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Helen Mowery
Helen Emily Inkster (April 25, 1922 – July 14, 2008)Helen Emily Webster in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, retrieved froAncestry.com/ref> was a former Miss Wyoming who acted on the stage, in films, and on television. Early life She was born Helen Emily Inkster in Casper, Wyoming. Her parents were George Lucas Inkster and Helen Countryman Inkster. Her father, originally from Omaha, Nebraska, was an engineer and World War 1 veteran. Her parents owned the Quality Grocery in Casper, which her mother managed while her father worked at the White Eagle Oil and Refinery plant. When Helen was five, her father was fatally scalded with hot water from the bubble tower of a pressure still at the refinery. Her mother sold the grocery store and took Helen to live on her grandmother's ranch in Lander, Wyoming. Seven months after the fatal accident, Helen's only sibling, a younger brother named George, was born in Lander. Helen attended the local grade school in Lande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In The Night
''Women in the Night'' is a 1948 American film directed by William Rowland shot in Mexico. The film is also known as ''When Men Are Beasts''. The film depicts activities of German and Japanese who wish revenge on the Allies with a cosmic ray weapon. Cast * Tala Birell as Yvette Aubert * William Henry as Philip Adams / Maj. von Arnheim * Richard Loo as Col. Noyama * Virginia Christine as Claire Adams * Bernadene Hayes as Frau Thaler * Gordon Richards as Col. von Meyer * Frances Chung as Li Ling * Jean Brooks as Maya * Kathy Frye as Helen James * Helen Mowery as Sheila Hallett * Benson Fong as Chang * Helen Brown as Angela James * Frederick Giermann as Major Eisel * Philip Ahn as Prof. Kunioshi * Arno Frey as Field Marshal von Runzel * Beal Wong as General Mitikoya * Iris Flores as Maria Gonzales * Frederic Brunn as Lt. Kraus * Harry Hays Morgan as General Hundman * Paula Allen as Nurse * Joy Gwynell as Suicide Girl * William Yetter Sr. as German Officer * Noel Cravat as Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Eyes (play)
''Dark Eyes'' is a play written by Elena Miramova (in collaboration with Eugenie Leontovich) that premiered in 1943. The comedy centers on three Russian-American actresses who have fallen into serious financial trouble and are urgently seeking a backer for their new play. The story is based upon an earlier Miramova work called "Love Is Not a Potato"; the play originally was titled ''To the Purple''."Gossip of the Rialto". ''The New York Times''. 20 December 1942. List of characters *John Field: A well-to-do widower and successful businessman who lives in Long Island with his family. *Grandmother Field: John's mother, whose birthday is the day that the play begins. *Larry Field: John's son, twenty-two years old, a self-described "bum". *Helen Field: John's daughter, younger than Larry, a girl of romantic temperament and the fiancée of Nikolai. *Pearl: A Negro maid who works for the Fields. *Willoughby: A butler employed by the Field family. *Prince Nikolai Toradje: A Georgian é ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Range Beyond The Blue
''Range Beyond the Blue'' is a 1947 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor and written by Patricia Harper. The film stars Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates,Helen Mowery, Bob Duncan, Ted Adams and Billy Hammond. The film was released on March 17, 1947, by Producers Releasing Corporation. Plot Outlaws are robbing a stage line, owned and operated by Margie Rodgers (Helen Mowery), whenever it carries gold. They aim to drive the value of the stage coach line down, then buy it cheaply through a front, and sell it for the true market price. Their plan is derailed by Eddie Dean and Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates) who breakup one of the assaults. Eddie has Soapy take over the local sheriff's office when the sheriff is wounded. They battle the outlaw gang, and after some musical interludes, eventually break it up and expose the criminal plot. Cast * Eddie Dean as Eddie Dean *Roscoe Ates as Soapy Jones *Helen Mowery Helen Emily Inkster (April 25, 1922 – July 14, 2008)Helen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smiley Burnette
Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who is reported to have played proficiently over 100 musical instruments, sometimes more than one simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's '' Petticoat Junction'' in the 1960s. Biography Lester A. Burnett (he added the final "e" later in life) was born in Summum, Illinois, on March 18, 1911, and grew up in Ravenwood, Missouri. He began singing as a child and learned to play a wide variety of instruments by ear, yet never learned to read or write music. In his teens, he worked in vaudeville, and starting in 1929, at the state's first commercial radio station, WDZ-AM in Tuscola, Illinois. Burnette came by h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: 131 westerns, all produced by Columbia Pictures. Early years Starrett was born in Athol, Massachusetts, where his grandfather had built a prosperous tool works. He attended Worcester Academy, then graduated from Dartmouth College. Career A graduate of Worcester Academy in 1922, Starrett went on to study at Dartmouth College. While on the Dartmouth football team he was hired to play a football extra in the film ''The Quarterback'' (1926). Bitten by the acting bug, Starrett played minor roles in films and leading roles in stage plays. In 1928, he was a member of the Walker Company, a repertory theatre troupe headed by Stuart Walker. He played the romantic lead in his first movie, '' Fast and Loose'' (1930), which starred Frank Morgan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fighting Frontiersman
''The Fighting Frontiersman'' is a 1946 American Western film directed by Derwin Abrahams and written by Ed Earl Repp. The film stars Charles Starrett, Helen Mowery, Hank Newman and Smiley Burnette. The film was released on December 10, 1946, by Columbia Pictures. Plot After stumbling upon a large cache of gold in Texas, prospector Cimarron Dobbs (Emmett Lynn) is wary of being swindled out of his fortunate fortune. The gold was left behind by Santa Anna's army, and Dobbs needs help. Dobbs heads out to the local town of Twin Forks, where he hopes his friend, saloon girl Dixie King (Helen Mowery) will help him. When he shows King a sample of his find he is unaware that saloon owner John Munro (Robert Filmer) is taking notice. King tell Dobbs that he should seek the help of Steve Reynolds (Charles Starrett), aka the mysterious rider, the Durango Kid. Monroe's shady gang kidnap Dobbs, intent on torturing the location of the gold from him. King contacts the Durango Kid, who heads to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down Missouri Way
''Down Missouri Way'' is a 1946 American musical film directed by Josef Berne and written by Sam Neuman. The film stars Martha O'Driscoll, John Carradine, Eddie Dean, William Wright, Roscoe Karns and Renee Godfrey. The film was released on August 15, 1946, by Producers Releasing Corporation. Plot An agricultural professor and her scientifically-raised mule get caught up in a film shoot in the Ozarks farming community. The mule is featured in the film and the professor and producer fall for each other to the chagrin of the film's lead. Cast *Martha O'Driscoll as Jane Colwell *John Carradine as Thorndyke 'Thorny' P. Dunning * Eddie Dean as Mortimer * William Wright as Mike Burton *Roscoe Karns as Press Agent * Renee Godfrey as Gloria Baxter * Mabel Todd as Cindy *Eddie Craven as Sam *Chester Clute as Prof. Shaw * Will Wright as Prof. Morris * Paul Scardon as Prof. Lewis *Earle Hodgins Earle Hodgins (October 6, 1893 – April 14, 1964) was an American actor. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Daily News
The New York ''Daily News'', officially titled the ''Daily News'', is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, NJ. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019 it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. Today's ''Daily News'' is not connected to the earlier '' New York Daily News'', which shut down in 1906. The ''Daily News'' is owned by parent company Tribune Publishing. This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021. After the Alden acquisition, alone among the newspapers acquired from Tribune Publishing, the ''Daily News'' property was spun off into a separate subsidiary called Daily News Enterprises. History ''Illustrated Daily News'' The ''Illustrated Daily News'' was founded by Patt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mysterious Intruder
''Mysterious Intruder'' is a 1946 American mystery film noir based on the radio drama ''The Whistler''. Directed by William Castle, the production features Richard Dix, Barton MacLane and Nina Vale. It is the fifth of Columbia Pictures' eight " Whistler" films produced in the 1940s, the first seven starring Dix. Plot Edward Stillwell, the aged proprietor of a music store, hires private detective Don Gale (Dix) to find Elora Lund, a then 14-year-old who vanished seven years ago at the time her mother died. Stillwell can only pay $100, but hints mysteriously that finding Lund could make Gale a rich man. A young woman claiming to be Elora Lund shows up at Stillwell's shop, supposedly in answer to his newspaper advertisement. Stillwell tells her that her mother gave him some "odds and ends" to sell; he discovered something very valuable among them, but refuses to give her any details until he telephones Gale. Meanwhile, Harry Pontos sneaks into the basement and finds a package mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avalanche
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain. Avalanches can be set off spontaneously, by such factors as increased precipitation or snowpack weakening, or by external means such as humans, animals, and earthquakes. Primarily composed of flowing snow and air, large avalanches have the capability to capture and move ice, rocks, and trees. Avalanches occur in two general forms, or combinations thereof: slab avalanches made of tightly packed snow, triggered by a collapse of an underlying weak snow layer, and loose snow avalanches made of looser snow. After being set off, avalanches usually accelerate rapidly and grow in mass and volume as they capture more snow. If an avalanche moves fast enough, some of the snow may mix with the air, forming a powder snow avalanche. Though they appear to share similarities, avalanches are distinct from slush flows, mudslides, rock slides, and serac collapses. They are also different from large scale movemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alta Ski Area
Alta is a ski area in the western United States, located in the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, in Salt Lake County. With a skiable area of , Alta's base elevation is and rises to for a vertical gain of . One of the oldest ski resorts in the country, it opened its first lift in early 1939. Alta is known for receiving more snow than most Utah resorts, with an average annual snowfall of . Alta is one of three remaining ski resorts in the U.S. that prohibits snowboarders, along with nearby competitor Deer Valley and Vermont's Mad River Glen. History Early History Alta is one of the oldest ski areas in the U.S. and is one of just three ski areas in the U.S. that prohibits snowboarders. Located at the head of Little Cottonwood Canyon in Albion Basin and Collins Gulch, barely from the Great Salt Lake, Alta resides in a unique micro climate characterized by over of high volume, low moisture snowfall annually. Alta Ski Area features long, straight, fall-line pitch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Producers Releasing Corporation
Producers Releasing Corporation was the smallest and least prestigious of the Hollywood film studios of the 1940s. It was considered a prime example of what was called "Poverty Row": a low-rent stretch of Gower Street in Hollywood where shoestring film producers based their operations. However, PRC was more substantial than the usual independent company that made only a few low-budget movies and then disappeared. PRC was an actual Hollywood studio -- albeit the smallest -- with its own production facilities and distribution network, and it even accepted imports from the UK. PRC lasted from 1939 to 1947, churning out low-budget B movies for the lower half of a double bill or the upper half of a neighborhood theater showing second-run films. The studio was originally located at 1440 N. Gower St. (on the lot that eventually became part of Columbia Pictures) from 1936 to 1943. PRC then occupied the former Grand National Pictures physical plant at 7324 Santa Monica Blvd., from 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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