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George Marshall (director)
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George E. Marshall was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of movie history. Relatively few of Marshalls films are well-known today, with Destry Rides Again, The Blue Dahlia, The Sheepman, Marshall co-directed How the West Was Won with John Ford and Henry Hathaway, handling the railroad segment, which featured a celebrated buffalo stampede sequence. While Marshall worked on almost all kinds of films imaginable, he started his career in the silent period doing mostly Westerns. In the 1930s he established a reputation for comedy, directing Laurel, later in his career, he was particularly sought after for comedies. He did around half a dozen films each with Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis, fields, Jackie Gleason, and Will Rogers. Lucille Ball chose George Marshall to direct episodes of her Heres Lucy television series in 1969. Marshall is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, Los Angeles, for his contribution to the film industry, George Marshall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7048 Hollywood Boulevard. A Message to Garcia Love Under Fire Can This Be Dixie, eight on the Lam Hook, Line & Sinker George Marshall at the Internet Movie Database
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Arthur Sheekman
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Arthur Sheekman was an American theater and movie critic, columnist, playwright and editor—but best known for his writing for the screen. Groucho Marx called him The Fastest Wit in the West, Arthur Sheekman was born February 5,1901 in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, Nettie Green Sheekman and Charles Grover Sheekman were Jewish immigrants from Russia, Sheekman was the middle child of three, coming between Edith and Harvey. In Sheekmans early years, the family lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, as Charlie Sheekman wasnt much of a provider, the children had to scramble to help support their family. At twelve, Sheekman got his first job, working after school, Sheekman rose to become the papers theater and movie critic, writing his column, The Voice Off-Stage. Wanting to go to college, Sheekman enrolled at the University of Minnesota, in 1926, Sheekman is rumoured to have filled in for a colleague’s place on journalist’s trip to the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia. When the editor of the Chicago Journal stopped laughing, he offered Sheekman three times the salary he was getting at the Daily News and that was how Sheekman got back to his native Chicago. On the Chicago Journal, Sheekman continued writing about the movies and Hollywood in his column, Short Shot, then he was awarded the noteworthy space, A Little About Everything, a column previously occupied by humorists Bert Leston Taylor, Finley Peter Dunne and Franklin P. Adams. A leading merchant of Chicago. remarked, I like his column because he is a cynic without scorn, finally, Sheekman moved to Chicagos Daily Times where his column Ahead of the Times was a A Daily Potpourri of Wit and Verse. Groucho Marx played a role in Sheekmans life. The two men met in the fall of 1926 when The Marx Brothers came to Chicago on tour in their musical play, The Cocoanuts. When Sheekman interviewed them for his column, the brothers told him that Groucho, Harpo, then again after the Broadway run of their musical play, Animal Crackers, the brothers again came to Chicago on tour. Sheekman gave Groucho his columns space, advising his readers, On Tuesday, Mr. Groucho Marx, Mr. Marx is the man who said, It would be a happier world for children if parents ate the spinach themselves. The following year, the version of Animal Crackers was released. Groucho wanted Sheekman to come to Hollywood and write for The Boys, instead, with Sheekman in Chicago and The Boys in Los Angeles, Sheekman did write for one of them. In 1929, a book titled Beds was serialized in the magazine, College Humor, Beds bore Groucho Marxs name as author but it was Arthur Sheekman who wrote it. Early in 1931, Sheekman accepted Grouchos invitation and moved west to work on Monkey Business—his credit on that first picture was Dialog by Arthur Sheekman, next he worked on Horse Feathers but just with Groucho. Sheekman makes an appearance in the movie as a sports writer in the press box
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Paulette Goddard
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Paulette Goddard was an American actress. A child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl and her most notable films were her first major role, as Charles Chaplins leading lady in Modern Times, and Chaplins subsequent film The Great Dictator. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in So Proudly We Hail and her husbands included Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque. They married in 1908 and separated while their daughter was very young, according to Goddard, her father left them, but according to J. R. Levy, Alta absconded with the child. Goddard was raised by her mother, and did not meet her again until the late 1930s. In a 1938 interview published in Colliers, Goddard claimed Levy was not her biological father, in response, Levy filed a suit against his daughter, claiming that the interview had ruined his reputation and cost him his job, and demanded financial support from her. In a December 17,1945, article written by Oliver Jensen in Life Magazine, Goddard admitted to having lost the case, to avoid a custody battle, her mother and she moved often during her childhood, even relocating to Canada at one point. Goddard began modelling at an age to support her mother and herself, working for Saks Fifth Avenue and Hattie Carnegie. An important figure in her childhood was her great-uncle, Charles Goddard and he played a central role in Goddards career, introducing her to Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld. In 1926, she made her debut as a dancer in Ziegfelds summer review, No Foolin. Ziegfeld hired her for musical, Rio Rita, which opened in February 1927. It was, however, a flop and closed only three days following its premiere in Atlantic City. Soon after the closed, Goddard was introduced to Edgar James, president of the Southern Lumber Company, located in Asheville, North Carolina. Aged 17, considerably younger than James, she married him on June 28,1927, in Rye and it was a short marriage, and Goddard was granted a divorce in Reno, Nevada, in 1929, receiving a divorce settlement of $375,000. Goddard first visited Hollywood in 1929, when she appeared as an extra in two films, the Laurel and Hardy short film Berth Marks, and George Fitzmaurices drama The Locked Door. Following her divorce, she briefly visited Europe before returning to Hollywood in late 1930 with her mother and her second attempt at acting was no more successful than the first, as she landed work only as an extra. In 1932, she signed her first film contract with producer Samuel Goldwyn to appear as a Goldwyn Girl in The Kid from Spain. However, Goldwyn and she did not get along, and she began working for Hal Roach, the year she signed with Goldwyn, Goddard began dating Charlie Chaplin, a relationship that received substantial attention from the press
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Macdonald Carey
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Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBCs soap opera Days of Our Lives. For almost three decades, he was the central cast member. He first made his starring in various B-movies of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was known in many Hollywood circles as King of the Bs, sharing the throne with his queen, a successful radio actor, Careys work included playing Dick Grosvenor on the soap opera Stella Dallas and Ridgeway Tearle in Johns Other Wife, both in the early 1940s. As a stage performer, his credits include the hit Broadway show Lady in the Dark, Carey also appeared in the 1942 films Wake Island and Take a Letter, Darling, and Alfred Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Later that year, he joined the United States Marine Corps, in 1947 Carey returned to Paramount in Suddenly, Its Spring. In 1949 he co-starred as Nick Carraway in Alan Ladds version of The Great Gatsby and he continued with Paramount into the 1950s, slipping into more noticeable character roles in Westerns, including Copper Canyon, Comanche Territory, The Great Missouri Raid, and Man or Gun. In 1955 he appeared as Fred Gaily in The 20th Century-Fox Hour remake of the 1947 film classic, Miracle on 34th Street, starring Maureen OHara, Carey played patriot Patrick Henry in John Paul Jones. He appeared in Blue Denim, The Damned, Tammy and the Doctor, in 1956 Carey took over the role of the kindly small-town physician Dr. Christian, a character created in the late 1930s by actor Jean Hersholt on radio and in films. Carey portrayed Dr. Christian on syndicated television for one season, Carey also starred as crusading Herb Maris in the 1950s syndicated series Lock-Up. A total of episodes were made between 1959 and 1961. In 1957 Carey appeared on NBCs The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, on February 7,1958 Carey appeared in the episode License to Kill of CBSs Dick Powells Zane Grey Theater. Carey appeared on CBSs Appointment with Adventure, and in the episode The Incident of the Golden Calf of CBSs Rawhide and he appeared in The Bill Tawnee Story of NBCs Wagon Train with Ward Bond. He guest starred in the 1964-1965 sitcom The Bing Crosby Show on ABC and he appeared as Mr. Edwards in the 1963 episode Pay the Two Dollars of the NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus. In 1961 Carey played a starving artist in The Devils Ticket, in the first season of The Outer Limits, Carey starred in the episode titled The Special One. He later appeared in many all-star television miniseries, such as Roots, The Rebels, Top of the Hill and Condominium. For the remainder of his career, Carey played Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives, from 1965 until his death from cancer in Beverly Hills, California in 1994. During this time, Carey suffered from a problem
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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Fred Clark
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Frederick Leonard Clark was an American film and television character actor. Born in Lincoln, California, Clark made his debut in 1947 in The Unsuspected. His 20-year film career included nearly seventy films and numerous television appearances, in 1942 during World War II Clark joined the United States Navy and served as a pilot. He later transferred to the United States Army and served with the Third Army in Europe until the end of the war, among his films were Ride the Pink Horse, Mr. Clark had a regular but short-lived role in the 1966 ABC sitcom The Double Life of Henry Phyfe as the Central Intelligence Service boss of a hapless conscripted spy played by comedian Red Buttons. Clark was married to actress Benay Venuta from 1952–1962, then model Gloria Glaser from 1966 until his death from disease in Santa Monica. Clark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television, Fred Clark at the Internet Movie Database Fred Clark at Find a Grave
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Percy Helton
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Percy Helton was an American stage, film, and television character actor. A native of New York City, Percy Helton began acting at the age of two, appearing in vaudeville acts with his British-born father, Alfred Alf Hilton. By 1906 he was a cast member in the Broadway production of Clara Lipmans play Julie BonBon, Helton would go on to perform in many other Broadway plays before joining the United States Army in World War I. Deployed to Europe during the war, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his duty with the 305th Field Artillery of the American Expeditionary Forces 77th Division, Helton returned to acting and singing professionally after his discharge from the army. However, in one of his subsequent stage roles he was required to shout, the resulting stress and damage to his vocal chords after repeated performances left him permanently hoarse, with a raspy falsetto voice and a breathy delivery. That change in his voice altered Heltons career and he remained in acting but chiefly as a character actor in a wide range of films and television programs in the 1950s and 1960s. Among those programs were three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Asa Cooperman in the 1961 episode The Case of the Pathetic Patient. Some examples of the films in which he performed include Miracle on 34th Street, Criss Cross, The Set-Up, Kiss Me Deadly, and Butch Cassidy and he is a particular favorite of film noir fans, having co-starred in several classics of the genre. It was his performance in one of films, Wicked Woman. In that role he portrayed a foolish neighbor who gets lured to his doom by a devious waitress played by Beverly Michaels. Percy Helton married Edna Roberta Eustace on October 24,1931 and he died at age 77 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital on September 11,1971, the year of his final film appearance. He is entombed at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, Percy Helton at the Internet Movie Database Percy Helton at the Internet Broadway Database Percy Helton at Find a Grave young Percy Helton on left in Silver Wings -
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Maxie Rosenbloom
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Max Everitt Rosenbloom was an American boxer, actor, and television personality. Born in Leonards Bridge, Connecticut, Rosenbloom was nicknamed Slapsie Maxie by a journalist due to his open gloved style of boxing, in 1930, he won the New York light heavyweight title. In 1932, he won the World Light Heavyweight Championship and he held and defended the title until November 1934, when he lost it to Bob Olin. As a professional boxer, Rosenbloom relied on hitting and moving to score points and he was very difficult to hit cleanly with a power punch and his fights often went the full number of required rounds. In his boxing career, he received thousands of punches to the head, in 1937, he accepted a role in a Hollywood film. He became an actor, portraying comical big guys in movies that included Each Dawn I Die. Slapsy Maxies, the first comedy club, opened in San Francisco and he continued acting on radio, television, and in a number of films, usually playing comedy roles as a big, clumsy, punch-drunk—but lovable—character. He appeared in a number of episodes of The Fred Allen Show—including a skit with Marlene Dietrich. Rosenbloom played an important part in televisions first 90-minute drama, Requiem for a Heavyweight, written by Rod Serling, Rosenbloom played an ex-boxer, whose life revolved around retelling old boxing stories night after night to other ex-boxers in a down-and-out bar. It is the fate that looms for Mountain McClintock, Palances character, in The Honeymooners popular episode TV or Not TV, Jackie Gleasons character Ralph Kramden pays homage to Maxie. He reads aloud a TV listing from the newspaper, Fights Of The World, slapsy Maxies, his nightclub, is prominently featured in a 2013 crime film, Gangster Squad, the story of which is set in 1949. The club, which operated in 1939 at 7165 Beverly Blvd. Rosenbloom died of Pagets disease of bone in 1976 at the age of 68, Rosenbloom was inducted into the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1972. In 1984 he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, in 1929, he had fought with four other Jewish boxers in a benefit at Madison Square Garden to raise relief funds for Palestine. During 1935, he postponed a scheduled fight with Tiger Jack Fox that was scheduled to fall between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur until after the Jewish holidays, Rosenbloom was also inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1993 he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, nothing Sacred The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse Naughty but Nice 20,000 Men a Year Private Detective Public Deb No.1 To the Shores of Tripoli Crazy Knights Three of a Kind Mr
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Frank Fenton (actor)
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Frank Fenton was an American stage, film and television actor. He also appeared on stage in London, and toured with Katherine Cornell in Romeo & Juliet, after moving to Hollywood for Barbara Stanwycks Lady of Burlesque, the Hartford, Connecticut native appeared in more than 80 movies and television programs. Although the majority of his motion picture career was spent in supporting roles, he starred alongside John Carradine in Isle of Forgotten Sins, Fenton was married from 1934-1948 to the former Aqueena Bilotti, daughter of sculptor Salvadore Bilotti. The couple had two daughters, Alicia and Honoree and he is often confused—in print and online—with screenwriter and novelist Frank Fenton. Destiny Rustlers The Golden Stallion The Lawless Appeared in a TV episode of The Lone Ranger Gun the Man Down Frank Fenton at the Internet Movie Database Brief biography and links to films
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Frank Faylen
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Frank Faylen was an American film and television actor. Born Frank Ruf in St. Louis, Missouri, he began his career as an infant appearing with his vaudeville-performing parents on stage. The family lived on a showboat, after traveling with his showbisiness parents through his childhood, Faylen became a stage actor at 18, and eventually began working in films in the 1930s. He began playing a number of bit parts for Warner Bros. then freelanced for other studios in gradually larger character roles. He appeared as Walt Disneys musical conductor in The Reluctant Dragon, Faylen and Laurel and Hardy supporting player Charlie Hall were teamed briefly by Monogram Pictures. Faylens breakthrough came in 1945, where he was cast as Bim, in the following year, he played Ernie Bishop, the friendly taxi driver in Frank Capras 1946 film Its a Wonderful Life. Faylens career also stretched to television, playing long-suffering grocer Herbert T. Gillis on the 1950s-60s television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, in 1968, he had a small part in the Barbra Streisand film Funny Girl. Faylen appeared in almost 200 films and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Faylen was married to Carol Hughes, an actress and he died from pneumonia in 1985. He was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles and his two daughters, Catherine and Carol, are retired actresses. Catherine Kay Faylen was Regis Philbins first wife, Frank Faylen at the Internet Movie Database Frank Faylen at Find a Grave
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Walter Baldwin
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Walter Baldwin was a prolific character actor whose career spanned five decades and 150 film and television roles, and numerous stage performances. Baldwin, who was born Walter S. Baldwin Jr. in Lima, Ohio from a theatrical family and he was probably best known for playing the father of the handicapped sailor in The Best Years of Our Lives. He was the first actor to portray Floyd the Barber on The Andy Griffith Show, prior to his first film roles in 1939, Baldwin had appeared in more than a dozen Broadway plays. He played Whit in the first Broadway production of Of Mice and Men and he originated the role of Bensinger, the prissy Chicago Tribune reporter, in the Broadway production of The Front Page. In the 1960s he had acting roles in television shows such as Petticoat Junction. He continued to act in motion pictures, and one of his last roles was in Rosemarys Baby, Baldwin was known for playing solid middle class burghers, although sometimes he gave portrayals of eccentric characters. He played a customer seeking a prostitute in The Lost Weekend, Walter Baldwin was featured in a lot of John Deere Day Movies from 1949-59 where he played the farmer Tom Gordon. In this series of Deere Day movies over a decade he helped to introduce many new pieces of John Deere farm equipment year-by-year. In each yearly movie he would be shown on his in A Tom Gordon Family Film where he would be buying new John Deere farm equipment or a new green and yellow tractor. 1930 Census records, retrieved December 3,2008 Draft Card, Walter S. Baldwin Jr. Walter Baldwin at the Internet Movie Database Walter Baldwin at the Internet Broadway Database
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Isabel Randolph
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Isabel Randolph was an American character actress in radio and film from the 1940s through the 1960s and in television from the early 1950s to the middle 1960s. Abigail Uppington, a snooty society matron whom Fibber addressed as Uppy and she stayed with the comedy series for seven years, but was gone when the show began its eighth season in the fall of 1943. She also starred as the wife in NBCs soap opera Dan Hardings Wife, even while young, Randolph specialized in middle-aged grand dame roles on stage and radio, continuing in these roles when she entered films in 1940. She re-created her character of Mrs. Uppington in RKOs Look Whos Laughing in 1941 and Here We Go Again in 1942, in 1943, she co-starred in the Republic musical O, My Darling Clementine. She worked in more than a few 1940s films with Lucille Ball, Randolph worked on over seventy films from 1939 to 1959. She was seen as private-school proprietress Mrs. Nestor during the season of Our Miss Brooks. She played the character of neighbor Mrs. Boone in Meet Millie. She was also a comedic actor in 1952 on The Abbott and Costello Show. Her first role on television was a protagonist on the 1951 version of Dick Tracy, in 1958, Randolph appeared as Grandma Wilkins on the episode Wyatt Earp Rides Shotgun of the ABC/Desilu western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. In the story line, deputy Wyatt Earp is trying to stop the Dan Purvis gang from attacking Wells Fargo, Mason Alan Dinehart appears in this episode a young Bat Masterson. Randolph appeared in The Andy Griffith Show episodes A Plaque for Mayberry, One of her last appearances on television was in 1966 in her recurring role as Clara Petrie, the mother of Rob on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Later that year she concluded her career when she played the role of Madam Rosa Bruening in the Perry Mason episode. Randolph died January 11,1973, in Burbank, California, Isabel Randolph at Find a Grave Isabel Randolph at the Internet Movie Database
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Taylor Holmes
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Taylor Holmes was an actor who appeared in over 100 Broadway plays in his five-decade career. However, he is probably best remembered for his film roles, in one of his earliest films, he starred in A Pair of Sixes, produced by George K. Spoor. Holmes was born on May 16,1878, in Newark, Holmes began his stage career in vaudeville and made his first professional appearance at Keiths Theatre in Boston in 1899. In 1900, Holmes appeared George Bernard Shaws Candida in Chicago, noted British theater critic William Archer saw the production and encouraged Holmes to go to London to further his career. Holmes sought out Archer in London some months later and joined the company founded by Olga Nethersole and he achieved only middling success before returning to the American stages. He made his Broadway debut in February 1900 in the controversial play Sapho, Holmes played Rosencrantz with E. H. Sothern in a production of Hamlet and toured with Robert Edeson. He appeared in hits such as The Commuters, The Music Master. Early film appearances included Efficiency Edgars Courtship and Fools for Luck, by the 1940s, he was working more on film than on stage. He also played Ebenezer Scrooge in what is considered a notoriously bad half-hour television version of Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol. Only months after the release of his film, Sleeping Beauty, as King Stefan, Taylor Holmes died on September 30,1959. He was married to actress Edna Phillips and was the father of actors Phillips Holmes, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, Holmes has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His interment was is in Culver Citys Holy Cross Cemetery
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Charles McGraw
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Charles Butters, best known by his stage name Charles McGraw, was an American actor. The son of Francis Butters and Beatrice Crisp Butters, McGraw was born in Des Moines, in January 1932, he graduated from high school, later attending college for one semester. His early jobs included working on a freighter and dancing in night clubs, before becoming an actor, he served a tour of duty in the United States Army during World War II. Before getting into film, McGraw was active in theatrical road companies and he also appeared in dozens of off-Broadway productions. McGraw made his first film in 1942 with a small, uncredited role in The Undying Monster and he developed into a leading man, especially in the film noir genre during the late 1940s and early 1950s. His gravelly voice and rugged looks enhanced his appeal in that very stylistic genre and his first notable role was in The Killers, which opens with McGraw and fellow heavy William Conrad as the two hitmen who terrorize a small-town diner in their search for Burt Lancaster. Jim Cordell in Armored Car Robbery, Kirk Douglas gladiator trainer in the epic Spartacus, McGraw starred as Mike Waring, the title character, in the 39-episode 1954–55 syndicated television series Adventures of the Falcon. The series updated the original Falcon premise to have Michael Waring as an agent in the Cold War. He also starred in the first television version of Casablanca, taking Humphrey Bogarts role as Rick Blaine.165 Additionally, he had the role of Captain Hughes in The Smith Family. In 1960, McGraw played United States Army scout Tom Barrows in the episode The Scout on the ABC/Desilu western television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, though he has an Apache wife, Barrows is known for his attacks on Apache warriors. He is called The Listener because he cuts off and wears the ears of the Indians he has killed, the Indians retaliate by killing Barrows wife. McGraw also appeared in an episode of The Untouchables titled The Jake Lingle Killing and this was notable as a pre-Hawaii Five-O Jack Lord was the lead hero in the show instead of Ness. He also portrayed an unbalanced rear admiral in an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea titled The Sky is Falling, McGraw married Freda Choy Kitt in 1938. Charles McGraw died after slipping and falling through a glass door in his Studio City, California home on July 30,1980. His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean, McGraw is recognized with a star in the Television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6927 Hollywood Blvd. It was dedicated February 8,1960, rode wrote a biography of McGraw, Charles McGraw, Biography of a Film Noir Tough Guy. The book provides a look and anecdotes about his life, including, his long marriage to a Eurasian woman, his World War II Army service, his film career
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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The Committee on Credentials
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The Committee on Credentials is a 1916 American silent film featuring Harry Carey. It is based on the novel The Pride of Palomar by Peter Bernard Kyne and it follows the protagonist Ballrat Bob, who tries to protect an acquaintance and squatter, Clem, from gambling away all of his money. In an attempt to protect the welfare of Clems wife, Ballrat Bob takes Clems savings and this causes Clem to think his wife is having an affair, he goes on to shoot up the town and eventually ends up in a confrontation with Bob. Kyne said of his novel, I have at last finished writing The Pride of Palomar, of the silent films in the early 20th century, Peter French says calls it a dramatic tale of personal crimes, moral tales, and the place of crime in public life. Harry Carey George Berrell Neal Hart Joe Rickson Olive Carey Elizabeth Janes List of American films of 1916 Harry Carey filmography The Committee on Credentials at the Internet Movie Database
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The Adventures of Ruth
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The Adventures of Ruth is a 1919 American film serial directed by George Marshall. It is now considered to be a lost film, as described in a film magazine, Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as the 13, and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth, brought home from boarding school, reaches his bedside before he expires and he tells her that she will be given thirteen keys. Instructions will be provided with key and, if she follows the instructions. Many adventures then follow as Ruth attempts to solve the puzzle of each key, Ruth Roland as Ruth Robin Herbert Heyes as Bob Wright Thomas G. Roland was the producer but it was written by Gilson Willets and directed by George Marshall. The Adventures of Ruth at the Internet Movie Database
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Their First Mistake
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Their First Mistake is a 1932 short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by George Marshall and produced by Hal Roach. Mrs. Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs. Hardy says that she leave him if Ollie goes out with Stan again. Stan suggests that Ollie adopts a baby, which he does, unfortunately, his wife has left their apartment on returning, and a process server delivers a paper informing Ollie that she is suing him for divorce, naming Stan as co-respondent. The boys are now left to look after the infant on their own and their First Mistake is a rare film for the duo, as there is no resolution at the end. In the original script, Mrs. Hardy came back to Oliver with another adopted baby, the neighbor in the hall to whom Laurel and Hardy give the cigar is director George Marshall. Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Mae Busch Billy Gilbert George Marshall Their First Mistake at the Internet Movie Database Their First Mistake at Rotten Tomatoes
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Towed in a Hole
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Towed in a Hole is a 1932 Laurel and Hardy film. Laurel and Hardy are in the fish business and they drive around town seeing if they can sell any. Stan suggests they catch their own fish and keep all the profits, Ollie likes the idea of cutting out the middleman so they buy a boat at a junk yard. After testing it for leaks by filling it with water and some such as dropping an anchor through the hull and sawing through the mast. When the boat is ready, the whole operation goes south when they decide to hoist the sail. Stan Laurel as Stanley Oliver Hardy as Ollie Billy Gilbert as Joe the junkyard owner Towed in a Hole was remade by The Three Stooges in 1945 as Booby Dupes, Towed in a Hole at the Internet Movie Database Towed in a Hole at Rotten Tomatoes
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Music Is Magic
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Music Is Magic is a 1935 Fox musical film directed by George Marshall. The movie stars Alice Faye and Bebe Daniels and is based on a play by Jesse Lasky Jr. the movie was Daniels last American screen appearance. Diane De Valle is a theatre actress who cant deal with getting older. Trying to hide it, she has to come to terms she is being replaced by a younger actress and she has to defeat the much younger Peggy Harper for a role of a young woman in an upcoming stage production
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A Message to Garcia (1936 film)
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A Message to Garcia is a 1936 American war film directed by George Marshall and starring Wallace Beery and Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles and Alan Hale, Sr. The film is inspired by the 1899 essay A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard, the essay had previously been made into a 1916 silent film A Message to Garcia. Agent Rowan carries a message from President McKinley to General Garcia the leader of a rebellion against Spanish rule on the island of Cuba during the time of the Spanish–American War. The film opens with the Maine Incident of 1898 in which an American warship blew-up in Havana harbor, allegedly following sabotage by Spain, Rowan slips into Cuba with the aid of the crew of a neutral British ship. But after discovering his mission, the Spanish hire the cynical, amoral Doctor Krug to hunt down the American before he can reach Garcia, both are convinced that Rowan wont make it across the dangerous Cuban interior without help. Aided by villages of Cuban patriots, they make their way towards their destination and they also encounter Henry Piper, a British merchant from Sheffield, who has become lost in the Cuban interior. Spanish troops led by Krug remain constantly on their trail, Rowan falls into the hands of the Spanish, and Doctor Krug begins torturing to discover the whereabouts of the message which Rowan has hidden in the barrel of his pistol. Dory, meanwhile, has been captured by the Cuban rebels who wish to execute him for having sold them useless ammunition. Dorys personal appeal to Garcia for help to rescue Rowan, who he now realises is in Spanish hands, is refused, only the dramatic arrival of the British merchant Piper who verifies the truth of Dorys story saves the American from being shot. Garcia begins organizing an attempt which Dory volunteers for. Rowan has resisted torture, and refused to break, but when the Spanish bring in Raphaelita, whom they have captured, she tries to persuade him to end his suffering and reveal the message. He still resists, holding out long enough until the Cubans launch an assault on the Spanish positions. Dory rescues Rowan, but is killed in the process, Rowan presents McKinleys message to Garcia who tells him this message means the liberation of our people. The parts of Dory and Raphaelita are fictional and were created to provide roles for Beery and Stanwyck, the British comedian Herbert Mundin appeared to add comic relief in his role as an English merchant. Dell Henderson plays President William McKinley but with a voice dubbed by John Carradine. A Message to Garcia at the Internet Movie Database
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The Goldwyn Follies
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The Goldwyn Follies is a 1938 Technicolor film written by Ben Hecht, Sid Kuller, Sam Perrin and Arthur Phillips, with music by George Gershwin, Vernon Duke, and Ray Golden, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Some sources credit Kurt Weill as one of the composers, the Goldwyn Follies was the first Technicolor film produced by Samuel Goldwyn. The style of the film is similar to other musicals of its era, including the Gold Diggers series. The film is a satire on Hollywood and have some excellent numbers choreographed by George Balanchine. Songs include, Our Love is Here to Stay I Was Doing All Right Spring Again Love Walked In I Love to Rhyme This was the last film written by George Gershwin before his death on 11 July 1937. The Goldwyn Follies was released on 20 February 1938, the movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Score and for Best Interior Decoration. Basil Crane Jr. com/g/goldwyn_follies. shtml Harry Medved, Randy Dreyfuss, and Michael Medved, The Fifty Worst Films of All Time The Goldwyn Follies at the Internet Movie Database
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
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You Cant Cheat an Honest Man is a 1939 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields also wrote the story on which the film is based under the name Charles Bogle, whipsnades co-ed daughter pays a visit and falls in love with Bergen, but after she sees the financial mess that her father is in, she decides to marry a tiresome young millionaire. Whipsnade initially approves of the marriage, and just to be sure that the penniless Bergen doesnt win out, however, Whipsnade creates a scene at the engagement party, and father and daughter escape together in a chariot, with Bergen and McCarthy in pursuit. The whimsical title comes from a spoken by Fields about ten minutes into the film. Whipsnade says that his grandfather Litvaks last words, spoken just before they sprung the trap, were, You cant cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump. The line expands on his characters comment to his daughter in the musical Poppy, Let me give you just one bit of fatherly advice, the character name is obviously a play on larceny, a point which Fields reinforces at one point when someone calls him Larceny Whipsnake. The film features Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, capitalizing on the popularity of their ongoing feud with Fields. According to historian William K. Everson, the film has three directors, reeves Eason was the second-unit director, helming the chase scenes and other action-oriented material. Fields character in film would inspire the authors of the comic strip The Wizard of Id to create a shady lawyer character. A scene from the film is featured in the opening to Dummy and you Cant Cheat an Honest Man at the Internet Movie Database You Cant Cheat an Honest Man at the TCM Movie Database You Cant Cheat an Honest Man at AllMovie
