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Janet Shaw (actress)
Ellen Martha Clancy Stuart (January 23, 1919 – October 15, 2001), known professionally as Janet Shaw, was an American actress. Born on January 23, 1919, in Beatrice, Nebraska, Shaw was picked as the finest baby in Nebraska when she was 18 months old. She was the daughter of Philip Windsor Clancy. After attending elementary schools in Nebraska, she attended high schools in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, graduating from the latter. Actress Olive May was her aunt. Shaw acted on stage with Harold Lloyd's Beverly Hills Little Theatre for Professionals, the Gateway Little Theater, and the Pasadena Community Players. Shaw appeared in the films '' Prairie Thunder'', ''Alcatraz Island'', '' Sergeant Murphy'', ''Jezebel'', '' Accidents Will Happen'', ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', '' Gold Diggers in Paris'', '' The Sisters'', '' Torchy Blane in Chinatown'', ''The Rookie Cop'', '' The Old Maid'', ''Waterloo Bridge'', '' Flight Angels'', '' Hired Wife'', '' Escape'', '' Lucky Devi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice, Nebraska
Beatrice () is a city in and the county seat of Gage County, Nebraska, Gage County, Nebraska, United States. Its population was 12,261 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Nebraska, 15th most populous city in Nebraska. Beatrice is located approximately 42 miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska, Lincoln on the Big Blue River (Kansas), Big Blue River. History Gage County was one of the 19 counties originally established by the Nebraska Territorial Legislature in 1854. At the time of its establishment, there were no settlers living within its boundaries. In 1857, the steamboat ''Hannibal'', carrying 300 passengers up the Missouri River from St. Louis, Missouri to Nebraska City, Nebraska, ran aground near Kansas City, Missouri. While it was stranded, 35 of the passengers agreed to form the "Nebraska Association", under which name they would unite in seeking a townsite and establishing a settlement in the territory. After reaching Nebraska City, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight Angels
''Flight Angels'' is a 1940 commercial aviation film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Edmund Grainger and directed by Lewis Seiler, from an original story by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay. The film stars Virginia Bruce, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, and Ralph Bellamy as airline employees, flying Douglas DST airliners. The basic premise of the film follows the operational conditions of a commercial airline, while also following its stewardesses and pilots as they go through their daily routines, punctuated with the details of their personal lives. Plot "Ace" commercial airline pilot Chick Faber (Dennis Morgan) is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves (Ralph Bellamy) when a flight physical reveals that his eyesight is failing. Aided by stewardess Mary Norvell (Virginia Bruce) and her friend, Nan Hudson (Jane Wyman), Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for stewardesses. While he remains at the airline, along with engineer, Artie Dixon (W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Trail (film)
''Arizona Trail'' is a 1943 American Western film directed by Vernon Keays and starring Tex Ritter. Plot A singing cowboy comes home to help his family fight a land-grabber. Cast * Tex Ritter as Johnny Trent * Fuzzy Knight as Kansas * Dennis Moore as Wayne Carson * Janet Shaw as Martha Brooks (as Wayne Trent in credits) * Jack Ingram as Ace Vincent * Erille Anderson as Dan Trent * Joseph J. Greene as Dr. J.D. 'Doc' Wallace (as Joseph Greene) * Glenn Strange as Matt * Dan White as Sheriff Jones * Art Fowler as Henchman Curley * Johnny Bond Cyrus Whitfield "Johnny" Bond (June 1, 1915 – June 12, 1978) was an American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer and publisher, who co-founded a music publishing firm. He was active in the music industry from 1940 until the ... as Red, Red River Valley Boy * Red River Valley Boys as musicians / cowhands References External links * 1943 films 1943 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
False Faces (1943 Film)
''False Faces'' is a 1943 American mystery film directed by George Sherman and written by Curt Siodmak. The film stars Stanley Ridges, Veda Ann Borg, William "Bill" Henry, Janet Shaw, Rex Williams and John Maxwell. The film was released on May 28, 1943, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast *Stanley Ridges as District Attorney Stanley Harding *Veda Ann Borg as Joyce Ford * William "Bill" Henry as Don Westcott * Janet Shaw as Diana Harding *Rex Williams as Craig Harding * John Maxwell as Assistant District Attorney Stewart *Joseph Crehan as Police Capt. Alan O'Brien *Dick Wessel as Detective Mallory *Chester Clute as Apartment Manager *Etta McDaniel as Magnolia *Nick Stewart as Mack *Claire Whitney as Agnes Harding * Billy Nelson as Jimmy *Dick Elliott as Desk Sergeant *John Dilson John Henry Dilson"United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4DH-2CG : Sat Feb 24 02:28:50 UTC 2024), Entry for John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hangmen Also Die!
''Hangmen Also Die!'' is a 1943 war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang and written by John Wexley from a story by Bertolt Brecht (credited as Bert Brecht) and Lang. The film stars Brian Donlevy, with Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, and Gene Lockhart, and Dennis O'Keefe in support. Alexander Granach has a showy role as a Gestapo detective, and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski has a cameo as Reinhard Heydrich. Hanns Eisler composed the Academy Award nominated score, and James Wong Howe was cinematographer. The film is loosely based on the 1942 assassination of Heydrich, the Nazi Reich Protector of German-occupied Bohemia and Moravia during World War II. The number-two man in the SS, and a chief mastermind of the Holocaust, Heydrich earned the epithet of "The Hangman of Europe." Though the real Heydrich was assassinated by Czechoslovak soldiers parachuted from a British plane in Operation Anthropoid, this was not known at the time of filming. Instead, Heydrich's kille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hi'ya, Chum
''Hi'ya, Chum'' is a 1943 American musical comedy film starring Jane Frazee and the Ritz Brothers. Plot Cast * Ritz Brothers - Merry Madcaps * Jane Frazee - Sunny Lee * Robert Paige - Tommy Craig * June Clyde - Madge Tracy * Paul Hurst Paul Michael Hurst (born 25 September 1974) is an English football manager and former player. As a player, he was a left back from 1993 to 2008, notably playing his entire career at Rotherham United, bar a brief loan spell with Burton Albion i ... - Archie Billings * Edmund MacDonald - Terry Barton * Lou Lubin - Eddie Gibbs * Andrew Tombes - Jerry MackIntosh * Ray Walker - Jackson * Richard Davies - Worker External links * 1943 films 1943 musical comedy films American musical comedy films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Harold Young (director) Films scored by Hans J. Salter 1940s English-language films 1940s American films English-language musical comedy films {{musical-comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How's About It
''How's About It'' is a 1943 musical film starring The Andrews Sisters. Plot Cast * The Andrews Sisters as Themselves * Grace McDonald as Marion Bliss * Robert Paige as George Selby * Shemp Howard as Alf * Buddy Rich Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time. Rich was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, ... as Orchestra Leader Production The film was known during production as ''I Want to Dance'', then ''Solid Senders''. References External links * * 1940s American films 1943 films 1943 musical films American black-and-white films American musical films Films directed by Erle C. Kenton Universal Pictures films {{musical-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Of A Doubt
''Shadow of a Doubt'' is a 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell. The story follows Charlotte "Charlie" Newton and her family who live in very quiet Santa Rosa, California. An unexpected visit by Charles Oakley, her charming and sophisticated Uncle Charlie, brings much excitement to the family and the small town. That excitement turns to fear as young Charlie slowly begins to suspect that her uncle may be concealing a dark secret. In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Hitchcock's favorite of all his films, ''Shadow of a Doubt'' was also the one he enjoyed making the most. Plot Charles Oakley spots two de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Monster
''Night Monster'' is a 1942 American black-and-white horror film featuring Bela Lugosi and produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Company. The movie uses an original story and screenplay by Clarence Upson Young and was produced and directed by Ford Beebe. For box office value, star billing was given to Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, but the lead roles were played by Ralph Morgan, Irene Hervey and Don Porter, with Atwill in a character role as a pompous doctor who becomes a victim to the title character, and Lugosi in a small part as a butler. The film is in many respects a remake of ''Doctor X (film), Doctor X'', with virtually the same denouement. Both films also feature Atwill as a doctor. Plot In a small town bordering a swampy region, unexplained murders and rumors of mysterious happenings surround the swamp-based home of the reclusive but respected Kurt Ingston. Ingston uses a wheelchair and has invited to his home the three doctors who were tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Eager
''Johnny Eager'' is a 1941 American film noir directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Robert Taylor, Lana Turner and Van Heflin. Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film was one of many spoofed in '' Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid'' (1982). Plot Johnny Eager masquerades as a taxi driver for his gullible parole officer, A. J. Verne, but in reality, he is the ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate. Verne introduces him to socialite Lisbeth "Liz" Bard, a sociology student. Johnny and Liz are attracted to each other, but then he discovers that she is the stepdaughter of his longtime nemesis, John Benson Farrell. As a crusading prosecutor, Farrell was responsible for sending Johnny to prison, and now as the district attorney, he has gotten an injunction preventing Johnny's expensive dog racing track from opening. Johnny decides to use Liz as leverage against her stepfather. When she comes to see him, he has Julio, one of his underlings, burst in and pretend to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambling Daughters
''Gambling Daughters'' is a 1941 American mystery film directed by Max Nosseck and starring Cecilia Parker, Roger Pryor and Robert Baldwin.Langman p.235 Plot Lillian and Katherine discover a gambling spot while following their French teacher, then Lillian falls for Chance, the manager working there. The girls are induced to play on credit, and after a couple of weeks and a couple of thousand dollars in debt, they are forced to steal jewellery from their families. Cast * Cecilia Parker as Diana Cameron * Roger Pryor as Chance Landon * Robert Baldwin as Jimmy Parker * Gale Storm as Lillian Harding * Sig Arno as Prof. Bedoin * Janet Shaw as Katherine Thompson * Charles Miller as Walter Cameron * Eddie Foster as Nick * Alfred Hall as Dean * Judy Kilgore as Gloria * Gertrude Messinger as Jane * Marvelle Andre as Dorothy * Roberta Smith Roberta Smith (born 1948) is co-chief art critic of ''The New York Times'' and a lecturer on contemporary art. She is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blossoms In The Dust
''Blossoms in the Dust'' is a 1941 American biographical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt, Fay Holden and Samuel S. Hinds. It tells the story of Edna Gladney, who helped orphaned children find homes and began a campaign to remove the word "illegitimate" from Texas birth certificates, despite the opposition of "good" citizens. The screenplay was by Anita Loos, with a story by Ralph Wheelwright. Some of the important aspects of her life fictionalized in the film are the fact that it was Edna herself who was born out of wedlock; she and Sam eloped on the eve of her marriage to someone else, and they had much more time together before his death (26 years) than given them in the film. The film was one of the biggest hits of 1941 for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and began the rise of Greer Garson as one of the largest stars of the decade. ''Blossoms in the Dust'' won an Oscar for Best Art Direction-Interior Decorat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
