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William Burress
William Burress (19 August 1867 – 30 October 1948) was an American actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1915 to 1939. Filmography References External links * 1867 births 1948 deaths American male film actors {{US-film-actor-1860s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcomerstown, Ohio
Newcomerstown is a village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States, east-northeast of Columbus. In the late 1770s, this was the largest Delaware Indian village on the Tuscarawas River, with 700 residents. Chief Newcomer (''Netawatwes'') was the leader of the western Delawares here, and they called the village ''Gekelmukpechunk''. Early French traders and English settlers named the village Newcomerstown after the chief. Soon after the start of the American Revolutionary War, the Delawares moved west to Coshocton, about halfway through what is now the next county. Name The name comes from a Lenape (Delaware) village established in the 1760s by Netawatwees (c. 1686-1776), also known as Newcomer. Newcomer migrated to the area from Cuyahoga Falls with his band of Lenape Indians. The Lenape name of the town was ''Gekelukpechink'', meaning "still water." The town was used as a meeting place for the Iroquois Great Council, and English and American traders called it Newcomer's town. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fluttering Hearts
''Fluttering Hearts'' is a 1927 American film featuring Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, and Eugene Pallette. Cast * Charley Chase as Charley * Martha Sleeper as Daughter * Oliver Hardy as Big Bill * William Burress as Father * Eugene Pallette as Motorcycle Cop * Kay Deslys as Big Bill's girl * May Wallace - Mother * Charlie Hall as Man under car *John Gavin John A. Gavin (born Juan Vincent Apablasa; April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018) was an American actor who was the president of the Screen Actors Guild (1971–73), and the United States Ambassador to Mexico (1981–86). Among the films he appeared ... External links * 1927 films 1927 short films American silent short films American black-and-white films 1927 comedy films Films directed by James Parrott Silent American comedy films Films with screenplays by H. M. Walker American comedy short films 1920s American films {{short-silent-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Just Had To Get Married
''They Just Had to Get Married'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, and Verree Teasdale. The screenplay was written by Gladys Lehman, H.M. Walker, and an uncredited Preston Sturges, based on the Broadway play ''A Pair of Silk Stockings'' (1914) by Cyril Harcourt. This was the play's third film adaptation.TC''They Just Had to Get Married'' notes tcm.com; accessed August 4, 2015. Plot When wealthy Henry Davidson dies, he leaves all his money to his faithful butler, Sam Sutton (Summerville), and maid, Molly Hull (Pitts), who are finally able to get married. Their new lives as millionaires gets them involved with flirtatious Lola Montrose (Teasdale) and Davidson's relative Hillary Hume (Young), and complications ensue. Sam and Molly lose everything, break up, and are finally tricked into reconciling.Brennan, SandrSynopsis allmovie.com; accessed September 23, 2015. Cast *Slim Summerville as S ... [...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] |
Love Is A Racket
''Love Is a Racket'' ( UK title: ''Such Things Happen'') is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Ann Dvorak. The movie was written by Courtney Terrett from the novel by Rian James, and directed by William A. Wellman William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and military pilot. He was known for his work in crime, adventure, and action genre films, often focusing on avi .... Plot Cast References External links * * 1932 films American black-and-white films 1930s crime comedy-drama films 1930s English-language films Films based on American novels 1930s romantic comedy-drama films Films directed by William A. Wellman American romantic comedy-drama films American crime comedy-drama films Films about journalists 1932 comedy films 1932 drama films 1930s American films {{1930s-romantic-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Of Women
''Street of Women'' is a 1932 pre-Code romantic drama directed by Archie Mayo and starring Kay Francis and Roland Young. Plot summary A man's affair complicates his daughter's love life. Cast * Kay Francis as Natalie "Nat" Upton * Roland Young as Linkhorne "Link" Gibson * Alan Dinehart as Larry Baldwin * Gloria Stuart as Doris "Dodo" Baldwin * Marjorie Gateson as Lois Baldwin * Allen Vincent as Clarke Upton * Adrienne Dore as Frances * Louise Beavers Louise Beavers (March 8, 1902 – October 26, 1962) was an American film and television actress. From the 1920s until 1960, she appeared in dozens of films and two hit television shows. She was most often cast in the roles of a maid, servan ... as Mattie References External links * * * * American romantic drama films American black-and-white films Films based on American novels Films directed by Archie Mayo Warner Bros. films 1932 romantic drama films 1932 films 1930s American films {{1930s-romantic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strange Love Of Molly Louvain
''The Strange Love of Molly Louvain'' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Ann Dvorak and Lee Tracy. The script was based on the play ''Tinsel Girl'' by Maurine Dallas Watkins. Plot Molly Louvain is a young woman who has a baby out of wedlock. She falls in with a career criminal and, after he is shot by police, she hides out with a former bellhop who wants to marry her and make her "respectable." But, instead, she falls in love with Scotty Cornell, a fast-talking cynical newspaper reporter, who does not realize that she is, in fact, the very gun moll that he has been writing about in his columns. As she is about to go to prison, he discovers her identity, but pledges to stick by her nevertheless. Cast * Ann Dvorak as Madeleine Maude 'Molly' Louvain * Lee Tracy as Scott 'Scotty' Cornell * Richard Cromwell as Jimmy Cook * Guy Kibbee as Pop, a Policeman * Leslie Fenton as Nicky Grant * Frank McHugh as Skeets, a Reporter * Evalyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Famous Ferguson Case
''The Famous Ferguson Case'' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell and Vivienne Osborne.Louis Pizzitola. ''Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies''. Columbia University Press, (2002), p. 479 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jack Okey. Cast * Joan Blondell as Maizie Dickson * Grant Mitchell as Martin Collins * Vivienne Osborne as Mrs. Marcia Ferguson * Adrienne Dore as Antoinette 'Toni' Martin * Tom Brown as Bruce Foster * Kenneth Thomson as Bob Parks * Leslie Fenton as Perrin * Oscar Apfel as Mr. Brooks * Walter Miller as Cedric Works * Purnell Pratt as George M. Ferguson * Willard Robertson as Sheriff * George Meeker as Jigger Bolton * Russell Hopton as Rusty Callahan * George 'Spanky' McFarland as Newsboy * Leon Ames as Judd Brooks * J. Carrol Naish as Claude Wright * William Burress as Dad Sipes * Clarence Wilson as County Attorney * Russell Simpson a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandal For Sale
''Scandal for Sale'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Russell Mack and starring Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart and Pat O'Brien.Schindler p.25 The film's sets were designed by the art director Charles D. Hall. Cast * Charles Bickford as Jerry Strong * Rose Hobart as Claire Strong * Pat O'Brien as Waddell * Berton Churchill as Bunnyweather * J. Farrell MacDonald as Treadway * Buster Phelps as Bobby Strong * Betty Jane Graham as Mildred Strong * Tully Marshall as Simpkins * Claudia Dell as Dorothy Pepper * Harry Beresford Harry J. Beresford (4 November 1863 – 4 October 1944) was an English-born actor on the American stage and in motion pictures. He used the professional name Harry J. Morgan early in his career. Career Harry Beresford began his acting career i ... as Brownie * Hans von Twardowski as Affner * Mitchell Harris as Carrington References Bibliography * Colin Schindler. ''Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarface (1932 Film)
''Scarface'' (also known as ''Scarface: The Shame of the Nation'' and ''The Shame of a Nation'') is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Hawks and Howard Hughes. The screenplay, by Ben Hecht, is based loosely on the 1929 novel by Armitage Trail which was inspired by Al Capone. The film stars Paul Muni as Italian immigrant gangster Antonio "Tony" Camonte, a gangster who violently rises through the Chicago gangland, with a supporting cast that includes George Raft and Boris Karloff. Camonte's rise to power dovetails with his relentless pursuit of his boss's mistress while his own sister pursues his best hitman. In an overt tie to the life of Capone, one scene depicts a version of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. After Hughes purchased the rights to Trail's novel, Hughes quickly selected Hawks to direct and Hecht to write the film's screenplay. Beginning in January 1931, Hecht wrote the script over an eleven-day period. ''Scarface'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovers Courageous
''Lovers Courageous'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Frederick Lonsdale. The film stars Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Roland Young, Frederick Kerr, Reginald Owen and Beryl Mercer. The film was released on January 23, 1932, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot In 1919 London, 12-year-old Willie Smith (Jackie Searl) gets into mischief and is called out for having "too much imagination". He cuts school by forging a letter to the headmaster, claiming his father is ill and he is needed at home. Willie's father (Halliwell Hobbes) is horrified, and says he doesn't want a son who is "different from other boys" - even going so far as to threaten to break "every bone in illie'sbody". Willie arrives home after being out all day and his father whips him with a belt, but still Willie is undeterred - he will not be like the "other boys" and will instead do something different with his life than what is expected. The film cuts to present day and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Boy Makes Good
''Local Boy Makes Good'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and written by Robert Lord, Raymond Griffith and Ray Enright. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Dorothy Lee, Ruth Hall, Edward Woods, Edward Nugent and Wade Boteler. The film was released by Warner Bros. on November 27, 1931. Plot Sheepish bookstore employee John Miller has become infatuated with a college girl, Julia Winters, he has never met. His love letters to her are accidentally mailed, so Julia comes to visit, under the mistaken impression John is a college track star. While co-worker Marjorie helps continue his deception, John tries to join the school's team. His wild javelin throw nearly kills other athletes, who chase him off the field. The college's coach is amazed at how fast John can run. Julia figures out she's been had. A psychology student, she analyzes John as a boy with an inferiority complex. After the coach finds John and invites him to run, Julia persuades him to race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
