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Carbine Williams is a 1952 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring James Stewart, Jean Hagen and Wendell Corey. The film follows the life of its namesake, David Marshall Williams , who invented the operating principle for the M1 Carbine while in a North Carolina prison.
David Marshall Williams was born in Cumberland County, North Carolina, the son of James Claude Williams by his second wife, Laura Susan Kornegay.He was the eldest of seven children and the younger half brother of the five surviving children from the first marriage of James Claude Williams to Eula Lee Breece.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes California Conquest: Lew Landers: Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Lisa Ferraday: Western: Columbia: Canyon Ambush: Lewis D. Collins ...
Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen; [a] August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977) was an American actress best known for her role as Doll Conovan in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
During a masked party Stephen Kester (Claude Gillingwater) is found dead in the closet of his room, three stab wounds in his back.Suspicion falls on everyone at the party, especially Kester's granddaughter Jean (Shirley Grey) and her fiancé Cliff Miller (William Bakewell), who fled the house after disabling the other cars and cutting the phone lines.
His last film role was the judge in Madame X (1966). On old-time radio, Reid played Roger Allen in the soap opera Big Sister. [4] On television, Reid had the role of the U.S. spymaster known only as The Man in Amos Burke, Secret Agent. [5] He made four guest appearances on Perry Mason during the show's nine-year run between 1957 and 1966.
Carbine Williams: May 2, 1952 Young Man with Ideas: May 11, 1952 When in Rome: May 23, 1952 The Girl in White: May 28, 1952 Skirts Ahoy! May 29, 1952 Lovely to Look At: May 30, 1952 The Sellout: June 6, 1952 Glory Alley: June 13, 1952 Pat and Mike: June 27, 1952 Scaramouche: July 18, 1952 Washington Story: July 18, 1952 You for Me: July 18 ...
Wendell Reid Corey (March 20, 1914 – November 8, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a board member of the Screen Actors Guild, and also served on the Santa Monica City Council.