
Gladys George
Oyuncu · 1900 – 1954 · Patten, Maine, USA
Gladys George was an American actress. George went on the stage at the age of 3 and toured the United States, appearing with her parents. She starred on stage in the 1920s, although she had made several films in the early part of that decade. She starred in Personal Appearance, a comedy by Lawrence Riley. This role was reprised by Mae West in the classic film, Go West, Young Man, which West adapted from the play. In 1936 George was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. George's Broadway credits include The Distant City, Lady in Waiting, and The Betrothal. Her only other first billed roles were in Madame X (1937) and Love is a Headache.[6] She also appeared in The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Way of All Flesh (1940), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and He Ran All the Way (1951). She played the widow of Miles Archer (Iva Archer) in The Maltese Falcon and Mme. Du Barry in Marie Antoinette. Her last successful roles were as Lute Mae Sanders in Flamingo Road, her brief appearance as the corrupt nurse Miss Hatch in Detective Story, and Lullaby of Broadway as the alcoholic mother of Doris Day's wholesome character. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gladys George, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film7.7GizemSuçÖzel dedektif Sam Spade, ortağı Miles Archer ve sekreterinden oluşan dedektiflik bürosunda her gün sıradan ve bilindik işlerin peşinde koşarken müşteri olarak gelen Brigid O'Shaughnessy'nin hayatlarına girmesi ile herşeyin değişeceğinden habersizdir. Brigid, kardeşinin birlikte kaçtığı belalı sevgilisini bulmaları için iki dedektifi tutunca Archer, adamı bulmak için hemen peşine düşer. Fakat ortağının bu yolculuk sırasında gizemli bir şekilde öldürülmesi sonucu, Brigid'in aslında yalan söylemiş olduğu ortaya çıkar. Bütün bu yalanların uzandığı nokta, Malta Şahini adlı paha biçilmez bir heykele ulaşabilmektir. Sandığından çok daha büyük bir belanın içine batmış olduğunu anlayan Sam için artık sadece kendisini kurtarmak vardır.
Film7.7DramRomantikBirbirlerinden sınıfları, geçmişleri, yaş ve meslekleriyle ayrılan üç eski Amerikan askeri ve onların yeniden sivil hayata ayak uydururken karşılaştıkları sorunlar üzerine dokunaklı bir savaş sonrası destan... Bu üç adam, II. Dünya Savaşı sonunda yaşadıkları kente geri dönerler; başarılı bankacı Al, güvenli yaşamına; eskiden bir garson olup savaşta hava kuvvetlerinde yüzbaşılığa yükselmiş Fred, savaş sırasında evlendiği ve pek iyi tanımadığı eşiyle endişe veren kavuşmaya; eskiden öğrenci olup savaşta kollarını kaybeden Homer ise, sevgilisinin sakatlığına vereceği tepki konusundaki şüphelerine. Bunlardan ikisi geri dönüşte başarılı olacaktır: eskiden olduğu gibi yemekli toplantılarda konuşmalar yapan Al genç bir çiftçiye teminatsız kredi vermeye çekinmez; Homer’in sevgilisi onu hayal kırıklığına uğratmaz; kimsenin kabul etmediği Fred ise toplumun dışında kalacaktır, hayatının en güzel yıllarını geride bırakmıştır...
Film7.0SuçDramTells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Detective Story
1951 · 170 votes
Film7.5SuçDramÜç adam I. Dünya Savaşı'nda birlikte savaştıktan sonra evlerine döndüklerinde yasakların hüküm sürdüğü Amerika'da hayatlarını kazanmaya çalışırlar.
Film7.1DramA pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
A Child is Born
1939 · 4 votes
Film6.6DramTarihThe young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Marie Antoinette
1938 · 37 votes
Film7.0DramRomantikA stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Flamingo Road
1949 · 60 votes
Film7.2GerilimSuçA crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
He Ran All the Way
1951 · 65 votes
Film6.7SavaşSuçWith no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
They Gave Him a Gun
1937 · 6 votes
Film6.0DramRomantikTwo tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Bright Leaf
1950 · 21 votes
Film4.6RomantikSuçPaul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
The Way of All Flesh
1940 · 8 votes
Film6.3KomediNew York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
It Happens Every Thursday
1953 · 7 votes
Film5.6DramSuçNightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
The House Across the Bay
1940 · 15 votes
Film7.0BelgeselSeveral behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production of which include cotton and silver; construction crews who build sets including those to look like cities, towns and villages around the world; a visit with Jack Dawn who demonstrates the process of creating a makeup design; the screen testing process, where many an acting hopeful gets his/her start; the work of the candid camera man, the prying eyes behind the movie camera; a visit with Adrian, who designs the clothes worn by many of the stars on screen; and a visit with Herbert Stothart as he conducts his musical score for Conquest (1937). These behind the scenes looks provide the opportunity to get acquainted with the cavalcade of MGM stars and their productions that will grace the silver screen in the 1937/38 movie season.
The Romance of Celluloid
1937 · 2 votes
Film5.5SuçDramAfter her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.
Undercover Girl
1950 · 10 votes
Film6.5KomediRomantikA press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Love Is a Headache
1938 · 4 votes
Film7.3DramThe story of a young man's discovery of his father.
Here I Am a Stranger
1939 · 3 votes
Film5.7KomediDramFictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 · 5 votes
Film6.1DramAn alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Madame X
1937 · 9 votes
Film6.7DramCarrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936 · 8 votes
Film6.0KomediMüzikPretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
Lullaby of Broadway
1951 · 18 votes
Film6.5SuçDramA young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
Christmas Holiday
1944 · 37 votes
Film6.6WesternHaving masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators.
Silver City
1951 · 13 votes
Film6.5DramHelen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
The Hard Way
1943 · 23 votes
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Dizi5.3WesternHopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
Hopalong Cassidy
1952 · 10 votes
Dizi5.0KomediSuçMr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952 · 7 votes