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Peggy Moran
Peggy Moran (born Mary Jeanette Moran, October 23, 1918 – October 24, 2002) was an American film actress who appeared in films between 1938 and 1943. Early years Born Marie Jeanette Moran on October 23, 1918, in Clinton, Iowa, Moran was the daughter of Earl Moran, an artist specializing in pin-ups for calendars and magazines, and dancer Louise Scott, formerly a member of the Denishawn Dance Company. Moran's family moved to Hollywood when she was 5. She attended the Micheltorina School and John Marshall High School, graduating in 1937. Career Moran's film career began at Warner Bros. in the late 1930s. She starred in a number of B movies, including ''The Mummy's Hand'' (1940), ''Slightly Tempted'' (1940), ''Horror Island'' (1941), ''Treat 'Em Rough'' (1942), and '' King of the Cowboys'' (1943), and played smaller parts in A pictures, such as the "first cigarette girl" in ''Ninotchka'' (1939). After marrying director Henry Koster Henry Koster (born Hermann Kosterli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring Parade
''Spring Parade'' is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin. It is a remake of the 1934 film. Plot Based on a story by Ernst Marischka, the film is about a Hungarian woman who attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller which says she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Soon after the woman gets a job as a baker's assistant and meets a handsome army drummer who dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor, but is held back by the military which discourages original music. Wanting to help the army drummer, the woman sends one of his waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries, which leads to the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction. Cast * Deanna Durbin as Ilonka Tolnay * Robert Cummings as Corporal Harry Marten * Mischa Auer as Gustav * Henry Stephenson as Emperor Franz Joseph * S. Z. Sakall as Laci Teschek - the Baker * Billy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secrets Of An Actress
''Secrets of an Actress'' is a romantic drama film directed by William Keighley, and starring Kay Francis, George Brent, and Ian Hunter in 1938. It is about a love triangle between a stage actress, her financial backer, and his friend. Plot summary Architects Dick Orr and Peter Snowden fall in love with actress Fay Carter and get involved in her show business aspirations. Cast * Kay Francis as Fay Carter * George Brent as Dick Orr * Ian Hunter as Peter Snowden * Gloria Dickson as Carla Orr * Isabel Jeans as Marian Plantagenet * Penny Singleton as Miss Reid * Dennie Moore as Miss Blackstone * Selmer Jackson as Mr. Thompson * Herbert Rawlinson as Mr. Harrison * Emmett Vogan as Joe Spencer (as Emmet Vogan) * James B. Carson as Carstairs * George O'Hanlon George O'Hanlon (November 23, 1912 – February 11, 1989) was an American actor, comedian and writer. He was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Bros.' live-action ''Joe McDoakes'' short subjects from 1942 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alias The Deacon (1940 Film)
''Alias the Deacon'' is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Christy Cabanne and written by Nat Perrin and Charles Grayson. It is based on the 1925 play ''The Deacon'' by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens. The film stars Bob Burns, Mischa Auer, Peggy Moran, Dennis O'Keefe, Edward Brophy, Thurston Hall, Spencer Charters, Jack Carson and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. The film was released on May 17, 1940 by Universal Pictures. Cast * Bob Burns as Deke Caswell *Mischa Auer as Andre * Peggy Moran as Phyllis *Dennis O'Keefe as Johnny Sloan *Edward Brophy as Stuffy *Thurston Hall as Jim Cunningham *Spencer Charters as Sheriff Yates *Jack Carson as Sullivan *Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Bull Gumbatz *Virginia Brissac as Elsie Clark *Benny Bartlett as Willie Clark *Mira McKinney as Mrs. Gregory * Janet Shaw as Mildred Gregory Reception In a contemporary review for ''The New York Times'', critic Bosley Crowther Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger On Wheels
''Danger on Wheels'' is a 1940 American film noir sport film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Richard Arlen and Andy Devine. Plot A test driver (Richard Arlen) tries racing with his girlfriend's ( Peggy Moran) father's new engine. Cast * Richard Arlen as Larry Taylor * Andy Devine as Gumpy Wesel * Peggy Moran as Pat O'Shea * Vinton Hayworth as Bruce Crowley (as Jack Arnold) * Herbert Corthell as Pop O'Shea * Sandra King as June Allen * Landers Stevens as Lloyd B. Allen * Harry C. Bradley as Jones * Mary Treen as Esme * John Holmes as Eddie Dodds * Jack Rice Jack Rice (born Earl Clifford Rice; May 14, 1893 – December 14, 1968) was an American actor best known for appearing as the scrounging, freeloading brother-in-law in Edgar Kennedy's series of short domestic comedy films at the RKO studio ... as Parker References 1940 films American auto racing films American drama films 1940 drama films American black-and-white films 1940s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh Johnny, How You Can Love
''Oh Johnny, How You Can Love'' is a 1940 American film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Tom Brown and Peggy Moran. It was an early appearance of Laird Cregar. The film cost $100,000. Plot Kelly Archer, an heiress trying to escape her controlling father and elope with an archeologist, runs into the truck of traveling salesman Johnny Sandham. She hitches a ride with Johnny. A bank robber known as The Weasel commandeers the truck and takes the two hostage. That night, stopping to have the truck's brakes fixed, Johnny dupes the Weasel into helping him win over Kelly: Johnny pretends to be gangster "Jersey Joe", and says they should kidnap Kelly for ransom. Kelly overhears their plan, and helps innkeeper Thistlebottom subdue both men. Kelly's father arrives to take his daughter home, but she rides off with Johnny. References External links *''Oh Johnny How You Can Love''at TCMDB Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of Carson City
''West of Carson City'' is a 1940 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor and written by Milton Raison, Sherman L. Lowe and Jack Bernhard. The film stars Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Peggy Moran, Harry Woods and Robert Homans. The film was released on January 19, 1940, by Universal Pictures. Plot A judge leads a crusade against the illegitimate governing of a gold rush town by gamblers intent on cleaning out the prospectors. At the urging of some of the townsfolk, he does the cleaning out instead. Cast *Johnny Mack Brown as Jim Bannister * Bob Baker as Nevada *Fuzzy Knight as Banjo *Peggy Moran as Millie Harkins * Harry Woods as Mack Gorman *Robert Homans as Judge Harkins *Al K. Hall as Lem Howard *Roy Barcroft as Bill Tompkins * Charles King as Drag * Frank Mitchell as Breed *Edmund Cobb as Sleepy *Jack Roper as Larkin *Ted Wells Theodore Von Wells, Jr. (born April 28, 1950) is an American trial lawyer and defense attorney. He is a partner at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Guy
''The Big Guy'' is a 1939 American drama crime film directed by Arthur Lubin starring Victor McLaglen and Jackie Cooper. Plot A prison warden ( Victor McLaglen) can either keep loot for his family or save an innocent youth ( Jackie Cooper) condemned to die. Cast * Victor McLaglen as Warden Bill Whitlock * Jackie Cooper as Jimmy Hutchins * Ona Munson as Mary Whitlock * Peggy Moran as Joan Lawson * Edward Brophy as Dippy * Jonathan Hale as Jack Lang * Russell Hicks Edward Russell Hicks (June 4, 1895 – June 1, 1957) was an American film character actor. Hicks was born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the ... as Lawson * Wallis Clark as District Attorney * Alan Davis as Joe * Murray Alper as Williams * Edward Pawley as Buckhart * George McKay as Buzz Miller Production Universal had been looking for a project to team Victor McLaglen and Jackie Cooper for some months ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Love (1939 Film)
''First Love'' is a 1939 American musical film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin. Based on the fairy tale ''Cinderella'', the film is about an orphan who is sent to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. Her life is made difficult by her snobby cousin who arranges that she stay home while the rest of the family attends a major social ball. With the help of her uncle, she makes it to the ball, where she meets and falls in love with her cousin's boyfriend. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Music. It was on a preliminary list of submissions from the studios for Cinematography (Black-and-White) but was not nominated. Plot Constance Harding is an unhappy orphan who will soon graduate from Miss Wiggins' school for girls. Her only real relatives are members from the James Clinton family, but they show little interest in the teenager. She is brought to New York by one of their butlers, where s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Carnival (film)
''Winter Carnival'' is a 1939 comedy-drama film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Ann Sheridan, Richard Carlson and Helen Parrish. Jill Baxter returns to her college for the annual Winter Carnival and falls in love with an old boyfriend. Budd Schulberg and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others worked on the script, an experience that led to Schulberg's novel '' The Disenchanted''. accessed 28 October 2014 Plot Publicity-loving heiress Jill Baxter ( Ann Sheridan) returns to Dartmouth College for its Winter Carnival. Years earlier, she h ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenobia (film)
''Zenobia'' (also known as ''Elephants Never Forget'' ( UK) and ''It's Spring Again'') is a 1939 comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison, Jean Parker, June Lang, Stepin Fetchit and Hattie McDaniel. The source of the film was the 1891 short story "Zenobia's Infidelity" by H.C. Bunner, which was originally purchased by producer Hal Roach as a vehicle for Roland Young. Plot In 1870, Dr. Henry Tibbett, a Mississippi country doctor is called on by a travelling circus trainer to cure his sick elephant. After the doctor heals the grateful beast, the elephant becomes so attached to him that it starts to follow him everywhere. This leads to the trainer suing Dr. Tibbett for alienation of affection. The presence of the elephant also endangers the engagement of Dr.Tibbett's daughter Mary to the son of the prominent Carter family, who are social snobs looking for an excuse to call off the wedding. Things ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Underworld (1939 Film)
''King of the Underworld'' is a 1939 American crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a gangster and Kay Francis as a doctor forced to treat him. It was directed by Lewis Seiler. It is a remake of the 1935 film '' Dr. Socrates'', which was based on a short story by W. R. Burnett. Plot Married doctors Niles and Carole Nelson save the life of a gangster shot in a gunfight. Joe Gurney, the patient's boss, gives Niles $500 as a reward, and suggests he take his "million dollar hands" uptown, where he can treat the rich. Niles takes his suggestion, but soon neglects his practice for his addiction: betting on the horses. The doctor also starts treating Joe's gang without telling his wife. One night, he is called away to do just that. Suspicious, Carole follows him. When the police raid the gang's hideout, a shootout ensues and Niles is killed while Joe and his gang escape. Though the district attorney has no case, he charges Carole with being guilty of being married to Niles just t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythm Of The Saddle
Rhythm (from Greek , ''rhythmos'', "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a " movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time can apply to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or frequency of anything from microseconds to several seconds (as with the riff in a rock music song); to several minutes or hours, or, at the most extreme, even over many years. The Oxford English Dictionary defines rhythm as ''"The measured flow of words or phrases in verse, forming various patterns of sound as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables in a metrical foot or line; an instance of this"''. Rhythm is related to and distinguished from pulse, meter, and beats: In the performance arts, rhythm is the timing of events on a human scale; of musical sounds and silences that occur over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
