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Johnny Eager is a 1941 American film noir directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Robert Taylor, Lana Turner and Van Heflin. Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . [ 2 ] The film was one of many spoofed in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982).
On Broadway, Raymond portrayed Blossom Le Verne in See My Lawyer (1939). [3]She signed a movie contract with MGM in 1941 and was cast in incidental roles for one year. The she began freelancing, ultimately appearing in more than 40 films including Johnny Eager (1942) and as a slave girl in Arabian Nights (1942).
He received a stock deal from MGM, which initially cast Heflin in supporting roles in films such as The Feminine Touch (1941) and H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941). [7]: 37–39 He had a part as Robert Taylor's doomed best friend in Johnny Eager (1942), which won Heflin an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and was a box office success. [7]: 42
During the early 1940s, Turner established herself as a leading lady, and one of MGM's top stars, appearing in such films as the film noir Johnny Eager (1941), the musical Ziegfeld Girl (1941), the horror Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), and the romantic war drama Somewhere I'll Find You (1942), the latter being one of several films in which she ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Accent on Love: Ray McCarey: George Montgomery, Osa Massen, J. Carrol Naish: Drama: 20th Century Fox: Across the Sierras: D. Ross Lederman: Wild Bill Elliott, Luana Walters, Richard Fiske
June 2, 1941 Lux Radio Theatre: They Drive by Night: Lana Carlsen: Guest-starring with Lucille Ball [49] [50] January 19, 1942 Philip Morris Playhouse: The Devil and Miss Jones: Mary Jones: Co-starring with Lionel Barrymore [51] July 5, 1944 The Orson Welles Almanac: The Mercury Wonder Show: Herself Guest-starring with Susan Hayward [8] June 19 ...
Manpower is a 1941 American crime melodrama directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft.The picture was written by Richard Macaulay and Jerry Wald, and the supporting cast features Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Eve Arden, Barton MacLane, Ward Bond and Walter Catlett.
Men of Boys Town (1941) as Mr. Maitland; Billy the Kid (1941) as Tim Ward; The Get-Away (1941) as Warden Alcott; Blossoms in the Dust (1941) as Judge; Whistling in the Dark (1941) as Philip Post; Down in San Diego (1941) as Col. Halliday; Honky Tonk (1941) as Daniel Wells; Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) as Maj. Jason I. Sculley; Johnny Eager ...