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Sharon Lynn
Sharon Lynn (born D'Auvergne Sharon Lindsay, April 9, 1901 – May 26, 1963) was an American actress and singer. She began playing in silent films but enjoyed her biggest success in the early sound years of motion pictures before fading away in the mid-1930s. She is perhaps best known for portraying Lola Marcel, the villainess in the Laurel and Hardy comedy feature, '' Way Out West''. Early years Lynn was born in Weatherford, Texas. She moved to Fullerton, California, at a young age and was educated in Fullerton's public schools. Later she was a student at the Paramount Motion Picture School. Career Lynn made her debut in Curlytop in 1924 as Annie, and after appearing in several silent films, she debuted in talking pictures in ''Speakeasy'' (1929). After her best known film role opposite Laurel and Hardy in '' Way Out West'', she made only one more film, a musical made in Britain, '' Thistledown'', and then retired from the screen. Personal life On January 16, 1932, in Yum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weatherford, Texas
Weatherford () is a city in and the county seat of Parker County, Texas, United States. In 2020, its population was 30,854. Weatherford is named after Thomas J. Weatherford, a State senator and advocate for Texas's secession to the Confederate States during the American Civil War. History Beginnings In 1854, Methodist Reverend Pleasant Tackett led 15 pioneer families into a land they called " Goshen," which would later become part of Parker County, itself to be created the following year by the efforts of State Representative Isaac Parker and State Senator Thomas Jefferson Weatherford in the Texas State Legislature. Evidence of a prior, failed attempt to colonize the region can be found in the abandoned cabin from 1852-53 located south of modern Weatherford on the J.H. Voorhies farm. In 1856 The railroad arrived in June 1880. The Santa Fe Depot (which houses the Weatherford Chamber of Commerce) was built in 1908 under Jim Crow laws, with waiting rooms segregated and separate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give And Take (film)
''Give and Take'' is a 1928 American sound In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the br ... part-talkie comedy film directed by William Beaudine. It was Universal Pictures, Universal's second sound film. Plot A recent college graduate convinces his father to adapt social democracy in the father's manufacturing plant so that workers share in profits and have a role in managing operations. Cast * Jean Hersholt as Factory owner, John Bauer * George Sidney (actor), George Sidney as Plant Foreman * George J. Lewis as 'Jack' Bauer Jr. * Sharon Lynn as Foreman's Daughter * Sam Hardy (actor), Sam Hardy as Industrialist * Rhoda Cross as Nancy * Charles Hill Mailes as Drumm (credited as Charles Mailes) * Leo Bates as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) * Frances Dare as Undetermined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Broadcast
''The Big Broadcast'' is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, and Leila Hyams. Based on the play ''Wild Waves'' by William Ford Manley, the film is about a radio-singer who becomes a popular hit with audiences, but takes a disrespectful approach to his career. His repeated latenesses leads to the bankruptcy of the radio station, but his career is saved by a new friend who buys the station and gives him his job back. The film co-stars George Burns and Gracie Allen in supporting roles. ''The Big Broadcast'' was produced by Paramount Pictures and was the first in a series of four ''Big Broadcast'' movies. Plot Radio-singer Bing Crosby (Bing Crosby) is not very serious about his career. His chronic tardiness and his soon-to-be marriage with the notorious Mona Lowe (Sharon Lynn) has become an issue at station WADX. After an unpleasant conversation with station manager George Burns, concerning dismissal and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Many Cooks (film)
''Too Many Cooks'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter, written by Jane Murfin and starring Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Roscoe Ates and Robert McWade. It was released on July 18, 1931 by RKO Pictures. In 1948 it was remade as the Mexican film '' The Newlywed Wants a House''. Plot Engaged couple Albert Bennett and Alice Cook plan to leave the city to build their dream house in the country. They argue about the floorplan, particularly an upstairs room that Albert wishes to use as a den and Alice wants as a sewing room. The problem is worsened when Alice’s family members come to help, each offering opinions about the room. Albert’s bachelor uncle and employer George inspects the house. He is enthusiastic about the recent return of his friend's young daughter Minnie from Europe, where she completed her cultural education. George hopes that Albert might cancel the upcoming wedding and court the virtuous Minnie. Albert refuses, describing Alice' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men On Call
''Men on Call'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by John G. Blystone and written by James Kevin McGuinness and Basil Woon. The picture stars Edmund Lowe, Mae Clarke, William Harrigan, Sharon Lynn, Warren Hymer and Ruth Warren. The film was released on January 18, 1931, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot Railroad engineer Chuck Long (Edmund Lowe) happily tells his friends that he is marrying dancer Helen Gordon (Mae Clarke) the next day, then goes to the theater where Helen works. He arrives while Helen's fellow performers are throwing a party for her, but their merriment is interrupted when a reporter arrives and reveals that Helen, whose real name is Helen Harding, was named as a co-respondent in a scandalous divorce trial six months earlier. Chuck assumes the worst and rushes from the theater without letting Helen explain. She follows him, but by the time she arrives at the railroad yard, Chuck has taken another engine out and left. Thoughts of Helen distract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightnin' (1930 Film)
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Crazy That Way
''Crazy That Way'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Kenneth MacKenna, Joan Bennett and Regis Toomey,Kellow, p. 466 and based on the play ''In Love With Love'' by Vincent Lawrence. Cast * Kenneth MacKenna as Jack Gardner * Joan Bennett as Ann Jordan * Regis Toomey as Robert Metcalf * Jason Robards Sr. as Frank Oakes * Sharon Lynn as Marion Sars * Lumsden Hare as Mr. Jordan Preservation status This film is now thought to be a lost film. See also *List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. Reas ... References Bibliography * Kellow, Brian. ''The Bennetts: An Acting Family'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2004) External links * 1930 films American comedy films American black-and-white films 1930 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up The River
''Up the River'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John Ford, and starring Claire Luce, Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart. The plot concerns escaped convicts, as well as a female convict. It was the feature film debut role of both Tracy and Bogart. Despite Bogart being billed fourth (under top-billed Tracy, Claire Luce and Warren Hymer), Tracy's and Bogart's roles were almost equally large, and this is the only film in which they appeared together. ''Up the River'' is also Bogart's only film directed by John Ford. Bogart's image is featured with Luce on some of the film's posters rather than Tracy's since Bogart was the romantic lead with Luce. Fox remade the film in 1938 starring Preston Foster and Tony Martin playing their roles. Plot Two convicts, St. Louis and Dannemora Dan, befriend another convict named Steve, who is in love with woman's-prison inmate Judy. Steve is paroled, promising Judy that he will wait for her release five months later. He ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Go Places
''Let's Go Places'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical film made by the Fox Film Corporation. Directed by Frank R. Strayer, the film uses a screenplay by William K. Wells which is based on a story by Andrew Bennison. It was choreographed by Danny Dare. The film stars Joseph Wagstaff, Lola Lane, Sharon Lynn, Frank Richardson, Walter Catlett, Dixie Lee, Ilka Chase, and Larry Steers. Cast * Joseph Wagstaff as Paul Adams * Lola Lane as Marjorie Lorraine * Sharon Lynn as Virginia Gordon * Frank Richardson as J. Speed Quinn * Walter Catlett as Rex Wardell * Dixie Lee as Dixie * Ilka Chase as Mrs. Du Bonnet * Larry Steers as Ben King ''unbilled'' * Betty Grable as Chorine * Charles Judels as Du Bonnet * Eddie Kane as Frenchman Preservation status According to IMDB, ''Let's Go Places'' is now considered a lost film. See also *List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunny Side Up (1929 Film)
''Sunny Side Up'' (stylized on-screen as ''Sunnyside Up'') is a 1929 American sound ( All-Talking) pre-Code Fox Movietone musical film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, with original songs, story, and dialogue by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. The film features a color sequences in the Multicolor process. The romantic comedy/musical premiered on October 3, 1929, at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City.NY Times October 4, 1929 ''Movie Review'' The film was directed by David Butler and has a running time of 121 minutes. Plot The film centres around a ''Will-they won't-they'' romance. Wealthy Jack Cromwell from Long Island runs off to New York City on account of his fiancee's relentless flirting. He attends an Independence Day block party where Molly Carr, from Yorkville, Manhattan, falls in love with him. Comic relief is provided by grocer Eric Swenson, above whose shop Molly and her flatmate, Bea Nichols, live.The Times, December 30, 1929, ''New Gallery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Days (1929 Film)
''Happy Days'' is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which was the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world, filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. French director Abel Gance's '' Napoléon'' (1927) had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. Paramount released '' Old Ironsides'' (1927), with two sequences in a widescreen process called "Magnascope", while MGM released '' Trail of '98'' (1928) in a widescreen process called "Fanthom Screen". The film features an array of stars who were contracted to William Fox's Fox Film Corporation at that time, including Marjorie White, Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, George Jessel, El Brendel, Ann Pennington, Victor McLaglen, Dixie Lee, Edmund Lowe, and Frank Richardson. It also featured the first appearance of Betty Grable on film, aged 12, as a chorus girl, and Sir Harry Lauder's nephew, Harry Lauder II, a conductor for Fox, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The One Woman Idea
''The One Woman Idea'' is a 1929 American Synchronized sound drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and written by Marion Orth. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Movietone process. The film stars Rod La Rocque, Marceline Day, Shirley Dorman, Sharon Lynn, Sally Phipps and Ivan Lebedeff. The film was released on June 2, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast *Rod La Rocque as Prince Ahmed *Marceline Day as Lady Alicia Douglas / Alizar *Shirley Dorman as Boat Passenger *Sharon Lynn as Boat Passenger * Sally Phipps as Boat Passenger *Ivan Lebedeff as Hosainn *Douglas Gilmore as Lord Douglas *Gino Corrado as Bordinnas * Joseph W. Girard as Steamship Captain *Arnold Lucy as Ali *Françoise Rosay as Zuleide *Jamiel Hasson as Bodyguard *Tom Tamarez as Bodyguard * Coy Watson Jr. as Buttons See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
