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Whistling in the Dark, a comedy crime film adapted from a Broadway play of the same title Whistling in the Dark (1932 play) starring Ernest Truex; Whistling in the Dark, another adaptation of the play, starring Red Skelton
Whistling in the Dark is a 1941 American comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon.It is the first of three films starring Red Skelton as Wally "the Fox" Benton, who writes and acts in radio murder mysteries.
By 1932, Marion was on stage separately at the Waldorf Theatre, New York City. She succeeded Eleanor King as leading lady in Whistling in the Dark. 1930s news accounts reported that she operated a beauty parlor and directed a branch of a cosmetics manufacturer. In her later years she knew much unhappiness and struggled with the temptations of ...
One should always leave a light burning in an empty theatre. [7]Though it is a superstition, it does have practical value as well: the backstage area of a theatre tends to be cluttered with props and other objects, so someone who enters a completely darkened space is liable to be injured while hunting for a light switch.
A Whistle in the Dark is a play by Tom Murphy that premiered on September 11, 1961 at the Joan Littlewood's Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, having been rejected by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. [3] It then went on to be a West End hit. [4] Murphy was twenty-five years old at the time. [5] [6]
Whistling in the Dark (U.S. television title: Scared!) is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Ernest Truex and Una Merkel.The plot concerns a mystery writer whose scheme for a perfect murder comes to the attention of a gangster (Edward Arnold), who plans to use it.
Claire Trevor (née Wemlinger; March 8, 1910 [1] – April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She appeared in 65 feature films from 1933 to 1982, [2] winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937).
The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theater at 243 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1928, it was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the Elizabethan , Mediterranean , and Adam styles for the Shubert family .