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The Rainbow Trail (film)
''The Rainbow Trail'' is a 1932 Pre-Code Western film directed by David Howard and starring George O'Brien. The picture is an adaptation of Zane Grey's novel of the same name and a sequel to the 1931 film ''Riders of the Purple Sage'', which also stars O'Brien. Cast * George O'Brien as Shefford *Cecilia Parker as Fay Larkin *Minna Gombell as Ruth *Roscoe Ates as Ike Wilkins * J. M. Kerrigan as Paddy Harrigan * James Kirkwood as Venters *W. L. Thorne as Dyer *Robert Frazer as Lone Eagle *Ruth Donnelly as Abigail *Niles Welch as Willets *Landers Stevens as Presby *Laska Winter as Singing Cloud * Edward Hearn as Jim Lassiter *Alice Ward as Jane Withersteen *George Burton as Elliott *Iron Eyes Cody as Indian References External links * * ''The Rainbow Trail''in Reel Old Films ''The Rainbow Trail''in ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Howard (director)
David Howard (October 6, 1896 – December 21, 1941) was an American film director. He directed 46 films between 1930 and 1941. He was born as David Paget Davis III in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''There Were Thirteen'' (1931) * ''The Rainbow Trail (film), The Rainbow Trail'' (1931) * ''The Golden West (1932 film), The Golden West'' (1932) * ''The Mystery Squadron'' (1933) (writer & director) * ''Robbers' Roost (1933 film), Robbers' Roost'' (1933) * ''Smoke Lightning'' (1933) * ''The Lost Jungle'' (1934) (writer & screenplay) * ''In Old Santa Fe'' (1934) * ''The Marines Are Coming'' (1934) * ''Whispering Smith Speaks'' (1935) * ''Hard Rock Harrigan'' (1936) * ''Thunder Mountain (1935 film), Thunder Mountain'' (1935) * ''Conflict (1936 film), Conflict'' (1936) * ''Daniel Boone (1936 film), Daniel Boone'' (1936) * ''The Border Patrolman'' (1936) * ''The Mine with the Iron Door (1936 film), The Mine with the Iron Door ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roscoe Ates
Roscoe Blevel Ates (January 20, 1895 – March 1, 1962) was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily featured in western films and television. He was best known as western character Soapy Jones. He was also billed as Rosco Ates. Early years Ates was born on January 20, 1895, in the northwest of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the rural hamlet of Grange (Grange is no longer included on road maps). Ates spent much of his childhood learning how to manage a speech impediment, succeeding when he was 18. Early career Ates played violin to accompany silent films at a theater in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Following that experience, he became an entertainer as a concert violinist but found economic opportunities greater as a vaudeville comedian, appearing as half of the team of Ates and Darling. For 15 years, he was a headliner on the Orpheum Circuit, and he revived his long-gone stutter for humorous effect Military service Ates s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Western (genre) Films
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Films Directed By David Howard
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Films
The following is an overview of 1932 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1932 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading headline events of the year. * Sidney Kent leaves Paramount Pictures and joins Fox Film. * Merlin H Aylesworth succeeds Hiram S Brown as president of RKO. * Jesse L. Lasky leaves Paramount and becomes an independent producer for Fox. * Sam Katz leaves Paramount. * James R Grainger leaves Fox and is succeeded by John D Clark, formerly of Paramount. * Publix and Fox decentralization of cinemas. * New industry program, including standard exhibition contract along lines of 5-5-5, proposed by Motion Picture Theater Owners of America and Allied. * Joe Brandt retires from Columbia Pictures joins World-Wide and later resigns again. * Two Radio City theaters open, under dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Western (genre) Films
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TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ... TV listings, listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become ''TV Guide Magazine'' was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was an American actor of Italian descent who portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as ''Chief Iron Eyes'' in Bob Hope's '' The Paleface'' (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements from the group Keep America Beautiful. Living in Hollywood, he began to insist, even in his private life, that he was Native American, over time claiming membership in several different tribes. In 1996, Cody's half-sister said that he was of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. After his death, it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage, and not Native American at all. Early life Cody was born Espera Oscar de Corti on April 3, 1904, in Kaplan in Vermilion Parish, in southwestern Louisiana, a second son of Francesca Salpietra from Sicily and her husband, Antonio de Corti from southern Italy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hearn (actor)
Guy Edward Hearn (September 6, 1888 – April 15, 1963) was an American actor who, in a forty-year film career, starting in 1915, played hundreds of roles, starting with juvenile leads, then, briefly, as leading man, all during the silent era. With the arrival of sound, he became a character actor, appearing in scores of productions for virtually every studio, in which he was mostly unbilled, while those credits in which he was listed, reflected at least nine stage names, most frequently Edward Hearn, but also Guy E. Hearn, Ed Hearn, Eddie Hearn, Eddie Hearne, and Edward Hearne. Leading man in silent films Born in Dayton, Columbia County, Washington, He became an actor in his twenties, with a first known film credit listed in the 1915 short ''The Fool's Heart''. His initial feature was ''Her Bitter Cup'' in 1916, the year during which he was seen in sixteen shorts and features. 1917 was equally prolific for him, providing seventeen appearances. As short films gave way to f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laska Winter
Laska Winter (August 28, 1905 – August 8, 1980) was an American film actress active during the silent and early sound era. She was also known as Winter Blossom. Filmography * ''What Ho, the Cook'' (1921) * '' The Thief of Bagdad'' (1924) * '' The Marriage Cheat'' (1924) * ''Justice of the Far North'' (1925) * ''Tides of Passion'' (1925) * '' Shipwrecked'' (1926) * '' Rocking Moon'' (1926) * ''The Tender Hour'' (1927) * ''The Night of Love'' (1927) * ''The Satin Woman'' (1927) * '' Fashion Madness'' (1928) * '' The Rescue'' (1929) * '' Seven Footprints to Satan'' (1929) * '' The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu'' (1929) * ''Frozen Justice'' (1929) * ''Chinatown After Dark'' (1931) * ''The Rainbow Trail'' (1932) * ''The Painted Woman ''The Painted Woman'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code thriller film starring Spencer Tracy, Peggy Shannon and Irving Pichel and directed by John G. Blystone. Plot After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton ...'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landers Stevens
John Landers Stevens (1877–1940) was an American stage and film actor. A character actor he appeared in prominent screen roles in the early 1920s before switching to smaller supporting parts, often authority figures, in the following decade. He was the brother of the journalist Ashton Stevens and the father of film director George Stevens. He appeared in the 1936 musical film ''Swing Time'' directed by his son.Green p.61 His final screen appearance was in ''Citizen Kane''. Selected filmography * ''The Price of Redemption'' (1920) * ''A Thousand to One'' (1920) * ''Keeping Up with Lizzie'' (1921) * ''Shadows of Conscience'' (1921) * ''The Veiled Woman'' (1922) * '' Wild Honey'' (1922) * '' Handle with Care'' (1922) * ''A Wonderful Wife'' (1922) * '' Youth Must Have Love'' (1922) * ''Battling Bunyan'' (1924) * ''Frozen Justice'' (1929) * ''The Trial of Mary Dugan'' (1929) * '' The Gorilla'' (1930) * '' Little Caesar'' (1931) * ''The Rainbow Trail'' (1932) * ''Hell Divers'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niles Welch
Niles Eugene Welch (July 29, 1888 – November 21, 1976) was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s. Early life A native of Hartford, Connecticut, after graduating from ''St. Paul's School'', Welch attended Yale and Columbia University. Later he joined a stock company, and from there toured the U.S. in vaudeville. The first film he worked in was ''The Stranger in Grey'' with the Eastern Vitagraph Studios. Career After spending four years on the legitimate stage, Welch started his screen career appearing with World Film Corporation, Universal, Pathé Studios and Goldwyn Pictures. Among his earliest works were two Thomas Ince productions, ''Stepping Out'' and ''The Cup of Life'', followed in rapid succession by ''Miss George Washington,'' with Marguerite Clark; ''The Courage of Marge O'Doone,'' with Pauline Starke; and with Grace Darmond in ''The Gulf Between'' (1917 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
