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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 ...
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 ...
In 1938, March was one of many Hollywood personalities who were investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the hunt for Communists in the film community. In July 1940, he was among a number of individuals who were questioned by a HUAC subcommittee which was led by Representative Martin Dies Jr. [ 16 ]
The Buccaneer (1938) as Senator Crawford; Comet Over Broadway (1938) as Wilton Banks; The Sea Hawk (1940) as Peralta; All This, and Heaven Too (1940) as DeLangle; Remember Pearl Harbor (1942) as Capt. Hudson; Fall In (1942) as Army Doctor (uncredited) The Payoff (1942) as Inspector Thomas; The Sundown Kid (1942) as J. Richard Spencer ...
The Buccaneer, an unsuccessful play by Maxwell Anderson about the famous pirate Henry Morgan; The Buccaneer, a Cecil B. DeMille film about another notorious pirate, Jean Lafitte, starring Fredric March; The Buccaneer, an audio adaption on the 1938 film by Lux Radio Theatre starring Clark Gable.
In the following decade, he appeared in such films as The Buccaneer (1938) with Fredric March, The Great McGinty (1940), The Corsican Brothers (1941), Tortilla Flat (1942) with Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr and John Garfield, Five Graves to Cairo (1943) with Erich von Stroheim as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Frank Borzage's His Butler's Sister ...
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.