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No Man Of Her Own (1950 Film)
''No Man of Her Own'' is a 1950 American film noir drama (film and television), drama directed by Mitchell Leisen and featuring Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund (actor), John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl and Lyle Bettger. Made and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the production is the second film Stanwyck made with director Mitchell Leisen. Its screenplay was adapted from Cornell Woolrich's 1948 novel ''I Married a Dead Man''. Woolrich is cited in the film's opening credits by one of his commonly used pseudonyms, "William Irish". Plot Helen Ferguson, filled with dread, holds her baby as Bill Harkness reads a book. The phone rings, and police tell Bill that they are on the way to their home. She puts the child to bed, praying that the boy will not suffer for her mistakes and whispering that she was desperate. A year earlier in New York, Helen is eight months pregnant, unmarried, and broke. She goes to her unfaithful boyfriend Stephen Morley, tearfully pleading for help as she st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell Leisen
James Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American film director, director, art director, and costume designer. Film career He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments. He directed his first film in 1933 with ''Cradle Song (1933 film), Cradle Song'' and became known for his keen sense of aesthetics in the glossy Hollywood melodramas and screwball comedies he turned out. His best known films include Alberto Casella's adaptation of ''Death Takes a Holiday'' and ''Murder at the Vanities'', a musical mystery story (both 1934), as well as ''Midnight (1939 film), Midnight'' (1939) and ''Hold Back the Dawn'' (1941), both scripted by Billy Wilder. ''Easy Living (1937 film), Easy Living'' (1937), written by Preston Sturges and starring Jean Arthur, was another hit for the director, who also directed ''Remember the Night'' (1940), the last film written by Sturges before he started directing his scripts as well. ''Lad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show (also known as a '' teleplay''), or video game by screenwriters (cf. ''stage play''). Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A screenplay is a form of narration in which the movements, actions, expressions and dialogue of the characters are described in a certain format. Visual or cinematographic cues may be given, as well as scene descriptions and scene changes. History In the early silent era, before the turn of the 20th century, "scripts" for films in the United States were usually a synopsis of a film of around one paragraph and sometimes as short as one sentence.Andrew Kenneth Gay"History of scripting and the screenplay"at Screenplayology: An Online Center for Screenplay Studies. Retrieved 15 December 2021. Shortly thereafter, as films grew in length and complexity, film scenarios (also called "treatments" or "synopses"Steven Maras. ''Screenwri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Freeman
Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1923August 23, 2001) was an American actress. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors and relatives, almost invariably to comic effect. In film, she is perhaps best remembered for appearing in 12 Jerry Lewis comedies in the 1950s and 1960s and ''The Blues Brothers'' (1980). Early life Freeman was born on February 17, 1923 in Chicago, to Jessica Dixon, a soprano known as "The Overseas Girl" at the end of World War I, and Frank Freeman, known as "The Minstrel Man". Dixon entertained American troops in England, France, and post-war Germany, while Freeman headed Freeman's Forty Musical Minstrels in 1918. The couple married in 1922. Freeman began her career at age 2, dancing in her parents' vaudeville act, ''Dixon and Freeman.'' She reported that eventually she "got caught" at around age 10, and then began attending school. Freeman attended the Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Brissac
Virginia Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979) was a popular American stage actress who headlined theatre companies from Vancouver to San Diego during the heyday of West Coast Stock in the early 1900s. An ingénue and leading lady known for her natural style and charm on stage, Brissac played with equal success in both comedies and dramas and went on to have a long second career as a character actress in film and television. In addition to playing mothers, grandmothers, and confidants to film stars such as Bette Davis (in '' The Little Foxes'' and ''Dark Victory''), Tyrone Power (in ''Captain from Castile''), and John Wayne (in '' Operation Pacific''), Brissac was cast as farm women and rancher's wives (''Jesse James'', '' The Daltons Ride Again'', ''State Fair''), aristocrats and society women (''The Phantom of the Rue Morgue'', '' Old Los Angeles'', ''Executive Suite''), and various nurses, seamstresses, and landladies. She is probably best remembered for her role as the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Backus
Georgia Belden Backus (October 13, 1901 – September 7, 1983) was an American character actress on stage, radio and screen. She was also a writer, director and producer of radio dramas. In 1930 she was named dramatic director of the Columbia Broadcasting System, to guide the development of the new art of the radio play. A member of the repertory company presenting Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre radio programs, she played supporting roles in some 30 films during the 1940s and 1950s. Her first screen credit was ''Citizen Kane'' (1941), in which she played the severe assistant in the Thatcher library. Her career was ended by the Hollywood blacklist. Biography Georgia Belden Backus was born October 13, 1901, in Columbus, Ohio,Ancestry.com. ''California Death Index, 1940–1997'' atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2000. to a theatrical family. She was named for her uncle, George Backus, a light comedic actor who performed in Florenz Ziegfeld's original sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Lawrence (actress)
Mary Lawrence (born Mary Lou Lender, May 17, 1918September 24, 1991) was an American actress, who had a career in film and television. She was the wife of film director Delmer Daves. She had a recurring role in the syndicated television series ''Casey Jones'', where she played Jones's wife Alice with Alan Hale Jr. as her husband. Lawrence also appeared in episodes of ''The Bob Cummings Show'', ''The Donna Reed Show ''The Donna Reed Show'' is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her Pediatrics, pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage childr ...'', and '' Dragnet''. After she retired from acting, she turned to writing books on art. Filmography Bibliography * * References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, Mary 1918 births 1991 deaths 20th-century American actresses 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griff Barnett
Griff Barnett (born Manley Griffith, November 12, 1884 – January 12, 1958) was an American actor.(17 January 1958) ''The New York Times'' Barnett was born in Blue Ridge, Texas in 1884. In the early 20th century, Barnett was a member of the Mack-Hillard stock theater company in Wichita, Kansas. He also worked with stock theater companies in the Chicago area. He played the role of the Rexall family druggist in commercials on ''The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show'' on radio in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He also appeared in numerous films from the 1930s through the 1950s, including '' To Each His Own'' (1946), '' Apartment for Peggy'' (1948), and '' Pinky'' (1949). He frequently played doctors or lawyers. In 1954, he appeared in episode 131 of the TV series, ''The Lone Ranger''. Death Barnett died of pneumonia and heart trouble at home in El Monte, California, on January 12, 1958, aged 73. He is buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. Selected filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milburn Stone
Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the Western (genre), Western series ''Gunsmoke''. Early life Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet. Stone's brother, Joe Stone, says their uncle Fred Stone, was a versatile actor who appeared on Broadway theatre, Broadway and in circus, circuses). Although Stone had a congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy, he turned it down, choosing instead to become an actor with a Repertory theatre, stock theater company headed by Helen Ross. The Burton town doctor, Joseph Wakefield Myers, MD was the town doctor from 1913 to 1928. Hugh was known to have said he styled his portrayal of a country Dr. based on Dr. Myers. Career In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Dale
Esther Dale (November 10, 1885 – July 23, 1961) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Esther Dale died in the summer of 1961 following surgery in Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood. Her husband, writer-director Arthur J. Beckhard, had died four months earlier. Early years Dale was born in Beaufort, South Carolina. She attended Leland and Gray Seminary in Townshend, Vermont. In Berlin, Germany, she studied music and enjoyed a successful career as a singer of ''lieder'' on the concert stage. Her singing career included appearances with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At one point, Dale was head of Smith College's vocal department. Stage In America, Dale transferred to the acting stage and cultivated a career as an actress in Summer stock. She starred in ''Carrie Nation'' on Broadway in 1933. Her other Broadway credits include ''Harvest of Years'' (1947), ''And Be My Love'' (1944), and ''Another Language'' (1932). Film Dale's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Craig
Catherine Craig (born Catherine Jewel Feltus; January 18, 1915 – January 14, 2004), sometimes credited as Kay Craig, was an American actress. Early years Catherine Jewel Feltus was born in Bloomington, Indiana, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society at Indiana University. She was recognized as the outstanding senior girl. She later moved to Los Angeles and become an actress under the stage name of Catherine Craig. Career Craig was a student at the Pasadena Playhouse, and appeared in numerous bit part roles such as '' Las Vegas Nights'' (1941), '' West Point Widow'' (1941), '' Parachute Nurse'' (1942), '' Showboat Serenade'' (1944) and '' The Bride Wore Boots'' (1946). Later, she found more success in movies such as '' Seven Were Saved'' (1947) — her first leading role, '' The Pretender'' (1947), and ''Albuquerque Albuquerque ( ; ), also known as ABQ, Burque, the Duke City, and in the past 'the Q', is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, most populous c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Antrim
Harry Antrim (August 27, 1884 – January 18, 1967) was an American stage, film and television actor. Biography Antrim was born on August 27, 1884, in Chicago, Illinois. By 1906, he was working in vaudeville. During the early 1930s, he moved to Los Angeles and secured largely uncredited parts in several films, beginning with 1936's '' Small Town Girl''. As his career progressed, he landed roles in ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1947), ''Larceny'' (1948) and '' The Luck of the Irish'' (1948). In ''Miracle on 34th Street'', he played an ahistorical R.H. Macy in an uncredited role, owner of Macy's Department Store. Other notable appearances in his film career include ''Ma and Pa Kettle'' (1949), ''The Heiress'' (1949), '' Intruder in the Dust'' (1950), the Barbara Stanwyck-led '' No Man of Her Own'' (1950), '' Tomorrow is Another Day'' (1951), '' I'll See You in My Dreams'' (1951) and '' The Bounty Hunter'' (1954). The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) Antrim's last film was ''The Monkey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Mathews
Carole Mathews (born Jean Deifel, also credited as Jeanne Francis; September 13, 1920 – November 6, 2014) was an American film and television actress. Early years Born in Montgomery, Illinois, near Chicago, Mathews lived with her grandmother after her parents divorced. She attended elementary schools in Aurora, Illinois, and obtained her secondary education at Calumet High School in Chicago. After graduation from high school, she entered a nunnery in Milwaukee. Her grandmother made her leave it, however, telling her to wait until she was 21. In 1938, Mathews was named "Miss Chicago" and in doing so, qualified for a trip to California and a screen test. While in California, she auditioned for the Earl Carroll Follies and won a role in the show for 1939. Mathews attended the Chicago Conservatory of Music and Drama, where she studied ballet, voice, and drama. She also hosted a WGN radio program, ''Breakfast Time with Carole Mathews.'' Soon she was engaged in modeling. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
