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John Carroll (actor)
John Carroll (born Julian La Faye; July 17, 1906 – April 24, 1979) was an American actor. Career Carroll was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He performed in several small roles in films under his birth name until 1935, when he first used the name John Carroll in ''Hi, Gaucho!''. He appeared in several Western films in the 1930s, including the role of Zorro in '' Zorro Rides Again'' in 1937. He was the male lead in the Marx Brothers' Western comedy '' Go West'' in 1940. Probably his best known role was as Woody Jason in the 1942 movie ''Flying Tigers'' with John Wayne. He was also notable as a Cajun soldier, aptly nicknamed Wolf, in the 1945 comedy '' A Letter for Evie''. He interrupted his movie career during World War II and served as a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot in North Africa. He broke his back in a crash. He recovered and resumed his acting career. John Carroll was a well-established actor and his wife Lucille was a casting director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Call (film)
''Wolf Call'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by George Waggner and starring John Carroll, Movita and George Lynn.Pitts p.404 A New York playboy is sent by his father to investigate his radium mine in Canada. Cast * John Carroll as Michael 'Mike' Vance * Movita as Towana * George Lynn as Father Devlin * Guy Usher as Michael Vance, Sr. * Holmes Herbert as J.L. Winton * Polly Ann Young as Natalie * George Cleveland as Dr. MacTavish * John Kelly as Bull Nelson * Wheeler Oakman as Carson * John Sheehan as Grogan * Charles Irwin Charles Irwin, VC (1824 – 8 April 1873), was born in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Bri ... as Mounted Police Sergeant * Reed Howes as Tom - Henchman * Murdock MacQuarrie as Miner * Carl Mathews as Miner * George Morrell as Stricken Miner * Pat O'Malley as RCMP Sergeant * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wayne
Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke or Duke Wayne, was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films made during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies. His career flourished from the silent era of the 1920s through the American New Wave, as he appeared in a total of 179 film and television productions. He was among the top box-office draws for three decades, and he appeared with many other important Hollywood stars of his era. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Wayne as one of the greatest male stars of classic American cinema. Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, but grew up in Southern California. After losing his football scholarship to the University of Southern California from a bodysurfing accident, he began working for the Fox Film Corporation. He appeared mostly in small parts, but his first leading role came in Raoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doughboys (1930 Film)
''Doughboys'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton. It was Keaton's second starring talkie vehicle and has been called Keaton's "most successful sound Picture." A Spanish-language version was also made under the title, ''De Frente, Marchen.'' Plot Elmer ( Buster Keaton), a member of the idle rich, is smitten by working girl Mary (Sally Eilers), who will have nothing to do with him. When Elmer's chauffeur gets caught up in an army recruitment drive and quits, Elmer goes to an employment agency to find a new driver and accidentally enlists in the army. Elmer learns that Mary is on the base to entertain the troops and learns that his drill sergeant, Brophy ( Edward Brophy), is also interested in Mary. Cast * Buster Keaton as Elmer * Sally Eilers as Mary * Cliff Edwards as Nescopeck * Edward Brophy as Sgt. Brophy * Victor Potel as Svendenburg * Arnold Korff as Gustav * Frank Mayo as Captain Scott * Pitzy Katz as Abie Cohn * William Steele as Lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Carlo (1930 Film)
''Monte Carlo'' is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It co-stars Jack Buchanan as a French Count Rudolph Falliere masquerading as a hairdresser and Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara. The film is notable for introducing the song " Beyond the Blue Horizon", which was written for the film and is first performed by MacDonald and a chorus on the soundtrack as she escapes on the train through he countryside. ''Monte Carlo'' was hailed by critics as a masterpiece of the newly emerging musical film genre. The screenplay was based on the Booth Tarkington novel ''Monsieur Beaucaire''. Plot Countess Helene Mara is about to be married to Duke Otto Von Liebenheim but leaves him at the altar. She flees on a train to Monte Carlo with her maid Bertha ( ZaSu Pitts) and 10,000 francs, and checks into an expensive hotel, planning to win a fortune at roulette. When she arrives at the casino—where she wins spectacularly and then loses everythi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rogue Song
''The Rogue Song'' is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic and musical film that tells the story of a Russian bandit who falls in love with a princess, but takes his revenge on her when her brother rapes and kills his sister. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production was directed by Lionel Barrymore and released in two versions, with and without sound. Hal Roach wrote and directed the Laurel and Hardy sequences and was not credited. The film stars Metropolitan Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett—who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance—and Catherine Dale Owen. Laurel and Hardy were third-billed; their sequences were filmed at the last minute and interspersed throughout the film in an attempt to boost its potential box-office appeal. This film, MGM's first all-talking Technicolor film,Bann, Richard W. (2000"More 'Rogue Song' Footage Found"''laurel-and-hardy.com'' is partially lost as there are no known complete prints of this film. Fragments do exist. Plot Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil-May-Care
Devil May Care may refer to: Music * ''Devil May Care'', an album by Bob Dorough, 1956 ** "Devil May Care", the title song, covered by Jamie Cullum on ''Pointless Nostalgic'', 2002 * ''Devil May Care'' (album), by Teri Thornton, 1961 * ''Devil May Care'', an album by Claire Martin, 1993 * "The Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don't)", a song by the Brian Jonestown Massacre from '' Give It Back!'', 1997 * ''Devil May Care'' (EP) or the title song, by Susperia, 2005 * ''The Devil May Care'', an album by 67 Special, 2007 * ''Devil May Care'', an EP by Iron Steel, 2008 Other uses * '' Devil-May-Care'', a 1929 film musical starring Ramón Novarro * Devil May Care (Peters novel), a 1977 novel by Elizabeth Peters * ''Devil May Care'' (Faulks novel), a 2008 James Bond novel by Sebastian Faulks * Devil May Care (horse) (2007–2011), an American Thoroughbred racehorse * ''Devil May Care'' (TV series), a 2021 American adult animated comedy series See also * ''Devil May Cry is a series o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne (1929 Musical Film)
''Marianne'' is a 1929 pre-Code Romance film, romantic-musical film set at the end of World War I, World War I. Marianne is French farm girl who, although her French fiancé is away, fighting, falls in love with an American soldier. It is a remake of a Marianne (1929 silent film), silent film that was released earlier in 1929. Although the films feature mostly different casts, Marion Davies starred in both versions. This was Davies' first released talking movie. The pictures were released less than eleven years after the Armistice, and the title would have had a profound meaning for European audiences. “Marianne” has been a beloved personification of France and the battle for democracy—and the courage of French women in particular—since the French Revolution, Revolution. She was a key figure in French propaganda, and American men who served in Europe in 1917-1918 would have seen representations of her all around them, in public buildings, on posters and in newspapers, on c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Side Of The Wind
''The Other Side of the Wind'' is a 2018 satirical drama film, directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by Orson Welles, and posthumously released in 2018 after forty-eight years in development. The film stars John Huston, Bob Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, and Oja Kodar. Intended by Welles to be his Hollywood comeback, the film began shooting in 1970 and resumed on and off until 1976. Welles continued to intermittently work on the project into the 1980s, but it became embroiled in legal, financial and political complications which prevented it from being completed. Despite Welles' death in 1985, filming was completed and several attempts were made at reconstructing the unfinished film. In 2014, the rights were acquired by Royal Road and the project was overseen by Bogdanovich and producer Frank Marshall. The story utilizes a film-within-a-film narrative which follows the last day in the life of an aging Hollywood film director (Huston) as he hosts a scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. While in his 20s, Welles directed high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project, including an adaptation of ''Macbeth'' with an entirely African-American cast and the political musical '' The Cradle Will Rock''. In 1937, he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941, including '' Caesar'' (1937), an adaptation of William Shakespeare's '' Julius Caesar''. In 1938, his radio anthology series '' The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' gave Welles the platform to find international fame as the director and narrator of a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel '' The War of the Worlds'', which cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph Scott
George Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor whose career spanned the years from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals (albeit in non-singing and non-dancing roles), adventure tales, war films, and a few Horror film, horror and fantasy films. However, his most enduring image is that of the tall-in-the-saddle Western (genre), Western hero. Out of his more than 100 film appearances over 60 were in Westerns. According to editor Edward Boscombe, "...Of all the major stars whose name was associated with the Western, Scott [was] most closely identified with it."Boscombe, 1988. p 382. Scott's more than 30 years as a motion picture actor resulted in his working with many acclaimed screen directors, including Henry King (director), Henry King, Rouben Mamoulian, Michael Curtiz, John Cromwell (directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decision At Sundown
''Decision at Sundown'' is a 1957 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott. It is one of seven Boetticher/Scott western collaborations, including '' Seven Men from Now'', ''The Tall T'', ''Buchanan Rides Alone'', '' Westbound'', ''Ride Lonesome'', and ''Comanche Station''. Boetticher said this film and ''Westbound'' were the only mediocre films he made as part of the Ranown cycle.Budd Boetticher: The Last Interview Wheeler, Winston Dixon. Film Criticism; Meadville Vol. 26, Iss. 3, (Spring 2002): 52-0_3. Plot Bart Allison and his true and faithful friend Sam ride into the town of Sundown. Blinded by hate, Bart has only one thing in mind: to seek revenge from Tate Kimbrough whom he believes had once immorally seduced and then abandoned his wife Mary, which finally led to her committing suicide. At least this is the story Allison believes. More probably his wife at that time had fallen out of love with him and intended to leave him, being genu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budd Boetticher
Oscar "Budd" Boetticher Jr. ( ; July 29, 1916 – November 29, 2001) was an American film director. He is best remembered for a series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott. Early life Boetticher was born in Chicago. His mother died in childbirth and his father was killed in an accident shortly afterwards. He was adopted by a wealthy couple Oscar Boetticher Sr. (1867–1953) and Georgia Naas Boetticher (1888–1955) and was raised in Evansville, Indiana, along with his younger brother Henry Edward Boetticher (1924–2004). He attended Culver Military Academy where he became friends with Hal Roach Jr. He was a star athlete at Ohio State University, until an injury ended his sports career. In 1939 he traveled to Mexico, where he learned bullfighting under Don Lorenzo Garza, Fermin Espinoza and Carlos Arruza. Career Early films Boetticher worked as a crew member on '' Of Mice and Men'' (1939) and ''A Chump at Oxford'' (1940). A chance encounte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
