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Cora Witherspoon
Cora Witherspoon (January 5, 1890 – November 17, 1957) was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she remained rooted even after entering motion pictures in the early 1930s. As Witherspoon's career progressed, she carved a niche playing haughty society women or harridan housewives such as Princess Lina in Ferenc Molnár's 1928 play ''Olympia,'' or Agatha Sousè, W.C. Fields’ domineering spouse in the 1940 film '' The Bank Dick''. John Springer and Jack Hamilton, authors of ''They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930s'' (1974), wrote that "Witherspoon was blessed with a face that might have been drawn by one of those cartoonists who specialize in dealing with the war between men and women." Early life Witherspoon was born in New Orleans, to Cora S. Bell and Henry Edgeworth Witherspoon. Her father was an assistant surgeon with the Confederate Army during the American C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Number
''Dangerous Number'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and written by Carey Wilson. The film stars Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen, and Cora Witherspoon, and features Dean Jagger. The film was released on January 22, 1937, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot A clothing manufacturer, Hank ( Robert Young) returns from a year in Japan, learning about a new formula for synthetic silk, to discover that his girlfriend Eleanor (Ann Sothern) is engaged to marry another man. Hank persuades her to jilt the new man at the altar. After he and Eleanor get married, Hank comes to dislike the show-business friends of his wife and mother-in-law Gypsy (Cora Witherspoon) who pop up at all hours. And a man named Dillman (Dean Jagger) turns up who claims that Eleanor is actually his legal wife, not Hank's. Hank is distracted by Vera (Maria Shelton), a friend of Eleanor's, but in the end pretends to be a cab driver and steers his taxi into a lake, with passenger Eleanor w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cora may refer to: Science * ''Cora'' (fungus), a genus of lichens * ''Cora'' (damselfly), a genus of damselflies * CorA metal ion transporter, a Mg2+ influx system People * Cora (name), a given name and surname * Cora E. (born 1968), German hip-hop artist * Sexy Cora or Carolin Ebert (1987–2011), German actress, model, singer Places United States * Cora, Illinois * Cora, Kansas * Cora, Missouri * Cora, West Virginia * Cora, Washington * Cora, Wyoming Other places * Cora (Ancient Latin town), an ancient town in Latium (Italy) * Cori, Lazio, Italy Other uses * 504 Cora, a metallic asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt * Cora (hypermarket), a retail group of hypermarkets in Europe * Cora (instrument), an alternative spelling of the West African musical instrument Kora * ''Cora'' (opera), a 1791 opera by Étienne Méhul, libretto by Valadier * Cora (restaurant), a Canadian chain of casual restaurants * Cora (rocket), a French rocket * ''Cora'' (1812 sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Front Page
''The Front Page'' is a Broadway theatre, Broadway comedy about newspaper reporters on the police beat. Written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, it was first produced in 1928 and has been adapted for the cinema several times. The play entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. Plot The play's single set is the dingy press room of Courthouse Place, Chicago's Criminal Courts Building, overlooking the gallows behind the Cook County Jail. Reporters from most of the city's newspapers are passing the time with poker and pungent wisecracks about the news of the day. Soon they will witness the hanging of Earl Williams, a white man and supposed Communist revolutionary convicted of killing a black policeman. Hildy Johnson, cocky star reporter for the ''Examiner'', is late. He appears only to say goodbye; he is quitting to get a respectable job and be married. Suddenly the reporters hear that Earl Williams has escaped from the jail. All but Hildy st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Craven
Frank Craven (August 24, 1875September 1, 1945) was an American stage and film actor, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for originating the role of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's ''Our Town''. Early years Craven's parents, John T. Craven and Ella Mayer Craven, were actors, and he first appeared on stage when he was three years old, in a child's part in ''The Silver King'', in which his father was acting. His next appearance on stage occurred 13 years later in another production of the same play. That experience stirred an interest in acting as a career. Career Before he acted in films, Craven worked in stage productions, not limiting his activity to acting. "I would do ''anything'' around the place," he said. He found later that work with carpentry, painting, and other backstage activities proved "invaluable" to him. His initial success in New York came in the role of James Gilley in ''Bought and Paid For'' (1911). He also played the same role in a production in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acerbic prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work was praised by Robert Benchley in ''The New Yorker'' and in 1939 she was signed as a Scribner author where Maxwell Perkins, famous for his work with many of her contemporaries, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, became her editor. A 1963 nominee for the National Book Award, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Marjorie Peabody Waite Award for lifetime achievement in literature the following year. A friend to many literary and arts figures of her day, including author John Dos Passos, critic Edmund Wilson, and poet E. E. Cummings, Powell's work received renewed interest after Gore Vidal pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jig Saw (play)
''Jig Saw'' is a 1933 play by Dawn Powell. It is a three-act comedy with two settings and twelve characters. The story concerns a divorcée, kept by a married man, who loses a young man she picked up in a hotel to her daughter. The play was produced by the Theatre Guild when another play failed in tryout. It was staged by Philip Moeller, had sets by Lee Simonson, and starred Ernest Truex and Spring Byington, with Cora Witherspoon, Gertrude Flynn, and Eliot Cabot in support. It had a tryout in Washington, D.C., just four weeks after the Theatre Guild decided to mount the play and began pulling the production together. The Broadway premiere for ''Jig Saw'' came a week after the tryout, in late April 1934. It ran through early June 1934, with a common critical opinion being that only the first act worked. The play was never revived on Broadway, nor adapted for other media, though Paramount Studios had a financial stake in it. After Gore Vidal and Tim Page aroused interest in Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kelly (playwright)
George Edward Kelly (January 16, 1887 – June 18, 1974) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He began his career in vaudeville as an actor and sketch writer. He became best known for his satiric comedies, including '' The Torch-Bearers'' (1922) and '' The Show-Off'' (1924). He won the Pulitzer Prize for '' Craig's Wife'' (1925). Early life Kelly was born in Philadelphia on January 16, 1887. He was the second youngest of ten children born to Mary Ann (née Costello) and John Henry Kelly, an Irish immigrant. He was the brother of American businessman and Olympic champion sculler John B. Kelly Sr. and the uncle of actress Grace Kelly, who became Princess consort of Monaco, and Olympic rower John B. Kelly Jr. Not much is known about his early life, but he was an actor in his early years. He made his professional stage debut in 1911, and spent the next several years touring in popular stage plays; among them Owen Wister's '' The Virginian''. He di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Vajda
Ernest Vajda (born Ernő Vajda; 27 May 1886 in Komárno, Austria-Hungary, today Slovakia – 3 April 1954 in Woodland Hills, California) was a Hungarian actor, playwright, and novelist, but is more famous today for his screenplays. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film '' Smilin' Through'' (1932), based on the hit play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin. Vajda also wrote the screenplay for the first film version of Rudolph Besier's '' The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1934). Partial filmography * ''The Unknown Tomorrow'' (1923) * '' The Crown of Lies'' (1926) * '' You Never Know Women'' (1926) original story * '' Service for Ladies'' (1927) original story "The Head Waiter" * '' The Woman on Trial'' (1927) * '' Manhattan Cocktail'' (1928) original story * '' A Night of Mystery'' (1928) * ''Manhattan Cowboy'' (1928) * ''The Love Parade'' (1929) * ''Monte Carlo'' (1930) * '' The Smiling Lieutenant'' (1931) * '' The Guardsman'' (1931) * '' Tonight or Never'' (1931) * '' Service for Lad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Bolton
Guy Reginald Bolton (23 November 1884 – 4 September 1979) was an Anglo-American playwright and writer of musical theatre, musical comedies. Born in England and educated in France and the US, he trained as an architect but turned to writing. Bolton preferred working in collaboration with others, principally the English writers P. G. Wodehouse and Fred Thompson (writer), Fred Thompson, with whom he wrote 21 and 14 shows respectively, and the American playwright George Middleton (playwright), George Middleton, with whom he wrote ten shows. Among his other collaborators in Britain were George Grossmith Jr., John Hay Beith, Ian Hay and R. P. Weston, Weston and Bert Lee, Lee. In the US, he worked with George Gershwin, George and Ira Gershwin, Kalmar and Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II. Bolton is best known for his early work on the Princess Theatre, New York City, Princess Theatre musicals during the First World War with Wodehouse and the composer Jerome Kern. These shows moved the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Paul Kelly
Anthony Paul Kelly (1897 – September 26, 1932) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Biography Born in 1897 in New York City, Kelly wrote for 60 films between 1914 and 1930, and also wrote the play ''Three Faces East'', which was the basis for two films of the same name. In 1926, Kelly gained notice for suing Al Jolson for breach of contract. The jury was discharged after failing to reach an agreement on a verdict. He died in Manhattan in 1932 after committing suicide by inhaling gas. Kelly was battling an incurable case of tuberculosis at the time of his suicide. " ''The Brooklyn Daily Eagle'', September 27, 1932. Selected filmography * ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beulah Bondi
Beulah Bondi (born Beulah Bondy; May 3, 1888 – January 11, 1981) According to the State of California. ''California Death Index, 1940–1997''. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com was an American character actress; she often played eccentric mothers and later grandmothers and wives, although she was known for numerous other roles. She began her acting career as a young child in theater, and after establishing herself as a Broadway stage actress in 1925, she reprised her role in '' Street Scene'' for the 1931 film version. She played supporting roles in several films during the 1930s, and was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played the mother of James Stewart in four films: '' Of Human Hearts'', '' Vivacious Lady'', ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' (1939), and '' It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946). Although at her height in Hollywood from the 1930s until the 1950s, Bond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge (born Florence McKechnie, September 5, 1901 – August 1, 1988) was an American actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 1957 for her performance in '' Long Day's Journey into Night''. Early years Eldridge was born Florence McKechnie in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Charles J. McKechnie. She attended public schools, including P.S. 85 and Girls' High School. Stage Eldridge made her Broadway debut at age 17 as a chorus member of ''Rock-a-Bye Baby'' at the Astor Theatre. The reference book ''American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930–1969'' noted, "In the 1920s she won major attention in such plays as ''The Cat and the Canary'' and ''Six Characters in Search of an Author''." In 1965, she and her husband Fredric March did a world tour under the auspices of the U.S. State Department. Eldridge wrote that they were "experimenting to see if an acting couple doing excerpts from plays on a bare stage co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
