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Captains Courageous is a 1937 American adventure drama film starring Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore and Melvyn Douglas. Based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Rudyard Kipling , the film had its world premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles .
There were ten nominees for Best Picture: The Awful Truth (also director [win], actress and supporting actor), Captains Courageous (also actor [win]), Dead End (also supporting actress), The Good Earth (also director and actress [win]), In Old Chicago (also supporting actress [win]), Lost Horizon (also supporting actor), One Hundred Men and a ...
Captains Courageous, The Musical was a 1999 Off Broadway production at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Episode 89 of The Triplets is based on Captains Courageous and follows the plot very closely. Other adaptations: The Billion Dollar Boy by Charles Sheffield is a retelling of Captains Courageous in a futuristic science fiction setting.
He appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967, during which time he received several awards and nominations from the industry. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor, a record he holds with Laurence Olivier, and won two: for Captains Courageous (1937), and Boys Town (1938). He was the first person to win consecutive awards in the ...
His most famous starring roles are in Captains Courageous (1937) and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). Bartholomew was born in London in 1924. [ 1 ] In 1934, for the title role of MGM 's David Copperfield (1935), he immigrated to the United States at age 10, living there for the rest of his life. [ 3 ]
Captains Courageous: 1937: 1989: Turner Entertainment [122] Carbine Williams: 1952: 1987: Turner Entertainment [123] Carnival of Souls: 1962: 2004: Legend Films [124] Casablanca: 1942: 1988: Turner Entertainment [125] (American Film Technologies Inc. [126]) The Case of the Stuttering Pig: 1937: 1995: Warner Bros. [127] The Catered Affair: 1956: ...
Lionel Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blyth in Philadelphia, the son of actors Georgiana Drew Barrymore and Maurice Barrymore (born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth). He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, the uncle of John Drew Barrymore and Diana Barrymore and the great-uncle of Drew Barrymore, among other members of the Barrymore family.
The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Top-grossing films (U.S.)