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Stranded (1935 Film)
''Stranded'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Patricia Ellis. The film's sets were designed by the art director Anton Grot. Plot Lynn Palmer is a volunteer for Travelers Aid in San Francisco who goes out of her way to help for immigrants, travelers, the unemployed and the homeless. Mack Hale is a construction manager on the Golden Gate Bridge (which would not be completed until 1937), who comes to Lynn's station seeking information about a worker he wants to hire. Lynn and Mack are attracted to each other, despite their different personalities and outlook. Lynn's roommate, Velma Tuthill, is the daughter of one of the bridge's backers and is also attracted to Mack. Lynn and Mack date, even though he is often put off by how she turns her attentions to people he thinks are unworthy. In the meantime, Mack comes under pressure from a protection racket mob led by "Sharkey". Sharkey bribes and manipulates some worker ... [...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] |
Donald Woods (actor)
Donald Woods (born Ralph Lewis Zink; December 2, 1906 – March 5, 1998) was a Canadian-American film and television actor whose career in Hollywood spanned six decades. Life and career Woods was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and moved with his family to California, where he was raised in Burbank. His parents were William and Margaret Zink, Presbyterians of German descent. His younger brother, Clarence Russell Zink, also became an actor (Russ Conway). Woods graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and made his film debut in 1928. His screen career was spent mostly in B movies, for example as lawyer Perry Mason in the 1937 film ''The Case of the Stuttering Bishop''. He also played romantic leads in B comedies, notably the popular ''Mexican Spitfire'' series opposite Lupe Velez. He also occasionally played major roles in bigger feature films like ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1935), ''Anthony Adverse'' (1936), ''If I Had My Way'' (1940, as a doomed bridge worker), ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Morris (actor)
Adrian Michael Morris (January 12, 1907 – November 30, 1941) was an American actor of stage and film, and a younger brother of Chester Morris. As a child, Morris performed with his family in a vaudeville act. In his short career as a Hollywood character actor, he appeared in over 70 films, including ''Dirigible'' (1931), ''Me and My Gal'' (1932), ''Bureau of Missing Persons'' (1933), ''The Big Shakedown'' (1934), '' The Fighting Marines'' (1935), ''The Petrified Forest'' (1936), '' There Goes the Groom'' (1937), ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), ''Gone With the Wind'' (1939), ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (1940), and '' Blood and Sand'' (1941). Early life and family Adrian Morris was born in Mount Vernon, New York, one of four surviving children of Broadway stage actor William Morris and stage comedic actress Etta Hawkins. His siblings were screenwriter-actor Gordon Morris (1898–1940), actor Chester Morris (1901–1970), and actress Wilhelmina Morris (1902–1971 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Charters
Spencer Charters (March 25, 1875 – January 25, 1943) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1920 and 1943, mostly in small supporting roles. Biography Charters was born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania. Until around 1890 he worked as a machinist for the Chesapeake Nail Works in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and had little interest in acting. He soon appeared on stage after leaving school with a walk-on part, but it wasn't long before he was being given fair-sized roles. He played on Broadway between 1910 and 1929 and was a busy character actor in films during the 1930s and early 1940s. He often portrayed somewhat befuddled judges, doctors, clerks, managers, and jailers. Charters was married to actress Irene Myers until her death December 22, 1941. He died by suicide from a mix of sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley and Verd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Gordon (actor)
Fred Gavin Gordon (April 7, 1901 – April 6, 1983) was an American film, television, and radio actor. Life and career Born Fred Gavin Gordon in Chicora, Wayne County, Mississippi, he worked as a railway clerk and attended acting school in his spare time. He landed his first part on stage at the age of nineteen. After a film test, Gordon starred as Greta Garbo's leading man in ''Romance'' (1930). With his distinctive voice, Gordon acted in numerous radio dramas He died in Canoga Park, California on the day before his 82nd birthday. He is interred in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama.Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 18040). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. Partial filmography * ''The Medicine Men'' (1929; short) * '' Chasing Through Europe'' (1929) - Don Merrill * ''His First Command'' (1929) - Lt. Freddie Allen * ''Romance'' (1930) - Tom Armstrong * '' The Silver Horde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Shoemaker
Ann Shoemaker (born Anne Dorothea Shoemaker; January 10, 1891 – September 18, 1978) was an American actress who appeared in 70 films and TV movies between 1928 and 1976. She portrayed Sara Roosevelt, mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, in both the stage and film versions of ''Sunrise at Campobello''. She was married to actor Henry Stephenson; the couple had a daughter. Shoemaker's Broadway credits include ''Half a Sixpence'' (1965), ''Sunrise at Campobello'' (1958), ''The Living Room'' (1954), ''Twilight Walk'' (1951), ''Dream Girl'' (1951), ''Woman Bites Dog'' (1946), ''The Rich Full Life'' (1945), ''Proof Thro' the Night'' (1942), ''Ah, Wilderness!'' (1941), ''Black Sheep'' (1932), ''The Silent Witness'' (1931), ''The Novice and the Duke'' (1929), ''Button, Button'' (1919), ''To-Night at 12'' (1928), ''Speak Easy'' (1927), ''We All Do'' (1927), ''The Noose'' (1926), and ''The Great God Brown'' (1926). Partial filmography * ''Chance at Heaven'' (1933) - Mrs. Harris * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Travis
June Travis (born June Dorothea Grabiner; August 7, 1914 – April 14, 2008) was an American film actress. Background Born June Dorothea Grabiner, she was the daughter of Harry Grabiner, vice-president of the Chicago White Sox in the 1930s. She had dark brown hair and green eyes. She stood 5'4" tall. She attended Parkside Grammar School in Chicago and the Starrett School for Girls. She later studied at UCLA. When she returned to Illinois, she matriculated at the University of Chicago. Marriage On January 3, 1940, Travis married Fred Friedlob. They had two daughters, Cathy and June. Friedlob died in May 1979 in Chicago. Screen actress A Paramount Pictures vice-president noticed her in Miami, Florida, at a White Sox exhibition game. He offered Travis a screen test when she came to Pasadena, California, where the major league baseball team trained. The first time she was presented with a screen contract, she suffered from screen fright and turned it down. She returned to Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward McWade
Edward McWade (January 14, 1865 – May 17, 1943) was a writer, stage actor and an American film actor. Biography McWade was born in Washington, D.C., on January 14, 1865. His father was notable stage actor Robert McWade Sr. (1835-1913) and his younger brother was character actor Robert McWade Jr. On September 4, 1897, McWade married actress Margaret May Fish. They performed in a number of stage and film productions together both before and after they were married. McWade appeared in more than 130 films between 1919 and 1944, mostly in secondary roles. He also wrote 15 stage plays and silent films scripts between 1897 and 1914. McWade died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1914) * ''Hornet's Nest'' (1919) - Wimms * ''When a Man Loves'' (1919) - Takamura * ''Dangerous Days'' (1920) - Dr. Haverford * '' The Great Accident'' (1920) - Williams * ''Stop Thief!'' (1920) - Mr. Carr * ''The Husband Hunter'' (1920) - Charles Mack * '' Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wray (actor)
John Wray (born John Griffith Malloy; February 13, 1887 – April 5, 1940) was an American character actor of stage and screen. Career Wray was one of the many Broadway actors to descend on Hollywood in the aftermath of the sound revolution, and quickly appeared in a variety of substantial character roles, such as the Arnold Rothstein-like gangster in '' The Czar of Broadway'' (1930); Himmelstoss, the sadistic drill instructor in '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1930); and as the contortionist the Frog in the remake of '' The Miracle Man'' (1932), in the role previously played by Lon Chaney in the 1919 original. Wray's roles grew increasingly smaller as the decade progressed but he was very visible as the starving farmer threatening to kill Gary Cooper's Longfellow Deeds in Frank Capra's classic ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'' (1936) and as the warden in Fritz Lang's '' You Only Live Once'' (1937). On Broadway, Wray performed in ''Achilles Had a Heel'' (1935), ''Tin Pan Alley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Darro
Frankie Darro (born Frank Johnson, Jr.; December 22, 1917 – December 25, 1976) was an American actor and later in his career a stuntman. He began his career as a child actor in silent films, progressed to lead roles and co-starring roles in adventure, western, dramatic, and comedy films, and later became a character actor and voice-over artist. He is perhaps best known for his role as Lampwick, the unlucky boy who turns into a donkey in Walt Disney's second animated feature, ''Pinocchio'' (1940). In early credits, his last name was spelled Darrow. Early life Frankie Darro was born on Saturday, December 22, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois, as Frank Johnson, Jr. His parents, Frank Johnson, Sr. and his wife Ada, were known as ''The Flying Johnsons'', a acrobatics and tightrope walking act with the Sells Floto Circus; it was a profession that his father attempted to train him in, and he cured Frankie's fear of heights by having him walk on a length of tightrope wire, gradually rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry O'Neill
Henry O'Neill (August 10, 1891 – May 18, 1961) was an American film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly dignified roles during the 1930s and 1940s. Early years He was born in Orange, New Jersey. Career O'Neill began his acting career on the stage, after dropping out of college to join a traveling theatre company. He served in the Navy in World War I, after which he worked at several jobs, including being an usher in a funeral home. Eventually, he returned to the stage. His Broadway debut came in ''The Spring'' (1921), and his final Broadway appearance was in ''Shooting Star'' (1933). He also acted with the Provincetown Players and the Celtic Players. In the early 1930s he began appearing in films, including ''The Big Shakedown'' (1934), the Western ''Santa Fe Trail'' (1940), the musical ''Anchors Aweigh'' (1945), ''The Green Years'' (1946), and ''The Reckless Moment'' (1949). His last film was ''The Wings of Eagles'' (1957), starring J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harrigan
William Harrigan (March 27, 1894 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor who performed in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s and on stage. Early years Harrigan was born in New York City and attended New York Military Academy. Harrigan was the son of actor Edward Harrigan and the grandson of composer David Braham. His sister was Nedda Harrigan, which made him the brother-in-law of director/playwright Joshua Logan. Harrigan first performed on stage when he was 5 years old, joining his father in a production of ''Reilly and the 400'' at the Garrick Theater. During World War I, Harrigan was a captain in the 307th Infantry Regiment of the 77th Division. Career Following his school years, Harrigan acted in New York theaters in plays that included ''Bought and Paid For'' and ''Springtime''. He also toured Australia in 1915 as part of a company led by Charles Millward. Harrigan's Broadway debut was in ''Old Lavender'' (1906). He also performed with his father in a touring c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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