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A Successful Calamity
''A Successful Calamity'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring George Arliss, supported by Mary Astor and Evelyn Knapp. Based on the 1917 play ''A Successful Calamity'' by Clare Kummer, the film is about an elderly millionaire who must deal with his selfish, young second wife and a pair of spoiled, grown children. Plot Henry Wilton is a successful financier who is returning to America after a year away in Europe helping to arrange war debt repayments. He looks forward to being reunited with his family, including his much-younger second wife Emmy, his daughter Peggy and his son Eddie. However, when he arrives in his hometown on the train the only one there to greet him is his butler, Connors, much to Henry's dismay. The butler informs him that he is home a day earlier than expected, and that Peggy is an aspiring actress and Eddie is a polo player. They visit Eddie at the polo field, then arrive home, where they find that Emmy is having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John G
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Torrence (actor)
David Torrence (born David Tayson;David Torrence at 17 January 1864 – 26 December 1951) was a Scottish film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1913 and 1939. He has a star on the . He was the brother of actor Ernest Torrence. He was born in , |
1932 Films
The following is an overview of 1932 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1932 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading headline events of the year. * Sidney Kent leaves Paramount Pictures and joins Fox Film. * Merlin H Aylesworth succeeds Hiram S Brown as president of RKO. * Jesse L. Lasky leaves Paramount and becomes an independent producer for Fox. * Sam Katz leaves Paramount. * James R Grainger leaves Fox and is succeeded by John D Clark, formerly of Paramount. * Publix and Fox decentralization of cinemas. * New industry program, including standard exhibition contract along lines of 5-5-5, proposed by Motion Picture Theater Owners of America and Allied. * Joe Brandt retires from Columbia Pictures joins World-Wide and later resigns again. * Two Radio City theaters open, under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nola Luxford
Nola Luxford (born Adelaide Minola Pratt; 23 December 1895 – 10 October 1994) was a New Zealand-born American film actress, spanning from the silent film era to the 1930s. During the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she was also a writer and pioneer broadcaster, providing a daily radio programme for audiences in Australia and New Zealand. Early life Born Adelaide Minola Pratt in Hunterville, New Zealand, on 23 December 1895,Adelaide Minola Pratt, New Zealand, Birth Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Rutherford (actor)
Jack Rutherford (April 12, 1893 – August 21, 1982) was a British film and television actor. Rutherford first appeared in British films in leading or prominent supporting roles during the silent era. He later went to Hollywood where he often played villains in Western films. His most significant American role was as the Sheriff in the 1930 comedy ''Whoopee!'' (1930).Hark p.45 Selected filmography * '' The Great Shadow'' (1920) - Bo Sherwood *'' The Marriage Business'' (1927) - Duncan *'' The Streets of London'' (1929) - Mark Livingstone *''Whoopee!'' (1930) - Sheriff Bob Wells *'' Half Shot at Sunrise'' (1930) - MP Sergeant *'' Mr. Lemon of Orange'' (1931) - Henchman Castro (uncredited) *''The Woman from Monte Carlo'' (1932) - Verguson *'' My Pal, the King'' (1932) - Herald (uncredited) *'' A Successful Calamity'' (1932) - Wilton's Chauffeur *'' Cowboy Counsellor'' (1932) - Bill Clary *''Roman Scandals'' (1933) - Manius *''The Affairs of Cellini'' (1934) - Captain of the Guards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Coleman (actor)
Charles Pearce Coleman (December 22, 1885 – March 8, 1951) was an Australian-born American character actor of the silent and sound film eras. Early years Coleman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on December 22, 1885. Career Coleman began his film career in the 1915 silent film, ''The Mummy and the Humming Bird'', which was also the screen debut of Charles Cherry, a noted stage actor. In more than half of his 200 performances in films, he appeared as a butler, doorman/concierge, valet, or waiter. In the 1930s, Coleman appeared in such films as '' Beyond Victory'' (1931), starring Bill Boyd and James Gleason, the Wheeler & Woolsey comedy '' Diplomaniacs'' (1933), 1934's '' Born to Be Bad'' which starred Loretta Young and Cary Grant, the 1934 version of '' Of Human Bondage'' starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard, the first film to star the pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, ''The Gay Divorcee'' (1935), the first feature-length film to be shot entirely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Tucker
Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor and cantor. Long associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Tucker's career was primarily centered in the United States. Early life Tucker was born Rivn (Rubin) Ticker in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Bessarabian Jewish parents who immigrated to the US in 1911. His father, Sruel (Sam) Ticker, and mother Fanya-Tsipa (Fanny) Ticker had already adopted the surname "Tucker" by the time their son entered first grade. His musical aptitude was discovered early, and was nurtured under the tutelage of Samuel Weisser at the Tifereth Israel synagogue in Lower Manhattan. As a teenager, Tucker's interests alternated between athletics, at which he excelled during his high-school years, and singing for weddings and bar mitzvahs as a cantorial student. Eventually, he progressed from a part-time cantor at Temple Emanuel in Passaic, New Jersey, to full-time cantorships at Temple Adath Israel in the Bronx and, in June 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Hammond
Virginia Hammond (August 20, 1893 – April 6, 1972) was an American film and theatre actress. Born in Staunton, Virginia. Hammond was the daughter of a Confederate army major. Hammond began her career in 1907, where she made her theatre debut in the Broadway play, titled, ''John the Baptist''. She continued her career, mainly appearing on theatre, in which her credits includes, ''Our American Cousin'', ''The Famous Mrs. Fair'', ''Tumble In'', ''What's Your Husband Doing?'', '' The Man Who Came to Dinner'', ''Arsene Lupin'', ''What the Doctor Ordered'' and ''Desert Sands'', among others. Her final theatre credit was from the Broadway play, titled, ''Craig's Wife'', in which she played the role of "Mrs. Frazier", in 1947. Hammond then began her film career in 1916, when she appeared in the silent film ''Vultures of Society'', in which she played the role of "Mrs. Upperwon". In her film career, Hammond starred and co-starred in films, such as, '' Anybody's Woman'', '' The Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Ames
Leon Ames (born Harry L. Wycoff;U.S. Federal Census for 1910 for Fowler, Center Township, Benton County, State of Indiana, access via Ancestry.com January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing father figures in such films as '' Meet Me in St. Louis'' (1944) with Judy Garland as one of his daughters, '' Little Women'' (1949), '' On Moonlight Bay'' (1951), and '' By the Light of the Silvery Moon'' (1953). The fathers whom Ames portrayed were often somewhat stuffy and exasperated by the younger generation, but ultimately kind and understanding. Probably his best-known purely dramatic role was as DA Kyle Sackett in the crime film '' The Postman Always Rings Twice'' (1946). Early years Leon Ames was born on January 20, 1902, in Portland, Indiana, son of Charles Elmer Wycoff and his wife Cora Ames De Moss (Ames) Some sources list his original last name as "Wykoff" or "Waycoff", and in his early films, he acted under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Leonard (actress)
Barbara Leonard (January 9, 1908 - July 2, 1971) was an actress in the U.S. She was in several films during the 1930s. She co-starred in '' Men of the North''. She reported robberies and being incapacitated during the alleged thefts. She was married to a prominent piano teacher. Filmography *''Let Not Man Put Asunder'' (1924) as Polly De Bohun * '' Ladies of the Night Club'' (1928) as Dimples Revere *'' The Drake Case'' (1929) as Mrs. Drake *''The Bees' Buzz'' (1929) as Peggy *'' Men of the North'' (1930) as Nedra Ruskin *''Scotland Yard (1930 film)'' as Nurse Cecilia *'' One Romantic Night'' (1930) as Mitzi *''Son of the Gods'' (1930) as Mabel *''Bought'' (1931) as Mary Kiernan *'' Beauty and the Boss'' (1932) *'' The Crash (1932 film)'' as Celeste, the maid *'' One Hour with You'' (1932) as Mitzi's Maid *''Love Affair (1932 film)'' as Felice *''The Man from Yesterday'' (1932) as Steve's girl *'' Desirable (film)'' (1934) *''Folies Bergère de Paris ''Folies Bergère d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Kinnell
Murray Kinnell (24 July 1889 – 11 August 1954) was a British-born American actor, recognized for playing smooth, gentlemanly, although rather shady characters. He appeared in 71 films in the USA between the pre-code era of 1930 and 1937. He was best known as the two-timing petty-larceny hood Putty Nose in ''The Public Enemy'' (1931). He also appeared in a number of the Charlie Chan series of films. He had a brief tenure in stage work from 1911, prior to his cinema career. On 11 August 1954, Kinnell died at his home in Santa Barbara, California. Filmography * '' Old English'' (1930) as Charles Ventnor (film debut) * ''The Princess and the Plumber'' (1930) as Worthing * '' The Secret Six'' (1931) as Metz - the Dummy * ''The Public Enemy'' (1931) as Putty Nose * '' The Black Camel'' (1931) as Archie Smith * ''Honor of the Family'' (1931) as Captain Elek * '' Reckless Living'' (1931) as Alf * '' The Guilty Generation'' (1931) - Jerry (uncredited) * '' The Deceiver'' (1931) - Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Apfel
Oscar C. Apfel (January 17, 1878 – March 21, 1938) was an American film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1913 and 1939, and also directed 94 films between 1911 and 1927. Biography Apfel was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After a number of years in commerce, he decided to adopt the stage as a profession.Carolyn Lowrey (1920) ''The First One Hundred Noted Men and Women of the Screen'', Moffat, Yard and Company, New York He secured his first professional engagement in 1900, in his hometown. He rose rapidly and soon held a position as director and producer and was at the time noted as being the youngest stage director in America. He spent eleven years on the stage on Broadway then joined the Edison Manufacturing Company. Apfel first directed for Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1911–12, where he made the innovative short film ''The Passer-By'' (1912). He also did some experimental work at Edison's laboratory in Orange, on the Edison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
