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László Vadnay
László Vadnay (1904–1967), or Ladislaus Vadnai, was a Hungary, Hungarian screenwriter. He worked in the United States for a number of years before returning to Hungary. Selected filmography * ''Kiss Me, Darling'' (1932) * ''Vica the Canoeist'' (1933) * ''The Dream Car'' (1934) * ''Everything for the Woman'' (1934) * ''The Homely Girl'' (1935) * ''Car of Dreams'' (1935) * ''Villa for Sale'' (1935) * ''Fräulein Lilli'' (1936) * ''Sensation (1936 Hungarian film), Sensation'' (1936) * ''Salary, 200 a Month'' (1936) * ''Sensation (1936 Hungarian film), Sensation'' (1936) * ''Hotel Springtime'' (1937) * ''Tales of Budapest'' (1937) * ''An Affair of Honour'' (1937) * ''Josette (1938 film), Josette'' (1938) * ''Man Sometimes Errs'' (1938) * ''Seven Sinners (1940 film), Seven Sinners'' (1940) * ''Flesh and Fantasy'' (1943) * ''Uncertain Glory (1944 film), Uncertain Glory'' (1944) * ''The Big Show-Off'' (1945) * ''Copacabana (1947 film), Copacabana'' (1947) * ''No Time for Flowers'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sensation (1936 Hungarian Film)
''Sensation'' (Hungarian: ''Szenzáció'') is a 1936 Hungarian comedy drama film directed by Steve Sekely and Ladislao Vajda and starring Irén Ágay, Gyula Kabos and Zoltán Makláry.Khatib p.40 It was shot at the Hunnia Studios in Budapest. The film's sets were designed by the art director József Pán. Synopsis A journalist and his editor discuss stories and the need for sensation in the news. Four different stories are then portrayed including one in which a down-on-his-luck many takes employment in a circus as the assistant to a knife thrower. Cast * Irén Ágay as Katica * Gyula Kabos as Szálka Leó * Zoltán Makláry as Gordon * Ferenc Kiss as Bányamunkás * Lajos Gárdonyi as Föszerkesztö * Sándor Pethes as Cirkuszi titkár * Sándor Peti as Elöfizetö * Kálmán Rózsahegyi as Katica apja * Ilona Erdös as Keretjáték * Nusi Somogyi as Szálka felesége * Zoltán Szakáts as Liszt Ferenc * István Szegedi Szabó as Kocsis * Menyhért G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Love Melvin
''I Love Melvin'' is a 1953 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Don Weis, starring Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. The film's most famous scene depicts Reynolds playing a human American football in a dance sequence. The movie reunited Reynolds and O'Connor after their 1952 smash hit Singin' in the Rain. According to MGM records, the film earned $1,316,000 in the United States and Canada and $654,000 overseas, resulting in a loss of $290,000. Plot Small-time actress Judy Schneider dreams of becoming a Hollywood star even as she struggles along playing a human football in a kitschy Broadway musical. One day in Central Park she bumps into Melvin, the bumbling assistant to a '' Look'' magazine photographer. Melvin is smitten with Judy and endures disapproval from her father who wants her to marry Harry Flack, the boring heir to a paper box company. He exaggerates his importance at the magazine in order to impress Judy and her family and promises to get ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Time For Flowers
''No Time for Flowers'' is a 1952 American romantic comedy film directed by Don Siegel and starring Viveca Lindfors, Paul Christian and Ludwig Stössel. Featuring a Cold War setting and some location shooting in Vienna, it was distributed by RKO Pictures. Plot A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attaché who has just arrived from the United States. Cast * Viveca Lindfors as Anna Svoboda * Paul Christian as Karl Marek * Ludwig Stössel as Papa * Adrienne Gessner as Mama * Peter Preses as Emil Dadak * Manfred Inger as Kudelka * Peter Czejke as Stefan Svoboda * Fred Berger as Anton Novotny * Oskar Wegrostek as Johann Burian * Helmut Janosch as Milo * Hilde Jaeger as Mrs. Pilski * Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Flower Woman * Reinhold Seigert as Police Guard * Willi Schumann as Police Sergeant * Ilka Windish as Woman Drunk * Anton Mitterwurzer as Sedlacek * Teo Prokop as Czech peasant * Robert Eckert as Taxi driver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copacabana (1947 Film)
''Copacabana'' is a 1947 American musical film, musical comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green starring Carmen Miranda, Groucho Marx, and Steve Cochran. The film is a showcase for Miranda, who performs several numbers in her usual style, including a high-energy rendition of "Tico-Tico no Fubá, Tico-Tico". Groucho, as Lionel, her fiancé and agent, also sings a musical number, "Go West, Young Man", wearing his traditional greasepaint brows, mustache, and baggy suit. This was Groucho's first significant film appearance as a solo act, minus Harpo Marx, Harpo and Chico Marx, Chico. Anne (Gloria Jean), at the urging of Andy (Andy Russell (singer), Andy Russell), sings a song called "Stranger Things Have Happened", admitting her unrequited love for her employer, Steve (Steve Cochran). Plot Lionel Q. Devereaux and his alluring girlfriend, Brazilian singer Carmen Navarro, have been engaged for 10 years. They are highly unsuccessful nightclub performers, due to Lionel's total lack of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Show-Off
''The Big Show-Off'' is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Howard Bretherton and distributed by Republic Pictures. It teams Arthur Lake before his return to the '' Blondie'' film series and Dale Evans, most frequently seen with her husband Roy Rogers. Plot Nightclub pianist Sandy Elliott is madly in love with nightclub singer June Mayfield, who ignores his existence, preferring the obnoxious Wally Porter, the nightclub emcee. Sandy follows June to discover to his disgust that she is a big fan of professional wrestling. Sandy's friend Joe the night club owner decides to make the shy Sandy attractive to June by paying a thug to disrupt June's singing, then being thrown out by Sandy. Joe adds fuel to June's new, smoldering love for Sandy by making her promise not to tell a secret: that Sandy is really the masked wrestler known as "The Devil". Cast * Arthur Lake as Sandy Elliott, Shy Pianist *Dale Evans as June Mayfield, Night Club Singer *Lionel Stander as Joe Bagley, Clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncertain Glory (1944 Film)
''Uncertain Glory'' is a 1944 American World War II crime drama film, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn and Paul Lukas. Walsh later called the movie a "quickie". François Truffaut admired the film. The title is a reference to a line from Shakespeare's play ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (Act 1, Scene 3): "O, how this spring of love resembleth/ The uncertain glory of an April day,/ Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,/ And by and by a cloud takes all away!" Plot In ''Vichy'' Paris during World War II, career criminal Jean Picard awaits execution. French Sûreté Inspector Marcel Bonet has pursued Picard for 15 years, finally apprehending him for murder. An air raid delivers a direct hit to the prison when Picard is at the guillotine. He flees to the apartment of his best friend, Henri Duval, and demands forged papers and 5,000 francs. While Duval is gone, Picard seduces his willing girlfriend Louise. In return, Duval betrays Picard to the Sûreté. Bonet c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flesh And Fantasy
''Flesh and Fantasy'' is a 1943 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Robert Cummings, and Barbara Stanwyck. The making of this film was inspired by the success of Duvivier's previous anthology film, the 1942 '' Tales of Manhattan''. ''Flesh and Fantasy'' tells three stories, unrelated but with a supernatural theme, by Ellis St. Joseph, Oscar Wilde, and László Vadnay. Tying together the three segments is a conversation about the occult between two clubmen, one played by humorist Robert Benchley. Plot First segment The setting is New Orleans, Louisiana. Plain and embittered, Henrietta, secretly loves law student, Michael. On Mardi Gras night, a mysterious stranger gives her a white mask of beauty that she must return at midnight. At a party, Michael falls in love with Henrietta but has yet to see her face under the mask. Henrietta encourages Michael to follow a better life although it may mean losing him forever. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Sinners (1940 Film)
''Seven Sinners'' (UK title ''Cafe of the Seven Sinners'') is a 1940 American drama romance film directed by Tay Garnett starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne in the first of three films they made together. The film was produced by Universal Pictures in black and white. Plot Torch singer Bijou Blanche has been kicked off one South Seas island after another. She is accompanied by naval deserter Edward Patrick 'Little Ned' Finnegan and magician/pickpocket Sasha Mencken. Eventually, she meets a handsome young naval officer, Lt. Dan Brent, and the two fall in love. When Brent vows to marry Bijou, his commander and others plead with him to leave her. Cast * Marlene Dietrich as Bijou Blanche * John Wayne as Lt. Dan Brent * Albert Dekker as Dr. Martin * Broderick Crawford as Edward Patrick 'Little Ned' Finnegan * Anna Lee as Dorothy Henderson * Mischa Auer as Sasha Mencken * Billy Gilbert as Tony * Richard Carle as District Officer * Samuel S. Hinds as Gov. Harvey Henderson * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Sometimes Errs
''Man Sometimes Errs'' (Hungarian: ''Az ember néha téved'') is a 1938 Hungarian comedy film directed by Béla Gaál and starring Antal Páger, Anna Tõkés and Margit Dajka.Cunningham p.227 The film's sets were designed by the art director Márton Vincze. Cast * Antal Páger as Pákay András, igazgató * Gyula Gózon as Illés bácsi * Anna Tõkés as Anna, Illés bácsi lánya * Zoltán Makláry as Ilonka úr * Eta Hajdú as Rádióénekesnõ * Gyula Csortos as Pap István,ügyvéd * Márton Rátkai as Ügyvédbojtár * Angéla Körössy as Titkárnõ * Tivadar Bilicsi as Demeter, Pákayék inasa * Margit Dajka as Zizus, utcalány * Gerö Mály as Zömök Lajos, zsebtolvaj * László Dezsõffy as Detektívfelügyelõ * Ödön Bárdi Ödön Bárdi (5 January 1877, in Pilisborosjenő – 24 June 1958, in Budapest) was a Hungarian actor. Selected filmography * ''A Csodagyerek'' (1920) * ''Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1920 film), Lord Arthur Savile's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josette (1938 Film)
''Josette'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Don Ameche, Simone Simon and Robert Young.Tucker p.55-57 Two brothers fall in love with the same nightclub singer A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may .... Plot Cast References Bibliography * Tucker, David C. ''Joan Davis: America's Queen of Film, Radio and Television Comedy''. McFarland, 2014. External links * 1938 films 1938 romantic comedy films 20th Century Fox films American black-and-white films American romantic comedy films Films about singers Films directed by Allan Dwan Films scored by Walter Scharf Films set in New Orleans 1930s English-language films 1930s American films English-language romantic comedy films {{1930s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Affair Of Honour
''An Affair of Honour'' (Hungarian: ''Lovagias ügy'') is a 1937 Hungarian romantic comedy film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Zita Perczel, Imre Ráday and Gyula Kabos.Somlyódy & Somlyódy p.551 It is based on the 1935 play of the same title by Sándor Hunyady. The film's sets were designed by the art director József Pán. Cast * Zita Perczel as Baba * Imre Ráday as Milkó Pál * Gyula Kabos as Virág Andor * Ella Gombaszögias Gizike * Szeréna Sziklay as Virágné * Gyula Gózon as Müller úr * László Z. Molnár as Milkó vezérigazgató * Margit Vágóné as Virág anyja * Gerö Mály as Benjamino Borgelli * Béla Salamon as Fekete úr * Ilona Erdös as Gépírónö * István Berend as Varga úr * Lajos Ihász as Pataki úr * László Keleti as Józsi * István Dózsa as Feri * István Lontay István () is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen or Stefan. It may refer to: People with the given name Nobles, palatines and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
