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It's In The Bag!
''It's in the Bag!'' is a 1945 comedy film featuring Fred Allen in his only starring film role. The film was released by United Artists at a time when Allen was at the peak of his fame as one of the most popular radio comedians. The film has been preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive. The film is loosely based on the comic novel '' The Twelve Chairs'' (1928) of Ilf and Petrov, later filmed by Mel Brooks as '' The Twelve Chairs'' (1970). The team of screenwriters included Jay Dratler, Alma Reville, and Morrie Ryskind. Allen's encounter with Jack Benny in the film is notable as at this time they were involved in a famous 'feud', which ran for over a decade. Plot After changing the terms of his will, bequeathing all of his fortune to his long-lost grandnephew, millionaire Frederick Trumble slips a packet of money inside a chair seat. He is then shot and killed by an unseen assailant. When Trumble's grandnephew, flea circus operator Fred F. Floogle, learns that he is Trum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wallace (director)
Richard Wallace (August 26, 1894 – November 3, 1951) was an American film director. He began working in the editing department at Mack Sennett Studios in the early 1920s. He later moved on to rival Hal Roach Studios where he began directing two-reel films, on some of which he collaborated with Stan Laurel. In 1926, Wallace began directing feature-length films. Several of Wallace's memorable films include three Shirley Temple films, ''A Night to Remember (1943 film), A Night to Remember'' (1943) with Loretta Young, and ''The Little Minister (1934 film), The Little Minister'' (1934) with Katharine Hepburn. He was a founding member of the Directors Guild of America. He died of a heart attack. Filmography * ''Starvation Blues'' (1925) * ''Beware of Your Relatives'' (1925) * ''Jiminy Crickets'' (1925) * ''One Wild Night'' (1925) * ''Ice Cold'' 1925) * ''Raggedy Rose'' (1926) * ''Syncopating Sue'' (1926) * ''The Merry Widower'' (1926) * ''Along Came Auntie'' (uncredited, 1926 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Metty
Russell Metty, A.S.C. (September 20, 1906 – April 28, 1978) was an American cinematographer who won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color, for the 1960 film ''Spartacus''. Career Metty's career began around 1925 as an assistant with Standard Film Laboratory, who was then hired by Paramount Pictures working in the camera department. He left for RKO in 1929.Steeman, Albert ''Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers,'' "Russell Metty page", , , 2007. Last accessed: December 19, 2007. He became a regular cameraman at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Tyler (actor)
Richard Tyler (born ) is a former American actor who appeared in several films and television series. He began his acting career in various theatre plays, such as ''Tomorrow, the World!''. He is reportedly a descendant of former American presidents such as John Tyler and Thomas Jefferson. He played Eddie Breen in the 1945 film ''The Bells of St. Mary's''. His mother, Phyllis Tyler, was an actress. He appeared in other films, including '' The Spiral Staircase'' (1946) and '' Father Was a Fullback'' (1949). He played the title role of Henry Aldrich in the television series ''The Aldrich Family''. It was his first TV appearance. Tyler later worked as a bodybuilding writer. Having known Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder, known for his roles in high-profile action films. Governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger, ... since his arrival in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva Pious
Minerva Pious (March 5, 1903 – March 16, 1979) was an American radio, television and film actress. She was best known as the malaprop-prone Pansy Nussbaum in Fred Allen's famous " Allen's Alley" current-events skits. In his book, ''Treadmill to Oblivion'', Allen called Pious "the most accomplished woman dialectitian ever to appear in radio." Early years Minnie Pious, as she was originally known, was born in Odessa, Russian Empire, and moved to the United States with her parents when she was 2 years old, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1918 through her naturalized citizen father. She attended high school in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where she was active in the Players Club dramatic organization. An article in the December 6, 1919 issue of the ''Bridgeport Telegram'' reported "Miss Minerva Pious delighted the school with her dramatic reading" and added "Miss Pious has given very many successful story readings through the past year and will continue the community work." Pious's exce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Terry (actor)
William Terry may refer to: Politicians * William Terry (MP for Kingston upon Hull), for Kingston upon Hull (UK Parliament constituency) * William Terry (MP for Arundel) for Arundel (UK Parliament constituency) * William Terry (Upper Canada politician) (1798–), political figure in Upper Canada * William Terry (congressman) (1824–1888), member of the United States Congress from Virginia and Confederate general * William L. Terry (1850-1917), U.S. Representative from Arkansas, father of David Dickson Terry Others *Bill Terry (1898–1989) National League baseball player * William Richard Terry (1827-1897), Confederate general * William Terry (actor) (1914–1962), an American actor *William Terry, a pseudonym of British author Terry Harknett Terry Harknett (11 December 1936 - 23 January 2019) was a British author. He was author of almost 200 books, mostly pulp novels in the western and crime genres. He wrote under an array of pseudonyms, including George G. Gilma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Pope
Gloria may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Christian liturgy and music * Gloria in excelsis Deo, the Greater Doxology, a hymn of praise * Gloria Patri, the Lesser Doxology, a short hymn of praise ** Gloria (Handel) ** Gloria (Jenkins) ** Gloria (Poulenc), a 1959 composition by Francis Poulenc ** Gloria (Vivaldi), a musical setting of the doxology by Antonio Vivaldi Groups and labels * Gloria (Brazilian band), a post-hardcore/metalcore band * Gloria, later named Unit Gloria, a Dutch band with Robert Long as member Albums * ''Gloria'' (Disillusion album) * ''Gloria!'', an album by Gloria Estefan * ''Gloria'' (Gloria Trevi album) * ''Gloria'' (Okean Elzy album) * ''Gloria'' (Sam Smith album) * ''Gloria'' (Shadows of Knight album) (1966) * ''Gloria'' (EP), an EP by Hawk Nelson Songs * "Gloria" (Enchantment song) (1976), a song later covered by Jesse Powell in 1996 * "Gloria" (Kendrick Lamar and SZA song), 2024 * "Gloria" (Leon René song), a song releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binnie Barnes
Gertrude Maud Barnes (25 March 1903 – 27 July 1998), known professionally as Binnie Barnes, was an English actress whose career in films spanned from 1923 to 1973. She was known for as a leading lady in films such as ''The Private Life of Henry VIII'', ''The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film), The Last of the Mohicans'', and ''In Old California (1942 film), In Old California''. Early life Barnes was born in Islington, London, the daughter of Rosa Enoyce and George Barnes, a policeman; 16 children were in her family. Before moving to Hollywood to become an actress, Barnes worked a series of jobs, such as chorus line, chorus girl, nurse, and dance hostess. Career Barnes began her acting career in films in 1923, appearing in a short film made by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Her film career continued in Great Britain, most notably in ''The Private Life of Henry VIII'' (1933) as Katherine Howard, Henry's fifth wife. Barnes' main qualm in accepting rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Vallée
Hubert Prior Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986), known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, saxophonist, bandleader, actor, and entertainer. He was the first male singer to rise from local radio broadcasts in New York City to national popularity as a crooner. Early life Vallée was born in Island Pond, Vermont on July 28, 1901, the son of Catherine Lynch and Charles Alphonse Vallée. His maternal grandparents were English and Irish, while his paternal grandparents were French Canadians from Quebec. He grew up in Westbrook, Maine. On March 29, 1917, he enlisted in the US Navy in Portland, Maine to fight in World War I, but authorities discovered he was only 15 and had given the false birth date of July 28, 1899. He was discharged at the Naval Training Station in Newport, Rhode Island on May 17, 1917, after 41 days of active service. Career Music After playing drums in his high school band, Vallée played clarinet and saxophone in bands around New E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twelve Chairs (1970 Film)
''The Twelve Chairs'' is a 1970 American comedy film directed and written by Mel Brooks, and starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody and Dom DeLuise. The film is one of at least eighteen film adaptations of the Soviet 1928 novel ''The Twelve Chairs'' by Ilf and Petrov. Plot In the Soviet Union in 1927, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, an impoverished aristocrat from Imperial Russia now working as a local village bureaucrat, is summoned to the deathbed of his mother-in-law. She reveals before dying that a fortune in jewels had been hidden from the Bolsheviks by being sewn into the seat cushion of one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining room set. After hearing the dying woman's confession, the Russian Orthodox priest Father Fyodor, who had arrived to administer the last rites, decides to abandon the Church and attempt to steal the treasure for himself. Shortly afterwards in the town of Stargorod, where Vorobyaninov's former mansion is located, a homeless con-artist, Ostap Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Brooks
Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks, numerous accolades, he is one of EGOT, 21 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Awards, Emmy, a Grammy Awards, Grammy, an Academy Awards, Oscar, and a Tony Awards, Tony. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show ''Your Show of Shows'' (1950–1954). There he worked with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, and Carl Reiner. With Reiner, he co-created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilf And Petrov
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg or , 1897–1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Katayev or , 1902–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They did much of their writing together, and are almost always referred to as "Ilf and Petrov". They were natives of Odessa. The duo were arguably the most popular satirical writers in the Soviet period, representatives of the "Odessa School" of humorist writers, and some of the very prominent, mostly Jewish (Odessa native) cultural figures along with Isaac Babel and Leonid Utesov, who moved to work in the Soviet capital after the abolition of restrictions on Jewish residence in the Pale of Settlement. Publications Ilf and Petrov gained a high profile for their two satirical novels: ''The Twelve Chairs'' (1928) and its sequel, '' The Little Golden Calf'' (1931). The two texts are connected by their main character, Ostap Bender, a con man in pursuit of elusive riches. Both books follow exploi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twelve Chairs
''The Twelve Chairs'' () is a Russian classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair. A sequel was published in 1931. The novel has been adapted to other media, primarily film. Plot In the Soviet Union in 1927, during the NEP era, a former Marshal of the Nobility, Ippolit Matveyevich "Kisa" Vorobyaninov, works as the registrar of marriages and deaths in a sleepy provincial town. His mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewellery was hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining-room set. Those chairs, along with all other personal property, were taken away by the Communists after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Vorobyaninov wants to find the treasure. The “smooth operator” and con-man Ostap Bender forces Kisa to become his partner, and they set out to find the chairs. Bender's street-smarts and charm ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
