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David Rollins (actor)
David Jerome Rollins (September 2, 1907 – August 6, 1997) was an American actor and later farmer who had a short but prolific career in films, including at least 16 full-length films between 1927 and 1932. His time in Hollywood straddled the shift from silent to talking pictures, with most of his roles being in silent movies, many now considered lost films. His most notable role came in the 1930 Sound film, talkie The Big Trail, which featured John Wayne, John Wayne's first performance. Early life Rollins was born on September 2, 1907, in Kansas City, Missouri, the youngest of six children born to George Rollins (1870-1947) and Katharine Mills Rollins (1872-1957). His father was a restaurant manager and later government accountant. His sister was the actress Sandra Morgan. Rollins attended Northeast High School in Kansas City before moving to California and graduating from Glendale High School (Glendale, California), Glendale High School in Glendale, California in 1925. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, with portions spilling into Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west. On June 1, 1850, the town of Kansas was incorporated; shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued, and the name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish them soon after. Sitting on Missouri's western boundary with Kansas, with Downtown near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, the city encompasses about , making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John B
John Bryn Williams (born 1977), known as John B, is an English disc jockey and electronic music producer. He is widely recognised for his eccentric clothing and wild hair and his production of several cutting edge drum and bass tracks. John B ranked number 76 in '' DJ Magazine''s 2010 Top 100 DJs annual poll, announced on 27 October 2010. Career Williams was born on 12 July 1977 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He started producing music around the age of 14, and now is the head of drum and bass record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the prod ... Beta Recordings, together with its more specialist drum and bass sub-labels Nu Electro, Tangent, and Chihuahua. He also has releases on Formation Records, Metalheadz and Planet Mu. Williams was ranked 92nd drum and bass DJ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album '' 63/19'' by Kool A.D. * '' Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Express (1932 Film)
The Phantom Express is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery crime-drama directed by Emory Johnson and based on the Emory Johnson story. The film stars William Collier, Jr. as Bruce Harrington, Sally Blane as Carolyn Nolan and Hobart Bosworth as Mr. Harrington. It was commercially released on August 15, 1932, by Majestic Pictures. __TOC__ Plot This story starts with engineer D.J. 'Smokey' Nolan, played by J. Farrell MacDonald speeding down the tracks at full throttle when he spies an oncoming train directly in his path. He quickly applies the emergency brakes, the train starts screeching to a halt but then derails. Several passengers are killed. An investigation cannot find any trace of the oncoming train that caused the derailment. Smoky is fired for negligence. We come to find out Smoky has a beautiful daughter, Carolyn Nolan, played by Sally Blane. We also learn the CEO of the Southwest Pacific Railroad, Mr. Harrington played by Hobart Bosworth, has a playboy son - Bruce Harri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Probation (1932 Film)
''Probation'' (also known as ''Second Chances'') is an American Pre-Code 1932 film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Clara Kimball Young and Betty Grable. The film was distributed by the Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation. Plot Ruth (Betty Grable) is a minor who is running with an uptown, older man. Ruth's brother, Nick (John Darrow), is unaware of his kid sister's activities. Ruth is turned in to the juvenile authorities by the well-meaning Mrs. Humphries (Clara Kimball Young). Nick finds a man in their apartment and proceeds to be arrested for beating up the man, who runs away before Nick is arrested. Nick is taken to night court and remanded to the custody of the judge's (J. Farrell MacDonald) niece, Janet, for six months as her chauffeur. Janet (Sally Blane) is the fiancé of Allen (Eddie Phillips), who is coincidentally the man who was beaten up by Nick. Betty Grable is on the verge of becoming a superstar, in the 1940s. Cast *Sally Blane as Janet * John Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morals For Women
''Morals for Women'' (known in the UK as ''Farewell Party'' and in re-release as ''Big City Interlude'') is a 1931 American pre-Code film produced and released by Tiffany Pictures, often considered a low budget studio. The film stars Bessie Love and Conway Tearle. It is preserved at the Library of Congress, has been released on DVD, and is in the public domain. This film is a follow-up to Tiffany's 1925 silent ''Morals for Men Morality () is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong). Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of condu ...'', which also starred Conway Tearle and is also preserved at the Library of Congress. Plot Stenographer and gold digger Helen Huston (Love) has a personal relationship with her employer Van Dyne (Tearle), who has set her up in an apartment on Park Avenue. Her childhood beau visits New York and prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Girl (1930 Film)
''City Girl'' is a 1930 American silent film directed by F. W. Murnau, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. It is based upon the play "The Mud Turtle" by Elliot Lester. Though shot as a silent feature, the film was refitted with some sound elements and released in 1930. The film is credited as being the primary inspiration for Terrence Malick's film ''Days of Heaven'' (1978). Plot In the years of the Great Depression, Lem Tustine is sent to Chicago by his father to sell the family farm's wheat crop. He meets Kate, a waitress who is sick of the endless bustle of the city and has dreams of living in the countryside. The stock market price of wheat starts to drop and Lem hurriedly sells the crop for far less than the bottom line his father had given him. Meanwhile, Lem has fallen in love with Kate and they marry. They travel back to the countryside, but Lem's father, angry at the disastrous wheat sale, subjects Kate to hostility and physical abuse, mistakenly believin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love, Live And Laugh
''Love, Live and Laugh'' is a 1929 American drama film directed by William K. Howard and written by Edwin J. Burke, Dana Burnet, and George Jessel. It is based on the 1922 play ''The Hurdy-Gurdy Man'' by Leroy Clemens and John B. Hymer. The film stars George Jessel, Lila Lee, David Rollins, Henry Kolker, John Loder, and John Reinhardt. The film was released on November 3, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast * George Jessel as Luigi *Lila Lee as Margharita *David Rollins as Pasquale Gallupi *Henry Kolker as Enrico * John Loder as Dr. Price * John Reinhardt as Mario *Dick Winslow as Mike *Henry Armetta as Tony *Marcia Manon as Sylvia *Jerry Mandy Jerry Mandy (June 5, 1892 – May 1, 1945) was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1923 and 1945. He was born in Utica, New York and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack. Selected filmography * ''North Sta ... as Barber References External links * 1929 films 1920s English-langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Days (1929 Film)
''Happy Days'' is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which was the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world, filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. French director Abel Gance's ''Napoléon'' (1927) had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. Paramount released '' Old Ironsides'' (1927), with two sequences in a widescreen process called "Magnascope", while MGM released '' Trail of '98'' (1928) in a widescreen process called "Fanthom Screen". The film features an array of stars who were contracted to William Fox's Fox Film Corporation at that time, including Marjorie White, Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, George Jessel, El Brendel, Ann Pennington, Victor McLaglen, Dixie Lee, Edmund Lowe, and Frank Richardson. It also featured the first appearance of Betty Grable on film, aged 12, as a chorus girl, and Sir Harry Lauder's nephew, Harry Lauder II, a conductor for Fox, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Why Leave Home?
''Why Leave Home?'' is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Raymond Cannon and written by Robert Spencer Carr and Walter Catlett. The film stars Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Dixie Lee, Ilka Chase, Walter Catlett, and Gordon De Main. The film was released on August 25, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation. It is a remake of '' Cradle Snatchers'' (1927). ''Why Leave Home?'' was later remade in 1943 as '' Let's Face It'' with Bob Hope. Cast *Sue Carol as Mary *Nick Stuart Nick Stuart (April 10, 1904 – April 7, 1973) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actor and bandleader. His career spanned five decades, during which he appeared in over 50 films, more than half of them features, as well as film shorts, ser ... as Dick * Dixie Lee as Billie * Ilka Chase as Ethel * Walter Catlett as Elmer * Gordon De Main as Roy * Dot Farley as Susan *Laura Hamilton as Maude *Richard Keene as Jose *Jean Laverty as Jackie * Jed Prouty as George Preservation status *''Why Leave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Movietone Follies Of 1929
''Fox Movietone Follies of 1929'', also known as ''Movietone Follies of 1929'' and ''The William Fox Movietone Follies of 1929'', is an American black-and-white and color pre-Code musical film released by Fox Film Corporation. Plot George Shelby, a boy from the Southern United States, comes to the city to dissuade Lila, his sweetheart, from embarking on a stage career and finally buys out the controlling interest in the revue so that he can fire her. On the opening night, however, she goes onstage when the prima donna of the show becomes temperamental, and she proves to be a big hit. At this development, George is able to sell the show back to the producer, who had previously lacked confidence in his investment and planned to take advantage of the youth's inexperience. Cast * John Breeden as George Shelby * Lola Lane as Lila Beaumont * DeWitt Jennings as Jay Darrell * Sharon Lynn as Ann Foster * Arthur Stone as Al Leaton * Stepin Fetchit as Swifty * Warren Hymer as Martin * Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Watch (film)
''The Black Watch'' is a 1929 American Pre-Code adventure epic film directed by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, and David Torrence. Written by James Kevin McGuinness based on the 1916 novel '' King of the Khyber Rifles'' by Talbot Mundy, the film is about a captain in the British Army's Black Watch regiment assigned to a secret mission in India just as his company is called to France at the outbreak of war. His covert assignment results in his being considered a coward by his fellows, a suspicion confirmed when he becomes involved in a drunken brawl in India that results in the apparent death of another officer. The film features an uncredited 21-year-old John Wayne working as an extra; he also worked in the arts and costume department for the film. This was director John Ford's first sound film. Cast * Victor McLaglen as Capt. Donald Gordon King * Myrna Loy as Yasmani * David Torrence as Field Marshal * David Rollins as Lt. Malcolm King * Cyril Chadwick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
