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Halliwell Hobbes
Herbert Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 187720 February 1962) was an English actor. Early years The future actor was the son of William Albert Hobbes (1841-1909), a Warwickshire solicitor, and his wife, Marion Hobbes, née Dennis, (1838-1925). His schooling came at Trinity College in Straford-on-Avon. Career Hobbes's stage debut was as a member of Frank Benson's company, in the role of Tybalt in ''Romeo and Juliet'' in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs Patrick Campbell. His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged 51) to play older men's roles such as clerics, butlers, doctors, lords and diplomats. He remained a British subject throughout his life. Receiving fewer film roles during the 1940s (though he still managed to have been in over 100 films by 1949), he moved back to Broadway by the mid-1940s, appearing in ''Romeo and Juliet'' as Lord Capulet and continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fit For A King
''Fit for a King'' is a 1937 American film starring Joe E. Brown and directed by Edward Sedgwick. Plot summary Newspaper reporter "Scoop (term), Scoops" (Brown) is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio (Harry Davenport (actor), Harry Davenport). Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton (Helen Mack) who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince. The film ends with a wild chase and a shootout with machine guns. The question is, who will survive to tell the tale? Cast *Joe E. Brown (comedian), Joe E. Brown as Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones *Helen Mack as Jane Hamilton / Princess Helen *Paul Kelly (actor), Paul Kelly as Briggs *Harry Davenport (actor), Harry Davenport as Archduke Julio *Halliwell Hobbes as Count Strunsky *John Qualen as Otto *Donald Briggs as Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapel Of The Pines Crematory
Chapel of the Pines Crematory is a crematory and columbarium located at 1605 South Catalina Street, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, in the historic West Adams District a short distance southwest of Downtown. It is beside Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, one street east, at the southwest corner of Catalina and Venice Boulevard. Established in 1903, this domed structure, which looks like an observatory, provides crematory services and columbarium inurnment. It is the final resting place for the cremains of a number of noted persons. List of notable interments (Note: This is a partial list.) Use the following alphabetical links to find someone. A * Ted Adams (1890–1973), actor *Broncho Billy Anderson (1882–1971), actor (private vault) * George Anderson (1886–1948), actor * Lionel Atwill (1885–1946), actor (private vault) *Arthur Aylesworth (1883–1946), actor B *Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville) (1919–1972), musician, actor * Bob Bailey (1913–1983) ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbidden (1932 Film)
''Forbidden'' is a 1932 American pre-Code melodrama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, and Ralph Bellamy. An original story inspired by the 1931 novel '' Back Street'' by Fannie Hurst, with a screenplay by Jo Swerling, the film is about a young librarian who falls in love with a married man while on a sea cruise. Plot Librarian Lulu Smith shows up late to work for the first time in eight years—the victim of spring fever. Frustrated by her loneliness, she withdraws her life savings and buys a ticket for a two week romantic cruise to Havana— advertised as the "land of romance". On the ship, she meets Bob Grover, a lawyer with political ambitions, who mistook her room 66 for his room 99 after a few too many drinks. They have dinner together, and soon they develop a romantic attraction. In Havana, they spend their time together gambling, drinking, riding horses, and taking moonlit walks on the beach. When he asks why she came to Havana, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platinum Blonde (film)
''Platinum Blonde'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code romantic comedy motion picture directed by Frank Capra, written by Jo Swerling and starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams (actor, born 1894), Robert Williams and Jean Harlow. ''Platinum Blonde'' was Robert Williams' last screen appearance; he died of peritonitis three days after the film's October 31 release. Though not as well known as Capra's later 1930s movies, the film's reputation has grown over the years. It is occasionally aired in the United States on Turner Classic Movies. Plot Stewart "Stew" Smith (Robert Williams (actor, born 1894), Robert Williams), ace reporter for the ''Post'', is assigned to get the story about the latest escapade of playboy Michael Schuyler (Donald Dillaway), a breach of promise suit by chorus girl Gloria Golden, who has been paid to drop it. Unlike rival ''Daily Tribune'' reporter Bingy Baker (Walter Catlett), he turns down a $50 bribe from Dexter Grayson (Reginald Owen), the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sin Of Madelon Claudet
''The Sin of Madelon Claudet'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht was adapted from the play ''The Lullaby'' by Edward Knoblock. It tells the story of a wrongly imprisoned woman who turns to theft and prostitution in order to support her son. Plot When neglected wife Alice (Karen Morley) decides to leave her doctor husband Lawrence ( Robert Young), his friend Dr. Dulac (Jean Hersholt) stops her and tells her the life story of another woman, the French Madelon Claudet ( Helen Hayes), who was persuaded by her American boyfriend, artist Larry Maynard ( Neil Hamilton), to run away with him. Eventually, he has to return to the U.S. because his father is sick. Once there however, he betrays her and marries a woman whom his parents approve of. Unbeknownst to him, Madelon gives birth to a son. When her lover does not come back, her father ( Russ Powell) gets her to agree to marry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman Between (1931 American Film)
''The Woman Between'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by Howard Estabrook. The film stars Lili Damita, Lester Vail, O.P. Heggie, Miriam Seegar and Anita Louise. It was released on August 8, 1931 by RKO Pictures. Plot A young man returns from Europe after several years of estrangement from his family caused by his disapproval of his father's remarriage after his mother's death. At the family reunion, he learns that his stepmother is the woman with whom he had a shipboard romance on the voyage home. Cast * Lili Damita as Julie Whitcomb *Lester Vail as Victor Whitcomb * O.P. Heggie as John Whitcomb *Miriam Seegar as Doris Whitcomb *Anita Louise as Helen Weston *Ruth Weston as Mrs. Black *Lincoln Stedman as Buddy *Blanche Friderici as Mrs. Weston *William Morris as Frederick Weston *Halliwell Hobbes as Barton *George Chandler George Chandler (June 30, 1898 – June 10, 1985) was an American actor who starred in over 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five And Ten
''Five and Ten'' is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Robert Z. Leonard and starring Marion Davies, Leslie Howard and Irene Rich. Davies plays as an heiress and Howard the man she loves, though he marries someone else. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions in partnership with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is based on the 1929 Fannie Hurst novel of the same name.''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40'' by The American Film Institute, c. 1993 Synopsis The wealthy John G. Rarick has made a huge success of a chain of five and ten cent stores and decides to move his family, including his daughter Jennifer, from Kansas City to New York. Jennifer is delighted to move amongst the social elite but faces snobbishness because of her background. She becomes very attracted to a man she encounters, an aspiring architect Berry Rhodes but he is already engaged to another woman who despites Jennifer. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Refuses
''The Lady Refuses'' is a 1931 American pre-Code melodrama film, directed by George Archainbaud, from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on an original story by Guy Bolton and Robert Milton. It stars Betty Compson as a destitute young woman on the verge of becoming a prostitute, who is hired by a wealthy man to woo his ne'er-do-well son away from the clutches of a gold-digger (Margaret Livingston). The plot is regarded as risqué enough to appear in at least one collection of pre-Code Hollywood films. Plot Sir Gerald Courtney ( Gilbert Emery) is an aristocrat whose son, Russell (John Darrow), prefers to spend his time partying with young women rather than focusing on the promising career he has in architecture. When Russell leaves one evening to revel with the gold-digging Berthine Waller (Margaret Livingston) rather than spending it dining with his father, Sir Gerald is a bit despondent. As he ponders what to do about his wayward son, providence takes a hand. A beautiful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Of Way (1931 Film)
''The Right of Way'' is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It stars Conrad Nagel and Loretta Young. The story was filmed previously in 1915 and in 1920. Cast Preservation status A copy of ''The Right of Way'' is preserved at the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collecition and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' (<-book title) p. 152 (c.1978) by the American Film Institute
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The Bachelor Father
''The Bachelor Father '' is a 1931 American pre-Code MGM comedy drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Marion Davies and featuring Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith, Ray Milland and Guinn Williams (actor), Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. It was based on a same-titled play by Edward Childs Carpenter, with Smith re-creating his role from the Broadway production. The plot centers around a stuffy British nobleman whose three grown (and illegitimate) children suddenly arrive at his estate and decide to move in with him. Plot summary Cast (in credits order) * Marion Davies as Antoinette Flagg * Ralph Forbes as John Ashley * C. Aubrey Smith as Sir Basil Algernon Winterton * Ray Milland as Geoffrey Trent * Guinn Williams (actor), Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Richard Berney * David Torrence (actor), David Torrence as Dr Frank MacDonald * Doris Lloyd as Mrs Julia Webb * Edgar Norton as Bolton, The Second Butler * Nina Quartero as Maria Credaro * Halliwell Hobbes as Larkin, The Butl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charley's Aunt (1930 Film)
''Charley's Aunt'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Al Christie and starring Charles Ruggles, June Collyer, and Hugh Williams. It was an adaptation of the 1892 play '' Charley's Aunt'' by Brandon Thomas. It marked the film debut of Williams, who then returned to Britain and became a major star. Cast * Charles Ruggles as Lord Fancourt Babberley * June Collyer as Amy Spettigue * Hugh Williams as Charlie Wykeham * Doris Lloyd as Donna Lucia D' Alvadorez * Halliwell Hobbes as Stephen Spettigue * Flora le Breton as Ela Delahay * Rodney McLennan as Jack Chesney * Phillips Smalley as Sir Francis Chesney * Flora Sheffield as Kitty Verdun * Wilson Benge as Brassett * Robert Bolder as Scotty * Edgar Norton Edgar Norton (born Harry Edgar Mills; August 11, 1868 – February 6, 1953) was an English-born American character actor. Early years Norton was born in Islington in London, England, on August 11, 1868, as Harry Edgar Mills, one of eight childr ... as Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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