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Anne Howard (actress)
Anne Howard (March 18, 1925 – April 22, 1991), was an American actress. Early life On March 18, 1925, Howard was born in Chicago, Illinois. Career In 1929, Howard's film career started as a child actress. Her work included portraying Estella in ''Great Expectations (1934 film)'' (1934), a role for which she was chosen because she resembled Jane Wyatt, who portrayed the adult Estella. Howard retired from acting in 1966, then became active in civic affairs. Personal life Howard's husband was Leonard Caulfield. Howard's daughter is Vicki Caulfied. In 1980, Howard's husband died. Howard's daughter Vicki married Lewis Snow. On April 22, 1991, Howard died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Los Angeles, California. Howard was 66. Filmography *1932: '' The Hatchet Man'' as Young girl (uncredited) *1934: ''Jane Eyre'' as Georgianna Reed (uncredited) *1934: '' She Was a Lady'' as Iris Vane *1934: ''Great Expectations'' as Estella, as a child *1934: '' Music in the Air'' as Elsa (unc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Adverse
''Anthony Adverse'' is a 1936 American epic historical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney draws elements of its plot from eight of the nine books in Hervey Allen's 1933 historical novel, '' Anthony Adverse.'' Abandoned at a convent as an infant, Anthony comes of age in the tumultuous turn of the 18th to the 19th century, the age of Napoleon. The audience is privy to many truths in Anthony's life, including the tragic story of his origins and the fact that the wealthy merchant who adopts him is his grandfather. Most important of all, Anthony believes that his beloved Angela abandoned him without a word, when in fact she left a note telling him that the theatrical troupe was going to Rome. The gust of wind that blows the note away is one of many fateful and fatal events in Anthony's story. The film received four Academy Awards, including the inaugural Academy Award for Best Actress in a Suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Company She Keeps
''The Company She Keeps'' is a 1951 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer Jane Greer (born Bettejane Greer; September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001) was an American film and television actress best known for her role as ''femme fatale'' Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir ''Out of the Past''. In 2009, ''The Guardian'' ... and Dennis O'Keefe. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. Cromwell's film of the previous year, '' Caged'', also concerned a woman sent to prison. It marked Jeff Bridges' film debut. Plot Released from prison after serving two years on a check-forging charge, Mildred Lynch changes her name to Diane Stuart and moves to Los Angeles. Parole officer Joan Willburn finds her a job at a hospital. Diane repays her by stealing Joan's boyfriend, Larry Collins, after he comes to the hospital to visit a patient. Diane hides the relationship from Joan and hides her past from Larry. Once she finally finds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Comes Too Soon
''Night Comes Too Soon'' (U.S. tite: ''The Ghost of Rashmon Hal''l; also known as ''A'' ''Ghost Story'') is a 1948 British second feature ('B') horror film directed by Denis Kavanagh and starring Valentine Dyall, Anne Howard and Alec Faversham. It was written by Pat Dixon based on the story ''The Haunters and the Haunted'' by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and also incorporates the "changing picture" component from '' The Mezzotint'' by M. R. James. Cast * Valentine Dyall as Dr. George Clinton * Anne Howard as Phyllis * Alec Faversham as John * Howard Douglas * Beatrice Marsden as Mrs. Paxton * Arthur Brander * Anthony Baird as Lionel Waddell * Frank Dunlop * David Keir as the estate agent * Monti DeLyle as ghost of Rinaldo Sabata * Nina Erber as ghost of Marianna Sabata * John Desmond as ghost of the sailor Production It was shot at a manor house near Mill Hill, part of a trend of renting country houses rather than studio space by low-budget producers after the Secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beginning Or The End
''The Beginning or the End'' is a 1947 American docudrama film about the development of the atomic bomb in World War II, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, and Tom Drake, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film dramatizes the creation of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project and the bombing of Hiroshima. The film originated in October 1945 as a project of actress Donna Reed and her high school science teacher, Edward R. Tompkins, who was a chemist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Bob Considine wrote the treatment, which was sent to MGM scriptwriters. The title was supplied by President Harry S. Truman. At the time there was a legal requirement that permission be obtained to depict living well-known public figures. Many refused, but others, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, co-operated. Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., the director of the Manhattan Project, was hired as a consultant for $10,000 (). Although the filmmakers put ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomorrow Is Forever
''Tomorrow Is Forever'' is a 1946 American romantic drama film directed by Irving Pichel, adapted by Lenore Coffee from Gwen Bristow's 1943 serialized novel of the same name. Starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, and George Brent, it was the film debut of both Richard Long and Natalie Wood. The film was produced by International Pictures, and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Plot In Baltimore, Elizabeth ("Liz") and John Andrew MacDonald had only been married for a year when John enlisted to fight in World War I. Just before Christmas in 1918, while awaiting word of his return after the war's end, Liz is notified by telegram of John's death. At the same time, she learns she is pregnant. She is supported during this difficult time by Lawrence "Larry" Hamilton, the owner of the chemical company at which she works, and, after the baby is born, Liz agrees to marry Larry, though she warns him that she could never love him the way she loved John. They raise the baby, named J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitty (1945 Film)
''Kitty'' is a 1945 film, a costume drama set in London during the 1780s, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall (published in 1943). The screenplay is by Karl Tunberg. It stars Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Constance Collier, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, and Cecil Kellaway as the English painter Thomas Gainsborough. In a broad interpretation of George Bernard Shaw's '' Pygmalion'', the film tells the rags-to-riches story of a beautiful young cockney guttersnipe who is given a complete makeover by an impoverished aristocrat (Milland) and his aunt (Collier). They hope to arrange her marriage to a peer, thereby repairing their fortunes and their social status. Plot In 1783 London, a poor thief, Kitty, is caught picking the pocket of painter Thomas Gainsborough. Amused, he pays her to sit for a portrait. While posing, she attracts the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who offers her a job as a scullery maid and (later) his aunt's wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Highness And The Bellboy
''Her Highness and the Bellboy'' is a 1945 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson and Rags Ragland. Written by Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman, the film is about a beautiful European princess who travels to New York City to find the newspaper columnist she fell in love with six years earlier. At her posh New York hotel, she is mistaken for a maid by a kind-hearted bellboy. Charmed by his confusion, the princess insists that he become her personal attendant, unaware that he has fallen in love with her. ''Her Highness and the Bellboy'' was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States on July 11, 1945. Plot The beautiful Princess Veronica ( Hedy Lamarr) travels to New York City to find the American newspaper columnist she fell in love with six years earlier. After checking into the elegant Eaton Hotel, she is mistaken for a new maid by bellboy Jimmy Dobson ( Robert Walker), who offers to accompan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Down Under
''The Man from Down Under'' is an American 1943 drama film starring Charles Laughton as an Australian man who raises two war orphans. Plot After the end of World War I, Australian soldier Jocko Wilson (Charles Laughton) admires the spirit of a destitute Belgian orphan who fights a larger boy. He feeds the child, whom he names "Nipper", and the boy's younger sister Mary. When he receives orders to go home, he gets his friend Ginger Gaffney ( Clyde Cook) to smuggle the pair aboard their ship. Then, realizing he knows nothing about raising children, he proposes to his singer girlfriend Aggie Dawlins (Binnie Barnes). She accepts. However, he gets drunk and is nearly arrested; in the confusion, he forgets and sails home without her. An ex-boxer, Jocko buys a tavern and trains the boy to fight, while Mary is sent off to a boarding school. The adult Nipper ( Richard Carlson) gets to fight the boxing champion of the British Empire for the title. Jocko takes all bets, even after Ginger wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Men (1940 Film)
''Little Men'' (1940) is an American film based on the novel '' Little Men'' (1871) by Louisa May Alcott. Norman Z. McLeod directed the film.Leonard Maltin, ''Leonard Maltin's TV movies and Video Guide'' 1991 Edition, page 669, Plume, 1990 Plot During the late 1860s con artist Major Burdie is placing newspaper ads selling a framed engraved portrait of George Washington for a dollar. Customers receive a three-cent Washington postage stamp stuck in the middle of a piece of paper with a frame border. A crook named Willie the Fox comes and tells him their friend Lefty died and wanted Burdie to raise his infant son, whose mother is also dead. Burdie names the boy Dan, and raises him as his own son. Major Burdie earns money doing what he considers honest work – selling a fake cure for drunkenness. Burdie and Dan go across the United States selling the bottled so-called remedy at medicine shows. In 1880 local officials insist Dan must attend school, and recommends he be enrolled at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All This, And Heaven Too
''All This, and Heaven Too'' is a 1940 American drama film released by Warner Bros.- First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was adapted by Casey Robinson from the 1938 novel by Rachel Field. The music was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Ernie Haller. The film stars Bette Davis and Charles Boyer with Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil, Virginia Weidler, Helen Westley, Walter Hampden, Henry Daniell, Harry Davenport, George Coulouris and Montagu Love. Field's novel is based on the true story of her great-aunt Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a French governess who fell in love with the Duc de Praslin, her employer. When Praslin's wife was murdered, Deluzy-Desportes was implicated. The scandal contributed to the political turmoil before the French Revolution of 1848 that deposed King Louis Philippe I. Plot Mademoiselle Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a French woman, starts teaching at an Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is On The Air
''Love is on the Air'' is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Ronald Reagan (in his film debut), June Travis, Eddie Acuff, Robert Barrat, Raymond Hatton and Willard Parker. It was the first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture ''Hi, Nellie!'', to be followed by ''You Can't Escape Forever'' (1942) and ''The House Across the Street'' (1949). Plot Reckless radio commentator Andy McCaine finds trouble when he attacks a corrupt city government, so his boss forces him to host an innocuous children's program. Cast * Ronald Reagan as Andy McCaine * June Travis as Jo Hopkins * Eddie Acuff as 'Dunk' Glover * Ben Welden as 'Nicey' Ferguson * Robert Barrat as J.D. Harrington * Addison Richards as E.E. Nichols * Raymond Hatton as Weston * Tommy Bupp as Mouse * Dickie Jones as Bill - Mouse's Friend * Willard Parker as Les Quimby * William Hopper as Eddie Gould * Spec O'Donnell as Pinky * Herbert Rawlinson as Mr. George Copelin * Lynne Roberts (actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
