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Louise Henry (actress)
Jessie Louise Henry Weltz (June 14, 1911 – February 17, 1967) was an American film actress best known for working in Hollywood during the 1930s. Early years Henry was born Jessie Louise Heiman, the daughter of Dr. Jesse Strauss Heiman, a physician, and his wife, stage actress Louise Henry Heiman. Her father was a Syracuse, New York, native and practiced medicine there until he moved the family to New York City when Henry was 4 years old. Between 1914 and 1916, Henry and her family lived at 1027 Genesee Street in Syracuse. She was educated at Marymount convent in Tarrytown until she reached the high-school level. At that point she went to Paris to study at a branch of Marymount. Career Henry became fluent in French while studying in France. She and began singing and dancing professionally, making her professional debut at 14 dancing at a party given in honor of the Duke of Conought in Monte Carlo. She declined offers to entertain in Europe, preferring to study in New York and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States. With a population of 148,620 and a Syracuse metropolitan area, metropolitan area of 662,057, it is the fifth-most populated city and 13th-most populated municipality in the state of New York (state), New York. Formally established in 1820, Syracuse was named after the classical Greece, Greek city Syracuse, Sicily, Syracuse (''Siracusa'' in Italian), a city on the eastern coast of the Italian island of Sicily, for its similar natural features. It has historically functioned as a major Intersection (road), crossroads, first between the Erie Canal and its branch canals, then of the Rail transport in the United States, railway network. Today, the city is at the intersection of Interstates Interstate 81, 81 and Interstate 90, 90, and its Syracuse Hancock International Airport, airport is the largest in Central New York, a five-county region of over one million inhabitants. Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calm Yourself
''Calm Yourself'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by George B. Seitz and written by Arthur Kober. The film stars Robert Young, Madge Evans, Betty Furness, Ralph Morgan, Nat Pendleton and Hardie Albright. The film was released on June 28, 1935, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Advertising executive Preston 'Pat' Patton is fired from his job by Col. Allenby when Allenby catches Patton and Allenby's daughter, Mary Elizabeth, kissing. Pat keeps telling the frenzied Allenby, “Calm yourself!” and is inspired to create Confidential Services Incorporated, supposedly founded in 1908, a business that undertakes every kind of difficult task so that his clients may calm themselves. Pat is the only employee, and must pretend to be a female secretary on the phone, but he manages to deluge the city with letters advertising his services. On his first assignment, Pat gets off on the wrong track by delivering the wrong drunk to a wife's bed. Then, prominent banker Kenneth Rockwell summons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Births
Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 4 – Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions, Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition, ''Terra Nova'' Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Chan In Reno
''Charlie Chan in Reno'' is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Norman Foster, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, based on an original story "Death Makes a Decree" by Philip Wylie. Plot Mary Whitman has arrived in Reno to obtain a divorce. While there, she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcees). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie Chan travels from his home in Honolulu to Reno to solve the murder at the request of Mary's soon-to-be ex-husband. On arrival in Reno, Chan spars pleasantly with Sheriff Tombstone Fletcher, an old-timer who isn't up-to-date on modern police methods. No. 2 Son Jimmy Chan's part in the case gets off to a rocky start. Driving to Reno to meet his father, he picks up some "friendly" hitch-hikers who steal his car, strip him to his underwear, and abandon him in the middle of nowhere. He is picked up for va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gaunt Stranger
''The Gaunt Stranger'' (released as ''The Phantom Strikes'' in the US) is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde. It stars Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson and Alexander Knox. Plot A notorious killer, long believed to have died in Australia, returns to England seeking revenge for the death of his sister. The "Ringer" threatens to murder the criminal mastermind Maurice Meister. Detective Inspector Alan Wembury is assigned to the case and, despite his strong dislike for Meister, attempts to protect him with the reluctant assistance of another criminal, Sam Hackett, who has been released from prison as he is the only man able to identify the "Ringer". Even with his help, Wembury struggles to unmask their target before the time at which Meister is due to be killed. Cast *Sonnie Hale as Samuel Cuthbert "Sam" Hackett * Wilfrid Lawson as Maurice Meister * Louise Henry as Cora Ann Milton *Alexander Knox as Dr Lomond *Peter Croft as John Lenley * George Merritt as Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
45 Fathers
''45 Fathers'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by James Tinling, written by Frances Hyland and Albert Ray, and starring Jane Withers, Thomas Beck (actor), Thomas Beck, Louise Henry (actress), Louise Henry, Richard Carle, Nella Walker, and Andrew Tombes. It was released on November 26, 1937, by 20th Century Fox. Plot A group of old men decides to adopt an orphan girl; once adopted, she dances, sings, and does whatever she can to help her new family. Cast *Jane Withers as Judith Frazier *Thomas Beck (actor), Thomas Beck as Roger Farragut *Louise Henry (actress), Louise Henry as Elizabeth Carter *Paul Hartman as Joe McCoy *Grace Hartman (actress), Grace Hartman as Flo McCoy *Richard Carle as Bunny Carothers *Nella Walker as Mrs. Carter *Andrew Tombes as Judge *Leon Ames as Vincent *Sammy Cohen as Prof. Ziska *George Givot as Prof. Bellini *Ruth Warren as Sarah *Hattie McDaniel as Beulah *Romaine Callender as Hastings References External links * 1937 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There Goes The Groom (film)
''There Goes the Groom'' is a 1937 screwball comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Ann Sothern and Burgess Meredith. It was Burgess Meredith's second film and his first screen comedy; his first film, Winterset (1936), was a serious romantic drama."Notes" Plot Dick Matthews (), just out of college, heads for the gold fields of Alaska to find his fortune. When he returns to marry his girl friend Janet Russell ( Louise Henry< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Chan On Broadway
''Charlie Chan on Broadway'' is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Warner Oland, Keye Luke and Joan Marsh.Backer p.113 This is the 15th film starring Oland as Charlie Chan and produced by 20th Century Fox. Plot While Charlie Chan and his number one son, Lee, are aboard a New York-bound transatlantic liner returning from Germany in their previous adventure ('' Charlie Chan at the Olympics''), they have a run-in with a mysterious woman, named Billie Bronson, who secretes a package in the trunk of the Chans. After the liner docks, Chan and Lee are met at the pier by Inspector Nelson and two rival reporters, Joan Wendall and Speed Patton. Billie, who left the country hurriedly a year ago when sought as a material witness in a political scandal, has returned to "blow the lid off the town". She follows the Chans to their hotel and attempts to regain her package from the trunk, only to be interrupted by Lee. She then goes to the "Hottentot Club", where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hit Parade (film)
''The Hit Parade'' is a 1937 American musical film directed by Gus Meins and written by Bradford Ropes, Samuel Ornitz and Harry Ruskin. The film stars Frances Langford, Phil Regan, Max Terhune, Edward Brophy, Louise Henry and Pert Kelton. The film was released on April 26, 1937, by Republic Pictures. Republic later reissued the film in 67 minute length as ''I'll Reach for a Star''. Plot Pete Garland gets fired by singer Monica Barrett, and out of spite finds Ruth Allison and decides to make her a star, he succeeds, but Ruth has some dark secrets. Cast *Frances Langford as Ruth Allison * Phil Regan as Pete Garland * Max Terhune as Rusty Callahan *Edward Brophy as Mulrooney * Louise Henry as Monica Barrett * Pert Kelton as Eadie White * Pierre Watkin as J. B. Hawley * J. Farrell MacDonald as Sgt. O'Hara * Monroe Owsley as Teddy Leeds * Inez Courtney as Tillie * William Demarest as Parole Officer * George Givot as Herman * Sammy White as Dancer * Paul Garner as Member, The G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
End Of The Trail (1936 Film)
End, END, Ending, or ENDS may refer to: End Mathematics *End (category theory) *End (topology) *End (graph theory) * End (group theory) (a subcase of the previous) * End (endomorphism) Sports and games *End (gridiron football) *End, a division of play in the sports of curling, target archery and pétanque *End (dominoes), one of the halves of the face of a domino Entertainment * End (band) an American hardcore punk supergroup *End key on a modern computer keyboard *End Poem, a narrative written by Julian Gough for ''Minecraft'' *End Records, a record label *"End", a song by The Cure from ''Wish'' * "Ends" (song) a 1998 song by Everlast, off the album ''Whitey Ford Sings the Blues'' * ''End'' (album), by Explosions in the Sky * "Ends" (''Spaced''), a television episode Other uses *End, in weaving, a single thread of the warp *''Ends (short story collection)'' (1988 book) anthology of Gordon R. Dickson stories END * European Nuclear Disarmament * Endoglin, a glycoprotein * Equi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclusive Story
''Exclusive Story'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by George B. Seitz and written by Michael Fessier. The film stars Franchot Tone, Madge Evans, Stuart Erwin, Joseph Calleia, Robert Barrat and J. Farrell MacDonald. The film was released on January 17, 1936, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot In 1935, the numbers racket (selling of illegal lottery tickets) is big business throughout New York City, much of it controlled by mobsters, who are feared by the populace. Meanwhile, crusading, likeable young newspaper reporter Tim Higgins has just published an exposé of graft in the awarding of major city contracts, only to have his article challenged by the accused, who threatens to sue for libel. He is ordered by his editor to print an apology, Higgins is approached by Ann Devlin, the daughter of a kindly old shopkeeper near the waterfront. She pleads for Higgins to help her father, who was just visited and ordered by a mob representative to aggressively increase his sales of lott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Old Kentucky (1935 Film)
''In Old Kentucky'' is a 1935 American comedy film starring Will Rogers, Dorothy Wilson and Russell Hardie. Two feuding families decide to settle a dispute with a horse race. It was Rogers' last film and was released posthumously after he was killed in a plane crash on August 15, 1935. The picture's supporting cast features Bill "Bojangles" Robinson as Wash Jackson. It was filmed on-location on two sites in Thousand Oaks, California: Deerwood Stock Farm and Borchard Ranch.Maulhardt, Jeffrey Wayne (2010). ''Conejo Valley''. Arcadia Publishing. Page 94. . Cast * Will Rogers as Steve Tapley * Dorothy Wilson as Nancy Martingale * Russell Hardie as Dr. Lee Andrews * Charles Sellon as Ezra Martingale * Louise Henry as Arlene Shattuck * Esther Dale as Dolly Breckenridge * Alan Dinehart as Slick Doherty * Charles Richman as Pole Shattuck * Etienne Girardot as Pluvius J. Aspinwall * John Ince as Sheriff * Bill Robinson as Wash Jackson * Greyboy the Horse as Greyboy See also * List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
