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Up Front (film)
''Up Front'' is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Tom Ewell and David Wayne very loosely based on Bill Mauldin's World War II characters ''Willie and Joe''. Mauldin repudiated it and refused his advising fee; he claimed never to have seen it. It takes place during the Italian campaign (World War II), Italian Campaign of World War II. Plot Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military snafus with a barrage of wry comments. On a 3-day pass in Naples, Joe's penchant for wine and women involves the pair with luscious Emi Rosso and her moonshiner father, whose tangled affairs land them in ever deeper trouble. Pre-Production Mauldin sold the film rights of ''Up Front'' to International Pictures in 1945, receiving assurance from producer William Goetz that he would maintain creative control. Frustrated with the qualit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Hall
Alexander Hall (January 11, 1894 – July 30, 1968) was an American film director, film editor and theatre actor. Biography Hall acted in the theatre from the age of 4 through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies. Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood and pursued a career in film production. He worked as a film editor and assistant director at Paramount Pictures until 1932, when he directed his first feature film ''Sinners in the Sun''. From 1937 to 1947, he was a contract director at Columbia Pictures, where he earned a reputation for sophisticated comedies. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' (1941). From 1934 to 1936, Hall was married to actress Lane Sisters, Lola Lane. He was also married to Marjorie Hunter. In the late 1930s, he was engaged briefly to Lucille Ball, who left him when she met Desi Arnaz. Years later, the couple later hired him to direct their 1956 film ''Forever, Darl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Lynn
Jeffrey Lynn (born Ragnar Godfrey Lind; – November 24, 1995) was an American stage-screen actor and film producer who worked primarily through the Golden Age of Hollywood establishing himself as one of the premier talents of his time. Throughout his acting career, both on stage and in film, he was typecast as "the attractive, reliable love interest of the heroine," or "the tall, stalwart hero." Born and raised in Massachusetts, he attended Bates College, before working as a teacher. He was tapped to act in his first film in 1938, which convinced him to move to Hollywood, California. His second film–'' Four Daughters'' (1938)–propelled him into national fame sparking two sequels: '' Four Wives'' (1939) and '' Four Mothers'' (1941), with Lynn reprising his role in each of them, along with '' Daughters Courageous'' (1939), which included the same cast but had a different storyline. He was at the center of the ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939) casting controversy: he was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Seay
James Seay (September 9, 1914 – October 10, 1992) was an American character actor who often played minor supporting roles as government officials. Early years Seay demonstrated an interest in acting at an early age, as he and his mother regularly attended Saturday matinees of a stock theater company in Pasadena, California. After working for an insurance company, he became a student at the Pasadena Playhouse. Career After a year at the Pasadena Playhouse, Seay spent the summer as leading man in a summer stock company at the Chapel Playhouse in Guilford, Connecticut. He returned to Pasadena and performed in two plays before he received a contract from Paramount He played a doctor in an "old folks home" in the film ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1947). Among his many credits, Seay appeared in minor roles in a couple of episodes of '' Adventures of Superman'' television series: ''The Mind Machine'' (as a senator) and ''Jungle Devil'' (as an airplane pilot). Seay appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Space
Charles Arthur Space (October 12, 1908 – January 13, 1983) was an American film, television and stage actor. Today's audiences know him as the eccentric inventor opposite Laurel and Hardy in '' The Big Noise'' (1944), and as veterinarian Doc Weaver in 39 episodes of the CBS television series '' Lassie''. Early years Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Space first delved into acting at Douglass College. Career Space began his career in summer stock theater and eventually began appearing on Broadway. His Broadway credits include ''Three Men on a Horse'' and ''Awake and Sing''. Producer Edward Finney cast Space as an urbane hoodlum in the 1941 crime drama ''Riot Squad'', starring Richard Cromwell and released by PRC. He jumped from the PRC company to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. Under contract to MGM, Space appeared alongside Abbott and Costello in '' Rio Rita'', and had roles in '' Tortilla Flat'', '' Grand Central Murder'', '' Andy Hardy's Double Life'', and others. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Tobey
Jesse Kenneth Tobey (March 23, 1917 – December 22, 2002) was an American actor active from the early 1940s into the 1990s, with over 200 credits in film, theatre, and television. He is best known for his role as a captain who takes charge of an Arctic military base when it is attacked by a plant-based alien in '' The Thing from Another World'' (1951), and a starring role in the 1957-1960 Desilu Productions TV series '' Whirlybirds''. Early years Tobey was born in 1917 in Oakland, California. Following his graduation from high school in 1935, he entered the University of California, Berkeley, with intentions to pursue a career in law, until he began to dabble in acting at the school's theater. His stage experience there led to a drama scholarship, a year-and-a-half of study at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse, where his classmates included fellow actors Gregory Peck, Eli Wallach, and Tony Randall. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Rowland (actor)
Henry Rowland (born Heinrich Wilhelm von Bock; December 28, 1913 – April 26, 1984) was an American film and television actor. He is remembered for his role as Count Kolinko in the ''Zorro'' television series. Biography Rowland was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His father left Germany before World War I began and became a professor of German at the University of Nebraska. Following the war, Rowland was educated in Germany through the secondary level. He returned to the United States and studied acting in Pasadena. While Rowland was born in the American Midwest, he was frequently cast as German characters, particularly as Nazis in films made during or, later, about World War II. Rowland "heiled" and "achtunged" his way through a variety of films, ranging from ''Casablanca'' (1943) to Russ Meyer's '' Supervixens'' (1975). Conversely, he showed up as an American flight surgeon in 1944's ''Winged Victory'', billed under his Army rank as Corporal Henry Rowland. In his last years, Row ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Frambes
The Bowery Boys are fictional New York City characters, portrayed by a company of New York actors, who were the subject of 48 feature films released by Monogram Pictures and its successor Allied Artists Pictures Corporation from 1946 through 1958. The Bowery Boys were successors of the East Side Kids, who had been the subject of films since 1940. The group originated as the Dead End Kids, who originally appeared in the 1937 film '' Dead End.'' Origins The Dead End Kids The Dead End Kids originally appeared in the 1935 play ''Dead End,'' dramatized by Sidney Kingsley. When Samuel Goldwyn turned the play into a 1937 film, he recruited the original "kids" from the play—Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, Billy Halop, and Bernard Punsly—to appear in the same roles in the film. This led to the making of six other films that shared the collective title ''The Dead End Kids''. The Little Tough Guys In 1938, Universal launched its own tough-kid series, Littl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Doucette
John Arthur Doucette (January 21, 1921 – August 16, 1994) was an American character actor who performed in more than 280 film and television productions between 1941 and 1987. A man of stocky build who possessed a deep, rich voice, he proved equally adept at portraying characters in Shakespearean plays, Westerns, and modern crime dramas. He is perhaps best remembered, however, for his villainous roles as a movie and television "tough guy". Early years John Doucette was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, the eldest of three children of Nellie S. (née Bishop) and Arthur J. Doucette."California Death Index, 1940–1997" database, California Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento, California. FamilySearch. Retrieved November 7, 2017. During his childhood, his family moved frequentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Baylor
Hal Harvey Fieberling (born Hal David Britton; December 10, 1918Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 for Hal David Britton, 1918 > 057451-061848, retrieved from Ancestry.com – January 15, 1998)Hal Harvey Fieberling in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claim Index, 1936-2007, retrieved from Ancestry.com known by his stage name Hal Baylor, was an American boxer and screen character actor. He had a professional boxing record of 16-8-3, and later appeared in 76 films and over 500 episodes of various television shows. Early years Born in San Antonio, Texas, to David Locke Britton and Thelma Hallie Bowles, he grew up in Oakland, California when his mother remarried to Walter H. Fieberling during January 1925. After Oakland High School, he attended Chico State College where he played on the football team. He transferred to Washington State College in the Fall of 1938, where he pledged Phi Delta Theta. But by December 1939 he was working as an apprentice butcher in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Knox (actor)
Abraham Knox (December 24, 1921 − November 15, 2013) was an American actor with nearly 80 films to his credit. Knox was also a screenwriter, film producer, and novelist. Knox was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, and he subsequently moved to Paris and Rome to find work. Knox's screenwriter credits, where he adapted approximately 150 Italian and French films into English translations, include the English adaptation of Sergio Leone's ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''. As a dialogue director, he coached many non-English speaking actors in performing convincingly in the English language. Selected filmography as an actor * '' Killer McCoy'' (1947) - Johnny Martin * '' I Walk Alone'' (1948) - Skinner * '' Jungle Patrol'' (1948) - Lt. Louie Rasti * '' The Accused'' (1949) - Jack Hunter * '' Knock on Any Door'' (1949) - Vito * '' City Across the River'' (1949) - Larry * '' Any Number Can Play'' (1949) - Pete Senta * '' White Heat'' (1949) - Het Kohler (uncredited) * '' Angels i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tito Vuolo
Tito Vuolo (22 March 1893 – 14 September 1962) was an Italian-born American actor, best known for his supporting work playing often stereotypical Italian characters. Prior to his film career, he toured the United States as a stage actor. His wife was Grazia "Grace" Vuolo. Vuolo was born in Gragnano, Campania, Italy, and died in Los Angeles, California. Partial filmography * 1941 '' Shadow of the Thin Man'' as Luis, Waiter Pushing Sea Bass (uncredited) * 1947 '' Out of the Blue'' as Mario, Proprietor (uncredited) * 1947 ''The Web'' as Emilio Canepa * 1947 '' Kiss of Death'' as Luigi (uncredited) * 1947 ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' as Joe Silva * 1947 ''The Bishop's Wife'' as Maggenti * 1947 '' Daisy Kenyon'' as Dino (uncredited) * 1947 '' T-Men'' as Pasquale, Hotel Proprietor (uncredited) * 1948 '' B.F.'s Daughter'' as Mario, Speakeasy Waiter (uncredited) * 1948 '' Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House'' as Mr. Zucca * 1948 '' I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes'' as Campana, The Groce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger De Koven
Roger De Koven (born Roger Bemet DeKoven; October 22, 1907 – January 28, 1988)"Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers, 1871-1915", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7CM-2LN : Sat Mar 09 19:26:23 UTC 2024), Entry for Roger Bemet Dekoven and Bernard Dekoven, 1906."Roger DeKoven, 81, Stage Actor; Career Hurt by McCarthy-Era Newsletter " ''The Los Angeles Times''. February 4, 1988. pt. 1, p. 28. was an American actor on stage, radio, television and film, known for his versatility," ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
