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Let's Go Collegiate
''Let's Go Collegiate'' is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Frankie Darro, Marcia Mae Jones, Jackie Moran and Keye Luke. It was produced and distributed by Monogram Pictures. It was released under the alternative title ''Farewell to Fame'' in the United Kingdom. Plot Frankie is the coxswain on the rowing team at Rawley University. His friend Tad is a stroke on the crew, president of the Kappa Psi Delta fraternity, and leader of the campus swing band. Rawley's administrators are eagerly awaiting the arrival of renowned athletic star Bob Terry. Tad learns that Terry has been drafted to the army and will not be joining the crew, nor will he be attending the party welcoming him. Frankie and Tad don't have the hearts to tell their girlfriends Midge and Bess, who have worked hard to prepare the party, and instead look for a replacement for Bob for the evening. They find truck driver Hercules "Herk" Bevans loading a safe onto his truck singleh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Yarbrough
Jean Yarbrough (August 22, 1900 – August 2, 1975) was an American film director. Biography Jean Yarbrough was born in Marianna, Arkansas on August 22, 1900. He attended the Sewanee: The University of the South, University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. In 1922, Yarbrough entered the film business working in silent pictures, first as a "prop man" and later rising through the ranks to become an assistant director.Thomas, Dan (March 13, 1935)"Smashing Through" ''Los Angeles Evening Post-Record''. p. 7. Retrieved February 24, 2023. By 1936, he became a director, first doing comedy and musical shorts for RKO. His directorial debut for a feature-length film was ''Rebellious Daughters'', made by the low-budget studio Progressive Pictures in 1938. His success came in the 1940s and 1950s when he directed comedy teams like Abbott and Costello (five films: ''Here Come the Co-Eds'', ''In Society'', ''Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film), Jack and the Beanstalk'', ''Lost in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gale Storm
Josephine Owaissa Cottle (April 5, 1922 – June 27, 2009), known professionally as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer. After a film career from 1940 to 1952, she starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, '' My Little Margie'' and '' The Gale Storm Show''. Six of her songs were top ten hits. Storm's greatest recording success was a cover version of " I Hear You Knockin'," which hit No. 2 on the '' Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in 1955. Early life Storm was born in Bloomington, Texas, United States. The youngest of five children, she had two brothers and two sisters. Her father, William Walter Cottle, died after a year-long illness when she was only 17 months old, and her mother, Minnie Corina Cottle, struggled to raise the children alone. Storm attended Holy Rosary School in what is now Midtown, Houston. She performed in the drama club at both Albert Sidney Johnston Junior High School and San Jacinto High School. When Storm was 17, two of her tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940s English-language Films
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar became a Roman Consul. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 days. * First year of the ''Xingping'' era during the Han Dyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Black-and-white Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Romantic Comedy Films
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Aktion T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Films
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, '' Citizen Kane''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1941 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 17 – '' Gone with the Wind'' goes into general release in the United States after touring in a roadshow version during 1940. Becoming a cultural phenomenon, it sells an estimated 60 million tickets this year alone. Adjusted for inflation with numerous rereleases, it remains the highest grossing domestic film of all time with $1.8 billion. * March 24 – Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie '' Sun Valley Serenade'' for Twentieth Century Fox. * May 1 – Orson Welles' '' Citizen Kane'', consistently rated as one of the films considered the all-time best, is premiered at the Palace Theatre (New York City). * July 2 – '' Sergeant York'', the film biopic of World War I hero A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tris Coffin
Tristram Chockley Coffin (August 13, 1909 – March 26, 1990) was a former film and television actor from the latter 1930s through the 1970s, usually in Westerns or other B-movie action-adventure productions. Early years Coffin's mother was actress Elizabeth Christie, and his uncle was writer Robert P. T. Coffin. Career In 1940, Coffin appeared as Phillips in '' Chasing Trouble'', a comedy espionage film. He is perhaps best known for his role as Jeff King in Republic Pictures' '' King of the Rocket Men'' (1949), the first of three serials starring the "Rocket Man" character. During the 1940s and into the early 1950s, Coffin appeared in other movie serials, including ''Dick Tracy's G-Men'' (1939), ''Jesse James Rides Again'' (1947), ''Bruce Gentry'' (1949), ''Pirates of the High Seas'' (1950), ''Mysterious Dr. Satan'' (1940), '' Sky Raiders'' (1941), ''Holt of the Secret Service'' (1941), '' Perils of Nyoka'' (1942), ''Federal Agents vs. the Underworld'' (1949), and '' R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Maxey
Paul Regan Maxey (March 15, 1907 – June 3, 1963) was an American actor. Biography Born in Wheaton, Illinois, the rotund Maxey played character roles in films from 1937, notably as the composer Victor Herbert in ''Till the Clouds Roll By'' (1946). He acted in many TV shows from the 1950s onwards, notably in the role of Mayor John Peoples in the sitcom '' The People's Choice'' (1955–1958) and such other shows as ''Willy'', , ''Wagon Train'', ''The Lone Ranger'', '' Dennis the Menace'', '' The Untouchables'', ''Perry Mason'' and ''Lassie'' before his death in 1963 at age 56. He was buried in Resurrection Cemetery, Montebello, Los Angeles County, California.Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. Selected filmography * '' They Won't Forget'' (1937) * '' Let's Go Collegiate'' (1941) * '' I'll Sell My Life'' (1941) * '' You're O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
