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Molly O'Day
Molly O'Day (born Suzanne Dobson Noonan; October 16, 1909 – October 22, 1998) was an American film actress and the younger sister of Sally O'Neil. Biography Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, she was the youngest of 11 children of Judge Thomas Francis Patrick Noonan and his wife, Hannah Kelly, a Metropolitan Opera singer. After their father's death, O'Day and her two sisters moved to Hollywood. Besides O'Neil, another sister, Isabelle, also acted in films. O'Day's first appearance was in the Laurel and Hardy short ''45 Minutes from Hollywood'' in 1926. She also appeared in Hal Roach's Our Gang series. Only 16, she defeated 2,000 contenders in an audition for the tough girl heroine in the 1927 prizefighter movie ''The Patent Leather Kid''. Like O'Neil in 1926, O'Day became one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1928. Also in 1928, she had surgery to "remove several pounds of flesh from her hips and legs." An Associated Press news story reported: "The actress has been gaining weight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayonne, New Jersey
Bayonne ( ) is a City (New Jersey), city in Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, in the Gateway Region on Bergen Neck, a peninsula between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill Van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east. At the 2020 United States census, it was the List of municipalities in New Jersey, state's 15th-most-populous municipality, surpassing Passaic, New Jersey, Passaic,Table1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses , New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed December 1, 2022. with a population of 71,686, an incre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shepherd Of The Hills (1928 Film)
''The Shepherd of the Hills'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Alec B. Francis, Molly O'Day, and John Boles. Plot Cast * Alec B. Francis as David Howitt, The Shepherd * Molly O'Day as Sammy Lane * John Boles as Young Matt * Matthew Betz as Wash Gibbs * Romaine Fielding as Old Matt * Otis Harlan as By Thunder * Joseph Bennett as Ollie * Maurice Murphy as Little Pete * Edythe Chapman as Aunt Mollie * Carl Stockdale as Jim Lane * Ena Gregory as Maggie * John Westwood as The Artist Preservation With no prints of ''The Shepherd of the Hills'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature film, feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a number of reasons. .... References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bars Of Hate
''Bars of Hate'' is a 1935 American crime film directed by Albert Herman. Plot Cast * Regis Toomey as Ted Clark * Sheila Terry as Ann Dawson * Molly O'Day as Gertie * Snub Pollard as Danny, the Pickpocket * Robert Warwick as The Governor * Fuzzy Knight as Montague * Gordon Griffith Gordon S. Griffith (July 4, 1907 – October 12, 1958) was an American assistant director, film producer, and one of the first child actors in the American movie industry. Griffith worked in the film industry for five decades, acting in ove ... as Jim Grant References External links * 1935 films 1935 crime films American crime films American black-and-white films Films directed by Albert Herman 1930s English-language films 1930s American films English-language crime films Films produced by Sam Katzman {{1930s-crime-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life Of Vergie Winters
''The Life of Vergie Winters'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code film, starring Ann Harding and John Boles. Plot From her Parkville jail cell, Vergie Winters watches the funeral procession of Senator John Shadwell and remembers her twenty-year past with him: The moment young lawyer John returns to Parkville from an extended honeymoon with his social climbing wife Laura, he visits Vergie, his former lover. After a passionate embrace, John explains to the youthful milliner that he had abandoned their romance because Vergie's father had told him that she was pregnant by laborer Hugo McQueen and would be forced to marry. Vergie then tells John that, to keep her from marrying John, Laura's father had paid her father $10,000 to tell him that devastating lie. Still deeply in love, John and Vergie continue to see each other, but when John starts to campaign for Congress, Preston, a political boss, informs Vergie that, if John is to receive his vital support, she must forego their affair. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe, Love Is Calling You
''Chloe, Love Is Calling You'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Marshall Neilan. The film is also known as ''Chloe'' (American short title). This was lead actress Olive Borden's last film. Plot summary A low-budget Southern drama about a light skinned woman who was raised in the swamps who wishes to avenge her black father's lynching. She falls in love with Wade Carson, a white man who works for Col. Gordon, who orchestrated the lynching. Later she discovers that Col. Gordon is actually her father. Cast *Olive Borden as Chloe (Betty Ann Gordon) *Reed Howes as Wade Carson * Molly O'Day as Joyce, the Colonel's niece *Philip Ober as Jim Strong * Georgette Harvey as Old Mandy * Francis Joyner as Col. Gordon * J. Augustus Smith as Mose, a Thieving Worker *Jess Cavin as Hill, a Thieving Worker *Richard Huey as Ben, the Servant Reception Like many American films of the time, ''Chloe, Love Is Calling You'' was subject to review by city and state film censorship boards. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hired Wife (1934 Film)
''Hired Wife'' is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne and Virginia Bruce. Plot When Stephen Dexter (Brian Aherne), boss of Dexter Cement, competes with the giants in his industry, they strike back by threatening to get an injunction against him the next day and tie up his business if he will not cooperate. Facing bankruptcy, he still refuses to give in. Van Horn (Robert Benchley), his lawyer and longtime friend, suggests he get married that day and transfer all his assets to his new wife to get around the injunction. Stephen wants to marry his current girlfriend, blonde Phyllis Walden ( Virginia Bruce), but his second in command, Kendal Browning (Rosalind Russell), has other ideas. Early on in their working relationship, she had fended off his romantic advances, but has come to regret it. When Stephen sends her to see Phyllis, Kendal words the offer is such a way that Phyllis suspects it is a trap design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gigolettes Of Paris
''Gigolettes of Paris'' (released in the United Kingdom as ''Tarnished Youth'') is a 1933 American movie written and directed by Alphonse Martell starring Madge Bellamy and Gilbert Roland featuring a A romance between a salesgirl, a wealthy count, and another man. Plot Suzanne and her best friend and roommate Paulette work as shopgirls in a Paris parfumerie. Suzanne is swept off her feet by the well to do Albert Valraine who she becomes engaged to. Later, Albert takes his ring back and bits her adieu, laughing that Suzanne doesn't know the game. Brokenhearted, Suzette and Paulette become gigolettes obtaining jewelry from their rich paramours. At a night club Suzette sees Albert with a woman named Diane who is wearing the same ring Albert took back from Suzette. Suzette plots her revenge using Antoine the gigolo to use his wiles to get the ring off Diane in order to humiliate Albert. The battle of the sexes builds with one of them accused of murder, an excursion to Monte Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get That Venus
''Get That Venus'' is a 1933 American comedy film directed by Arthur Varney and starring Ernest Truex, Jean Arthur and Harry Davenport.Koszarski p.306 Cast * Ernest Truex as Tim Wilson * Jean Arthur as Margaret Rendleby * Harry Davenport as Mr. Rendleby * Tom Howard as Joe Smiley * Herbert Rawlinson as Editor Nash * Molly O'Day as Belle * May Vokes as Mrs. Murphy * Stanley Harrison as Fishkins * Olga Anson as Mrs. Georgina Van Aster * Wesley Barry as Bit Part * Donald MacBride Donald Hugh MacBride (June 23, 1893 – June 21, 1957) was an American character actor on stage, in films, and on television. MacBride launched his career as a chorister at St Thomas Fifth Avenue and then at Garden City Cathedral in New Yo ... References Bibliography * Koszarski, Richard. ''Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff''. Rutgers University Press, 2008. External links * 1933 films American comedy films 1933 comedy film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playthings Of Desire
''Playthings of Desire'' is a 1924 American silent melodrama film produced and directed by Burton L. King and starring Estelle Taylor. Cast Preservation A print listed as being complete of ''Playthings of Desire'' is located in the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ....''Catalog of Holdings the American Film Collection and the United Artists Collection at the Library of Congress'' published by the American Film Institute, c.1978 References External links * 1924 films American silent feature films Films based on short fiction Films directed by Burton L. King Silent American drama films American black-and-white films 1924 drama films 1920s melodrama films 1920s American films {{silent-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil On Deck
''Devil on Deck'' is a 1932 Pre-code talking film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Reed Howes and Molly O'Day. It was produced and distributed by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures, a B-movie studio that turned out occasionally some successful pictures like ''The Great Gabbo''. Story As this is a lost film, not even the AFI has any story or plot on it. By the promotional material that survives, it's a typical South Seas story found all over the silent film era just a few years before sound arrived. The cast is made up mostly of silent film veterans. Cast *Reed Howes as John Moore * Molly O'Day as Kay Wheeler *Wheeler Oakman as Shanghai Morgan *June Marlowe as Mary Moore *Kenneth Treseder as Limey *A. S. 'Pop' Byron as Pop Wheeler *Rolfe Sedan Rolfe Sedan (born Edward Sedan; January 20, 1896 – September 15, 1982) was an American character actor, best known for appearing in bit parts, often uncredited, usually portraying clerks, train conductors, postmen, cooks, waiters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sob Sister
Sob sister was an American term in the early 20th century for reporters (usually women) who specialized in newspaper articles (often called "sob stories") with emphasis on the human interest angle using language of sentimentality. The label was coined in 1907 during coverage of a scandalous murder trial that became known at the time as the " Trial of the Century". Origin The term "sob sister" dates to 1907, when Irvin S. Cobb derided the women reporters who were covering the trial of Harry K. Thaw for murder. ''Sob brother'' was less commonly used for male reporters who wrote similar articles. By 1910, sob sister was in common use to describe any woman reporter and was sometimes used to describe women novelists such as Fanny Hurst. Years later, a review of Truman Capote's '' In Cold Blood'' described the book as "sob sister gothic". The term was usually intended to imply that the sob sister was less than a "real" reporter, was an amateur, and that they "manufactured tears fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Devils (1931 Film)
''Sea Devils'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Joseph Levering and starring Molly O'Day, Edmund Burns and Walter Long.Darby, p. 65 Plot Cast * Molly O'Day as Ann McCall * Edmund Burns as Richard Charters * Walter Long a Johnson the First Mate * Paul Panzer as Steve the Radio Operator * Henry Otto as Governor * Jules Cowles Jules Cowles (October 18, 1877 – May 22, 1943) was an American film actor.Munden p.193 He was also billed as J. D. Cowles and Julius D. Cowles. Biography Born in Farmington, Connecticut, Cowles attended Yale University and was a writer in addit ... as Attorney References Bibliography * Darby, William. ''Masters of Lens and Light: A Checklist of Major Cinematographers and Their Feature Films''. Scarecrow Press, 1991. External links * 1931 films 1931 drama films American drama films Films directed by Joseph Levering 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
