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Hullabaloo (film)
Hullabaloo is a 1940 American musical film, musical comedy film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Nat Perrin. It stars Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey, Billie Burke, Donald Meek, Reginald Owen, and Connie Gilchrist. Jack Albertson, Leo Gorcey, and Arthur O'Connell appear in bit roles. Plot Morgan is the star of the film, as fading actor Frankie Merriweather, who is trying to revive his career by starring on a radio program. When his most recent broadcast, a science fiction invasion from Mars story, panics the nation, he is fired. He decides to jumpstart his career by creating a new show which features his talented children. Cast * Frank Morgan as Frankie Merriweather * Virginia Grey as Laura Merriweather * Dan Dailey as Bob Strong * Billie Burke as Penny Merriweather * Nydia Westman as Lulu Perkins * Ann Morriss as Wilma Norton * Donald Meek as Clyde Perkins * Reginald Owen as Buzz Foster * Charles Holland (singer), Charles Holland as Singing Bellhop * Leni Lynn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin L
The name Edwin means "wealth-friend". It comes from (wealth, good fortune) and (friend). Thus the Old English form is Ēadwine, a name widely attested in early medieval England. Edwina is the feminine form of the name. Notable people and characters with the name include: Historical figures * Edwin of Northumbria (died 632 or 633), King of Northumbria and Christian saint * Edwin (son of Edward the Elder) (died 933) * Eadwine of Sussex (died 982), Ealdorman of Sussex * Eadwine of Abingdon (died 990), Abbot of Abingdon * Edwin, Earl of Mercia (died 1071), brother-in-law of Harold Godwinson (Harold II) * Edwin Sandys (bishop) (1519–1588), Archbishop of York Modern era * E. W. Abeygunasekera, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician * Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest * Edwin Ariyadasa (1922–2021), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist * Rodolfo Sancho#Personal life, Edwin Arrieta Arteaga (died 2023), Colombian murder victim * Edwin Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Albertson
Harold "Jack" Albertson (June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981) was an American actor, comedian, dancer and singer who also performed in vaudeville. Albertson was a Tony, Oscar, and Emmy winning actor, which ranks him among a rare stature of 24 actors who have been awarded the " Triple Crown of Acting". For his performance as John Cleary in the 1964 play '' The Subject Was Roses'' and its 1968 film adaptation, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This again places him among a select status as one of eleven peers who have won both awards for the same role. His other roles include Grandpa Joe in '' Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (1971), Manny Rosen in '' The Poseidon Adventure'' (1972), and Ed Brown in the television sitcom '' Chico and the Man'' (1974–1978), for which he won an Emmy. For his contributions to the television industry, Albertson was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Haden
Sara Haden (born Catherine Haden, November 17, 1898 – September 15, 1981) was an American actress of the 1930s through the 1950s and in television into the mid-1960s. She may be best remembered for appearing as Aunt Milly Forrest in 14 of the 16 entries in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy film series. Early life Some sources say she was born in 1898 in Center Point, Texas, while others claim she was born in Galveston, Texas.Axel Nissen's ''Accustomed to Her Face: Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood'' gives her birthplace as Center Point, Texas. Career Haden first appeared on the stage in the early 1920s. As early as October 1920, she was appearing with Walter Hampden's acting troupe. Her Broadway debut came in ''Trigger'' (1927). She made her film debut in 1934 (one year after her mother's retirement) in the Katharine Hepburn vehicle ''Spitfire''. Haden later became a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the late 1930s and generally appeared in sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Bois
Curt Bois (born Kurt Boas; April 5, 1901 – December 25, 1991) was a German actor with a career spanning over 80 years. He is best remembered for his performances as the pickpocket in ''Casablanca (film), Casablanca'' (1942) and the poet Homer in ''Wings of Desire'' (1987). Life and career Bois was born to a German Jews, German Jewish family in Berlin and began acting in 1907, becoming one of the film world's first child actors, with a role in the 1907 short film ''Bauernhaus und Grafenschloß''. In 1909, he played the title role in ''Der Kleine Detektiv'' ('The Little Detective'). Bois performed in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent films, and "talkies" over his long acting career. He performed under Max Reinhardt and found success in 1928 in a Viennese stage production of "Charley's Aunt" at the Josefstadt Theater. He was a successful character comic, and for a while film studios tried to make him into a "German Harold Lloyd". In 1934, institutionalized Anti-Semitism forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia O'Brien
Virginia Lee O'Brien (April 18, 1919 – January 16, 2001) was an American actress, singer, and radio personality known for her comedic singing roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of the 1940s. Life and career O'Brien primarily performed in comedic roles during the height of her formal film career. This was in part due to her intentionally humorous singing style, which involved her singing in a deadpan manner, with no facial expressions and very little movement– reportedly she stumbled upon this "gimmick" by accident during a stage show when she became virtually paralyzed with stage fright before singing a number in the Los Angeles stage production '' Meet the People''. The audience found the performance to be hilarious and she was soon hired to repeat this performance in a number of movies beginning in 1940, for which she gained the nicknames "Frozen Face" and "Miss Ice Glacier" amongst others. When she was not singing, her acting style was just as emotive as other actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leni Lynn
Leni Lynn (born Angelina Ciofani; May 3, 1923 – January 1, 2010) was an American actress and a contralto singer. She was also known as Leni Hoffer. The daughter of a Passaic, New Jersey, dye-goods factory worker, Francesco Ciofani, and his wife, Carmelita, who worked in a dress factory, Lynn learned to sing by listening to recordings. When she was 13, friends and neighbors in Pasaic contributed 10,000 dimes to send her to Hollywood to try for success in films. On September 6, 1938, she received a contract from MGM. Lynn was married four times. In 1942, she married British insurance executive Edward Thomas Hopkin; they divorced on March 23, 1949. Her last husband, composer and conductor Bernard Hoffer, survived her. On January 1, 2010, Lynn died of complications of a stroke in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. She was 86. Selected filmography * ''Babes in Arms'' (1939) * '' Hullabaloo'' (1940) * '' Angels with Broken Wings'' (1941) * '' Heaven Is Round the Corner'' (1944) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Holland (singer)
Charles Holland (December 27, 1909 – November 7, 1987) was an American tenor singer and actor. Early life and work Charles Holland was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on December 27, 1909. The elder brother of jazz trumpeter Peanuts Holland, he started taking singing lessons at the age of 14. In the 1930s he sang in the jazz orchestras of Benny Carter and Fletcher Henderson. With the latter, he recorded the 1934 album ''Harlem Madness'' (Victor 21699). He also performed in musical theaters, toured with the Hall Johnson Choir, and had his own radio show on NBC for 13 weeks. Holland moved to Los Angeles, where he studied with May Hamaker Henley and Georges Le Pyre, and with Clyde Burrows in New York.Baker's Biographical Dictionary of MusiciansHolland, Charles/ref> In the following years he had roles in Marc Connelly's drama ''The Green Pastures'' (1936, uncredited, possibly as soloist in the Hall Johnson Choir) and in the film '' Hullabaloo'' (1940). Eventually Holland shifted music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Morriss
Ann Morriss (born August 5, 1919 – June 30, 1994) was an American actress and the wife of director Edwin L. Marin. Personal life Morris married to film director Edwin L. Marin in December 1940, during which she was under contract to MGM. They had three children: Denis Anthony, Reese Andrew and Randi Alexandra with whom she would survive husband Edwin when he passed in 1951.EDWIN L. MARIN New York Times 3 May 1951: 29. Death Morriss died June 30, 1994 and was buried at Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley.Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 11241). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition Filmography Film * ''The Chaser'' (1938) as Dorothy Mason * '' Spring Madness'' (1938) as Frances * ''Honolulu'' (1939) as Gale Brewster * '' Within the Law'' (1939) as Saleswoman * '' Society Lawyer'' (1939) as Judy Barton * '' The Hardys Ride High'' (1939) as Rosamund * '' The Women'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nydia Westman
Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American character actress and singer of stage, screen, and television. Early years Westman's parents, Theodore and Lily (Wren) Westman were active in vaudeville in her native New York City. In addition to their working together on stage, her mother was a writer and her father was a composer. She attended the Professional Children's School. Until 1921, she performed on stage only with her family. Career Westman's career started in theatre begain 1921 and she featured in the Broadway production "Pigs" in 1924. her screen appearances ranged from episodic appearances on TV series such as '' That Girl'' and '' Dragnet'' and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in films such as '' Craig's Wife'', which starred Rosalind Russell, and the first film version of ''Little Women''. Westman's screen debut came in '' Strange Justice'' (1932). She appeared in 31 films in the 1930s. She appeared as the housekee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hullabaloo (1940) Publicity Still
Hullabaloo or hullaballoo may refer to: Film and television * ''Hullabaloo'' (film), a 1940 American musical comedy * ''Hullabaloo'' (TV series), a 1965–1966 American musical variety series * ''Hullabaloo'' (British TV series), a 1963–1964 folk and blues music series Music * Hullabaloo (festival), a music festival at the University of California San Diego * Hullabaloo (rave), a former Canadian rave promotion company * Hullabaloo (band), an American punk band * The Hullaballoos, a British Invasion rock and roll band * ''Hullabaloo'' (The Farm album), 1994 * '' Hullabaloo: Live at Le Zenith, Paris'', a DVD by Muse, 2002 ** ''Hullabaloo Soundtrack'', an album by Muse, 2002 * ''Hullabaloo'', an album by Cerys Matthews, 2013 * ''Hullabaloo'', an album from the Australian TV show '' Play School'', 1999 * 'Hullabaloo" (song), by Absent Friends, 1990 Other uses * ''Tulane Hullabaloo'', the student newspaper of Tulane University * ''Hullabaloo'', a political blog founded by Dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmospheric pressure is a few thousandths of Earth's, atmospheric temperature ranges from and cosmic radiation is high. Mars retains some water, in the ground as well as thinly in the atmosphere, forming cirrus clouds, frost, larger polar regions of permafrost and ice caps (with seasonal snow), but no liquid surface water. Its surface gravity is roughly a third of Earth's or double that of the Moon. It is half as wide as Earth or twice the Moon, with a diameter of , and has a surface area the size of all the dry land of Earth. Fine dust is prevalent across the surface and the atmosphere, being picked up and spread at the low Martian gravity even by the weak wind of the tenuous atmosphere. The terrain of Mars roughly follows a north-south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
