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Ann Hovey
Ann Hovey (August 29, 1911 – August 25, 2007) was an American chorus girl and minor film actress of the 1930s, primarily in B-movies. Life and career Born Ann Jacques Hovey in Mount Vernon, Indiana, Hovey was born into a wealthy and prominent family. A descendant of Alvin Peterson Hovey, a Union Army officer during the Civil War and the governor of Indiana from 1888 to 1891, Hovey's mother had been a part of the San Francisco high society scene until marrying Hovey's father, a prominent banker. At the age of seven, Hovey was involved in an automobile accident which caused temporary loss of sight in her left eye. Eventually the injury healed and her sight in the eye returned. She attended "Indiana High School", and after graduation she pursued a career as a chorus girl. On a minor contract with Warner Bros., Hovey began appearing in films in 1933, her first being as an uncredited chorus girl in '' 42nd Street'' with Ginger Rogers and Warner Baxter, which would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Boys Of The Road
''Wild Boys of the Road'' is a 1933 pre-Code Depression-era American drama film directed by William Wellman and starring Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, and Grant Mitchell. It tells the story of several teens forced into becoming hobos. The screenplay by Earl Baldwin is based on the story ''Desperate Youth'' by Daniel Ahern. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot One Saturday night, Eddie Smith ( Frankie Darro), Tommy Gordon (Edwin Phillips) and Eddie's girlfriend Grace (Rochelle Hudson) go to the high school prom. Casually chatting about the unemployment situation, Tommy tells Eddie that he is going to drop out of high school to look for work to help support his struggling family. Eddie offers to speak to his father ( Grant Mitchell) about getting him a job, only to discover that his father has lost his job. Eddie sells his b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Baxter
Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film ''In Old Arizona'', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards. He frequently played womanizing, charismatic Latin bandit types in Westerns, and played the Cisco Kid or a similar character throughout the 1930s, but had a range of other roles throughout his career. Baxter began his movie career in silent films with his most notable roles being in ''The Great Gatsby'' (1926) and '' The Awful Truth'' (1925). Baxter's notable sound films are ''In Old Arizona'' (1929), '' 42nd Street'' (1933), ''Slave Ship'' (1937) with Wallace Beery, '' Kidnapped'' (1938) with Freddie Bartholomew, and the 1931 ensemble short film '' The Stolen Jools''. In the 1940s, he was well known for his recurring role as Dr. Robert Ordway in the '' Crime Doctor'' series of 10 films. For his contributions to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young And Beautiful (film)
''Young and Beautiful'' is a 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and starring William Haines and Judith Allen. The screenplay concerns a press agent who goes to great lengths to make his actress girlfriend a star, only to risk losing her in the process. Plot In Hollywood, press agent Robert Preston gets into trouble with his boss, Herman Cline, head of Superba Pictures, for neglecting his duties in order to publicize the 13 WAMPUS Baby Stars, June Dale in particular, at a banquet in their honor. However, he sweet talks Mrs. Cline and keeps his job. June shows up and faints, shaken by a failed abduction attempt. It turns out to be a publicity stunt concocted by Preston for his fiancée. Cast * William Haines as Robert Preston *Judith Allen as June Dale * Joseph Cawthorn as Herman Cline *John Miljan as Gordon Douglas * Ted Fio Rito as himself *Al Shaw as Piano Mover (as Shaw and Lee) *Sam Lee as Piano Mover (as Shaw and Lee) * James Bush as Dick *Vince Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss And Make-Up
''Kiss and Make-Up'' is a 1934 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant as a doctor who specializes in making women beautiful. Genevieve Tobin and Helen Mack play his romantic entanglements. The film was based on the play ''Kozmetika'' by István Békeffy (credited as Stephen Bekeffi). All of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1934 were cast in roles in the film. Plot Dr. Maurice Lamar runs a highly successful business in Paris providing cosmetic surgery and other beauty treatments to women. Old friend Max Pascal visits him to try to borrow money to finish his research, but Maurice rejects him, instead offering him a job and later a partnership, but Max declines. Maurice unveils the new Eve Caron and declares her perfect. However, her husband Marcel wants a wife who is just a bit beautiful, not someone who attracts the attention of every man, so he divorces her. Maurice then marries her. They travel to a beauty convention on the Riviera on their honeymoon, accompanied by Maurice's natura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy To Love (1934 Film)
Easy is an adjective describing something that is not difficult to do. It may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Easy'' (film), a 2003 American romantic comedy film *'' Easy!'', or ''Scialla!'', a 2011 Italian comedy film * ''Easy'' (TV series), a 2016–2019 American comedy-drama anthology series Music Albums * ''Easy'' (Easybeats album), 1965 * ''Easy'' (Grant Green album), 1978 * ''Easy'' (Grinspoon album), 1999 * ''Easy'' (Kelly Willis album) or the title song, 2002 * ''Easy'' (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album), 1969 * ''Easy'' (Nancy Wilson album), 1968 * ''Easy'' (Ralph McTell album), 1974 *''Easy'', by Cowboy Mouth, 2000 EPs * ''Easy'' (EP), by Le Sserafim, 2024 Songs * "Easy" (Commodores song), 1977; covered by Faith No More, 1992 * "Easy" (Camila Cabello song), 2019 * "Easy" (Cro song), 2012 * "Easy" (DaniLeigh song), 2019 * "Easy" (Dragonette song), 2010 * "Easy" (Ice MC song), 1989 * "Easy" (KSI, Bugzy Malone and R3hab song), 2023 * "Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Diggers Of 1933
''Gold Diggers of 1933'' is an American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It starred Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell. It featured appearances by Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers. The story is based on the play ''The Gold Diggers'' by Avery Hopwood, which had its Broadway run for 717 performances in 1919 and 1920. The play was adapted into a silent film in 1923 by David Belasco, the producer of the Broadway play, as ''The Gold Diggers (1923 film), The Gold Diggers'', starring Hope Hampton and Wyndham Standing, and again as a talkie in 1929, directed by Roy Del Ruth. That film, ''Gold Diggers of Broadway'', which starred Nancy Welford and Conway Tearle, was one of the biggest box-office hits of that year. ''Gold Diggers of 1933'' was one of the top-grossing films of 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flirting With Fate (1938 Film)
Flirting with Fate may refer to: * ''Flirting with Fate'' (1916 film), a 1916 American film * ''Flirting with Fate'' (1938 film), a 1938 American comedy film * ''Flirting with Fate'' (novel), a 2012 novel {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glory Trail
''The Glory Trail'' is a 1936 American Western film. Directed by Lynn Shores, the film stars Tom Keene, Joan Barclay, and E. H. Calvert. It was released on September 15, 1936. Plot Cast * Tom Keene as Captain John Morgan * Joan Barclay as Lucy Strong * E. H. Calvert as Colonel Strong * Frank Melton as Lieutenant Gilchrist * William Royle as Captain Fetterman * Walter Long as Riley * Allen Greer as Indian Joe * William Crowell as Wainwright * Harve Foster as Hampton * Ann Hovey as Julie Morgan * John Lester Johnson John Lester Johnson (born John Leslie Johnson; August 13, 1893 – March 27, 1968) was an American professional boxer and actor. He is perhaps best known for his 1916 boxing match against Jack Dempsey, and his 1933 performance as Bumbo, the titul ... as Toby * Etta McDaniel as Mandy * James Bush (actor), James Bush as David Kirby See also * List of films and television shows about the American Civil War References External links * * American Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Films
The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the Frontier Thesis, new frontier." Generally set in the American frontier between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, the genre also includes many examples of stories set in locations outside the frontier – including Northern Mexico, the Northwestern United States, Alaska, and Western Canada – as well as stories that take place before 1849 and after 1890. Western films comprise part of the larger Western (genre), Western genre, which encompasses literature, music, television, and plastic arts. Western films derive from the Wild West shows that began in the 1870s. Originally referred to as "Wild West dramas", the shortened term "Western" came to describe the genre. Although other Western films were made earlier, ''The Great Train Robbery (1903 film), The Great Train Robbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay (born Mary Elizabeth Greear; August 31, 1914 – November 22, 2002) was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, starring mostly in B-movies and cliffhangers, with her career starting during the silent film era. Biography Early life and career The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Greear, Barclay was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A 1923 newspaper item reported that she was "a singer and player" whose bird imitations had been broadcast on radio. Her family moved to California when she was still a child due to her mother's wishing to escape the cold climate of the north. Moving to Hollywood to pursue acting, Barclay received her first role at the age of 12, which was credited with her billed as Geraine Greear, in the 1927 film ''The Gaucho'', starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez. It was her only silent film. In 1930, still billed as Geraine Greear, she had a minor role in '' King of Jazz''. She was the leading lady opposite Tom Tyler in the 1936 Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Keene (actor)
Tom Keene (born George Duryea; December 30, 1896 – August 4, 1963) was an American actor known mostly for his roles in B movie, B Western (genre), Westerns. During his almost 40-year career in motion pictures Tom Keene worked under three different names. From 1923, when he made his first picture, until 1930 he worked under his birth name, George Duryea. The last film he made under this name was ''Pardon My Gun (1930 film), Pardon My Gun''. Beginning with the 1930 film ''Tol'able David (1930 film), Tol'able David'', he used Tom Keene as his moniker. This name he used until 1944 when he changed it to Richard Powers. The first film he used this name in was ''Up in Arms''. He continued to primarily use this name for the rest of his film career, though still used Tom Keene on occasion. Early life and career Born George Duryea (no known relation to fellow actor Dan Duryea despite a resemblance) in Rochester, New York, Keene studied at Columbia University and Carnegie Tech befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circus Shadows
''Circus Shadows'' is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by Charles Hutchison and starring Dorothy Wilson, Kane Richmond and William Ruhl. It was produced by the independent company Peerless Pictures.Pitts p.269 It was distributed by Universal Pictures in the United Kingdom. Plot Cast * Dorothy Wilson as Elaine Cavanaugh * Kane Richmond as Dale Wentworth * William Ruhl as Dave Zirillo * Russell Hopton as A Dip * Dorothy Revier * Sam Ash * Sumner Getchell as Dale's Friend * Gladys Gale * Ann Hovey * Tove Linden Tove is a Scandinavian given name that derives from the Old Norse name Tófa or from the Old Norse name Þórfríðr, which combines ''Thor'' with "fríðr". Origins Some believe the name to be a shortening of ''Þorfríðr'', whose elements ... * John Ince * Roy Rice * Stan Scharling * George Lloyd * Marjorie O'Connell References Bibliography * Fetrow, Alan G. . ''Sound films, 1927-1939: a United States Filmography''. McFarland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
