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Swingtime In The Movies
''Swingtime in the Movies'' is a 1938 American short comedy–musical film directed and written by Crane Wilbur. In 1939, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel at the 11th Academy Awards. ''Swingtime in the Movies'' is included on the DVD of the 1940 Raoul Walsh film '' They Drive By Night''. Cast * Fritz Feld as Mr. Nitvitch * Kathryn Kane as Joan Mason (as Katherine Kane) * John Carroll as Rick Arden * Charley Foy as Sammy * Jerry Colonna as The Texas Tornado * Helen Lynd as Lorna, an Actress * Irene Franklin as Kate, Head Waitress Featuring: * George Brent as Himself (uncredited) * Marie Wilson as Herself (uncredited) * Pat O'Brien as Himself (uncredited) * The Dead End Kids (Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Billy Halop, and Bobby Jordan) as 'Crime School Kids' (uncredited) * Humphrey Bogart as Himself (uncredited) * John Garfield as Himself (uncredited) * Lane Sisters The Lane Sisters were a family of American singers and actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crane Wilbur
Crane Wilbur (November 17, 1886 – October 18, 1973) was an American writer, actor and director for stage, radio and screen. He was born in Athens, New York. Wilbur is best remembered for playing Harry Marvin in '' The Perils of Pauline''. He died in Toluca Lake, California.Crane Wilbur, Star of Silent Films, Carves New Career as Producer: Flicker Star Doing Well as Producer Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 14 Nov 1948: D1. He was a prolific writer and director of at least 67 films from the silent era into the sound era, but it was as an actor that he found lasting recognition, particularly playing opposite Pearl White in the iconic serial '' The Perils of Pauline''. He brought to the first motion pictures merry eyes, a great, thick crop of wavy, black hair and an athlete's interest in swimming and horseback riding. Twelve years of stage experience prepared him for his venture into the new art of silent motion pictures. Life and career He was born Irwin Wilbur on November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Halop
William Halop (February 11, 1920 – November 9, 1976) was an American actor. Early life Halop was born to Benjamin Cohen Halop and Lucille Elizabeth Halop on February 11, 1920. Halop came from a theatrical family; his mother was a dancer, and his sister, Florence Halop, was an actress who worked on radio and in television. Additionally, he had a brother named Joel. Acting career In 1933, he was given the lead as Bobby Benson in the popular new radio show '' The H-Bar-O Rangers''. From 1934 to 1937, he starred in one of his first radio series, playing Dick Kent, the son of Fred and Lucy Kent, in "Home Sweet Home". While studying at the Professional Children's School in New York, he was cast as Tommy Gordon in the 1935 Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's ''Dead End'' and traveled to Hollywood with the rest of the Dead End Kids when Samuel Goldwyn produced a film version of the play in 1937. Usually called Tommy in the films, he had the recurring role of a gang leader in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Gorcey
Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917– June 2, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and, as adults, The Bowery Boys. Gorcey was famous for his use of malapropisms, such as "I depreciate it!" instead of "I appreciate it!" Early years Gorcey was born in New York City on June 3, 1917, the son of Josephine (née Condon), an Irish Catholic immigrant, and Bernard Gorcey, a Russian Jewish immigrant. Both were vaudevillian actors of short stature. Bernard Gorcey was and his wife was . Their son would reach in adulthood. Film career In the 1930s, Gorcey's father lived apart from the family while working in theater and film. When he returned in 1935, he and Leo's younger brother David Gorcey persuaded Leo to audition for a small part in the play ''Dead End''. Leo had just lost a job as a plumber's apprentice and wished to emulate his father's modest success. The Gorcey bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntz Hall
Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall (August 15, 1920 – January 30, 1999) was an American radio, stage, and movie performer who appeared in the popular "Dead End Kids" movies, including ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), and in the later " Bowery Boys" movies, during the late 1930s to the late 1950s. Life and career Hall was born in 1920 in New York CitySocial Security Death Index to Joseph Patrick Hall, an engineer from Ireland, and his wife, Mary Ellen ( Mullen) Hall.Leonard Getz in his 2006 book ''From Broadway to the Bowery'' published by McFarland & Company uses August 15, but the more authoritative Social Security Death Index uses August 18, 1920. The Independent uses August 15, 1919, and the New York Times lists his age as 78, which would make his birth year 1920. Walker and Roat's biography uses 1919. As was the case with many actors, their resumes often conflict with official documents submitted to the government. The fourteenth of sixteen children, he was nicknamed "Huntz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dead End Kids
The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York City who appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play ''Dead End'' in 1935. In 1937, producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film. They proved to be so popular that they continued to make movies under various monikers, including the Little Tough Guys, the East Side Kids, and the Bowery Boys, until 1958. History (1934–1939) In 1934, Sidney Kingsley wrote a play about a group of children growing up on the streets of New York City. Fourteen children were hired to play various roles in the play, including Billy Halop (Tommy), Bobby Jordan (Angel), Huntz Hall (Dippy), Charles Duncan (Spit), Bernard Punsly (Milty), Gabriel Dell (T.B.), and Leo and David Gorcey (Second Avenue Boys). Duncan left for a role in another play before opening night, and was replaced by Leo, his understudy. Leo had been a plumber's assistant and was originally recruited by his brother David to auditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat O'Brien (actor)
William Joseph Patrick O'Brien (November 11, 1899 – October 15, 1983) was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits. Of Irish descent, he often played Irish and Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence" in the press. One of the best-known screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s, he played priests, cops, military figures, pilots, and reporters. He is especially well-remembered for his roles in ''Knute Rockne, All American'' (1940), ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), and '' Some Like It Hot'' (1959). He was frequently paired onscreen with Hollywood star James Cagney. O'Brien also appeared on stage and television. Early life O'Brien was born in 1899 to an Irish-American Catholic family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All four of his grandparents had come from Ireland. The O'Briens were originally from County Cork. His grandfather, Patrick O'Brien, for whom he was named, was an architect who was killed while trying to break up a sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Wilson (American Actress)
Marie Wilson (born Katherine Elizabeth Wilson; August 19, 1916 – November 23, 1972) was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in ''My Friend Irma''. Early life Wilson was born in Anaheim, California, on August 19, 1916. Her nickname at Anaheim High School was "Maybelle". Wilson graduated from high school in 1933. Career Radio Although Wilson was afraid of the microphone used in radio, she played scatterbrained Irma Peterson in the radio comedy ''My Friend Irma'' from April 11, 1947, to August 23, 1954. Film Wilson began her career in Hollywood in the 1934 film ''Down to Their Last Yacht'' as a ship passenger, and then appeared in '' Babes in Toyland'' as Mary Quite Contrary. Wilson appeared in ''Ladies Crave Excitement'' (1935), ''The Girl Friend'' (1935), '' Stars Over Broadway'' (1935), ''Miss Pacific Fleet'' (1935), '' The Big Noise'' (1936), ''Melody for Two ''Melody for Two'' is a 1937 American musical fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brent
George Brent (born George Brendan Nolan; 15 March 1904 – 26 May 1979) was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor. He is best remembered for the eleven films he made with Bette Davis, which included ''Jezebel'' and ''Dark Victory''. Early life Brent was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland on March 15, 1904, to John J. and Mary (née McGuinness) Nolan. His father was a shopkeeper and his mother was a native of Clonfad, Moore, County Roscommon.Scott O'Brien''George Brent - Ireland's Gift to Hollywood and its Leading Ladies''(2014) BearManor; (paper back)/978-1-59393-764-5 (hard copy). In September 1915, he moved with his younger sister Kathleen to New York City. There, they joined their mother, who was living in the USA after her separation from her husband. Brent returned to Ireland in February 1921, during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1922), and was involved in the Irish Republican Army. During this period he also became involved with the Abbey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Franklin
Irene Franklin (June 13, 1885 - June 16, 1941) was an American actress on stage and screen, vaudeville comedian, and singer. Biography Irene Franklin was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1885. While many sources have suggested her birth year as 1875 or 1876, subsequent census records, ship manifests, and official documents all point to 1884 or 1885, and her official birth record from Saint Louis confirms 1885.1910 to 1940 census records and Missouri Birth Certificates on FamilySearch.com and Ancestry.com A mention in the New York Sun in early 1890 as a four-year-old helps to confirm this point. Franklin began her stage career at the age of six months when her parents carried her on stage in a production of '' Hearts of Oak''. She appeared on Broadway at age six in ''The Prodigal Father'', which ran for five years. Her mother died while Franklin was touring Australia in vaudeville, and when she returned to the United States to be with her father, she learned that he also had died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Lynd
Helen Merrell Lynd (March 17, 1896 – January 30, 1982) was an American sociologist, social philosopher, educator, and author. She is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with her husband, Robert Staughton Lynd; as the coauthor of ''Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture'' (1929) and ''Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts'' (1937); and a pioneer in the use of social surveys. She was also the author of ''England in the 1880s: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom'' (1945), ''Shame and the Search for Identity'' (1958), and essays on academic freedom. In addition to writing and research, Lynd was a lecturer at Vassar College, and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College from 1929 to 1964. Early life and education Helen Merrell was born in La Grange, Illinois, on March 17, 1896."Biographical Notes" in Merrill studied philosophy at Wellesley College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1919. She began teaching at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Colonna (entertainer)
Gerardo Luigi Colonna (September 17, 1904 – November 21, 1986), better known as Jerry Colonna, was an American musician, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter and trombonist who played the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks in Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s. He also voiced the March Hare in Disney's 1951 animated film '' Alice in Wonderland.'' With his pop-eyed facial expressions and large handlebar moustache, Colonna was known for singing loudly in what Gerald Nachman called a "comic caterwaul", and for his catchphrase, " Who's Yehudi?", uttered after many an old joke, though it usually had nothing to do with the joke itself. The line was believed to be named for violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, and "the search for Yehudi" became a running gag on Hope's show. Colonna played a range of nitwitted characters, the best-remembered of which was a moronic professor, of which Nachman wrote: :Colonna brought a whacked-out touch to Hope's show. In a typica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
