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Phillip Terry
Phillip Terry (born Frederick Henry Kormann; March 7, 1909 – February 23, 1993) was an American actor. Early years Terry "had elementary education in various schools in the oil country around Texas and Oklahoma." He attended Iona High School in New York and Sacred Heart College in San Francisco. Career After studying at the Royal Academy, he toured British provinces for four years performing in stock theater. He went to Hollywood and took a job with CBS Radio, where he performed in a number of plays on the air, specializing in Shakespearean roles. In 1937, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scout heard him in one of these broadcasts and arranged an interview. Terry made a screen test and was awarded a contract with the studio. One of his first film appearances was in a bit part in the movie ''Mannequin'' (1937) starring Joan Crawford. Two years later he signed with Paramount, where he starred in '' The Parson of Panamint'', ''The Monster and the Girl'' in 1941. He then did suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Exposure (1944 Film)
''Double Exposure'' is a 1944 American crime comedy film directed by William Berke, and starring Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly. Plot In New York City, James R. Tarlock, a fitness fanatic and publisher of the picture magazine ''Flick'', tells his editor, Larry Burke, to hire Pat Marvin, a small town Iowa photographer, based on a great photograph of a crashing airplane. After Tarlock leaves, Larry fires a photographer for faking a picture. It turns out that Pat's boyfriend, Ben Scribner (Phillip Terry), faked her airplane picture. Pat is excited about the job offer. Ben is less enthused about her leaving for the big city, but supports her decision to take the job. Larry is pleased to discover that his new employee is an attractive woman and takes her out to dinner. Pat seizes an opportunity by taking photographs of Dolores Tucker, the wife of much-married millionaire Sonny Tucker, lying on the floor of the restaurant's ladies' room after a suicide attempt. For a follow-up, Pat dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wake Island (1942 Film)
''Wake Island'' is a 1942 American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton, and William Bendix. The film tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the onslaught by the Japanese following the attack on Pearl Harbor. ''Wake Island'' was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Outstanding Motion Picture. The film shows how the Marines, after being pounded for days by Japanese aircraft, caught the Japanese invaders by complete surprise by unleashing a wall of fire that stopped their first attempt to land on the island. The next attack was successful, in part because communications among the Marines had been cut, leading the Marine commander to believe his three hundred men were being slaughtered by the more than three thousand Japanese invaders. Because of their fierce defense of the island and becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ventura County, California
Ventura County () is a County (United States), county located in Southern California, the southern part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 843,843. The largest city is Oxnard, California, Oxnard, and the county seat is the city of Ventura, California, Ventura. Ventura County comprises the Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Greater Los Angeles area (Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA Combined Statistical Area). It is also considered the southernmost county along the Central Coast (California), California Central Coast. Two of the Channel Islands (California), Channel Islands are part of the county: Anacapa Island, which is the most visited island in Channel Islands National Park, and San Nicolas Island. History Indigenous Ventura County was historically inhabited by the Chumash people, who also settled much of Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara and San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia De Havilland
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (; July 1, 1916July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading actresses of her time. Before her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered as being the last surviving major star from the Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her younger sister, with whom she had a noted rivalry well documented in the media, was Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine. De Havilland first came to prominence with Errol Flynn as a screen couple in adventure films such as ''Captain Blood (1935 film), Captain Blood'' (1935) and ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1938). One of her best-known roles is that of Melanie Hamilton in ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'' (1939), for which she received the first of her five Academy Awards, Osca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Each His Own (1946 Film)
''To Each His Own'' is a 1946 American romantic drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver and John Lund. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Charles Brackett and Jacques Théry. A young woman bears a child out of wedlock and has to give him up. De Havilland won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Brackett was nominated for Best Writing, Original Story. The title song became a hit. Plot In World War II London, fire wardens Josephine "Jody" Norris and Lord Desham keep vigil and bond over being lonely, middle-aged people. While Desham is arranging dinner plans, a man from Jody’s hometown turns up and tells her that someone from their town is arriving at the train station. Overjoyed, she rushes to the station and runs into a young woman who is waiting for her pilot beau, which sends Jody into a flashback. Jody is the belle of her small American hometown of Piersen F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Milland
Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and film director. He is often remembered for his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's ''The Lost Weekend'' (1945), which won him Best Actor at Cannes, a Golden Globe Award, and ultimately an Academy Award—the first such accolades for any Welsh actor. Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the Household Cavalry of the British Army, becoming a proficient marksman, horseman and aeroplane pilot. He left the army to pursue a career in acting and appeared as an extra in several British productions before getting his first major role in '' The Flying Scotsman'' (1929). This led to a nine-month contract with MGM, and he moved to the United States, where he worked as a stock actor. After his MGM contract ended, Milland was picked up by Paramount, which used him in a range of lesser speaking parts, usually as an English character. He was lent to Universal for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 In Film
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II, the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace. In the United States, there were more than eighteen thousand movie theatres operating in 1945, a figure that grew by a third from a decade earlier. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1945 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 26 – The film ''National Velvet (film), National Velvet'', starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp and Anne Revere, is released nationally in the United States. The film is an instant critical and commercial success, propelling 12-year-old Taylor to stardom and earning Revere the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. * January 30 – Restricted release of ''Kolberg (film), Kolberg'', an historical epic which is one of the last Nazi Germany propaganda pieces, in war-torn Berlin. Given its cast of 187, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Weekend (film)
''The Lost Weekend'' is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only four films—the other three being '' Marty'' (1955), ''Parasite'' (2019) and '' Anora'' (2024)—to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 70 reviews, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Director Billy Wilder's unflinchingly honest look at the effects of alcoholism may have had some of its impact blunted by time, but it remains a powerful and remarkably prescient film." In 2011, it was selected for preser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Career
A career is an individual's metaphorical "journey" through learning, work (human activity), work and other aspects of personal life, life. There are a number of ways to define career and the term is used in a variety of ways. Definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines "career" as a person's "course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)". This definition relates "career" to a range of aspects of an individual's life, learning, and work. "Career" is also frequently understood to relate to the working aspects of an individual's life - as in "career woman", for example. A third way in which the term "career" is used describes an job, occupation or a profession that usually involves specific training and/or formal education, considered to be a person's lifework. In this case "a career" is seen as a sequence of related jobs, usually pursued within a single Industry classification, industry or Economic sector, sector: one can speak for example of "a care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Keys To Baldpate (1947 Film)
''Seven Keys to Baldpate'' is a 1947 American mystery film directed by Lew Landers and starring Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White and Eduardo Ciannelli. It is the sixth film based on the popular 1913 play of the same name. Plot While the Baldpate Inn is closed for the winter, mystery writer Kenneth Magee makes a $5,000 bet with its owner that he can spend one night there and write a story. He starts work while on the train ride, but a stranger named Mary Jordan steals the typed pages. At the station, she tries to warn him not to go to Baldpate. Believing that he has the only key to the inn, Kenneth is surprised to find Cargan there, who says that he is the caretaker and was not expecting him. Although the inn has no electrical power, Kenneth is willing to work by an oil lamp and firelight. Mary arrives at the inn and must stay there because of the inclement weather. Kenneth again starts writing his story. Other people also begin arriving, and all are behaving suspiciously. An ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born To Kill (1947 Film)
''Born to Kill'' (released in the U.K. as ''Lady of Deceit'' and in Australia as ''Deadlier Than the Male'') is a 1947 RKO Pictures American film noir starring Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor and Walter Slezak with Esther Howard, Elisha Cook Jr., and Audrey Long in supporting roles. The film was director Robert Wise's first film noir production, preceding his later work on '' The Set-Up'' (1949) and '' The Captive City'' (1952). Plot San Francisco socialite Helen Brent has established residence in Reno, Nevada to obtain a divorce decree and is lodging in a boarding house owned by the feisty Mrs. Kraft. Helen meets Laury Palmer, a next-door neighbor, and Mrs. Kraft's best friend, who confides that she has accepted a date with a man named Danny to incite jealousy in her new beau, Sam Wilde. Sam sees them together that evening. Later, he enters Laury's house and confronts Danny. He bludgeons Danny to death and then kills Laury. Helen discovers the bodies and flees to San Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan-Americana
''Pan-Americana'' is a 1945 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by John H. Auer, from a screenplay by Lawrence Kimble, based on a story by Auer and Frederick Kohner. RKO released the film on March 22, 1945, and the picture stars Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, Robert Benchley, Eve Arden, Ernest Truex, Marc Cramer, and Jane Greer (uncredited) in her feature film debut. The film was an example of the Good Neighbor policy encouraging Americans to travel to South America for holidays and the last of a film genre.p. 64 Melgosa, Adrián Pérez ''Cinema and Inter-American Relations: Tracking Transnational Affect'' Routledge, 2012 Plot American journalist Jo Anne Benson travels with photographer Dan Jordan to a trip to Mexico, Cuba and Brazil for a magazine story encountering a variety of South American entertainers. Cast * Phillip Terry ... Dan Jordan * Audrey Long ... Jo Anne Benson *Robert Benchley ... Charlie Corker *Eve Arden ... Helen 'Hoppy' Hopkins * Ern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
