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Burt Kelly (producer)
Burt Kelly (October 6, 1898 – 1983) was an American film producer and writer. He was best known for Columbia Pictures' Blondie series. He founded KBS Productions Inc. in 1932, along with Samuel Bischoff, Sam Bischoff and William Saal. Career Kelly was a former stock company manager who entered the film industry as a booking agent for the Paramount-Publix, Paramount Publix theater chain. He later functioned as an executive with Educational Pictures, a purveyor of comedy Short film, two-reelers, and then Poverty Row’s Tiffany Pictures. In 1932, Kelly founded KBS Productions with Samuel Bischoff, Sam Bischoff and William Saal. The company thats name was derived from the initials of its three founders took over the former production facilities of Tiffany Pictures where they produced B movie, low budget Ken Maynard Westerns, and films such as ''The Death Kiss'' with Bela Lugosi, and Sherlock Holmes’ ''A Study in Scarlet (1933 film), A Study in Scarlet''. KBS (also known as Admira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Dore
Adrienne Dore (born Elizabeth Himmelsbach; May 22, 1907 – November 26, 1992) was an American actress, model, and beauty pageant winner. She was first runner-up in the Miss America 1925 pageant, competing as Miss Los Angeles. Dore went on to have a modest career in motion pictures before retiring in 1934. Early life Adrienne Dore was born Elizabeth Himmelsbach in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho to Louis Joseph Himmelsbach and Edith Estelle Kell. The family moved to Yakima and then Seattle, Washington where she attended school at a convent. She performed in her first musical there at age three. Her education at Forrest Ridge Convent was in general studies but she focused on dancing and the theater. Career Dore moved to New York City, and pursued a career in acting under the name Adrienne Doré. She was a singer in the musical revue ''"Elliott, Comstock, and Gest"'', performing at the Cocoanut Grove, a nightclub located on the roof of the Century Theatre. She competed in the Miss Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie's Secret
''Blondie's Secret'' is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Edward Bernds and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, and Marjorie Ann Mutchie. It is the twenty-fourth of the 28 Blondie films. Plot Cast * Penny Singleton as Blondie * Arthur Lake as Dagwood * Larry Simms as Baby Dumpling * Marjorie Ann Mutchie as Cookie *Daisy as Daisy the Dog * Jerome Cowan as Mr. Radcliffe * Thurston Hall as Mr. Whiteside * Jack Rice as Ollie Merton * Danny Mummert as Alvin Fuddle * Frank Orth as Mr. Philpotts * Alyn Lockwood as Mary * Eddie Acuff Edward DeKalb Acuff (June 3, 1903 – December 17, 1956) was an American stage and film actor. He frequently was cast as a droll comic relief, in the support of the star. His best-known recurring role is that of Mr. Beasley, the postman, in ... as Mr. Beasley References External links * * * * 1948 films Columbia Pictures films American black-and-white films Blondie (film series) films 1948 comedy films Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, '' J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper '' L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie's Reward
''Blondie's Reward'' is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Abby Berlin and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, and Marjorie Ann Mutchie. It is the twenty-third of the 28 Blondie films. Plot Dagwood purchases the wrong real estate property and Mr. Dithers promptly demotes him to office boy. Dagwood's substitute is sent to deliver blueprints to the estate home of a wealthy client, Mr. Dixon, and gets into a fistfight with Dixon's unwanted son-in-law. The delighted Dixon mistakenly thinks the substitute was Dagwood, and asks Dagwood for a personal boxing lesson, as a pleased Mr. Dithers restores Dagwood to his former position. Meanwhile, two swindlers come to the Bumstead's house to have him sign over a deed to what Dagwood doesn't realize is a valuable property. Alexander and his friend had overheard the swindlers plotting, and they try to interrupt the transaction, but are shooed away and have to take comical measures to stop the signing. Cast * Penny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie's Holiday
''Blondie's Holiday'' is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Abby Berlin and starring Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake. The film is based on the comic strip of the same name. The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Connie Lee. The film is the twentieth of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to 1950. Daisy, the dog, appeared in every film except this one, as he was playing "Curley" in the 1947 film ''Red Stallion''. This was once reran on CBS in the 1980s after the 1982 special ''Here Comes Garfield''. Plot Dagwood Bumstead is an architect who has managed to convince the prominent bank president Samuel Breckenridge to let his firm have the contract to erect a new bank building in town. When Dagwood's boss at the architect firm, George Radcliffe, hears about the contract, he is ecstatic and offers Dagwood a modest raise of $2.50. When Dagwood immediately tell his wife Blondie the good news over the telephone, she mistakes the numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie's Big Moment
''Blondie's Big Moment'' is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Abby Berlin and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, and Marjorie Ann Mutchie. It is the 19th of the 28 Blondie films. Plot Dagwood is eager to make a good impression on his new boss Mr.Radcliffe, but he begins the relationship by ruining his boss' new suit with jelly stains. Things do not improve much from then on. Cast * Penny Singleton as Blondie * Arthur Lake as Dagwood * Larry Simms as Alexander Bumstead (aka Baby Dumpling) * Marjorie Ann Mutchie as Cookie * Daisy as Daisy the Dog * Anita Louise as Miss Gary * Jerome Cowan as George M. Radcliffe * Danny Mummert as Alvin Fuddle * Jack Rice Jack Rice (May 14, 1893 – December 14, 1968) was an American actor best known for appearing as the scrounging, freeloading brother-in-law in Edgar Kennedy's series of short domestic comedy films at the RKO studio, and also as "Ollie" (aka "Ol ... as Ollie Merton * Jack Davis as Mr. Greenleaf * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swordsman (1948 Film)
''The Swordsman'' is a 1948 American swashbuckler film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Larry Parks. Plot In 18th-century in Scotland, the McArden and Glowan clans stand a violent and long hostility. Alexander, an attractive member of the McArdens clan, falls in love with the beautiful Barbara Glowan. Quickly, their relationship awakens anger of Barbara's cousin, Robert Glowan, who tries to destroy the enemy family forever. The boyfriend, anxious to marry his lover, intends that the two clans live in peace. Cast * Larry Parks as Alexander MacArden aka Donald Frazer * Ellen Drew as Barbara Glowan * George Macready as Robert Glowan * Edgar Buchanan as Angus MacArden * Ray Collins as MacIan, a MacArden * Marc Platt as Murdoch Glowan * Michael Duane as Colin Glowan * Holmes Herbert as Lord Glowan * Nedrick Young as Bruce Glowan * Robert Shayne as Ronald MacArden * Billy Bevan as Old Andrew Production The film was based on an original script by Wilfrid Pitit. It was original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie Knows Best
''Blondie Knows Best'' is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Abby Berlin and starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, and Marjorie Ann Mutchie. It is the eighteenth of the 28 Blondie films. Plot Dagwood is under the threat of a lawsuit by a rival firm. But their choice as a process server is the terminally nearsighted Shemp Howard, who repeatedly fails to serve the summons. Cast * Penny Singleton as Blondie * Arthur Lake as Dagwood * Larry Simms as Baby Dumpling * Marjorie Ann Mutchie as Cookie * Daisy as Daisy the Dog * Steven Geray as Dr. Schmidt * Jonathan Hale as J.C. Dithers * Shemp Howard as Jim Gray * Jerome Cowan as Charles Peabody * Danny Mummert as Alvin Fuddle * Ludwig Donath as Dr. Titus * Arthur Loft Arthur Loft (May 25, 1897 – January 1, 1947) was an American film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1932 and 1947. Biography He was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles, California. He is inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Affair (1944 Film)
''Strange Affair'' is a 1944 mystery-comedy film starring Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Marguerite Chapman, and Edgar Buchanan. Directed by Alfred E. Green, it was based on Oscar Saul's short story ''Stalk the Hunter''. Plot A comic strip creator and his wife investigate a murder at a charity benefit. Cast * Allyn Joslyn as Bill Harrison * Evelyn Keyes as Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison * Marguerite Chapman as Marie Dumont Baumler * Edgar Buchanan as Lt. Washburn * Nina Foch as Frieda Brenner * Hugo Haas as Domino / Constantine * Shemp Howard as Laundry Truck Driver * Frank Jenks as Sgt. Erwin * Erwin Kalser as Dr. Brenner * Tonio Selwart as Leslie Carlson * John Wengraf John Wengraf (23 April 1897 – 4 May 1974) was an Austrian actor. Early years Wengraf was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Career Wengraf became a matinee idol in the 1930s, and was director of the Vienna State Theatre. He emigrated to Brit ... as Rudolph Kruger References External links * *Review of filma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold That Ghost
''Hold That Ghost'' is a 1941 horror comedy film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and featuring Joan Davis, Evelyn Ankers and Richard Carlson. On August 1, 1941, Abbott and Costello performed a half-hour live version of the film for radio audiences on Louella Parsons' ''Hollywood Premiere''. Plot Gas station attendants Chuck Murray and Ferdie Jones aspire to better jobs. They get work as temporary waiters at Chez Glamour, a high-class nightclub where Ted Lewis and The Andrews Sisters perform, but quickly are fired for causing a scene. Ferdie dreams of having his own nightclub one day. Back at the service station, gangster "Moose" Mattson, brings his car in for gas and cleaning. When he is spotted by the police, he speeds off with Chuck and Ferdie trapped inside the vehicle. During the chase, Matson trades shots with the police and is killed. According to the gangster's unconventional will, which states that whoever was with him when he died will inherit his estat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invisible Woman (1940 Film)
''The Invisible Woman'' is an American science fiction comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland. It is the third film in Universal Pictures' ''The Invisible Man'' film series, following ''The Invisible Man'' and '' The Invisible Man Returns'', which were released earlier in the year. It was more of a screwball comedy than a horror film like the others in the series. ''Universal'' released ''The Invisible Woman'' on December 27, 1940. The film stars Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charlie Ruggles, and Oscar Homolka, and features Margaret Hamilton, Charles Lane and Shemp Howard. Plot Wealthy lawyer Richard Russell (John Howard) funds the dotty old inventor Professor Gibbs (John Barrymore) creation of an invisibility device. The first test subject for this machine is Kitty Carroll (Virginia Bruce), a department store model who has been fired from her previous job. The machine proves quite successful, and Kitty uses her invisible state to pay back her sadistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Affairs (1940 Film)
''Private Affairs'' is a 1940 comedy film starring Nancy Kelly, with a supporting cast including Hugh Herbert, Roland Young, and Robert Cummings. The film was directed by Albert S. Rogell. Plot Amos Bullerton from Boston is the first in a long line of patrician aristocrats to marry a commoner, which makes his father, Noble, furious and prompts him to remove Amos from his will. Amos takes up residence in New York and starts working as a stock broker. After fifteen years in New York without any contact with his family, Amos is visited by his young daughter Jane. She is coming to New York to get his approval of dumping her current aristocratic fiancé Herbert Stanley. Instead she is determined to marry Jimmy Nolan, a law clerk working for her grandfather Noble. Amos runs out of luck and has to partner up with a taxi driver when he is too much in debt and cannot pay his fare. He "hires" the driver, Angus McPherson to get rid of the debt. He is hired by a dubious stock broker named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
