Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mom and Dad is the third highest-grossing film of the 1940s in dollar value, [4] and returned close to $63 for each dollar invested by its backers. [21] The Los Angeles Times estimates that the film grossed between $40 million and $100 million, [ 14 ] and it has been cited as the most successful sex hygiene film ever released.
He occasionally directed special-interest productions, like the 1945 crusade-for-sex-education feature Mom and Dad, produced by Kroger Babb, and the 1950 religious drama Again Pioneers, produced by the Protestant Film Commission. Beaudine reflected on his B movie career, saying that "[t]hese films are going to be made regardless of who directs ...
Blossoms in the Dust (1941) – biographical drama film telling the true story of Edna Gladney, who helped orphaned children find homes and began a campaign to remove the word "illegitimate" from Texas birth certificates, despite the opposition of "good" citizens [45] Buck Privates (1941) – musical comedy film based on the peacetime draft of ...
Long considered a lost film, the North American version of the German film was discovered in Oregon in 2010, buried under a cellar floor and coated in machine oil. The UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation restored the film from a 35mm nitrate silent tinted print. Set to be screened on April 6, 2024 at the Billy Wilder Theater ...
Jeanette Helen Morrison (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress.Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The pair, who were newlyweds at the start of the movie, are ready to enter a new phase as a couple in the upcoming Signed, Sealed, Delivered: To the Moon and Back, but it won’t be without its bumps.
For Those in Peril is a 1944 British war film produced by Ealing Studios that marked the directorial debut of Charles Crichton.The film was developed from a short story by Richard Hillary, an RAF pilot killed in action in January 1943.
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry ...