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The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures starring Fredric March and based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The picture was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb , Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie MacPherson ...
Evelyn Keyes was born in Port Arthur, Texas, [3] to Omar Dow Keyes and Maude Ollive Keyes, the daughter of a Methodist minister. After Omar Keyes died when she was three years old, Keyes moved with her mother to Atlanta, Georgia, where they lived with her grandparents.
Being a trained stage actor, Sheffield easily made the transition from silent films to talkies. He was a working actor who became memorable in numerous character and supporting roles and appeared with some of the greatest film stars of the day, including Constance Bennett , William Powell , George Arliss , Loretta Young , Gary Cooper , Errol ...
January 14, 1938: Every Day's a Holiday: January 21, 1938: Thrill of a Lifetime: Daughter of Shanghai: January 28, 1938: Partners of the Plains: February 4, 1938: The Buccaneer [b] February 11, 1938: Scandal Street: February 11, 1938: The Big Broadcast of 1938: February 25, 1938: Cassidy of Bar 20: March 11, 1938: Dangerous to Know: March 18 ...
He continued in a variety of B pictures such as Prison Farm and King of Alcatraz before appearing in two of Cecil B. DeMille's films The Buccaneer (1938) and North West Mounted Police (1940). In 1941, Hart's acting career was interrupted when he was drafted into the United States Army.
When her Columbia contract lapsed, she found work at Monogram Pictures, where she worked with action star Frankie Darro. [3] Gray also starred opposite John Wayne in Red River Range (1938) and appeared in the title role in O, My Darling Clementine (1943), a country music film starring Roy Acuff as a singing sheriff. [4]
After appearing in 25 features using her birth name, [10] she became a fixture at Paramount Pictures officially as Ellen Drew [1] from 1938 to 1944, where she appeared in as many as six films per year, including Sing You Sinners (1938) with Bing Crosby and The Lady's from Kentucky (1939) with George Raft. She moved to RKO in 1944.
He played similar roles in Capra's film Broadway Bill (1934) (and the 1950 remake, Riding High), and DeMille's version of The Buccaneer (1938, and the 1958 remake). A friend of fellow Canadian-born director Allan Dwan, Dumbrille played Athos in Dwan's adaptation of The Three Musketeers (1939). Dumbrille had roles in more than 200 motion pictures.