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James Murray (American Actor)
James T. Murray (February 9, 1901 – July 11, 1936) was an American film actor best known for starring in the 1928 film ''The Crowd (1928 film), The Crowd''. Early life Born in The Bronx, Murray was the second of seven children of Mary (née Casserly) and Christopher Murray."Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910" original enumeration page, April 21, 1910, Borough of the Bronx, New York City, New York. FamilySearch; retrieved October 23, 2017. His mother was a native of Ireland, as was his father, who by 1910 was employed in New York as an insurance inspector for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Career In 1923, Murray made his film debut as Captain John Alden in the ''Pilgrims'', a Film reel, three-reel ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenland
''Screenland'' was a monthly American magazine about movies, published between September 1920 and June 1971,''Screenland'' at Moviemags.com when it merged with ''Silver Screen (magazine), Silver Screen''. In the September 1952 issue, the name changed to ''Screenland plus TV-Land''. History It was established in Los Angeles, California, with Myron Zobel as the editor in 1920 by Screenland Publishing Company.David SaundersJ. Thomas Wood at PulpArtists.com Frederick James Smith became the editor in 1923 when it moved to Cooperstown, New York, Cooperstown, New York (state), New York. In 1923, the magazine reported a love affair between Evelyn Brent and Dougla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose-Marie (1928 Film)
''Rose-Marie'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Lucien Hubbard. It was the first of three Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptations of the 1924 operetta Broadway musical ''Rose-Marie''. The best-known film adaptation starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald was released in 1936; another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness. Portions of Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart's original score for the Broadway musical are utilized in the 1936 and 1954 films, but not for the silent version. MGM provided sheet music with the film for playing at the theater. Joan Crawford, who starred in the 1928 version alongside James Murray, later remarked, "''Rose-Marie'' was surprisingly good without the music, but I felt uneasy as a French Canadian, but the critics didn't notice." Plot Rose-Marie Lemaitre is a French-Canadian girl raised by her mountie uncle after her father is killed. She falls in love with Jim Kenyon, a handsome criminal who i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco (1936 Film)
''San Francisco'' is a 1936 American musical film, musical-Drama (film and television), drama disaster film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. MacDonald's singing helped make this film a major hit, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, ''Rose Marie (1936 film), Rose Marie''. Plot On New Year's Eve, 1905, saloon keeper "Blackie" Norton hires Mary Blake to sing in his bar, the ''Paradise Club'' on Pacific Street in the notorious Barbary Coast, San Francisco, California, Barbary Coast of San Francisco. Mary becomes a star attraction at the ''Paradise'', especially for her signature tune, Theme from San Francisco, "San Francisco". Blackie's friend Mat predicts that Mary will not stay long on the "Coast". Blackie decides to run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at the behest of his childhood friend Father Tim Mullen, who believes Blackie can use the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Daily Bread (1934 Film)
''Our Daily Bread'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Karen Morley, Tom Keene, and John Qualen. The film is a sequel to Vidor's silent classic '' The Crowd'' (1928), using the same characters although with different actors. Plot A couple, down on their luck during the Great Depression, move to a farm to try to make a go of living off the land. They have no idea what to do at first, but soon find other downtrodden people to help them. Soon they have a collective of people, some from the big city, who work together on a farm. A severe drought is killing the crops. The people then dig a ditch by hand, almost two miles long, to divert water from a creek to irrigate the crops. Production Vidor tried to interest Irving Thalberg of MGM in the project, but Thalberg, who had greenlighted the earlier film, rejected the idea. Vidor then produced the film himself and released it through United Artists. The film is also known as ''Hell's Crossroads'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First National Pictures
First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theatre owners in the United States, and became the country's largest theater chain. Expanding from exhibiting movies to distributing them, the company reincorporated in 1919 as ''Associated First National Theatres, Inc.'' and ''Associated First National Pictures, Inc.'' In 1924 it expanded to become a motion picture production company as ''First National Pictures, Inc.'', and became an important studio in the film industry. In September 1928, control of First National passed to Warner Bros., into which it was completely absorbed on November 4, 1929. A number of Warner Bros. films were thereafter branded First National Pictures until July 1936, when First National Pictures, Inc., was dissolved. Early history The First National Exhibitors' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penal Labour
Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending on the context. Forms of sentence involving penal labour have included involuntary servitude, penal servitude, and imprisonment with hard labour. The term may refer to several related scenarios: labour as a form of punishment, the prison system used as a means to secure labour, and labour as providing occupation for convicts. These scenarios can be applied to those imprisoned for political, religious, war, or other reasons as well as to criminal convicts. Large-scale implementations of penal labour include labour camps, prison farms, penal colonies, penal military units, penal transportation, or aboard prison ships. Punitive versus productive labour Punitive labour, also known as convict labour, prison labour, or hard labour, is a form of forced labour used in both the past and the present as an additiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American filmmaking, film production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered at the 10 Universal City Plaza, Universal Studios complex in Universal City, California, and is the flagship studio of Universal Studios, Inc., Universal Studios, the film studio arm of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers (producer), Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States and the fifth oldest globally after Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus and Nordisk Film, and is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios. Universal's most commercially successful film franchises include ''Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park'', and ''Despicable Me''. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shakedown (1929 Film)
''The Shakedown'' is a 1929 American part-talkie pre-Code action film, action comedy-drama film, comedy-drama sports film directed by William Wyler and starring James Murray (American actor), James Murray, Barbara Kent and Jack Hanlon. This film was released in two versions a part-talking version for English speaking audiences and a Synchronized version for non-English speaking audiences. The International Sound Version survives in an Italian archive with the original synchronized soundtrack. This print of ''The Shakedown'' was converted into a silent version by the staff of the George Eastman Museum, George Eastman House in 1998 and released on Blu-ray without the original soundtrack. The original part-talkie version appears to be lost. Plot Dave Roberts is a professional boxer who loses intentionally in fixed matches. Dave's life on the margins changes after he meets an honest woman and rescues an orphan from an oncoming train. As he cares for the woman and child, he must dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunder (1929 Film)
''Thunder'' is a 1929 American synchronized sound melodrama film starring Lon Chaney and directed by William Nigh. The film has no audible dialogue but featured a synchronized musical score and sound effects. The soundtrack was recorded using the Western Electric Sound System sound-on-film process. The soundtrack was also transferred to discs for those theatres that were wired with sound-on-disc sound systems. ''Thunder'' was Chaney's penultimate film appearance and his last film without audible dialogue. The majority of the picture portion of ''Thunder'' is now considered lost, with only a half a reel of the entire footage known to survive. The Vitaphone type sound discs are extant, however, and preserve the soundtrack of the film. Plot Lon Chaney plays Grumpy Anderson, a railroad engineer with an obsession for running his train on time. His slavishness to promptness causes several tragedies which alienate him from his family. By the story's end, the engineer restores the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big City (1928 Film)
''The Big City'' is a 1928 American silent film, silent crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. Waldemar Young wrote the screenplay, based on a story by Tod Browning. The film is now lost film, lost. Plot Chuck Collins (Lon Chaney) is a gangster who owns the Black Bottom Nightclub, and his girlfriend Helen (Marceline Day) runs the dress shop that the Collins gang uses as a front. Collins gets word that a rival gangster named Red Watson (Matthew Betz) is planning to rob Collin's patrons of their jewelry, so he decides to beat Red to the punch by stealing the jewels from Red's accomplices after they pull the job. Collins has Helen hide the loot in her dress shop, where her naive employee "Sunshine" (Betty Compson) almost exposes the jewels to some investigating policemen in her ignorance. Red is convinced that Collins has the jewels in his possession and goes to the club to force him to turn over the loot to him. The police raid the place, but Chuck and his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lon Chaney, Sr
Lon or LON may refer to: People * Lon (photographer), pseudonym of Alonzo Hanagan, also known as "Lon of New York" * Lon (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname Fictional characters * Lon Cohen, a character in the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout * Lon Suder, a character on the television series ''Star Trek: Voyager'' Science and technology * Launch on Need, a Space Shuttle rescue mission which would have been mounted to rescue the crew of a Space Shuttle if needed * Local Operating Network, a networking platform by Echelon Corporation * Local oxidation nanolithography, a nanofabrication technique * ''Lon'' (butterfly), a genus of butterflies * Lon protease family, in molecular biology * Longitude (lon.), a geographic coordinate Other uses * League of Nations, the predecessor of the United Nations * Airports of London The Greater London Built-up Area, metropolitan area of London, England, United Kingdom, is served by six international airports and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
