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Kaaren Verne
Kaaren Verne (6 April 1918 – 23 December 1967) was a German-born actress, long based in the United States. Sometimes billed as Karen Verne, she was originally a stage actress and member of the Berlin State Theatre. Life and career Verne was born in Berlin and christened Ingeborg Greta Katerina Marie-Rose Klinckerfuss. Related to the Bechstein family, her first marriage took place when she was 18. She fled the Nazis in 1938 and made her English language film début in the 1939 British film '' Ten Days in Paris''. When British film production stopped during World War II, she emigrated to the USA. At first, the studios tried to downplay her German heritage by briefly changing her professional name to ''Catherine Young'', but after America's entry into World War II, the publicity value of a Teutonic actress who had turned her back on Nazism was too good to avoid. Verne was married three times, to: * Musician Arthur Young (30 August 1936 – May 1945; divorced); 1 son, Alastair ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, as measured by population within city limits having gained this status after the United Kingdom's, and thus London's, Brexit, departure from the European Union. Simultaneously, the city is one of the states of Germany, and is the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country in terms of area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.5 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Man Of Borneo (film)
''The Wild Man of Borneo'' is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Robert B. Sinclair and written by Waldo Salt and John McClain. The film stars Frank Morgan, Mary Howard, Billie Burke, Donald Meek, Marjorie Main, Connie Gilchrist, Bonita Granville and Dan Dailey. The film was released on January 24, 1941, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Cast * Frank Morgan as J. Daniel 'Dan' Thompson * Mary Howard as Mary Thompson * Billie Burke as Bernice Marshall *Donald Meek as Professor Charles W. Birdo * Marjorie Main as Irma * Connie Gilchrist as Mrs. Evelyn Diamond *Bonita Granville Bonita Gloria Granville Wrather (February 2, 1923 – October 11, 1988) was an American actress and producer. The daughter of vaudevillians, Granville began her career on the stage at age three. She initially began as a child actress, making h ... as Francine 'Frankie' Diamond * Dan Dailey as Ed LeMotte * Andrew Tombes as 'Doc' Dunbar * Walter Catlett as 'Doc' Skelby *Joseph J. Greene as Mr. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame X (1966 Film)
''Madame X'' is a 1966 American drama film directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Lana Turner. It is based on the 1908 play ''Madame X'' by French playwright Alexandre Bisson. Plot Holly Parker, a lower-class woman, marries into the rich Anderson family, and her husband Clayton is a diplomat with strong political aspirations. Her mother-in-law Estelle looks down on her and keeps a watchful eye on her activities. Lonely and reclusive during Clayton's long, frequent assignments abroad, Holly forms a relationship with a well-known playboy, Phil Benton. Clayton suddenly returns and informs Holly that he has secured a promotion in Washington, D.C., where he wishes to take Holly and their son Clay to begin a regular family life. Holly agrees and goes to Phil's apartment to end their relationship. Phil reacts by trying to physically force Holly to stay, but tumbles down a staircase in the struggle and dies. Holly panics and leaves the scene. She is confronted by Estelle, who had hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silk Stockings (1957 Film)
''Silk Stockings'' is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Rouben Mamoulian, based on the 1955 stage musical of the same name, which itself was an adaptation of the film '' Ninotchka'' (1939). It stars Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. The supporting cast includes Janis Paige, Peter Lorre, Jules Munshin, and George Tobias reprising his Broadway role. It was choreographed by Eugene Loring and Hermes Pan. It received Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Film and Best Actress (Charisse) in the Comedy/Musical category. The score was embellished with the new song "The Ritz Roll and Rock", a parody of then-emerging rock and roll. The number ends with Astaire symbolically smashing his top hat, considered one of his trademarks, signaling his retirement from movie musicals, which he announced following the film's release. Plot A brash American film producer, Steve Canfield, wants Russian composer Peter Illyich Boroff to write music for his next picture, which i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outside The Law (1956 Film)
''Outside the Law'' is a 1956 American film noir crime film directed by Jack Arnold and starring Ray Danton, Leigh Snowden and Grant Williams. Plot A government agent's son, an ex-juvenile delinquent, is given the chance to prove himself when paroled from prison. He's given a mission to join thermy to break up an international counterfeiting ring involving an ex-Army friend. He has to woo his friend's girl and extract information from her. Cast * Ray Danton as John Conrad, alias Johnny Salvo * Leigh Snowden as Maria Craven * Grant Williams as Don Kastner * Onslow Stevens as Chief Agent Alec Conrad * Raymond Bailey as Philip Bormann * Judson Pratt as Agent Saxon * Jack Kruschen as Agent Pill Schwartz * Floyd Simmons as Agent Harris * Mel Welles as Milo * Alexander Campbell as Warden Lewis * Karen Verne Kaaren Verne (6 April 1918 – 23 December 1967) was a German-born actress, long based in the United States. Sometimes billed as Karen Verne, she was originally a stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bullet For Joey
''A Bullet for Joey'' is a 1955 film noir directed by Lewis Allen and starring Edward G. Robinson and George Raft. The picture involves a gangster who sneaks into Canada to kidnap a scientist for the communists. The supporting cast features Audrey Totter, Peter van Eyck, George Dolenz, and Peter Hansen. Plot Communist agents in Canada are spying on Dr. Carl Macklin, an atomic physicist whose knowledge they want. To kidnap him, Eric Hartman, the party's top man in Montreal, offers $100,000 to a deported American criminal, Joe Victor. Joe's former flame, Joyce Geary, is blackmailed into helping with the plan. Police Inspector Leduc of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigates and ends up caring for Joyce, as she does for him. A thug working for Victor kills the scientist's secretary after using her to gain information. Leduc is taken prisoner aboard a ship as Hartman and Victor attempt to take Dr. Macklin with them to Europe. A plea is made by Leduc to the gangster Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Juggler (film)
''The Juggler'' is a 1953 drama film starring Kirk Douglas as a survivor of the Holocaust. The screenplay was adapted by Michael Blankfort from his novel of the same name. It was the first American feature film that was made in Israel. Production The film, described as a "prestige ingathering" for Kramer, was directed by Edward Dmytryk, who had directed ''Crossfire'', a 1947 film about anti-Semitism. The musical score was by avant-garde composer George Antheil, whose best known composition was the ''Ballet Mécanique''. Douglas had worked with Kramer in ''Champion'', the 1949 film that earned Douglas an Academy Award nomination. ''The Juggler'' was one of the movies that producer Stanley Kramer made for Columbia Pictures as part of a $25-million thirty-film deal in 1951. Screenwriter Michael Blankfort was initially supposed to have directed the film, but was denied a passport because of his failure to exonerate himself of alleged membership in the Communist Party. His replacemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of Three Loves
''The Story of Three Loves'' (also known as ''Equilibrium'') is a 1953 American Technicolor romantic anthology film made by MGM. It consists of three stories, "The Jealous Lover", "Mademoiselle", and "Equilibrium". The film was produced by Sidney Franklin. "Mademoiselle" was directed by Vincente Minnelli, while Gottfried Reinhardt directed the other two segments. The screenplays were written by John Collier ("The Jealous Lover", "Equilibrium"), ("Equilibrium", "Mademoiselle"), and George Froeschel ("Equilibrium", "Mademoiselle"). "The Jealous Lover" stars Moira Shearer and James Mason; "Mademoiselle" features Leslie Caron, Farley Granger, Ethel Barrymore, and Ricky Nelson; Pier Angeli and Kirk Douglas headline "Equilibrium". The music score is by Miklós Rózsa. The soundtrack features extended excerpts from Sergei Rachmaninoff's ''Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini'', performed by the pianist Jakob Gimpel for "The Jealous Lover". Choreography for "The Jealous Lover" was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bad And The Beautiful
''The Bad and the Beautiful'' is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates everyone around him. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee, and starring Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland. ''The Bad and the Beautiful'' won five Academy Awards out of six nominations in 1952 (including Gloria Grahame winning Best Supporting Actress), a record for the most awards for a movie that was not nominated for Best Picture or for Best Director. In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The theme song, "The Bad and the Beautiful", penned by David Raksin, became a jazz standard and has been cited as an example of an excellent movie theme. ''The Bad and the Beautiful'' was created by the same team that later worked on another fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seventh Cross (film)
''The Seventh Cross'' is a 1944 American drama film, set in Nazi Germany, starring Spencer Tracy as a prisoner who escaped from a concentration camp. The story chronicles how he interacts with ordinary Germans, and gradually sheds his cynical view of humanity. The film co-starred Hume Cronyn, who was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. It was the first film in which Cronyn appeared with his wife Jessica Tandy, and was among the first feature films directed by Fred Zinnemann; it was his first hit movie. The movie was adapted from the 1942 novel of the same name by the German refugee writer Anna Seghers. Produced in the midst of the Second World War, it was one of the few films made during the war to deal with the existence of Nazi concentration camps. Plot In 1936 in Germany, seven prisoners escape from the fictitious Westhofen concentration camp (partly based on the real Osthofen concentration camp) near the Rhine. The escapees are: a writer, a circus per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon
''Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon'' (1942) is the fourth in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of 14 Sherlock Holmes films which updated the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the then present day. The film is credited as an adaptation of Conan Doyle's 1903 short story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," though the only element from the source material is the dancing men code. Rather, it is a spy film taking place on the background of the then ongoing Second World War with an original premise. The film concerns the kidnapping of a Swiss scientist by their nemesis Professor Moriarty, to steal a new bomb sight and sell it to Nazi Germany. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson have to crack a secret code in order to save the country. The film is one of four films in the series which are in the public domain Plot Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel ( William Post Jr.) and his new invention, a bombsigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Impersonation (1942 Film)
''The Great Impersonation'' is a 1942 American thriller film directed by John Rawlins and starring Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers and Aubrey Mather. It is an adaptation of the 1920 novel '' The Great Impersonation'' by Edward Phillips Oppenheim with the setting moved from the early 1910s of the novel to the Second World War. It was made by Universal Pictures and was a remake of their 1935 film of the same name. Plot Sir Edward Dominey (Ralph Bellamy) and Baron Leopold von Ragenstein are spitting images of each other and have known one another since their days at Eton College in England. The story picks up as Dominey is found severely ill in the Dakar jungle and is brought into his old college buddy's camp, where he heals from his injuries. One night when they are in the jungle camp together, England declares war on Germany and they conclude that they are now each other's enemies. Ragenstein orders his right hand man, Dr. Schmidt (Ludwig Stössel), to kill Dominey, and sets out on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
