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Guilly d'Herbemont (25 June 1888 – 28 February 1980) was the inventor of the white cane for blind people. Guilly was the daughter of a Belgian and a Frenchman.She was born in Brussels as a child, she lived alternately in Brussels and Paris.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Age for Love: Frank Lloyd: Billie Dove, Edward Everett Horton, Lois Wilson: Comedy: United Artists: Air Eagles: Phil Whitman: Lloyd Hughes, Norman Kerry, Shirley Grey
It received a then-record seven nominations, and was the first film to win more than two awards. The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, [ 11 ] at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel [ 11 ] in Los Angeles, California .
The meteoric but short film career of Jean Harlow, The Blonde Bombshell, [2] was completely contained in the 1930s. Fred Astaire, with his frequent partner Ginger Rogers, revolutionized film musicals. [3] With charm [2] [4] and a "distinctive kind of nonmacho masculinity", [5] Cary Grant became the decade's "epitome of masculine glamour". [4]
Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements: Henwar Rodakiewicz: United States: Feature length experimental film, begun in 1925 [30] [31] Studie(s) Nr. 7-9: Oskar Fischinger: Weimar Republic: Abstract animation [17] Surf and Seaweed: Ralph Steiner: United States: Photographic abstract film, sometimes dated to 1930. [32] The Light Penetrates the ...
White Zombie is a 1932 pre-Code horror film independently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin. The screenplay by Garnett Weston, based on The Magic Island by William Seabrook , is about a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master.
More than 90 years after Alexander McClay Williams was wrongfully executed, his family is suing the Delaware County, Pennsylvania, for damages, alleging he was sentenced to the electric chair for ...
Corsair is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama written, produced and directed by Roland West. The film is based on the 1931 novel Corsair, a Pirate in White Flannels [1] by Walton Green and takes place in and was shot during the era of Prohibition in the United States. [2] The film stars Chester Morris and Thelma Todd (credited as Alison Loyd ...