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Frances Carson
Frances Carson (April 1, 1895 – October 20, 1973) was an American actress on stage and in films, including three Alfred Hitchcock films. Early life Carson was from Philadelphia, and started acting and modeling professionally in her teens. Career Carson was an actress known for stage work in New York and London, and for film roles. She performed on Broadway in shows including ''Poor Little Thing'' (1914) with her husband Eric Blind, ''The White Feather'' (1915), ''The Riddle: Woman'' (1918-1919), ''The Hottentot'' (1920), '' The Bad Man'' (1920), ''The Scarlet Man'' (1921), ''The Blue Lagoon'' (1921), ''Two Married Men'' (1925), ''Potiphar's Wife'' (1928), ''The First Law'' (1929), ''Slightly Scandalous'' (1944), and ''The Visitor'' (1944). In London, Carson appeared in ''Glamour'' (1922), ''The Love Habit'' (1923), '' R.U.R.'' (1923, with Basil Rathbone) ''The Last Warning'' (1923), ''Havoc'' (1924), ''The Happy Hangman'' (1925), ''The Silver Fox'' (1925), ''Virginia's Hus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the Philadelphia metropolitan area (sometimes called the Delaware Valley), the nation's Metropolitan statistical area, seventh-largest metropolitan area and ninth-largest combined statistical area with 6.245 million residents and 7.379 million residents, respectively. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Americans, English Quakers, Quaker and advocate of Freedom of religion, religious freedom, and served as the capital of the Colonial history of the United States, colonial era Province of Pennsylvania. It then played a historic and vital role during the American Revolution and American Revolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Ferrier
Arthur Ferrier (1891 – 27 May 1973) was a Scottish artist, illustrator and cartoonist. Ferrier was born and started work in Glasgow, Scotland as an analytical chemist. He freelanced as a cartoonist for the '' Daily Record'' there. He moved to London and drew joke cartoons for a number of weekly magazines, including '' Punch'', ''The Humorist'' and '' London Opinion''. In 1930, he produced a weekly strip glamour cartoon called "Film Fanny". A London paper, the ''Sunday Pictorial'', published his glamour drawing under the title "Our Dumb Blonde", which ran from 1939 to 1946. A comic strip called "Spotlight on Sally" in the ''Pictorial'' was followed by another called "Eve". In 1941 Arthur Ferrier teamed-up with the well-known glamour photographer Horace Roye to produce the book ''Arthur Ferrier's Lovelies Brought to Life by Roye''. It was published by Chapman and Hall. In addition to his printed work, Ferrier also painted during World War I. Some of this work is in the colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 Births
Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of treason. * January 6 – The Wilcox rebellion, an attempt led by Robert Wilcox to overthrow the Republic of Hawaii and restore the Kingdom of Hawaii, begins with royalist troops landing at Waikiki Beach in O'ahu and clashing with republican defenders. The rebellion ends after three days and the remaining 190 royalists are taken prisoners of war. * January 12 – Britain's National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 15 – A warehouse fire and dynamite explosion kills 57 people, including 13 firefighters in Butt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Museum Of American History
The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center is a historical museum in Washington, D.C. It collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history. Among the items on display is the original Star-Spangled Banner (flag), Star-Spangled Banner. The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution and located on the National Mall at 14th Street (Washington, D.C.), 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. In 2023, the museum received 2.1 million visitors, ranking the List of most-visited museums in the United States, eighth-most visited museum in the U.S. History The museum opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology. It was one of the last structures designed by the renowned architectural firm McKim Mead & White. In 1980, the museum was renamed the National Museum of American History to represent its mission of the collection, care, study, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Yurka
Blanche Yurka (born Blanch Jurka; June 19, 1887 – June 6, 1974) was an American stage and film actress and director. She was an opera singer with minor roles at the Metropolitan Opera and later became a stage actress, making her Broadway debut in 1906 and established herself as a character actor of the classical stage, also appearing in several films of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to her many stage roles, which included Queen Gertrude opposite John Barrymore's ''Hamlet'', she was an occasional director and playwright. She remained active in theater and film until the late 1960s. Her most famous film role was Madame Defarge in MGM's version of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1935), but she was also the compassionate aunt in '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943). Another memorable role was as Zachary Scott's widowed mother in '' The Southerner'' (1945). Early life Born Blanch Jurka, apparently in St. Paul, Minnesota, she was the fourth of five children of Karolína and Antonín ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Of A Doubt
''Shadow of a Doubt'' is a 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell. The story follows Charlotte "Charlie" Newton and her family who live in very quiet Santa Rosa, California. An unexpected visit by Charles Oakley, her charming and sophisticated Uncle Charlie, brings much excitement to the family and the small town. That excitement turns to fear as young Charlie slowly begins to suspect that her uncle may be concealing a dark secret. In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Hitchcock's favorite of all his films, ''Shadow of a Doubt'' was also the one he enjoyed making the most. Plot Charles Oakley spots two de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scattergood Rides High
''Scattergood Rides High'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Christy Cabanne and written by Michael L. Simmons. It is the sequel to the 1941 film '' Scattergood Meets Broadway''. The film stars Guy Kibbee, Jed Prouty, Dorothy Moore, Charles Lind and Kenneth Howell. The film was released on May 8, 1942, by RKO Pictures. Plot Cast *Guy Kibbee as Scattergood Baines *Jed Prouty as Mr. Van Pelt *Dorothy Moore as Helen Van Pelt *Charles Lind as Dan Knox *Kenneth Howell as Phillip Dane * Regina Wallace as Mrs. Van Pelt *Frances Carson as Mrs. Dane *Arthur Aylesworth as Cromwell *Paul White as Hipp * Philip Hurlic as Toby *Walter Baldwin as Martin Knox *Lee Phelps Lee Phelps (born Napoleon Bonaparte Kukuck; May 15, 1893 – March 19, 1953) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 600 films between 1917 and 1953, mainly in uncredited roles. He also appeared in three films that won the Acade ... as Trainer References External links * 1942 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saboteur (film)
''Saboteur'' is a 1942 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison and Dorothy Parker. The film stars Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane and Norman Lloyd. Plot Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane wrongly falls under suspicion of setting fire to his Glendale, California manufacturing plant during World War II, an act of domestic sabotage. Kane believes the actual culprit to be an apparent employee, Fry, whom he encountered earlier. When no one by that name is found to have worked there, Kane becomes the target of a manhunt. He remembers an address from an envelope carried by Fry and hitches a truck ride to a huge ranch in the desert. Kane discovers that the ranch's owner, Charles Tobin, is secretly collaborating with a group of saboteurs that includes Fry. Kane escapes and takes refuge with a blind man and his niece, Patricia Martin. She believes Kane is guilty and attempts to turn him in to the police, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-Faced Woman
''Two-Faced Woman'' is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Greta Garbo in her final film role, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, and Roland Young. The movie was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Garbo plays a wife who pretends to be her own fictitious twin sister in order to recapture the affections of her estranged husband (Douglas), who has left her for a former girlfriend (Bennett). The film is generally regarded as the box-office flop that ended Garbo's career in an unsuccessful attempt to modernize or "Americanize" her image in order to increase her shrinking fan base in the United States. By mutual agreement, Garbo's contract with MGM was terminated shortly after ''Two-Faced Woman'' was released, and it became her last film. Plot Following a whirlwind romance and marriage, Ski instructor Karin Borg (Greta Garbo) learns, to her chagrin, that her new husband Larry Blake (Melvyn Douglas), editor of a fashion magazine, expects her t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smilin' Through (1941 Film)
''Smilin' Through'' is a 1941 American Technicolor musical film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond and Ian Hunter.Higgins p.210 Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1919 play of the same name by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin. The film was a remake of a previous 1932 version by MGM and was the third and final film version of the play. It was filmed in Technicolor and was remade as a musical for MacDonald with several older songs interpolated into the story. Synopsis In late Victorian England Kathleen is a young Irish woman in love with an American, Kenneth Wayne. The romance, however, is opposed by her adopted father John Carteret, who recalls the painful memory of his tragically thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean Clare many years before. Cast * Jeanette MacDonald as Kathleen Dungannon/ Moonyean Clare * Brian Aherne as Sir John Carteret * Gene Raymond as Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne * Ian Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Correspondent (film)
''Foreign Correspondent'' is a 1940 American black-and-white spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter based in Britain who tries to expose enemy spies involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features 19-year-old Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn. ''Foreign Correspondent'' was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production after leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 (the first was ''Rebecca'') and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Harrison, Hilton and Benchley the only writers credited in the finished film. It was based on Vincent Sheean's political memoir ''Personal History'' (1935), the rights to w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Java Head (1934 Film)
''Java Head'' is a 1934 British historical drama film directed by J. Walter Ruben and an uncredited Thorold Dickinson. It stars Anna May Wong, Elizabeth Allan and Ralph Richardson. Plot The film is set mostly in the seaport of Bristol, England, in the years 1848–50. Captain Jeremy Ammidon is the founder of the shipping line Ammidon & Sons, and lives with his family in his house "Java Head", named after the promontory in Java, Indonesia. His elder, land-based son William runs the company day-to-day, and wants to upgrade the fleet from slow sailing ships to fast clippers and steamships, and to carry contraband, all against his father’s wishes. Captain Ammidon’s younger, seafaring, son Gerrit is friends with Nettie Vollar. Nettie secretly loves Gerrit but her strict and religious grandfather, who has had a 20-year quarrel with his old shipmate Captain Ammidon, disapproves of any deeper friendship between Nettie and Gerrit. Gerrit leaves on a commercial voyage and spends a ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
