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Ann Richards (actress)
Shirley Ann Richards (13 December 1917 – 25 August 2006) was an Australian actress and author who achieved notability in a series of 1930s Australian films for Ken G. Hall before moving to the United States, where she continued her career as a film actress, mainly as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starlet. Her best known performances were in ''It Isn't Done'' (1937), ''Dad and Dave Come to Town'' (1938), ''An American Romance'' (1944), and ''Sorry, Wrong Number'' (1948). In the 1930s, she was the only Australian actor under a long-term contract to a film studio, Cinesound Productions. She subsequently became a lecturer and poet. Life and career Early life She was born Shirley Ann Richards in Sydney, Australia, to an American father (d. 10 August 1928) and New Zealand mother, and was raised in the suburb of Mosman, New South Wales, Mosman and educated at Ascham School, Edgecliff, New South Wales, Edgecliff. Richards began acting on stage in amateur productions for the Sydney Playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Honeymoon
''Lost Honeymoon'' is a 1947 American screwball comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Franchot Tone, Ann Richards (actress), Ann Richards and Tom Conway. The working title of the film was ''Amy Comes Across''. Plot Soon after the end of World War II, a young Englishwoman, Amy Atkins, returns to the London apartment, flat where she and her best friend, Tillie, once used to live. Tillie died just before she was to leave for America to look for the man she married during the war. Her children, twins Joyce and Johnny Jr., are in the care of housekeeper Mrs. Tubbs. Amy decides to find Tillie's husband, Johnny Gray. She uses Tillie's passport and ticket to travel to America, taking the twins with her. She is aided by the American Red Cross. An architect named John Gray receives a telegraphy, telegram informing him that his wife and children are coming by boat. He is shocked, since he is about to marry Lois, the daughter of his boss, Mr. Evans, that weekend. Johnny confid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart F
Stuart may refer to: People *Stuart (name), a given name and surname (and list of people with the name) * Clan Stuart of Bute, a Scottish clan *House of Stuart, a royal house of Scotland and England Places Australia Generally *Stuart Highway, connecting South Australia and the Northern Territory Northern Territory *Stuart, the former name for Alice Springs (changed 1933) * Stuart Park, an inner city suburb of Darwin * Central Mount Stuart, a mountain peak Queensland * Stuart, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Mount Stuart, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Mount Stuart (Queensland), a mountain South Australia * Stuart, South Australia, a locality in the Mid Murray Council *Electoral district of Stuart, a state electoral district * Hundred of Stuart, a cadastral unit Canada * Stuart Channel, a strait in the Gulf of Georgia region of British Columbia United Kingdom * Castle Stuart United States *Stuart, Florida * Stuart, Iowa * Stuart, Nebraska * Stuart, Okl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AusStage
AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up until the present day. The only repository of Australian performing arts in the world, it is managed by a consortium of universities, government agencies, industry organisations and arts institutions, and mostly funded by the Australian Research Council. Created in 2000, the database contained more than 250,000 records by 2018. History The AusStage project was instigated by the Australasian Drama Studies Association in 1999, with Flinders University in South Australia leading the project, funded by a grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Other collaborating universities were La Trobe University (Vic), University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, University of Western Australia, University of New England (NSW), Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva Theatre, Sydney
The Minerva Theatre was a theatre located in Orwell Street in Kings Cross, Sydney. Originally a live venue, it was converted to the Metro Cinema in 1950, before returning to live shows in 1969. It ceased operating as a theatre in 1979. From 2019 onwards, there were community efforts to ensure the building would continue operating as a theatre. History In 1937, David N Martin, a theatrical publicity and advertising agent, formed a new theatre company named Minerva Centre Ltd to erect two live theatres on opposite sides of Macleay Street, Potts Point. An early design for the Orwell Street site by Bruce Dellit was rejected in favour of a more modest design by cinema specialists Crick & Furse, which opened on 18 May 1939 with a production of Robert Sherwood's '' Idiot's Delight''. The site for the other proposed theatre site was acquired by the City of Sydney and is now the Fitzroy Gardens. The site in front of the Minerva facing Macleay Street was developed as the Minerva Cafe and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charley's Aunt
''Charley's Aunt'' is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. The story centres on Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate whose friends Jack and Charley persuade him to impersonate the latter's aunt. The complications of the plot include the arrival of the real aunt and the attempts of an elderly fortune hunter to woo the bogus aunt. The play concludes with three pairs of young lovers united, along with an older pair – Charley's real aunt and Jack's widowed father. The play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, in February 1892. It then opened in London at the Royalty Theatre on 21 December 1892, and quickly transferred to the larger Globe Theatre on 30 January 1893. The production broke the historic record for longest-running play worldwide, running for 1,466 performances. It was produced by the actor W. S. Penley, a friend of Thomas, who appeared as Babberley. The play was also a success on Broadway in 1893, and in Paris, where it had fur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All That Glitters (radio Serial)
''All that Glitters'' is a 1939 Australian radio serial starring Shirley Ann Richards by Lorna Bingham. It was one of Bingham's first serials and a rare starring radio vehicle for Richards who was better known as a film star. It replaced the serial ''One Man's Family''. Richards made it after ''Dad and Dave Come to Town ''Dad and Dave Come to Town'' is a 1938 Australian comedy film directed by Ken G. Hall, the third in the ' Dad and Dave' comedy series starring Bert Bailey. It was the feature film debut of Peter Finch and is one of the best known Australian ...'' and before '' Come Up Smiling''. Rehearsals started in November 1938. Premise The fortunes of Pamela Blackwood (Shirley Ann Richards), whose parents were killed in an air crash when she was a child, and who has a burning ambition to be an actress. She has a jealous rival, Jane (Doreen Mackay). Reception ''Wireless Weekly'' wrote Richards played the role "very sweet... but I couldn’t help feeling that there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Mahoney
William James Fitzpatrick Mahoney (February 5, 1894February 9, 1967) was an American vaudevillian performer, stage actor and theatre manager who later had a successful stage career in Australia. Early life He was born in Helena, Montana, to rancher Michael Fitzpatrick and Mary Moran. His father died when he was two and his mother who had two children, Frank and Mary from a previous marriage, supported the family by holding several jobs. Career After making his first public appearance at the age of eight in Spokane, Washington, Mahoney along with his brother Frank devised an act called the Mahoney Brothers; they toured the United States, Mexico and Australia. Will Mahoney came to New York in about 1921, and as a tap and clog dancer and singer became a frequent performer in vaudeville there from the mid-1920s, displaying "a disarmingly joyous insouciance and gusto."Anthony Slide, "Will Mahoney", ''The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville'', University Press of Mississippi, 2012, pp.331- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Up Smiling
''Come Up Smiling'' (also known as ''Ants in His Pants'') is a 1939 Australian comedy film starring popular American stage comedian Will Mahoney and his wife Evie Hayes. It was the only feature from Cinesound Productions not directed by Ken G. Hall. Synopsis Barney O'Hara is a performer in a touring carnival. He runs a sideshow act with his daughter, Pat, and ex-Shakespearean actor, Horace Worthington Howard, which is struggling to make money. One of the main attractions is Pat's voice. One day Pat is invited to sing at a party held by Colonel Cameron and his daughter Eve, but her voice fails her. A specialist tells Barney that Pat requires an expensive operation. To raise the money, Barney agrees to fight a boxer known as 'The Killer'. He is helped in his training by dancer Kitty Katkin. On the day of the fight, ants are slipped into Barney's shorts, causing him to defeat the Killer. He wins the money to enable Pat to have her operation. Cast Production The film was deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Hughes (actor)
Lloyd Ellsworth Hughes (October 21, 1897 – June 6, 1958) was an American actor of both the silent and sound film eras. Life and career Born in Bisbee, Arizona Territory, Hughes received his education at the Los Angeles Polytechnic School. He sought a career as an actor early in life, and his clean-cut appearance and ability soon gained him recognition. His first role as leading man was opposite Mary Pickford in '' Tess of the Storm Country''. Other roles included '' Love Never Dies'' opposite Madge Bellamy, and '' The Lost World'' with Wallace Beery and Bessie Love. He made the transition to sound, and worked as an actor through the late 1930s, including a role with John Barrymore in the 1930 film, ''Moby Dick''. Hughes made two films in Australia in 1937 for Ken G. Hall and Cinesound Productions: '' Lovers and Luggers'' and '' The Broken Melody''. Hughes met his wife, Gloria Hope, on the set of ''Tess of the Storm Country''. The couple had two children: a boy, Donald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovers And Luggers
''Lovers and Luggers'' is a 1937 Australian film directed by Ken G. Hall. It is an adventure melodrama about a pianist ( Lloyd Hughes) who goes to Thursday Island to retrieve a valuable pearl. It was retitled ''Vengeance of the Deep'' in the US and United Kingdom. Synopsis In London, concert pianist Daubenny Carshott is feeling dissatisfied with his life and wanting a masculine adventure; he also desires the beautiful Stella Raff. Stella agrees to marry him if he brings back a large pearl with his own hands from Thursday Island. Daubenny notes a painting in Stella's apartment from "Craig Henderson" but when asked Stella is evasive about the artist. Daubenny travels to Thursday Island where he buys a lugger and a house from the villainous Mendoza. He makes friends on the island, including another diver, Bill Craig, the drunken duo of McTavish and Dorner, and the boisterous Captain Quidley. He also meets Quidley's daughter, the beautiful Lorna, who likes to dress in men's clothing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Leighton
Frank Leighton (1908–1962) was an Australian actor best known for two leading roles in films for Ken G. Hall, ''Thoroughbred'' (1936) and '' Tall Timbers'' (1937). Biography Leighton was born in Sydney and studied at St John's School, Darlinghurst, before winning a scholarship to Cleveland Boys High School. He was working for his father when he heard the theatrical firm J.C. Williamson Ltd were conducting voice trials at Her Majesty's Theatre. He auditioned and three months later was employed by the company in a production of ''The Lady of the Rose''. He worked for Williamsons over the next 13 years, acting in dramas, comedies and musicals, including productions of ''Blue Roses'', ''Hold My Hand'', '' Our Miss Gibbs'', '' The Quaker Girl'', ''The Merry Widow'' and ''The Maid of the Mountains'' opposite Gladys Moncrieff. He understudied for visiting star William Feversham in a production of ''The Prince and the Pauper''. Leighton also acted in movies, starting with '' Two Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tall Timbers (film)
''Tall Timbers'' is a 1937 action melodrama set in the timber industry directed by Ken G. Hall and starring Frank Leighton and Shirley Ann Richards. Synopsis The film opens at Palm Beach, where life guard Jim Thornton, a former jackeroo, has just graduated from forestry school and is about to look for work in the timber industry. He saves a young woman, Joan Burbridge, from drowning. She is at the beach with Charles Blake, who wants to marry Joan and works for Joan's adopted father Stephen, a timber merchant. Blake is secretly plotting with a treacherous businessman, Ludwig Rich, to take over Burbridge's company. They enlist one of Burbridge's employees, the foreman Darley, to help in their schemes. Thornton asks Blake for a job but is turned down. Thornton approaches Stephen Burbridge, who gives him a job as ranger on one of his properties, Boundary Ridge. Burbirdge explains that Joan is his adopted daughter; her biological father was Lloyd, who is now dead. Burbridge is in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
