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The Spoilers (1914 Film)
''The Spoilers'' is a 1914 American silent Western film directed by Colin Campbell. The film is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara. In 1916, an expanded version was released, running 110 minutes. The film was adapted to screen by Lanier Bartlett from the Rex Beach novel of the same name. The film was remade in 1923 (with Noah Beery as McNamara), 1930 (with Gary Cooper as Glennister and Betty Compson as Malotte), 1942 (with John Wayne as Glennister, Randolph Scott as McNamara, and Marlene Dietrich as Malotte), and 1955 (with Jeff Chandler as Glennister, Rory Calhoun as McNamara, and Anne Baxter as Malotte). All of the films feature a lengthy, intense fight sequence. Plot summary Cast * William Farnum as Roy Glenister * Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte * Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Campbell (film Maker)
James Colin Campbell (11 October 1859 – 26 August 1928) was a film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed more than 170 American films between 1911 and 1924; and wrote scripts for 60 films between 1911 and 1922. He was born in Scotland, and died in Hollywood, California. Campbell married actress Blanche Crozier on March 2, 1912.California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1830-1980. California Department of Public Health, courtesy of www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com Selected filmography * '' Brown of Harvard'' (1911) * '' An Assisted Elopement'' (1912) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1912) * '' Alas! Poor Yorick!'' (1913) * ''A Wise Old Elephant'' (1913) * '' Wamba A Child of the Jungle'' (1913) * '' The Spoilers'' (1914) * '' Shotgun Jones'' (1914) * '' Chip of the Flying U'' (1914) * ''The Rosary'' (1915) * ''The Carpet from Bagdad'' (1915) * '' Sweet Alyssum'' (1915) * ''Tillie's Tomato Surprise'' (1915) * ''Thou Shalt Not Covet'' (1916) * '' The Garde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway theatre, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Academy Awards, Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe, and two Laurel Awards, and was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award, Emmy. A granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, Baxter studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and had some stage experience before making her film debut in ''20 Mule Team'' (1940). She became a contract player of 20th Century-Fox and was loaned to RKO Pictures for the role of Lucy Morgan in Orson Welles's ''The Magnificent Ambersons (film), The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1942). She was the leading lady in Billy Wilder's ''Five Graves to Cairo'' (1943). In 1947, she won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie MacDo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory Calhoun
Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, 1922April 28, 1999) was an American film and television actor. He starred in numerous Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared in supporting roles in films such as ''How to Marry a Millionaire'' (1953) and ''Motel Hell'' (1980). Life and career 1922–1943: Troubled early life Francis Timothy McCown was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Elizabeth Cuthbert and Floyd Conley McCown, a professional gambler. He spent his early years in Santa Cruz, California. He was of Irish ancestry. At age 13, he stole a revolver, for which he was sent to the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory at Ione, California. He escaped while in the adjustment center (jail within the jail). He left home at 17 to escape beatings from his stepfather and began hot-wiring cars. After robbing several jewelry stores, he stole a car and drove it across state lines. This was a federal offense, so when he was recap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Chandler (actor)
Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel; December 15, 1918 – June 17, 1961) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Cochise in '' Broken Arrow'' (1950), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was one of Universal Pictures' more popular male stars of the 1950s. His other credits include '' Sword in the Desert'' (1948), '' Deported'' (1950), '' Female on the Beach'' (1955), and '' Away All Boats'' (1956). He also performed as a radio actor and as a singer. Early life Chandler was born Ira Grossel in Brooklyn, New York City, the only child of Jewish parents Anna (née Herman) and Phillip Grossel. He was raised by his mother after his parents separated when he was a child. He attended Erasmus Hall High School, where he acted in school plays; his schoolmates included Susan Hayward. Chandler's father was connected with the restaurant business and got his son a job as a restaurant cashier. Chandler said he always wanted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spoilers (1955 Film)
''The Spoilers'' is a 1955 American Western film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler and Rory Calhoun. Set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, it culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister (Chandler) and McNamara (Calhoun). This is the fifth and to date final adaptation of Rex Beach's novel of the same name. Prior film versions appeared in 1914, in 1923 (with Noah Beery, Sr. as McNamara), in 1930 (with Gary Cooper as Glennister and Betty Compson as Malotte), and in 1942 (with John Wayne as Glennister, Betty Compson lookalike Marlene Dietrich as Malotte, and Randolph Scott as McNamara). The 1930 and 1942 versions were the only instances of Gary Cooper and John Wayne playing the same role in the same story in two different films; Jeff Chandler portrays the part in this version. Plot Struggling miners Flapjack and Banty go to the office of Alex McNamara, the new gold commissioner in Nome, Alaska, to complain about c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola Lola in Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. She starred in many Hollywood (film industry), Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: ''Morocco (film), Morocco'' (1930) (her only Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award nomination), ''Dishonored (film), Dishonored'' (1931), ''Shanghai Express (film), Shanghai Express'' and ''Blonde Venus'' (both 1932), ''The Scarlet Empress'' (1934), ''The Devil Is a Woman (1935 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph Scott
George Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor, whose Hollywood career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in dramas, comedies, Musical film, musicals, adventures, war films, war, horror and fantasy films, and Western (genre), Westerns. Out of his more than 100 film appearances, more than 60 of them were Westerns.Buscombe, 1988. p 382. At , lanky and muscular, Scott displayed a Southern drawl that offset his limitations. During the early 1950s, Scott was a consistent box-office draw. In the annual ''Motion Picture Herald'' Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll, Top Ten Polls, his name appeared on the list for four consecutive years, from 1950 to 1953. Scott also appeared in Quigley's ''Top Ten Money Makers Poll'', from 1950 to 1953. Early years Scott was born January 23, 1898, in Orange County, Virginia, and reared in Charlotte, North Carolina, the second of si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wayne
Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne, was an American actor. Nicknamed "Duke", he became a Pop icon, popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western film, Western and war film, war movies. His career flourished from the silent film era of the 1920s through the American New Wave, as he appeared in a total of 179 film and television productions. He was among the top box-office draws for three decades and appeared with many other important Hollywood stars of his era. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Wayne as one of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, greatest male stars of classic American cinema. Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, but grew up in Southern California. After losing his Athletic scholarship, football scholarship to the University of Southern California due to a bodysurfing accident, he began working for the 20th Century Fox, Fox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spoilers (1942 Film)
''The Spoilers'' is a 1942 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne. ''The Spoilers'' was adapted to screen by Lawrence Hazard from the 1906 Rex Beach novel The Spoilers (Beach novel), of the same name. Film versions also appeared The Spoilers (1914 film), in 1914, The Spoilers (1923 film), in 1923 (with Noah Beery Sr. as McNamara and Anna Q. Nilsson as Malotte), The Spoilers (1930 film), in 1930 (with Gary Cooper as Glennister and Betty Compson as Malotte; this is the only time that Gary Cooper and John Wayne played the same role in different films), and The Spoilers (1955 film), in 1955 (with Anne Baxter as Malotte, Jeff Chandler (actor), Jeff Chandler as Glennister and Rory Calhoun as McNamara). Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne also appeared together that same year in a movie called ''Pittsburgh (1942 film), Pittsburgh''. At the time, Scott was under contract to Universal, wherea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Compson
Betty Compson (born Eleanor Luicime Compson; March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer who got her start during Hollywood's silent era. She is best known for her performances in ''The Docks of New York'' and ''The Barker'', the latter of which earned her an Academy Awards, Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress, Best Actress. Early life Compson was born on March 19, 1897, the daughter of Virgil and Mary ( Rauscher) Compson, in Beaver, Utah, at a mining camp. Her father was a mining engineer, a gold prospector, and a grocery store proprietor, and her mother was a maid in homes and in a hotel. Compson graduated from Salt Lake High School. Her father died when she was young, and she obtained employment as a violinist at 16 at a theater in Salt Lake City. Career Playing in vaudeville sketches with touring circuits, Compson was noticed by Hollywood producers. While touring, she was discovered by comedic producer Al Christie and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as an 33rd Academy Awards, Academy Honorary Award in 1961 for his career achievements. He was one of the top-10 film personalities for 23 consecutive years and one of the top money-making stars for 18 years. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper at number11 on its list of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, 50 greatest screen legends. Cooper's career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in 84 feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood cinema, classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women, and his range included roles in most major film genres. His ability to project his ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
