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The Scarlet Hour
''The Scarlet Hour'' is a 1956 American film noir crime film directed and produced by Michael Curtiz, and starring Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, and Jody Lawrance. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures. Curtiz had previously directed such noted films as ''Casablanca'', ''Yankee Doodle Dandy'', and '' White Christmas''. The screenplay was based on the story "The Kiss Off" by Frank Tashlin. The song "Never Let Me Go", written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, is performed by Nat King Cole. UCLA has an original 16 mm copy of the film in its Film and Television Archive. The initial filming began on June 6, 1955. A 35mm studio archive print was screened at the Noir City festival in Seattle in February 2019. It was released on blu-ray in 2022 by Imprint Films. Plot E. V. Marshall, known to all as "Marsh," works for wealthy real-estate businessman Ralph Nevins and is having a romantic affair with Ralph's unhappy wife, Paulie. He asks her to get a divorce, but Paulie grew up impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz (; born Manó Kaminer; from 1905 Mihály Kertész; ; December 24, 1886 April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history. He directed classic films from the silent era and numerous others during Hollywood's Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age, when the studio system was prevalent. Curtiz was already a well-known director in Europe when Warner Bros. invited him to Hollywood in 1926, when he was 39 years of age. He had already directed 64 films in Europe, and soon helped Warner Bros. become the fastest-growing movie studio. He directed 102 films during his Hollywood career, mostly at Warners, where he directed ten actors to Oscar nominations. James Cagney and Joan Crawford won their only Academy Awards under Curtiz's direction. He put Doris Day and John Garfield on screen for the first time, and he made stars of Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Bette Davis. He himself was nominated five times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Livingston
Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans, with whom he specialized in composing film scores and original soundtrack songs. Livingston composed the music while Evans wrote the lyrics. Biography Early life and family Jay Livingston was born Jacob Harold Levison in McDonald, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents. He had an older sister, Vera, and a younger brother, Alan W. Livingston, who became an executive with Capitol Records and later with NBC television. Career Livingston studied piano with Harry Archer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he organized a dance band and met Evans, a fellow student in the band. Though they began writing together in 1937, Livingston and Evans did not hit the top until 1946, when they set the music publishing business on fire with " To Each His Own," which reached number one on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Montgomery
Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery (April 15, 1933 – May 18, 1995) was an American actress whose career spanned five decades in film, stage, and television. She portrayed the good witch List of Bewitched characters#Samantha Stephens, Samantha Stephens on the popular television series ''Bewitched'', which earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations. The daughter of actor, director and producer Robert Montgomery (actor), Robert Montgomery, she began her career in the 1950s with a role on her father's television series ''Robert Montgomery Presents'', and she won a Theater World Award for her 1956 Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in the production ''Late Love''. After ''Bewitched'' ended in 1972, Montgomery continued her career with roles in many television films, including ''A Case of Rape'' (1974) and ''The Legend of Lizzie Borden#Film, The Legend of Lizzie Borden'' (1975), as Lizzie Borden. Both performances earned her additional Emmy Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is an American retired actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film '' Baby Doll'' in 1956. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Baker had other early film roles in ''Giant'' (1956) and the romantic comedy '' But Not for Me'' (1959). In 1961, she appeared in the controversial independent film '' Something Wild'', directed by her then-husband Jack Garfein, playing a traumatized rape victim. She went on to star in several critically acclaimed Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, such as ''The Big Country'' (1958), '' How the West Was Won'' (1962), and '' Cheyenne Autumn'' (1964). In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Bacall
Betty Joan Perske (September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014), professionally known as Lauren Bacall ( ), was an American actress. She was named the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures. Bacall was one of the last surviving major stars from the Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Bacall began a career as a model for the Walter Clarence Thornton, Walter Thornton Model Agency before making her film debut at the age of twenty in ''To Have and Have Not (film), To Have and Have Not'' (1944) as the leading lady opposite Humphrey Bogart, whom she later married. She continued in the film noir genre with appearances alongside Bogart in ''The Big Sleep (1946 film), The Big Sleep'' (1946), ''Dark Passage (film), Dark Passage'' (1947), and ''Key Largo (film), Key Largo'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Marlowe
Scott Marlowe (born Ronald Richard DeLeo; June 24, 1932 – January 6, 2001)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American actor. He had starring roles in the teen exploitation film '' The Cool and the Crazy'' (1958, alongside Dick Bakalyan) and the May-December independent film, '' A Cold Wind in August'' (1961, opposite Lola Albright). He was a founding member of Theatre West. Career Film Marlowe, born Ronald Richard DeLeo, the son of Emile and Concetta DeLeo, made his film debut with an uncredited role in ''Attila'' (1955). Over the next few years, he began accruing supporting parts in several films, co-starring opposite Leslie Caron in '' Gaby'' (1956); in the Michael Curtiz-directed film noir, '' The Scarlet Hour'' (1956); with Russ Tamblyn in '' The Young Guns'' (1956); opposite the Robert Ryan-led ensemble cast of ''Men in War'' (1957); and a young Anne Bancroft in '' The Restless Breed'' (1957). However, in 1958, he ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Aubuchon
Jacques Georges Aubuchon (October 30, 1924 – December 28, 1991) was an American actor who appeared in films, stage, and on television in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Early life Aubuchon, who grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was the son of Arthur and Flora Aubuchon. He went to Assumption Preparatory School and served in the US Army during World War II. During his working career, Aubuchon made over 300 television appearances, made two dozen films, did hundreds of television commercials, plus wrote plays. Career One of Aubuchon's best known roles was as Chief Urulu on ''McHale's Navy''. Aubuchon's first part on Broadway was as the sewerman in ''The Madwoman of Chaillot'' and '' Paris 7000'' was the first television show that he had a regular part on. Death Aubuchon, who was the father of television writer and producer Remi Aubuchon and father-in-law of Dirk Blocker, died of heart failure at the age of 67. He was buried in Saint Joseph Cemetery, Fitchburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Gray (actor)
William Thomas Gray (born January 13, 1938) is an American actor, competitive motorcycle racer and inventor, known for his role as Bud Anderson on the television series ''Father Knows Best'' (1954–1960). Career Gray began acting at five years old. He appeared with his mother in the 1949 horror comedy ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff'' (in separated scenes). He acted in more than 200 movies. He acted with stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Doris Day, Bob Hope, William Holden, Michael Rennie, Judith Anderson, Pat O'Brien and Barbara Stanwyck. He did not attend school and was educated by teachers hired by the film studios, often having class in tents set up on studio lots. He portrayed a young Jim Thorpe in ''Jim Thorpe – All-American'', and starred in the science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. He also portrayed Tagg "Bull's Eye" Oakley, younger brother of Annie Oakley in the pilot episode of ''Annie Oakley''. From 1954 to 1960, Gray starred a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lewis (American Actor)
David Lewis (October 19, 1916 – December 11, 2000) was an American actor. He was best known for being the original actor to portray Edward Quartermaine from 1978 to 1993 on the American soap opera ''General Hospital''. Early years Lewis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Television Lewis was a pioneering actor in television, his first televised role occurring in 1949 on the show ''Captain Video and His Video Rangers''. His credits include appearing in seven episodes of ''Perry Mason'' and one episode of ''The Tom Ewell Show'' and in the recurring role of Warden Crichton in ''Batman''. Lewis appeared on daytime television, making his soap debut on ''Love of Life'' as a murderer and later playing patriarch Henry Pierce on ''Bright Promise''. Brief guest stints on ''The Young and the Restless'' and ''Days of Our Lives'' followed. In 1978, he joined the cast of ''General Hospital'' in the role of Edward Quartermaine, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Binns
Edward Binns (September 12, 1916 – December 4, 1990) was an American actor. He had a wide-spanning career in film and television, often portraying competent, hard working and purposeful characters in his various roles. He is best known for his work in such acclaimed films as '' 12 Angry Men'' (1957), ''North by Northwest'' (1959), ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' (1961), ''Fail Safe'' (1964), ''The Americanization of Emily'' (1964), '' Patton'' (1970) and ''The Verdict'' (1982). Early life Binns was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Esther (née Bracken) and Edward Thomas Binns. His family were Quakers. He graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 1937. Career Stage Binns's theatrical career began shortly after his 1937 college graduation, when he participated in a repertory theatre in Cleveland. He followed that with a year as actor and director of the Pan-American Theatre in Mexico City. Next, he went to the University of Pennsylvania as an instructor, dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch (February 2, 1925 – July 17, 2014) was an American actress, singer, and comedienne, known for her work on Broadway and later, television. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in numerous stage plays, musicals, feature films and television series. Stritch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995. Stritch made her Broadway debut in the 1946 comedy ''Loco'' and went on to receive four Tony Award nominations: for the William Inge play ''Bus Stop'' (1956); the Noël Coward musical '' Sail Away'' (1962); the Stephen Sondheim musical ''Company'' (1970), which included her performance of the song " The Ladies Who Lunch"; and for the revival of the Edward Albee play '' A Delicate Balance'' (1996). Her one-woman show '' Elaine Stritch at Liberty'' won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event. Stritch relocated to London in the 1970s and starred in several West End productions, including Tennessee Williams' '' Small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gregory (actor)
James Gregory (December 23, 1911 – September 16, 2002) was an American character actor who played roles such as Schaffer in ''Al Capone (1959 film), Al Capone'' (1959), the Joseph McCarthy, McCarthy-like Sen. John Iselin in ''The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film), The Manchurian Candidate'' (1962), General Ursus (Planet of the Apes), General Ursus in ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes'' (1970), and Inspector Frank Luger in the television sitcom ''Barney Miller'' (1975–1982). Career In 1939, he made his Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in a production of ''Key Largo (play), Key Largo''. He served from 1941 to 1946 in the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps during World War II. His early acting work included army training films; one such appearance is excerpted in ''The Atomic Café'' (1982). He also worked in radio, including a year (1955–1956) on ''21st Precinct''. Gregory was the lead in ''The Lawless Years'', a 1920s-era crime drama which aired 45 epis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
