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Bedlam (1946 Film)
''Bedlam'' is a 1946 American horror film directed by Mark Robson and starring Boris Karloff, Anna Lee and Richard Fraser, and was the last in a series of stylish horror B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures. The film was inspired by William Hogarth's 1732–1734 painting series ''A Rake's Progress'', and Hogarth was given a writing credit.Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011, pp 309-10 Plot It is 1761 in London at St Mary Bethlehem asylum for the mentally ill and an acquaintance of Lord Mortimer dies in an attempt to escape from the asylum. Master George Sims appeases Mortimer by having his "loonies" put on a show for him. Mortified by the treatment of the patients, Mortimer's protégée Nell Bowen seeks his aid, then seeks the help of Whig politician John Wilkes to reform the asylum, threatening Sim's corrupt practices. Mortimer and Sims conspire to commit Nell to the asylum, where her initial fears of the fellow i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rose (illustrator)
William F. Rose (September 16, 1909– May 29, 1972) was an American illustrator and film poster artist active in the 1930s and 1940s. He is recognized as one of the most distinctive poster artists of the Classical Hollywood cinema, Classical Hollywood era, a time when most film posters featured painted illustrations rather than photography. Rose painted dozens of poster illustrations for RKO Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures and other studios. As one of the leading designers in RKO's art department, he helped to define the studio's bold visual aesthetic. Although he was prolific, only a fraction of his poster designs have been individually attributed to him. Most of his output remains unidentified. His artwork is prized by collectors, and original prints of his posters have fetched high prices at auction. One of his most iconic posters is the alternate "StyleB" design for ''Citizen Kane''(1941), which pitched the film as a more conventional romance than it actually was. The poster f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Whig Party
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when the faction merged with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 over the issue of Irish Home Rule to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the Conservative Party in 1912. The Whigs began as a political faction that opposed absolute monarchy and Catholic emancipation, supporting constitutional monarchism and parliamentary government, but also Protestant supremacy. They played a central role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and were the standing enemies of the Roman Catholic Stuart kings and pretenders. The period known as the Whig Supremacy (1714–1760) was enabled by the Hanoverian succession of George I in 1714 and the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of The Dead (film)
''Isle of the Dead'' is a 1945 American horror film directed by Mark Robson and made for RKO Radio Pictures by producer Val Lewton. The film's script was inspired by the painting '' Isle of the Dead'' by Arnold Böcklin, which appears behind the title credits, though the film was originally titled ''Camilla'' during production. It was written by frequent Lewton collaborator Ardel Wray. It starred Boris Karloff. ''Isle of the Dead'' was the second of three films Lewton made with Karloff,Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011 p 304 and the fourth of five pictures Robson directed for Lewton. Plot An onscreen text warns of the superstitious belief in a '' vorvolaka'', a malevolent force in human form. The film properly begins during the Balkan Wars of 1912. While his troops are burying their dead, General Pherides (Boris Karloff) and American reporter Oliver Davis (Marc Cramer) visit the Isle of the Dead to pay their respects to the General's l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American film studio, filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Founded on April 4, 1923, by four brothers, Harry Warner, Harry, Albert Warner, Albert, Sam Warner, Sam and Jack L. Warner, Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games. It is one of the "Major film studios, Big Five" major American film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division, the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment and the Warner Bros. Television Group. Bugs Bunny, a character created for the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Clarke
Robert Irby Clarke (June 1, 1920 – June 11, 2005) was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s. In succeeding decades he appeared in more conventional television, and in ''The King Family Show'', a variety show based on the family of which his wife Alyce King Clarke was a member. Early life Clarke was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.He attended Kemper Military School where he planned a military career, but asthma prevented his service in World War II. He enrolled in the University of Oklahoma and then the University of Wisconsin, where he began acting. Career After screen tests at 20th Century-Fox and Columbia Pictures, Clarke landed a berth as a contract player at RKO Radio Pictures. His first credited role was ''The Falcon in Hollywood'' (1944), then went on to play small roles in ''The Body Snatcher (1945 film), The Body Snatcher'' (1945), ''Bedlam (1946 film), Bedlam'' (1946), and ''Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome'' (1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Corby
Ellen Hansen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress and screenwriter. She played the role of List of The Waltons characters#Esther Walton, Esther "Grandma" Walton on the Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS television series ''The Waltons'', for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in ''I Remember Mama (film), I Remember Mama'' (1948). Early life Ellen Hansen was born in Racine, Wisconsin, Racine, Wisconsin, to immigrant parents from Denmark. She grew up in Philadelphia. An interest in amateur theater while in high school led her to Atlantic City in 1932, where she briefly worked as a chorus girl. She moved to Hollywood that same year and got a job as a script girl at RKO Studios and Hal Roach Studios, where she often worked on ''Our Gang'' comedies, alongside her future husband, cinematographer Francis Corby. She held that position for the next 12 ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Goldsworthy
John Goldsworthy (1884–1958) was a British-born stage and film actor. After emigrating to the United States he was active on Broadway appearing in a variety of plays, as well as several musicals.Bordman p.460 During the silent era he appeared in supporting roles in American films. Later in the 1940s he returned to the cinema, now playing mainly small, uncredited parts. His final film was MGM's '' The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1951). Selected filmography * '' A Yellow Streak'' (1915) * '' The Red Widow'' (1916) * '' A Corner in Cotton'' (1916) * '' Her Debt of Honor'' (1916) * '' Thou Shalt Not Steal'' (1917) * '' Life's Greatest Problem'' (1918) * '' The Career of Katherine Bush'' (1919) * '' The Divorcee'' (1919) * '' Even as Eve'' (1920) * '' The Sporting Duchess'' (1920) * '' Notoriety'' (1922) * '' Marriage Morals'' (1923) * '' Hangover Square'' (1945) * '' Confidential Agent'' (1945) * '' The Shanghai Cobra'' (1945) * '' Bedlam'' (1946) * '' The Dark Corner'' (1946) * ''The V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skelton Knaggs
Skelton Barnaby Knaggs (27 June 1911 – 30 April 1955) was an English stage actor who also appeared in films, especially in horror films. Biography Knaggs was born in the Hillsborough district of Sheffield, England. Knaggs moved to London where he trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and subsequently became a Shakespearean actor. In addition to appearing on stage in Shakespeare's ''Cymbeline'', Knaggs appeared in a few British films, including an uncredited role as a German orderly in Michael Powell's '' The Spy in Black''. At some point he moved to Los Angeles, California, and found work as a character actor in Hollywood. Diminutive and distinctive-looking, with a strongly featured pock-marked face and charismatically voiced with an English Midlands provincial accent, he was cast in sinister roles, often in horror films. These ranged from uncredited bit parts to prominent roles in the Sherlock Holmes thriller '' Terror by Night'', the all-star mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Russell (actress)
Elizabeth Russell (August 2, 1916 – May 4, 2002) was an American actress. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was best known for her roles in several of producer Val Lewton's low-budget horror films produced at RKO Pictures in the mid-1940s. She was the sister-in-law of Rosalind Russell. Career Russell worked as a photographer's model in New York City before she became an actress. When she was chosen for a part in ''Cat People (1942 film), Cat People'' (1942), Russell was a model who acted part-time. In his book ''Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career'', Edmund G. Bansak wrote, "Although lasting only moments, the economy of Russell's cameo is wondrous and it remains etched in viewers' memories long after the more essential concerns of plot and character have been all but forgotten. She died in 2002. " Personal life Russell married advertising man John Russell in 1937, they had a young son. In 1942, she was already divorced. Partial filmography * ''Forgotten Faces ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leyland Hodgson
Leyland Hodgson (5 October 1892 – 16 March 1949), also known as Leland Hodgson, was an English-born American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in London on 5 October 1892, Hodgson entered the theatre in 1898. In his early 20s Hodgson was part of a touring theatre company, spending his time in the British areas of the Far East, before entering the stage in Australia. In 1930 moved to the United States, where he made his film debut in the Oscar-nominated film, ''The Case of Sergeant Grischa'' in 1930. Over his almost twenty-year career, he appeared in over 130 films, mostly in supporting or smaller roles. He is best known for his work on the Sherlock Holmes franchise of the late 1930s and 1940s, beginning with 1939's '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''. He died of a heart attack on 16 March 1949, shortly after completing the filming of '' That Forsyte Woman'', which would be released later that year. He was interred at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Robards Sr
Jason Nelson Robards (December 31, 1892 – April 4, 1963) was an American stage and screen actor, and the father of actor Jason Robards. Robards appeared in many films, initially as a leading man, then in character roles and occasional bit parts. Most of his final roles were in television. Life and career Robards was born on a farm in Hillsdale, Michigan, the son of Elizabeth (née Loomis), a schoolteacher, and Frank P. Robards Sr., a farmer and post office inspector who managed Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Presidential campaign in Michigan. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois. He trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was billed simply as "Jason Robards" through most of his career, but in his latter years, after his namesake son took up acting, he was generally listed in credits as Jason Robards Sr. He died in 1963 (after which his son switched from "Jason Robards Jr." to "Jason Robards"). Contemporary actors Jason Robards III and Sam Robards are Jason Sr.'s grands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Wolfe
Ian Marcus Wolfe (November 4, 1896 – January 23, 1992) was an American character actor with around 400 film and television credits. Until 1934, he worked in the theatre. That year, he appeared in his first film role and later television, as a character actor. His career lasted seven decades and included many films and TV series; his last screen credit was in 1990. Early years Born in Canton, Illinois, Wolfe studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Career Wolfe's stage debut came in ''The Claw'' (1919). His Broadway credits include ''The Deputy'' (1964), ''Winesburg, Ohio'' (1958), ''Lone Valley'' (1933), ''Devil in the Mind'' (1931), ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1931), ''Lysistrata'' (1930), ''The Seagull'' (1930), ''At the Bottom'' (1930), ''Skyrocket'' (1929), ''Gods of the Lightning'' (1928), and ''The Claw'' (1921). Wolfe made his film debut in '' The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1934). He appeared in many films, including '' Mutiny on the Bounty'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
