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Man About Town (1939 Film)
''Man About Town'' is a 1939 musical comedy film starring Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, and Edward Arnold. The screenplay concerns a producer who tries to get his leading lady to take him seriously romantically by pursuing other women. Then-Sen. Harry S. Truman saw the movie in Washington, and wrote in a letter home to his wife that he enjoyed it.Frank, Jeffrey, ''The Trials of Harry S. Truman'' (Simon & Schuster 2022), p. xx Cast *Jack Benny as Bob Temple *Dorothy Lamour as Diana Wilson *Edward Arnold as Sir John Arlington *Binnie Barnes as Lady Arlington * Monty Woolley as Henri Dubois *Isabel Jeans as Mme. Dubois *Phil Harris as Ted Nash *Betty Grable as Susan Hayes * E. E. Clive as Hotchkiss * Eddie Anderson as Rochester *The Merriel Abbott Dancers as Themselves *Matty Malneck and His Orchestra as Themselves *The Pina Troupe as Themselves * Charles Coleman as Hotel Doorman (uncredited) *Cecil Kellaway Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a Sou ...
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Mark Sandrich
Mark Sandrich (born Mark Rex Goldstein; October 26, 1900 – March 4, 1945) was an American film director, writer, and producer. Early life Sandrich was born in New York City on October 26, 1900 into a Jewish family. His sister was Ruth Harriet Louise. He was an engineering student at Columbia University when he accidentally fell into the film business. While visiting a friend on a film set, he saw that the director had a problem setting up a shot; Sandrich offered his advice, and it worked. He entered the movie business in the prop department. Career Shorts director Sandrich became a director in 1927, making comedy shorts. His first feature was ''Runaway Girls'', in 1928. In an exciting time in the film business with the arrival of sound, he briefly returned to shorts. In 1933, he directed the Academy Award-winning short '' So This Is Harris!''. Feature films Sandrich returned to directing features with '' Melody Cruise'' (1933). He followed it with '' Cupid in the ...
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Eddie Anderson (comedian)
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Films Directed By Mark Sandrich
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ...
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Films About Musical Theatre
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ...
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1930s English-language Films
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American Romantic Comedy Films
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American Musical Comedy Films
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American Black-and-white Films
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1939 Romantic Comedy Films
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1939 Musical Comedy Films
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to work with Germans. *** The Youth Protection Act was passed on April 30, 1938 and the Working Hours Regulations came into effect. *** The Jews name change decree has gone into effect. ** The rest of the world *** In Spain, it becomes a duty of all young women under 25 to complete compulsory work service for one year. *** First edition of the Vienna New Year's Concert. *** The company of technology and manufacturing scientific instruments Hewlett-Packard, was founded in a garage in Palo Alto, California, by William (Bill) Hewlett and David Packard. This garage is now considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. *** Sydney, in Australia, records temperature of 45 ˚C, the highest record for the city. *** Philipp Etter took over as Swiss ...
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1939 Films
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten Best Picture-nominated films that year include classics in multiple genres. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1939 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events Film historians often rate 1939 as "the greatest year in the history of Hollywood". Hollywood films produced in Southern California were at the height of their Golden Age (in spite of many cheaply made or undistinguished films also being produced, something to be expected with any year in commercial cinema), and during 1939 there are the premieres of an outstandingly large number of exceptional motion pictures, many of which become honored as all-time classic films. ** June 10 – MGM's first successful animated character, Barney Bear, made his debut in ''The Bear That Couldn't Sleep''. ** August 15 – ''The Wizard of Oz'' premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. ** October ...
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Cliff Severn
Clifford Severn (September 21, 1925 – June 4, 2014) was an American cricketer and child screen actor. Clifford Severn was the son of Dr. Clifford Brill Severn (1890-1981). His parents emigrated from South Africa to Los Angeles after he was born. He had seven siblings who were all child actors: Venetia Severn, Yvonne Severn, Raymond Severn, Ernest Severn, Christopher Severn, William Severn and Winston Severn. He died in Los Angeles in 2014 at age 88. Like his brothers Winston and Raymond, Clifford Severn played for the US national cricket team. As Clifford Severn (in 1940 films as Clifford Severn Jr), he appeared notably in the films '' A Christmas Carol'' and the war film ''They Live in Fear ''They Live in Fear'' is a 1944 American film starring Otto Kruger. The film was known as ''America's Children''. Filming was announced in August 1943. Otto Kruger joined the film in March 1944.SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD New York Times 3 ...''. Filmography References ...
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