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Actors And Sin
''Actors and Sin'' is a 1952 American comedy film written, produced and directed by Ben Hecht. The film marks Edward G. Robinson's second film with actress Marsha Hunt. It is also known by its section names of ''Actor's Blood'' and ''Woman of Sin''. Lee Garmes was codirector and cinematographer, as he was on most of the films that Hecht directed. Plot The film lampoons the Hollywood motion picture industry and is separated into two sections. The first section is ''Actor's Blood'', a morality play about legitimate theater. The second section is ''Woman of Sin'', a send-up of Hollywood greed. ''Actor's Blood'' takes place in New York City. Broadway star Marcia Tillayou has been found shot dead in her apartment. Her father Maurice is himself an actor, and had watched her theater career rise as his own declined. She had let success overcome her, and had thus alienated critics, fans, producers and her playwright husband. She had a few recent stage flops before being murdered. ''Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. After graduating from high school in 1910, Hecht ran away to Chicago, where, in his own words, he "haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls, and bookshops." In the 1910s and 1920s, Hecht became a noted journalist, foreign correspondent, and literary figure. In the late 1920s, his co-authored, reporter-themed play, ''The Front Page'', became a Broadway hit. The ''Dictionary of Literary Biography – American Screenwriters'' calls him "one of the most successful screenwriters in the history of motion pictu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theater
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), 130 of the 144 extant and extinct Broadway venues use (used) the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names (12 others used neither), with many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also using the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, are the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres, each with 500 or more seats, located in the Theater District and the Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the thoroughfare is eponymous with the district and its collection of 41 theaters, and it is also closely identified with Times Square, only three of the theaters are located on Broadway itself (namely the Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Roberts (actress)
Tracey Roberts (born Blanche Goldstone, – February 8, 2002) was an American actress who became an acting coach. Her name was sometimes seen as Tracy Roberts. Early years Roberts was born in Little Falls, New York. She attended Cornell University and the University of Michigan before moving to New York City to study at the Actors Studio. She also worked as a model for illustrators. Two of her siblings went on to work in entertainment, Ann Marcus as a TV writer and producer and Raymond Goldstone as a writer for TV and films. Career Roberts had the female lead in the film '' Fort Defiance'' (1951) and acted in ''Anything Goes'', ''Actors in Sin'' (1952) and ''Hollywood or Bust'' (1956). On stage, she appeared in ''It's Been Wonderful'', ''Paradise Lost'', ''Winter Kill'', ''Hedda Gabler'', ''Orpheus Descending'', ''The Seagull'', and ''The Women''. After Roberts's acting opportunities began to diminish, she took a friend's advice and began to teach acting. She was artistic direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Rosen (actor)
Sam Rosen is an American actor and writer. Film work One of Rosen's earliest film roles, if not his first was playing a white rapist in ''The Hymens Parable'' which was directed by Jon Springer. Then he appeared as Eddie in the Bill Semans directed ''Herman U. S. A.'' which was released in 2001. In an '' International Business Times'' article about the film '' Five Days Gone'', it said that he bestowed the film with a passionate, memorable performance as the drug addicted boyfriend of Alice (played by director Anna Kerrigan. He was the lead actor and co-writer of the Brady Kiernan directed film '' Stuck Between Stations''. The film which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. Tribeca was f ... in New York, was about a man and a woman who meet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Guilfoyle (actor Born In 1902)
Paul Guilfoyle (July 14, 1902 – June 27, 1961) was an American stage, film and television actor. Later in his career, he also directed films and television episodes. Guilfoyle was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He started off working on stage, performing on Broadway in 16 plays according to the Internet Broadway Database, beginning with ''The Jolly Roger'' and ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' in 1923 and ending with ''Jayhawker'' in 1934. He appeared in many films that starred Lee Tracy in the 1930s. In the 1949 crime film ''White Heat'', he played (uncredited) a treacherous prison inmate murdered in cold blood by James Cagney's lead character. He died of a heart attack on June 27, 1961 in Hollywood. He had a son, Anthony. Guilfoyle was interred in Glendale, California's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries is an American corporation that owns and operates a chain of cemeteries and mortuaries in Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Evans (actor)
Douglas Evans (January 26, 1904 – March 25, 1968) was an American actor, known for ''At War with the Army'' (1950), ''King of the Rocket Men'' (1949), and ''I Saw What You Did'' (1965). Biography Evans was born in Madison, Virginia.Resting Places: The Burial Places of 14,000 Famous Persons, by Scott Wilson In 1931, he joined the staff of WABC radio in New York as an announcer. Before that, he was an announcer at WMCA, also in New York, and was chief announcer at WGH in Virginia. He died on March 25, 1968, in Hollywood, California. He is interred in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Selected filmography * '' Public Cowboy No. 1'' (1937) - Radio Announcer (uncredited) * '' Young Fugitives'' (1938) - Announcer (uncredited) * ''Dick Tracy Returns'' (1938) - Mr. Burke (uncredited) * '' Hold That Co-ed'' (1938) - Announcer of State-Louisiana Game (uncredited) * ''Society Smugglers'' (1939) - Radio Announcer (uncredited) * ''They Asked for It'' (1939) - Radio Announcer (uncredit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crawford (actor)
John Crawford (born Cleve Allen Richardson; September 13, 1920 – September 21, 2010) was an American actor. He appeared in a 1961 episode of ''The Twilight Zone'', called " A Hundred Yards Over the Rim", and in several '' Gunsmoke'' episodes. He had a key role in the 1975 film '' Night Moves'', a crime thriller starring Gene Hackman, and played the mayor of San Francisco in 1976's '' The Enforcer'', the third ''Dirty Harry'' film featuring Clint Eastwood. Life and career Crawford was born in Colfax, Washington, and studied at the School of Drama at the University of Washington. In films from the 1940s, Crawford appeared in bit parts for many years before playing leads in several films in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s. When he returned to the United States, he played supporting roles in several films but was more prolific on TV in character roles, in scores of series such as '' State Trooper'' (in the episode "The Last Stage Robbery"), '' Gunsmoke'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Baxter (actor)
George Baxter may refer to: * George Baxter (printer) (1804–1867), English artist and printer based in London * George Baxter (cricketer) (fl. 1792–1830), English cricketer * George A. Baxter (1771–1841), American educator and college president * George W. Baxter (1855–1929), American politician and territorial governor of Wyoming * Sir George Baxter, 1st Baronet (1853–1926) of the Baxter baronets * George Robert Wythen Baxter (1815–1854), Welsh writer * George Baxter (actor) (1905–1976), French-American actor in films such as ''Thirty-Day Princess ''Thirty Day Princess'' is a 1934 pre-Code comedy film directed by Marion Gering and starring Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant and Edward Arnold. The film was based on a story of the same name by Clarence Budington Kelland (which appeared in ''Ladies ...'' * George Baxter, one of the main characters of the television series ''Hazel'' See also * Baxter (name) {{hndis, Baxter, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Hecht
Ben Hecht (; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. After graduating from high school in 1910, Hecht ran away to Chicago, where, in his own words, he "haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls, and bookshops." In the 1910s and 1920s, Hecht became a noted journalist, foreign correspondent, and literary figure. In the late 1920s, his co-authored, reporter-themed play, '' The Front Page'', became a Broadway hit. The ''Dictionary of Literary Biography – American Screenwriters'' calls him "one of the most successful screenwriters in the history of motion pict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Reed
Alan Reed (born Herbert Theodore Bergman; August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977) was an American actor, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on ''The Flintstones'' and various spinoff series. He also appeared in many films, including '' Days of Glory'', '' The Tarnished Angels'', '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'', ''Viva Zapata!'' (as Pancho Villa), and ''Nob Hill'', and various television and radio series. Early years Alan Reed was born Herbert Theodore Bergman on August 20, 1907, in New York City to Jewish parents. His father was a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant and his mother was born in the United States to Ukrainian-Jewish parents from Galicia."Fred Flintstone: A Stone Age Star With A Jewish Voice." ''Jewish Humor Central.com'', October 10, 2010. Retri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Mell
Joseph Mell (June 23, 1915 – August 31, 1977) was an American film and television actor. He was known for starring as Burt Stone in the 1971 film ''The Ski Bum''. Mell died in August 1977 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 62. Partial filmography *''Hollywood Story'' (1951) - Sylvester (uncredited) *'' When Worlds Collide'' (1951) - Glen Spiro (uncredited) *'' The Big Night'' (1951) - Mr. Ehrlich, Store Owner (uncredited) *'' Just This Once'' (1952) - Mr. Green (uncredited) *'' The Sniper'' (1952) - Joe, Presser (uncredited) *'' Deadline – U.S.A.'' (1952) - Lugerman (uncredited) *''Singin' in the Rain'' (1952) - Projectionist (uncredited) *'' The Atomic City'' (1952) - Dr. Gus Schwambach (uncredited) *'' Kid Monk Baroni'' (1952) - Gino Baroni *'' Young Man with Ideas'' (1952) - Municipal Judge (uncredited) *''Actor's and Sin'' (1952) - George Murry *'' Sally and Saint Anne'' (1952) - Mr. Shapiro (uncredited) *'' Monkey Business'' (1952) - Barber (uncredited) *'' M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Carson (actor)
Robert Samuel Carson (June 8, 1909 – June 2, 1979) was an American actor noted for dozens of supporting roles in films and television series during a career that spanned three and a half decades. He was also occasionally billed as Bob Carson or Robert S. Carson. Early years Carson was born in Hennepin County, Minnesota, to Elmer Llewellyn Carson and Elsa W. Carson (née Brunke) and grew up in Carman, Manitoba, Canada, along with his younger brother and actor Jack Carson. The family later moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Robert was active as a singer and musician while he was a student at the University of Minnesota. Noted appearances Carson portrayed the ringmaster in '' The Greatest Show on Earth'' (1952) with Charlton Heston. Carson was cast in five episodes of the religion anthology series, ''Crossroads'': as a police lieutenant in "The Unholy Trio" (1955) and in "The Two-Fisted Saint" and "False Prophet" (both 1956), as a coach in "The Comeback" (1956), and as Senator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
