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Henry Sharp (cinematographer)
Henry Sharp was an American cinematographer who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s. He was known for his work with actor Douglas Fairbanks. Biography Sharp was born in Los Angeles, California, to Thomas Sharp and Charlotte Bailey. He began working as a cinematographer by 1920, and by 1930, had become Douglas Fairbanks' cameraman of choice. He accompanied the star on a trip around the world, filing their travels. He survived a plane crash in 1935 in Missouri, although he was left in the hospital for three months. After he recovered, he married his nurse, Jean Thayer. Selected filmography * ''Homespun Folks'' (1920) * '' The Hottentot'' (1922) * '' The Third Alarm'' (1922) * ''Soul of the Beast'' (1923) * '' Judgment of the Storm'' (1924) * ''The Marriage Cheat'' (1924) * '' A Girl of the Limberlost'' (1924) * ''Barbara Frietchie'' (1924) * '' While the City Sleeps'' (1928) * '' Brotherly Love'' (1928) * ''The Sins of the Children'' (1930) * '' The Strange Ca ...
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Cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera and light crews working on such projects and would normally be responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image and for selecting the camera, film stock, lenses, filters, etc. The study and practice of this field is referred to as cinematography. The cinematographer is a subordinate of the director, tasked with capturing a scene in accordance with director’s vision. Relations between the cinematographer and director vary. In some instances, the director will allow the cinematographer complete independence, while in others, the director allows little to none, even going so far as to specify exact camera placement and lens selection. Such a level of involvement is less common when the direc ...
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The Accusing Finger
''The Accusing Finger'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by James P. Hogan and written by Madeleine Ruthven, Brian Marlow, John Bright and Robert Tasker. The film stars Paul Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Kent Taylor, Robert Cummings, Harry Carey, Bernadene Hayes and Joe Sawyer. The film was released on October 23, 1936, by Paramount Pictures. Premise An attorney is proud of sending many people to jail, some of whom were innocent. His wife is killed, and due to circumstantial evidence, he is sent to jail and finds himself with many of the people he prosecuted. Cast * Paul Kelly as Douglas Goodwin * Marsha Hunt as Claire Patterson *Kent Taylor as Jerry Welch *Robert Cummings as Jimmy Ellis * Harry Carey as Sen. Nash *Bernadene Hayes as Muriel Goodwin *Joe Sawyer as Father Reed *DeWitt Jennings as Prison Warden *Russell Hicks as Sen. Forrest *Jonathan Hale as Special Prosecutor *Ellen Drew as Wife *Rollo Lloyd as Dr. Simms *Paul Fix as John 'Twitchy' Burke *Sam Flint as Dist. At ...
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The Woman Who Came Back
''The Woman Who Came Back'' is a 1945 horror film directed by Walter Colmes and starring John Loder, Nancy Kelly, and Otto Kruger. The film concerns an offbeat woman who becomes convinced that she is a witch, a conclusion which eventually leads to mass hysteria in the town to which she has recently returned. Plot Lorna Webster (Nancy Kelly Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress in film, theater and television. A child actress and model, she was a repertory cast member of CBS Radio's ''The March of Time'' and appeared in several films in the late 1 ...) is the last descendant of witch-hunter Elijah Webster, who burned fifteen women at the stake for witchcraft. After abandoning her fiancé, local doctor Matt Adams ( John Loder), at the altar two years before, Lorna is returning to her New England hometown when the bus she is riding on crashes. Only twelve out of thirteen victims are recovered. The missing corpse belongs to an old woman who had ...
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What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
''What Next, Corporal Hargrove?'' is a 1945 black-and-white comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Walker and Keenan Wynn. It was distributed by MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 ... and produced by George Haight. Harry Kurnitz received an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay, ''What Next, Corporal Hargrove?'', for this follow-up to the 1944 hit '' See Here, Private Hargrove''. Plot U.S. artillery corporal Marion Hargrove finds himself at large in wartime France with wheeler-dealer pal Pvt. Thomas Mulvehill. Inadvertently detached from their outfit, Hargrove and Mulvehill wander into a French village, where they're lauded as conquering heroes by the populace. Cast References External links * * * * 1945 films 1940s war c ...
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The Man In Half Moon Street
''The Man in Half Moon Street'' is a 1945 science fiction romantic melodrama dealing with a man who retains his youth and cannot die, living throughout the ages. The plot is similar to Oscar Wilde's '' Picture of Dorian Gray'', except that there are more logical explanations for the eternal youth of the main character. The film is based on a 1939 West End play of the same title by Barré Lyndon, and stars Nils Asther and Helen Walker with direction by Ralph Murphy. Plot A scientist, Dr. Karell (Asther), has discovered a treatment that can indefinitely prolong his life, using glands stolen from human victims. Having kept his achievement secret for over a century of continuous youth, Karell now has to contend with the curiosity of his new girlfriend Eve (Walker), the increasing guilt of his colleague Dr. Van Bruecken (Schünzel), and a police investigation of his most recent murder. Above all, he needs a renewal of his treatment, or else the mortality he has been evading will ca ...
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Tomorrow, The World!
''Tomorrow, the World!'' is a 1944 black-and-white film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring Fredric March, Betty Field, and Agnes Moorehead, about a young German boy (Skip Homeier) who had been active in the Hitler Youth who comes to live with his uncle in the United States, who tries to teach him to reject Nazism. It was based on the successful 1943 Broadway play of the same name. The title comes from Hitler's threat: "Today Germany; tomorrow the world."TCM.com.
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The play ''Tomorrow, the World!'' opened on Broadway in New York City on 14 April 1943 and closed 17 June 1944 after 500 performances. The opening-night cast included
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The National Barn Dance
''The National Barn Dance'' is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Hugh Bennett and written by Lee Loeb and Hal Fimberg. The film stars Jean Heather, Charles Quigley, Robert Benchley, Mabel Paige, Charles Dingle and Pat Buttram. The film was released on September 24, 1944, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast * Jean Heather as Betty * Charles Quigley as Johnny Burke * Robert Benchley as J.B. Mitcham *Mabel Paige as Mrs. Garvey * Charles Dingle as Mr. Garvey * Pat Buttram as Pat Buttram *Joe Kelly as Joe Kelly * Myrtle Wiseman as Myrtle Wiseman *Scotty Wiseman Myrtle Eleanor Cooper (December 24, 1913 – February 8, 1999) and Scott Greene Wiseman (November 8, 1909 – January 31, 1981), known professionally as Lulu Belle and Scotty, were one of the major country music acts of the 1930s and 1940s, dubbe ... as Scotty Wiseman * The Dinning Sisters as Sister Singing Act *The Hoosier Hotshots as The Hoosier Hotshots *Frank Kettering as Frank *Paul Trietsch as Hezz ...
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Ministry Of Fear
''Ministry of Fear'' is a 1944 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang, and starring Ray Milland and Marjorie Reynolds. Based on the 1943 novel by Graham Greene, the film tells the story of a man just released from a mental asylum who finds himself caught up in an international spy ring and pursued by Nazi agents after inadvertently receiving something they want. The original music for the film was composed by Victor Young. Plot In wartime England during the Blitz, Stephen Neale is released from Lembridge Asylum. While waiting for a train to London, Neale visits a village fête hosted by the Mothers of Free Nations charity. He is urged to go to the palm reader's tent to have his fortune told by Mrs. Bellane, an older woman. He asks her to ignore the past and tell the future, which startles her. She cryptically tells him to enter a contest and guess the weight of a cake as 4 pounds 15½ ounces. Neale does so and wins the cake. Then a young blond man hurries to see Mrs. Bell ...
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The Mysterious Doctor
''The Mysterious Doctor'' is a 1943 American horror film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and written by Richard Weil. The film stars John Loder, Eleanor Parker, Bruce Lester, Lester Matthews and Forrester Harvey. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 3, 1943. Plot In a Cornish village during World War II, a German Nazi uses the disguise of a headless ghost to strike fear into the local tin mine workers. Posing as a man the British Army has rejected for active duty, a mining engineer, Dr. Frederick Holmes (Lester Matthews), takes a week-long walking trip through Cornwall. The first time that we see Dr. Holmes, he is tramping about the foggy moors after dark and catches a ride with a peddler (Harold De Becker) to Morgan's Head. He wants to know why local miners refuse to work a tin mine that could yield a valuable asset to the English war effort. Holmes learns that the villagers are not working the mine because they fear the ghost of a headless man who haunts the moors an ...
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The Hidden Hand (1942 Film)
''The Hidden Hand'' is a 1942 comedy horror film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, starring Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser and Julie Bishop. Plot summary John Channing (Milton Parsons) is an insane-asylum escapee. In her efforts to protect her brother from the authorities, John's sister Lorinda (Cecil Cunningham) opens the door for a series of grisly murders. Peter Thorne ( Craig Stevens) and Mary Winfield (Elizabeth Fraser) try to stop John before he kills again. Cast * Craig Stevens as Peter Thorne * Elisabeth Fraser as Mary Winfield * Julie Bishop as Rita Channing * Willie Best as Eustis the Chauffeur * Frank Wilcox as Dr. Lawrence Channing * Cecil Cunningham as Lorinda Channing * Ruth Ford as Estelle Channing * Milton Parsons as John Channing * Roland Drew as Walter Channing * Tom Stevenson as Horace Channing * Marian Hall as Nurse Eleanor Stevens * Inez Gay as Hattie (as Inez Gary) * Kam Tong as Mallo Home video In 2010, the film was released as by Warner Archive The Warn ...
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
''Henry Aldrich, Editor'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Hugh Bennett and written by Muriel Roy Bolton and Val Burton. The film stars Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith (actor), Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney, Rita Quigley and Vaughan Glaser. The film was released in September 1942, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Henry Aldrich is the newspaper editor at his high school, his objective is to double newspaper circulation. Henry finds his chance when a warehouse fire occurs and he meets a newspaper man that teaches him how to manipulate stories so they are more interesting. After hinting that there was something sinister about the fire and releasing the newspaper, the story spreads fast. As he continues to cover fires, people start believing he is the arsonist. Cast *Jimmy Lydon as Henry Aldrich *Charles Smith (actor), Charles Smith as Dizzy Stevens *John Litel as Mr. Samuel W. Aldrich *Olive Blakeney as Mrs. Alice Aldrich *Rita Quigley as Martha Daley *Vaughan Glaser ...
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Broadway Limited (film)
''Broadway Limited'' is a 1941 American film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Victor McLaglen, Dennis O'Keefe and ZaSu Pitts. The film takes its name from the '' Broadway Limited'' train that the Pennsylvania Railroad used to run between New York and Chicago. Plot Movie director Ivan Ivanski (Leonid Kinskey) stages a publicity stunt involving actress April Tremaine ( Marjorie Woodworth), railway worker Mike Monohan (Victor McLaglen), and a baby (Gay Ellen Dakin), which turns into a real kidnapping, leaving Tremaine caught in the middle. Cast *Victor McLaglen as Maurice "Mike" Monohan * Marjorie Woodworth as April Tremaine / Mary Potter *Dennis O'Keefe as Dr. Harvey North * Patsy Kelly as Patsy Riley * ZaSu Pitts as Myra Pottle *Leonid Kinskey as Ivan Makail Ivanski * George E. Stone as Lefty *Gay Ellen Dakin as Baby *Charles C. Wilson Charles Cahill Wilson (July 29, 1894 – January 7, 1948) was an American screen and stage actor. He appeared in numerous films du ...
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