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Title Director Cast Genre Notes $1,000 a Touchdown: James P. Hogan: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward: Comedy: Paramount: 20,000 Men a Year: Alfred ...
Henri Pachard, Jackson St. Louis and Crystal Blue were the pseudonyms of the American film director Ron Sullivan (June 4, 1939 – September 27, 2008). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the late 1960s, using his real name, Sullivan directed a number of sex-and-sadism Sexploitation films for the then-thriving 42nd Street grindhouse market.
Paramount wanted Raft to appear in St. Louis Blues, but he refused and was replaced by Lloyd Nolan. [70] "Raft is Hollywood's authority on walk outs," wrote one columnist. [55] He was suspended again, then allowed to do a comedy, The Lady's from Kentucky (1939). In January 1939, he refused to make The Magnificent Fraud and was again replaced by ...
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights—range in genre and are ...
St. Louis Blues (retitled as Best of the Blues) [1] is a 1939 American musical film directed by Raoul Walsh and set on a Mississippi River showboat. Though the song " St. Louis Blues " is performed, the film's plot is not based on the song.
A year later, Minnelli directed Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) starring Judy Garland. He married Garland a year later, and their daughter Liza was born in 1946. He subsequently directed Garland in The Clock (1945), Ziegfeld Follies (1945) and The Pirate (1948). He divorced Garland in 1951.
Charles Boyer (French: [ʃaʁl bwaje]; 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. [1] After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American films during the 1930s.
1944 – Going My Way, Double Indemnity, Meet Me in St. Louis, Ivan the Terrible, Laura, To Have and Have Not, Murder, My Sweet; 1st Golden Globe Awards; 1945 – Brief Encounter, Children of Paradise, Fallen Angel, Leave Her to Heaven, The Lost Weekend, The Naughty Nineties, Anchors Aweigh, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Spellbound, Along Came Jones