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Frank Darien
Frank Darien (March 18, 1876 – October 20, 1955) was an American actor. He appeared in 225 films and between 1915 and 1951. Filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Darien, Frank 1876 births 1955 deaths American male film actors Male actors from New Orleans 20th-century American male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard (1944 Film)
''Bluebeard'' is a 1944 American historical film, historical film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine in the title role. The film also stars Jean Parker. The film is based on the famous French tale ''Bluebeard, Barbe bleue'' that tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors. The film is registered in the public domain. Plot All Paris is frightened by the murders attributed to "Bluebeard". Dressmaker, Modiste Lucille is introduced to Gaston Morrell, a puppeteer and painter, by her friend. They are attracted to each other, and she accepts a commission to design some costumes for his puppets. At home, Morrell is confronted by a jealous Renee, who performs in Morrell's puppet show and is his lover. When she wonders what became of the models who had posed for him, he strangles her, then dumps her body in the Seine River. Art dealer Jean Lamarte is aware of Morrell's h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peach-O-Reno
''Peach-O-Reno'' is a 1931 Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Production Code comedy film starring Wheeler & Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee (actress), Dorothy Lee, and Zelma O'Neal. It was released on Christmas Day of 1931. The title is a pun on "peacherino," then-popular slang for something more desirable or intense than just a simple peach, itself a complimentary term. A copy is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', (<-book title) p.139 c.1978 American Film Institute Plot 
Aggie Bruno (Cora Witherspoon) has had enough of her husband, Joe (Joseph Cawthorn), and dec ...
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Prosperity (film)
''Prosperity'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film starring Marie Dressler and Polly Moran. The two leading actresses play longtime matriarchs comically sparring off each other, and trying to control their intertwined lives. Plot Maggie Warren (Dressler) inherited a family bank during the Depression and Lizzie Praskins (Moran) is one of her biggest depositors. Maggie’s son John is engaged to Lizzies's daughter Helen. All kinds of farces happen when the would-be mothers-in-law battle for setting the wedding's protocol including their different preferences of choosing the pastor to perform the ceremony. As the story goes on, Lizzie has a panic attack based on rumors about the bank going belly-up. She hysterically withdraws all her money causing all other customers in the bank to panic and they in return take out their money. The Warren family bank is forced to close. Maggie’s naive son gets swindled out of his mother’s bonds. As farces go, at the end the swindl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okay, America!
''Okay, America!'' (sometimes referred to as ''Okay America'') is a 1932 American Pre-Code film, about a gossip columnist's rise to fame, based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell. Directed by Tay Garnett, the film stars Lew Ayres and Maureen O'Sullivan. Plot Larry Wayne is gossip columnist for a New York newspaper, ''Daily Blade,'' and he also is the host of a radio program called "Okay, America". When Ruth Drake, the daughter of wealthy politician, is kidnapped, Jones, the chief editor of the ''Daily Blade'' chooses Wayne to cover the story. Cast * Lew Ayres as Larry Wayne * Maureen O'Sullivan as Sheila Barton * Louis Calhern as Mileaway Russell * Edward Arnold as Duke Morgan * Walter Catlett as City Editor aka 'Lucille' * Alan Dinehart Mason Alan Dinehart Sr. (born Harold Alan Dinehart; October 3, 1889 – July 18, 1944) was an American actor, director, writer, and stage manager. Biography Dinehart initially studied to be a priest, but he turned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Begins (1932 Film)
''Life Begins'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, and Glenda Farrell. The film was adapted from the 1932 play of the same name by Mary M. Axelson. It was released by Warner Bros. on September 10, 1932. The film was praised for its honest portrayal of a maternity ward. The film was remade by Warner Bros. as '' A Child is Born'' (1939) and again by Italy's Lux Film as ''Love Story'' (1942). Plot At a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward running smoothly. Things liven up when Grace Sutton is transferred from the prison where she is being held for murder. Most agree that the man she killed deserved to die, and Nurse Bowers sympathetically allows Grace's concerned husband Jed unlimited time with his wife. In the ward, the women have varied feelings about motherhood. Mrs. West, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Club Lady
''The Night Club Lady'' is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot and Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher.Backer p.187 It was followed by a sequel ''The Circus Queen Murder'' in 1933 with Menjou reprising his role. A third, unrelated film featuring Thatcher Colt, '' The Panther's Claw'', was released in 1942. Plot Cast * Adolphe Menjou as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt * Mayo Methot as Lola Carewe * Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher as Tony * Ruthelma Stevens as Miss Kelly * Blanche Friderici as Mrs. Carewe * Nat Pendleton as Mike McDougal * Albert Conti as Vincent Rowland * Greta Granstedt as Eunice Tahon * Ed Brady as Bill * Frank Darien as Dr. Magnus * Gerald Fielding as Guy Everett * George Humbert as Andre * Olaf Hytten as Walter - Colt's Butler * Lee Phelps as Joe * Teru Shimada as Ito Mura * Wilhelm von Brincken as Dr. Emil Lengle * Niles Welch Niles Eugene Welch (July 29, 1888 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady And Gent
''Lady and Gent'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Stephen Roberts for Paramount, featuring a young Charles ("Durango Kid") Starrett, Syd ("Three Mesquiteers") Saylor and an early supporting role by John Wayne. Plot A young boxer named Buzz Kinney, fresh out of college, is able to knock out Stag Bailey when the veteran fighter becomes cocky. His manager, Pin Streaver, is left despondent as he had bet a huge amount of money on Stag, including a large percentage of the prize money, and can't pay what he owes. When Stag's attempts to borrow the cash fails, Pin tries unsuccessfully to rob the boxing arena's safe and is killed by a security guard while escaping. Stag manages to bring Pin's body to another location and tells police that Pin apparently shot himself, so that Pin won't go down as a criminal. Pin's school-aged son Ted shows up, and Stag and his girlfriend Puff help raise the boy, while trying to dissuade him from a career in boxing. Later in the film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinners In The Sun
''Sinners in the Sun'' is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Alexander Hall, and starring Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Adrienne Ames, and Alison Skipworth. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot Doris Blake works as a top model for Louis in a very chic New York City dress shop. Her boyfriend Jimmie Martin is an auto mechanic. When he comes to pick her up, he talks about marriage, but she argues they both have no money. At a picnic, they quarrel again, and he breaks up with her. Later, Doris meets the very rich, very eccentric Claire Kinkaid at the shop. To Doris's surprise, Claire does not much care for her own lavish lifestyle. Claire asks her if she has a boyfriend; when Doris tells her they broke up, Claire tells her that a boyfriend is the only thing she wants. Jimmie is standing outside. When Doris and Claire step out, he pretends to be fixing a fancy car, which turns out to be Claire's. When he wishes he could drive it, she i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rider Of Death Valley
''The Rider of Death Valley'' is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Albert S. Rogell and written by Jack Cunningham. The film stars Tom Mix, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Forrest Stanley, Edith Fellows and Willard Robertson. The film was released on April 24, 1932, by Universal Pictures. Cast *Tom Mix as Tom Rigby * Lois Wilson as Helen Joyce *Fred Kohler as Lew Grant * Forrest Stanley as Doc Larribee * Edith Fellows as Betty Joyce *Willard Robertson as Bill Joyce * Mae Busch as Tillie *Otis Harlan Otis Harlan (December 29, 1865 – January 20, 1940) was an American actor and comedian. He voiced Happy, one of the Seven Dwarfs in the Disney animated film '' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. This made him the earliest born actor to feature ... as Peck * Francis Ford as Gabe * Tony the Horse as Tony References External links * 1932 films 1930s English-language films American Western (genre) films 1932 Western (genre) films Universal Pictures fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Miracle Man (1932 Film)
''The Miracle Man'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code drama film directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Sylvia Sidney and Chester Morris, and featuring Boris Karloff. It is a remake of the 1919 film of the The Miracle Man (1919 film), same name starring Lon Chaney. The film was originally supposed to star Tyrone Power Sr., as the Preacher/Patriarch, but he died before major filming got underway. His part was then completed by Hobart Bosworth. Plot Doc, a crook in Chinatown, must flee when Nikko, a local bazaar owner, gets fresh with Doc's accomplice, Helen Smith, and Doc nearly kills him. Using the name John Madison, Doc hides out in Meadville, California, where he meets the Patriarch, a faith healer. Hoping to capitalize on the Patriarch's reputation, Doc sends for Helen to pose as the Patriarch's grand niece, Helen Vail, and she is joined by fellow crooks Frog, a contortionist, and Harry Evans, a pickpocket. Doc stages a mock miracle in which Frog is "transforme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Are You Listening? (film)
''Are You Listening?'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring William Haines, Madge Evans and Anita Page. It was based on the novel of the same name by J. P. McEvoy, published the same year. Plot Radio writer Bill Grimes is in love with radio actress Laura O' Neill, and they enjoy harmless social activities together like roller-skating. But Bill is bitterly married to Alice, who dislikes him as much as he does her but they are unable to separate because, in the Depression, they can't afford separate domiciles. Alice demands that Bill stay home for their third wedding anniversary celebration so as not to humiliate her in front of another couple she's invited; at Laura's suggestion, Bill tries to soften her by a gift of stockings, but she criticizes them and the evening is wretched for him. He had to break a theater date with Laura to be there, and when he finally gets away to visit her she decides this can't work and breaks up with him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Business And Pleasure
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit." A business entity is not necessarily separate from the owner and the creditors can hold the owner liable for debts the business has acquired except for limited liability company. The taxation system for businesses is different from that of the corporates. A business structure does not allow for corporate tax rates. The proprietor is personally taxed on all income from the business. A distinction is made in law and public offices between the term business and a company (such as a corporation or cooperative). Colloquially, the terms are used interchangeably. Corporations are distinct from sole proprietors and partnerships. Corporations are separate and unique legal entities from their shareholders; as such they provide limited liability for their owners and members. Corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
