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George Davis (actor)
George Davis (7 November 1889 – 19 April 1965) was a Dutch-born American actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1916 and 1963. He was born in Amsterdam and died in Los Angeles, California, from cancer. Selected filmography * ''The Yellow Traffic'' (1914) * ''Out of the Fog (1919 film), Out of the Fog'' (1919) as Brad Standish * ''Three Ages'' (1923) as Roman Guard Knocked Down (uncredited) * ''Sherlock Jr.'' (1924) as Conspirator (uncredited) * ''Stupid, But Brave'' (1924, short) as A Bum / The Race Starter (uncredited) * ''He Who Gets Slapped (film), He Who Gets Slapped'' (1924) as A Clown (uncredited) * ''The Iron Mule'' (1925, short) * ''The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film), The Phantom of the Opera'' (1925) as Guard at Christine's Door (uncredited) * ''The Tourist (1925 film), The Tourist'' (1925, short) * ''Cleaning Up (1925 film), Cleaning Up'' (1925, short) as The Wife's Brother * ''The Fighting Dude'' (1925, short) as The Dude's Valet * ''My Stars'' (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Says No
''The Lady Says No'' is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Frank Ross (producer), Frank Ross, starring Joan Caulfield, David Niven and James Robertson Justice, photographed by James Wong Howe, and featuring sequences filmed at Fort Ord, Pebble Beach, California, Pebble Beach and Carmel, California. The supporting cast features Frances Bavier, who later played "Aunt Bee" on television's ''The Andy Griffith Show''. Director Ross was married to Caulfield, the film's leading lady. Plot Bill Shelby (David Niven) is a globe-trotting author and photographer on assignment from ''Life (magazine), Life'' magazine to do a photo story on Dorinda Hatch (Joan Caulfield), best-selling author of the title book, "The Lady Says 'No'". Rather than finding a dour spinster, as he expects, she is a young blonde woman he finds attractive. Her interactions with him lead her to question her feminist convictions, such as it being unsuitable for a woman to illogically fall in love with someone she a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fool's Luck
''Fool's Luck'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle as William Goodrich. Although Arbuckle was acquitted in the third trial for the death of Virginia Rappe, he could not obtain work in Hollywood under his own name, so he adopted the pseudonym William Goodrich for directing the comedy shorts he made under his contract with Educational Film Exchanges. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Percy, a wealthy young man, has his income cut off just when the rent is due and his sweetheart Helen and her father are invited for dinner. The landlord ejects him and his valet. They move out and take their furniture away in a truck, which is demolished by a train. The train agent settles with them for a huge amount just in time for them to purchase a duplicate set of furniture, move it back into their rooms, and pay the rent in time to greet their dinner guests. Cast * Lupino Lane as Percy, The Dude * George Davis as Cuthbert, His Valet * Virginia Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laugh And Get Rich
''Laugh and Get Rich'' is a 1931 pre-Code American comedy film, directed by Gregory La Cava, from a screenplay he also wrote with contributions from Douglas MacLean, who also was the associate producer, and Ralph Spence. The film stars Dorothy Lee, Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, and Russell Gleason, and revolves around the antics in a boarding house in the early 1930s, run by Oliver, and the complications caused by her husband. Plot Sarah Austin (Edna May Oliver) runs a boarding house during the Depression, always on the verge of bankruptcy. Her husband, Joe ( Hugh Herbert) is a shiftless person who has never understood the concept of work; he is constantly involving them in get-rich-quick schemes. Their daughter, Alice ( Dorothy Lee), has her eyes set on poor young inventor, Larry Owens ( Russell Gleason), but her mother wishes she would become involved with Bill Hepburn ( John Harron), seemingly from a well-connected family. Sarah's illusions about Bill, however, are dashe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not So Dumb
''Not So Dumb'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies, and produced by Cosmopolitan Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who released it on January 17, 1930. It is based on the stage play ''Dulcy'' by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly that starred Lynn Fontanne. The film resulted in a financial loss for the studio of $39,000.Nasaw, David. ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'', Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. pg. 411. The play was previously adapted into a silent film in 1923 and would received another adaptation in 1940. Plot Dulcinea Parker goes to the train station to meet the Forbes: mother Eleanor, father Charles, and daughter Angela, whom she has invited to spend the weekend. We are also introduced to her new butler Perkins, who is an ex-convict on parole. Dulcinea, ever the "dumb blonde", has a habit of doing the wrong thing. She misquotes common expressions and butchers the King's English. She and her b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil-May-Care
Devil May Care may refer to: Music * ''Devil May Care'', an album by Bob Dorough, 1956 * ''Devil May Care'' (album), by Teri Thornton, 1961 * ''Devil May Care'', an album by Claire Martin, 1993 * "The Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don't)", a song by the Brian Jonestown Massacre from '' Give It Back!'', 1997 * ''Devil May Care'' (EP) or the title song, by Susperia, 2005 * '' The Devil May Care'', an album by 67 Special, 2007 * ''Devil May Care'', an EP by Iron Steel, 2008 Other uses * '' Devil-May-Care'', a 1929 film musical starring Ramón Novarro * Devil May Care (Peters novel), a 1977 novel by Elizabeth Peters * ''Devil May Care'' (Faulks novel), a 2008 James Bond novel by Sebastian Faulks * Devil May Care (horse) (2007–2011), an American Thoroughbred racehorse * ''Devil May Care'' (TV series), a 2021 American adult animated comedy series See also * '' Devil May Cry'', a video game series {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kiss (1929 Film)
''The Kiss'' is a 1929 American synchronized Sound film, sound drama film directed by Jacques Feyder, starring Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, and Lew Ayres in his first feature film. The film has no audible dialogue but featured a synchronized musical score and sound effects. The soundtrack was recorded using the Movietone sound system, Western Electric Sound System sound-on-film process. The soundtrack was also transferred to discs for those theatres that were wired with sound-on-disc sound systems. The film is based on a short story by George M. Saville, ''The Kiss'' bears the same title as the The Kiss (1896 film), 1896 short that "shocked" the American public by being the first motion picture to depict a couple kissing. This 1929 production is notable for being the last major film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) without dialogue and the final non-speaking performances by both Garbo and Conrad Nagel. Plot The story begins inside the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway (1929 Film)
''Broadway'' is a 1929 film directed by Paul Fejos from the 1926 play of the same name by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E. Jackson. This was Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences. The film was released by the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012, with Paul Fejo's ''Lonesome''. Plot Roy Lane and Billie Moore, entertainers at the Paradise Nightclub, are in love and are rehearsing an act together. Late to work one evening, Billie is saved from dismissal by Nick Verdis, the club proprietor, through the intervention of Steve Crandall, a bootlegger, who desires a liaison with the girl. "Scar" Edwards, robbed of a truckload of contraband liquor by Steve's gang, arrives at the club for a showdown with Steve and is shot in the back. Steve gives Billie a bracelet to forget that she has seen him helping a "drunk" from the club. Though Roy is arrested by D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sin Sister
''The Sin Sister'' is a lost 1929 American Synchronized sound drama adventure film directed by Charles Klein and starring Nancy Carroll. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. Plot Cast *Nancy Carroll as Pearl *Lawrence Gray as Peter Van Dykeman *Josephine Dunn as Ethelyn Horn *Myrtle Stedman as Sister Burton *Anders Randolf as Joseph Horn * Richard Alexander as Bob Newton *Frederick Graham as Ship Captain * George Davis as Mate *David Callis as Al See also *1937 Fox vault fire *List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition from silent film to sound film, sound, between 1926 and 1929. During this time a variety of recording syst ... References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Awakening (1928 Film)
''The Awakening'' is a 1928 American synchronized sound feature film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Vilma Bánky. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film was based on a story by Frances Marion.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Awakening'' at silentera.com Plot In Alsace–Lorraine, Alsace, under German occupation shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, Marie Ducrot is a pretty young peasant woman who falls in love with Count Karl von Hagen, a German army officer. Marie is seen when she visits von Hagen in his quarters. The people suffering under the occupation see Marie as a traitor and assault her physically. Marie disappe ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4 Devils
''4 Devils'' (also known as ''Four Devils'') is a lost 1928 American Synchronized sound drama film directed by German director F. W. Murnau and starring Janet Gaynor. While the 1928 version of the film had no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process. The synchronized version had only a limited release. The film was withdrawn to add talking sequences and the final Part-Talkie version was released to theatres in June of 1929. Both versions appeared to be lost. Plot Four orphans become a high wire act and encounter sinister goings-on at a circus. An old clown takes in the four children Charles, Adolf, Marion and Louise to protect them from the brutal circus owner who is their guardian. He raises them and trains them to become acrobats. The years pass and the four children soon become successful trapeze artists who call themselves the "Four Devils". Charles and Marion are now a couple. But whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wagon Show
''The Wagon Show'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Harry Joe Brown and written by Ford Beebe and Don Ryan. The film stars Ken Maynard, Ena Gregory, Maurice Costello, Fred Malatesta, George Davis and May Boley. The film was released on February 19, 1928, by First National Pictures. Cast * Ken Maynard as Bob Mason * Ena Gregory as Sally Beldan * Maurice Costello as Colonel Beldan * Fred Malatesta as Vicarino * George Davis as Hank * May Boley as The Strong Woman * Paul Weigel as Joey * Henry Roquemore Henry Roquemore (March 18, 1886 – June 30, 1943) was an American character actor who primarily played bit parts. He appeared in 229 silent and sound films from 1927 until 1943. Many of his roles were uncredited parts in Western movies, ... as The Barker * Sydney Jarvis as Sayre * Tarzan as Tarzan References External links * 1928 films 1928 Western (genre) films First National Pictures films Films directed by Harry Joe Brown Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Circus (1928 Film)
''The Circus'' is a 1928 silent romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis and Henry Bergman. The ringmaster of an impoverished circus hires Chaplin's Little Tramp as a clown, but discovers that he can only be funny unintentionally. The production of the film was the most difficult experience in Chaplin's career. Numerous problems and delays occurred, including a studio fire, the death of Chaplin's mother, as well as Chaplin's bitter divorce from his second wife Lita Grey, and the Internal Revenue Service's claims of Chaplin's owing back taxes, all of which culminated in filming being stalled for eight months. ''The Circus'' was the seventh-highest grossing silent film in cinema history taking in more than $3.8 million in 1928. The film continues to receive high praise. The film's copyright was renewed, so it entered the public domain on January 1, 2024. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
