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Barry Conners
Barry Conners (1883–1933) was an American actor, screenwriter and playwright.Solomon p.331 An established writer for the stage, he was employed in Hollywood during the final few years of life during the early sound era. Selected filmography * '' The Patsy'' (1928) * ''Charlie Chan Carries On'' (1931) * '' The Black Camel'' (1931) * ''The Spider'' (1931) * ''There Were Thirteen'' (1931) * ''Riders of the Purple Sage'' (1931) * ''Women of All Nations'' (1931) * '' Bachelor's Affairs'' (1932) * ''Chandu the Magician'' (1932) * ''Charlie Chan's Chance'' (1932) * ''Hat Check Girl'' (1932) * ''Me and My Gal'' (1932) * '' The Gay Caballero'' (1932) * '' The Rainbow Trail'' (1932) * ''The Trial of Vivienne Ware'' (1932) * ''Too Busy to Work (1932 film)'' (1932) * ''Hot Pepper'' (1933) * ''Pilgrimage A pilgrimage is a travel, journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life. A pilgrim (from the Latin ''peregrinu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil City, Pennsylvania
Oil City is the largest city in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. Known for its prominence in the initial exploration and development of the petroleum industry, it is located at a bend in the Allegheny River at the mouth of Oil Creek. The population was 9,608 at the 2020 census, and it is the principal city of the Oil City micropolitan area. Initial settlement of Oil City was sporadic, and tied to the iron industry. After the first oil wells were drilled in 1861, it became central to the petroleum industry while hosting headquarters for the Pennzoil, Quaker State, and Wolf's Head motor oil companies. Tourism plays a prominent role in the region by promoting oil heritage sites, nature trails, and Victorian architecture. History Cornplanter Tract and Oil Creek Furnace In 1796, the state of Pennsylvania gave Cornplanter, chief of the Wolf Band of the Seneca nation, of land along the west bank of the Allegheny River in Warren County, Pennsylvania, as well as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandu The Magician (film)
Chandu may refer to: Entertainment * ''Chandu'' (1958 film), a 1958 Hindi film * ''Chandu'' (2001 film), a 2001 Telugu film * ''Chandu'' (2002 film), a 2002 Kannada film * Chandu the Magician, an American radio series * ''Chandu the Magician'' (film), a 1932 film adaptation of the radio series People * Chandu Shah, was Mughal official *Chandra, Shekhar Prasad (20 September 1964 – 31 March 1997), an Indian activist and student leader * Chandu Lal, (1833–1844) Prime minister for the 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad * Chandu (film director) (born 1975), Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter * Chandu Borde (born 1934), Indian cricketer * Chandu Chekaver, a legendary Hindu warrior * Chandu Lal Sahu (born 1959), Indian politician * Chandu Sarwate (1920–2003), Indian cricketer * Pazhayamviden Chandu, an Indian general * Thacholi Chandu, a legendary Hindu warrior Fictional characters *''Chandu'', a tiger sidekick to Sindbad in Sindbad's Storybook Voyage Sindbad's Storybook Voyag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Deaths
Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls "Pakistan, Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 Births
Events January * January 4 – ''Life (magazine), Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A Newhall House Hotel Fire, fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * January 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States civil service, is passed. * January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey, United States, installed by Thomas Edison. February * February 15 – Tokyo Electrical Lightning Grid, predecessor of Tokyo Electrical Power (TEPCO), one of the largest electrical grids in Asia and the world, is founded in Japan. * February 16 – The ''Ladies' Home Journal'' is published for the first time, in the United States. * February 23 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an Competition law, antitrust law. * February 28 – The first vaudeville th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Always A Bride (1940 Film)
''Always a Bride'' is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Rosemary Lane, George Reeves and John Eldredge. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers as a second feature. Plot Wealthy Alice Bond, dissatisfied with her dull fiancé Marshall Winkler, discards him in favor of Michael Stevens. To make certain that her new beau will be acceptable to her parents, Alice contrives to have Michael enter a mayoral campaign. As election day draws close, criminals complicate matters. Cast * Rosemary Lane as Alice Bond * George Reeves as Michael 'Mike' Stevens * John Eldredge as Marshall Winkler * James Hayter as Dutton * Virginia Brissac as Lucy Bond * Francis Pierlot as Pete Bond * Oscar O'Shea as Uncle Dan Jarvis * Ferris Taylor as Mayor Paul Loomis * Joe King as Mr. Franklyn (as Joseph King) * Phyllis Ruth as Mary Ann Coleridge * Lucia Carroll as Mayor's Receptionist * Jack Mower as Martin, First Man Yelling Out at Meeting * Tom Wilson as Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brides Are Like That
''Brides Are Like That'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by William C. McGann and written by Ben Markson. The film stars Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Joseph Cawthorn, Kathleen Lockhart, Gene Lockhart and Dick Purcell. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 18, 1936. Plot Bill McAllister is a quick talking nephew of a rich Uncle who has a shipping business, and to which he lives off of as a young man by charging most of his expenses ....he only has a single dollar saved in his sleeve. Bill meets and falls for a young lady named Hazel who is the daughter of a large apple baron...and although Hazel thinks she is in love with a Dr. Jenkins, Bill convinces Dr. Jenkins that he really doesn't want to get married and then woos Hazel into falling in love with himself. Bill is a very fast talking, quick thinking person who uses flattery to impress people and get them to agree to his ideas....or at least stall off his creditors and detractors from talking action agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilgrimage (1933 Film)
''Pilgrimage'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by John Ford. Based on a short story by I.A.R. Wylie, the film stars Henrietta Crosman as an Arkansas mother who arranges for her son to be enlisted in the Army during the Great War to prevent him from marrying the woman he loves. The film's title refers to trips that the American Gold Star Mothers organization arranged beginning in the late 1920s, enabling mothers and widows of fallen soldiers to visit the overseas grave sites of their loved ones. Though it received positive reviews upon its release, Pilgrimage was a box office disappointment for Fox. Cast * Henrietta Crosman as Mrs. Hannah Jessop * Heather Angel as Suzanne * Norman Foster as Jim 'Jimmy' Jessop (Hannah's son) * Lucille La Verne as Mrs. Kelly Hatfield * Maurice Murphy as Gary Worth * Marian Nixon as Mary Saunders * Jay Ward as Jimmy Saunders (Mary and Jimmy Hessop's son) * Robert Warwick as Major Albertson * Louise Carter as Mrs. Rogers * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Pepper (1933 Film)
''Hot Pepper'' (1933) is an American pre-Code comedy film starring Lupe Vélez, Edmund Lowe, and Victor McLaglen, directed by John G. Blystone and released by Fox Film Corporation. The film appeared before the enforcement of the Production Code. This film is considered a fourth installment in the series of films dating back to the silent film '' What Price Glory?'' (1926), starring Lowe and McLaglen in their characters of Sergeant Harry Quirt and Captain Jim Flagg with Dolores del Río as the female costar. The pair made a sequel to that film called ''The Cock-Eyed World'' (1929), co-starring Lili Damita. Another film, ''Women of All Nations'' (1931), followed before 1933's ''Hot Pepper''. Plot Cast *Edmund Lowe as Harry Quirt *Lupe Vélez as Pepper *Victor McLaglen as Jim Flagg *El Brendel as Olsen *Lilian Bond as Hortense *Boothe Howard as Trigger Thomas *Gloria Roy as Lily * Leo White Leo White (November 10, 1873 – September 20, 1948), was a German-born British-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Busy To Work (1932 Film)
''Too Busy to Work'' is a 1932 American drama film directed by John G. Blystone, written by Barry Conners and Philip Klein, and starring Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Dick Powell, Frederick Burton, Charles Middleton and Louise Beavers. It was released on December 2, 1932, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot Fifteen years after he returned from World War One, Jubilo decides to look up the man who ran away with his wife and toddler daughter while he was at war. Having become a hobo, he takes a rather adventurous on-foot route to the wealthy home of Judge Hardy, and sees his little daughter has grown up to be quite the beauty and is scheduled to marry the Judge's birth son, Dan Hardy. Jubilo begs a meal from the cook, Mammy, and his easy-going nature helps him talk his way into a hired hand position. He cannot bear to let his daughter out of his sight so soon. Jubilo conducts a running feud with Axel, the other hired hand; and manages to "Tom Sawyer" Axel into doing most of his work fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trial Of Vivienne Ware
''The Trial of Vivienne Ware'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by William K. Howard, written by Barry Conners and Philip Klein, and starring Joan Bennett, Donald Cook, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, ZaSu Pitts, Lilian Bond and Alan Dinehart. It was released on May 1, 1932, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot A wealthy socialite on trial for the murder of her unfaithful fiancee is defended by her ex-boyfriend. Cast * Joan Bennett as Vivienne Ware * Donald Cook as John Sutherland * Richard "Skeets" Gallagher as Graham McNally * ZaSu Pitts as Gladys Fairweather * Lilian Bond as Dolores Divine *Alan Dinehart Mason Alan Dinehart Sr. (born Harold Alan Dinehart; October 3, 1889 – July 18, 1944) was an American actor, director, writer, and stage manager. Biography Dinehart initially studied to be a priest, but he turned to the theater instead. ... as Prosecutor * Herbert Mundin as William Boggs *Howard Phillips as Minetti aka Joe Garson *William Paw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rainbow Trail (1932 Film)
''The Rainbow Trail'' is a 1932 Pre-Code Western film directed by David Howard and starring George O'Brien. The picture is an adaptation of Zane Grey's novel of the same name and a sequel to the 1931 film ''Riders of the Purple Sage'', which also stars O'Brien. Plot Cast * George O'Brien as Shefford *Cecilia Parker as Fay Larkin *Minna Gombell as Ruth *Roscoe Ates as Ike Wilkins * J. M. Kerrigan as Paddy Harrigan * James Kirkwood as Venters * W. L. Thorne as Dyer *Robert Frazer as Lone Eagle *Ruth Donnelly as Abigail *Niles Welch as Willets *Landers Stevens as Presby *Laska Winter as Singing Cloud * Edward Hearn as Jim Lassiter *Alice Ward as Jane Withersteen *George Burton as Elliott *Iron Eyes Cody as Indian References External links * * ''The Rainbow Trail''in Reel Old Films ''The Rainbow Trail''in ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjuncti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gay Caballero (1932 Film)
''The Gay Caballero'' is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Alfred L. Werker and written by Barry Conners and Philip Klein. The film stars George O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro, Linda Watkins, C. Henry Gordon and Weldon Heyburn. The film's screenplay was adapted from the novel ''The Gay Bandit of the Border'' by Tom Gill. The film was released on February 14, 1932, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot Cast * George O'Brien as Ted Radcliffe *Victor McLaglen as Don Bob Harkness/"El Coyote" * Conchita Montenegro as Adela O'Brien Morales *Linda Watkins as Ann Grey *C. Henry Gordon as Don Paco Morales * Weldon Heyburn as Jito *Martin Garralaga as Manuel *Willard Robertson as Maj. Lawrence Blount *Juan Torena as Juan Rodrigues *Al Ernest Garcia Allan Ernest Garcia (11 March 1887 – 4 September 1938) was an American actor and casting director, best known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin. Life and career Al Ernest Garcia appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
