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Katherine Warren
Katherine Warren (born Katharine C. Warren; July 12, 1905 – July 17, 1965) was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in the 1949 film ''All the King's Men'', the 1951 film '' The Prowler'', and the 1954 film ''The Caine Mutiny''. Career Born in Monroe, Michigan,Associated Press (November 21, 1950)"Katharine Warren's Career Has Been Teaching, Stage, Movies" ''The Daily Iberian''. p. 4. Retrieved November 6, 2024. and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois, Warren was the daughter of Frank B. Warren and Lucia M. Landon."Various Branches of the Fine Arts Claim Attention of Women in Society" ''Detroit Free Press''. p. 10. Retrieved November 6, 2024. She attended [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monroe, Michigan
Monroe is the largest city in Monroe County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. The population was 20,462 at the 2020 census. The city is bordered on the south by Monroe Charter Township, but the two are administered autonomously. Monroe is the core city in the Monroe metropolitan area, which is coterminous with Monroe County and had a population of 154,809 in 2020. Located on the western shores of Lake Erie approximately northeast of Toledo, Ohio, and southwest of Detroit, the city is part of the Detroit–Ann Arbor–Flint combined statistical area. The Monroe area was the scene of several military conflicts during the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom and is known for the Battle of Frenchtown. In 1817, portions of the Frenchtown settlement along the River Raisin were platted and renamed "Monroe" after then-president James Monroe. When Michigan became a state in 1837, Monroe was incorporated as a city. Monroe is known as the childhood residence of Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glenn Miller Story
''The Glenn Miller Story'' is a 1954 American biographical film about the eponymous American band-leader, directed by Anthony Mann. It stars James Stewart as Miller (in his second non-western collaboration with Mann), alongside June Allyson. The film was released in February 1954 and was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning for Best Sound Recording. Plot The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying in was lost over the English Channel during World War II. Prominent placement in the film is given to Miller's courtship and marriage to Helen Burger, and various cameos by actual musicians who were colleagues of Miller. Several turning points in Miller's career are depicted with varying degrees of accuracy, including: the success of an early jazz band arrangement; his departure from the Broadway pit and sideman work to front a band of his own; the fai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Force Of Arms
''Force of Arms'' (reissued under the title ''A Girl for Joe'') is a 1951 romantic war drama film set in the Italian Campaign (World War II), Italian campaign of World War II, starring William Holden, Nancy Olson, and Frank Lovejoy. Directed by Michael Curtiz, it was the third teaming Holden and Olson together as leads in four films released in 1950 or 1951 (with the others being ''Sunset Boulevard (film), Sunset Boulevard'', ''Union Station (film), Union Station'', and ''Submarine Command''). Between battles an American infantryman on leave and a Women's Army Corps (WAC) officer fall in love. Plot The American 36th Infantry Division (United States), 36th Infantry Division is fighting bitterly for every hill in the Italian campaign (World War II)#Allied advance on Rome, Allied advance on Rome during the Italian campaign (World War II), Italian campaign of World War II. After hard combat in the Battle of San Pietro Infine, Battle of San Pietro in mid-December 1943, the infant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Into Morning
''Night Into Morning'' is a 1951 American drama film directed by Fletcher Markle and starring Ray Milland, John Hodiak and Nancy Davis. Plot Everything is going very well for college professor Phillip Ainley, who has a loving wife and son and an offer to teach at Yale. But his world turns upside-down when Katherine Mead, his secretary, rushes to tell him that there's been a deadly explosion at the professor's home. His wife and child are killed. Ainley, devastated, becomes morose and turns to drink, causing Mead, a war widow, and best friend Tom Lawry, her betrothed, to consider these telltale signs that the professor could be suicidal. A popular athlete on campus has failed an exam and might not graduate, so his girlfriend Dottie appeals to the professor to give him a second chance. A drunken Ainley tells her remaining unmarried might spare them both future heartbreak. He then crashes a car, terrifying the girl and resulting in his arrest. Character witnesses convince the judg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Doone (1951 Film)
''Lorna Doone'' is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Barbara Hale and Richard Greene. It is an adaptation of the 1869 novel ''Lorna Doone'' by R. D. Blackmore, set in the English West Country during the 17th century. Plot Lorna Doone falls for John Ridd, but is betrothed (against her will) to one Carver Doone. As the English Civil War looms, John is determined to defeat the vicious Doone family and win Lorna over. Cast * Barbara Hale as Lorna Doone * Richard Greene as John Ridd * Carl Benton Reid as Sir Ensor Doone * William Bishop as Carver Doone * Ron Randell as Tom Faggus * Sean McClory as Charleworth Doone * Onslow Stevens as Counsellor Doone * Lester Matthews as King Charles II * John Dehner as Baron de Wichehalse * Gloria Petroff as Lorna Doone as a Child Production Development Edward Small first announced plans to film the 1869 novel ''Lorna Doone'' by R. D. Blackmore in 1944 and hired George Bruce to write a screenplay in 1946. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Brat
''Dear Brat'' is a 1951 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Mona Freeman and Billy De Wolfe. It is the third in a series following '' Dear Ruth'' (1947) and ''Dear Wife'' (1949). Plot Miriam Wilkins has founded an association for rehabilitation of former prisoners, and her father is unknowingly the group's honorary president. As convict Mr. Baxter is set free on parole, Miriam she sees an opportunity for action. She hires Baxter as a gardener, allowing him live in a room over the garage. However, Baxter's sentence had been imposed by Judge Wilkins, now a senator, causing the situation in the house to become chaotic. Cast * Mona Freeman as Miriam Wilkins * Billy De Wolfe as Albert * Edward Arnold as Senator Wilkins * Lyle Bettger as Mr. Baxter * Natalie Wood as Pauline Production In March 1950, Paramount announced a sequel to ''Dear Wife'' called ''Dear Mom''. Arthur Sheekman and Jack Sher were assigned to write the script and Robert Welsch was to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Guys Named Mike
''Three Guys Named Mike'' is a 1951 American romantic comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, and Barry Sullivan."Articles: 'Three Guys Named Mike'." '''. Retrieved: December 22, 2008. It was released by . Described as a "lighthearted and lightweight story" by , ''Three Guys Named Mike'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Submarine (1950 Film)
''Mystery Submarine'' is a 1950 American war film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén and Robert Douglas. Plot Madeline Brenner, a German naturalized as an American, is being questioned by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who is considering treason charges against her. In flashback, she describes how she worked on Cape Cod as a secretary for a wealthy woman, Mrs. Weber. Madeline believes her husband died five years earlier, in 1945, when his U-boat, the U-64, was sunk. She is approached by a mysterious man on the beach, who says her husband is still alive. He says she can be reunited with him if she helps kidnap Dr. Gurnitz, a noted German scientist visiting Mrs. Weber. During a yacht cruise the next day, Madeline disables the radio as the U-64 surfaces. The submarine’s crew kidnaps Gurnitz. Onboard the U-64, Madeline discovers she has been lied to. Her husband is dead, although his submarine survived. The man f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Craig
''Harriet Craig'' is a 1950 American drama film starring Joan Crawford. The screenplay by Anne Froelick and James Gunn was based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1925 play '' Craig's Wife'', by George Kelly. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman, produced by William Dozier, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. ''Harriet Craig'' is the second of three cinematic collaborations between Sherman and Crawford, the others being '' The Damned Don't Cry'' (1950) and '' Goodbye, My Fancy'' (1951). Plot Harriet Craig is a neurotic, manipulative, and controlling perfectionist. She is obsessed with maintaining her ideal of perfection in the appearance of her home, her social life, and herself. She seems to believe that those around her exist only to fulfill her ideal life. Achieving this goal makes life miserable for everyone around her. Harriet shares her home with her loving husband Walter, her orphaned and grateful cousin Clare, and two maids – one of whom has worked at the house s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Secrets
''Three Secrets'' is a 1950 American drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal and Ruth Roman. It was released by Warner Bros. Plot A private plane crashes in the California mountains and a 5-year-old boy survives. Little else is known except the child is an orphan. Susan Chase believes the boy could be hers. Before she was wed to lawyer Bill Chase, she was involved with a Marine during the war, and became suicidal later, putting their child up for adoption. Bill has never been told Susan's secret. Newspaper reporter Phyllis Horn investigates the crash. She, too, has a secret, having given birth after a divorce from husband Bob Duffy, who has since remarried. A third woman, Ann Lawrence, turns up at the crash site as well. Ann was once a chorus girl, involved with wealthy Gordon Crossley, who spurned her after she became pregnant. Scorned, Ann bludgeoned him to death, and served five years in prison for manslaughter, giving up the baby. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Baby Makes Three
''And Baby Makes Three'' is a 1949 American romantic comedy film directed by Henry Levin and starring Robert Young and Barbara Hale. The title comes from a line in the 1927 song " My Blue Heaven". Plot Jackie Walsh, recently divorced from Vernon Walsh, is told she is pregnant with Vernon's child just as she is preparing to marry another man, Herbert Fletcher. Cast * Robert Young as Vernon "Vern" Walsh * Barbara Hale as Jacqueline "Jackie" Walsh * Robert Hutton as Herbert T. "Herbie" Fletcher * Janis Carter as Wanda York * Billie Burke as Mrs. Marvin Fletcher * Nicholas Joy as Marvin Fletcher * Lloyd Corrigan as Dr. William M. "Uncle Bill" Parnell * Howland Chamberlain as Otto Stacy * Melville Cooper as Gibson - Fletcher's Butler * Joe Sawyer as Motorcycle Cop Critical reception While ''Variety'' praised the film, noting that "Levin's direction gets good movement into the script" and "comedy touches are neatly devised", ''The New York Times ''The New York Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of Molly X
''The Story of Molly X'' is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Crane Wilbur and starring June Havoc, John Russell and Dorothy Hart. The screenplay concerns a woman who tries to reform after being sent to prison, but faces obstacles. Plot After her husband is killed, a woman executes a series of robberies with her husband's gang while searching for his murderer. Cast * June Havoc as Molly X * John Russell as Cash Brady * Dorothy Hart as Anne * Connie Gilchrist as Dawn * Cathy Lewis as Jan * Sara Berner as Amy * Sandra Gould as Vera * Katherine Warren as Norma Calvert (as Katharine Warren) * Charles McGraw as Police Capt. Breen * Elliott Lewis as Rod Markle * Wally Maher as Chris Renbow Reception Bosley Crowther, critic for ''The New York Times'', was unimpressed, writing, "there is little of substance or excitement in 'The Story of Molly X.'" He found the story and actors unconvincing: "... this film ... carries a great deal more sentiment than conviction. Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
