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Elliott Nugent
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Elliott Nugent was an American actor, playwright, writer, and film director. Nugent, the son of actor J. C. Nugent and he directed The Cat and the Canary, starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. He also directed the Hope films Never Say Die and My Favorite Brunette, Nugent was a college classmate of fellow Ohioan James Thurber. Together, they wrote the Broadway play The Male Animal in which Nugent starred with Gene Tierney and he also directed the 1942 Warner Bros. film version of The Male Animal, starring Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland. Nugent was the brother-in-law of actor Alan Bunce of Ethel and Albert fame
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Clifton Webb
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He was known for his stage appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, notably Blithe Spirit, as well as appearances on Broadway in a number of very successful musical revues. Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in Indianapolis, Indiana, the couple married in Kankakee, Illinois, on January 18,1888, and separated in 1891, shortly after their sons birth. According to Marion County, Indiana, marriage records, they married in Indianapolis on January 18,1888, in 1892, Webbs mother, now called Mabelle, moved to New York City with her beloved little Webb, as she called him for the remainder of her life. She dismissed questions about her husband, Jacob, who like her father, worked for the Indianapolis-St. Louis Railroad, by saying and he didnt care for the theatre. The couple apparently divorced, since by 1900, Mabelle was married to Green B, Raum was the son of General Green Berry Raum, former U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue and former U. S, Webbs father, Jacob, married, as his second wife, Ethel Brown, and died in 1939. His mother was listed in the program as a member of the opening-night cast and his next musical was an Al Jolson vehicle, Sigmund Rombergs Dancing Around. It opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 10,1914 and it closed 68 performances later on November 20,1915. In 1916, he had another run with Cole Porters comic opera See America First, which opened at the Maxine Elliott Theatre on March 28,1916. The year 1917 proved to be better, with a 233-performance run of Jerome Kerns Love O Mike, after moving to Maxine Elliotts Theatre and Casino Theatre, it closed on September 29,1917. Future Mama star Peggy Wood was also in the cast, Webbs final show of the 1910s, the musical Listen Lester, had the longest run,272 performances. It opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 23,1918, Webb appeared with other Broadway stars in National Red Cross Pageant, a 50-minute film of a stage production held to benefit the American Red Cross. The 1920s had Webb in no fewer than eight Broadway shows, numerous stage appearances, including vaudeville. The revue As You Were, with songs by Cole Porter, opened at the Central Theatre on January 29,1920. One of the leads was 24-year-old Humphrey Bogart. In 1925, Webb appeared on stage in an act with vaudeville star. Later that year, when her husband, Tolable David star Richard Barthelmess and she decided to produce and star in New Toys, the film proved to be financially successful, but 19 more years passed before Webb appeared in another feature film. Webbs mainstay was the Broadway theatre, between 1913 and 1947, the tall and slender performer who sang in a clear, gentle tenor, appeared in 23 Broadway shows, starting with major supporting roles and quickly progressing to leads
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Shirley Temple
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Shirley Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman and diplomat who was most notable as Hollywoods number one box-office star from 1935 to 1938. As an adult, she was named United States ambassador to Ghana and to Czechoslovakia, Shirley Temple began her film career in 1932 at age 3. In 1934, she found fame in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. Licensed merchandise that capitalized on her image included dolls, dishes. Her box-office popularity waned as she reached adolescence and she appeared in a few films of varying quality in her mid-to-late teens, and retired from films in 1950 at the age of 22. Temple returned to business in 1958 with a two-season television anthology series of fairy tale adaptations. She made guest appearances on shows in the early 1960s. She sat on the boards of corporations and organizations including The Walt Disney Company, Del Monte Foods, in 1988, she published her autobiography, Child Star. Temple was the recipient of awards and honors, including the Kennedy Center Honors. She is 18th on the American Film Institutes list of the greatest female American screen legends of Classic Hollywood cinema, Shirley Temple was born on April 23,1928, in Santa Monica, California. She was the child of Gertrude Amelia Temple, a homemaker, and George Francis Temple. The family was of English, German, and Dutch ancestry and she had two brothers, George Francis, Jr. and John Stanley. The family moved to Brentwood, Los Angeles and her mother supported her young daughters singing, dancing, and acting talents, and in September 1931, enrolled her in Meglins Dance School in Los Angeles. About this time, her mother began styling her daughters hair in ringlets, while at Meglins, she was spotted by Charles Lamont, a casting director for Educational Pictures. Although Shirley hid behind the piano while in the studio, Lamont took a shine to her, invited her to audition, Educational Pictures were about to launch their Baby Burlesks, multiple short films satirizing recent film and political events, using preschool children in every role. Baby Burlesks was a series of one-reelers, another series of two-reelers called Frolics of Youth followed, with Shirley playing Mary Lou Rogers, to underwrite production costs at Educational, she and her child co-stars modeled for breakfast cereals and other products. She was lent to Tower Productions for a role in her first feature film in 1932 and, in 1933, to Universal, Paramount. After Educational Pictures declared bankruptcy in 1933, her father purchased her contract for $25, while walking out of the viewing of her last Frolics of Youth picture, Fox Film songwriter Jay Gorney saw the little girl dancing in the movie theater lobby
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Tom Drake
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Tom Drake, born Alfred Sinclair Alderdice in Brooklyn, New York, was an American actor. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, Drake was excused from serving in World War II due to heart problems. Despite this limitation, he did act in British training films and he got his break after starring in the 1942 Broadway smash Janie, after which he was signed to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After a number of films, Drake co-starred with Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis as John Truett and he appeared in more than forty films in all, including Mrs. He also had a role in the movie The Singing Nun. Drake died of cancer on August 11,1982. He is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California, features, Our Town The Howards of Virginia Northern Pursuit Two Girls and a Sailor The White Cliffs of Dover Maisie Goes to Reno Marriage Is a Private Affair Mrs. Parkington Meet Me in St
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
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Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell is a 1951 comedy film, the third and final one starring Clifton Webb as Lynn Belvedere. It follows on from Sitting Pretty and Mr. Belvedere Goes to College, Mr. Belvedere is on a lecture tour on the topic How to be young, though eighty. He wonders if there is any point in living to be eighty himself after overhearing four residents of the Church of John old age home talk about their ailments and he decides to embark on an investigation at the home. When he goes to see Bishop Daniels about gaining entry, he is mistaken for Oliver Erwenter, who had applied for admission and he does not correct the mistake since only the aged are admitted. Belvedere also helps Harriet Tripp, Watsons assistant, with her romance problem, with the help of Emmett, the lecture tour companys advance man, Belvedere makes preparations for a church bazaar to raise funds for the poverty-stricken place. Watson soon discovers his newest charges true identity, but keeps the information to himself after seeing how much good Belvedere has accomplished, however, reporters finally uncover his deception, and the disillusioned senior citizens revert to their cheerless routine. Belvedere manages to convince them that they are only as old as they think they are, watson also sees the light and proposes to Miss Tripp. His work done, and convinced it is worth his while to live to eighty, the film was based on the play The Silver Whistle by Robert E. MacEnroe. Although the plot of the film resembles that of the play, the leading character was a hobo named Oliver Erwenter, played by José Ferrer. The Silver Whistle, with all of its characters, was telecast in 1959 on Playhouse 90. Bosley Crowther, critic for The New York Times, called the film a poorly conceived alteration of The Silver Whistle
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Autodidacticism
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Autodidacticism or self-education is the education without the guidance of masters or institutions. Generally, an autodidact is an individual who chooses the subject they will study, their studying material, an autodidact may or may not have formal education, and their study may be either a complement or an alternative to it. Many notable contributions have made by autodidacts. The related term didacticism defines an artistic philosophy of education, various terms are used to describe self-education. One such is heutagogy, coined in 2000 by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon of Southern Cross University in Australia, others are self-directed learning, in the heutagogy paradigm, a learner should be at the centre of his or her own learning. Autodidacticism is sometimes a complement of modern education, as a complement to education, students would be encouraged to do more independent work. The Industrial Revolution created a new situation for self-directed learners, before the 20th century, only a small minority of people received an advanced academic education. As stated by Joseph Whitworth in his report on industry dated from 1853. However, even in the US, most children were not completing high school, high school education was necessary to become a teacher. In modern times, a percentage of those completing high school also attended college, usually to pursue a professional degree, such as law or medicine. For many professions or for personal knowledge, however, formal education is not so necessary today due to the availability of free information on the Internet. Whereas in the past, one of the benefits of going to college was to gain access to their superior libraries, today access to facts. Financial analyst and author Peter Schiff, for one, says that never before in history has it been so easy to be self-educated, collegiate teaching was based on the classics until the early 19th century. There were few if any institutions of higher learning offering studies in engineering or science before 1800, institutions such as the Royal Society did much to promote scientific learning, including public lectures. In England, there were also itinerant lecturers offering their service, prior to the 19th century, there were many important inventors working as millwrights or mechanics who had typically received an elementary education and served an apprenticeship. Mechanics, instrument makers and surveyors had various mathematics training, james Watt was a surveyor and instrument maker and is described as being largely self-educated. Watt, like some other autodidacts of the time, became a Fellow of the Royal Society, academies also arose to provide scientific and technical training. Years of schooling in the United States began to increase sharply in the early 20th century and this phenomenon was seemingly related to increasing mechanization displacing child labor
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Alan Young
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Alan Young was a British-born Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio and television host/personality who TV Guide called The Charlie Chaplin of Television. He was best known for his role as naive Wilbur Post in the comedy series Mister Ed. During the 1940s and 1950s, he starred in his own variety/comedy sketch shows The Alan Young Show on radio and television, Young was born as Angus Young on November 19,1919, in North Shields, Northumberland, England, to Scottish parents. His father was a worker and a tap dancer. The family moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, when Young was a toddler and to West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Young came to love radio when bedridden as a child because of severe asthma. By the time he was in school, Young had his own comedy radio series on the CBC network. He later resigned his Navy commission after learning he would be spending his time writing for a Navy show, according to some sources, the Army rejected him due to his childhood asthma. Youngs first American radio appearances were on the Philco Radio Hall of Fame and this led to his own show, The Alan Young Show, NBCs summer replacement for the series The Eddie Cantor Show. He switched to ABC two years later, then returned to NBC, youngs film debut was in Margie, and he was featured in Chicken Every Sunday. In 1950, the version of The Alan Young Show began. By 1951, the series received not only praise, but also several Primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Actor and Most Outstanding Personality for Young. After its cancellation, Young continued to act in films, among which Androcles and the Lion and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes and he appeared in the NBC espionage drama Five Fingers, starring David Hedison. He also starred as Stanley Beamish in the unaired 1966 pilot episode of Mr. Terrific, in the late 1960s, he retired from acting for several years. During that time, he founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science Church, during the 1970s, Young became active in voice acting. After 1974, he voiced Scrooge McDuck in numerous Disney films, in Mickeys Christmas Carol, he portrayed the characters miserly namesake. He also played Scrooge in video games such as the Kingdom Hearts series, DuckTales, Remastered in 2013, and he also guest starred on The Love Boat, The Incredible Hulk, The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show, and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. In 1991, Alan Young returned to the stage, starring as Capn Andy Hawkes in The California Music Theatres adaptation of Show Boat and he had been called for the role after Van Johnson, who was initially cast in the part, was hospitalised. He had also appeared in the plays A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, in 1993, he recreated his role as Filby for the mini-sequel to George Pals The Time Machine, reuniting him with Rod Taylor, who had played George, the Time Traveller
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Jessie Royce Landis
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Jessie Royce Landis was an American actress. Jessie Royce Landis was born Jessie Medbury in Chicago, Illinois, to Paul, an orchestra musician, as per Ancestry. com, Royce does not appear to have been her middle name by birth, her middle initial is cited as either J. or T. Her acting surname Landis derives from her first husband, although she was married twice more, Landis was a stage actress for much of her career. In the 1950s, she began appearing in movies as an actress, most notably in To Catch a Thief. In North by Northwest she played Grants characters mother, and in To Catch a Thief and The Swan, Landis also made many television appearances. Landiss appearance in North by Northwest earned her publicity for portraying Cary Grants mother despite claiming to be nearly a year younger, Landis listed 1904 as the year of her birth, a date now given by many printed biographies and online sources. However, in the tradition of actresses, she had actually shaved years off her age – in this instance. She appears in the 1900 U. S. Census as a 3-year-old born in November 1896 and her third husband and widower was United States Army Major General John F. R. Jeff Seitz. Her autobiography, titled You Wont Be So Pretty, was published in 1954, Landis died of cancer in Danbury, Connecticut on February 2,1972, aged 75
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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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Barry Kelley
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Barry Kelley was an actor on Broadway in the 1930s and 1940s and in films during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The heavy-set actor created the role of Ike in Oklahoma, the 64, 230-pound Kelley was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the Goodman School of Theatre there. Kelley began acting on the stage in the 1930s, in films, Kelley often portrayed cops or judges in films, including Boomerang, Knock on Any Door, Ma and Pa Kettle, and The Asphalt Jungle. Kelley also appeared in dozens of television series, as in the movies, he usually was in westerns or crime dramas. Kelley had a role as a police chief in the 1964 Frank Sinatra musical Robin. In 1954 he appeared in a TV episode of The Lone Ranger entitled Texas Draw. He was cast in 1961 in six episodes as Mr. Slocum, in 1962, Kelley played Captain Donovan in the episode The Parish Car of the ABC drama series, Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly. He played the journalist George Hearst in the 1964 episode The Paper Dynasty of the syndicated series, in 1966 he played murderer Park Milgrave in the Perry Mason episode, The Case of the Fanciful Frail. His last television role was as Sheriff Vic Crandall in three episodes in 1967 and 1968 of the CBS sitcom, Petticoat Junction and he also appeared occasionally as Alan Youngs father-in-law on the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed. Kelley died at the age of 82 in Woodland Hills, California
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Jeff Chandler
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Jeff Chandler was an American actor, film producer and singer best remembered for playing Cochise in Broken Arrow, for which he was Oscar nominated. He was one of Universal Picturess most popular stars of the 1950s, his best known other credits including Sword in the Desert, Deported, Female on the Beach. He was notable for being gray-haired at an age. Chandler was born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in the Brooklyn borough of New York City and he was raised by his mother after his parents separated when he was a child. He attended Erasmus Hall High School, the mater of many stage and film personalities. Chandlers father was connected with the restaurant business and got his son a job as a restaurant cashier. Chandler said he wanted to act, but courses for commercial art were cheaper, so he studied art for a year. Eventually he saved up money to take a drama course at the Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New York. He worked briefly in radio, then got a job in a company on Long Island as an actor. He worked for two years in companies, including a performance of The Trojan Horse opposite Gordon MacRae and his wife. Chandler formed his own company, the Shady Lane Playhouse, in Illinois in the summer of 1941 and this toured the Midwest with some success, presenting such plays as The Bad Man, Seventh Heaven, The New Minister and Pigs. When America entered World War Two Chandler enlisted in the army and he served for four years, mostly in the Aleutians, finishing with the rank of lieutenant. After being discharged from the Army, Chandler moved to Los Angeles in December 1945 with $3,000 he had saved. Shortly after his arrival he was involved in a car accident on the way to a screen test. Chandler initially struggled to work in Hollywood and had spent all his savings when he got his first job as a radio actor in May 1946. He went on to appear in episodes of drama series such as Escape and Academy Award Theater. Chandler was the first actor to portray Chad Remington in Frontier Town. He tested for Columbias The Loves of Carmen and did not get it but went on to small roles as gangsters in Roses are Red and The Invisible Wall
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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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Turner Classic Movies
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Turner Classic Movies is an American movie-oriented basic cable and satellite television network owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgias Midtown business district, historically, the channels programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company, Warner Bros. and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, France, Spain, Nordic countries, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In 1986, eight years before the launch of Turner Classic Movies, concerns over Turner Entertainments corporate debt load resulted in Turner selling the studio that October back to Kirk Kerkorian, from whom Turner had purchased the studio less than a year before. As part of the deal, Turner Entertainment retained ownership of MGMs library of films released up to May 9,1986, Turner Broadcasting System was split into two companies, Turner Broadcasting System and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reincorporated as MGM/UA Communications Co. The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the form of programming for TCM upon the networks launch. After the library was acquired, MGM/UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. film libraries for video release. Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14,1994, at 6,00 p. m. Eastern Time, the date and time were chosen for their historical significance as the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City. The first movie broadcast on TCM was the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, at the time of its launch, TCM was available to approximately one million cable television subscribers. AMC had broadened its content to feature colorized and more recent films by 2002. In the early 90s AMC abandoned its format, leaving TCM as the only movie-oriented cable channel to devote its programming entirely to classic films without commercial interruption. In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner, which besides placing Turner Classic Movies, in March 1999, MGM paid Warner Bros. and gave up the home video rights to the MGM/UA films owned by Turner to Warner Home Video. In 2008, TCM won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, in April 2010, Turner Classic Movies held the first TCM Classic Film Festival, an event – now held annually – at the Graumans Chinese Theater and the Graumans Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. In 2007, some of the films featured on TCM were made available for streaming on TCMs website. The networks programming season runs from February until the following March of each year when a retrospective of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies is shown, called 31 Days of Oscar. Turner Classic Movies presents many of its features in their original aspect ratio whenever possible – widescreen films broadcast on TCM are letterboxed on the standard definition feed. TCM also regularly presents widescreen presentations of films not available in the format on any video release
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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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Mr. Belvedere
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Mr. Belvedere is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from March 15,1985 to July 8,1990. The series is based on the Lynn Aloysius Belvedere character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel Belvedere, the sitcom stars Christopher Hewett in the title role, who takes a job as a butler with an American family headed by George Owens, played by Bob Uecker. The series follows posh butler Lynn Belvedere, as he struggles to adapt to the Owens household, the breadwinner, George, is a sportswriter. His wife Marsha is attending law school, at the shows start, older son Kevin is a senior in high school, daughter Heather is a freshman, and Wesley is in elementary school. Several episodes deal with the relationship between Wesley and Mr. Belvedere, who are always at odds with one another, with Wesley constantly antagonizing Belvedere and it is shown that deep down, however, they really love each other. In season twos Wesleys Friend – one of the many very special episodes – Danny, one of Wesleys classmates. Danny is taken out of due to the ignorance and uncertainty that shared by the parents of many of the other children at Wesleys school. After hearing rumors from his friends about how HIV can be spread, leading them to him if he keeps spending time with Danny. Mr. Belvedere is there for him and the child, and he helps Wesley to shed his fear of the boy, throughout the series, Mr. Belvedere serves as a mentor of sorts to Wesley as well as to the other children. Being a cultured man with skills and achievements, he also comes to serve as some sort of a counselor to the Owens clan, helping them solve their dilemmas. Each episode ends with Mr. Belvedere writing in his journal, recounting the events of the day with the Owens family, a frequent gag on the show involves Heathers air-headed best friend Angela, who always mispronounces Mr. Belvederes name. Another frequent gag involves George and Mr. Belvedere butting heads, yet another recurring gag features George always trying to be initiated into a local charity club, the Happy Guys of Pittsburgh. Wesleys highly acrimonious relationship with the next door neighbors, the Hufnagels. Furthermore, in six, episode eleven, the show contains a flash forward to 2040 where Donald Trump is mentioned as the owner of the moon. The character of Lynn Belvedere was originally created by Gwen Leys Davenport in her 1947 novel and he accepts such employment because he is secretly writing a novel about a community filled with gossips and busybodies. Webbs performance in the film earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, all efforts, however, were unsuccessful until 1985, when ABC picked up Mr. Belvedere to series to serve as a mid-season replacement, with British actor Christopher Hewett playing Lynn Belvedere. The show eventually developed with a family in suburban Beaver Falls. According to Dungan and Stein, Pittsburgh was chosen as the setting because It was either Pittsburgh or Paris and Paris doesnt have the Penguins
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The Mouthpiece
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The Mouthpiece is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film starring Warren William and directed by James Flood and Elliott Nugent. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros, vincent Day is a prosecutor who is on the fast track to success. When a man he zealously prosecuted all the way to the chair is found to have been innocent, he becomes distressed. At the suggestion of a bartender, he decides to switch teams and become a defense attorney specializing in the representation of gangsters. He will use any tactic to get his clients acquitted, up to, the jury acquits the man not knowing that immediately after, Day rushes into a Mob doctors office for a pre-arranged stomach pump. Celia Farraday is a young secretary recently arrived in the city from a town in Kentucky. When Day makes play for her, she spurns his advances, loyal to her fiance, however, his associates send him a message that his departure will not be allowed. He lets them know that he has all of their secrets in a safe-deposit box and they call his bluff and he is shot while leaving his office to attend Celias wedding. On the way to the hospital, he tells his secretary that the criminals were wrong to call his bluff. The movie leaves it ambiguous whether Day, shot several times, the film was remade in 1940—but with a different ending and starring George Brent—under the title The Man Who Talked Too Much. The Mouthpiece at the Internet Movie Database The Mouthpiece at AllMovie The Mouthpiece at the TCM Movie Database The Mouthpiece at the American Film Institute Catalog
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Life Begins (film)
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Life Begins is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon and Glenda Farrell. The film was adapted from the play of the name by Mary M. Axelson. It was released by Warner Bros. on September 10,1932, the film was praised for its honest portrayal of a maternity ward. At a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily, efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward running smoothly. Things liven up when Grace Sutton is transferred from the prison where she is being held for murder, most agree that the man she killed deserved to die, and Nurse Bowers sympathetically allows Graces concerned husband Jed unlimited time with his wife. In the ward, the women have varied feelings about motherhood, mrs. West, a mother of six children, thinks babies are what give meaning to womens lives. In contrast, Florette, a showgirl, just wants to get rid of her twins as soon as possible, Miss Layton has decided opinions about child rearing and has no intention of being a doting mother. While the women debate their various theories, a woman who wants a baby so much that she has become demented wanders in from another ward, an Italian woman quietly sobs when she learns that her newborn has died. After a touching farewell with Jed, Grace, whose health has suffered from prison conditions, is taken into the labor room, while Jed waits anxiously, Florette is appalled by the plans that the prospective adoptive mother of her twins has concocted. She cradles one baby herself and discovers mother love, Miss Layton has also given up on her progressive plans for her baby. Down the hall, things are going badly for Grace, when the doctors ask Jed to choose between saving Grace or the baby, he chooses Grace, but she herself insists that the doctors operate and save the baby. After she dies, Jed refuses to see the girl, but wise Nurse Bowers places the child in his arms. The movie was remade by Warner Bros. in 1939 as the film A Child is Born, the censors expressed concern at the directness of the movies subject, but it was acceptable for Warner Bros. to re-release the film in 1936. However, the movie was banned in London, mordaunt Hall of The New York Times writes in his movie review, It is a film endowed with fine performances by most of the players, the settings are realistic and the direction is of a high order. There are also some excellent character delineations, but the main thread of the story is disappointing and it is dragged out, and the closing interludes possess little in the way of drama. There is also too much harping on harrowing details, Life Begins at the TCM Movie Database Life Begins at the Internet Movie Database
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She Loves Me Not (1934 film)
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She Loves Me Not is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins. Based on the novel She Loves Me Not by Edward Hope, distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film has been remade twice as True to the Army and as How to Be Very, Very Popular in, the latter starring Betty Grable. The film is notable for containing one of the first major performances of Bing Crosby and this was also the last film that Miriam Hopkins made under her contract to Paramount Pictures, which began in the early 1930s upon her arrival in Hollywood. In 1935, the received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for Love in Bloom. The film was one of Paramounts biggest hits of the year, variety had a mixed reaction. But apart from this possible captiousness Par’s ‘She Loves’ holds plenty for the gate. He looks better than ever, but he acts intelligently and sings those tunes, the songs will be no small asset to the film. 1 song, so easy to figure out the b. o. reaction. Put a Little Rhythm in Everything You Do - sung by Miriam Hopkins, Crosby recorded some of the songs for Brunswick Records. Love in Bloom topped the charts of the day for six weeks and she Loves Me Not at the Internet Movie Database
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Wives Never Know
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Wives Never Know is a 1936 American black-and-white comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent. Written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Edwin Justus Mayer and Keene Thompson, the film stars Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, and Adolphe Menjou, Homer and Marcia Bigelow are a happily married couple. Visiting novelist J. Hugh Ramsey considers himself both too wise to ever marry and, through hubris, qualified to offer his own theories on what constitutes a happy marriage. He had thus written a best selling novel titled Marriage, the Living Death, wishing to please, Homer decides to involve himself in a trist so that Marcia would then have something for which she could forgive him. He chooses French actress Renée La Journée who is performing nearby, Ramsey learns of the affair and discovers that the La Journée turns out to be the one love of his life that he had lost years earlier. Lawrence Journal-World called the film a delightful and hilarious comedy of married life, in consideration of the three stars, they wrote Ruggles, Boland and Menjou make a rollicking comedy trio, and predicted that the film should play a merry tune at boxoffices. In October 1936, The Sunday Morning Star listed the film as one of its Best Bets of the Week. Conversely, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette advised that fans of Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland would be in for a considerable let-down when watching the film. at a reduction in humor. In addressing the film plot, they felt it was merely an antiquated type of stage farce enacted before a camera. They commended that the entire cast gave their best efforts, released theatrically in the United States September 13,1936, the film was released as Jos rouvat tietäisivät in Finland May 23,1937, and as Sikken en nat in Denmark August 9,1937. In 1958 the rights were purchased by MCA/Universal Pictures, wives Never Know at the Internet Movie Database
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Professor Beware
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Professor Beware is a 1938 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Elliott Nugent. It was Phyllis Welch MacDonalds first and only film, three thousand years after ancient Egyptian Neferuss death, Professor Dean Lambert is translating his history tablet by tablet. Dean is convinced that falling in love will ruin him as it did Neferus and he meets aspiring actress and heiress Jane Van Buren and exchanges clothes with her drunk audition partner, Snoop Donlan. Dean is arrested for stinking of liquor and his arrest makes the papers and he is asked to resign from the museum staff. Dean has ten days to join an expedition leaving for Egypt from New York, Snoop then accuses Dean of stealing his watch and clothes. Jane, meanwhile, follows the trailer in order to return Deans clothes, the newlyweds kick Dean out, while the police trail him on suspicion of robbery and jumping bail. Jane then finds Dean and urges him to himself. While fleeing the police, Jane and Dean camp in the desert, the kiss causes a storm to break, just like the story of Neferus and Anebi. Dean is struck by lightning and begins speaking in a strange language, the next day, he leaves Jane a note saying that Death lies ahead if they continue their romance. After many adventures, Sheriff Sweat of Springville, Pennsylvania, finally apprehends Dean, but Jane picks him up in the museum car, while hiding in the woods, the couple discusses the eighth tablet of Neferus, which says marriage. After hopping a refrigerator car, the couple is brought before a kindly judge, the papers print that Jane is to marry a hobo. Although reluctant to make his bad luck worse, Dean marries Jane in New York, but then must face her father, who accuses him of being a fortune hunter. Dr. Dean boards what he believes is the Van Burens yacht and fights for his bride, destroying the yacht, to the delight of Van Buren, Jane then realizes Dean fought for her knowing the tablet was fake. The couple is united and, years later, as an old man, Dean finally finds the real ninth tablet, which assures him he is not going to die tomorrow
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Never Say Die (1939 film)
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Never Say Die is a 1939 romantic comedy film starring Martha Raye and Bob Hope. The supporting cast features Andy Devine, Alan Mowbray, Gale Sondergaard, Sig Ruman, the Post/Collier play had previously been adapted in 1924 as a silent film of the same name and was remade as the 2004 South Korean film Someone Special. Other films with the same or similar titles are not related, when test results get mixed up, multi-millionaire hypochondriac John Kidley is told that he only has a month to live. He dumps his fiancee, Juno Marko, and heads for the Swiss spa of Bad Gaswasser, Mickey has been betrothed to the fortune-hunting Prince Smirnow, but is in love with Henry Munch, a bus driver from back home. Believing he is dying, and wanting to help out, John suggests that he and Mickey get married, on their honeymoon, with Henry along as a chaperone, the couple fall in love for real, although, of course, they dont realize it right away. Eventually, John bests the Prince in a duel, Henry and Juno get engaged, and John and Mickey get to stay together. Simpson as Kretsky Monty Woolley as Dr. Schmidt Foy Van Dolsen as Kretskys bodyguard Christian Rub as The mayor Cast notes, Hans Conried has an uncredited part. Albert Dekker, who plays the role of Kidleys second was an established Broadway star before turning to film acting. The film was in production from early October to early December 1938 and it went into general release on 14 April of that year. Never Say Die at the Internet Broadway Database Never Say Die at the Internet Movie Database Never Say Die at the TCM Movie Database Never Say Die at AllMovie
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The Cat and the Canary (1939 film)
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The film was directed by Elliott Nugent. com. Cyrus Norman was a millionaire who lived in the Louisiana bayous with his mistress Miss Lu, at the mansion, Crosby meets Miss Lu, who lives there with a large black cat. When he removes the will from a safe, he discovers someone has tampered with it. Crosby and Miss Lu are joined by Normans survivors, Joyce Norman, Fred Blythe, Charles Wilder, Cicily, Aunt Susan, as the group gathers in the parlor to read the will, an unseen gong rings seven times. According to Miss Lu, this means that only seven of the eight people present will survive the night, if Joyce loses her sanity during that time, the heir will be determined from the second part of the will. This arrangement raises concerns about Joyces safety, since other members can increase their chances of inheriting by murdering her or driving her insane. In the parlor, Crosby tries to warn Joyce about something, Joyce becomes frightened when everyone except Wally believes she imagined this. Amid suspicion and accusations, Miss Lu gives Joyce a letter from Norman that Joyce, Joyce puts the necklace under her pillow in Normans room, but after she falls asleep, a hand reaches out from the wall, terrifies her, and takes the necklace. At this point, Joyce is almost out of her mind with fear and confusion, crosbys dead body falls out from behind the door. To help Joyce recover from her fright, Wally chats with her in the parlor, when he leaves to fetch some liquor, he hears something in Normans room, opens the hidden door, and explores the passageway. Meanwhile, Joyce sees the door in the parlor as it opens, when Wally calls to her, she hears him through the passageway and enters it to find him. Once she is inside, someone closes the door, with no exit, Joyce explores the passageway, walking past a dark cranny where the security guard is hiding. The Cat also walks past the guard, who stops him and takes the necklace from him, but the Cat stabs the guard in the back and follows Joyce, who has discovered a door leading outside. After the Cat chases Joyce into a shed and threatens her with a knife, Wally arrives and calls him Charlie, having found the second part of the will in Charless coat. Charles removes his Cat mask, pins Wally to the wall with his knife, and begins to strangle Joyce, the next day, Wally and Joyce explain the story to newspaper reporters and unofficially announce their engagement. Patterson reprises her role from the 1930 adaptation of the story, The Cat Creeps
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Nothing but the Truth (1941 film)
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Nothing but the Truth is a 1941 American comedy film starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, their third movie together in three years. The movie was directed by Elliott Nugent, the book and play had previously formed the basis of an earlier movie, also called Nothing But the Truth, starring Richard Dix and Wynne Gibson. The 1941 film follows the plot of the much more closely than the 1929 version. The same premise as used for the Jim Carrey movie Liar, Liar, Steve Bennett is a stockbroker in Miami who has just accepted a position working for a man named T. R. Ralston. He is persuaded by Ralstons beautiful niece Gwen Saunders, to invest a sum of $10,000 that she doubled in 24 hours. Ralston has promised Gwen that if she raises $20,000 he will double it, when Steve objects to Ralstons practice of pushing bad stocks onto his clients, he claims that he could get buy just as well by telling the truth as by lying. Ralston and his partner Dick Donnelly, along with client Tom van Dusen, Steve bets the $10,000 he got from Gwen. One of the conditions is no one can reveal the bet to an outsider. Steve is meticulously watched by the three men during the next twenty-four hours and they are entertaining guests and clients on Ralstons yacht during much of this time, and when Steve is honest with everyone he meets, he manages to insult several of them. In the late evening, a dancer named Linda Graham enters the yacht, looking for Dick. Linda meets and talks to Steve, telling him about the show, mrs. Ralston and another distinguished woman overhear the conversation and mistakenly believes Linda is Steves wife. During the night, the partners steal Steves clothes to prevent him leaving the ship. In disguise, Steve sneaks into Gwens room at her invitation and he tells her that he isnt married to Linda and that he is in love with her. The next day Steve gets heat from every direction, Gwen finds out that he has been in Lindas room during the night, the ladies sees him as indecent, and Tom because he is in love with Gwen and jealous. On top of this Linda is telling everyone that she is indeed married to Steve, close to when the twenty-four hours are up, a man named Mr. Bishop enters the ship. He is the head of the charity organization to which Gwen intended to give the $40,000. Mr. Bishop asks to see the money, and Gwen, the clocks on the boat have been put forward by the partners, and when they strike four Steve is able to lie to Mr. Bishop about the money. The partners celebrate since they have won the bet, but it turns out Steves valet had reset the clocks when he noticed they were wrong, thus, Steve wins the bet and has managed to double Gwens money after all
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The Male Animal
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The Male Animal is a 1942 American comedy-drama film, produced by Warner Bros. starring Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland and Joan Leslie. The film was based on a hit 1940 Broadway play of the name written by James Thurber. The screenplay was written by Stephen Morehouse Avery, Julius J. Epstein, the film was also directed by Elliott Nugent. Tommy Turner is an English teacher at football-crazed Midwestern University, although he is uninvolved with the politics of the day, Tommy suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus. The schools conservative trustees, led by Ed Keller threaten to fire Tommy if he doesnt withdraw the reading from his lecture, the subject of free speech and Tommys dilemma of conscience anchor the dramatic subplots social significance. The lighter comic triangle plot concerns a visit to attend the big football game by Joe Ferguson. Joe is recently divorced and he rekindles Ellens romantic notions at the moment when her marriage to Tommy is being tested by the events on campus. Blanche Damon Regina Wallace as Mrs. Myrtle Keller Frank Mayo as Coach Sprague William B, Don DeFore, another member of the Broadway cast, repeated his role in the film. Co-writer Elliott Nugent played the role on the stage before coming to Hollywood to direct Henry Fonda in the film version. Gig Young, who changed his birth name / stage name, Byron Barr, the Male Animal was loosely reworked by Warner Brothers as a musical called Shes Working Her Way Through College, starring Virginia Mayo and Ronald Reagan. In this adaptation, the names are changed. Also, the theme is discarded in favor of a conflict surrounding the professors attempt to mount a musical play featuring a student who is discovered to be a former burlesque dancer. The film earned an estimated $2.4 million at the North American box office in 1952, the film features Gene Nelson and Phyllis Thaxter in the cast, as well as Don DeFore who had also been in The Male Animal
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Up in Arms
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Up in Arms is a film directed by Elliott Nugent, and starring Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore. It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1945, Danny Weems works as an elevator operator in a New York Medical building, so that he can be close to doctors and nurses and get free advice on his supposed illnesses. The doctors know him well and consider him a hypochondriac, so when he is drafted into the US Army for war service, he is devastated. His best friend Joe gets himself also drafted so that he can keep an eye on Danny, Danny is in love with nurse Mary Morgan, but shes really in love with Joe, and Joes girl Virginia is secretly in love with Danny. The boys get through basic training, and as they embark by ship to the South Pacific, they discover that Mary, but as officers, they cannot fraternise with the boys. Danny contrives to smuggle Mary on board, and during the voyage he tries to keep her hidden, but the truth eventually comes out and Danny is hauled before Colonel Ashley – who has him sent to the brig. When the troops are landed on a Pacific island, Danny is again imprisoned, the try to interrogate him, but Danny manages to bamboozle them and eventually impersonate the commander. He gives orders that the surrender to the Americans –. All of the actresses who played nurses in Up in Arms are listed collectively onscreen as The Goldwyn Girls, Danny Kayes character was based on the character The Nervous Wreck from the play of the same name by Owen Davis, which opened in New York in 1923. In 1928, Florenz Ziegfeld staged a version of Davis play called Whoopee starring Eddie Cantor. Up in Arms marked the motion picture debut of Broadway star Danny Kaye. The popular star, who began on Broadway in 1939, had turned down a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer when he was cast in Up in Arms. After this film, Kaye became a success and he went on to do four more pictures in succession with Sam Goldwyn before moving on to Warner Brothers, 20th Century-Fox. The film received Academy Award nominations in the Music and Music categories Up in Arms at the Internet Movie Database
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My Favorite Brunette
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My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 American romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about a photographer on death row in San Quentin State Prison who tells reporters his history. Spoofing movie detectives and the noir style, the film features Lon Chaney, Jr. Sequences were filmed in San Francisco and Pebble Beach. The story is told in flashback from Death Row as Ronnie Jackson relates to a group of reporters the events lead to his murder conviction. Jackson is a San Francisco baby photographer who dreams about being a private detective like his office neighbor Sam McCloud. One day he is mistaken for a detective by mysterious lady in distress Carlotta Montay, a sinister figure listens at the office door. Carlotta gives Ronnie her address, and a coded map, Ronnie hides the map in the cups next to his office water cooler. Ronnie then drives to the address, which is a mansion down the Peninsula, Kismet greets him at the door. Carlotta tells Ronnie that the man is her uncle, not her husband. He entered the country on some secret mission, she says, the mansion belongs to Major Montague, she says, who was a former partner of her uncle. Major Montague enters the room, and calls Carlotta away for a phone call, Major Montague also believes that Ronnie is a private detective, as he had Kismet follow him from the office. When Carlotta is out of the room, Montague tells Ronnie that Carlotta is mentally ill and he introduces Ronnie to a wheelchair-bound man in the next room as Carlottas uncle, who tells Ronnie that he obviously has not been kidnapped. Ronnie tells Montague that Carlotta had given him a map to hold, Carlotta reenters the room, and when alone with Ronnie, tells him that the call was from her uncle, who told her he was safe. He was forced to make that call, opines Carlotta, now she suspects Montague, because he lied to Ronnie about her. She tells him to guard the map with his life, as Ronnie leaves the mansion, he remembers that Kismet has kept his handgun. Ronnie climbs up a tree and looks into a window, and sees the Uncle stand up out of the wheelchair, as Ronnie snaps a photo of this fake uncle through the keyhole, Kismet, who has followed him, throws a knife at him. Ronnie flees to his car and roars out of the mansion grounds, the others chase him by car and shoot out his tire. Ronnie runs into an apartment and intercoms himself in by saying the he is Joe, back at his office, Ronnie develops the keyhole photo showing the Uncle walking about
