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Jean Del Val
Jean Del Val (born Jean Jacques Gauthier; 17 November 1891 – 13 March 1975) was a French-born actor, also credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier. Career He played roles during the Hollywood silent era, beginning with ''The Fortunes of Fifi'' in 1917. During the early days of talkies he served as a translator and vocal coach for French language versions of American-made films. Two of his notable credits include the classic 1942 film ''Casablanca'' in a small role as an announcer for a French radio station in one of the opening scenes, and historical figure Ferdinand Foch in the 1941 film ''Sergeant York'', based on the life of Alvin York. His most well-known role was comatose scientist Dr. Jan Benes in the 1966 science fiction film '' Fantastic Voyage''. He also appeared on 5 episodes of the television series '' Combat!'': first, uncredited in the episode "A Day in June", followed by "No Trumpets, No Drums" as Marceau, then as a French farmer in "Birthday Cake", Father Bom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flying Deuces
''The Flying Deuces'', also known as ''Flying Aces'', is a 1939 buddy comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy, in which the duo join the French Foreign Legion. It is a partial remake of their short film ''Beau Hunks'' (1931). Plot While the boys are vacationing in Paris from working in a fish market in Des Moines, Ollie falls in love with Georgette (Jean Parker), the beautiful daughter of an innkeeper. She turns down his marriage proposal because she is married to a Foreign Legion officer named Francois (Reginald Gardiner). Heartbroken, Ollie contemplates suicide. He is joined by his friend Stan in sinking himself in the Seine River. (In some cuts of the film this proceeding is complicated by the presence of an "escaped shark".) Stan repeatedly interrupts Ollie as he is about to throw the weight in, and asks him to consider the possibility of reincarnation. Ollie decides his preference is to return as a horse. Francois catches sight of them and convinces them instead to enlist in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myocardial Infarction
A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which may travel into the shoulder, arm, back, neck or jaw. Often it occurs in the center or left side of the chest and lasts for more than a few minutes. The discomfort may occasionally feel like heartburn. Other symptoms may include shortness of breath, nausea, feeling faint, a cold sweat or feeling tired. About 30% of people have atypical symptoms. Women more often present without chest pain and instead have neck pain, arm pain or feel tired. Among those over 75 years old, about 5% have had an MI with little or no history of symptoms. An MI may cause heart failure, an irregular heartbeat, cardiogenic shock or cardiac arrest. Most MIs occur due to coronary artery disease. Risk factors include high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends And Lovers (1931 Film)
''Friends and Lovers'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film released by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Victor Schertzinger, and starring Adolphe Menjou, Lili Damita, Laurence Olivier, Erich von Stroheim, and Hugh Herbert. The film recorded a loss of $260,000.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, ''The RKO Story.'' New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p41 Plot British Army captain Geoff Roberts (Adolphe Menjou) carries on an affair with Alva (Lili Damita), the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito ( Erich von Stroheim). Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers. When Roberts falls into Sangrito's trap, he pays the blackmail and leaves for India, hoping to forget Alva, whom he loved but now believes betrayed him. After some time in India, he is joined by his young friend and bosom companion Lt. Ned Nichols ( Laurence Olivier). Nichols, too, is in love with a wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magnificent Lie (1931 Film)
''The Magnificent Lie'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and written by Vincent Lawrence, Leonard Merrick and Samson Raphaelson. The film stars Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Bellamy, Stuart Erwin, Françoise Rosay, Sam Hardy, Charles Boyer and Tyler Brooke. The film was released on July 25, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. It was based on Merrick's novel ''Laurels and the Lady''. Plot Recovering from a World War I head wound, soldier Bill Childers is paid a hospital visit by Rosa Duchene, a renowned French singer and actress who is contributing to the war effort. It is love at first sight Love at first sight is a personal experience as well as a common trope in literature: a person or character feels an instant, extreme, and ultimately long-lasting romantic attraction for a stranger upon first seeing that stranger. Described by p ..., but Bill does not see her again for 12 years, during which time his combat injury has left him almost totally bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Legs (film)
''Sea Legs'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Victor Heerman and written by George Marion Jr. and Marion Dix. The film stars Jack Oakie, Eugene Pallette, Lillian Roth, André Cheron, Albert Conti, Harry Green and Jean Del Val. The film was released on November 29, 1930, by Paramount Pictures. Cast *Jack Oakie as Searchlight Doyle *Eugene Pallette as Hyacinth Nitouche *Lillian Roth as Adrienne * André Cheron as High Commissioner *Albert Conti as Captain *Harry Green as Gabriel Grabowski *Jean Del Val as Crosseti *Charles Sellon as Adm. O'Brien *Tom Ricketts Thomas B. Ricketts (15 January 1853 – 19 January 1939) was an English-born American stage actor, stage and motion picture, film actor and film director, director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the fi ... as Commander References External links * 1930 films 1930 comedy films American comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sap From Syracuse
''The Sap from Syracuse'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and written by John Griffith Wray, along with Jack O'Donnell, John Hayden and Gertrude Purcell. The film stars Jack Oakie, Ginger Rogers, Granville Bates, George Barbier, and Verree Teasdale. The film was released on July 26, 1930, by Paramount Pictures. Plot When Littleton Looney, a crane driver, inherits $18,000 from his uncle, he decides to fulfill his dream and go to Europe (he is a great admirer of Napoleon). His ex-boss, Hopkins, and a couple of Hopkins' cronies decide to pull a prank on him; they send telegrams (supposedly from John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and others) to the captain of the luxury liner that Looney takes, asking that Looney be treated well. On the ship before it departs, one of the pranksters convince Senator Powell, another passenger, that Looney is Vanderhoff, a famous engineer, traveling incognito. Also aboard is Ellen Saunders. She has 90 days to pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back To Liberty
''Back to Liberty'' is a 1927 American silent mystery film directed by Bernard McEveety and starring George Walsh, Edmund Breese and Dorothy Hall.Munden p.33 Cast * George Walsh as Jimmy Stevens * Edmund Breese as Tom Devon / Reginald Briand * Dorothy Hall as Floria Briand * Jean Del Val as Rudolph Gambier * De Sacia Mooers De Sacia Mooers (November 19, 1888 – January 11, 1960) was a film actress, disputably from Los Angeles, California. She appeared in over one hundred movies in the silent film era. She was perhaps best known as the "Blonde Vamp" for her role ... as Nina Burke References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1927 films 1927 mystery films American mystery films Films directed by Bernard McEveety American silent feature films American black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifty-Fifty (1925 Film)
''Fifty-Fifty'' is a 1925 American silent drama film starring Hope Hampton, Lionel Barrymore, and Louise Glaum. Directed and produced by Henri Diamant-Berger for the production company Encore Pictures, ''Fifty-Fifty'' is a remake of a 1916 Norma Talmadge film also titled '' Fifty-fifty'' that was directed by Allan Dwan, who wrote the original story. The film was exhibited the week of January 3, 1926, in Los Angeles, at thHillstreet Theatre which featured both vaudeville and movies. Plot American millionaire Frederick Harmon (played by Lionel Barrymore) is in Paris, France, for business and pleasure. While enjoying the Parisian night life, he meets and falls in love with Ginette (played by Hope Hampton), a fashion model who moonlights as an apache dancer in a nightclub. They marry and he returns to New York with her. When Harmon meets the urbane divorcee Nina Olmstead (played by Louise Glaum) he becomes involved in an affair. Ginette discovers her husband's infidelity a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man Of Iron
''A Man of Iron'' (also known as ''The Iron Man'') is a 1925 American silent drama film produced and directed by Whitman Bennett and distributed through Chadwick Pictures. The film starred Lionel Barrymore. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Philip Durban marries Claire Bowdoin, a spoiled daughter of an improvised society matron. Their marriage as such is in name only. Claire loves Prince Novakian, a worthless fortune hunter. Within a year, Claire comes to love her husband, but he resents her advances. Ill, Claire goes to Italy for a rest. Once there, the Prince annoys her with his advances, so she sends for her husband. Arriving in Italy, Philip strikes the Prince, who challenges him to a duel. The Prince is killed and, with this cloud removed, Philip and Claire have a life of sunshine. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''A Man of Iron'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature Feature may refer to: Computing * F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sainted Devil
''A Sainted Devil'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Henabery and starring Rudolph Valentino. The film was produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, in accordance with custom, Castro arranges the marriage of his son, Don Alonzo (Valentino), with Julietta (Helena D'Algy), the daughter of a proud Spanish family, and she comes to the South American state for the wedding. Carlotta (Naldi), daughter of the major domo, is jealous and with her father arranges with a bandit, El Tigre (Siegmann), who loots the estate on the Don's wedding night and kidnaps Julietta. The Don goes to her rescue, but believes she is unfaithful when he sees El Tigre embracing Carlotta, who is wearing Julietta's mantilla. The Don becomes disgusted with women and seeks to become revenged on El Tigre. Julietta and Carmelita (Lagrange), a dancer, escape and Julietta goes to a convent. Finally the Don meets El Tigre and his friend, Don Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystery Of The Yellow Room (1919 Film)
''The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' is a 1919 American crime drama film made by the Mayflower Photoplay Company and distributed through Realart Pictures Corporation. Émile Chautard served as a producer. ''The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' (in French ''Le mystère de la chambre jaune'') was originally a novel by Gaston Leroux, one of the first locked room mystery novels. It was first published in France in the periodical ''L'Illustration'' from September 1907 to November 1907, then in its own right as a book in 1908. The film, which itself is a remake of Chautard's "Le Mystère de la chambre jaune" (1913), was remade in 1930, 1949 and in 2003. Plot Mathilde Strangerson (Terry), whose father is a renowned French scientist, is heard to utter a piercing scream while supposedly alone in her room. Her father and other rush to the scene and find a room so securely locked and barred that no one could have entered or made their escape. She receives medical care while detectives are calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atonement (1919 Film)
''Atonement'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by William Humphrey and starring Grace Davison, Conway Tearle and Huntley Gordon.Goble p.463 Cast * Grace Davison as Laura Hamilton * Conway Tearle as Theodore Proctor * Huntley Gordon as Vincent Carlton * Sally Crute as Sarah Hamilton * Tony Merlo as James Proctor * Gretchen Hartman as Marcia * Jean Del Val Jean Del Val (born Jean Jacques Gauthier; 17 November 1891 – 13 March 1975) was a French-born actor, also credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier. Career He played roles during the Hollywood silent era, beginning with ''The Fortunes of Fif ... as Tony * Arthur Donaldson as Anselmo References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1919 films 1919 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by William J. Humphr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
