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Bramwell Fletcher
Bramwell Fletcher (20 February 1904 – 22 June 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor. Career Fletcher appeared on the stage in 1927 and made his Broadway debut in 1929. Hollywood and sound films soon beckoned. He made his first film in 1928, ''S.O.S''. Fletcher co-starred in Warner Brothers' 1931 film '' Svengali'' with actor John Barrymore, whose daughter Diana would marry Fletcher a decade later. He had a brief but notable appearance in '' The Mummy'' (1932) as the assistant gone mad. In 1943, he abandoned films for the theatre and television. He wrote and acted in the critically successful 1965 play ''The Bernard Shaw Story''. Personal life His first two wives were actresses. He was married to Helen Chandler from 1935 to 1940 and Diana Barrymore from 1942 to 1946. Both marriages ended in divorce. In 1950 he married Susan Robinson and had 3 children: Whit, Kent and Catherine Fletcher. In 1970 he married Lael Tucker Wertenbaker, living with her in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford
Bradford is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the Local Government Act 1972, 1974 reform, the city status in the United Kingdom, city status has belonged to the larger City of Bradford metropolitan borough. It had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 Census for England and Wales, 2011 census, making it the second-largest subdivision of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area after Leeds, which is approximately to the east. The borough had a population of , making it the List of English districts by population, most populous district in England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city grew in the 19th century as an international centre of Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest Industrialisation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffles (1930 Film)
''Raffles'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It stars Ronald Colman as the title character, a proper English gentleman who moonlights as a notorious jewel thief, and Kay Francis as his love interest. It is based on the play ''Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman'' (1906) by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey, which was in turn adapted from the 1899 short story collection of the same name by Hornung. Oscar Lagerstrom was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording. The story had been filmed previously as '' Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman'' (1917) with John Barrymore as Raffles, and again as '' Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman'' (1925) by Universal Studios. A 1939 Goldwyn produced version, again titled just ''Raffles'', starred David Niven in the title role. Plot Famed cricketer A.J. Raffles by day is the notorious gentleman jewel thief the "Amateur Cracksman" at night. After falling in love with lovely aristocratic Gw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line Engaged
''Line Engaged'' is a 1935 British, black-and-white, thriller directed by Bernard Mainwaring and starring Bramwell Fletcher, Jane Baxter and Arthur Wontner. It was produced by British Lion Film Corporation. Plot Eva Rutland (played by Jane Baxter), the wife of caddish Gordon ( Leslie Perrins), is in love with David Morland (Bramwell Fletcher), a successful novelist. David's father, an Inspector (Arthur Wontner) gives his son a cast iron murder plot. Later, when Gordon is shot, it seems David has fulfilled his father's hypothetical musings. Cast *Bramwell Fletcher as David Morland *Jane Baxter as Eva Rutland *Arthur Wontner as Insp. Morland *Mary Clare as Mrs. Gardner * Leslie Perrins as Gordon Rutland * George Merritt as Sgt. Thomas *Kathleen Harrison as Maid * John Turnbull as Supt. Harrison *Coral Browne as Doreen *Ronald Shiner as Ryan References External links ''Line Engaged''at the British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 Film)
''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' is a 1934 British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey. Based on the 1905 play by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow and the classic 1905 adventure novel by Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century English aristocrat (Howard) who leads a double life, passing himself off as an effete aristocrat while engaged in a secret effort to rescue French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. The film was produced by Alexander Korda. Howard's portrayal of the title character is often considered the definitive portrayal of the role. In 1941, he played a similar role in "'Pimpernel' Smith" but this time set in pre-WWII Germany. Plot In 1792, shortly before the Reign of Terror, vengeful French mobs are outraged when aristocrats are saved from death by a secret society of 20 English noblemen known as the "Band of the Scarlet Pimpernel." The Scarlet Pimpernel, their mysterious leader, is S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana (1934 Film)
''Nana'' is a 1934 American pre-Code film, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, starring Anna Sten. and directed by Dorothy Arzner and George Fitzmaurice. This version of Émile Zola's 1880 novel and heroine was to be the vehicle for Sten's triumph as Samuel Goldwyn's trained, groomed and heavily promoted answer to Greta Garbo. Despite a record-breaking opening week at Radio City Music Hall, Sten was received as beautiful but disappointing. Goldwyn's tutoring of Sten is mentioned in Cole Porter's 1934 song "Anything Goes" from the musical of the same name: "If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction / Instruct Anna Sten in diction / Then Anna shows / Anything goes." Plot A Parisian streetwalker, Nana, is discovered by a theatrical impresario and becomes a stage success. At her height of popularity, she falls in love with a soldier, George Muffat, and draws both ire and fascination from his protective older brother, Colonel Muffat. Nana, along with her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right To Romance
''The Right to Romance'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film starring Ann Harding and Robert Young and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Plot A successful plastic surgeon meets a local playboy and impulsively marries him. Cast Preservation status This is one of the "lost RKO films" owned by Merian C. Cooper and only re-released in April 2007 when Turner Classic Movies acquired the rights and showed all six films on TCM. Cooper accused RKO of not paying him all the money contractually due for the films he produced in the 1930s. A settlement was reached in 1946, giving Cooper complete ownership of six RKO titles: * ''Rafter Romance'' (1933) with Ginger Rogers * '' Double Harness'' (1933) with Ann Harding and William Powell * ''The Right to Romance'' (1933) * '' One Man's Journey'' (1933) with Lionel Barrymore * ''Living on Love'' (1937) * ''A Man to Remember'' (1938) According to an interview with a retired RKO executive, shown as a promo on TCM, Cooper withdrew the films, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only Yesterday (1933 Film)
''Only Yesterday'' is a 1933 American pre-Code melodrama film, directed by John M. Stahl, about a young woman who becomes pregnant by her boyfriend before he rushes off to fight in World War I. It stars Margaret Sullavan (in her film debut) and John Boles. According to the on-screen credit, the film's story line was "suggested" by the 1931 nonfiction bestseller ''Only Yesterday'' by Frederick Lewis Allen, who had sold Universal the rights to his book. The film is set in a time frame close to that of Allen's book but otherwise bears no resemblance to it, and the film's title may simply have been an attempt to capitalize on the book's fame at the time of the film's release. The plot of the film appears to be based closely on '' Letter from an Unknown Woman'' (''Briefe einer Unbekannten'') by Stefan Zweig, published first in 1922 and in English translation a decade later. According to the ''New York Times'', some moviegoers contacted Zweig's publisher, Viking Press, noting similari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monkey's Paw (1933 Film)
''The Monkey's Paw'' is a 1933 American pre-Code horror film co-directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack (prologue) and Wesley Ruggles, based on the short story "The Monkey's Paw" (1902) by W. W. Jacobs. It tells of a family who obtains a cursed monkey paw that grants three wishes. Because the film was shorter than anticipated after the initial shooting, the producers added a prologue. Though the film was not widely viewed upon its release in the United States, it was well-liked in England. Critical reviews were mixed, ranging from an appreciation of its suspense to a dislike of its plot, particularly its deus ex machina ending. It has been considered a lost film, but parts of it were rediscovered in 2016. Plot During a blizzard, veteran Sergeant major Tom Morris tells stories of his travels to India to his friends John and Jenny White. He tells them of a monkey paw he obtained from a Hindu fakir. The paw grants three wishes, but the fakir has warned Tom that the wishes will ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Face On The Barroom Floor (1932 Film)
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bill Of Divorcement (1932 Film)
''A Bill of Divorcement'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn in her film debut. It is based on the 1921 British play of the same name, written by Clemence Dane as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman to divorce her husband. It was the second screen adaptation of the play; the first was a 1922 British silent film also titled '' A Bill of Divorcement''. The film was made again in 1940 by RKO Pictures. Plot Middle-aged Englishwoman Margaret "Meg" Fairfield's family includes her 15-year-old daughter Sydney, Sydney's fiancé Kit Humphreys, fiancé Gray Meredith and ex-husband Hilary, who has been a patient in a mental institution for 15 years. Sydney seems to have inherited Hilary's psychiatric problems. On Christmas Eve, Meg hosts a party in her English manor. Sydney happily discusses her future with Kit, as do Meg and Gray. When the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Witness (1932 Film)
''Silent Witness'' is a British crime drama TV series. Silent Witness may also refer to: Film * '' A Silent Witness'', lost 1912 Australian silent film * ''The Silent Witness'' (1917 film), an American film starring Gertrude McCoy * ''The Silent Witness'' (1932 film), an American mystery film directed by Marcel Varnel * ''The Silent Witness'' (1962 film), an American film with cinematography by Richard E. Cunha * ''Silent Witness'' (1943 film), an American film * ''Silent Witness'' (1985 film), an American television film starring Valerie Bertinelli and John Savage * ''Silent Witness'' (1994 film), a Canadian documentary film by Harriet Wichin * ''Silent Witness'' (1999 film), an American film starring William Hurt and Jennifer Tilly * ''Silent Witness'' (2013 film), Chinese crime thriller ** '' Heart Blackened'', a 2017 South Korean remake of the 2013 Chinese film Other uses * Silent witness rule, a procedure in the United States justice system * Silent Witness (horse) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once A Lady
''Once a Lady'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and starring Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello and Jill Esmond. The film, produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, is a remake of the Pola Negri silent film '' Three Sinners'' (1928). The film was the final attempt by British matinée idol Novello to establish himself in Hollywood.Williams, Michael. ''Ivor Novello: Screen Idol''. British Film Institute, 2003, p. 7 Plot A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help. Cast * Ruth Chatterton as Anna Keremazoff *Ivor Novello as Bennett Cloud * Jill Esmond as Faith Penwick the Girl * Geoffrey Kerr as Jimmy Fenwick * Doris Lloyd as Lady Ellen Somerville * Herbert Bunston as Roger Fenwick *Gwendolyn Logan as Mrs. Fenwick *Stella Moore as Alice Fenwic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
