Marietta Canty
Oyuncu · 1905 – 1986 · Hartford, Connecticut, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marietta Canty (1905-1986) was an African American actress, community activist and recipient of numerous humanist awards. As an actress, Marietta Canty first appeared on Broadway in 1933. She also appeared in 40 films between 1940 and 1955, mostly in supporting roles and bit parts. Two of her first roles were in the films The Lady is Waiting (1942) and The Spoilers (1942), both with Marlene Dietrich in the leading role. Canty is perhaps best known as Delilah, Spencer Tracy's housemaid, in the comedy Father of the Bride (1950) and in its sequel Father's Little Dividend (1951). Canty retired from film acting in 1955, her last role in Hollywood was Rebel Without a Cause starring James Dean, where she had a memorable part as Sal Mineo's family maid.
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Film7.5DramFilm dünyasının en etkileyici rollerinden birisinde James Dean'i, şehre yeni gelen, yalnızlık, bunalmışlık ve kızgınlığının içerisinde kendisiyle ve toplumla savaşan, İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrası kuşağına ait efsanevi Jim rolünde buluyoruz. Bu başyapıtta ona eşlik eden Natalie Wood (kız arkadaşı) ve Sal Mineo (en yakın arkadaşı), başarılı performanslarıyla Akademi Ödülü'ne aday olmuşlardı. 40 yıldır ayakta duran bu dev yapıt, tam bir efsane.
Film7.6DramGerilimTennessee Williams'ın oyunundan uyarlanan ve gösterime girdiğinde yeri yerinden oynatan film, kaba saba işçi Stanley ile evli kız kardeşini ziyarete gelen Blanche adlı bir kadının, buradaki ilişkilerin yönünü değiştirmesini konu alıyor. Missisipi'de okul yaşındaki bir delikanlıyı baştan çıkarttığı için başı derde girmiş olan yaşça geçkin ama çekici Blanche DuBois, New Orleans'ın Fransız mahallesinde yaşamakta olan hamile kızkardeşi Stella'nın yanına gelir. Tek arzusu kendine yeni bir yaşam kurmak ve herşeyi geride bırakmaktır. Oysa Stella'nın kaba saba bir delikanlı olan kocası Stanley Kowalski, Blanche'ın güneyli nezaketinden hiç hoşlanmamaktadır. Sürekli taciz edilen Blanche'ın Stanley'le yüzleşmesi epey şiddetli olacaktır.
Film7.3DramRomantikTold in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 · 313 votes
Film7.0KomediRomantikKızının nişanlandığını söylemesi ile son davetlinin düğünden ayrılmasına kadar geçen sürede kızını çok seven bir babanın ayakta kalma çabasını anlatan bu klasik komedide Akademi Ödüllü Spencer Tracy ve Elizabeth Taylor başrolleri paylaşıyor. Kızı Kay, Buckley Dunstan ile nişanlandığını ilan ettiğinde avukat Stanley T. Banks böyle bir şeye hiç hazırlıklı olmadığını fark eder. Buna karşın, Kay'in evleneceğini öğrenmek karısı Ellie ile oğlu Tommy'yi son derece mutlu eder. Bir "oğul" sahibi olması, artık büyümüş ve kendi hayatını yaşayan minik kızını kaybedecek olan Stanley için bir teselli değildir. Belki her şey yoluna girecek, tabii eğer Stanley, Buckley'yi kabul edebilir ve düğünü atlatabilirse. Peki, düğün masraflarını kim karşılıyor? Tabii ki, gelinin babası.
Film6.1DramWesternOn America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
The Sea of Grass
1947 · 29 votes
Film6.5RomantikKomediNewly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
Father's Little Dividend
1951 · 76 votes
Film6.2DramWesternWhen honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
The Spoilers
1942 · 68 votes
Film5.2DramMüzikSnooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.
The Toast of New Orleans
1950 · 12 votes
Film6.5RomantikKomediBold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
The Lady Is Willing
1942 · 11 votes
Film6.0DramRomantikTwo tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Bright Leaf
1950 · 21 votes
Film7.0MaceraDramTwo buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Boom Town
1940 · 64 votes
Film5.8DramMüzikEncomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.
Words and Music
1948 · 21 votes
Film6.5RomantikKomediWhen his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
Three Hearts for Julia
1943 · 2 votes
Film4.7MüzikDramA neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.
Lady in the Dark
1944 · 12 votes
Film6.1KomediThornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
Dreamboat
1952 · 19 votes
Film6.2KomediMüzikA millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
Bring on the Girls
1945 · 6 votes
Film6.6DramAileBased on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
A Man Called Peter
1955 · 17 votes
Film6.6DramRomantikAfter a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
My Foolish Heart
1950 · 20 votes
Film6.7DramSuçOn Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Chicago Deadline
1949 · 15 votes
Film7.2MüzikThis semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
The I Don't Care Girl
1953 · 2 votes
Film5.6KomediRomantikThe beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
The Heavenly Body
1944 · 13 votes
Film4.5KomediGizemMystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
Home Sweet Homicide
1946 · 6 votes
Film6.0KomediRomantikDennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1943 · 4 votes
Film6.2DramRomantikA recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
Not a Ladies' Man
1942 · 4 votes