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Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

June 8, 2014 by smumcounty

Van Stanhope (Clark Gable) and his wife Linda (Myrna Loy) are, by all accounts, a deliriously happy couple. He’s the …
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Category: 1930s, Drama | Tags: Clark Gable, George Barbier, James Stewart, Jean Harlow, Linda Stanhope, May Robson, MGM, Myrna Loy, Van Stanhope, Whitey Wilson, Wife vs. Secretary

Know Your Charactor Actor: Edward Everett Horton

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May 18, 2014 by smumcounty

Edward Everett Horton was born in 1886 in Brooklyn, the son of Edward Everett Horton and Isabella Diack Horton. His …
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Category: Know Your Character Actor | Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Arsenic and Old Lace, Beggar on Horseback, Design for Living, Edward Everett Horton, Edward Everett Horton Biography, F Troop, Fractured Fairy Tales, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, I Love Lucy, Lost Horizon, Shall We Dance, Springtime for Henry, The Front Page, The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Trouble in Paradise

Battleground (1949)

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April 14, 2014 by smumcounty

“This story is about, and dedicated to, those Americans who met General Heinrich von Luttwitz and his 47 Panzer Corps …
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Category: 1940s, Action, Drama, War | Tags: Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge, Battleground (1949), Bruce Cowling, Don Taylor, Douglas Fowley, General McAuliffe, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Jerome Courtland, John D. Dunning, John Hodiak, Leon Ames, Marshall Thompson, MGM, Nuts, Paul C. Vogel, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Pirosh, Van Johnson, William A. Wellman, World War II

Know Your Character Actor: Una Merkel

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March 22, 2014 by smumcounty

Una Merkel was born in Covington, Kentucky on Dec 10th, 1903. In her teens she moved to Hollywood to pursue …
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Category: Know Your Character Actor | Tags: Bombshell, Carole Lombard, Charles Butterworth, Destry Rides Again, Evelyn Prentice, Ginger Rogers, Harold Lloyd, Jack Benny, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Midnight Mary, Myrna Loy, Red-Headed Woman, Riffraff, Saratoga, True Confession, Una Merkel, Una Merkel Biography

The Manificent Ambersons (1942)

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March 8, 2014 by smumcounty

“The Magnificent Ambersons” (1942), based on the novel by Booth Tarkington, is the story of a great American family in …
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Category: 1940s, Drama | Tags: Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Booth Tarkington, Comeuppance, Dolores Costello, Donald Dillaway, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Richard Bennett, Stanley Cortez, The Manficent Ambersons, Tim Holt

Know Your Character Actor: Felix Bressart

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February 16, 2014 by smumcounty

Felix Bressart was born in East Prussia in 1892, an area that is now part of Russia. He took to …
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Category: Know Your Character Actor | Tags: Ernst Lubitsch, Felix Bressart, Felix Bressart Biography, Joe Pasternak, Ninotchka, The Shope Around the Corner, Three Smart Girls Grow Up, To Be or Not to Be

The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

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January 16, 2014 by smumcounty

Stockbroker Gerald Parker (Guy Usher) is on the phone with Bertrand Hemingway (Clarence Wilson), the director of the New York …
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Category: 1930s, Comedy, Mystery, Pre-Code | Tags: Clarence Wilson, Donald Cook, Edna May Oliver, Guy Usher, Hidegarde Withers, James Gleason, Lydia Pinkham, Mae Clark, Mystery, Oscar Piper, Penguin Pool Murder, RKO, Robert Armstrong, Rochelle Hudson, Stuart Palmer

Know Your Character Actor – Billie Burke

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December 15, 2013 by smumcounty

Billie Burke was born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke in 1884 in Washington DC. As a child she travelled America …
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Category: Know Your Character Actor | Tags: Bill of Divorcement, Billie Burke, Billy Burke, Dinner at Eight, Florenz Ziegfeld, George Cukor, Merrily We Live, Sergeant Rutledge, The School Girl, The Wizard of Oz, Topper

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

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November 28, 2013 by smumcounty

Preston Sturges’ “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek” (1944) begins with a harried newspaper editor making a frenzied call to the …
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Category: 1940s, Comedy | Tags: Akim Tamiroff, Al Bridge, Betty Hutton, Brian Donlevy, Diana Lynn, Eddie Bracken, Gertrude Kockenlocker, Homefront, McGinty, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Norval Jones, Porter Hall, Preston Sturges, Sextuplets, Torben Meyer, William Demarest, World War II

Know Your Character Actor – C. Aubrey Smith

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November 3, 2013 by smumcounty

Born in London in 1863, Charles Aubrey Smith, credited as C. Aubrey Smith in films, began life as a test-cricketer. …
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Category: Know Your Character Actor | Tags: C. Aubrey Smith, Cricket, Hollywood Cricket Club, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Four Feathers, The Hurricane, The Prisoner of Zenda, Wee Willie Winkie

Smum County

Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

Know Your Charactor Actor: Edward Everett Horton

Battleground (1949)

Know Your Character Actor: Una Merkel

The Manificent Ambersons (1942)

Know Your Character Actor: Felix Bressart

The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

Know Your Character Actor – Billie Burke

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

Know Your Character Actor – C. Aubrey Smith

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