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Fresno, California
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Fresno (/ˈfrɛznoʊ/ FREZ-no is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County. It covers about 112 square miles in the center of the San Joaquin Valley, named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Fresno was founded in 1872 as a railway station of the Central Pacific Railroad before it was incorporated in 1885. The population of Fresno proper soared in the half of the 20th century. It was here in Fresno in 1958 that Bank of America first launched the BankAmericard credit card, Fresno is near the geographical center of California. It lies approximately 220 miles northeast of Los Angeles,170 miles south of the capital, Sacramento. Yosemite National Park is about 60 miles to the north, Kings Canyon National Park is 60 miles to the east, the county of Fresno was formed in 1856 after the California Gold Rush. It was named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Millerton, then on the banks of the free-flowing San Joaquin River and close to Fort Miller, became the county seat after becoming a focal point for settlers. Other early county settlements included Firebaughs Ferry, Scottsburg and Elkhorn Springs, the San Joaquin River flooded on December 24,1867, inundating Millerton. Flooding also destroyed the town of Scottsburg on the nearby Kings River that winter, rebuilt on higher ground, Scottsburg was renamed Centerville. In 1867, Anthony McQeen Easterby purchased land bounded by the present Chestnut, Belmont, Clovis and California avenues, unable to grow wheat for lack of water, he hired sheep man Moses J. Church in 1871 to create an irrigation system. Building new canals and purchasing existing ditches, Church then formed the Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company, in 1872, the Central Pacific Railroad established a station near Easterbys—by now a hugely productive wheat farm—for its new Southern Pacific line. Soon there was a store around the station and the store grew the town of Fresno Station, many Millerton residents, drawn by the convenience of the railroad and worried about flooding, moved to the new community. Fresno became a city in 1885. By 1931 the Fresno Traction Company operated 47 streetcars over 49 miles of track, in 1877, William Helm made Fresno his home with a five-acre tract of land at the corner of Fresno and R streets. Helm was the largest individual sheep grower in Fresno County, in carrying his wool to market at Stockton, he used three wagons, each drawn by ten mules, and spent twelve days in making the round trip. Two years after the station was established, county residents voted to move the county seat from Millerton to Fresno, when the Friant Dam was completed in 1944, the site of Millerton became inundated by the waters of Millerton Lake. In extreme droughts, when the reservoir shrinks, ruins of the county seat can still be observed. In the nineteenth century, with so much wooden construction and in the absence of sophisticated firefighting resources, fires often ravaged American frontier towns, the greatest of Fresnos early-day fires, in 1882, destroyed an entire block of the city
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Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
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Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. Woodland Hills is an affluent neighborhood in the region of the San Fernando Valley which is located east of Calabasas. On the north it is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka, some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east–west through the community are U. S. Route 101 and Ventura Boulevard, the first Europeans to enter the San Fernando Valley were the Portola Expedition in 1769, exploring Alta California for Spanish missions and settlements locations. Seeing it from present-day Sepulveda Pass, the oak savanna inspired them to call the area El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de Los Encinos, the Mission San Fernando Rey de España was established in 1797 and controlled the Valleys land, including future Woodland Hills. Ownership of the half of the valley, south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard from Toluca Lake to Woodland Hills. Moses Sherman and others in 1910, victor Girard Kleinberger bought 2,886 acres in the area from Chandlers group and founded the town of Girard in 1922. He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing an infrastructure, advertising in newspapers and his 300 pepper trees formed a canopy over Canoga Ave. between Ventura Boulevard and Saltillo St. became Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #93 in 1972. The community of Girard was eventually incorporated into Los Angeles, Woodland Hills has a firmly subtropical mediterranean climate. Within the San Fernando Valley, Woodland Hills generally experiences some of the extreme temperature changes season to season than other regions. During the summer, temperatures are very hot, while during the winter. On July 22,2006, Woodland Hills recorded the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County, the climate is classified as a Csa in the Köppen climate classification, which is characterized by mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. This climate is referred to as mediterranean. Precipitation in Woodland Hills averages much the same as most other regions of the west San Fernando Valley, in 2008 the population of Woodland Hills was approximately 63,000. The median age in 2000 was 40, considered old when compared to city and county jurisdictions. As of the 2000 census, and according to the Los Angeles Almanac, there were 67,006 people and 29,119 households residing in Woodland Hills. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 79. 90% White,6. 97% Asian,0. 13% Pacific Islander,3. 34% African American,0. 33% Native American,4. 80% from other races, and 4. 52% from two or more races. 11. 94% of the population were Hispanic of any race, in population, it is one of the least dense neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and the percentage of white people is high for the county
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Hal Roach
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Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York, the grandson of Irish immigrants. A presentation by the great American humorist Mark Twain impressed Roach as a grade school student. After an adventurous youth that took him to Alaska, Hal Roach arrived in Hollywood, California in 1912, upon coming into an inheritance, he began producing short film comedies in 1915 with his friend Harold Lloyd, who portrayed a character known as Lonesome Luke. In September 1916, Roach married actress Marguerite Nichols and they had two children, Hal Jr. and Margaret M. Roach. After 26 years of marriage, Marguerite died in 1940, Roach married a second time on September 1,1942, to Lucille Prin, a Los Angeles secretary. Roach and Lucille had four children, Elizabeth Carson Roach, Maria May Roach, Jeanne Alice Roach, unable to expand his studios in downtown Los Angeles because of zoning, Roach purchased what became the Hal Roach Studios from Harry Culver in Culver City, California. During the 1920s Roachs biggest rival was producer Mack Sennett, in 1925, Roach hired away Sennetts supervising director, F. Richard Jones. Roach released his films through Pathé Exchange until 1927, when he went to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and he converted his silent movie studio to sound in late 1928 and began releasing talking shorts in early 1929. In the days before dubbing, foreign versions of the Roach comedies were created by reshooting each film in the Spanish, French. Laurel & Hardy, Charley Chase, and the Our Gang kids were required to recite the foreign dialogue phonetically, in 1931, with the release of the Laurel & Hardy film Pardon Us, Roach began producing occasional full-length features alongside the short product. Short subjects became less profitable and were phased out by 1936, in 1937, Roach conceived a joint business venture partnering with Vittorio Mussolini, son of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, to form a production company called R. A. M. This proposed business alliance with Mussolini caused MGM to intervene and force Roach to pay his way out of the venture and this embarrassment, coupled with the underperformance of much of Roachs new feature product, led to the end of Roachs relationship with MGM. In May 1938, Roach ended his contract with MGM, selling them the production rights to, and actors contracts for Our Gang in the process. From 1937 to 1940, Roach concentrated on producing glossy features, most of his new films were either sophisticated farces or rugged action fare. Roachs one venture into heavy drama was the acclaimed Of Mice and Men, in which actors Burgess Meredith, the Laurel and Hardy comedies, once the Roach studios biggest drawing cards, were now the studios least important product and were phased out altogether in 1940. In 1940, Roach experimented with medium-length featurettes, running 40 to 50 minutes each and he contended that these streamliners, as he called them, would be useful in double-feature situations where the main attraction was a longer-length epic. Exhibitors agreed with him and used Roachs mini-features to balance top-heavy double bills, United Artists continued to release Roachs streamliners through 1943. By this time Roach no longer had a resident company of comedy stars, the studios were leased to the U. S. Army Air Forces, and the First Motion Picture Unit made 400 training, morale and propaganda films at Fort Roach
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Max Davidson
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Max Davidson was a German film actor known for his comedic Jewish persona during the silent film era. With a career spanning thirty years, Davidson appeared in over 180 films. Born in Berlin, Germany, Davidson emigrated to the United States in the 1890s where he working in stock theater. He entered silent movies in 1912, in 1927, he was given his own series of starring two-reelers, among them Jewish Prudence, Dont Tell Everything, Should Second Husbands Come First. Flaming Fathers and Pass the Gravy, the series ended with the coming of sound in 1929. He starred alongside a young Jackie Coogan in a pair of silent features, The Rag Man and he also received the colorization treatment as an irate shopkeeper in the Three Stooges film No Census, No Feeling. His 1928 short Pass the Gravy was deemed significant by the Library of Congress. Davidson made the transition to film, but ended his career by playing mostly uncredited roles. He made his screen appearance in the 1945 Clark Gable film Adventure. Davidson died on September 4,1950 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Max Davidson at the Internet Movie Database Max Davidson at AllMovie Max Davidson at Find a Grave
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Charley Chase
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Charley Chase was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. He was the brother of comedian/director James Parrott. Born Charles Joseph Parrott in Baltimore, Maryland, Charley Chase began performing in vaudeville as a teenager and he then moved to Keystone Studios, where he began appearing in bit parts in the Mack Sennett films, including those of Charlie Chaplin. By 1915 he was playing leads in the Keystones. He worked at L-KO Kompany during its months of existence. Then in 1920, Chase began working as a director for Hal Roach Studios. Chase became director-general of the Hal Roach studio in late 1921, following Lloyds departure from the studio in 1923, Chase moved back in front of the camera with his own series of shorts, adopting the screen name Charley Chase. Chase was a master of the comedy of embarrassment, and he played either hapless young businessmen or befuddled husbands in dozens of situation comedies. His screen persona was that of a pleasant young man with a mustache and ordinary street clothes. His earliest Roach shorts cast him as a fellow named Jimmie Jump in one-reel comedies. The first Chase series was successful and expanded to two reels, this would become the standard length for Chase comedies, apart from a few three-reel featurettes later. Some of Chases starring shorts of the 1920s, particularly Mighty Like a Moose, Crazy Like a Fox, Fluttering Hearts, Chase remained the guiding hand behind the films, assisting anonymously with the directing, writing, and editing. Chase moved with ease into sound films in 1929, and became one of the most popular comedians of the period. He continued to be prolific in the talkie era, often putting his fine singing voice on display and including his humorous. The two-reeler The Pip from Pittsburg, released in 1931 and co-starring Thelma Todd, is one of the most celebrated Charley Chase comedies of the sound era. Throughout the decade, the Charley Chase shorts continued to stand alongside Laurel and Hardy, Chase was featured in the Laurel and Hardy feature Sons of the Desert, Laurel and Hardy made cameo appearances as hitchhikers in Chases On the Wrong Trek. On the Wrong Trek was supposed to be the final Charley Chase short subject, Chase played a character role in the Patsy Kelly feature Kelly the Second, and starred in a feature-length comedy called Bank Night, lampooning the popular Bank Night phenomenon of the 1930s. Chase was then dismissed from the Roach studio, recent research asserts that the Chase familys maid introduced the song to Chase and taught it to his daughters
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It Ain't Hay
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It Aint Hay is a 1943 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. Wilbur Hoolihan accidentally kills a hack horse owned by King OHara and his daughter, in hopes of raising enough money to replace it, he and his friend Grover Mockridge visit a gambling parlor. They are successful in raising the money, but before they can purchase a new horse and they are informed by some touts that an old horse is available for nothing at one of the tracks. They visit the track and mistakenly take the horse, a champion by the name of Tea Biscuit. They present the horse to OHara as a replacement for his deceased horse, the horses real owner, Col. Brainard, offers a reward for Tea Biscuit. By this time OHara has taken a fare up to Saratoga, Wilbur and Grover, realizing their error, drive to Saratoga. The three touts also realize that Wilbur and Grover took Tea Biscuit, and trail them hoping to recover the horse and collect the reward. Wilbur and Grover manage to find OHara and hide Tea Biscuit in their room, but they are hounded by the house detective, Warner. Wilbur and Grover head to the track in time for a big race. Grover makes a deal with Warner, for $100 he will give him the horse Wilbur rides, Grover then uses that money to bet on Tea Biscuit. Before the race, Wilbur is thrown off Tea Biscuit and lands on Rhubarb, Tea Biscuit, with a real jockey aboard, wins the race. Warner and the touts take Wilburs horse, which they believe is Tea Biscuit, to Col. Brainard for the reward, Grover holds the only winning ticket on Tea Biscuit, and uses their winnings to buy OHara a real replacement horse. There is a scene that breaks the wall, Wilbur. Grover says, Go answer the door, it might be Warner, Wilbur answers, It wont do no good, were signed up with Universal. Abbott and Costello had a contract with Universal Pictures at the time. Joe Collins Shemp Howard as Umbrella Sam Samuel S. Hinds as Col. Filming of this began on September 28,1942. Lous brother Pat Costello was used as his stunt-double in the headless horseman sequence and it was during production, on November 6, that Lous wife Anne gave birth to their son, Lou Butch Costello, Jr. It Aint Hay was released on DVD on October 28,2008 as part of Abbott and Costello, the films studio-authorized DVD release had been delayed for many years due to legal issues with the estate of Damon Runyon
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Little Annie Rooney (1925 film)
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Little Annie Rooney is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film starring Mary Pickford and directed by William Beaudine. Pickford, one of the most successful actresses of the silent era, was best known throughout her career for her portrayals of penniless young girls. After generating only modest box office revenue playing adults in her previous two films, Pickford wrote and produced Little Annie Rooney to cater to silent film audiences. Though she was 33 years old, Pickford played the title role, the film was a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the highest grossing films of 1925. Restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2014, Little Annie Rooney is remembered today for Pickford’s performance, Annie Rooney is a young girl who spends her days wreaking havoc in the tenements with a gang of children and their rival gang, the Kid Kellys. They fight in the streets, accidentally scaring a fruit vendors horse in the process, Annies father is a respected neighborhood police officer, but her brother, Tim, is a member of the Big Kellys, a gang of older boys led by Joe Kelly. The gang raises money for themselves by selling tickets to an upcoming dance, Joe is kind to Annie and she develops a crush on him. But when Joe visits the Rooney home later that day, Officer Rooney warns him if he continues to lead his gang. The fruit vendor arrives and informs Officer Rooney that Annies activities that morning cost him five dollars worth of fresh fruit, when each of the children claim responsibility for scaring the horse, Officer Rooney decides that they will all have to repay the fruit vendor together. The children decide to raise funds by staging a play set in the Wild West. Prompted by teasing from a heckler, Annie attempts to ride the horse that the children had scared earlier. Joe spots Annie and manages to catch her when she falls, when the fruit vendor catches up with them, Joe pays him back with five dollars worth of tickets to the dance. The night of the dance is also Officer Rooneys birthday, he is on patrol outside the dance hall, back at home, Tim and Annie are preparing for their fathers return. At the dance, a fight out between Joe and two of his fellow gang members, Tony and Spider. The lights in the hall are switched off, attracting the attention of Officer Rooney. Tony fires a gun, but the bullet meant for Joe hits Officer Rooney instead, the police still havent discovered Officer Rooneys killer. Tony and Spider lie to Tim, telling him that Joe killed Officer Rooney, Tim intends to take revenge himself. Meanwhile, Annie is told that Tony was seen discarding a gun in an alley, members of the Kid Kellys begin to suspect Tony as well
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The Devil's Cargo
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The Devils Cargo is a lost 1925 American silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Victor Fleming and starred Wallace Beery and Pauline Starke and it is based on an original story for the screen. Martha Joyce William Collier Jr. John Joyce Raymond Hatton, square Deal Sampson John Webb Dillon. Mrs. Farwell The Devils Cargo at the Internet Movie Database The Devils Cargo synopsis at AllMovie
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The Dressmaker from Paris
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The Dressmaker from Paris is a 1925 silent film romantic comedy/drama film directed by Paul Bern. The story was written by Howard Hawks and Adelaide Heilbron, the film starred Leatrice Joy and was her last film for Paramount Pictures. The film was costume designer Travis Bantons first assignment, the film is now considered lost
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Sparrows (1926 film)
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Sparrows is a 1926 American silent film about a young woman who rescues a baby from kidnappers. The film, which was originally titled Scraps, starred and was produced by Mary Pickford, Mr. Grimes and his wife operate a dismal baby farm near an alligator-infested swamp. Molly, an adolescent inmate and the oldest of their charges, attempts to provide the other tattered, most of the children are orphans. One mother sends her child a doll, but Grimes crushes its head, the children are ordered to hide anytime someone comes to the farm. When a hog buyer shows up, Ambrose, the Grimes son, maliciously prevents Splutters, one of the children, the buyer then purchases the boy from Grimes. Molly has promised the others that God will rescue them, when a boy asks why nothing has happened after a month, she tells him that He is busy attending to sparrows. Ambrose catches Molly with stolen potatoes, so she and the others are given no supper and she pleads for the children, especially the sick, youngest baby, to no avail. Late that night, in a vision, Christ enters the barn where they sleep, when Molly wakes up, the child is dead. Joe Bailey and his associate bring a baby girl to the farm for concealment until they receive a ransom from the rich father. When Grimes reads about the kidnapping in the several days later. When Ambrose grabs the girl to carry out the plan. After she fights off Grimes with a pitchfork, he strands her in the hayloft and decides he must get rid of her and that night, Molly flees with the children. Grimes finds this hilarious, he figures either the mud or the alligators will take care of the children, however, when the kidnappers come back for the baby, he leads them on a search. Meanwhile, Splutters is brought to the station, having been discovered by one of the search parties. He tells the policemen and Mr. Wayne about the baby farm, Molly and the kids emerge unscathed from the swamp and hide aboard a boat, unaware it belongs to the kidnappers. Pursued by the police, Grimes runs into the swamp, but falls into mud and perishes. Unable to shake the harbor patrol, they try to slip away in a dinghy, the baby is reunited with her wealthy father, but when she refuses to drink her milk without Molly, Mr. Wayne offers Molly a comfortable home. She accepts only on condition that he take in the children as well
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Old Ironsides (film)
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Old Ironsides is a silent film starring Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft. Early in the 19th century, the USS Constitution is launched as part of an effort to stop piracy in the Mediterranean, meanwhile, a young man determined to go to sea is befriended by the bosn of the merchant ship Esther, and he joins her crew. When the Esther reaches the Mediterranean, she too, along with the Constitution, the movie was directed by James Cruze in a widescreen process that Paramount promoted as Magnascope. This lavish oceangoing epic features battle scenes with sailing ships and pirates, Beery would revisit the genre, box office receipts from the premiere at the Rialto Theater went to the USS Constitution restoration fund. The Maine-built ship, Llewellyn J. Morse, was refitted as the USS Constitution, castle was burned and sunk for the film off of Catalina Island. A closeup of a tattoo on George Bancrofts arm reveals that his characters name is also G. Bancroft, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City exhibited a restored 35mm print of the film in December 2008. On July 19,1997, a public showing of the film was offered at the Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston. A large screen was mounted beside the ship, film organist Dennis James, working from Erno Rapeess original music, during the scene depicting its battle with the HMS Guerriere, the ships own cannon were fired in synch with the film. List of American films of 1926 Boris Karloff filmography Old Ironsides at the Internet Movie Database synopsis at AllMovie lobby poster another version of poster VHS video cover,1987
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Pass the Gravy
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Pass the Gravy is a 1928 short comedy silent film directed by Fred Guiol and Leo McCarey. It stars Max Davidson, Gene Morgan, Spec ODonnell, Martha Sleeper, the movie was produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. The film has been deemed culturally significant by the Library of Congress, Schultz is proud of his prize-winning rooster, Brigham. Davidson, who lives next door, raises flowers and has a son named Ignatz, schultzs son has just become engaged to Davidsons daughter. Although the two dont get along, their childrens engagement seems like a good time to bury the hatchet. A celebration dinner is planned and Ignatz is given two dollars to go purchase a chicken, but Ignatz, wanting to keep the money for himself, takes Brigham instead. When the families together to eat the chicken, Ignatz realizes that he left Brighams 1st Prize tag on the now cooked leg. Gradually, they all realize the chicken is Brigham, everyone, the engaged couple pantomime the truth to Davidson who after a scuffle runs away too
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The Big Broadcast
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The Big Broadcast is a 1932 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, and Leila Hyams. Based on the play Wild Waves by William Ford Manley, the film is about a radio-singer who becomes a hit with audiences. A casual affair leads to his dismissal, but his career is saved by the manager who buys the station. The film co-stars George Burns and Gracie Allen in supporting roles, the Big Broadcast was produced by Paramount Pictures and was the first picture in a series of four Big Broadcast movies. Radio-singer Bing Crosby is not very serious about his career and his chronic tardiness and his affair with the notorious Mona Lowe has become an issue at station WADX. After Mona cheats on him, the despondent singer meets Texas oil man Leslie McWhinney, soon after, Anita Rogers, the former fiancée of McWhinney, falls in love with Crosby. Meanwhile, station manager George Burns is plagued by the conversation of his stenographer, Gracie Allen. McWhinney buys the station in order to help out Crosby and Anita, McWhinney comes up with the idea of putting on a big broadcast of stars to pull the station out of debt. Mona returns on the scene and threatens the budding romance between Crosby and Anita, as well as the upcoming big broadcast. McWhinney tries to find a record to replace the absent Crosby. The singer returns and takes the microphone in mid-song, Crosby, who actually has been feigning irresponsibility to bring McWhinney and Anita together, succeeds both in reuniting the former lovers and in taming Mona. It was Bing Crosbys first starring role in a full-length film, the film is a credit to Crosby as a screen juve possibility, although he has a decidedly dizzy and uncertain role which makes him behave as no human being does. The New York American commented, Bing Crosby is the star, the “Blue of the Night” boy is a picture personality, as he demonstrated in his two-reelers. He has a face and a camera presence. Always at ease, he troupes like a veteran, the Hollywood Citizen News had more to say. Bing Crosby croons several attractive songs which seem destined to enjoy wide popularity, for that matter, he needn’t be ashamed of his acting either. Burns and Allen have several good comedy sequences, and Cab Calloway, all the radio stars are heard much as you hear them on the air. The novelty of seeing them may be an attraction, but Tuttle has not relied upon the drawing power of that novelty
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Broadway Bill
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Broadway Bill is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, and Helen Vinson. Capra disliked the final product, and in an effort to make it more to his liking, in later years, the distributor of Riding High, Paramount Pictures, acquired the rights to Broadway Bill. The film was released in the United Kingdom as Strictly Confidential, Broadway Bill was filmed between June 18 and August 16,1934 at Columbia Studios in Hollywood, and on location at Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno, Warner Bros. Ranch, and the Pacific Coast Steel Mills, after an initial preview on October 24, Capra re-edited some scenes based upon audience reaction. The film premiered on November 30,1934 in New York City, the film received good reviews, with Andre Sennwald in The New York Times calling it sly and impertinent screen comedy, painlessly whimsical and completely engaging. Dan Brooks runs a paper box factory for his father-in-law, J. L. Higgins, uninspired by his factory position, Dan devotes his time and energy to training his thoroughbred race horse, Broadway Bill, in hopes of returning one day to the world of horse racing. Dan is encouraged to follow his dream by his unwed sister-in-law Alice, One night at a family dinner, J. L. reports that sales are down in the paper box division and blames it on Dans neglect of his work. When he orders Dan to sell the horse and focus on his job, Dan resigns and leaves Higginsville without his wife Margaret. With Broadway Bill in tow, Dan drives to the Imperial Race Track, at a preliminary race, Broadway Bill bolts from the starting gate and is disqualified. Dan writes to his wife Margaret asking her to bring his pet rooster Skeeter, the rooster is delivered instead by young Alice, who is secretly in love with Dan. Alice decides to stay and help with the horse, despite Dans objections and he is unaware of her feelings for him. During a terrible storm, Broadway Bill catches a cold after being soaked by rain leaking through the old barn roof. Alice nurses the horse back to health, and then sells her fur coat, the night before the derby, however, Pop Jones confiscates the horse because he was never paid for the feed and shelter, and when Dan tries to intervene, he is thrown in jail. Not even Dans princess Alice can help him now, meanwhile, millionaire J. P. Chase innocently places a two-dollar bet on Broadway Bill at one-hundred-to-one odds to impress his pretty nurse. The bet is misinterpreted, and word gets out that the smart money is on Broadway Bill. This pleases bookmaker Eddie Morgan, whose horse will benefit from the changing odds. To continue the betting and prevent Broadway Bill from being scratched, Eddie bails Dan out of jail, pays his bills, a grateful Dan is unaware that Eddie bribed Ted to prevent Broadway Bill from winning. During the race, Ted tries to rein in Broadway Bill, after crossing the finishing line, Broadway Bill collapses and dies of a burst heart
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Cain and Mabel
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Cain and Mabel is a 1936 romantic comedy film designed as a vehicle for Marion Davies in which she co-stars with Clark Gable. The story had been filmed before, in 1924, by William Randolph Hearsts production company, Cosmopolitan, as a silent called The Great White Way, starring Anita Stewart and Oscar Shaw. Inevitably, the two fall in love for real, and plan on getting married, with Mabel quitting show business to be a housewife and Cain quitting the fight racket to run garages in New Jersey. When their entourages get wind of their plan, they plant the story in the newspapers, Mabel abandons her show and rushes to Philadelphia where Cain is fighting. Having been told by his manager that Mabel is going to marry crooner Ronny Caudwell, reilly confesses to Cain that he was the one who leaked the story, and Cains second, DoDo accidentally throws a towel into the ring, making Cain the loser by a technical knockout. But since Mabel has bet on the boxer, the newly reunited couple will have a tidy nest egg to start their new life together. The film was a flop, with critics finding that Gable was miscast as a fighter. Cain and Mabel was nominated for a 1937 Academy Award for Best Dance Direction by Bobby Connolly, notes Cain and Mabel at the Internet Movie Database Cain and Mabel at the TCM Movie Database Cain and Mabel at AllMovie Cain and Mabel at the American Film Institute Catalog
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Here's Flash Casey
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Heres Flash Casey is a 1937 American film directed by Lynn Shores and starring Eric Linden and Boots Mallory. And he would like to marry newspaper woman Kay Lanning, some blackmailing-crooks are stealing pictures from people who bring them in to be developed in the shop run by the same crooks, to blackmail socialites. Then Kay is kidnapped and Flash is able with some help to find her, Casey, Crime Photographer Heres Flash Casey at the Internet Movie Database Heres Flash Casey is available for free download at the Internet Archive
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Angels with Dirty Faces
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Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American crime film directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Brothers. It stars James Cagney, Pat OBrien, The Dead End Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, the screenplay was written by John Wexley and Warren Duff, and is based on the story by Rowland Brown. The film chronicles the rise and fall of the notorious gangster William Rocky Sullivan, after spending three years in prison for armed robbery, Rocky intends to collect $100,000 from his co-conspirator, Jim Frazier. All the while, Father Jerry Connolly tries to prevent a group of youths from falling under Rockys influence, Angels with Dirty Faces was released on November 28,1938 to positive reviews. At the 11th Academy Awards, the film was nominated in three categories, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Story, in 1923, Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly attempted to rob a railroad car carrying fountain pens. Jerry, the runner, escaped from police, while Rocky was caught. Thirteen years later, Rocky is arrested for armed robbery and his lawyer and co-conspirator, Jim Frazier, asks him to take the blame and, in exchange, he will give Rocky the $100,000 stolen on the day he is released. Rocky agrees, and is sentenced to three years in prison, after serving his sentence, he returns to his old neighborhood and visits Jerry, who is now a Catholic priest. Jerry advises Rocky to get a place in the old parish, he does so, renting a room in a house run by Laury Martin. He then pays a visit to Fraziers casino, Frazier claims to have been unaware of Rockys release, but promises to have the $100,000 ready by the end of the week. In the meantime, he gives Rocky $500 spending money, Rocky is pickpocketed after leaving the casino. The culprits turn out to be a group of youths, Soapy, Swing, Bim, Pasty, Crab and they admire Rockys reputation and criminal lifestyle so, after retrieving his wallet, Rocky invites them to dinner. While they are eating, Jerry shows up and asks the gang why they havent been playing basketball, with Rockys help, he convinces them to play against another team. At the match, Jerry and Laury express equal concern over the negative influence Rocky may be having on the gang, while walking home, an attempt is made on Rockys life by Fraziers hit squad. Rocky survives, and retaliates by kidnapping Frazier and raiding his house at gunpoint, stealing $2,000, Fraziers business partner, Mac Keefer, gives Rocky his $100,000 in full, but informs the police of the kidnapping. Rocky is arrested, but after discovering he has possession of the ledger, Frazier tells the police it was all a misunderstanding, Jerry learns of the kidnapping, and decides to go to the press in an effort to expose the corruption in New York. Rocky tries to reason with him, but to no avail, on the radio, Jerry publicly denounces the corruption, as well as Rocky, Frazier and Keefer. Frazier and Keefer assure Rocky that no harm come to Jerry
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Crazy House (1943 film)
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Crazy House is a 1943 comedy film starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson as Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnsons names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management, undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie. Financed by an angel, the completed feature is set to premiere when angry creditors confiscate most of the film. Olsen and Johnson keep the preview going, anyway, and their venture is a success, crazy House is notable for its impressive cast of supporting comedians and guest stars under contract to Universal at the time. Cornelius Merriweather Hans Conried as Roco Leighton Noble as Himself Richard Lane as Hanley Thomas Gomez as N. G, wagstaff Billy Gilbert as Sid Drake Edgar Kennedy as Judge Andrew Tombes as Horace L
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The Kid from Brooklyn
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The Kid from Brooklyn is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Walter Abel, Eve Arden, and Fay Bainter. Lionel Stander plays the role of Spider Schultz in both versions of the movie, well-meaning and mild-mannered milkman Burleigh Sullivan meets Polly Pringle, a beautiful, but out-of-work, singer, whilst on his rounds early in the morning. He tries to get her a job at the club where his sister Susie is performing, whilst meeting Susie after the show, he sees her being molested by drunken boxer Speed McFarlane and his bodyguard Spider. In the fracas, Speed is knocked out and his manager, the newspapers pick up the story and photographers catch Burleigh knocking out Speed again. In fact, as before, Speed is accidentally knocked out by Spider as a result of Sullivans quick foot-work, Gabby decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter to turn the publicity to his advantage. Burleigh goes on tour, but doesnt realize that all his fights have been fixed and he comes to think that he really is a great fighter, and develops a swollen head. Polly is not pleased with the turn of events and Susie isnt either, meanwhile, Speed and Susie have become an item themselves. Burleighs contract is bought by Mr Austin, his boss at Sunflower Milk, for $50,000. Speed has accidentally given a overdose of sleeping tablets and falls asleep during the fight. Burleigh is reluctant to retire without having been KOd, but Mrs. LeMoyne accidentally does just that, now Burleigh can retire with a clear conscience. As promised by Mr Austin, he is given a partnership in the company, with his former rival and new friend, Speed. But Gabby and Spider wind up working as milkmen
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Pat and Mike
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Pat and Mike is a 1952 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The movie was written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and directed by George Cukor, who also directed The Philadelphia Story with Hepburn, Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete who loses her confidence whenever her charming but undermining fiancé Collier is around. Ladies golf and tennis championships are within her reach, however she gets flustered by his presence at the contests and he wants her to give up her goal and marry him, but Pat does not give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter, together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction. Sports Stars Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon were friends with Hepburn and Tracy and she was an avid golfer and tennis player, and indeed performed all the sports footage in the film herself. Pat and Mike was filmed on location around Los Angeles with many golfing scenes taking place at the Riviera Country Club, additional scenes were filmed at Occidental College. Other notables in the cast include Charles Bronson in his first credited role, Carl Alfalfa Switzer, Jim Backus. The score for the film was composed and conducted by David Raksin, with orchestrations by Robert Franklyn, of his music, Raksin said My music was sly and a mite jazzy, and despite the fact that everyone seemed to like it, so did I. The complete score was issued on CD in 2009, on Film Score Monthly records, according to MGM records the film earned $2,050,000 in the US and Canada and $646,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $74,000. List of American films of 1952 Pat and Mike at AllMovie Pat and Mike at the Internet Movie Database Pat and Mike at the TCM Movie Database Pat and Mike at the American Film Institute Catalog
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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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Virtual International Authority File
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The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center. The project was initiated by the US Library of Congress, the German National Library, the National Library of France joined the project on October 5,2007. The project transitions to a service of the OCLC on April 4,2012, the aim is to link the national authority files to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together, a VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary see and see also records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are available online and are available for research and data exchange. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting protocol, the file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata. VIAFs clustering algorithm is run every month, as more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the VIAF identifier of certain authority records
