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Movie Premier in 1927.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Comedy
Runtimes: 60
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1, MET:1737.36 m
Release Dates: USA:6 September 1927, USA:17 September 1927
A kiss! A curl! A boy! A girl! A hug! A squeeze! Two dimpled knees! A smash! A crash! A family row! Don't miss it, folks! We've got some show!
In movie played:
Will Armstrong (actor)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:Peoria, Illinois, USA
Death Date:29 July 1943
Birth Date:18 December 1868
Ed Brady (actor)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:New York City, New York, USA
Other Works:Stage and vaudeville actor.
Birth Name:Brady, Edwin J.
Death Date:31 March 1942
Birth Date:6 December 1889
Rex Lease (actor)
Articles:"Movie Classic" (USA), September 1931, Iss. I, pg. 36, using: Nancy Pryor, "Rex Lease Parts from Bride; Domestic Tiffs Separate Cowboy Actor and Bride, Eleanor Hunt, After Few Brief Weeks of Wedded Bliss", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 10 September 1927, pg. 93, "Rex Lease"
Died at his home at 6252 Mary Ellen Ave., Van Nuys, California.
Death Notes:Van Nuys, California, USA
Born bounded by 1903 (not 1901, according to Social Security records), strapping cowboy recitalist Rex Lease be first of all interested in the ministry when he arranged to devote his instinctive life instead to acting. In what would be a rollercoaster ride of a job, he unchanging his sights by Hollywood in 1922 and bust into voiceless films by process of assignment of an superfluous and dose player. Within a few years the exceedingly handsome actor document made it into the co-star ranks of idealist the part, jazz-age funniness and rugged operation. He made an trouble-free transition into chitchat films and by the mid-'30s had become a less important league hero of dusty oaters and cliffhangers. His hero class fell jaunt a bit before long, even hence, and he soon found himself shuffle further advocate into the bill chain, alternately playing the partner or punisher of budding western star 'Gene Autry (I)' (qv), 'Roy Rogers (I)' (qv) and others. By the concluding two decades Rex was chance to bring back any perceptive of billing doesn`t matter what. He had a stringy career overall, nevertheless, appear in ably completed 300 films. After a park away into TV, he retire.
Height:5' 10"
Birth Notes:Central City, West Virginia, USA
Birth Name:Lease, Rex Lloyd
Spouse:'Eleanor Hunt' (qv) (8 April 1931 - ?) (divorced)
Death Date:3 January 1966
Birth Date:11 February 1903
George Sidney (actor)
Articles:"Variety" (USA), 2 May 1945, "George Sydney", "New York Times" (USA), 30 April 1945, pg. 19:2, "George Sidney, 68, Stage, Screen Actor", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 January 1926, pg. 240, "George Sidney", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 September 1915, pg. 2160, "Busy Izzy' in Pictures"
Nephew of actor/director 'George Sidney (I)' (qv)., Uncle of director 'George Sidney (I)' (qv)., Brother of producer 'Louis K. Sidney' (qv).
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Height:5' 3"
Birth Notes:Nagynichal, Hungary
Other Works:Stage and vaudeville actor.
Birth Name:Greenfield, Sammy
Spouse:'Carey Weber' (? - c. 1940) (her death)
Death Date:29 April 1945
Birth Date:18 March 1876
Ann Brody (actress)
Death Notes:New York City, New York, USA
Height:5'
Birth Notes:Poland
Other Works:Stage actress.
Birth Name:Goldstein, Ann Brody
Entered films with Vitagraph Co. in 1912.
Death Date:16 July 1944
Birth Date:29 August 1884
Mary Gordon (actress)
Most likeable contained by conditions of Mrs Hudson, housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, different 'Basil Rathbone' (qv) in the Sherlock Holmes films of the 30's and 40's. (She play impossible to tell apart role opposite Rathbone in the Holmes radio array.), Often typecast as an Irish mother despite being a native of Scotland. This used to drive Irish film-goers crazy, who could easily detect the Scottish accent.
Death Notes:Pasadena, California, USA
Short, plump, kind-faced character actress in US films, best remembered for her lilting Scots accent, her top-knotted silver hair and her dangling earrings., Scots actress, long in the United States, who specialized in housekeepers and mothers, most notably the housekeeper Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the Thirties and Forties. She was born Mary Gilmour, the daughter of a Glasgow wire weaver. She worked as a dressmaker before finding work on the stage. Joining a company bound for an American tour, she came to the U.S. in her twenties, apparently making a few appearances on Broadway in small roles, but primarily touring in stock. With her mother Mary and daughter (also named Mary), she arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-Twenties and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career doing. She became friends with 'John Ford (I)' (qv) while making _Hangman's House (1928)_ (qv) and made seven more films for him. In 1939, she took on her most famous role as Sherlock Holmes's housekeeper and played the role in ten films and numerous radio plays. She was a charter member of the Hollywood Canteen, entertaining servicemen throughout the Second World War. On the radio show "Those We Love," she played the regular role of Mrs. Emmett. She entered retirement just as television reshaped the entertainment industry, making only a single appearance in that medium. Very active in the Daughters of Scotia auxiliary of the Order of Scottish Clans, she lived out her final years in Pasadena, California with her daughter and grandson. She died after a long illness on August 23, 1963.
Birth Notes:Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Birth Name:Gilmour, Mary
Spouse:'?' (? - 1917) (his death), child: daughter
Death Date:23 August 1963
Birth Date:16 May 1882
Sharon Lynn (actress)
Articles:"Classic Images" (USA), June 1991, Iss. 192, pg. 42, by: George A. Katchmer, "Forgotten Cowboys and Cowgirls", "New York Times" (USA), 28 May 1963, pg. 37:2, "Sharon Lynn Dead; Movie Actress, 53", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 11 June 1927, pg. 424, "Sharon Lynn in F.B.O. Picture"
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA (multiple sclerosis)
Height:5' 4"
Birth Notes:Weatherford, Texas, USA
Birth Name:Lindsay, D'Auvergne Sharon
Spouse:'John Sershen' (? - ?), 'Benjamin Glazer' (qv) (? - ?)
Death Date:26 May 1963
Birth Date:9 April 1901
Curtis Benton (writer)
Birth Name:Benton, Horatio Curtis
Birth Notes:Toledo, Ohio, USA
Death Date:14 September 1938
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Date:26 August 1885
Al Boasberg (writer)
Called his home, "The Famous House That Gags Built"., Nephew of 19th century actress of Judith Berolde, wife of writer 'Edward Marshall (II)' (qv)., He once purchased a lot and arranged to have the house on it torn down so he could put up a new structure. The next day when he drove by, the contractors were busily destroying the house next door., Days before his death he had signed a new contract with 'Jack Benny' (qv)., Not long after his arrival in Hollywood (1925), he became a writer for 'Buster Keaton' (qv). Later he wrote for RKO's "Hollywood Revue" and Wheeler and Woolsey's "Assorted Nuts"., His father, Herman Boasberg, was a jewelry store clerk in Buffalo.
Nick Names:The Funniest Guy in Hollywood
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)
Height:6' 3"
Birth Notes:Buffalo, New York, USA
Books:Slide, Anthony. The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Westport, Connecticut; London: Greenwood Press, 1994. P. 57. ISBN 0313280274
Birth Name:Boasberg, Albert Isaac
Spouse:'Roslyn Goldberg' (1927 - ?) (separated)
Death Date:18 June 1937
Birth Date:5 December 1892
J.G. Hawks (writer)
Birth Name:Hawks, John Gerald
Birth Notes:San Francisco, California, USA
Death Date:10 April 1940
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Date:13 October 1874
Gilbert Pratt (writer)
Articles:"Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 November 1926, pg. 148, "Gil Pratt Signed"
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Birth Name:Pratt, Gilbert Walker
Death Date:10 December 1954
Birth Date:16 February 1892
Charles P. Boyle (cinematographer)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:Illinois, USA
Death Date:28 May 1968
Birth Date:26 July 1892
Arvid E. Gillstrom (director)
The great-great uncle of Heidi Gillstrom.
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA
Birth Notes:Gothenburg, Vstra Gtalands ln, Sweden
Birth Name:Gyllstrm, Arvid Evald
Spouse:'Ethel Marie Burton' (qv) (1917 - ?)
Death Date:21 May 1935
Birth Date:13 August 1889
Joseph P. Kennedy (miscellaneous crew)
US ambassador to the Court of St. James., Sons: Joseph Jr. (b. 1915), 'John F. Kennedy' (qv) (b. 1917), 'Robert F. Kennedy' (qv) (b. 1925) and Edward (b. 1932) (Senator 'Ted Kennedy (VI)' (qv))., Daughters: Rosemary (b. 1918), Kathleen (b. 1920), 'Eunice Kennedy Shriver' (qv) (b. 1921), 'Patricia Kennedy (V)' (qv) (b. 1924) and 'Jean Kennedy Smith' (qv) (b. 1928)., Father of the former US President 'John F. Kennedy' (qv), Senators 'Robert F. Kennedy' (qv) (D-NY) and 'Ted Kennedy (I)' (qv) (D-MA) and producer 'Eunice Kennedy Shriver' (qv)., Four of his nine children died before him: Joseph Jr. was killed in a W.W.II plane crash in 1944. Kathleen died in a plane crash in 1948. 'John F. Kennedy' (qv) was assassinated in 1963, and 'Robert F. Kennedy' (qv) in 1968., (1 January 1998) Has 30 grandchildren, 26 of whom are alive., Grandfather of 'Maria Shriver' (qv), 'Robert Shriver' (qv), 'Rory Kennedy' (qv), 'John Kennedy Jr.' (qv) and 'Caroline Kennedy (I)' (qv)., Father-in-law of 'Jacqueline Kennedy (I)' (qv) and 'Ethel Kennedy (II)' (qv)., Grandfather of 'Christopher Lawford' (qv), Grandfather of 'Kathleen Kennedy Townsend' (qv), 'Joseph Kennedy (I)' (qv), and Congressman 'Patrick Kennedy (II)' (qv)., RKO Pictures, under Kennedy's management, made an $8-million offer (approximately $85 million in 2005 dollars) to Alexander Pantages for his chain of theaters in order to boost RKO's exhibition operations. The Pantages Theater chain consisted of 63 premier, financially robust theaters that were the dominant movie exhibitor and vaudeville circuit in North America west of the Mississippi River. Having partnered with the movie distributor Famous Players (a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures) in 1920, Pantages had converted his theaters into "combo" houses that showed films as well as staged live vaudeville. However, Pantages' expansion effectively was blocked by the dominance of Kennedy's Keith-Albee-Orpheum Circuit in the East, which was now part of RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum). After Pantages declined the $8-million offer, Kennedy stopped distributing RKO films to Pantages. Despite the pressure, Pantages declined to knuckle under and sell out. A year later, in 1929, he was charged and tried for the rape of one of his 17-year-old ushers, Eunice Pringle. He was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. The trial battered his reputation and strained him emotionally, and he finally relented, accepting Kennedy's revised offer of $3.5 million for his chain. 'Ronald Kessler' (qv), in his book "The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded" (New York: Warner Books, 1997), recalled the rumor, begun during Pantages' second trial, that RKO had paid Pringle to frame Pantages; however, there is only anecdotal evidence to support this claim., During Prohibition, Kennedy's company Somerset Importers became the exclusive U.S. agent for Gordon's Dry Gin and Dewar's Scotch. Anticipating the end of Prohibition, he assembled a large inventory of stock that he sold for a profit of millions of dollars when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. One of his partners in the deal was 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' (qv)'s son, 'James Roosevelt' (qv). Kennedy invested the money from his legal liquor business in real estate, the Merchandise Mart in Chicago and Hialeah Race Track in Hialeah, Florida. However, rumors that he was a "bootlegger," involved in running illegal liquor across the Great Lakes into the U.S. from Canada in cahoots with the Bronfman family and the Mafia, have never been proven., In 1925 he was retained by the financially troubled owner of Film Booking Office of America (FBO), a "Poverty Row" studio specializing in cheaply made westerns, to help find a new owner. Kennedy formed his own group of investors and bought FBO for $1.5 million. Subsequently, he moved to California in March 1926 to focus on running the studio. At the time movie studios were permitted to also own exhibition companies (a practice that was stopped by a 1947 Supreme Court decision involving Paramount Pictures), so Kennedy launched a hostile buyout of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Theaters Corporation (KAO), which had more than 700 vaudeville and movie theaters across the U.S. In 1927 he acquired another production studio and film exhibitor, American Path, and its Path Exchange distribution subsidiary. In October 1928 he formally merged his film companies FBO and KAO with RCA's Photophone Division to form Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO). He topped this off by acquiring the Pantages Theater chain for $3.5 million, creating a major studio in the process with RKO Pictures., Born in Boston, the son of Patrick J. Kennedy, a successful businessman (liquor) and Irish Catholic community leader active in Democratic Party politics. Joseph attended Boston Latin School, where he was a below average academically but proved popular among his classmates, winning election as class president and playing on the school baseball team. Following the example of several older relatives, he attended Harvard University, where he focused on becoming a social leader, gaining admittance to the prestigious Hasty Pudding Club.
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