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Sheila Terry (actor)
Sheila Terry (born Kay Clark, March 5, 1910 – January 19, 1957) was an American film actress. Early years Although she wanted to be an actress, Terry studied to be a teacher in accordance with the desires of a rich uncle. After being trained as an educator, from 1927 to 1929 she taught in a country school to meet the requirement for receiving her inheritance from that uncle. The inheritance was in stocks, however, and its value vanished in the 1929 crash of the stock market. Career Terry first studied dramatics at Dickson-Kenwin academy, a Toronto school affiliated with London's Royal Academy. For approximately seven months, she acted in stock theater in Toronto. Later she moved to New York, where she continued her studies and appeared in a number of plays. A film scout saw her on Broadway in ''The Little Racketeer'' and offered her a test that resulted in a contract with Warner Bros. In the 1930s, she appeared with John Wayne in the Western films ''Haunted Gold'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lawless Frontier
''The Lawless Frontier'' is a 1934 American Monogram Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne, Sheila Terry, George "Gabby" Hayes, and Earl Dwire. It was the tenth of the Lone Star westerns. The picture was made on a budget of $11,000, shot in less than a week at Red Rock Canyon north of Los Angeles, and released by Monogram on Nov. 22, 1934. The film remains an unusual showcase for Earl Dwire in the lead villain's role. Cast * John Wayne as John Tobin * Sheila Terry as Ruby * Jack Rockwell as Sheriff Luke Williams * George "Gabby" Hayes as Dusty (credited as George Hayes) * Earl Dwire as Pandro Zanti, alias Don Yorba * Jay Wilsey as second Zanti henchman (credited as Buffalo Bill Jr.) * Yakima Canutt as Joe, Zanti's henchman * Gordon De Main as Deputy Miller (credited as Bud Wood) See also * John Wayne filmography * List of American films of 1934 A list of American feature films released in 1934. ''It Happened One Night'' won Best Picture at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Butterfly (1932 Film)
''Madame Butterfly'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code drama film directed by Marion Gering, based on David Belasco's Madame Butterfly (play), play and the story by John Luther Long. It was adapted by Josephine Lovett and Joseph Moncure March. It stars Cary Grant and Sylvia Sidney. Music is credited to W. Franke Harling (although much of it is an adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's opera ''Madama Butterfly''), cinematography by David Abel, art direction by Ward Ihnen. It premiered on December 30, 1932. Plot At Goro's Tea House, we are introduced to Cho-Cho San (Sylvia Sidney) who is bidding farewell to her mother and grandfather. She is about to undergo training as a geisha in exchange for money that will support her family. After the relatives leave, Goro introduces Prince Yamadori, a prospective husband, to Cho-Cho San. When Yamadori finds her withdrawn, Madame Goro explains that Cho-Cho San is high-born and is not yet used to the geisha life style. Meanwhile, on b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Match King
''The Match King'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film made by First National Pictures, directed by William Keighley and Howard Bretherton. The film starred Warren William and Lili Damita, and follows the rise and fall of Swedish safety match tycoon Ivar Kreuger. Based on the novel by Einar Thorvaldson, the film was released on December 31, 1932. Plot Though a lowly Chicago street cleaner, Swedish immigrant Paul Kroll is ambitious and unscrupulous. When a fellow employee is fired (due to one of Kroll's schemes), Kroll convinces his foreman to keep him on the payroll (officially at least) so they can split his salary. Soon there are eight "phantom" workers, and Kroll and his partner have amassed enough money for a ticket back to Sweden. However, Kroll has been romancing his partner's wife, Babe, behind his back. Meanwhile, he has also been lying to the people of his hometown in Sweden, telling them what a successful businessman he has become. As a result, when the local matc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawyer Man
''Lawyer Man'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Dieterle, based on the novel by Max Trell. The film stars William Powell and Joan Blondell. It was produced by Warner Bros. By the time of the release, several actors were credited in the studio, but were not seen in the film. These include Edward Arnold, Harold Huber and Henry Armetta. Plot Anton Adam is a lawyer from the Lower East Side of New York City who has just got a client acquitted against the well-established uptown attorney Granville Bentley. Bentley admires Adam's work as a litigator and offers the poorer lawyer a partnership. Adam accepts. Adam's faithful secretary Olga Michaels isn't delighted to see Adam make the move. Adam had meanwhile turned down an offer to work for local party boss Gilmurry. Adam's downfall comes when he meets the beautiful actress Virginia St. Johns, who is introduced as a woman whose fiance, associated with Gilmurry, has abandoned her. She provides Adam with love l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Said A Mouthful
''You Said a Mouthful'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Robert Lord and Bolton Mallory. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Preston Foster, Allen Hoskins, Harry Gribbon, Edwin Maxwell and Sheila Terry. The film was released by Warner Bros. on December 8, 1932. Plot Joe Holt works for the Armstrong Rubber Goods company and believes that he has invented an unsinkable bathing suit. His colleagues mock Joe behind his back and fool him into thinking that his boss likes the swimsuit idea. Joe travels to California to inherit his aunt's fortune, which he intends to use to finance the manufacture of his swimsuit. However, his aunt died broke. Joe befriends a servant's son, Sam Wellington, and together take a boat to Santa Catalina Island. Socialite Alice Brandon mistakes Joe for a famous swimmer with his same name. She has just parted ways with channel swimmer Ed Dover and wants Ed to lose an upcoming channel race, so she persu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
''I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang'' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted man on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. It was released on November 10, 1932. The film received positive reviews and three Academy Award nominations. The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott Burns's 1932 autobiography of a similar name '' I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!'' originally serialized in the ''True Detective'' magazine. The true life story was later the basis for the television movie ''The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains'' (1987) starring Val Kilmer. In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot American sergeant James Allen returns to civilian life after World War I. He has served with distinction, earning a medal from Alli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarlet Dawn
''Scarlet Dawn'' is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama directed by William Dieterle and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Nancy Carroll as refugees from the Russian Revolution. It is based on the novel ''Revolt'' by Mary C. McCall, Jr. Plot When Russian revolutionaries overrun his country estate, Baron Nikita Krasnoff (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) barely escapes with his life by killing one of them and switching clothes. His story is suspicious, so the household servant Tanyusha (Nancy Carroll) is found and brought to identify him. To his surprise, she does not betray him, and they are released. He is even allowed to "loot" one of his own possessions, a sword with the fabulous Krasnoff pearl necklace hidden in a secret compartment in the scabbard. Krasnoff sets off for Turkey; Tanyusha accompanies him, much to his puzzlement. To get past a checkpoint, they hide in a car. When they are discovered, Krasnoff offers to pay, exchanging a single strand of pearls at a time as their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three On A Match
''Three on a Match'' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama released by Warner Bros. The film was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and stars Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis. The film also features Lyle Talbot, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins and Edward Arnold. Plot Three women who went to the same New York City elementary school, Mary, Ruth, and Vivian, meet again as young adults after some time apart. They each light a cigarette from the same match and discuss Three on a Match (superstition), the superstition that such an act is unlucky and that Vivian, the last to light her cigarette, will be the first to die. Mary is a show girl who has established stability in her life after spending some time in a reform school, while Ruth works as a stenographer. Vivian is the best off of the three, married to successful lawyer, Robert Kirkwood, with a young son, Robert Jr., but she has grown dissatisfied with her life and so decides to take a trip to Europe with he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Call It Sin
''They Call It Sin'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Loretta Young as a farmer's daughter who follows a traveling salesman to New York City, only to discover he already is engaged. Plot Small-town church organist Marion Cullen (Loretta Young) falls in love with traveling salesman Jimmy Decker (David Manners). When she learns that the couple who raised her are not really her parents, and that she is actually the illegitimate daughter of a showgirl, she sets out for New York City in search of Jimmy. However, she discovers that he is engaged to Enid Hollister (Helen Vinson), his boss' daughter. Dr. Travers (George Brent), who is in love with Marion, offers to help her, but she decides to try to make it on her own. Jobs are scarce, however. She ends up with other hopeful showgirls, among them Dixie Dare (Una Merkel), hoping to audition for a part in Ford Humphries' new production. The philandering Humphries likes what he sees in Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Scarlet Week-End
''A Scarlet Week-End'' is a 1932 American mystery film directed by George Melford and starring Dorothy Revier, Theodore von Eltz and Phyllis Barrington. It was made as a second feature on Poverty Row by the independent producer Willis Kent.Pitts p.203 It is an adaptation of the 1931 novel ''The Woman in Purple Pajamas'' by Wilson Collison. Synopsis A couple host a weekend party at their country estate. Their guests include two married lovers of the womanizing host. When he begins flirting with another young woman all become jealous of him. The wife's former fiancée begs her leave her husband and come away with him. Later that evening her husband is murdered, and his bloody pyjamas in her bedroom seems to point to her guilt. Cast * Dorothy Revier as The Wife * Theodore von Eltz as The Husband * Phyllis Barrington as The Girlfriend * Douglas Cosgrove as The Police Inspector * Sheila Terry as Marjorie Murphy * Niles Welch as The Wife's Former Fiancée * Nora Hayden Norah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big City Blues (1932 Film)
''Big City Blues'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and distributed by Warner Bros. The film is based on the play ''New York Town'' by Ward Morehouse and stars Joan Blondell and Eric Linden, with uncredited early appearances by Humphrey Bogart and Lyle Talbot. Original prints and copies of the motion picture are preserved in the collections of the Library of Congress, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and in other major film repositories. Plot Bud Reeves is a naive young man who lives in a small town in Indiana. After inheriting $1,100 ($ today) from his aunt, he decides to use the money to move to New York City to find a job and start a new life. His dog Duke follows him to the railroad station, and the station agent says he will take care of the pup but only as a loan, because he is certain that Bud will return home in a month or less, having spent some time in the city himself and being well aware how tough life can be there. Once in New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Against The World (1932 Film)
''Two Against the World'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Constance Bennett as a woman who tries her best to keep her sister and brother out of trouble. It is based on the play ''A Dangerous Set'' by Marion Dix and Jerry Horwin. The film, as well as '' Unashamed'' (1932), is based on a Philadelphia society murder by Eddie Allen, who killed Francis Donaldson III in an "honor killing An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing is the murder of an individual, either an outsider or a member of a family, by someone seeking to protect what they see as the dignity and honor of t ...". Plot Lawyer Dave Norton offers a settlement for the destitute family of a man killed while working for the Hamilton family firm. The upper-class, wealthy Hamiltons gather to decide what to do. They all either vote to fight it in court or, in many cases, simply ignore it. Adele "Dell" Hamilton is an irrespo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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