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John Philliber
John Philliber (July 6, 1873 – November 6, 1944), was an American actor. Born in Elkhart, Indiana, Philliber was a stage actor for most of his career, but in his last year of life made several appearances in films, alluding to his old age, best remembered for his role as 'Pop Benson' in René Clair's classic fantasy comedy ''It Happened Tomorrow''. He died in his hometown of Elkhart aged 71. Broadway roles * '' Winterset'' (1935) as hobo * '' High Tor'' (1937) as Pieter * '' The Star-Wagon'' (1937) as Misty * ''Two On An Island'' (1940) as husband in married couples, New Yorkers & out-of-towners Filmography * ''A Lady Takes a Chance'' (1943) - Storekeeper * '' The Impostor'' (1944) - Mortemart * ''Double Indemnity'' (1944) - Joe Peters * '' Ladies of Washington'' (1944) - Mother Henry * ''It Happened Tomorrow ''It Happened Tomorrow'' is a 1944 American fantasy film directed by René Clair, starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elkhart, Indiana
Elkhart ( ) is a city in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. The city is located east of South Bend, Indiana, east of Chicago, Illinois, and north of Indianapolis, Indiana. Elkhart has the larger population of the two principal cities of the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area, in a region commonly known as Michiana. The population was 53,923 at the 2020 census. Despite the shared name and being the most populous city in the county, it is not the county seat of Elkhart County; that position is held by the city of Goshen, located about southeast of Elkhart. History When the Northwest Territory was organized in 1787, the area now known as Elkhart was mainly inhabited by the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes. In 1829, the Village of Pulaski was established, consisting of a post office, mill, and a few houses on the north side of the St. Joseph River. Dr. Havilah Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th state on December 11, 1816. It is bordered by Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash River and Illinois to the west. Various Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous peoples inhabited what would become Indiana for thousands of years, some of whom the U.S. government expelled between 1800 and 1836. Indiana received its name because the state was largely possessed by native tribes even after it was granted statehood. Since then, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United States; the state's northernmost tier was settled primarily by people from New England and New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Clair
René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. He went on to make some of the most innovative early sound films in France, before going abroad to work in the UK and USA for more than a decade. Returning to France after World War II, he continued to make films that were characterised by their elegance and wit, often presenting a nostalgic view of French life in earlier years. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960. Clair's best known films include '' Un chapeau de paille d'Italie'' (''The Italian Straw Hat'', 1928), '' Sous les toits de Paris'' (''Under the Roofs of Paris'', 1930), ''Le Million'' (1931), ''À nous la liberté'' (1931), '' I Married a Witch'' (1942), and '' And Then There Were None'' (1945). Early life René Clair was born and grew up in Paris in the district of Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Happened Tomorrow
''It Happened Tomorrow'' is a 1944 American fantasy film directed by René Clair, starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and John Philliber. It is based on the one-act play "The Jest of Haha Laba" by Lord Dunsany. Plot In the 1890s, Lawrence Stevens (Dick Powell) is an obituary writer unhappy in his job, who is given, by an elderly newspaper man named Pop Benson ( John Philliber), a newspaper that has tomorrow's news. He uses the paper to write stories and get the scoop on other reporters; but this also brings him under suspicion by Police Inspector Mulrooney (Edgar Kennedy), who wants to know how Stevens came by his knowledge of a robbery at a theater's box office during a performance, of which he read in the newspaper provided by Benson. Stevens and his new girlfriend Sylvia ( Linda Darnell) – half of a clairvoyant act with her uncle Oscar Smith (Jack Oakie) – have a number of adventures, until her uncle mistakenly thin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winterset (play)
''Winterset'' is a play by Maxwell Anderson. A verse drama written largely in poetic form, the tragedy deals indirectly with the famous Sacco-Vanzetti case, in which two Italian immigrants with radical political beliefs were executed. Its plot follows Mio Romagna's quest to prove his father's innocence in the years after Bartolomeo Romagna is executed for a robbery and murder that he did not commit. Mio's quest is complicated by his love for Miriamne Esdras and the difficult ethical decisions that result from his connection with her family. A highly political play, with reflections on faith, truth, justice, love, and duty, it frequently alludes to William Shakespeare and Judaic philosophies. The Broadway production, produced and directed by Guthrie McClintic, opened on September 25, 1935, at the Martin Beck Theatre, where it ran for 195 performances. The cast included Burgess Meredith, Margo, and Eduardo Ciannelli. It won the first New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Tor (play)
''High Tor'' is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. It received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of the 1936–37 season. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz. Play The play is named for a summit overlooking the Tappan Zee portion of New York's Hudson River, near where Anderson lived in Rockland County. The story was inspired by the real life controversy over quarrying the palisades along the lower Hudson. The play also shares the plot element of a ghostly crew of Dutch sailors on the Hudson with Washington Irving's short story '' Rip Van Winkle''. Anderson began writing the play in May 1936. It was first presented onstage in Cleveland, Ohio, in December 1936, with Burgess Meredith (Anderson's neighbor in Rockland County) and Peggy Ashcroft in the lead roles. The production moved to Broadway ten days later in January 1937, where it played 171 performances. ''High Tor'' receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star-Wagon
''The Star-Wagon'' was a 1937 Broadway drama written by Maxwell Anderson, produced and staged by Guthrie McClintic, with scenic design by Jo Mielziner and musical direction by Albert Pearl. It ran for 223 performances from September 29, 1937 to April 1938 at the Empire Theatre. Plot A fantasy of time-travel Cast * Burgess Meredith as Stephen Minch * Lillian Gish as Martha Minch * Whitner Bissell as Park * J. Arthur Young as Mr. Arlington * Jane Buchanan as Hallie Arlington * Howard Freeman as Apfel * Mildred Natwick as Mrs. Rutledge * Edmund O'Brien as Paul Reiger * John Philliber as Misty * Kent Smith as Duffy * William Garner as Oglethorpe * Russell Collins as Hanus Wicks * Edith Smith as Della * Muriel Starr as Angela and as herb woman * Barry Kelley as first thug * Charles Forrester as second thug * Evelyn Abbott as Christabel * Alan Anderson as Ripple Adaptations N.Y. Times, Jan. 7, 1938: “The purchase of Maxwell Anderson’s ‘The Star Wagon� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lady Takes A Chance
''A Lady Takes a Chance'' is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Jean Arthur and John Wayne. Written by Robert Ardrey and based on a story by Jo Swerling, the film is about a New York working girl who travels to the American West on a bus tour and meets and falls in love with a handsome rodeo cowboy. The film was produced for RKO Radio Pictures by Frank Ross, who was Arthur's husband at the time. The supporting cast features flamboyant comedian Phil Silvers, Hans Conried (without his stentorian Barrymoresque voice), Charles Winninger and Mary Field. The film earned a profit of $582,000.Richard B. Jewell, ''Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures'', University of California, 2016. Plot Three of her suitors protest when Molly J. Truesdale, on a whim, boards a bus in New York City to find out what life in the American West is like. Molly goes to a rodeo, where a bucking bronco tosses rider Duke Hudkins right into her la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impostor (1944 Film)
''The Impostor'' (aka ''Strange Confession'') is a 1944 American drama war film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin.. Plot Clement (Gabin), a condemned murderer literally minutes away from the guillotine, is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape he steals the uniform and identification papers of a dead French soldier. He then hides from the law by joining the Free French Forces in French Equatorial Africa. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reform him. In the end he sacrifices himself in service of his country. Cast * Jean Gabin as Clement / Maurice LeFarge * Richard Whorf as Lt. Vareene * Allyn Joslyn as Bouteau * Ellen Drew as Yvonne * Peter Van Eyck as Hafner * Ralph Morgan as Col. De Bolvin * Eddie Quillan as Cochery * John Qualen as Monge * Dennis Moore as Maurice LaFarge * Milburn Stone as Clauzel * John Philliber as Mortemart * Charles McGraw as Menessier * Otho Gaines as Matowa * Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Indemnity
''Double Indemnity'' is a 1944 American crime film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novel of the same title, which appeared as an eight-part serial for ''Liberty'' magazine in February 1936. The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who is accused of killing her husband, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims adjuster whose job is to find phony claims. The term " double indemnity" refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout in cases when the death is accidental. Praised by many critics when first released, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, but did not win any. Widely regarded as a classic, it often is cited as having set the standard for film noir. Deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies Of Washington
''Ladies of Washington'' is a 1944 American drama film directed by Louis King and starring Trudy Marshall, Ronald Graham and Anthony Quinn.Rowan p.9 It concentrates on a group of young women employed by the federal government in wartime Washington D.C., one of whom becomes involved with an enemy agent. The film's sets were designed by the art directors James Basevi and Leland Fuller. Cast * Trudy Marshall as Carol Northrup * Ronald Graham as Dr. Hugh Mayberry * Anthony Quinn as Michael Romanescue * Sheila Ryan as Jerry Dailey * Robert Bailey as Dr. Stephen Craig * Beverly Whitney as Helen * Jackie Paley as Adelaide * Carleton G. Young as Federal Investigator * John Philliber as Mother Henry * Robin Raymond as Vicky O'Reilly * Doris Merrick as Susan * Lela Bliss as Taxi Passenger * Barbara Booth as Betty * Charles D. Brown as Inspector Saunders * Lucile Browne as Taxi Passenger * Walter Clinton as Waiter * Ruby Dandridge as Nellie * Jo-Carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentle Annie (film)
''Gentle Annie'' is a film with a Western theme, directed in 1944 by Andrew Marton, starring Donna Reed and James Craig. Marjorie Main played the role of Annie Goss. A notable actor in this film is Harry Morgan, who plays Cottonwood Goss. Morgan is best known for his role as Col. Potter in the TV show ''M*A*S*H''. Plot A frontierswoman turns her family into a band of bank robbers. Cast * James Craig as Lloyd Richland aka Rich Williams * Donna Reed as Mary Lingen * Marjorie Main as Annie Goss * Harry Morgan as Cottonwood Goss (credited as Henry Morgan) * Paul Langton as Violet Goss * Barton MacLane as Sheriff Tatum * John Philliber as Barrow * Morris Ankrum as Deputy Gansby * Frank Darien as Jake * Lee Shumway as Fireman (uncredited) Production notes ''Hollywood Reporter'' news items and MGM publicity material provide the following information about the production: MGM purchased MacKinlay Kantor's novel in February 1942. Filming began on October 6, 1942, but when director W. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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