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Paul Palmentola
Paul Palmentola (1888–1966) was an Italian-born American art director.Stephens p.233 He designed the film sets for more than two hundred productions during his career, much of his work during the 1930s and 1940s at low-budget studios such as Mayfair Pictures, Monogram and PRC. He was later employed by Columbia Pictures in the early 1950s, working on their adventure films and with Sam Katzman's unit. Selected filmography * '' The Honor of the Press'' (1932) * '' The Heart Punch'' (1932) * '' High Gear'' (1933) * '' Her Resale Value'' (1933) * '' Found Alive'' (1933) * ''Revenge at Monte Carlo'' (1933) * '' The Big Bluff'' (1933) * '' Alimony Madness'' (1933) * '' Badge of Honor'' (1934) * '' Hollywood Mystery'' (1934) * '' I Hate Women'' (1934) * '' Shadows of the Orient'' (1935) * '' The Fire-Trap'' (1935) * '' White Legion'' (1936) * '' We Went to College'' (1936) * ''The Devil Is a Sissy'' (1936) * '' Wallaby Jim of the Islands'' (1937) * ''Here's Flash Casey'' (1938) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (, ) was a unitary state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Kingdom of Sardinia, Sardinia was proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an 1946 Italian institutional referendum, institutional referendum on 2 June 1946. This resulted in a modern Italian Republic. The kingdom was established through the unification of several states over a decades-long process, called the . That process was influenced by the House of Savoy, Savoy-led Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia, which was one of Italy's legal Succession of states, predecessor states. In 1866, Italy Third Italian War of Independence, declared war on Austrian Empire, Austria in Italo-Prussian Alliance, alliance with Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia and, upon its victory, received the region of Veneto. Italian troops Capture of Rome, entered Rome in 1870, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Bluff (1933 American Film)
''The Big Bluff'' is a 1933 American comedy film directed by Reginald Denny and starring Denny, Claudia Dell and Donald Keith. It was produced by George W. Weeks and the independent Tower Productions.Pitts p.433 The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Palmentola. Plot An actor from a touring theatrical troupe is hired to impersonate an English lord by a small town social climber in order to impress their rival acquaintance who has thrown a party for a British aristocrat. Confusion arises when other members of the theatrical company join in the impersonation. It ultimately emerges that the other aristocrat is a fake, while the actor really is secretly a peer. Cast * Reginald Denny * Claudia Dell * Donald Keith * Jed Prouty * Cyril Chadwick * Phil Tead * Alden Gay * Rhea Mitchell * Lucille Ward * Ethel Wales Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 – February 15, 1952) was an American actress who appeared in more than 130 films during her 30-year caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiger Fangs
''Tiger Fangs'' is a 1943 American adventure film, adventure/thriller film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Frank Buck (animal collector), Frank Buck and June Duprez. It was distributed Producers Releasing Corporation. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Palmentola. Plot Frank Buck (animal collector), Frank Buck tangles with Nazis who have been doping tigers in Malaya, thereby making man-eaters of them. With the cats on a rampage, rubber production is seriously curtailed and the Allied war effort jeopardized. Buck and his associates, Peter Jeremy, Geoffrey MacCardle and Linda McCardle, thwart the Teutonic malefactors: the villainous Nazi Dr. Lang (Arno Frey) and his portly accomplice Henry Gratz. Thereafter, life is safe once again in the jungle. Cast * Frank Buck (animal collector), Frank Buck as Frank Buck * June Duprez as Linda McCardle * Duncan Renaldo as Peter Jeremy * Howard Banks as Tom Clayton * J. Farrell MacDonald as Geoffrey MacCardle * Alex Havi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Take This Oath
''I Take This Oath'' is a 1940 American crime drama film directed by Sam Newfield under the pseudonym of Sherman Scott. Featuring Gordon Jones (actor), Gordon Jones and Joyce Compton, it was the first release by Producers Releasing Corporation. In 1952, Pictorial Films reissued it for television showings as ''Police Rookie''. Plot Police officer Mike Hanagan (Robert Homans) attempts to expose a fraudulent official who works with a gang of racketeers, but the official has Hanagan murdered. Hanagan's son Steve (Gordon Jones) decides to avenge his father, and at the suggestion of his girlfriend Betty Casey (Joyce Compton), he joins the police force. Under the instruction of Daniel Casey (Guy Usher), Betty's father, Steve begins learning how to be an officer. However, as he has become so dedicated to finding his father's murderer, he begins to fall behind in his law studies, and due to his poor grades, he is dismissed from the force. Steve believes he has found the clue that points t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here's Flash Casey
''Here's Flash Casey'' is a 1937 American film directed by Lynn Shores and starring Eric Linden and Boots Mallory. Plot Flash Casey is able finally to get the job as photographer at Globe Press. And he would like to marry newspaper woman Kay Lanning. Some blackmailing-crooks are stealing pictures from people who bring them in to be developed in the shop run by the same crooks, to blackmail socialites. Then Kay is kidnapped and Flash is able with some help to find her. Cast *Eric Linden as Casey, Crime Photographer, "Flash" Casey *Boots Mallory as Kay Lanning *Cully Richards as Tom Wade *Holmes Herbert as Major Rodney Addison *Joseph Crehan as Blaine (City Editor) *Howard Lang as "Pop" Lawrence *Victor Adams as "King" Ricker *Harry Harvey (actor), Harry Harvey as Gus Payton *Suzanne Kaaren as Mitzi LaRue *Matty Kemp as Rodney Addison Jr. *Dorothy Vaughan (actress), Dorothy Vaughan as Mrs.O'Hara (Landlady) *Maynard Holmes as Joe (Roommate) * unbilled players include Sven Hugo Borg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallaby Jim Of The Islands
A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and sometimes the same genus, but kangaroos are specifically categorised into the four largest species of the family. The term "wallaby" is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or a wallaroo that has not been designated otherwise. There are nine species (eight extant and one extinct) of the brush wallaby (genus ''Notamacropus''). Their head and body length is and the tail is long. The 19 known species of rock-wallabies (genus ''Petrogale'') live among rocks, usually near water; two species in this genus are endangered. The two living species of hare-wallabies (genus ''Lagorchestes''; two other species in this genus are extinct) are small animals that have the movements and some of the habits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil Is A Sissy
''The Devil Is a Sissy'' is a 1936 American MGM comedy-drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and Rowland Brown. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney, three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s. The film premiered on September 18, 1936. Plot Claude Pierce is an aristocratic and well-bred boy from England, whose parents have received a divorce. According to a child custody agreement signed by his parents, Claude will spend six months living with his father. Jay Pierce, the father in question, has settled in New York City, where he works as an architect. Claude starts attending a public school in New York City. Claude's "polished" manners make him stand out among his schoolmates, and the other children start playing pranks on him. He soon gets on the bad side of two lower-class children, Robert "Buck" Murphy and James "Gig" Stevens. Gig is in a dark mood at the time, because his father is about to be executed for murder. Finding himself the ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Went To College
''We Went to College'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley, written by Richard Maibaum and Maurice Rapf, and starring Charles Butterworth, Walter Abel, Hugh Herbert, Una Merkel and Edith Atwater. It was released on June 19, 1936, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Cast * Charles Butterworth as Glenn Harvey * Walter Abel as Phil Talbot * Hugh Herbert as Professor Standish * Una Merkel as Susan Standish * Edith Atwater as Nina * Walter Catlett as Senator Budger * Charles Trowbridge Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge (January 10, 1882 – October 30, 1967) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 230 films from 1915 to 1958 principally playing patrician authority figures. Biography Trowbridge was born in Verac ... as President Tomlin * Tom Ricketts as 'Pop' References External links * * 1936 films 1936 comedy films American black-and-white films American comedy films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Legion (film)
''White Legion'' is a 1936 American drama film written and directed by Karl Brown. The film stars Ian Keith, Tala Birell, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Suzanne Kaaren, Lionel Pape, Rollo Lloyd, Teru Shimada and Nigel De Brulier. The film was released on October 25, 1936, by Grand National Films Inc. Plot In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing canal. Cast *Ian Keith as Dr. Julian Murray *Tala Birell as Dr. Sterne *Ferdinand Gottschalk as Dr. Fontaine *Suzanne Kaaren as Gloria Blank *Lionel Pape as Dr. Travis *Rollo Lloyd as The Colonel *Teru Shimada as Dr. Nogi *Nigel De Brulier as Father Gonzales *Nina Campana as Maria *Warner Richmond as Burke * Ferdinand Munier as Sen. Blank * Harry Allen as McKenzie * Don Barclay as Miggs *Snub Pollard as Baker *Robert Warwick Robert Warwick (born Robert Taylor Bien; October 9, 1878 – June 6, 1964) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fire-Trap
''The Fire Trap'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by Burt P. Lynwood and starring Norman Foster, Evalyn Knapp and Sidney Blackmer.Pitts p.146 Plot An insurance investigator goes on the trail of a gang of arsonists. Cast * Norman Foster as Bill Farnsworth * Evalyn Knapp as Betty Marshall * Sidney Blackmer as Cedric McIntyre * Oscar Apfel as R.A. Rawson * Ben Alexander as Bob Fender * Herbert Corthell Herbert Corthell (born Joseph Bertram Corthell, January 20, 1878 – January 23, 1947) was an American stage and film actor. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Hollywood, California Hollywood, sometimes informally called ... as Commodore Brunton * Marie Callahan as Secretary References Bibliography * Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & Company, 2005. External links * 1935 films 1935 crime drama films American cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadows Of The Orient
''Shadows of the Orient'' is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by Burt P. Lynwood. Plot Law enforcement officers try to track down the head of a smuggling ring operating out of the 'shadows' of Chinatown. Cast *Esther Ralston as Viola Avery *Regis Toomey as Inspector Bob Baxter * J. Farrell MacDonald as Inspector Sullivan *Oscar Apfel as Judge Avery *Sidney Blackmer as King Moss *Eddie Fetherston as James 'Flash' Dawson *Kit Guard Kit Guard (born Christen Klitgaard May 5, 1894 - July 18, 1961) was a Danish-American actor whose career started in the 1920s. In the sound era, Guard would often be cast in supporting roles as “a small-time hood.” Biography and career Gua ... as Spud Nolan * James B. Leong as Ching Chu External links * * * 1935 films 1935 crime drama films American crime drama films American black-and-white films Majestic Pictures films Monogram Pictures films Films directed by Burt P. Lynwood 1930s English-language films 1930s Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Hate Women
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the "long I" sound, pronounced . In most other languages, its name matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
