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Pat West (actor)
Arthur Pat West (April 19, 1888 April 10, 1944), born in Paducah, Kentucky, was an American character actor. He had parts in over 100 films from 1928 to 1945. Selected filmography * ''The Barker'' (1928) - Bartender (uncredited) * '' Red Morning'' (1934) - Glibb * ''Eight Bells'' (1935) - Eddy (uncredited) * '' The Nitwits'' (1935) - Black Widow Henchman (uncredited) * '' Page Miss Glory'' (1935) - Taxi Driver (uncredited) * '' The Affair of Susan'' (1935) - Bath House Attendant (uncredited) * ''The Girl Friend'' (1935) - French Soldier in Play (uncredited) * '' His Night Out'' (1935) - Salesman (uncredited) * '' Another Face'' (1935) - Gangster-Type Actor (uncredited) * '' Stars Over Broadway'' (1935) - Man at Champ's Table (uncredited) * '' Broadway Hostess'' (1935) - Jailer (uncredited) * ''Professional Soldier'' (1935) - Waiter (uncredited) * '' The Lone Wolf Returns'' (1935) - Mugg (uncredited) * ''Ceiling Zero'' (1936) - Baldy * ''Rose Marie'' (1936) - Traveling Sales ...
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American Film Institute
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees. Leadership The institute is composed of leaders from the film, entertainment, business, and academic communities. The board of trustees is chaired by Kathleen Kennedy and the board of directors chaired by Robert A. Daly guide the organization, which is led by President and CEO, film historian Bob Gazzale. Prior leaders were founding director George Stevens Jr. (from the organization's inception in 1967 until 1980) and Jean Picker Firstenberg (from 1980 to 2007). History The American Film Institute was founded by a 1965 presidential mandate announced in the Rose Garden of the White House by Lyndon B. Johnson—to establish a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmake ...
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The Law In Her Hands
''The Law in Her Hands'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Clemens and written by George Bricker and Luci Ward. The film stars Margaret Lindsay and Glenda Farrell. It was released by Warner Bros. on May 16, 1936. The film's working title was "Lawyer Woman". Mary and Dorothy open their own law practice, but after months of rising debt and falling income, they start representing members of the organized crime. Plot Two waitresses working in New York, Mary Wentworth ( Margaret Lindsay) and Dorothy Davis (Glenda Farrell), pass their bar exam and become lawyers. When their employer Franz (Al Shean) takes a photo of the two women, he accidentally photographs a gangster in the background, just before the gangster throws a smoke bomb in the restaurant. This was an effort to intimidate Franz into joining the protection racket run by Frank Gordon (Lyle Talbot). The perpetrator is arrested and the case is prosecuted by Robert Mitchell ( Warren Hull), who is Mary's boyfrien ...
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Gold Diggers Of 1937
''Gold Diggers of 1937'' is a Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, who were married at the time, with Glenda Farrell and Victor Moore. The film features songs by the teams of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, and Harry Warren and Al Dubin. It was based on the play "Sweet Mystery of Life" by Richard Maibaum, Michael Wallach and George Haight, which ran briefly on Broadway in 1935. Warren Duff wrote the screenplay with the assistance of Tom Reed, who was billed as "Screenplay constructor". This is the fifth movie in Warner Bros.' series of "Gold Digger" films, following the now lost films '' The Gold Diggers'' (1923), a silent film, and the partially lost sound film ''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' (1929), as well as ''Gold Diggers of 1933'' – a remake of ''The Gold Diggers'' and the first to feature Busby Berkeley's extravagant production numbers – and ' ...
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Easy To Take
''Easy to Take'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Glenn Tryon and written by Virginia Van Upp. The film stars Marsha Hunt, John Howard, Eugene Pallette, Richard Carle, Douglas Scott and Robert Greig. The film was released on November 6, 1936, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast * Marsha Hunt as Donna Westlake *John Howard as Rodney Garfield *Eugene Pallette as Dr. Reginald Kraft aka Doc *Richard Carle as Attorney Olney *Douglas Scott as Wilbur Wentworth Westlake *Robert Greig as Judd *Jan Duggan as Miss Higgie *Marilyn Knowlden as Gwen Ferry *Josephine Whittell as Mrs. Ferry *Carl Switzer as Alfred Bottle * Charles Lane as Skip *Billy Lee Billy Lee is a former Gaelic footballer and former manager of the Limerick county football team. He is from Newcastle West. Player Lee played for Limerick. He became a selector when Liam Kearns managed the team between 1999 and 2005, and the ... as Bill Ardmore Jr. References External links * 1936 films Paramoun ...
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Libeled Lady
''Libeled Lady'' is a 1936 screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy, written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan, and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway. This was the fifth of fourteen films in which Powell and Loy were teamed. ''Libeled Lady'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was remade in 1946 as ''Easy to Wed'' with Esther Williams, Van Johnson, and Lucille Ball. Plot Wealthy Connie Allenbury is falsely accused of breaking up a marriage and sues the ''New York Evening Star'' newspaper for $5 million for libel. Warren Haggerty, the managing editor, turns in desperation to former reporter and suave ladies' man Bill Chandler for help. Bill's scheme is to maneuver Connie into being alone with him when his wife shows up, so that the suit will have to be dropped. Bill is not married, so Warren volunteers his long-suffering fiancée, Gladys Benton, to marry Bill ...
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The Big Broadcast Of 1937
''The Big Broadcast of 1937'' is a 1936 Paramount Pictures production directed by Mitchell Leisen, and is the third in the series of ''Big Broadcast'' movies. The musical comedy stars Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, Ray Milland, Benny Fields, Frank Forest and the orchestra of Benny Goodman (featuring Gene Krupa). It was in this film that Leopold Stokowski made his movie debut conducting two of his Bach transcriptions. Uncredited roles include Jack Mulhall. German animator Oskar Fischinger was hired to create an animation sequence in Technicolor. However, when Paramount changed the production to black-and-white, Fischinger's original abstract animation design was changed to a hybrid animation and live-action sequence showing consumer products emanating from a broadcasting tower, to the song "Radio Dynamics" by Ralph Rainger.IMDb entry for the film Plot summary Jack Carson (Benny) produces a radio show. Mrs. Platt (Gracie Allen) is ...
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Valiant Is The Word For Carrie
''Valiant Is the Word for Carrie'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Claude Binyon, based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Barry Benefield. The film stars Gladys George, Arline Judge, John Howard, Dudley Digges, Harry Carey, and Isabel Jewell. ''Valiant Is the Word for Carrie'' was theatrically released in the United States on October 2, 1936, by Paramount Pictures. The film earned George her first and only Academy Award nomination in her career for her portrayal of the title character. Plot Carrie Snyder (Gladys George) is a prostitute who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul (Jackie Moran), whose dying mother (Janet Young) is unable to stop her son from visiting such a woman. After Carrie leaves town, Paul runs away from his abusive father ( John Wray) and meets a girl named Lady (Charlene Wyatt) who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go ba ...
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Cain And Mabel
''Cain and Mabel'' is a 1936 romantic comedy film designed as a vehicle for Marion Davies in which she co-stars with Clark Gable. The story had been filmed before, in 1924, by William Randolph Hearst's production company, Cosmopolitan, as a silent called '' The Great White Way'', starring Anita Stewart and Oscar Shaw. In this version, Robert Paige introduced the song "I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs", with music by Harry Warren and words by Al Dubin, who also wrote "Coney Island", "Here Comes Chiquita", and other songs. Plot Waitress-turned-Broadway star Mabel O'Dare (Marion Davies) and garage-mechanic-turned-prize fighter Larry Cain (Clark Gable) dislike each other intensely, but press agent Aloysius K. Reilly (Roscoe Karns) cooks up a phony romance between them for publicity. Inevitably, the two fall in love for real, and plan on getting married, with Mabel quitting show business to be a housewife and Cain quitting the fight racket to run garages in New Jersey. When the ...
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Murder With Pictures
''Murder with Pictures'' is a 1936 American crime-mystery film based on a story by George Harmon Coxe. The film was directed by Charles Barton, the screenplay was written by Jack Moffitt and Sidney Salkow. Lew Ayres starred as Kent Murdock, Gail Patrick starred as Meg Archer; Paul Kelly and Benny Baker also appeared in the film. The film was released September 25, 1936. Plot After gangster Nate Girard (Onslow Stevens) is acquitted of the murder of Arch Cusick, his lawyer Stanley Redfield (Ernest Cossart) invites the press to a party at his apartment during which he is killed. At the party newspaper photographer Kent Murdock (Lew Ayres) meets Meg Archer (Gail Patrick) who later escapes to Ayres' apartment in the same building after Redfield is killed. The police suspect Archer is responsible for the murder, but are unable to find her, even though she is hiding in Murdock's shower. Later during the police investigation at Redfield's apartment Murdock finds fellow newspaperman's c ...
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Missing Girls
''Missing Girls'' is a 1936 American film directed by Phil Rosen. Cast *Roger Pryor as Reporter Jimmie Dugan *Muriel Evans as Dorothy Benson * Sidney Blackmer as Dan Collins *Noel Madison as Ben Davis *Ann Doran as Ann Jason * George Cooper as Zig *Dewey Robinson as Harry Wilson *Wallis Clark as Senator Benson *Vera Lewis as Ma Barton * Warner Richmond as Ray Hanson * Ben Carter as Pokey *Don Brodie Don L. Brodie (May 29, 1904 – January 8, 2001) was an American film and television actor. Early years The son of Mrs. Lottie Brodie, he attended Hughes High School in Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati. Before becoming a profess ... as Chuck Martin Soundtrack External links * * 1936 films American crime drama films American black-and-white films Chesterfield Pictures films 1936 crime drama films Films directed by Phil Rosen 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-crime-drama-film-stub ...
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A Son Comes Home
''A Son Comes Home'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by E.A. Dupont and starring Mary Boland, Julie Haydon and Donald Woods. It was one of three films made by Dupont for Paramount Pictures.St. Pierre p.23 Plot Partial cast * Mary Boland as Mary Grady * Julie Haydon as Jo * Donald Woods as Denny * Wallace Ford as Steve * Roger Imhof as Detective Kennedy * Anthony Nace as Brennan * Gertrude W. Hoffman as Effie Wimple * Eleanor Wesselhoeft as Essie Wimple * Charles Middleton as Prosecutor * Thomas E. Jackson as District Attorney * John Wray as Gas Station Owner * Robert Middlemass as Sheriff * Lee Kohlmar as Proprietor * Herbert Rawlinson as Bladeu * George Hassell George Jefferson Hassell (July 5, 1888 – February 10, 1928) was an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed his wife and eight children (ranging in age between 1 and 21 years old) on December 5, 1926, in Farwell, Texas. He also ... as Captain References Bibliography * St. Pierre, Paul ...
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Sins Of Man
''Sins of Man'' is a 1936 American drama film, directed by Otto Brower and released by 20th Century Fox. It stars Jean Hersholt, Don Ameche, and Allen Jenkins. Plot Cast *Jean Hersholt as Christopher Freyman *Don Ameche as Karl Freyman / Mario Signarelli *Allen Jenkins as Crusty *J. Edward Bromberg as Anton Engel *Ann Shoemaker as Anna Engel *DeWitt Jennings as Twichelesko *Fritz Leiber as Father Prior * Francis Ford as Town Drunk *Christian Rub as Fritz *Adrian Rosley as Singarelli's Butler *Gene Reynolds as Karl Freyman as a Boy *Mickey Rentschler as Gabriel Freyman as a Boy *John Miltern as Mr. Hall * Paul Stanton as Minister *Edward Van Sloan Edward Van Sloan (born Edward Paul Van Sloun; November 1, 1882 – March 6, 1964) was an American character actor best remembered for his roles in the Universal Studios horror films such as ''Dracula'' (1931), ''Frankenstein'' (1931), and '' T ... as Austrian Army Doctor References External links * * 1936 films American d ...
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