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Milton H. Bren
Milton H. Bren (June 14, 1904 – December 14, 1979) was a Hollywood movie producer and real estate developer. Biography Bren was born in Los Angeles in 1904 to a Jewish family,Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House – 1911 to 1980 By Bob Colacello retrieved January 14, 2012 the son of Sadie (née Simon) and Harry Bren. He first worked as a talent agent. In 1937, he accepted a job at as an associate producer [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor ( Wemlinger; March 8, 1910April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She appeared in 65 feature films from 1933 to 1982, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in '' Key Largo'' (1948), and received nominations for her roles in '' The High and the Mighty'' (1954) and '' Dead End'' (1937). Trevor received top billing, ahead of John Wayne, for ''Stagecoach'' (1939). Early life Trevor was born on March 8, 1910, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, the only child of Noel Wemlinger, a Fifth Avenue merchant tailor (of French birth but German ancestry), and his wife, Benjamina ("Betty"), who was of Irish birth. She was raised in New York City, and from 1923 on, in Larchmont, New York. For many years, her year of birth was misreported as 1909, which is why her age at the time of her death was initially given as 91, not 90. Career According to her biography on the website of Claire Trevor School of the Arts, "Trevor's acting career spanned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Miss (film)
''Swiss Miss'' is a 1938 comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. It was directed by John G. Blystone, and produced by Hal Roach. The film features Walter Woolf King, Della Lind and Eric Blore. Plot Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice. While visiting one village, they find the villagers unresponsive. On top of that, a cheese shop owner ( Charles Judels) cons them out of their wares with a bogus banknote. Despite having no money, they order a meal at a nearby hotel, and are forced to work as dishwasher when they can't pay. They antagonize and insult the chef (Adia Kuznetzoff), who tells them that for each dish they break they must work another day. Meanwhile Victor Albert ( Walter Woolf King), a composer – along with his assistant, Edward (Eric Blore) – is residing in the hotel to work on his next opera, which he intends to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry worldwide. Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are an international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette as a trophy, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit", although more commonly referred to by its nickname, the "Oscar". The statuette, depicting a knight rendered in the Art Deco style, was originally sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley from a design sketch by art director Cedric Gibbons. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Academy Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach is a coastal city in South Orange County, California. Newport Beach is known for swimming and sandy beaches. Newport Harbor once supported maritime industries however today, it is used mostly for recreation. Balboa Island draws visitors with a waterfront path and easy access from the ferry to the shops and restaurants. History The Upper Bay of Newport is a canyon carved by a stream in the Pleistocene period. The Lower Bay of Newport was formed much later by sand brought along by ocean currents, which constructed the offshore beach now recognized as the Balboa Peninsula of Newport Beach. For thousands of years, the Tongva people lived on the land in an extensive, thriving community. The Tongva villages of Genga and Moyongna were located in Newport Beach. Throughout the 1800s, Europeans colonized the land and forcibly removed and assimilated the Tongva. Present-day Newport Beach exists upon the unceded homelands of the Tongva people, and they have a historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irvine Company
The Irvine Company LLC is an American private company focused on real estate development. It is headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with a large portion of its operations centered in and around Irvine, California, a planned city of more than 300,000 people mainly designed by the Irvine Company. The company was founded by the Irvine family and is currently wholly owned by Donald Bren. Since the company is private, its financials are not released to the public. However, Donald Bren is the wealthiest real estate developer in the United States, with a net worth of $15.3 billion as of April 2021. History The Irvine Company traces its history to a ranch founded by James Irvine I, Benjamin and Thomas Flint, and Llewellyn Bixby in 1864 by combining three adjoining Mexican land grants. A drought 1864 killed the livestock of Jose Antonio Sepulveda, forcing him to sell his coastal Rancho San Joaquin to Irvine and his partners. In 1866 they purchased Rancho Lomas de Santi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish American
, image = Irish ancestry in the USA 2018; Where Irish eyes are Smiling.png , image_caption = Irish Americans, % of population by state , caption = Notable Irish Americans , population = 36,115,472 (10.9%) alone or in combination 10,899,442 (3.3%) Irish alone 33,618,500(10.1%) alone or in combination 9,919,263 (3.0%) Irish alone , popplace = Boston New York City Scranton Philadelphia New Orleans Pittsburgh Cleveland Chicago Baltimore Detroit Milwaukee Louisville New England Delaware Valley Coal Region Los Angeles Las Vegas Atlanta Sacramento San Diego Houston Dallas San Francisco Palm Springs, California Fairbanks and most urban areas , langs = English ( American English dialects); a scant speak Irish , rels = Protestant (51%) Catholic (36%) Other (3%) No religion (10%) (2006) , related = Anglo-Irish people Breton Americans Cornish Americans English Americans Iri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three For Bedroom "C"
''Three for Bedroom "C"'' (sometimes written as ''3 for Bedroom "C"'') is a 1952 American comedy film released by Warner Brothers. It was directed by Milton H. Bren, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Gloria Swanson as an aging movie star. Music by Heinz Roemheld. Background Riding high after the critical and financial success of ''Sunset Boulevard'' (1950), Swanson was offered more film roles. According to her, they were all pale imitations of Norma Desmond, her character in the hit film. Reluctant to accept the roles, in fear of being typecast as a faded actress, she agreed to be in ''Three for Bedroom "C"'' because it offered something different — it was a comedy. This was her first film in color, and she was also costume designer for the project. Swanson hoped to duplicate her previous success. Unfortunately, the film underperformed with critics and with audiences. Plot Ann Haven (Swanson), an aging movie actress, receives an urgent wire demanding that she im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borderline (1950 Film)
''Borderline'' is a 1950 American crime film, crime film noir directed by William A. Seiter and starring Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor. It was filmed from late May to early July 1949 at Republic Studios. Plot Pete Ritchie (Raymond Burr) runs a narcotics smuggling operation to the US from Mexico, which the Los Angeles Police Department and the US federal government have unsuccessfully tried to stop. Because of Ritchie's careful operating procedures, US authorities haven't even been able to find out the identities of his sources or customers and are desperate for a breakthrough. As a last resort, Madeleine Haley (Claire Trevor), an LAPD officer and former Office of Strategic Services, OSS operative, is sent undercover to Mexico to charm her way into Ritchie's confidence. Once there, Haley manages to establish contact with Ritchie's gang, but is kidnapped by Johnny Macklin (Fred MacMurray), a federal agent posing as a hoodlum working for a rival of Ritchie's and who also steals a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tars And Spars
''Tars and Spars'' is a 1946 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Alfred Drake, Janet Blair, and Marc Platt. Plot Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea. Cast list * Alfred Drake as Howard Young of Oklahoma * Janet Blair as Christine Bradley of Pennsylvania * Marc Platt as Junior Casady of Indiana * Jeff Donnell as Penny McDougal of Brooklyn * Sid Caesar as Chuck Enders of Yonkers, U.S.A. * Ray Walker as Lieutenant Scully * James Flavin James William Flavin Jr. (May 14, 1906 – April 23, 1976) was an American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnacle Bill (1941 Film)
''Barnacle Bill'' is a 1941 feature film starring Wallace Beery. The screen comedy was directed by Richard Thorpe. ''Barnacle Bill'' was the second of seven MGM films pairing Beery and character actress Marjorie Main. Plot Lazy fisherman Bill Johansen docks his small (and sinking) fishing boat in San Pedro harbor, aggravating ship chandler Pop Cavendish and Pop's spinster daughter Marge, who would like to marry Bill even though he has welched on paying his debts for years. Pop tries to have Bill's boat attached, but cannot because Bill has craftily listed the boat's ownership in the name of his daughter Virginia, whom he has not seen since she was a baby. Meanwhile, reefer ship-owner John Kelly has a monopoly and intimidates local fishermen into accepting less than market value for their fish. Marge tells Bill he is just the man to stand up to Kelly, but Bill would rather fish for swordfish, which bring a higher price (and thus require less work to earn beer money) with his part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free And Easy (1941 Film)
''Free and Easy'' is a 1941 film directed by George Sidney, and starring Robert Cummings and Ruth Hussey. The film is a remake of MGM's ''But the Flesh Is Weak'' (1932) with Robert Montgomery and C. Aubrey Smith as the son-and-father team. Both films are based on the 1928 play ''The Truth Game'' by Ivor Novello. Cast *Robert Cummings as Max Clemington *Ruth Hussey as Martha Gray *Judith Anderson as Lady Joan Culver *C. Aubrey Smith as Duke Colver *Nigel Bruce as Florian Clemington * Charles Coleman as Powers, Culver's butler *Reginald Owen as Sir Kelvin *Teresa Maxwell-Conover as Lady Ridgeway Plot Max (Cummings) and his father (Bruce) are both looking to marry wealthy women, which would be easier if either one of them had any money of their own. Max decides on Martha (Hussey), but Martha says no when he says that he is poor as she admits she is also. So she accepts the proposal of Sir Kelvin (Owen), but changes her mind by the next day. When Florian tries to win money gamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyoming (1940 Film)
''Wyoming'' is a 1940 Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Wallace Beery. It was the first of seven films pairing Beery and character actress Marjorie Main. Cast See also The other six Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main films: * '' Barnacle Bill'' (1941) * ''Jackass Mail ''Jackass Mail'' is a 1942 Western comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. Cast Reception According to MGM records the film earned $1,013,000 in the US and Canada and $292,000 elsewhere, making ...'' (1942) * '' The Bugle Sounds'' (1942) * '' Rationing'' (1944) * '' Bad Bascomb'' (1946) * '' Big Jack'' (1949) References External links * ''Wyoming''at the Internet Movie Database 1940 films American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films 1940 Western (genre) films Films directed by Richard Thorpe American Western (genre) films Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer 1940s American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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