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Miriam Battista
Miriam Battista (July 14, 1912 – December 22, 1980) was an American actress known principally for her early career as a Child actor, child star in silent films. After gaining notice in Broadway theatre at the age of four, she was cast in films the same year. Her most famous appearance was in the 1920 film ''Humoresque (1920 film), Humoresque'' in which she played a little girl on crutches. As an adult, Battista acted in Italian-language films in the 1930s, and she appeared in Broadway productions. She wrote, sang, composed music, and co-hosted a television talk show with her second husband. Early life and career Miriam Caramella Josephine Battista was born in 1912 in New York City to Raphael Battista and Cleonice "Clara" Rufolo, both Italian immigrants. She began performing in 1916 at the age of four in ''A Kiss for Cinderella'', a Broadway play starring Maude Adams, in which Battista had an uncredited role as the youngest of a group of war orphans. Other Broadway appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Actor
The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage, television, or in film, movies. An adult who began their acting career as a child may also be called a child actor, or a "former child actor". Closely associated terms include teenage actor or teen actor, an actor who gained popularity as a Adolescence, teenager. Many child actors find themselves struggling to adapt as they become adults, mainly due to typecasting. Macaulay Culkin and Lindsay Lohan are two particularly famous child actors who eventually experienced much difficulty with the fame they acquired at an early age. Some child actors have successful acting careers as adults; for example Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selena Gomez. Other child actors have gone on to successful careers in other fields, including director Ron Howard, politicians Lech Kaczyński, Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński, and singer Jenny Lewis. Regulation In the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn ( Sutherland; 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern standards. She popularized the concept of the "'' it girl"'', and had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and, possibly, on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and, especially, Clara Bow. Early life and family background Elinor Sutherland was born on 17 October 1864 in Saint Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands. She was the younger daughter of Douglas Sutherland (1838–1865), a civil engineer of Scottish descent, and his wife Elinor Saunders (1841–1937), of an Anglo-French family that had settled in Canada. Her father was said to be related to the Lords Duffus. Anthony Glyn was her grandson. Her father died when she was two months old; her mother returned to the parental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network (also the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont ) was one of America's pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in the United States. It was owned by DuMont Laboratories, Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, a television equipment and television set manufacturer and broadcasting company. DuMont was founded in 1940 and began operation on August 15, 1946. The network was hindered by the cost of broadcasting, a freeze on new television stations in 1948 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and even by the company's partner, Paramount Pictures. Despite its innovations in broadcasting, and launching one of television's biggest stars of the 1950s — Jackie Gleason — the network never reached solid finances. Forced to expand on Ultra high frequency, UHF channels when UHF tuning was not yet standard on television sets, DuMont fought an uphill battle for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Fledermaus
' (, ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874. Background The original literary source for ' was ' (''The Prison''), a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix that premiered in Berlin in 1851. On 10 September 1872, a three-act French vaudeville play by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, ', loosely based on the Benedix farce, opened at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. Meilhac and Halévy had provided several successful libretti for Offenbach. ''Le Réveillon'' later was adapted as the 1926 silent film '' So This Is Paris'', directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Meilhac and Halévy's play was soon translated into German by Karl Haffner (1804–1876), at the instigation of Max Steiner, as a non-musical play for production in Vienna. The French custom of a New Year's Eve '' réveillon'', or supper party, was not considered to provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York Times''. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards. ''The New Yorker''s fact-checking operation is widely recognized among journalists as one of its strengths. Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' gained a reputation for publishing serious essays, long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Women (play)
''The Women'' is a 1936 American play, a comedy of manners by Clare Boothe Luce. Only women compose the cast. The original Broadway theatre, Broadway production, directed by Robert B. Sinclair, opened on December 26, 1936, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 657 performances with an all-female cast that included Margalo Gillmore, Ilka Chase, Betty Lawford, Jessie Busley, Phyllis Povah, Marjorie Main, and Arlene Francis. Synopsis The play is a commentary on the pampered lives and power struggles of various wealthy Manhattan socialites and up-and-coming women and the gossip that propels and damages their relationships. While men frequently are the subject of their lively discussions and drive the action on-stage, they never are seen or heard. Production Following a premiere December 7, 1936, at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, ''The Women'' opened December 26, 1936, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City. Produced by Max Gordon (producer), Max Gordon, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No More Ladies (play)
''No More Ladies'' was a 1934 Broadway three-act comedy written by A. E. Thomas, produced by Lee Shubert, and staged by Harry Wagstaff Gribble with scenic design created by Watson Barratt. It ran for 162 performances from January 23, 1934 to June 1934 at the Booth Theatre. The play was included in Burns Mantle's ''The Best Plays of 1933-1934''. It was adapted into the 1935 film ''No More Ladies'' directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone. Cast * Edward Fielding as Mr. Anderson Townsend * Mary Sargent as Mrs. Anderson Townsend * Lucile Watson as Mrs. Fanny Townsend * Ruth Weston as Marcia Townsend * Melvyn Douglas as Sheridan Warren * Miriam Battista as Jacquette * Rex O'Malley as James Salston * John Bramall as Dickens * Bradley Cass as Oliver Allen * Boyd Davis as Stafford * Louis Hector Louis Hector (March 19, 1883 – October 1968) was an American radio, theater, film, and television actor. He is best known for hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Wife (play)
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Our Wife may refer to: * Our Wife (1931 film), an American pre-Code comedy film * Our Wife (1941 film), an American romantic comedy film See also *Our Wives Our Wives may refer to: *Our Wives (film), ''Our Wives'' (film), a 1913 comedy short silent film directed by James Lackaye and based on the play by Wills *Our Wives (play), ''Our Wives'' (play), a 1912 play by Helen Kraft and Frank Mandel *''Our Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( ; December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, greatest male star of classic American cinema. Bogart began acting in Broadway shows. Debuting in film in ''The Dancing Town'' (1928), he appeared in supporting roles for more than a decade, regularly portraying gangsters. He was praised for his work as Duke Mantee in ''The Petrified Forest'' (1936). Bogart also received positive reviews for his performance as gangster Hugh "Baby Face" Martin in William Wyler's ''Dead End (1937 film), Dead End'' (1937). His breakthrough came in ''High Sierra (film), High Sierra'' (1941), and he catapulted to stardom as the lead in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941 film), ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1941), considered one of the first great Film noir, ''noir'' films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Lahr
Irving Lahrheim (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967), known professionally as Bert Lahr, was an American stage and screen actor and comedian. He was best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion, as well as his counterpart Kansas farmworker "Zeke", in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation of ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1939). He was well known for his quick-witted humor and his work in American burlesque, burlesque and vaudeville and on Broadway theatre, Broadway. Early life, family and education Lahr was born as Irving Lahrheim on August 13, 1895, at First Avenue and 81st Street, in the Yorkville, Manhattan, Yorkville section of Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. He was the son of Jacob Lahrheim (1870–1947), an upholsterer, and Augusta Bessen (1871–1932), daughter of Mildred Bessen (1844–1911) and Edward H Bessen (1841–1902). His parents were History of the Jews in Germany, German-Jewish immigrants. He attended P.S. 77 and Morris High School, although he left school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Battista, In 1932, By Murray Korman (cropped)
Miriam (, lit. ‘rebellion’) is described in the Hebrew Bible as the daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and the older sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess and first appears in the Book of Exodus. The Torah refers to her as "Miriam the Prophetess" and the Talmud names her as one of the seven major female prophets of Israel. Scripture describes her alongside of Moses and Aaron as delivering the Jews from exile in Egypt: "For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam". According to the Midrash, just as Moses led the men out of Egypt and taught them Torah, so too Miriam led the women and taught them Torah. Biblical narrative Miriam was the daughter of Amram and Jochebed and the sister of Aaron and Moses, the leader of the Israelites in ancient Egypt. The narrative of Moses's infancy in the Torah describes an unnamed sister of Moses observing him being placed in the Nile; she is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Eaton (American Actor)
Charles Eaton (June 22, 1910 – August 15, 2004) was an American juvenile stage and film performer, and the most important performing male member of the sibling clan once referred to as The Seven Little Eatons. At one time or another, all the siblings appeared in '' The Ziegfeld Follies'' each year between 1918 through 1923. Career With his sister Doris, Eaton made his Broadway debut in the 1918 version of ''Mother Carey's Chickens''. In a 1928 Broadway production called ''Skidding,'' which ran for 472 performances, Eaton created the role of ''Andy Hardy''. Eaton acted in ten Broadway shows in total, including ''The Awakening ''and ''The Ziegfeld Follies'' of 1921, in which he shared the stage with W. C. Fields, ''A Royal Fandango,'' with Ethel Barrymore, ''Peter Pan'', and ''Tommy''. He also performed at vaudeville's storied ''Palace Theatre''; toured in plays like ''Don't Count Your Chickens'' with Mary Boland; and acted during the 1920s and 30s in about 21 films, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
