsis Bolger stars as Raymond Wallace, a song-and-dance man who is consistently barely on time for his performances. Bolger's co-stars in both seasons were Richard Erdman as Pete Morrisey, Ray's landlord and press agent and Sylvia Lewis as Sylvia, Ray's dancing partner and the series choreographer. Allyn Joslyn appeared as Jonathan Wallace, Ray's brother. Betty Lynn played Jonathan's wife June, and Frances Karath played their daughter Ginny. In the second season, Marjie Millar played Susan, Ray's girlfriend and an aspiring writer from Iowa, and Christine Nelson portrayed Katie Jones, Susan's friend. Guest stars * Elinor Donahue * King Donovan * Steve Reeves * Irene Ryan * Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Has Plans
''The Lady Has Plans'' is a 1942 American comedy film spy thriller film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard and Roland Young. It was produced ad distributed by Paramount Pictures as a World War II espionage film set in neutral Portugal. Plot A gang of criminals murder a scientist, steal plans for a "radio-controlled torpedo" and have them tattooed in invisible ink on the back of a woman named Rita, planning to sell them to the highest bidder. Paul Baker then murders the tattooer. Rita is to take the place of reporter Sidney Royce (Paulette Goddard) on an airplane bound for Lisbon. Baker has informed the British and the Nazis to contact "Sidney" there for the auction. Joe Scalsi is given the task of making sure that Sidney does not board the plane, but he is taken into custody by government agents. Rita witnesses this. Meanwhile, the real Sidney Royce is being sent to Lisbon to work for the very demanding Kenneth Harper, who has fired the last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swanee River (1939 Film)
''Swanee River'' is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biographical films of the time, the film was more fictional than it was factual. Plot The family of Stephen Foster ( Ameche) insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs. Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no faith in Stephen, who wants to write "music from the heart of the simple people of the South." The struggling composer is content to sell "Oh! Susanna" for fifteen dollars to minstrel singer E. P. Christy and allows Christy to take credit as its writer. Soon, the song is sweeping the country, and Stephen follows it with "De Camptown Races" and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Fiddle (1939 Film)
''Second Fiddle'' is a 1939 American musical romance film directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallée and Lyle Talbot and released by 20th Century Fox. The score was composed by Irving Berlin. The screenplay, based on George Bradshaw's story ''Heart Interest'', involves a Hollywood publicity agent who falls in love with a new actress he helped to discover. The film combines a parody of the extensive search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in ''Gone with the Wind'' with a Cyrano de Bergerac–type plot.Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation page 87 It is sometimes known as ''Irving Berlin's Second Fiddle''. Plot Jimmy Sutton, the publicity agent of a major Hollywood studio, is taking part in the endless search to find an actress to star in an adaptation of a best-selling novel, ''Girl of the North''. After over 400 actresses have been tested and rejected, he is sent to the small tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Hisses
''Love and Hisses'' is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and Simone Simon. It is the sequel to the film ''Wake Up and Live''.Lev p.24 Twentieth Century Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck wanted to continue the series with further films, but Winchell chose to return to New York to concentrate on his newspaper and radio work. Plot Cast * Walter Winchell as Walter Winchell * Ben Bernie as Ben Bernie * Simone Simon as Yvett Guerin * Bert Lahr as Sugar Boles * Joan Davis as Joan Dolan * Dick Baldwin as Steve Nelson * Ruth Terry as Hawaiian Specialty Singer * Douglas Fowley as Webster * Chick Chandler as Hoffman * Charles Williams as Irving Skolsky * Georges Renavent as Count Guerin * Charles Judels as Oscar * Robert Battier as Gangster * Hal K. Dawson as Music store clerk * Peters Sisters as Hawaiian Vocal Trio * Carol Chilton as Dance Specialty Duo * Maceo Thomas as Dance Specialty Duo * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sing, Baby, Sing
''Sing, Baby, Sing'' is a 1936 American film. Richard A. Whiting and Walter Bullock received an Academy Award nomination in Best Original Song at the 9th Academy Awards for their song "When Did You Leave Heaven". Plot After Joan Warren (Alice Faye) is fired from her singing job at the Ritz Club, where she performs with the Ritz Brothers, she seeks help from theatrical agent, Nicky Alexander (Gregory Ratoff). Nicky, however, is in the process of being evicted from his office suite, so he tells her to find another agent. When she insists that he represent her, he takes her to Mr. Brewster ( Paul Stanton), president of the Federal Broadcasting Company, and Joan auditions, but Brewster refuses to hire her because she is not of the upper class. Back at the club, Joan packs her bags, while in the street, a crowd gathers around drunken actor Bruce Farraday (Adolphe Menjou). Nicky leads Farraday into the club, where Farraday orders a huge feast and hears Joan perform her last song. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of Burlesque
''King of Burlesque'' is a 1936 musical film about a former burlesque producer played by Warner Baxter who moves into a legitimate theatre and does very well, until he marries a socialite. Sammy Lee received an Academy Award nomination for the now dead category of Best Dance Direction at the 8th Academy Awards. Today the film is best known for Fats Waller's rendition of "I've Got My Fingers Crossed". Plot Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out. Cast *Warner Baxter as Kerry Bolton *Alice Faye as Pat Doran *Jack Oakie as Joe Cooney *Mona Barrie as Rosalind Cleve *Arline Judge as Connie *Dixie Dunbar as Marie *Gregory Ratoff as Kolpolpeck *Herbert Mundin as English Impresario *Fats Waller as Ben *Nick Long Jr. as Anthony Lamb * Kenny Baker as Arthur *Charles Quigley as Stanley Drake *Paxton Sisters as Specialty Dancers *Al Shaw as Lew Henk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Salute (1935 Film)
''Red Salute'' (also released as ''Arms and the Girl'') is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Young. Based on a story by Humphrey Pearson, the film is about the daughter of a US Army general who becomes involved with a suspected communist agitator. Plot Drue Van Allen, the daughter of an American general, is in love with communist graduate student Leonard Arner. When Leonard is ejected from a college campus for speaking to the students, a newspaper photographer takes a picture of him in Drue's car and prints it on the front page. When Drue ignores her father’s advice, he tricks her into boarding an airplane bound for Mexico, supposedly to see her aunt Betty off, then locks her in. She is stuck in Juarez with no money to get home. After a rowdy soldier, Jeff overhears a border policeman warn her not to try to cross into the US, Jeff, whom she nicknames "Uncle Sam", strikes up a conversation, telling her he thinks she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Bad
''Broadway Bad'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Maude Fulton. The film stars Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Adrienne Ames, and Francis McDonald. The film was released on February 24, 1933, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot Married chorus girl rides scandal to stardom. Cast *Joan Blondell as Tony Landers *Ricardo Cortez as Craig Cutting *Ginger Rogers as Flip Daly *Adrienne Ames as Aileen *Allen Vincent as Bob North *Francis McDonald as Charley Davis * Frederick Burton as Robert North, Sr *Donald Crisp Donald William Crisp (27 July 188225 May 1974) was an English film actor as well as an early producer, director and screenwriter. His career lasted from the early silent film era into the 1960s. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ... as Darrall References External links * 1933 films Fox Film films American drama films 1933 drama films Films directed by Sidney Lanfield American blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Marry
''Don't Marry'' is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by James Tinling and starring Lois Moran, Neil Hamilton, and Henry Kolker.Solomon p.309 Plot A flapper masquerades as her strait-laced cousin to try and impress a potential suitor. Cast * Lois Moran as Priscilla Bowen / Betty Bowen * Neil Hamilton as Henry Willoughby * Henry Kolker as Gen. Willoughby * Claire McDowell Claire McDowell ( MacDowell; November 2, 1877 – October 23, 1966) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 350 films between 1908 and 1945. Early years Claire MacDowell was born in New York City on November 2, 1877, th ... as Aunt Abigail Bowen * Lydia Dickson as Hortense References Bibliography *Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935. A History and Filmography''. McFarland & Co, 2011. External links * * 1928 films 1928 comedy films Silent American comedy films Films directed by James Tinling American silent feature films 1920s Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue. The cemetery was established as ''Sunset Cemetery'' in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s. In 1926, the name was officially changed to Westwood Memorial Park and was later changed again to Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary. Although it is the resting place of some of the entertainment industry's greatest names, it also contains the graves of many uncelebrated people. For example, when Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, Joe DiMaggio, responsible for Monroe's arrangements, chose Westwood not because of its celebrities but because it was the resting place of her mother's friend, Grace Goddard, and Goddard's aunt, Ana Lower, both of whom had cared for Monroe as a child. Notable interments A * Kip Addotta (1944–2019), com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
