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Robert Mitchum
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Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. Mitchum rose to prominence for his roles in several classic films noir. His best-known films include Out of the Past, The Night of the Hunter, Mitchum is rated number 23 on the American Film Institutes list of the greatest male stars of Classic American Cinema. Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut into a Methodist family, a sister, Annette, was born in 1914. James Mitchum was crushed to death in a accident in Charleston, South Carolina, in February 1919. After his fathers death, his mother was awarded a government pension, and soon realized she was pregnant with her son, John. She remarried to a former Royal Naval Reserve officer, Major Hugh Cunningham Morris, Ann and the Major had a daughter, Carol Morris, who was born July 1927 on the family farm in Delaware. When all of the children were old enough to attend school, throughout Mitchums childhood, he was known as a prankster, often involved in fistfights and mischief. When he was 12, his mother sent Mitchum to live with his grandparents in Felton, Delaware, a year later, in 1930, he moved in with his older sister, to New Yorks Hells Kitchen. He experienced numerous adventures during his years as one of the Depression eras wild boys of the road, at age 14 in Savannah, Georgia, he was arrested for vagrancy and put on a local chain gang. By Mitchums own account, he escaped and returned to his family in Delaware, during this time, while recovering from injuries that nearly cost him a leg, he met the woman he would marry, a teenaged Dorothy Spence. He soon went back on the road, eventually riding the rails to California, Mitchum arrived in Long Beach, California, in 1936, staying again with his sister Julie. Soon, the rest of the Mitchum family joined them in Long Beach, during this time, he worked as a ghostwriter for astrologer Carroll Righter. His sister Julie convinced him to join the local theater guild with her, in his years with the Players Guild of Long Beach, he made a living as a stagehand and occasional bit-player in company productions. He also wrote short pieces which were performed by the guild. According to Lee Servers biography, Mitchum put his talent for poetry to work writing song lyrics, in 1940, he returned East to marry Dorothy Spence, taking her back to California. He remained a character until the birth of their first child, James. Mitchum then got a job as a machine operator with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
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Faith Domergue
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Faith Marie Domergue /doʊmɜːrɡ/ was an American television and film actress. Domergues later career consisted of B movies, television guest roles, Domergue was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 16,1924 or 1925 of part-Creole descent. She was adopted by Adabelle Wemet when six weeks old, when Faith was 18 months old, Adabelle married Leo Domergue. The family moved to California in 1928 where Domergue attended Beverly Hills Catholic School, while a sophomore at University High School, she signed a contract with Warner Brothers, and made her first on-screen appearance with an uncredited walk-on role in Blues in the Night. The same year, she appeared on the cover of Photoplay as Faith Dorn, after graduating in 1942, Domergue continued to pursue a career in acting, but after sustaining injuries in a near-fatal car accident, her plans were put on hold. While recuperating from the accident, she attended a party aboard Howard Hughes yacht, enamored with her, Hughes bought out her contract with Warner Brothers, signed her to a three-picture deal with RKO, and cast her in the thriller Vendetta. The production extended over four years and cost $3.5 million, by the time of Vendettas premiere in 1950, Domergue had left Los Angeles for Palm Springs, and was pregnant with her second child. The critical reception was also dismissive, the New York Times panned the film as a garrulous, slow and obvious period piece, weighed down by a profusion of exotic accents, undistinguished dialogue and unconvincing play acting. Set against a background of the wild, Corsican countryside, which give the picture an atmosphere of suspenseful authenticity. The review damned Domergues performance with faint praise, Faith Domergue, but despite the flamboyant lines that are her lot, the attractive Miss Domergue does occasionally contribute genuine emotional acting to the proceedings. Following Vendetta, Domergue freelanced in the film noir Where Danger Lives, playing a femme fatale opposite Robert Mitchum, bosley Crowther, in The New York Times, criticized Domergues performance for manifest nothing more than a comparatively sultry appearance and an ability to recite simple lines. In 1953, after having lived briefly in England with her husband, Domergue returned to the United States, in 1955, Domergue appeared in another Western, Santa Fe Passage, playing an ammunition retailer opposite John Payne and George Keymas. Domergue then appeared in a series of monster and horror films. The first of these was Cult of the Cobra, in which six American Air Officers discover a Lamian cult of snake worshippers. This was followed with a role in Columbia Picturess It Came from Beneath the Sea, the following year, Domergue starred in This Island Earth, Universals first color sci-fi film. The film received critical praise for its performances and writing. Domergues tenure in horror pictures in the mid-1950s earned her a reputation as a scream queen. In the late 1950s and 1960s she made appearances on popular television series, including Sugarfoot, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, The Rifleman
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Claude Rains
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William Claude Rains was an English film and stage actor whose career spanned 46 years. He was a Tony Award winning actor and was a nominee for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. Rains was considered to be one of the great character stars with an extraordinary voice who was, according to the All-Movie Guide. During his lengthy career he was admired by many of his contemporaries such as Bette Davis, Vincent Sherman, Ronald Neame. Rains also inspired many younger actors such as John Gielgud, Charles Laughton, William Claude Rains was born on 10 November 1889 in Camberwell, London. His parents were Emily Eliza and the stage actor Frederick William Rains and he lived in the slums of London and in his own words on the wrong side of the river Thames Rains was one of twelve children, all but three dying of malnutrition when still infants. His mother took in boarders in order to support the family, according to his daughter, he grew up with a very serious Cockney accent and a speech impediment which took the form of a stutter, which caused him to call himself Willie Wains. His native accent was so strong that his daughter couldnt understand a word he said when he used it to sing old Cockney songs to her or purposely use it to annoy her. Rains left school after the grade to sell papers so that he could bring the pennies and halfpennies home for his mother. He sang in the Palm Street Church choir which also him a few pence to take home. Due to his father being an actor the young Rains would spend time in theatres and surrounded by actors and it was here where he could watch actors up close as well as the day to day running of a theatre. Rains made his debut at the age of 10 in the play Sweet Nell of Old Drury at the Haymarket Theatre. At one time, he was involved in a gas attack which resulted in his losing 90 percent of the vision in his eye for the rest of his life. By the end of the war, he had risen from the rank of Private to that of Captain, after the war had ended Rains remained in England, where he continued to develop his acting talents. These talents were recognised by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, the founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and his daughter, Jessica, when describing her fathers voice said The interesting thing to me was that he became a different person. He became an elegant man, with a really extraordinary Mid-Atlantic accent. It was his voice, nobody else spoke like that, half American, half English, soon after he became recognised as one of the leading stage actors in London. Aged 29, he played the role of Clarkis in his one silent film which was a British film titled, during his early years, Rains also taught at RADA, where John Gielgud and Charles Laughton were some of his students
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RKO Radio Pictures
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RKO Pictures Inc. also known as RKO Radio Pictures and in its later years RKO Teleradio Pictures, was an American film production and distribution company. It was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywoods Golden Age, RCA chief David Sarnoff engineered the merger to create a market for the companys sound-on-film technology, RCA Photophone. By the mid-1940s, the studio was under the control of investor Floyd Odlum, RKO has long been celebrated for its series of musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the mid-to-late 1930s. Actors Katharine Hepburn and, later, Robert Mitchum had their first major successes at the studio, cary Grant was a mainstay for years. The work of producer Val Lewtons low-budget horror unit and RKOs many ventures into the now known as film noir have been acclaimed, largely after the fact, by film critics. The studio produced two of the most famous films in motion picture history, King Kong and Citizen Kane, RKO Pictures is also a member of Motion Picture Association of America. Maverick industrialist Howard Hughes took over RKO in 1948, after years of turmoil and decline under his control, Hughes sold the troubled studio to General Tire and Rubber Company in 1955. The original RKO Pictures ceased production in 1957 and was dissolved two years later. In 1981, broadcaster RKO General, the heir, revived it as a production subsidiary. In October 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer and its success prompted Hollywood to convert from silent to sound film production en masse. The Radio Corporation of America controlled an advanced optical sound-on-film system, RCA Photophone, the industrys two largest major studios, Paramount and Loews/MGM, with two other studios Universal and First National, were poised to contract with ERPI for sound conversion as well. Next on the agenda was securing a string of exhibition venues like those the leading Hollywood production companies owned, Kennedy began investigating the possibility of such a purchase. Around that time, the large Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit of theaters, built around the medium of live vaudeville, was attempting a transition to the movie business. In mid-1927, the operations of Pathé Exchange and Cecil B. De Milles Producers Distributing Corporation had united under KAOs control, early in 1928, KAO general manager John J. Murdock, who had assumed the presidency of Pathé, turned to Kennedy as an adviser in consolidating the studio with De Milles company, PDC. This was the relationship Sarnoff and Kennedy sought, on October 23,1928, RCA announced the creation of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum holding company, with Sarnoff as chairman of the board. Kennedy, who withdrew from his positions in the merged companies, kept Pathé separate from RKO. RCA owned the governing stock interest in RKO,22 percent, in the early 1930s, the companys production and distribution arm, presided over by former FBO vice-president Joseph I
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Film noir
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Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly such that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywoods classical film noir period is regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. Cinema historians and critics defined the category retrospectively, before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic films noir were referred to as melodramas. Whether film noir qualifies as a genre is a matter of ongoing debate among scholars. Although film noir was originally associated with American productions, films now so described have been made around the world, many pictures released from the 1960s onward share attributes with film noir of the classical period, and often treat its conventions self-referentially. Some refer to such works as neo-noir. The clichés of film noir have inspired parody since the mid-1940s, the questions of what defines film noir, and what sort of category it is, provoke continuing debate. They emphasize that not every film noir embodies all five attributes in equal measure—one might be more dreamlike, another, while many critics refer to film noir as a genre itself, others argue that it can be no such thing. Because of the diversity of noir, certain scholars in the field, such as film historian Thomas Schatz, treat it as not a genre but a style. Other critics treat film noir as a mood, characterize it as a series, there is no consensus on the matter. By 1931, Curtiz had already been in Hollywood for half a decade, the Universal horror that comes closest to noir, in story and sensibility is The Invisible Man, directed by Englishman James Whale and photographed by American Arthur Edeson. Edeson later photographed The Maltese Falcon, widely regarded as the first major film noir of the classic era, josef von Sternberg was directing in Hollywood at the same time. Films of his such as Shanghai Express and The Devil Is a Woman, with their hothouse eroticism and baroque visual style, the commercial and critical success of Sternbergs silent Underworld was largely responsible for spurring a trend of Hollywood gangster films. Successful films in that such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy. An important, possibly influential, cinematic antecedent to classic noir was 1930s French poetic realism, with its romantic, fatalistic attitude, the movements sensibility is mirrored in the Warner Bros. drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, a forerunner of noir. Among films not considered films noir, perhaps none had an effect on the development of the genre than Citizen Kane
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Thriller film
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Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a film genre that falls under the general thriller genre. The thriller films key characteristics are excitement and suspense, the suspense element, found in most films plots, is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, a strict definition of the thriller film is that the films overarching goal is to build tension in audiences as the film approaches its climax. Tension is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible, Life is typically threatened in thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films characters conflict with other or with an outside force. Thriller films are typically hybridized with other genres, there exist adventure thrillers, science fiction thrillers, Western thrillers, Thriller films also share a close relationship with horror films, both eliciting tension. In plots about crime, thriller films focus less on the criminal or the detective, common themes include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Alfred Hitchcocks first thriller was his silent film, The Lodger. His next thriller was Blackmail, his and Britains first sound film and his notable thrillers in the 1930s include The Man Who Knew Too Much and The 39 Steps. 326 —this film would be an inspiration for the future James Bond films, the German film M, directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre as a criminal deviant who preys on children. Hitchcock continued his suspense-thrillers, directing Foreign Correspondent, the Oscar-winning Rebecca, Suspicion, Saboteur and Shadow of a Doubt, notable non-Hitchcock films of the 1940s include The Spiral Staircase and Sorry, Wrong Number. In the 1950s, Hitchcock added technicolor to his thrillers, now with exotic locales and he reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train, Dial M For Murder with Ray Milland, Rear Window and Vertigo. Non-Hitchcock thrillers of the 1950s include The Night of the Hunter —Charles Laughtons only film as director—and Orson Welless crime thriller Touch of Evil, director Michael Powells Peeping Tom featured Carl Boehm as a psychopathic cameraman. After Hitchcocks classic films of the 1950s, he produced Psycho about a lonely, mother-fixated motel owner, J. Lee Thompsons Cape Fear, with Robert Mitchum, had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge. A famous thriller at the time of its release was Wait Until Dark by director Terence Young, john Boormans Deliverance followed the perilous fate of four Southern businessmen during a weekends trip. In Francis Ford Coppolas The Conversation, a bugging-device expert systematically uncovered a covert murder while he himself was being spied upon, Peter Hyams science fiction thriller Capricorn One proposed a government conspiracy to fake the first mission to Mars. His notable films include Sisters, Obsession, which was inspired by Vertigo, Dressed to Kill. Other films include Curtis Hansons The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Unlawful Entry, detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killer was another popular motif in the 90s
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Howard Hughes
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Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American businessman, investor, pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. He first made a name for himself as a film producer, later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle, oddities that were caused in part by a worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder and chronic pain from a plane crash. As a maverick film tycoon, Hughes gained prominence in Hollywood beginning in the late 1920s, when he made big-budget and often controversial films like The Racket, Hells Angels, later he controlled the RKO film studio. Hughes formed the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932, hiring numerous engineers and designers and he spent the rest of the 1930s setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules. He acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines and later acquired Air West, Hughes was included in Flying Magazines list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation, ranked at No.25. Today, his legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the birthplace of Howard Hughes is recorded as either Humble or Houston, Texas. The date remains uncertain due to conflicting dates from various sources and he repeatedly claimed that his birthday was on Christmas Eve. A1941 affidavit birth certificate of Hughes that was signed by his aunt Annette Gano Lummis and Estelle Boughton Sharp states that he was born on December 24,1905, in Harris County, Texas. Hughes was the son of Allene Stone Gano and Howard R. Hughes Sr. a successful inventor and he was of English, and some French Huguenot, ancestry, and was a descendant of John Gano, a minister who allegedly baptized George Washington. His father had patented the two-cone roller bit, which allowed rotary drilling for petroleum in previously inaccessible places, the senior Hughes made the shrewd and lucrative decision to commercialize the invention by leasing the bits instead of selling them, and founded the Hughes Tool Company in 1909. Hughes uncle was the famed novelist, screenwriter, and film director Rupert Hughes, at a young age, Hughes demonstrated interest in science and technology. In particular, he had great engineering aptitude and built Houstons first wireless radio transmitter at age 11 and he went on to be one of the first licensed ham radio operators in Houston, having the assigned callsign W5CY. At 12, Hughes was photographed in the newspaper, identified as being the first boy in Houston to have a motorized bicycle. He was an indifferent student, with a liking for mathematics, flying and he took his first flying lesson at 14, and later attended math and aeronautical engineering courses at Caltech. The red brick house where Hughes lived as a teenager at 3921 Yoakum St. Houston today serves as the headquarters of the Theology Department of the University of St. Thomas and his mother Allene died in March 1922 from complications of an ectopic pregnancy. Howard Hughes Sr. died of an attack in 1924. Their deaths apparently inspired Hughes to include the creation of a research laboratory in the will that he signed in 1925 at age 19. Howard Sr. s will had not been updated since Allenes death, on his 19th birthday, Hughes was declared an emancipated minor, enabling him to take full control of his life
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Maureen O'Sullivan
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Maureen Paula OSullivan was an Irish actress best known for playing Jane in the Tarzan series of films starring Johnny Weissmuller. Maureen returned to Boyle in 1988 to be honoured by the town and she was of Irish, English and Scottish ancestry. She attended a convent school in Dublin, then the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton, one of her classmates there was Vivian Mary Hartley, future Academy Award-winning actress Vivien Leigh. After attending finishing school in France, OSullivan returned to Dublin to work with the poor, OSullivans film career began when she met motion picture director Frank Borzage, who was doing location filming on Song o My Heart for 20th Century Fox. He suggested she take a screen test and she did and won a part in the movie, which starred Irish tenor John McCormack. She traveled to the United States to complete the movie in Hollywood, OSullivan appeared in six movies at Fox, then made three more at other movie studios. In 1932, she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after several roles there and at other movie studios, she was chosen by Irving Thalberg to appear as Jane Parker in Tarzan the Ape Man, opposite co-star Johnny Weissmuller. She was one of the more popular ingenues at MGM throughout the 1930s, in all, OSullivan played Jane in six features between 1932 and 1942. She starred with William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man and played Kitty in Anna Karenina with Greta Garbo, Fredric March, and Basil Rathbone. After co-starring with the Marx Bros in A Day At The Races, she appeared as Molly Beaumont in A Yank at Oxford, at her request, he rewrote her part to give it substance and novelty. She played another Jane in Pride and Prejudice with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson, after appearing in Tarzans New York Adventure, OSullivan asked MGM to release her from her contract so she could care for her husband who had just left the Navy with typhoid. She retreated from show business, devoting her time to her family, in 1948, she re-appeared on the screen in The Big Clock, directed by her husband for Paramount Pictures. She continued to occasionally in her husbands movies and on television. However, by 1960 she believed she had permanently retired, in 1958, Farrows and OSullivans eldest son, Michael, died in a plane crash in California. Actor Pat OBrien encouraged her to take a part in summer stock, and that led to another play, Never Too Late, in which she co-starred with Paul Ford in what was her Broadway debut. Shortly after it opened on Broadway, John Farrow died of a heart attack, OSullivan stuck with acting after Farrows death, she was the Today Girl for NBC for a while, then made the movie version of Never Too Late for Warner Bros. She was also a director of a bridal consulting service. In June and July 1972, OSullivan was in Denver, Colorado, to star in the Elitch Theatre production of Butterflies are Free with Karen Grassle, the show ended on July 1,1972
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Philip Van Zandt
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Philip Phil Van Zandt was a Dutch-American actor of film, stage and television. He made over 220 film and television appearances between 1939 and 1958, Van Zandt made his Hollywood debut in 1939 and, in the two decades that followed, appeared in some 100 movies. However, he was usually cast in bit parts and also found himself typecast in roles as a Nazi, criminal. For instance, he appeared as a villain in two Laurel and Hardy films in the 1940s, the few films in which he got more considerable screen-time were mostly comedy shorts, including several Three Stooges short subjects. In 1941, he played a small but important part as magazine editor Rawlston in Orson Welles classic film Citizen Kane and he established his own acting school in Hollywood in the 1950s. In 1956, he guest-starred in an episode of Johnny Weissmullers Jungle Jim syndicated television series, by 1958, Van Zandt had become depressed with his flagging career, and had spent practically all his income on compulsive gambling. As a result, he committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills and his last film appearance was in the Three Stooges comedy Fifi Blows Her Top, released nearly two months after his death. Philip Van Zandt at the Internet Movie Database, allmovie Philip Van Zandt at the Internet Broadway Database
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Billy House
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William H. Comstock, known by his stage name Billy House, was an American vaudevillian, Broadway performer and feature film actor. After devoting most of his career to live performance, he moved to Hollywood where he became an actor during the 1940s and 1950s. According to admirer Orson Welles, the name Billy House was likely an invention for use in burlesque theatres, but the minute his time came for an entrance — on he went. House was also used as a model for the Disney characters of Doc. By the mid-1940s he had begun working more steadily in film, the bulk of his larger film roles came between 1945 and 1952. House appeared on television at least once late in his career, because much of Houses earliest theatrical work took place in smaller off-Broadway venues and burlesque stages, much of it escaped the notice of theatrical critics. Consequently, it is difficult to assess the nature or quality of his work until the late 1920s, House began performing on Broadway in the late 1920s, and generally caught the eye of national critics. Many reviews prominently mentioned his size as much as his performance, for instance, Time Magazine said of Houses presence in Luckee Girl, Billy House moved about the stage like a grinning Guava jelly, singing Whoopee with suave insinuations. The New York Times was less focussed on Houses size, and more interested in his performance, by 1936, Time had essentially reduced Houses contribution to White Horse Inn to theatrical trope, saying only that House was a comic with a big belly. Still, the New York press was considerably kinder to White Horse Inn than Time, because White Horse Inn was embraced by the New York press, Billy House received what one scholar of the play called a big career boost. House began his career as the star of two-reelers in about 1930. His most frequent collaborator in these films was the prolific two-reel director Aubrey Scotto. Together they made The Dunker, Retire Inn, Bullmania and Out of Bounds, all of these were also written by House, and at least some were adaptations of theatrical routines he had previously copyrighted. Between 1930 and 1931, he made at least four more two-reelers, Money would see him work for the first time alongside Edward G. Robinson and Boris Karloff, both of whom would figure prominently in his later films. After the short subject format fell out of fashion, House evolved into an actor in feature-length films. Houses significant girth made him a natural for the role of Friar Tuck, opposite Alan Hales Little John in the 1950 film. He is also remembered by scholars of horror films for his performance as the obese. Later, he had significant role in the first Ma and Pa Kettle film, The Egg and I and appeared in Inner Sanctum and Naked Gun
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Harry Shannon (actor)
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Harry Shannon was an American character actor. He often appeared in Western films, Harry Shannon was born on a farm in Saginaw, Michigan. He began his career in theatre and vaudeville, and switched to the film industry in the 1930s. Although he played most frequently in Westerns, his film role was perhaps as Charles Foster Kanes rough father in Citizen Kane. Among his other films were Someone to Remember, Alaska Highway, San Quentin, in 1960, he was cast as the outlaw Clay Hooper in the episode Showdown at Goldtown of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Colt.45. The guest cast included Robert Colbert, Ruta Lee, and Dan Sheridan, Shannon died at the age of seventy-four in Hollywood, California. Works by or about Harry Shannon at Internet Archive Harry Shannon at the Internet Movie Database
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Jack Kelly (actor)
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Kelly later became a politician, having served from 1983 to 1986 as the mayor of Huntington Beach, California. His mother, Nan Kelly, had been a stage actress. Kellys father was a ticket broker, and after he moved the family to Hollywood. His sister, Oscar-nominated actress Nancy Kelly, was a prominent leading lady opposite Spencer Tracy, Tyrone Power and his other two siblings, Carole and William Clement, also tried show business. When the Kellys were children, their mother would not serve meat or give medication when they were sick. Kelly served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, Kelly made his film debut in an uncredited role in the 1939 biopic The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, opposite Don Ameche and Loretta Young. On July 15,1954, Kelly played the gunfighter, cattleman, in 1955-1956 television season, Kelly starred in a series based on the 1942 feature film Kings Row. He played Dr. Parris Mitchell, a young psychiatrist coping with the environment of his small town. Kings Row was one-third of the Warner Bros, presents wheel series, hosted by Gig Young. It rotated at the hour of 7,30 Eastern on Tuesday with a similar television version of the popular movie Casablanca as well as the new ABC Western series Cheyenne starring Clint Walker. After the series ended in 1956, Kelly appeared in Forbidden Planet and She-Devil, along with guest roles on Fireside Theater, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Lux Video Theatre, the various anti-heroic Mavericks were dapper professional poker-players roaming the Old West with the benefit of superb scripts. The series had a cultural impact during a time when there were only three television networks and most cities had only three TV channels to choose from. Mavericks demanding filming schedule had caused production to lag behind early on, the producers decided to give Bret Maverick a brother so as not to run out of episodes long before the end of the season. Thus, Kelly was introduced as Bart Maverick in Hostage, the eighth episode of the series. While he may not have matched Garners popularity on Maverick, Kelly did have his enthusiastic admirers, possessing a deep voice, a John Barrymore-like profile and an easy-going screen presence, Kelly enjoyed an attentive following among female viewers of the series. Kelly shared the lead with James Garner in one of the shows most-discussed episodes, Shady Deal at Sunny Acres, the pair also co-starred in the famous Pappy episode in which Garner played the brothers much-quoted father Beauregard Pappy Maverick, in addition to his regular role of Bret. Aided by trick photography, Bret and Pappy play cards together in one scene, Bart also rescued Bret at the climax of Duel at Sundown, in which Garner fist fought guest star Clint Eastwood. All but one script during the shows first two years were written with Garner in mind regardless of which actor would eventually be cast, Roy Huggins insisted that the writers visualize Garner as Maverick while writing the scripts
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Chicago Reader
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It was founded by a group of friends from Carleton College. The Reader is recognized as a pioneer among alternative weeklies for both its creative nonfiction and its commercial scheme, the Reader also developed a new kind of journalism, ignoring the news and focusing on everyday life and ordinary people. The Reader, as it is known, is dated every Thursday and distributed free on Wednesday and Thursday via street boxes. As of March 2009, the paper claimed more than 1,900 locations in the Chicago metropolitan area, Creative Loafing filed for bankruptcy in September 2008. In 2012, the Chicago Reader was acquired by Wrapports LLC, the Chicago Reader was founded by Robert A. Roth, who grew up in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. His ambition was to start a publication for young Chicagoans like Bostons The Phoenix. Those papers were sold on newsstands but were given away, mostly on campuses. They scraped together about $16,000 in capital and published the first issue,16 pages, one year later, in its first anniversary issue, the Reader published an article titled What Kind of Paper is This, Anyway. In which it answered Questions weve heard over and over in the past year and this article reported that the paper had lost nearly $20,000 in its first ten months of operation but that the owners were confident it will work out in the end. It explained the rationale behind free circulation and the paper’s unconventional editorial philosophy, Why doesnt the Reader print news, Tom Wolfe wrote us, The Future of the newspaper lies in your direction, i. e. the sheet willing to deal with the way we live now. That sums up our thoughts quite well, we find street sellers more interesting than politicians, in its early years the Reader was published out of apartments shared by the owner-founders, Roth, McCamant, Rehwaldt and Yoder. The first apartment was in Hyde Park—the University of Chicago neighborhood on the side of Chicago—and the second was in Rogers Park on the far north side. Working for ownership in lieu of pay, the owner-founders ultimately owned more than 90% of the company, in 1975 the paper began to earn a profit, incorporated, and rented office space in the downtown area that later came to be known as River North. In 1979, a reporter for the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Illinois, in 1986, an article in the Chicago Tribune estimated the Reader’s annual revenues at $6.7 million. In 1996, Crains Chicago Business projected revenue of $14.6 million, the National Journal’s Convention Daily reported that the Reader was “an enormous financial success. It’s now as thick as many Sunday papers and is published in four sections that total around 180 pages. ”This report put the circulation at 138,000. Later in 1995 the papers Matches personal ads were made available on the Web, also in 1996 the Reader partnered with Yahoo to bring its entertainment listings online and introduced a Web site and an AOL user area built around its popular syndicated column The Straight Dope. The Reader became so profitable in the late 1990s that it added a suburban edition, The Reader’s Guide to Arts & Entertainment and it faced severe competitive pressure starting near the turn of the century, as some of its key elements became widely available online
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The 39 Steps (1935 film)
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The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. After being mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, at a London music hall theatre, Richard Hannay is watching a demonstration of the superlative powers of recall of Mr. Memory when shots are fired. In the ensuing panic, Hannay finds himself holding a seemingly frightened Annabella Smith and she mentions the 39 Steps, but does not explain its meaning. Later that night Smith, fatally stabbed, bursts into Hannays bedroom and he finds a map of the Scottish Highlands clutched in her hand, showing the area around Killin, with a house or farm named Alt-na-Shellach circled. He sneaks out of the watched flat disguised as a milkman and he learns from a newspaper that he is the target of a nationwide manhunt for Smiths murderer. When he sees the police searching the train, he enters a compartment and kisses the sole occupant, Pamela and she frees herself from his unwanted embrace and alerts the policemen, who stop the train on the Forth Bridge. He walks toward Alt-na-Shellach, staying the night in the house of a poor crofter, early the next morning, she sees a police car approaching and warns Hannay. Hannay flees, wearing the crofters coat, at a bridge, he finds a sign for Alt-na-Shellach. He arrives at the house of the seemingly respectable Professor Jordan and is let in after saying he has sent by Annabella Smith. The police arrive, but Jordan sends them away and listens to Hannays story, Jordan then reveals that he is missing part of a finger, he shoots Hannay and leaves him for dead. Luckily, the bullet is stopped by the hymn book in the coat pocket. Hannay drives into town and goes to the sheriff, who does not believe the story since he knows Jordan well. Hannays right wrist is handcuffed, but he jumps through a window and he tries to hide at a political meeting and is mistaken for the introductory speaker. He gives an impromptu speech — without knowing anything about the candidate he is introducing — but is recognised by Pamela. He is taken away by policemen who ask Pamela to accompany them and they drive past the police station, claiming they have orders to go directly to Inveraray, but Hannay realises they are agents of the conspiracy when they take the wrong road. When the men get out to disperse a flock of sheep blocking the road, Hannay escapes and they make their way across the countryside and stay the night at an inn. While he sleeps, Pamela manages to slip out of the handcuffs and she returns to the room and sleeps on a sofa. The next morning, she tells him what she heard and he sends her to London to alert the police
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Young and Innocent
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Young and Innocent is a 1937 British crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney. It is notable for an elaborately staged crane shot Hitchcock devised towards the end of the film, at a retreat on the English coast, Christine Clay, a successful actress, argues passionately with her jealous ex-husband Guy. Not accepting her Reno divorce as valid, he accuses her of having an affair and his face twitches violently around his eyes as they argue. The next morning, Robert Tisdall happens to be walking along the seaside when Christines dead body washes ashore, Tisdall recognizes her, and runs for help. Two young women arrive just in time to see him racing away from the corpse, the police quickly decide that he is the only suspect. Christine was strangled with the belt from a raincoat, Tisdalls raincoat is missing and he admits knowing the victim from three years ago when he sold her a story, but they assume the two have been having an affair. When they learn that she left him money in her will, Tisdall is arrested, Tisdall is grilled all night by Scotland Yard detectives until he faints. He is revived by the aid of Erica Burgoyne, daughter of the local police Chief Constable, Tisdall is assigned an incompetent barrister, and is taken into court for his formal arraignment. Doubting if his innocence will ever be established, he takes advantage of overcrowding in the courthouse to escape and he gets away by riding on the running board of Ericas Morris car, revealing himself to her after the car runs out of petrol. He helps push the car to a station and pays for petrol. Though she was fearful and unsure about her passenger, Erica eventually becomes convinced of his innocence. They are eventually spotted together, forcing both to stay on the run from the police, Tisdall tries to prove his innocence by tracking down the stolen coat, if it still has its belt, the one found next to Christines body must not be his. The duo succeed in finding Old Will, a sociable china-mender, but Will was not the thief, he was given the coat by a man with twitchy eyes. And when Will received the coat, its belt was missing, separated from the group, Erica is taken in by the police. Upon realizing that his daughter has fully allied herself with a murder suspect, Tisdall sneaks into their house to see her, intending to surrender next, but she mentions that the coat had a box of matches from the Grand Hotel in a pocket. Tisdall has never been there, perhaps the murderer has a connection to the hotel, Erica and Will go to the Grand Hotel together, hoping to find him. His face is twitching around the eyes, recognizing Old Will in the audience, and seeing policemen nearby, Guy performs poorly due to fear. He takes medicine to try to control the twitching, but it makes him very sleepy, eventually, Guy faints in the middle of a performance, drawing the attention of Erica and the police
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Foreign Correspondent (film)
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Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain who are involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features 19-year old Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann and it was based on Vincent Sheeans political memoir Personal History, the rights to which were purchased by producer Walter Wanger for $10,000. The film was one of two Hitchcock films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941, the other being Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent was nominated for six Academy Awards, including one for Albert Bassermann for Best Supporting Actor, but did not win any Academy Awards. In mid-August 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, after searching for a good, tough crime reporter for a fresh viewpoint, he appoints Johnny Jones as a foreign correspondent, under the pen name Huntley Haverstock. The reporters first assignment is Stephen Fisher, leader of the Universal Peace Party, at the party, Haverstock meets Fishers daughter, Carol. Later, Fisher informs the guests that Van Meer, who was supposed to be the guest of honor, will not be attending the party, at the conference, Van Meer is shot in front of a large crowd by a man disguised as a photographer. Haverstock commandeers a car to follow the assassins getaway car, the car he jumps into happens to have in it Carol and Scott ffolliott, another reporter, who explains that the capital letter in his surname was dropped in memory of an executed ancestor. The group follows the assassin to a windmill in the countryside, while Carol and ffolliott go for help, Haverstock searches the windmill and finds a live Van Meer, the man who was killed was an impostor substituted to make the world believe Van Meer was killed. The old man has been drugged and is unable to tell Haverstock anything, Haverstock is forced to flee when the kidnappers become aware of him. By the time the police arrive, the villains have escaped with Van Meer in an aircraft, later, back at Haverstocks hotel room, two spies dressed as policemen arrive to kidnap him. When he suspects who really are, he escapes out the window. Haverstock and Carol board a British boat to England, and while a furious storm thunders overhead, in England, they go to Carols fathers house, where Haverstock sees a man whom he recognizes as one of the men at the windmill. He informs Fisher and Fisher promises that he send a bodyguard to protect him. The bodyguard, Rowley, repeatedly tries to kill Haverstock, when the assassin tries to push him off the top of the Westminster Cathedral tower, Haverstock steps aside and Rowley plunges to his death. After a misunderstanding with Haverstock, Carol returns to London, just as Fisher is about to fall for ffolliotts bluff, he hears her car pull up. Fisher heads to a hotel where Van Meer is being held with ffolliott on his tail, Van Meer is being interrogated using sleep deprivation to discover a secret clause in a treaty he signed. Just as he is being forced to divulge the information the organization wants, when Haverstock arrives, Fisher and his bodyguards escape, leaving Van Meer behind
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Night of the Demon
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Night of the Demon is a 1957 British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. An adaptation of the M. R. James story Casting the Runes, the films production was turbulent due to artistic differences between producer Hal E. Chester on one side and Tourneur and writer Charles Bennett on the other. Although the original plan was not to show a literal demon, producer Chester inserted a monster over the objections of the writer, the director, in England, Professor Harrington visits his rival, Dr. Julian Karswell. Harrington promises to cancel an investigation of Karswells involvement in Satanism if Karswell will rescind a threat he has made against Harrington, after learning that a parchment given to Harrington has disintegrated, Karswell glances at the clock and ushers Harrington out, promising to do all that he can. As Harrington drives home, a gigantic demon materialises and pursues him, losing control of the car, Harrington crashes into an electrical pole and is electrocuted. Dr. John Holden arrives in England to attend a convention at which Harrington had intended to expose Karswells cult. Holden is informed of Harringtons death and that the link between it and Karswells cult is an accused murderer, Rand Hobart, who has fallen into a catatonic stupor. While Harringtons collaborators consider the possibility of forces, Holden rejects the idea as superstition. Following Harringtons notes, Holden visits the British Museums library to examine books on witchcraft, a book Holden requests is discovered to be missing. Karswell offers to show Holden his own copy at his mansion, at Harringtons funeral, Holden meets the dead mans niece, Joanna, who gives him Harringtons diary. It reveals Harringtons increasing fear of Karswells power, Holden remains sceptical, but goes with Joanna to Karswells mansion the next day. There, Holden and Karswell mock each others beliefs, a very strong windstorm abruptly starts, which Karswell claims to have created with a spell. When Holden continues to him, Karswell grows angry and predicts that Holden will die in three days. Holden and his colleagues discuss Karswell and make plans to further examine Rand Hobart, Harringtons diary mentions the parchment passed to him by Karswell, Holden finds a parchment with runic inscriptions that Karswell secretly passed to him at the library. Powerful winds come through the window, blowing the parchment from his fingers and it nearly burns in the fireplace before Holden rescues and pockets it. Holden begins to feel more uneasy after a visit to Hobarts family, as Holden leaves, the parchment flies from his hand again. Hobarts family become fearful and declare Holden to be chosen, Holden compares the parchments runes to ones inscribed on the nearby stone circle at Stonehenge. Joanna takes Holden to Karswells mother, who has arranged a séance, the medium channels Harrington, who tells them that Karswell has the key to the problem from his book
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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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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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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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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Tarzan Escapes
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Tarzan Escapes is a 1936 Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the third in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Tarzan series to feature Johnny Weissmuller as the King of the Apes. Janes two cousins, Eric and Rita, arrive in Africa to tell Jane about a fortune left to her back in their world and they are led to Tarzans escarpment home by Captain Fry, a hunter with an agenda of his own. Jane convinces Tarzan to let her go back with Eric and Rita, but Captain Fry attempts to capture Tarzan to take him back to civilization so he can be put on public display, and actually succeeds in caging Tarzan. Frys plan goes wrong when the natives capture Tarzan in his cage, Tarzan manages to escape with the help of elephants and Cheeta, and guides whats left of Frys party through a cave passage filled with treacherous quicksands. Just before they exit the caves to safety, Tarzan forces Fry to go back the way they came as punishment for his betrayal. Fry starts to go back, then seizes a heavy branch to attack Tarzan, Rita and Eric tell Jane that it is not necessary for her to return with them and that she belongs with Tarzan. The film ends with Tarzan and Jane reunited at their tree house, Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan Maureen OSullivan as Jane John Buckler as Captain John Fry Benita Hume as Rita William Henry as Eric Herbert Mundin as Rawlins E. E. McKay shot many of the scenes, but he was replaced by John Farrow in 1936 who re-shot much of the film. Richard Thorpe would finally get credit for directing the film, film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 71%, based on 7 reviews, with a rating average of 6. 1/10. Tarzan Escapes at the Internet Movie Database Tarzan Escapes at the TCM Movie Database
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West of Shanghai
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West of Shanghai is a 1937 American adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff as a Chinese warlord. Other films based on the play included The Bad Man directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Holbrook Blinn. In 1941, M-G-M made a version entitled The Bad Man, starring Wallace Beery and Ronald Reagan, on a train bound for lawless northern China, businessman Gordon Creed encounters acquaintance Myron Galt and his attractive daughter Lola. Galt is on his way to foreclose on a very promising oilfield built up by Jim Hallet, Creed, on the other hand, wants to offer Hallet enough money to pay off his loan from Galt. Creed is annoyed when his reserved compartment is appropriated by General Chow Fu-Shan, the general is on his way to deal with self-styled General Wu Yen Fang, a warlord who has taken control of a province. However, Chow Fu-Shan is assassinated on the train by one of Fangs men, then, Fangs subordinate, Captain Kung Nui and his men take over the town. When Kung Nui casts his eyes on Jane, Hallet impulsively punches him, Jane and Hallet have fallen in love, though she does not believe in divorce and has kept their relationship strictly platonic. Hallet is knocked out and imprisoned, when Fang arrives, he tries to persuade Jane to go with him, promising she would enjoy it. Hallet escapes with the help of an associate disguised as one of Fangs soldiers, Hallet then breaks in on Fang and Janes private discussion. Fortunately for Hallet, Fang remembers him, Hallet once hid a coolie and dug three bullets out of his shoulder, that was Fang before his meteoric rise. The warlord decides to help his benefactor, Fang robs Creed of $50,000, uses it to pay Galt what Hallet owes, then takes the money and offers it to Dr. Abernathy. Creed bribes Captain Kung Nui to rebel against Fang, Kung Nui wants to regain face by having Hallet executed. Fang pretends to give in, but just before a firing squad shoots the oilman, Fang has his man, Mr. Cheng. Afterward, Fang personally shoots Creed to fix Hallets romantic problem, government troops arrive and force their way into the town. In the confusion, Jane, accompanied by Hallet, goes to attend to her husbands wound, Creed produces a gun and announces that Hallet is going to have a fatal accident, but is killed by Fang. With the battle lost, Fang decides to surrender rather than risk the lives of his captives by fighting to the end and he is taken out and shot. It was known during production as China Bandit, then War Lord, Karloff was to make Black Widow for Warner Bros. But the studio pushed forward the film in their schedule to take advantage of the War in China
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The Invisible Menace
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The Invisible Menace is a 1938 American mystery film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff. An army private and his new bride are trying to honeymoon on an occupied by the military. Boris Karloff as Mr. Jevries, aka Dolman Marie Wilson as Sally Wilson Pratt Eddie Craven as Pvt, innes Jack Mower as Sgt. Peterson Anderson Lawler as Pvt. Murphy Boris Karloff filmography The Invisible Menace at the Internet Movie Database The Invisible Menace at the TCM Movie Database
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Women in the Wind
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Women in the Wind is a 1939 film directed by John Farrow, starring Kay Francis, William Gargan and Victor Jory. The plot revolves around women pilots competing in the so-called Powder Puff Derby, Ace is reluctant, but Janet steals his craft to demonstrate her skill. He also learns that she is the sister of Bill Steele, when Ace discovers that Janet needs the money to pay for an operation for Bill, he has no further objections to Janet flying his airplane. Complications ensue when Aces estranged ex-wife Frieda notifies him their Mexican divorce is not legal, the airplane remains half hers, and she intends to go after the derbys $15,000 first prize herself. She manages to convince Janet that Ace is a heel, Ace is able to get his buddy Denny Corson, who has just broken his speed record, to let Janet use his home-built aircraft instead, without letting Janet know that Ace is responsible. In the race, Janet reaches the first stopover at Wichita first, Janet and Aces friend Kit Campbell crashes after her engine catches fire. Janet wants to stay with her, but Kit insists she is okay, the letter is from Doc, he loves Janet himself, but writes that it was Ace who got her Dennys airplane. Meanwhile, Frieda runs into a working as a race mechanic. He asks her if it is worth $2000 to her to have Janets airplane sabotaged, when she agrees, the mechanic arranges a fuel leak. Janet is forced to land on a farm and she manages to refuel, but as she is taking off again, she clips something and one of the wheels on her landing gear is torn off without her noticing. When Janet flies into an electrical storm, her radio is disabled. Frieda and Janet are neck and neck at the finish in Cleveland, the people on the ground see that Janets landing gear is damaged, but are unable to notify her. Frieda, hearing the message, signals Janet about her danger. Janet is able to safely and win the race. Afterward, she thanks Frieda, who also hands Ace a telegram that says the divorce was legal after all, a total of 19 pilots took off from Santa Monica, California on August 18,1929 with 15 pilots continuing to Cleveland, Ohio, landing nine days later. A number of scenes utilized footage from record-breaking round-the-world and transatlantic flights, aircraft for the film were provided by Hollywood film pilot Howard Blatt. Women in the Wind was the last Warner Bros. contract film for Kay Francis, the film represented the culmination of her longstanding feud with the studio bosses. Once an A-list star, Francis was frustrated with the roles Warner Bros. had given her in the late 1930s
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The Saint Strikes Back
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The Saint Strikes Back, is a 1939 American crime film, directed by John Farrow. It marks the second incarnation of the antihero crimefighting character Simon Templar. George Sanders replaced Louis Hayward, who had played the Saint in The Saint in New York, the movie was produced by RKO and also featured Wendy Barrie as female gang leader Val Travers. Barrie would appear in two more Saint films, playing different roles each time, though not in the film in the series. This was the second of eight films in RKOs film series about The Saint, in the film The Saint foils an assassination attempt by a member of Val Travers gang, but is arrested by the police for the murder of the gang member. He persuades them to let him assist in apprehending a criminal mastermind. The script was based on the Leslie Charteris novel She Was a Lady which was published as Angels of Doom. The screenplay was by John Twist, who set the story in San Francisco, robert Sisk produced and John Farrow directed. While dancing at a New Years party, the Saint spots an agent of Valerie Travers preparing to shoot someone, Templar is placed by witnesses at the scene, so the San Francisco police request the assistance of Inspector Henry Fernack of the NYPD. Before Fernack can leave, the Saint arrives in New York, Travers father had been a police inspector whose efficiency caused trouble for a mysterious criminal mastermind named Waldeman. When a large sum of money was found in his deposit box, however, he was fired on suspicion of working for Waldeman. Travers is determined to clear his name by any means necessary, the Saint takes up her cause, despite her hostility for his interference in her plans and her suspicions about his motives. Templar gets the cooperation of the commissioner, over the objections of Chief Inspector Webster and criminologist Cullis. Templar and Travers cross paths again when the leads to Martin Eastman, a noted philanthropist and seemingly-irreproachable citizen. Templar forces Travers and her gang to drive away, all except her burglar, Templar gets Dyson to open Eastmans safe and takes the money inside. The serial numbers confirm that it was stolen in a robbery perpetrated by Waldeman, when Eastman contacts Cullis instead of reporting the theft, Templar knows that Cullis is also working for Waldeman. With that information, not only does the Saint exonerate Travers father, he also identifies Waldeman
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Five Came Back
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Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, that stars Chester Morris and Lucille Ball. The film was photographed by renowned noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, and written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo. Although considered a B movie, the positive notices received by Ball helped launch her as an A-list actress, Five Came Back is considered a precursor of the disaster film genre. In 1948 Five Came Back was remade as the Mexican film Los que volvieron and again in 1956 by producer-director Farrow as Back from Eternity, starring Robert Ryan, pilot Bill, co-pilot Joe Brooks, and steward Larry comprise the crew. On their way to Panama, a fierce nighttime storm buffets their airliner, a gas cylinder is shaken loose and knocks a door open, steward Larry attempts to close it, but falls to his death. An engine fails and the pilots are forced to crash-land in jungle terrain, in the morning the professor recognizes plants of the Amazon rainforest, the aircraft has been blown far south of where rescuers will search, the nearest civilization is across the mountains. But there is water, and enough fruit and game for everyone to live on, weeks go by while Bill and Joe struggle to repair the damaged airliner, while the others clear a runway and lighten the aircraft by removing all unnecessary weight. The Spenglers rediscover their love for each other, Bill warms to an appreciative Peggy, although she tells him about her sordid past. Judson falls apart, staying drunk much of the time, while Alice toughens up, the biggest change is to Vasquez. Seeing how well most of the group have coped with their situation, on the 23rd day, Crimp disappears, Tommy eventually discovers his dead body. When Peggy and Pete go looking for Tommy, he leads them to Crimps body, Pete orders Peggy to take Tommy to safety while he covers their retreat, but he is quickly killed by unseen natives. The remaining survivors board the airliner, but as the engines turn over. Bill and Joe patch it, but realize that their repair will fail some time after takeoff, as a result, the aircraft can only carry four adults and Tommy across the mountains. When the aircraft is ready, Vasquez announces that both pilots and both of the women will go along with Tommy. Judson attacks, and Vasquez shoots him dead, the airliner takes off, leaving behind Vasquez and the Spenglers. As the natives approach, Professor Spengler quietly informs Vasquez that they must not be taken alive, Vasquez lies to him, telling him that there are three bullets left. He kills the couple with his last two bullets, and then awaits his grisly fate, casey Johnson is the last surviving cast member. Although primarily filmed on a lot, Five Came Back overcame some of the limitations of its low-budget
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Full Confession
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Full Confession is a 1939 is a US crime drama film made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by John Farrow from an adaptation by Jerome Cady of Leo Birinskis story, the film stars Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Barry Fitzgerald and Joseph Calleia. Pat McGinnis murders a policeman and escapes by committing a minor crime. An innocent man, Michael OKeefe, is convicted of the murder, while delirious after an injury, McGinnis confesses to priest Father Loma. Loma, whose flock includes McGinniss girlfriend Molly Sullivan as well as the OKeefe clan and he must convince McGinnis to give himself up. Full Confession at the Internet Movie Database Full Confession at AllMovie Full Confession at the TCM Movie Database Full Confession at the American Film Institute Catalog
