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Dublin
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Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on Irelands east coast, the city has an urban area population of 1,345,402. The population of the Greater Dublin Area, as of 2016, was 1,904,806 people, founded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Irelands principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800, following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland. Dublin is administered by a City Council, the city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as a global city, with a ranking of Alpha-, which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration, economy, the name Dublin comes from the Irish word Dubhlinn, early Classical Irish Dubhlind/Duibhlind, dubh /d̪uβ/, alt. /d̪uw/, alt /d̪u, / meaning black, dark, and lind /lʲiɲ pool and this tidal pool was located where the River Poddle entered the Liffey, on the site of the castle gardens at the rear of Dublin Castle. In Modern Irish the name is Duibhlinn, and Irish rhymes from Dublin County show that in Dublin Leinster Irish it was pronounced Duílinn /d̪ˠi, other localities in Ireland also bear the name Duibhlinn, variously anglicized as Devlin, Divlin and Difflin. Historically, scribes using the Gaelic script wrote bh with a dot over the b and those without knowledge of Irish omitted the dot, spelling the name as Dublin. Variations on the name are found in traditionally Irish-speaking areas of Scotland, such as An Linne Dhubh. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. Baile Átha Cliath, meaning town of the ford, is the common name for the city in modern Irish. Áth Cliath is a name referring to a fording point of the River Liffey near Father Mathew Bridge. Baile Átha Cliath was an early Christian monastery, believed to have been in the area of Aungier Street, there are other towns of the same name, such as Àth Cliath in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which is Anglicised as Hurlford. Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times and he called the settlement Eblana polis. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. The subsequent Scandinavian settlement centred on the River Poddle, a tributary of the Liffey in an area now known as Wood Quay, the Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships, the Poddle connected the lake with the Liffey. This lake was covered during the early 18th century as the city grew, the Dubhlinn lay where the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle
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Clockwise from top:
Samuel Beckett Bridge,
Trinity College,
Custom House,
Dublin Castle,
O'Connell Bridge, and
Convention Centre Dublin.
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Father Mathew Bridge, formerly Dublin Bridge, is understood to be near the ancient "Ford of the Hurdles" (Baile Átha Cliath), the original crossing point on the River Liffey.
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Dublin Castle was the fortified seat of
British rule in Ireland until 1922.
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Henrietta Street, developed in the 1720s, is the earliest Georgian Street in Dublin.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established as a sovereign state on 1 January 1801 by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. The growing desire for an Irish Republic led to the Irish War of Independence, Northern Ireland remained part of the United Kingdom, and the state was consequently renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Britain financed the European coalition that defeated France in 1815 in the Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire thereby became the foremost world power for the next century. The Crimean War with Russia and the Boer wars were relatively small operations in a largely peaceful century, rapid industrialisation that began in the decades prior to the states formation continued up until the mid-19th century. A devastating famine, exacerbated by government inaction in the century, led to demographic collapse in much of Ireland. It was an era of economic modernization and growth of industry, trade and finance. Outward migration was heavy to the colonies and to the United States. Britain also built up a large British Empire in Africa and Asia, India, by far the most important possession, saw a short-lived revolt in 1857. In foreign policy Britain favoured free trade, which enabled its financiers and merchants to operate successfully in many otherwise independent countries, as in South America. Britain formed no permanent military alliances until the early 20th century, when it began to cooperate with Japan, France and Russia, and moved closer to the United States. A brief period of limited independence for Ireland came to an end following the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the British governments fear of an independent Ireland siding against them with the French resulted in the decision to unite the two countries. This was brought about by legislation in the parliaments of both kingdoms and came into effect on 1 January 1801, however, King George III was bitterly opposed to any such Emancipation and succeeded in defeating his governments attempts to introduce it. When the Treaty of Amiens ended the war, Britain agreed to return most of the territories it had seized, in May 1803, war was declared again. In 1806, Napoleon issued the series of Berlin Decrees, which brought into effect the Continental System and this policy aimed to eliminate the threat from the British by closing French-controlled territory to foreign trade. Frances population and agricultural capacity far outstripped that of the British Isles, Napoleon expected that cutting Britain off from the European mainland would end its economic hegemony. The Spanish uprising in 1808 at last permitted Britain to gain a foothold on the Continent, after Napoleons surrender and exile to the island of Elba, peace appeared to have returned. The Allies united and the armies of Wellington and Blucher defeated Napoleon once, simultaneous with the Napoleonic Wars, trade disputes, arming hostile Indians and British impressment of American sailors led to the War of 1812 with the United States. The war was little noticed in Britain, which could devote few resources to the conflict until the fall of Napoleon in 1814, American frigates inflicted a series of defeats on the Royal Navy, which was short on manpower due to the conflict in Europe
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The British
HMS Sandwich fires into the French
flagship Bucentaure (completely dismasted) during
Trafalgar. The Bucentaure also fights
HMS Victory (behind her) and
HMS Temeraire (left side of the picture). In fact, HMS Sandwich never fought at Trafalgar, it's a mistake by
Auguste Mayer, the painter.
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Signing of the
Treaty of Ghent (1814), by A. Forestier c. 1915
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The Duke of Wellington
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Republic of Ireland
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Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, which is located on the part of the island. The state shares its land border with Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, Saint Georges Channel to the south-east, and it is a unitary, parliamentary republic. The head of government is the Taoiseach, who is elected by the Dáil and appointed by the President, the state was created as the Irish Free State in 1922 as a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. It was officially declared a republic in 1949, following the Republic of Ireland Act 1948, Ireland became a member of the United Nations in December 1955. It joined the European Economic Community, the predecessor of the European Union, after joining the EEC, Ireland enacted a series of liberal economic policies that resulted in rapid economic growth. The country achieved considerable prosperity between the years of 1995 and 2007, which known as the Celtic Tiger period. This was halted by a financial crisis that began in 2008. However, as the Irish economy was the fastest growing in the EU in 2015, Ireland is again quickly ascending league tables comparing wealth and prosperity internationally. For example, in 2015, Ireland was ranked as the joint sixth most developed country in the world by the United Nations Human Development Index and it also performs well in several national performance metrics, including freedom of the press, economic freedom and civil liberties. Ireland is a member of the European Union and is a member of the Council of Europe. The 1922 state, comprising 26 of the 32 counties of Ireland, was styled, the Constitution of Ireland, adopted in 1937, provides that the name of the State is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland. Section 2 of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 states, It is hereby declared that the description of the State shall be the Republic of Ireland. The 1948 Act does not name the state as Republic of Ireland, because to have done so would have put it in conflict with the Constitution. The government of the United Kingdom used the name Eire, and, from 1949, Republic of Ireland, for the state, as well as Ireland, Éire or the Republic of Ireland, the state is also referred to as the Republic, Southern Ireland or the South. In an Irish republican context it is referred to as the Free State or the 26 Counties. From the Act of Union on 1 January 1801, until 6 December 1922, during the Great Famine, from 1845 to 1849, the islands population of over 8 million fell by 30%
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The
Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891).
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In 1922 a new parliament called the
Oireachtas was established, of which
Dáil Éireann became the
lower house.
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Éamon de Valera (1882–1975)
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Ireland
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Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, in 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland, the islands geography comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild, thick woodlands covered the island until the Middle Ages. As of 2013, the amount of land that is wooded in Ireland is about 11% of the total, there are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland. The Irish climate is moderate and classified as oceanic. As a result, winters are milder than expected for such a northerly area, however, summers are cooler than those in Continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud cover are abundant, the earliest evidence of human presence in Ireland is dated at 10,500 BC. Gaelic Ireland had emerged by the 1st century CE, the island was Christianised from the 5th century onward. Following the Norman invasion in the 12th century, England claimed sovereignty over Ireland, however, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain. In the 1690s, a system of Protestant English rule was designed to materially disadvantage the Catholic majority and Protestant dissenters, with the Acts of Union in 1801, Ireland became a part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland saw much civil unrest from the late 1960s until the 1990s and this subsided following a political agreement in 1998. In 1973 the Republic of Ireland joined the European Economic Community while the United Kingdom, Irish culture has had a significant influence on other cultures, especially in the fields of literature. Alongside mainstream Western culture, an indigenous culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music. The culture of the island shares many features with that of Great Britain, including the English language, and sports such as association football, rugby, horse racing. The name Ireland derives from Old Irish Eriu and this in turn derives from Proto-Celtic *Iveriu, which is also the source of Latin Hibernia. Iveriu derives from a root meaning fat, prosperous, during the last glacial period, and up until about 9000 years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time
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Satellite image of Ireland on 11 October 2010
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The
Gowran Ogham Stone,
Christianised c.6th Century. On display in
St. Mary's Collegiate Church Gowran.
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The Uragh Stone Circle a
Neolithic stone circle in Gleninchaquin Park,
County Kerry
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Bringing Up Baby
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Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained woman, the screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared in Colliers Weekly magazine on April 10,1937. The script was specifically for Hepburn, and was tailored to her personality. Filming began in September 1937 and wrapped in January 1938, it was over schedule, production was frequently delayed due to uncontrollable laughing fits between Hepburn and Grant. Hepburn struggled with her performance and was coached by her co-star. A tame leopard was used during the shooting, its trainer was off-screen with a whip for all its scenes. Although it has a reputation as a flop upon its release, Bringing up Baby was moderately successful in many cities, the films reputation began to grow during the 1950s, when it was shown on television. Nowadays, it is considered one of the greatest films ever made, David Huxley is a mild-mannered paleontologist. For the past four years, he has been trying to assemble the skeleton of a Brontosaurus but is missing one bone, the intercostal clavicle. Adding to his stress is his marriage to the dour Alice Swallow and the need to impress Elizabeth Random. The day before his wedding, David meets Susan Vance by chance on a golf course and she is a free-spirited young lady, and Mrs. Randoms niece. Susans brother, Mark, has sent her a tame leopard from Brazil named Baby to give to their aunt, Susan thinks David is a zoologist, and persuades David to go to her country home in Connecticut to help bring up Baby. Complications arise since Susan has fallen in love with David and tries to him at her house as long as possible to prevent his marriage. David finally receives the intercostal clavicle, but Susans dog George takes it out of its box, the dowager is unaware of Davids identity, since Susan has introduced him as Mr. Bone. Baby and George run off, and Susan and David mistake a dangerous leopard who was being driven to be euthanized from a circus for Baby. After considerable running around, David and Susan are jailed by a befuddled town policeman, Constable Slocum, when Slocum does not believe their story, Susan tells him they are members of the Leopard Gang, she calls herself Swingin Door Susie, and David Jerry the Nipper. David fails to convince the constable that Susan makes things up from motion pictures shes seen, eventually, Alexander Peabody shows up to verify everyones identity. Susan, who during a police interview contrived to sneak out a window, David saves her, using a chair to shoo the big cat into a cell
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Original theatrical poster
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David and Susan in jail.
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Hepburn and Grant in their second of four film collaborations
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Katharine Hepburn and Nissa in a publicity photo; at one point, Nissa lunged at Hepburn and was only stopped by the trainer's whip.
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The Long Voyage Home
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The Long Voyage Home is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. It stars John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell and Ian Hunter and it also features Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, and Ward Bond, among others. The film was adapted by Dudley Nichols from the plays The Moon of the Caribbees, In the Zone, Bound East for Cardiff, the original plays by Eugene ONeill were written around the time of World War I and were among his earliest plays. Ford set the story for the picture, however, during the early days of World War II. While not one of Fords best-known works, The Long Voyage Home continues to be well received, the film tells the story of the crew aboard a British tramp steamer named the SS Glencairn on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England. The crew is a motley, fun-loving, hard-drinking lot, the next day the ship sails to pick up its cargo for its return trip to England. When the crew discovers that the cargo is high explosives, they at first rebel, but they are easily cowed into submission by the captain and the ship sails, crossing the Atlantic and passing through what they all know is a war zone and potential disaster. After the ship leaves Baltimore with its load of dynamite, the rough seas they encounter become nerve-racking to the crew, when the anchor breaks loose, Yank is injured in the effort to secure it. With no doctor on board, nothing can be done for his injury, theyre also concerned that Smitty might be a German spy because hes so aloof and secretive. After they assault Smitty and restrain and gag him, they force him to give up the key to a metal box they have found in his bunk which they at first think is a bomb. Opening the box against Smittys vigorous protests, they discover a packet of letters, in the war zone as they near port, a German plane attacks the ship, killing Smitty in a burst of machine gun fire. He has his eye on Ole because he is the biggest and strongest of the lot and he drugs Oles drink, and calls his confederates in to shanghai Ole aboard another ship, the Amindra. Driscoll and the rest of the crew, even though drunk and almost too late, rescue Ole from the Amindra, the next morning, the crew straggles back somewhat dejectedly and resignedly to the Glencairn to sign on for another voyage. A newspaper headline reveals that the Amindra has been sunk in the Channel by German torpedoes and he hired nine prominent American artists, all painters, to document the dramatic scenes during the films production. Mr. Wanger offered a commission of over $50,000 to encourage the artists to participate, no other undertaking of this magnitude and purpose had been done before in Hollywood film making. The artists insisted on three things to ensure a quality effort, freedom of choice on subject matter, studios on the lot. The artists who participated were Thomas Benton, Grant Wood, George Biddle, James Chapin, Ernest Fiene, Robert Philipp, Luis Quintanilla, Raphael Soyer, eleven original paintings emerged from this inaugural effort. These toured the country in the circuit of the day beginning with a display in the Associated American Artists Galleries on Fifth Avenue
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Theatrical release poster
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Plays
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How Green Was My Valley (film)
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How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The movie, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel of the name, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The movie features Walter Pidgeon, Maureen OHara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp and it was nominated for ten Academy Awards, famously beating Citizen Kane for Best Picture along with winning Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actor. The movie tells of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family living in the heart of the South Wales Valleys during the 19th century, the story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family. The fictional village in the movie is based on Gilfach Goch, Llewellyn spent many summers there visiting his grandfather, in 1990, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. The Academy Film Archive preserved How Green Was My Valley during 1998, the movie begins with a monologue by an older Huw Morgan, I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And Im going from my valley, and this time, I shall never return. The valley and its villages are now blackened by the mines that fill the area. A young Huw, the youngest child of Gwilym Morgan, walks home with his father to meet his mother, Beth. His older brothers, Ianto, Ivor, Davy, Gwilym Jr. and Owen all work in the mines with their father. Huws childhood is idyllic, the town, not yet overrun with mining spoil, is beautiful, Huw is smitten on meeting Bronwyn, a girl engaged to be married to his oldest brother, Ivor. At the boisterous wedding party Angharad meets the new preacher, Mr. Gruffydd, trouble begins when the mine owner decreases wages, and the miners strike in protest. Gwilyms attempt to mediate by not endorsing a strike estranges him from the miners as well as his older sons. Beth interrupts a late night meeting of the strikers, threatening to kill anyone who harms her husband, while returning home, crossing the fields in a snowstorm in the dark, Beth falls into the river. Huw dives in to save her with the help of the townspeople and he recovers with the help of Mr. Gruffydd, which further endears him to Angharad. The strike is settled, and Gwilym and his sons reconcile. Angharad is courted by the owners son, Iestyn Evans. Mr Gruffydd loves her too, to the delight of the gossipy townswomen
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Theatrical release poster
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None but the Lonely Heart (film)
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None but the Lonely Heart is a 1944 American drama romance film which tells the story of a young Cockney drifter who returns home with no ambitions but finds that his family needs him. Adapted by Clifford Odets from the novel by Richard Llewellyn and directed by Odets, the movie stars Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, the title of the film is taken from one of Tchaikovskys best-known songs, which is featured in the background music. Ernie Mott is a restless, irresponsible, wandering Cockney with a musical ear. On Armistice Day, Ernie visits the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, Ernie wants a better life but does not want to settle down or work for it. When he returns home, Ma Mott asks why he has returned after so long and he informs her that he will then be leaving next morning, and goes out to get a drink. He meets fellow musician Aggie Hunter outside the bar, but instead prefers the company of a gangsters fickle former wife, however, when Ernie becomes smitten with Ada she rejects his offer of a date when he tells her he will be leaving town tomorrow. The next morning, Ma Mott tells her friend, Ike Weber. Ma and Ernie get into fight, but after he storms out. Ernie returns and says that he stay with her at home. A month passes, and Ernie continues to pursue Ada, however, when gangster Jim Mordinoy informs him that shes still his wife, Ernie doesnt believe Ada when she says thats a lie and he cuts her off socially. Ernie begins to notice the poverty surrounding him in London, and chooses to accept Mordinoys offer to join his activities, Ernie begins to steal cars, and he is involved in a police chase until his car collides with a truck and explodes into flames. Ada implores him to run away with her, but he not want to leave his dying mother. She begs for forgiveness for shaming the family, and dies in prison hospital, when he returns home, he learns via a letter from Ada that she decided to stay with Mordinoy because that would make her life easier. Ernie is crushed, and walks along the street until he gets to Aggies door and walks in. None but the Lonely Heart and 1935s Sylvia Scarlett were the two films in which Cary Grant used a Cockney accent, though that was not his original accent. RKO Pictures head Charles Koerner bought Richard Llewllyns book as a vehicle for Cary Grant. Koerner also suggested that playwright Clifford Odets direct the picture and this was the first feature film that Odets directed, and he would direct only one other picture in his career, the 1959 film The Story On Page One. To secure Ethel Barrymores availability to complete her scenes, RKO had to pay all the expenses incurred by temporarily closing the play The Corn Is Green, in which she was starring on Broadway
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Theatrical release poster
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Ethel Barrymore and
Cary Grant in None but the Lonely Heart
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The Quiet Man
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The Quiet Man is a 1952 Technicolor American romantic comedy-drama film directed by John Ford. It stars John Wayne, Maureen OHara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, the screenplay by Frank S. Nugent was based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story of the same name by Maurice Walsh, later published as part of a collection The Green Rushes. The film is notable for Winton Hochs lush photography of the Irish countryside and it was an official selection of the 1952 Venice Film Festival. The Quiet Man won the Academy Award for Best Director for John Ford, his fourth, in 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. In the 1920s, Sean Thornton, an Irish-born American from Pittsburgh, travels to Ireland to reclaim his familys farm and he meets and falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate Danaher, the sister of the bullying, loud-mouthed landowner Squire Red Will Danaher. Danaher, who had wanted the farm himself, is angry that the Widow Tillane accepts Seans bid, Sean, unschooled in Irish customs, cares nothing about the dowry, but to Mary Kate the dowry represents her independence, identity, and pride. She feels passionately and intensely that the dowry is hers and is needed to validate her marriage to Sean. Angered and shamed by Seans refusal to confront her brother and demand what is legally hers, she brands him a coward, in the morning they find that others in the village had visited Will and pressured him to return Mary Kates furniture, but not her money. Sean had been a boxer in the United States, a heavyweight challenger known as Trooper Thorn, after accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, Sean hung up his gloves, vowing never to fight again. In an attempt to force Sean to confront Will, Mary Kate leaves him and boards a train departing Castletown, Sean hears that she left for the station and drags her off the train. Followed by the townspeople, he forces her to walk with him the five miles back to Inisfree. Sean demands that Will hand over her dowry, Sean promptly throws the money into a nearby furnace which Mary Kate holds open, showing that Mary Kate never cared about the money, but only what it represented. Sean regains Mary Kates love and respect, in the aftermath it is shown that Will and the Widow Tillane begin courting, and peace is returned to Inisfree. Charles Fitzsimons and James Fitzsimons were Maureen OHaras real life younger brothers, in this film, James was billed as James Lilburn, though he was later better known as James OHara. Barry Fitzgerald and Arthur Shields were also brothers in real life, ken Curtis, later of Gunsmoke fame and newly married to John Fords daughter Barbara, has a small role as Fahy, the village accordion player. It was also a departure for Republic Pictures, which backed Ford in what was considered a risky venture at the time and it was the only time the studio, known for low budget B-movies, released a film that would receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Ford read the story in 1933 and soon purchased the rights to it for $10, the storys author was paid another $2,500 when Republic bought the idea, and he received a final payment of $3,750 when the film was actually made. Republic Pictures agreed to finance the film with OHara and Wayne starring and Ford directing and they did, and after completing Rio Grande, they headed for Ireland to start shooting
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Theatrical release poster
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The "Quiet Man Bridge"
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Going My Way
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Going My Way is a 1944 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Based on a story by Leo McCarey, the film is about a new young priest taking over a parish from an old veteran. Crosby sings five songs in the film, Going My Way was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Marys. Going My Way was the picture of 1944, and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning seven. Its success helped to make movie exhibitors choose Crosby as the biggest box-office draw of the year, after World War II, Bing Crosby and Leo McCarey presented a copy of the motion picture to Pope Pius XII at the Vatican. Father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley, an incoming priest from East St. Louis, on his first day, OMalley gets into a series of mishaps, his informal appearance and attitude make a poor impression with the elder pastor, Father Fitzgibbon. The very traditional Fitzgibbon is further put off by O’Malley’s recreational habits – particularly his golf-playing –, to spare Fitzgibbon’s feelings, the older pastor is kept unaware of this arrangement and believes that O’Malley is simply his assistant. Fitzgibbon is inclined to look the way, siding with the boys because of their frequent church attendance. O’Malley seeks to make inroads into the lives, befriending Scaponi. The noise of the practicing choir annoys Fitzgibbon, who decides to go to the bishop. In the course of the conversation, Fitzgibbon infers the bishop’s intention to put O’Malley in charge of the parish, a distressed Fitzgibbon then runs away, leading to a search. He returns late at night, and as O’Malley puts the older priest to bed, the two begin to bond. They discuss Fitzgibbon’s long-put-off desire to go to Ireland and see his mother, whom hes not seen since he left Ireland as a young priest to come to America, O’Malley puts Fitzgibbon to sleep with an Irish lullaby, “Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral”. Jenny Tuffel, an old girlfriend of OMalleys whom he left to join the priesthood, OMalley and Jenny discuss their past, and she performs a number from her starring role as Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera. OMalley next pays a visit to Carol, who is now suspected of living in sin with Ted Haines Jr. the son of the churchs mortgage-holder, Ted Haines Sr. On this visit, O’Malley describes to the couple his calling in life to “go his way, ” which to him means to follow after the joyous side of religion. He performs for them the song “Going My Way, ” which he wrote on this theme, Jenny visits O’Malley at the church, sees the boys’ choir, and reads the sheet music of “Going My Way. The plan fails, as the music executive brought on to hear the song does not believe it will sell, the choir decides to make the most of its opportunity on the grand stage, and sings another song, Swinging on a Star
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Theatrical release poster (with executive producer
B. G. DeSylva given prominent credit)
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St. Monica Catholic Church (2007)
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Fred Clark (in a guest role) and Gene Kelly (as Father O'Malley) in an episode of
the TV adaptation.
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
The Westerner (1940).
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
Johnny Eager.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Academy Award for Best Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, since its inception, the award has been given to 79 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars, spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Casey Affleck is the most recent winner in category for his role as Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Emil Jannings (center) was the first winner in this category for his roles in 1928's
The Last Command and 1927's
The Way of All Flesh.
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Warner Baxter won in 1928 for his performance in
In Old Arizona.
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George Arliss won in 1929 for his performance in
Disraeli.
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Lionel Barrymore won in 1930 for his performance in
A Free Soul.
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Portobello, Dublin
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Portobello came into existence as a small suburb south of the city of Dublin in the 18th century, centred on Richmond St. As a fast-expanding suburb during the 19th century Portobello attracted many upwardly-mobile families whose members went on to important roles in politics, the arts. Towards the end of the century came an influx of Jews, refugees from pogroms in Eastern Europe and it is in the postal district of Dublin 8. It is in the local government electoral area of Dublin South East Inner City, the name Portobello also describes the stretch of the Grand Canal leading from Robert Emmet Bridge to the bridge from South Richmond Street to Rathmines. Although usually referred to as Portobello Bridge, the name is La Touche Bridge. A century before the naming of the suburb, a battle took place in the neighbourhood – the Battle of Rathmines. In the early years of the Irish Confederate Wars incursions were made into the area as far as St. Kevins church by bands of Confederate soldiers stationed in Wicklow and they made off with cattle, horses and the occasional wealthy merchant. After the Irish united with the Royalists against the Parliamentarians, an attempt was made to take Dublin, in the summer of 1649 the Duke of Ormonde, head of the forces of Royalists and Irish soldiers, approached Dublin, where the Parliamentarian army was holed up. For some unaccountable reason he took his army over to Finglas, where he spent a month, by the time Ormondes main force moved around to the south of the city, the Roundheads were ready and fighting broke out. Ormondes army was defeated, many of them killed, and the place where they fell was known for a time as the Bloody Fields. The name of the Bleeding Horse pub in Camden Street reputedly originated at this time from a horse wandering from the scene of the battle to St. Kevins Port, the Bleeding Horse pub is reputed to be the second oldest pub in Dublin, allegedly licensed in 1649. Writers such as James Joyce, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Portobello was part of the Manor of St. Sepulchre, one of the liberties of Dublin. The courthouse and gaol for the use of the manor were located at the corner of Long Lane, the barracks The nearby Portobello Barracks was constructed between 1810 and 1815, and has been in continual use since then. In 1817, William Windham Sadlier successfully flew in a hot air balloon from Portobello Barracks to Holyhead in North Wales, the 1837 Ordnance Survey map showed one building on the western side of Richmond St. which corresponds to no. 34, which was the Caroline Records shop, admittedly, he had a hard time explaining away the gun and eighteen bullets he had in his pocket, but he was acquitted of any wrongdoing. He had been poisoned with Hydrogen cyanide, which Mrs. Marshall had purchased in Rathmines a few days previously, the inquest on 8 January 1874 heard that Donaldson and Marshall had had disagreements on several occasions but ended up on good terms. Although the evidence was stacked against her, at her trial on 10 February the jury found Mrs. Marshall not guilty, the barracks was adopted as General Michael Collins Military Headquarters after the Irish War of Independence. The barracks hospital became Collins home when he set up his headquarters, it was here that he set off to Cork
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South Circular Road, Portobello, looking towards Harrington Street
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Portobello about 1840. On the west, Clanbrassil St., on the east, Sth. Richmond St. Click to enlarge.
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A new cafe and one of the oldest houses in Lennox St., facing Synge St.
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The former Church of Ireland St. Kevin's church now stands on the location of the old Portobello Gardens, South Circular Road, Portobello
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Arthur Shields
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Arthur Shields was an Irish actor on television, stage and film. Born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, Shields started acting in the Abbey Theatre when he was 17 years old and he was the younger brother of Oscar-winning actor Barry Fitzgerald. They were the sons of Adolphus Shields, who was well-known in Dublin as a labor organizer although the 1901 census listed his occupation as press reader, an Irish nationalist, Shields fought in the Easter Rising of 1916. He was captured and held for six months in the Frongoch internment camp in Frongoch and his obituary in The Times of San Mateo, California, reported. Upon his release he was decorated by the Republic of Eire, Shields returned to the Abbey Theatre and had a varied career there from 1914-1939 as actor, assistant director, director and stage manager. He appeared in productions while he was there, three of the productions he appeared in were by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy The Reapers Temporal Powers. Three times he brought the Abbey Company to the United States, in 1936, John Ford brought him to the United States to act in a film version of The Plough and the Stars. Some of his roles were in Ford films. Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Fords The Quiet Man, opposite John Wayne, Maureen OHara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald. He played Dr. Laughlin in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with Wayne and Joanne Dru and he also made television appearances including a 1958 role on Perry Mason as Dr. George Barnes in The Case of the Screaming Woman. Shields was married to actress Laurie Bailey and they had a daughter, Christine, and a son, Adam. Shields died of related to emphysema on April 27,1970, in Santa Barbara. He was survived by his wife, a daughter, a son and his body was cremated, with the ashes taken to Dublin, Ireland, where a burial with full military honors was planned
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Shields in
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
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Birthplace of Arthur Shields on Walworth Road, Portobello
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Abbey Theatre
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The Abbey Theatre, also known as the National Theatre of Ireland, in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904. Despite losing its building to a fire in 1951, it has remained active to the present day. The Abbey was the first state-subsidized theatre in the English-speaking world, since July 1966, the Abbey has been located at 26 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1. In its early years, the theatre was associated with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival, many of whom were involved in its founding. The Abbey served as a nursery for many of the leading Irish playwrights and actors of the 20th century, including William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, Seán OCasey and John Millington Synge. In addition, through its programme of touring abroad and its high visibility to foreign, particularly American, audiences. The Abbey arose from three bases, the first of which was the seminal Irish Literary Theatre. Founded by Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W. B, Yeats in 1899—with assistance from George Moore—it presented plays in the Antient Concert Rooms and the Gaiety Theatre, which brought critical approval but limited public interest. The second base involved the work of two Dublin directors, William and Frank Fay, William worked in the 1890s with a touring company in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, while his brother Frank was involved in amateur dramatics in Dublin. In April 1902, the Fays gave three performances of Æs play Deirdre and Yeats Cathleen Ní Houlihan in a hall in St Theresas Hall on Clarendon Street, the performances played to a mainly working-class audience rather than the usual middle-class Dublin theatregoers. The run was a success, thanks in part to the beauty and force of Maud Gonne. The company continued at the Antient Concert Rooms, producing works by Seumas OCuisin, Fred Ryan, the third base was financial support and experience of Annie Horniman. Horniman was a middle-class Englishwoman with previous experience of production, having been involved in the presentation of George Bernard Shaws Arms. She came to Dublin in 1903 to act as Yeats unpaid secretary and her money helped found the Abbey Theatre and, according to the critic Adrian Frazier, would make the rich feel at home, and the poor—on a first visit—out of place. Encouraged by the St Theresas Hall success, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Æ, Martyn and they were joined by actors and playwrights from Fays company. At first, they staged performances in the Molesworth Hall, on 11 May 1904, the society formally accepted Hornimans offer of the use of the building. As Horniman did not usually reside in Ireland, the letters patent required were granted in the name of Lady Gregory. The founders appointed William Fay theatre manager, responsible for training the actors in the newly established repertory company
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Front facade
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A poster for the opening run at the Abbey Theatre from 27 December 1904 to 3 January 1905
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Lady Gregory pictured on the frontispiece to Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography (1913)
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John Millington Synge, author of
The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots at the Abbey on the play's opening night
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Juno and the Paycock
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Juno and the Paycock is a play by Seán OCasey, and is highly regarded and often performed in Ireland. It was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924 and it is set in the working class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period. It is the second of his Dublin Trilogy – the other two being The Shadow of a Gunman and The Plough and the Stars. Juno and the Paycock takes place in the tenements of Dublin in 1922, just after the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, and revolves around the misfortunes of the dysfunctional Boyle family. The father, Captain Jack, is a loafer who claims to be unable to work because of pains in his legs, which mysteriously appear whenever someone mentions work to him. Despite his familys poverty, Jack spends all his time and money at the pub with Joxer Daly, his neer-do-well butty, instead of looking for a job. The mother, Juno, is the member of the family currently working, as daughter Mary is on strike and son Johnny is disabled. Mary feels guilty about dumping her boyfriend and fellow striker, Jerry Devine, overjoyed with the news, Jack vows to Juno to end his friendship with Joxer and change his ways. The Boyles throw a party and invite Bentham, who is courting Mary. Joxer is present, Jack having already forgotten his vow to break off contact with him, and Mrs Maisie Madigan, a neighbour to whom Jack owes money, shows up after having been invited in Act I. During the party, Robbie Tancreds funeral procession passes the tenement, Juno goes out to offer support to Mrs Tancred, who delivers a monologue mourning the loss of her son and praying for an end to the war, but Jack selfishly ignores her suffering. Two months later, Mr Bentham abruptly ceases all contact with the family and abandons Mary, while Jack is sleeping, Juno takes Mary to the doctor. Soon after they leave, Needle Nugent, the tailor, storms into the flat. Then Mrs Madigan arrives, demanding repayment of the loan she gave Jack, Joxer needles Jack about rumours that the inheritance is not forthcoming, this soon devolves into an argument during which Joxer openly mocks Jacks fortune as fraudulent. While Johnny upbraids his father for embarrassing the family, Juno returns alone, as a result, numerous relations are claiming the inheritance, which is rapidly being eaten up by legal costs, to make matters worse, Bentham has apparently fled the country out of shame. Johnny berates his father for his shortsightedness and avarice, unable to cope with the stress of the situation, Jack disowns Mary and retreats to the pub to drink with Joxer. Johnny persuades Juno to follow Jack and beg him to come home, Mary returns, and Johnny disowns her as well. Jerry Devine shows up to patch things up with Mary, Juno decides that Jack will never take on his responsibilities as a father and breadwinner, so she leaves to make a better life for herself and Mary
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Original film poster.
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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The Four Ladies installation at the
Hollywood Boulevard –
La Brea Avenue Gateway
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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
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Hollywood Hotel, 1905
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The intersection of
Hollywood and Highland, 1907
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John Ford
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John Ford was an American film director. His four Academy Awards for Best Director remain a record, one of the films for which he won the award, How Green Was My Valley, also won Best Picture. In a career spanned more than 50 years, Ford directed more than 140 films and he is widely regarded as one of the most important. Fords work was held in regard by his colleagues, with Orson Welles. Ford made frequent use of shooting and long shots, in which his characters were framed against a vast, harsh. Ford was born John Martin Jack Feeney in Cape Elizabeth, Maine to John Augustine Feeney and Barbara Abbey Curran and his father, John Augustine, was born in Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland in 1854. Barbara Curran had been born in the Aran Islands, in the town of Kilronan on the island of Inishmore, John A. Feeneys grandmother, Barbara Morris, was said to be a member of a local gentry family, the Morrises of Spiddal. John Augustine and Barbara Curran arrived in Boston and Portland respectively in May and they married in 1875 and became American citizens five years later on September 11,1880. John Augustine lived in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, Maine with his family, and would try farming, fishing, working for the gas company, running a saloon, and being an alderman. Feeney attended Portland High School, Portland, Maine, where he was a successful fullback and he earned the nickname Bull because of the way he would lower his helmet and charge the line. A Portland pub is named Bull Feeneys in his honor and he later moved to California and in 1914 began working in film production as well as acting for his older brother Francis, adopting Jack Ford as a professional name. In addition to credited roles, he appeared uncredited as a Klansman in D. W. Griffiths 1915 The Birth of a Nation and he married Mary McBride Smith on July 3,1920, and they had two children. His daughter Barbara was married to singer and actor Ken Curtis from 1952 to 1964, what difficulty was caused by the two marrying is unclear as the level of John Fords commitment to the Catholic faith is disputed. A strain would have been Fords many extramarital relationships, John Ford began his career in film after moving to California in July 1914. He followed in the footsteps of his older brother Francis Ford, twelve years his senior. John Ford started out in his brothers films as an assistant, handyman, stuntman and occasional actor, frequently doubling for his brother, Francis gave his younger brother his first acting role in The Mysterious Rose. Despite an often combative relationship, within three years Jack had progressed to become Francis chief assistant and often worked as his cameraman, by the time Jack Ford was given his first break as a director, Francis profile was declining and he ceased working as a director soon after. One notable feature of John Fords films is that he used a company of actors
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Ford in 1946
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The Searchers (1956)
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Ford in 1973
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John Ford with portrait and Oscar, circa 1946
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And Then There Were None (1945 film)
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And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaptation of Agatha Christies best-selling mystery novel of the same name, directed by René Clair. It was released in the UK with the title Ten Little Indians, the cast featured Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez, Mischa Auer, C. Aubrey Smith, Judith Anderson, Richard Haydn and Queenie Leonard as the stranded on the island. The film won the Golden Leopard and the Best Direction Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, though it was distributed by a major studio, 20th Century Fox, the copyright was allowed to lapse and the film is now in the public domain. Several different editions of varying quality have been released to video formats. Eight people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small, isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr. Ferried over by a sailor called Narracott, they settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers, but their hosts are absent. When the guests sit down to dinner, they notice the centerpiece and it turns out that none of the ten knows or has even seen U. N. Owen, as he signed his instructions to Rogers, they suddenly realize it stands for unknown. The guests decide to leave, but Rogers informs them that the boat will not return until Monday, Starloff admits to running down a couple while speeding. Then he takes a drink and dies from poison, the next morning, the guests learn that Mrs. Rogers has died in her sleep. Quinncannon reports that Rogers found one figurine broken after Starloffs demise, with two deaths matching the Ten Little Indians nursery rhyme, they search the island for Mr. Owen without success. After General Mandrake is stabbed in the back, the judge arrives at the only explanation, everyone votes secretly for whom they suspect. Only Rogers receives two votes, and is sent to spend the night in the woodshed, after locking the dining room, they give Rogers the key. The next morning, however, they find him dead, his head open with an axe. Miss Claythorne persuades Miss Brent to reveal that she had her placed in a reformatory. Later that day, Miss Brents body is found with a hypodermic needle nearby, Armstrong discovers that his is missing. Lombard admits he had a revolver, but it is lost as well, at dinner, Quinncannon confesses he sentenced an innocent man to death to ruin the defending counsels reputation. Armstrong then admits to operating while drunk, with fatal results, Blore grudgingly discloses that he perjured himself to put an innocent man in prison, where he died
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American film poster
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The Naked City
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The Naked City is a 1948 film noir directed by Jules Dassin. Based on a story by Malvin Wald, the film depicts the investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, the film received two Academy Awards, one for cinematography for William H. Daniels, and another for film editing to Paul Weatherwax. In 2007, The Naked City was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. In the late hours of a hot New York summer night, a pair of men subdue and kill Jean Dexter, an ex-model, by knocking her out with chloroform and drowning her in her bathtub. When one of the murderers, conscience-stricken, gets drunk, the other kills him, then lifts his body into the air and throws it into the East River. Homicide Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon and his associate, Jimmy Halloran, are assigned to Jeans case. Muldoon has been a cop for 22 years, Halloran for three months. At the scene, the police interrogate Martha Swenson, Jeans housekeeper, about Jeans friends and they also discover a bottle of sleeping pills and her address book. Halloran questions the doctor who prescribed the pills, Lawrence Stoneman, back at the police station, Muldoon questions Frank Niles, who lies about everything, claiming only a business relationship with Jean and denying knowing Ruth, to whom he is engaged. The police quickly discover the truth behind many of his lies, later, Muldoon deduces from the bruises on Jeans neck that she was killed by at least two men. That evening, Mr. and Mrs. Batory, Jeans estranged parents, arrive in New York to formally identify the body, the next morning, the detectives learn that Frank sold a gold cigarette case stolen from Stoneman, then purchased a one-way airline ticket to Mexico. They also discover that Jeans ring was stolen from the home of a wealthy Mrs. Hylton, at Mrs. Hyltons Park Avenue apartment, the police learn that the ring actually belonged to her daughter, who, to their surprise, turns out to be Ruth. Learning that Ruths engagement ring is stolen property, Muldoon and Halloran take Ruth to Franks apartment. The killer takes a shot at the cops and escapes onto the elevated train. When questioned about the jewelry, Frank claims that they were all presents from Jean. Frank is then arrested for the thefts, but the murder case remains open. Halloran learns that a body recovered from the East River, that of Peter Backalis, Muldoon, although skeptical, lets him pursue the lead and assigns two veteran detectives on the squad to help Halloran with the legwork
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theatrical release poster
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Academy Awards
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31st Academy Awards Presentations,
Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1959
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81st Academy Awards Presentations,
Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, 2009
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Pantages Theatre, 2008
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Leo McCarey
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Thomas Leo McCarey was a three-time Academy Award winning American film director, screenwriter and producer. He was involved in nearly 200 movies, the most well known today being Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth, Going My Way, McCarey was one of the most popular and established comedy directors of the pre-World War II era. Born in Los Angeles, California, McCarey attended St. Joseph’s Catholic school and his father was Thomas J. McCarey, whom the Los Angeles Times called the greatest fight promoter in the world. Leo McCarey would later make a comedy with Harold Lloyd called The Milky Way. Leo McCarey graduated from the University of Southern California law school and besides the law tried mining, boxing and it was McCareys boyhood friend, the actor and future fellow director David Butler, who referred him to Browning. Browning convinced McCarey, despite his looks, to work on the creative side as a writer rather than as an actor. McCarey then honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studios, Roach had hired him as a gagman in 1923, after McCarey had impressed him with his sense of humor, following a game of handball together at a sports club. McCarey initially wrote gags for the Our Gang series and other stars, then produced and directed shorts. Chase would in fact become McCareys mentor, upon the comedians death in 1940, McCarey was quoted as saying, Whatever success I have had or may have, I owe to his help because he taught me all I know. The two men were especially compatible, as they enjoyed a hobby on the side trying to write popular songs. He only officially appeared as director of the duos shorts We Faw Down, Liberty and Wrong Again, by 1929, he was vice-president of production for the studio. Less well known from this period are the shorts he directed with Max Davidson when Roach put together the Irish-American McCarey with the Jewish-American actor for a series of dialect comedies. These shorts such as Pass The Gravy have been rediscovered in recent years, Pass The Gravy was added to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress in 1999. In the sound era McCarey focused on feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson, Eddie Cantor, a series of six films at Paramount came to a crashing halt with his production of Make Way for Tomorrow in 1937. Nonetheless the film was recognized early on for its importance by being selected for the permanent collection of the recently formed Museum Of Modern Art in New York City. In later years it became canonical, and even considered by some as McCareys masterpiece, due to champions such as Bertrand Tavernier, Charles Silver. Along with the similarity in their names, McCarey and Cary Grant shared a physical resemblance. As writer/director Peter Bogdanovich notes, After The Awful Truth, when it came to light comedy, there was Cary Grant, McCarey was a devout Roman Catholic and deeply concerned with social issues
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on the set of
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
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World War II
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the worlds countries—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the bombing of industrial and population centres. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history, from late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbours, Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. The Axis advance halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, in 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy, thus ended the war in Asia, cementing the total victory of the Allies. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world, the United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts. The victorious great powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia, most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to end pre-war enmities, the start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931. Others follow the British historian A. J. P. Taylor, who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and this article uses the conventional dating. Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939, the exact date of the wars end is also not universally agreed upon. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945, rather than the formal surrender of Japan
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Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces in the
Battle of Wanjialing, Australian
25-pounder guns during the
First Battle of El Alamein, German
Stuka dive bombers on the
Eastern Front in December 1943, a U.S. naval force in the
Lingayen Gulf,
Wilhelm Keitel signing the
German Instrument of Surrender, Soviet troops in the
Battle of Stalingrad
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The
League of Nations assembly, held in
Geneva,
Switzerland, 1930
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Adolf Hitler at a German
National Socialist political rally in
Weimar, October 1930
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Italian soldiers recruited in 1935, on their way to fight the
Second Italo-Abyssinian War
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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6801 Hollywood Boulevard near
Dolby Theatre
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A typical Walk of Fame star in the phonograph record category. The charcoal terrazzo contrasts with the pink terrazzo star and brass surround, emblem and lettering.
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The Walk of Fame at the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard, looking eastward. The Dolby Theatre is in the foreground at left. In the upper left quadrant is the famous intersection of
Hollywood and Highland.
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Joanne Woodward 's star, contrary to popular belief, was not the first.
25.
Juno and the Paycock (film)
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Juno and the Paycock is a 1930 British film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire ONeill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood. The film was based on the play of the same name by Seán OCasey. Barry Fitzgerald, who played Captain Jack Boyle in the stage production, appears as an orator in the first scene. In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, Captain Boyle lives in a tenement flat with his wife Juno. Juno has dubbed her husband the Paycock because she thinks him as useful, Juno works while the Captain loafs around the flat when not drinking up the familys meager finances at the neighbourhood pub. Daughter Mary has a job but is on strike against the victimisation of a co-worker, son Johnny has become a semi-invalid after losing an arm and severely injuring his hip in a fight with the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence. The Paycock tells his friend Joxer of his disgust at the informer, the IRA suspect Johnny and order him to report to them for questioning, he refuses, protesting that his wounds show he has done his bit for Ireland. Mary is courted by Jerry Devine, whom she leaves for Charlie Bentham who whisks her away after telling Marys family the Captain is to receive an inheritance, the elated Captain borrows money against the inheritance and spends it freely on new furniture and a Victrola. Family friends are invited to a party at the once shabby tenement. The Captain soon learns the inheritance has been lost because Bentham made an error in drafting the will, the Captain keeps the bad news a secret until creditors show up. Even Joxer turns on the Captain and gleefully spreads the news of the nonexistent inheritance to creditors, the furniture store repossesses the furniture. The tailor demands money for new clothes, pub owner Mrs. Madigan takes the Victrola to cover the Captains bar tab. The worst is yet to come, however, Mary reveals that she has shamed the family by becoming pregnant by Charles, who has disappeared after his blunder was discovered. Her former fiancé Jerry proclaims his love for Mary and offers to marry her until he learns of her pregnancy, while his parents are absent dealing with the situation, Johnny is arrested by the IRA and his body is later found riddled with bullets. Realising that their family has been destroyed, Mary declares, Its true, although completely shattered, Juno shushes her daughter, saying that they will need both Christ and the Blessed Virgin to deal with their grief. Alone, however, she laments her sons fate before the statues in the familys empty tenement, deciding that Boyle will remain useless. Hitchcock filmed a faithful reproduction of the play using few of the directorial touches he had incorporated in his previous films, instead he often asked cinematographer Jack Cox to hold the camera for long single shots. He was eager to have a scene set outside the flat inserted into the film, OCasey made quite an impression on Hitchcock, and was the inspiration for the prophet of doom in the diner in The Birds
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Original film poster
26.
Marie Antoinette (1938 film)
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Marie Antoinette is a 1938 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette, the film was the last project of Irving Thalberg who died in 1936 while it was in the planning stage. His widow Norma Shearer remained committed to the project even while her enthusiasm for her career in general was waning following his death. With a budget close to two dollars, it was one of the more expensive films of the 1930s. In Vienna, 15-year-old Marie Antoinette is informed by her mother, Empress Marie Therese of Austria, that Marie is to marry the future King of France, the Dauphin Louis XVI. After they are married, Marie tries desperately to please her husband, and after some trepidation, without children to occupy her time and attention, Marie is bored and associates with the power-hungry Duc dOrleans, even though the Dauphin does not like him. Marie is enraged, but the Dauphin is too weak to have his grandfather, King Louis XV, later, at a costume party, she meets the Swedish Count Axel Fersen and introduces him as a member of the Russian nobility as a party game. She then wagers and loses a necklace worth 200,000 livres, Marie is irritated by the scolding, but pays the ambassador little mind. When Marie responds with a reference to du Barrys past as a streetwalker. Louis XV then decides that the marriage between his grandson and Marie is to be annulled. This decision finally drives the Dauphin to defend his wife, he pushes his grandfather into a chair and threatens to put du Barry in the Bastille. When Marie is told she is to be sent back to Austria, she is abandoned by dOrleans. Marie flees to the home of her mothers ambassador, Count Mercy, there she finds Fersen, who tells her he loves her and has loved her for years—learning all he could about her from museums. Marie realizes that she has fallen in love with Fersen, but as she goes to tell the Dauphin of this fact, the Dauphin tells Marie that he cannot let her leave, he is fond of her even if he does not love her. Marie consents, Louis XV dies, and they become King, Marie tells Fersen that they can meet at another palace to be together, but he refuses to risk ruining her reputation, and tells her to fulfill her duty as Queen. Later, she gives birth in front of an audience to a daughter, Marie-Therese, some years later, when the Dauphin has grown into a young boy, peasants throw stones at Maries carriage while she has taken her children for a drive. She is shocked at the intense dislike displayed by the people of France and she blames dOrleans for inciting them. Marie later rejects a jewelers expensive and elaborate necklace, but she is framed by court insiders plotting to acquire the necklace for themselves, Marie is outraged, but dOrleans tells the royal couple to abdicate the throne in favor of the Dauphin under the regency of dOrleans
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DVD cover
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The Dawn Patrol (1938 film)
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The Dawn Patrol is a 1938 American war film, a remake of the pre-Code 1930 film of the same name. Both were based on the short story The Flight Commander by John Monk Saunders, the book of short stories, War Patrol by A. S. Long published in the 1930s also bears a resemblance in plot and characters to the Flynn/Niven version of the film. The film, directed by Edmund Goulding, stars Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, of the several films that Flynn and Rathbone appeared in together, it is the only one in which their characters are on the same side. Although sparring as in their roles, their characters are fast friends. However, The Dawn Patrol also has a deeper and more timeless theme in the severe emotional scarring on a commander who must constantly order men to their deaths. This theme underlies every scene in The Dawn Patrol, in 1915, at the airdrome in France of the Royal Flying Corps 59th Squadron, Major Brand, the squadron commander, and his adjutant Phipps anxiously await the return of the dawn patrol. Brand is near his breaking point and he has lost 16 pilots in the previous two weeks, nearly all of them young replacements with little training and no combat experience. Brand is ordered to send up tomorrow what amounts to a suicide mission, the survivors repair to the bar in their mess for drinks and fatalistic revelry. Courtney does his best to console Hollister, but the youngster breaks down in grief, when Brand announces the next days dawn patrol, Courtney tells Brand he does not have enough men. Brand retorts that more replacements are on their way, from the four green pilots, Courtney picks the two with the most flying hours to go on the mission. Only four return this time, Scott has been lost along with the two new men, Courtney tells a sympathetic Brand that Scott went down saving Hollister. Just then, British troops bring in the German who downed Scott, Courtney overcomes his initial rage when Brand informs Von Mueller that it was Courtney who shot him down, and the German graciously acknowledges him. Courtney then offers the German a drink, the guilt-ridden Hollister tries to attack the prisoner, but is restrained. His fighter crashed, but he survived, just after its wounded leader, Captain Squires, informs the squadron that the dreaded Von Richter is now their foe, an enemy aircraft flies low over their airdrome and drops a pair of trench boots. Attached is a note telling the British pilots that they will be safer on the ground. Brand warns his men that the boots are intended to incite inexperienced pilots into trying to retaliate and he forbids any takeoffs without his express orders. Courtney and Scott disregard the prohibition, taking off in the dawn mist after stealing the boots from Brands room and they fly to Von Richters airfield, where the black-painted fighters are being readied for the day
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1938 US
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Pacific Liner
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Pacific Liner is a 1939 American action/adventure film directed by Lew Landers. The film stars Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris and Wendy Barrie, Pacific Liner depicts the ill-fated voyage of a disease-ridden passenger liner. In 1932, aboard the ship, the S. S. Arcturus, engineer Crusher McKay runs a tight ship. The ships doctor, Doc Tony Craig, has signed on in Shanghai to be on the San Francisco bound trip and he wants to be near his former sweetheart, nurse Ann Grayson. Crusher is also attracted to Ann but his clumsy courtship soon sets up a rivalry between him and the Doc, while under way, a Chinese stowaway infected with cholera is discovered below decks. Both Doc and Crusher are at odds with what to do, while still far from shore, the disease spreads to the men who are working on the ships boilers. Crusher orders the doors to the decks above bolted shut, so passengers have no idea of what is happening below. While the upper-class is being sheltered, the stokers down below begin to get sick, as panic breaks out, with Crushers men stricken by cholera, Ann and Doc try to keep the disease isolated. The dead stokers have to be fed into the steamships boilers, when Crusher falls ill, his men begin to mutiny and only his stubborn determination keeps the boilers stoked. The medical team on topside is thrown together, with Ann, Crushers bravery eventually brings the S. S. Arcturus safely to San Francisco. Principal photography on Pacific Liner began mid-October 1938, in 1937, RKO corporate head Leo Spitz had moved away from the earlier prestige pictures that had often been critically acclaimed but financial disasters. He had not invested heavily in such as Pacific Liner. With reliable B-movie director Lew Landers in charge, however, the result was predictably brought, to the screen with his usual feeling for action, and attention to narrative development. Belying its modest status as a B, along with a first-rate cast with both stock players and featured performers as well as a believable storyline, Pacific Liner also had the benefit of a lavish shipboard set. With art deco trimmings, courtesy of art director Van Nest Polglase and his assistant Albert DAgostino, a large scale model was used for long shots showing the entire passenger vessel. Variety announced that RKOs Pacific Liner was filler in the duals, the film was also nominated at the 1939 Academy Awards for Best Original Score. Pacific Liner at the TCM Movie Database Pacific Liner at the Internet Movie Database
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The Saint Strikes Back
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The Saint Strikes Back, is a 1939 American crime film, directed by John Farrow. It marks the second incarnation of the antihero crimefighting character Simon Templar. George Sanders replaced Louis Hayward, who had played the Saint in The Saint in New York, the movie was produced by RKO and also featured Wendy Barrie as female gang leader Val Travers. Barrie would appear in two more Saint films, playing different roles each time, though not in the film in the series. This was the second of eight films in RKOs film series about The Saint, in the film The Saint foils an assassination attempt by a member of Val Travers gang, but is arrested by the police for the murder of the gang member. He persuades them to let him assist in apprehending a criminal mastermind. The script was based on the Leslie Charteris novel She Was a Lady which was published as Angels of Doom. The screenplay was by John Twist, who set the story in San Francisco, robert Sisk produced and John Farrow directed. While dancing at a New Years party, the Saint spots an agent of Valerie Travers preparing to shoot someone, Templar is placed by witnesses at the scene, so the San Francisco police request the assistance of Inspector Henry Fernack of the NYPD. Before Fernack can leave, the Saint arrives in New York, Travers father had been a police inspector whose efficiency caused trouble for a mysterious criminal mastermind named Waldeman. When a large sum of money was found in his deposit box, however, he was fired on suspicion of working for Waldeman. Travers is determined to clear his name by any means necessary, the Saint takes up her cause, despite her hostility for his interference in her plans and her suspicions about his motives. Templar gets the cooperation of the commissioner, over the objections of Chief Inspector Webster and criminologist Cullis. Templar and Travers cross paths again when the leads to Martin Eastman, a noted philanthropist and seemingly-irreproachable citizen. Templar forces Travers and her gang to drive away, all except her burglar, Templar gets Dyson to open Eastmans safe and takes the money inside. The serial numbers confirm that it was stolen in a robbery perpetrated by Waldeman, when Eastman contacts Cullis instead of reporting the theft, Templar knows that Cullis is also working for Waldeman. With that information, not only does the Saint exonerate Travers father, he also identifies Waldeman
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The Saint Strikes Back
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John Wayne
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Marion Mitchell Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, born in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne grew up in Southern California. He found work at film studios when he lost his football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he appeared mostly in bit parts. His first leading role came in Raoul Walshs The Big Trail, Waynes career took off in 1939, with John Fords Stagecoach making him an instant star. He went on to star in 142 pictures, biographer Ronald Davis said, John Wayne personified for millions the nations frontier heritage. Eighty-three of his movies were Westerns, and in them he played cowboys, cavalrymen and he is also remembered for his roles in The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo, and The Longest Day. In his final performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist. He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26,1907 at 224 South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The local paper, Winterset Madisonian, reported on page 4 of the edition of May 30,1907 that Wayne weighed 13 pounds at birth and his middle name was soon changed from Robert to Mitchell when his parents decided to name their next son Robert. Waynes father, Clyde Leonard Morrison, was the son of American Civil War veteran Marion Mitchell Morrison, Waynes mother, the former Mary Molly Alberta Brown, was from Lancaster County, Nebraska. Waynes ancestry included English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish, Waynes family moved to Palmdale, California, and then in 1916 to Glendale, California, where his father worked as a pharmacist. A local fireman at the station on his route to school in Glendale started calling him Little Duke because he never went anywhere without his huge Airedale Terrier and he preferred Duke to Marion, and the nickname stuck. Wayne attended Wilson Middle School in Glendale, as a teen, he worked in an ice cream shop for a man who shod horses for Hollywood studios. He was also active as a member of the Order of DeMolay and he played football for the 1924 league champion Glendale High School team. Wayne applied to the U. S. Naval Academy, and he instead attended the University of Southern California, majoring in pre-law. He was a member of the Trojan Knights and Sigma Chi fraternities, Wayne also played on the USC football team under coach Howard Jones. A broken collarbone injury curtailed his career, Wayne later noted that he was too terrified of Jones reaction to reveal the actual cause of his injury
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Wayne in a 1965 publicity photo
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The house in
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With
Marsha Hunt in
Born to the West (1937)
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With
Jean Rogers and
Ward Bond in
Conflict (1936)
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The Sea Wolf (1941 film)
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The Sea Wolf is a 1941 American black-and-white film adaptation of Jack Londons novel The Sea Wolf with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield. The film was written by Robert Rossen and directed by Michael Curtiz, the Sea Wolf has several connections to the city of London, Ontario, aside from the source authors surname. Warner and cast member Gene Lockhart were both born in the city and cast member Alexander Knox attended university there, for these reasons, the films Canadian premiere was held at Londons Capitol Theatre. Refined fiction writer Humphrey van Weyden and escaped convict Ruth Webster are passengers on a ship that collides with another vessel and they are rescued by the Ghost, a seal-hunting ship. At the helm is the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen, an individual who delights in dominating and abusing his crew. Larsen refuses to return to early and forces van Weyden to work as the new cabin boy. Fortunately, it is, and she recovers, as time goes by, she comes to depend on Leach for protection and, despite himself, Leach falls in love with her. Most of the film is centered on Larsen’s peculiar character and he is very well read, yet cannot see anything useful in his education. When Prescott complains about the way he is treated, Larsen orders the crew to respect his dignity, only to conclude by kicking the man down stairs for his. Prescott climbs the mast and reveals that Larsens own brother, Death Larsen, another sea captain, is hunting him, having vowed to kill him, Leach and several other crewmen ambush Larsen and throw him and his first mate overboard. However, Larsen manages to grab a rope, climb back aboard. Larsen cannot afford to any men, so instead of punishing them, he betrays his informant. They drop him in the water, holding onto a rope for dear life, before they can pull him back in though, a shark bites off his leg. Eventually, Leach, Webster, van Weyden, and another crewman escape on a dory, however, they discover that the wily Larsen had replaced their water supply with vinegar. The fourth man later sacrifices himself by going overboard to help conserve the water they have. Larsen is subject to intense headaches that leave him temporarily blind and he knows that he will eventually lose his sight permanently. When Larsens brother catches up with him, a cannon shot holes the Ghost, the ship escapes into a fog bank, but Larsen goes blind again and his debility is revealed to all. The crew seizes the opportunity to take to the boats, then, van Weyden, Leach, and Webster sight the Ghost and, having no other choice, reboard her
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Theatrical release poster
The Sea Wolf (1941 film)
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Johnny Weissmuller
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Weissmuller was one of the worlds fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo. He was the first to break the one minute barrier for 100-meter freestyle, and he won fifty-two U. S. national championships, set more than fifty world records, and was purportedly undefeated in official competition for the entirety of his competitive career. After retiring from competitions, he became the actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughss ape man, Tarzan. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known and his characters distinctive Tarzan yell is still often used in films. Johann Peter Weißmüller was an ethnic German, the son of Peter Weissmüller. Johann Peter had one sibling, a brother, Peter. His generally accepted birthplace was in Szabadfalva, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the records of St Rochus Church in Freidorf show that Johann, son of Peter and Elizabeth Weissmüller, was baptized there on June 5,1904, three days after his birth. However, the roster from his familys arrival at Ellis Island lists his birthplace as Párdány. The passenger manifest of the S. S, the family is listed as Germans, last residence Timișoara. After a brief stay in Chicago visiting relatives, they moved to the mining town of Windber, Pennsylvania. On November 5,1905, Peter Johann Weissmüller was baptized at St. John Cantius Catholic Church in Windber, Peter Weissmuller worked as a miner, and his younger son, Peter Weissmüller Jr. was born in Windber on September 3,1905. Age five, erroneously entered as born in Illinois, Peter Weissmüller and John Ott were both brewers, Ott emigrating in 1902, Weissmüller in 1904. At age nine, young John Weissmüller contracted polio, at the suggestion of his doctor, he took up swimming to help battle the disease. After the family moved from western Pennsylvania to Chicago, he continued swimming, according to military draft registration records for World War I, Peter and Elizabeth were apparently still together as late as 1917. On his paperwork, Peter was listed as a brewer, working for the Elston and Fullerton Brewery and he and his family were living at 226 West North Avenue in Chicago. In his book, Tarzan, My Father, Johnny Weissmuller Jr. Peter signed his consent for 19-year-old John Weissmullers passport application in 1924, preceding Johnnys Olympic competition in France. In the 1930 federal census, Elizabeth Weissmüller, age 49, has listed with her, sons John P. and Peter J. Elizabeth is listed as a widow. As a teen, Weissmuller attended Lane Technical College Prep High School before dropping out to various jobs including a stint as a lifeguard at a Lake Michigan beach
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Johnny Weissmuller, 1940
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The home of the family Weissmüller in
Freidorf,
Timișoara,
Romania
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Weissmuller with an unidentified actress in Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
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Johnny Weissmüller with
Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane) in
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday is a 1943 American comedy drama film produced and directed by Bruce Manning and starring Deanna Durbin, Edmond OBrien, and Barry Fitzgerald. After safely sequestering the orphans in the family mansion, her plans start to unravel when she falls in love with commodores grandson. Originally intended as Durbins dramatic debut, Universal insisted on adding songs, the original director of the film was Jean Renoir, and though most of his completed footage was retained, final directorial credit was given to Bruce Manning, the films producer. The Amazing Mrs. Holliday received an Academy Award nomination for Best Score, a young idealistic schoolteacher named Ruth Kirke is transporting a group of war orphans from South China to Calcutta when their steamship Tollare is torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific. Along with sailor Timothy Blake, they are the only passengers to survive the enemy attack and they are picked up by the steamship Westonia and taken to San Francisco, where immigration officials inform Ruth that the orphans will be held until a $500 bond is posted for each child. With no money of their own, Ruth and Timothy go to the home of Commodore Thomas Spencer Holliday, the owner of their sunken cargo ship. When they appeal for assistance for the orphans, the commodores family refuses. Desperate to help the children, Timothy tells the family that Ruth. With the childrens future at stake, Ruth reluctantly goes along with the deception, Ruth, Timothy, and the eight orphans move into the Holliday mansion, where they soon meet the commodores grandson, Thomas Spencer Holliday III. Along the way, they encountered a dying Chinese woman, moved by her personal story and her beautiful singing voice, Tom is soon smitten with the young woman. Wanting to end the deception, Ruth confesses to Tom that she smuggled the orphans aboard the commodores ship, during the voyage, they were discovered by the commodore who promised to help Ruth get the orphans into the United States, even if it meant adopting them. After their ship was torpedoed, Ruth and Timothy put the children into a lifeboat—losing only one child, in the coming days, as she watches Tom caring for the children, Ruth falls in love with him. When the childrens immigration papers finally arrive, Ruth prepares to leave as promised, despite her feelings for Tom, later at the station, while Ruth waits for her train to Philadelphia, Tom arrives at Timothys request, unaware that Ruth is preparing to leave. Timothy lies to Tom, telling him that the stranger sitting next to her is hher fiancé—intending to make Tom jealous, the ploy works, as Tom congratulates the stranger on his upcoming marriage. In the ensuing commotion, Tom escorts Ruth away from the train station, sometime later, at a China relief ball held at the mansion, Ruth sings an aria, Puccinis Vissi darte, to the assembled guests while Tom looks on with loving admiration. By now they have expressed their love for each other, suddenly, the commodore steps forward, having been rescued along with Pepe following the torpedo attack. Knowing what Ruth has done for the children, he plays along with the deception, afterwards the commodore tells Ruth that hell marry her for real and raise the orphans as his own children, unaware she is in love with Tom. The commodores plans change when he learns that Ruth and Tom are in love, addressing the guests, the commodore confesses that he and Ruth were never really married, but that in three days she is going to become Mrs. Holliday—Mrs
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Two Tickets to London
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Two Tickets to London is a 1943 drama film made by Universal Pictures, and directed by Edwin L. Marin. The screenplay was written by Tom Reed, based on story by Roy William Neill, the film stars Michèle Morgan and Alan Curtis. A U. S. naval officer is found guilty for treason, Michèle Morgan as Jeanne Alan Curtis as First Mate Dan Driscoll C
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Corvette K-225
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Corvette K-225 is a 1943 war film starring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines, making her feature film debut. The film was released in the UK as The Nelson Touch, Robert Mitchum, credited as Bob Mitchum, had a minor supporting role, one of 20 Hollywood films he made in 1943. Tony Gaudio was nominated for the 1943 Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Corvette K -225, in 1943, Lieutenant Commander MacClain has just lost his ship and most of his crewmen due to enemy action. While accompanying a convoy, he was attacked by a U-boat with a distinctive large Iron Cross painted on the conning tower, the U-boat surfaced and machine-gunned many of the survivors. Offered duty ashore, MacClain is determined to avenge his men and he is allocated a new ship and while waiting for it to be built, befriends Joyce Cartwright, whose brother Dick, an officer, was killed under his command. MacClains new ship is christened the HMCS Donnacona, and soon a crew of 65, including officer Paul Cartwright, Joyces younger brother is assigned to the corvette. Setting out as an escort to a heading for England, the Donnacona comes upon a grisly sight, a lifeboat filled with dead sailors. In an ocean storm, his ship is separated from the convoy, the captain of one of the ships, the tanker Egyptian Star relays the information that he thinks a submarine has been trailing the ship. The small group of ships become the target of Luftwaffe bombers that are chased off by a British fighter launched from one of the escort ships. The submarines below are still the main concern and when the Egyptian Star is torpedoed and sunk, MacClain attacks, another U-boat surfaces and in a running battle, cripples the Donnacona. MacClain attempts to ram the submarine and when it begins to dive, Lt. Cartwright and seaman Stooky OMeara set off depth charges, as it breaks up, MacClain recognizes it as the one which had machine-gunned his men, killing his former crew. Under the working title of Corvettes in Action, Corvette K-225 was produced between February 4 and early May 1943, over a three-month period in 1943, camera crews accompanied five convoys in order to gather background footage. As its location was a secret, Halifax is referred to as Hannington Harbour in the film. Corvette K -225 featured a ship in the Royal Canadian Navy, HMCS Donnacona. Before final casts were announced, Robert Stack, Dick Foran, Diana Barrymore, Evelyn Ankers, Leif Erikson, Jon Hall, Nigel Bruce and Patric Knowles were considered by Howard Hawks. The world premiere of Corvette K-225 was held on October 19,1943 at the Central Theatre in Ottawa, Canada, Film critic Bosley Crowther reviewed the film for The New York Times, stating, Randolph Scott gives a beatuiful performance. Corvette K-225 at the TCM Movie Database Corvette K-225 at the American Film Institute Catalog Corvette K-225 at the Internet Movie Database Corvette K-225 on YouTube
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1943 Theatrical Poster
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I Love a Soldier
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I Love a Soldier is a 1944 American drama film directed by Mark Sandrich and written by Allan Scott. The film stars Paulette Goddard, Sonny Tufts, Beulah Bondi, Walter Sande, Mary Treen, the film was released on August 15,1944, by Paramount Pictures. Paulette Goddard as Evelyn Connors Sonny Tufts as Dan Kilgore Beulah Bondi as Etta Lane Walter Sande as Sgt, and since life seldom moves along on a plane, maybe it would have been expecting too much for this particular film to maintain a perfect level. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay at the Internet Movie Database Review of film at Variety
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Incendiary Blonde
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Incendiary Blonde is a 1945 American musical drama film biography of 1920s nightclub star Texas Guinan. Filmed in Technicolor by director George Marshall and loosely based on a true story, the movies title is a play on incendiary bombs being used in World War II. The score was written by Robert Emmett Dolan, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, a tomboy named Mary Louise Texas Guinan lands a job with a Wild West show after proving she can ride a bucking bronco. The rodeos new owner is Romero Bill Kilgannon, who doubles Texass pay after the attention she gets from saving a life from a runaway wagon at a show. Texas sends money home to her impoverished family, Tim falls in love with her, but she prefers Bill, unaware that he is legally bound to an institutionalized wife. Tim ends up marrying Texas and promoting her new career on stage in New York, Bill tries making movies in Hollywood, but things go badly. A gangster acquaintance, Joe Cadden, takes control of Nick the Greeks nightclub in New York and her fame grows, but a feud develops between Cadden and two other racketeers, the Vettori brothers, that leads to bloodshed and threats against Texas and Tim. Bill saves her life, but is arrested and sentenced to jail and his own wife passes away, making him free to marry again, but Texas has discovered that she has an inoperable condition, and that she will die before Tim can get out of prison. Jamison, best known for his work with comedy team The Three Stooges. The film was announced in 1942 and was originally to have co-starred Hutton, – music by Albert Von Tilzer, lyrics by Lew Brown Row, Row, Row – music by James V
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Incendiary Blonde
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The Stork Club (1945 film)
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The Stork Club is a 1945 American film directed by Hal Walker. It is a comedy starring Betty Hutton. Judy Peabody saves an old man from drowning and he turns out to be Jerry Bates, J. B. to his lawyer Curtis, Pop to Judy, who mistakenly believes the wealthy old-timer to be poor. Pop instructs his lawyer to reward Judy with everything her heart desires, a hat check girl at New Yorks popular Stork Club nightclub, Judys dream is for her bandleader boyfriend Danny to return home from the Marines so she can sing with his band. A letter from Curtis informs the lady that she now has a brand new apartment, free of charge. She promptly buys dresses and furs, without knowing the identity of her benefactor, Pop comes to the Stork Club to keep an eye on her. She lands him a job as a busboy, but that doesnt work out, Danny comes home, excited to see her until he sees the apartment, the clothes and the old man. Believing her to be a woman, he falls out of love with Judy. Billingsley is invited by Judy to hear the band, impressed, he gives them a job at the club. Judy finally discovers that Pop is responsible for her new riches and is able to win back Dannys love and give back to Pop his wife, Betty Hutton as Judy Peabody Barry Fitzgerald as Jerry B. J. B. / Pop Bates Don DeFore as Sgt
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Two Years Before the Mast (film)
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Two Years Before the Mast is a 1946 adventure film based on Richard Henry Dana Jr. s travel book of the same name. In 1834, Charles Stewart, the spoiled, dissolute son of a magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the rule of Captain Francis Thompson, assisted by his first mate. One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. who will ultimately recount the entire voyage on paper as a book, actor Lew Ayres was mentioned as a possible director and Lionel Barrymore, or, if he refused, Walter Connolly was going to star. The movie was meant to be an attempt by Republic to move into bigger budgeted productions, negotiations with Barrymore, Connolly and Fredric March fell through and the studio tried to sign Herbert Wilcoxon. Edward Small announced plans to film the book in 1939 under his deal with United Artists, however this was postponed when World War Two was declared, as Small was reluctant to make such an expensive film in an uncertain marketplace. Plans to film the novel were again announced in 1940 and 1941, Paramount eventually bought the rights off Small in 1943, including a script Seton I Miller had written for the producer in 1939, Miller had since become a writer and producer at Paramount. Alan Ladd was announced as star, in March 1944 it was announced Ladd would be re-inducted into the army but that this would be delayed so he could make Mast. Brian Donlevy was originally going to play the sadistic captain but was given the role of Dana instead, howard da Silva, who had just achieved fame playing Judd in Oklahoma. Mexican film star Esther Fernandez had been signed to Paramount for two years making a film. John Farrow watched some test footage she made and was impressed, due to war time restrictions - notably lack of transport - Paramount had endured many logistical difficulties filming the pirate movie Frenchmans Creek on location. This prompted them to decide to shoot Two Years Before the Mast entirely within the confines of the studio, seascapes and soundscapes from Paramounts Souls at Sea were re-used. The film heavily dramatised the novel but attempted to be faithful, danas tale is so well known that we shall have to stay close to the line of his yarn, said John Farrow, Especially in the characters. Extensive research was done on the project for six months prior to shooting, filming began in May 1944 and took 69 days. We could do it in less but weve got to allow stubble to grow, chins have got to grow over with gray plush. Depends on how long it takes those chins to sprout, but meantime, we can be shooting storms and Miss Fernandez. Alan Ladd injured his back during filming and had to miss a week of shooting, the movie was shot on three studio sound stages. Four stage were combined into one, for the interiors, there was another stage holding the water tank
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Brian Donlevy,
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Alan Ladd in a promotional picture of the film.
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California (1947 film)
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California is a 1947 American western film directed by John Farrow and featuring Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Fitzgerald. Barbara Stanwycks singing voice was dubbed by Kay St. Germaine, a deserter who had been an Army lieutenant, Jonathan Trumbo is hired to guide a wagon train bound for California during the California Gold Rush. When a woman named Lily Bishop is accused of cheating at poker in a saloon, Trumbo, too, accuses of her of cheating at cards after losing to Lily, an insult she promises not to forget. Lily leaves with Booth Pennock, a ruffian who injures Trumbo with a whip before departing, Lily ends up in Pharaoh City, running a saloon. The town is controlled by Pharaoh Coffin, a slave trader who opposes the law. Trumbo turns up and gets involved in a saloon brawl, Lily orders him never to set foot there again, but Trumbo wins the place in a poker game. She mistakenly takes Pharaoh to be an honest man and moves onto his hacienda, coffins men beat up Trumbo, who is rescued on the trail by Mexicans and vows revenge. When his wounds heal, Trumbo returns and becomes a spokesman for statehood advocacy, coffins hired men kill Fabian for similar beliefs, causing Lily to finally see Coffin for the crazed villain he is. Trumbo forms a posse and corners Coffin, who is descending into madness, Trumbo, in love with Lily, promises to return to the Army to atone for his desertion, hoping someday to return to her
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Variety Girl
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Variety Girl is a 1947 American musical comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures. Numerous Paramount contract players and directors make cameos or perform songs, the opening caption reads, This picture is dedicated to Variety Clubs, International, The Heart of Show Business, which beats constantly in behalf of the under-privileged children of the world. Regardless of race, creed or color, the story revolves around two young girls who exchange identities, causing confusion at the Variety Club and the Paramount studio. The film includes a five-minute color Puppetoon segment Romeow and Julicat by George Pal in Technicolor which is in black and it turned out to be Pals last Puppetoon short, he split up with Paramount afterwards to become an independent producer. Mary Hatcher as Catherine Brown Olga San Juan as Amber La Vonne DeForest Kelley as Bob Kirby Frank Ferguson as R. J. And Crosby click with their routine, a socko number for all its paraphrasing of the “Friendship” routine out of Du Barry Was a Lady which Bert Lahr. The New York Times review of October 16,1947 concluded with, mary Hatcher, who was discovered in Oklahoma. Is a very welcome addition to the screens songbird assembly, Variety Girl is hodge-podge, to be sure. But lets not quibble about its lack of form, because it is a hearty slam-bang entertainment wherein the good very definitely outweighs the poor, Variety Girl at the Internet Movie Database
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