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Kick In (1931 Film)
''Kick In'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film, based on the 1914 Broadway play by Willard Mack which had starred John Barrymore, was directed by Richard Wallace and starred the legendary Clara Bow in her last film for Paramount Pictures. The movie was filmed twice in the silent era: a version filmed in 1917 by Pathé and a 1922 version released by Paramount. The 1922 film, lost for over 80 years, was discovered to have been in the Gosfilmofond archive in Moscow and returned to the U.S. in 2010. The 1931 version of ''Kick In'' is currently controlled by Universal Studios, who own or control all Paramount films made between 1929 and 1949. The 1931 ''Kick In'' has (as of 2011) never been broadcast on television. Plot Cast *Clara Bow as Molly Hewes *Regis Toomey as Chick Hewes * Wynne Gibson as Myrtle Sylvester *Juliette Compton as Piccadilly Bessie *Leslie Fenton as Charlie * James Murray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wallace (director)
Richard Wallace (August 26, 1894 – November 3, 1951) was an American film director. He began working in the editing department at Mack Sennett Studios in the early 1920s. He later moved on to rival Hal Roach Studios where he began directing two-reel films, on some of which he collaborated with Stan Laurel. In 1926, Wallace began directing feature-length films. Several of Wallace's memorable films include three Shirley Temple films, ''A Night to Remember (1943 film), A Night to Remember'' (1943) with Loretta Young, and ''The Little Minister (1934 film), The Little Minister'' (1934) with Katharine Hepburn. He was a founding member of the Directors Guild of America. He died of a heart attack. Filmography * ''Starvation Blues'' (1925) * ''Beware of Your Relatives'' (1925) * ''Jiminy Crickets'' (1925) * ''One Wild Night'' (1925) * ''Ice Cold'' 1925) * ''Raggedy Rose'' (1926) * ''Syncopating Sue'' (1926) * ''The Merry Widower'' (1926) * ''Along Came Auntie'' (uncredited, 1926 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Studios, Inc
Universal Studios, Inc. (formerly known as MCA Inc., also known simply as Universal) is an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate and holding company which owns Universal Pictures and other media and entertainment assets. It is the film production arm of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. The company is one of two namesake flagship subsidiaries of NBCUniversal alongside the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC), the oldest of the United States' Big Three television networks. Originally founded in 1924 as Music Corporation of America by Jules C. Stein and William R. Goodheart Jr., the company became a major force in the film and entertainment industry. Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Woody Woodpecker, a character created by Walter Lantz, serving as Universal's mascot. History Seagram On December 9, 1996, a year after its acquisition by Seagram, MCA was rebranded to Universal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Sothern
Ann Sothern (born Harriette Arlene Lake; January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television, in a career that spanned nearly six decades. Sothern began her career in the late 1920s in bit parts in films. In 1930, she made her Broadway stage debut and soon worked her way up to starring roles. In 1939, MGM cast her as Maisie Ravier, a brash yet lovable Brooklyn showgirl. The character proved to be popular and spawned a successful film series ('' Congo Maisie'', '' Gold Rush Maisie'', '' Up Goes Maisie'', etc.) and a network radio series ('' The Adventures of Maisie''). In 1953, Sothern moved into television as the star of her own sitcom, '' Private Secretary''. The series aired for five seasons on CBS and earned Sothern three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 1958 she starred in another sitcom for CBS, '' The Ann Sothern Show'', which aired for three seasons. From 1965 to 1966, Sothern provided the voice of Glady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Lowe
Edmund Sherbourne Lowe (March 3, 1890 – April 21, 1971) was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. Biography Lowe's childhood home was at 314 North 1st Street, San Jose. He attended Santa Clara College and entertained the idea of becoming a priest before starting his acting career. His classmate was William Gaxton. He died in Woodland Hills, California, of lung cancer and is buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California. Quirt and Flagg Lowe's career included over 100 films, beginning in 1915. He became established as a popular leading man in silent films. He is best remembered for his role as Sergeant Harry Quirt, smart-mouthed buddy of the equally abrasive Captain Jimmy Flagg (Victor McLaglen) in the 1926 silent feature '' What Price Glory?'' directed by Raoul Walsh. The popularity of Quirt and Flagg virtually guaranteed Edmund Lowe's success in the new talking pictures: audiences could hardly wait to hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lux Radio Theatre
''Lux Radio Theatre'', sometimes spelled ''Lux Radio Theater'', a old-time radio, classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the Blue Network, NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway theatre, Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the ''Lux Video Theatre'' through most of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux (soap), Lux Soap brand. Broadcasting from New York, the series premiered at 2:30 pm, October 14, 1934, on the NBC Blue Network with a production of ''7th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Taggart
Ben Taggart (April 5, 1889 – May 17, 1947) was an American actor. Taggart's stage experience began in Seattle, and he went on to play leading roles in Washington, Portland, San Francisco, Trenton, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. He was described as "an adept comedian as well as a delineator of the more serious parts." Selected filmography His first movie was ''The Woman Next Door'' in 1915;(24 July 1915)Taggart in Kleine's "Woman Next Door" ''The Moving Picture World'' from 1931 to 1945 he appeared in a number of minor uncredited roles. Credited roles include: * '' The Woman Next Door'' (1915) - Tom Grayson * ''The Fixer'' (1915) - Mr. William Fowler * '' The Sentimental Lady'' (1915) - Tom Woodbury * '' She'' (1917) - Leo Vincey * '' Oh, Boy!'' (1919) - Charles Hartley * ''The Hidden Light'' (1920) - Victor Bailey * '' Mammy'' (1930) - Sheriff (uncredited) * '' Kick In'' (1931) - Detective Johnson (uncredited) * '' Newly Rich'' (1931) - Mr. Black (uncredited) * '' Smart Money' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward LeSaint
Edward LeSaint (January 1, 1871 – September 10, 1940) was an American stage and film actor and Film director, director whose career began in the silent film, silent era. He acted in over 300 films and directed more than 90. He was sometimes credited as Edward J. Le Saint.Edward J. Le Saint at IBDB LeSaint typically portrayed characters in roles of authority, including over 30 roles, both credited and uncredited, as a judge. Early years LeSaint was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, of French ancestry. His schooling also was in Cincinnati. Before venturing into entertainment, he worked in a railroad's auditing office.Career [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wade Boteler
Wade Boteler (October 3, 1888 – May 7, 1943) was an American film actor and writer. He appeared in more than 430 films between 1919 and 1943. Biography He was born in Santa Ana, California, and died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack. Boteler graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After he graduated, he stayed there as a director until he joined the Army in World War I. For three years in the mid-1920s, he worked for Douglas MacLean's film company as both actor and writer. On Broadway, Boteler appeared in the play '' The Silent Voice'' (1914). Partial filmography * '' The False Road'' (1920) * '' Lahoma'' (1920) * '' An Old Fashioned Boy'' (1920) * '' She Couldn't Help It'' (1920) * '' Ducks and Drakes'' (1921) * '' The Home Stretch'' (1921) * '' Fifty Candles'' (1921) * '' One Man in a Million'' (1921) * '' Blind Hearts'' (1921) * ''At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern AT or at may refer to: Geography Austria * Austria (ISO 2-letter cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hurst (actor)
Paul Causey Hurst (October 15, 1888 – February 27, 1953) was an American actor and film director. Career Hurst was born in Traver, California, of one quarter Cherokee and one quarter Seneca people, Seneca descent. In 1933 he performed in "Eve the Fifth" at the Beverly Hills Little Theatre for Professionals. Hurst is best remembered for two roles: as the Yankee deserter who trespasses at Tara (plantation), Tara and is shot by Scarlett in ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'' (1939); and his characterization of the drunken and sadistic vigilante Smith in ''The Ox Bow Incident'' (1943). However, he was most proud of his role as a crotchety, old rancher who refuses water to a Quaker family in the movie ''Angel and the Badman'', until John Wayne's character convinces him to share the water. It was after this latter role that Republic Pictures signed him as the comic sidekick in Monte Hale's Western series. His last film was John Ford's ''The Sun Shines Bright''. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Crisp
Donald William Crisp (27 July 188225 May 1974) was an English people, English film actor as well as an early producer, director and screenwriter. His career lasted from the early silent film era into the 1960s. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942 for his performance in ''How Green Was My Valley (film), How Green Was My Valley''. Early life Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp at 3 Clay Hall Road, Bow, London, on 27 July 1882. He was the youngest of ten children (four boys and six girls) born to Elizabeth (née Christy) and James Crisp, a labourer. He was educated locally and in 1901 was living with his parents and working as a driver of a horse-drawn vehicle. Crisp made a number of claims about his early life that were eventually proven false decades after his death. He claimed that he was born in 1880 in Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross, Aberfeldy in Perthshire, Scotland, and even went so far as to maintain a Scottish accent throughout his life in Holly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Murray (American Actor)
James T. Murray (February 9, 1901 – July 11, 1936) was an American film actor best known for starring in the 1928 film ''The Crowd (1928 film), The Crowd''. Early life Born in The Bronx, Murray was the second of seven children of Mary (née Casserly) and Christopher Murray."Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910" original enumeration page, April 21, 1910, Borough of the Bronx, New York City, New York. FamilySearch; retrieved October 23, 2017. His mother was a native of Ireland, as was his father, who by 1910 was employed in New York as an insurance inspector for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Career In 1923, Murray made his film debut as Captain John Alden in the ''Pilgrims'', a Film reel, three-reel ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Fenton
Leslie Fenton (12 March 1902 – 25 March 1978) was an English actor and film director. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1923 and 1945. Early life Fenton emigrated to America with his mother, Elizabeth Carter Fenton, and his brothers when he was six years old. They sailed as steerage passengers on board the RMS Celtic (1901), R.M.S. ''Celtic'', which departed from Port of Liverpool, Liverpool, 11 September 1909, and arrived at Port of New York and New Jersey, New York, where they were ferried over to Ellis Island for "U.S. Immigrant Inspection" on 19 September. They were quickly admitted and continued their journey by rail to join his father, shoe manufacturer's representative Richard Fenton, in Mifflin, Ohio. Career As a teenager, Leslie worked as an office clerk. He moved to New York City, New York and began a career on the stage. His film career began later with Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Studios. He also directed 19 films between 1938 and 1951. In 1945, Fent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
