
Louis Calhern
Oyuncu · 1895 – 1956 · Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor. For portraying Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee (1950), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Calhern began working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s; the most notable being The Blot in 1921. A 1921 newspaper article commented, "The new arrival in stardom is Louis Calhern, who, until Miss Weber engaged him to enact the leading male role in What's Worth While?, had been playing leads in the Morosco Stock company of Los Angeles." In 1923 Calhern left the movies, but would return to the screen eight years later after the advent of sound pictures. He was primarily cast as a character actor in films while he continued to play leading roles on the stage. He reached his peak in the 1950s as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Among his many memorable screen roles were Ambassador Trentino in the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup (1933) and three that he appeared in at MGM in 1950: a singing role as Buffalo Bill in the film version of the musical Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's film noir The Asphalt Jungle, and his Oscar-nominated performance as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee (re-creating his role from the Broadway stage). He was also praised for his portrayal of the title role in the John Houseman production of Julius Caesar (adapted from the Shakespeare play) in 1953, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Calhern also played the role of the devious George Caswell, the manipulative board member of Tredway Corporation in the 1954 production of Executive Suite. Calhern's other film roles included the grandfather in The Red Pony (1949), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious (1946). A performance as Uncle Willie in High Society (1956), a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, turned out to be his final film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Calhern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film6.8MüzikKomediÇok başarılı bir caz müzisyeni olan C.K. Dexter Haven, Newport, Rhode Island sosyetesinden olan zengin karısı Tracy Samantha Lord'dan yeni ayrılmıştır ama Haven hala eski karısına çok aşıktır. Ne var ki Tracy terbiyeli bir centilmen olan George Kittredge ile evlenmek üzeredir. Spy dergisi, Tracy'nin babasıyla ilgili utanç verici bir makale yayıınlamak üzeredir. Yayınlamamaları için tek şart ise Tracy'nin düğününü haber yapmalarıdır. Lord ailesi bu teklifi kabul etmek zorunda kalırlar ve bu yüzden dergi Tracy'lere yazar Mike Connor'ı ve fotoğrafçı Liz Imbrie'yi gönderir. Tracy dergiden gelenlere bir oyun oynamaya başlar ve böylelikle onlardan kendince intikamını alır. Connor, Tracy'ye aşık olmuştur. Tracy artık ona aşık üç adamdan birini seçmek zorunda kalır. Bu seçim sürecinde ise kendini keşfetmeye başlar.
Film7.7DramSuçDünya Savaşı sırasında hüküm giymiş bir Nazi savaş suçlusunun kızı olan Alicia'yla Amerikan Hükümeti adına casusluk yapması için temasa geçilir. Aşk, gerilim ve tutku gibi Hitchcock temaları etrafında dönen film, ustanın en iyi filmlerinden birisi olarak kabul ediliyor. Film diğer Hitchcock filmleri gibi gerilim türünde olsa da; alt metin olarak asıl aşkı ele alıyor. Filmde Grant, ajan rolünde; Bergman da Almanya vatandaşı olan, babası kirli işlere karışmış, babasının yaptığı pis işleri öğrendiğinde Amerika hükümetine çeteye sızan birini canlandırıyor.
Film7.1DramTarihWilliam Shakespeare'in en ünlü tiyatro oyunlarından birine konu olan siyaset tarihinin iki bin küsur yıl öncesinden gelen unutulmaz bir entrika ve ihanet hikayesi. Roma senatosu tarafından kabul edilmiş olan bir komplo ile hırsı artan imparator Jül Sezar, Brutus tarafından öldürülür. Bu cinayetin ortaya çıkardığı sonuçlar ise oldukça ciddidir. 4 dalda Oscar’a aday olan dahası 2 dalda kazanan filmin bir diğer özelliğide en fazla gişe yapan Shakespare uyarlaması olması. Yönetmenlğini Joseph L. Mankiewicz’in üstlendiği başrollerinde ise Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason rol almıştır.
Film7.5SuçDramHapisten yeni salıverilmiş ünlü soyguncu, Alman asıllı suç üstadı Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe) Cincinnati'ye gelerek vakit kaybetmeden yeni bir soygunun hazırlıklarına başlar. 'İçerde'yken bir mücevher şirketini soymak için kusursuz bir plan yapmıştır, ama bunun için bir ekip toplaması ve para kaynağı bulması gerekir. Para kaynağı için düzenbaz avukat Alonzo D. Emmerich'e (Louis Calhern) başvurur. Ekibin diğer elemanları ise at çiftliği alma hayalleri kuran İrlanda asıllı meteliksiz kabadayı Dix (Sterling Hayden), soygunda şoförlük yapacak olan kafe sahibi kambur Gus (James Whitmore) ve kasa açma uzmanı Louis'dir (Anthony Caruso). Bir de bu kişiler arasında ara buluculuk yapan at yarışı oynatan kumarhane sahibi Cobby (Marc Lawrence) vardır....
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
Film6.9KomediRomantikLos Angeles Rams takımı oyun kurucusu Joe Pendleton geçirdiği bir trafik kazası sonucu cennete çağrılır. Pendleton'un bedeni cenaze sırasında yakılmıştır. Henüz ölmeye hazır olmayan Pendleton dünyaya cinayete kurban giden şirket sahibi yaşlı bir milyonerin vücudunda geri gönderilir. Hayatı alt üst olan sporcu tüm bunlarla baş etmeye çalışırken bir yandan da genç bir İngiliz kadına aşık olur.
Film6.9SuçDramRichard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Blackboard Jungle
1955 · 165 votes
Film7.0BelgeselMüzikGene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · 45 votes
Film6.8DramMaceraYoung sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934 · 65 votes
Film6.7KomediWesternGunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Annie Get Your Gun
1950 · 88 votes
Film6.0KomediRomantikBarıştan bir Adalet, lisansının geçerliliğini kaybetmeden birkaç gün önce düğün düzenlemişti. Birkaç yıl sonra beş çift, yasal olarak evli olmadıklarını öğrenirler. Annabel Norris, zaten Bayan Mississippi ve Bayan America yarışmasına girmeye hazır, şimdi Bayan Mississippi yarışmasına girmek için ücretsiz.
Film5.8DramRomantikWhen the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.
Betrayed
1954 · 23 votes
Film6.0DramRomantikIn the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgment, they become involved in a doomed affair.
Arch of Triumph
1948 · 40 votes
Film7.3KomediSavaşMarx kardeşlerin üstün komedi anlayışının en iyi örneklerinden biri olan filmde, yolsuzluklarıyla nam salan Freedonia ülkesinin ekonomisi Bayan Taesdale'nin yapacağı bağışlara bağlıdır. Bu da yetmiyormuş gibi bir de uğraşılması gereken komşu ülkeler vardır.
Film7.0DramWhen the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
Executive Suite
1954 · 64 votes
Film6.9MaceraA kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952 · 60 votes
Film6.3DramSavaşA writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy and Marine aviators themselves, their internal and external conflicts and dangers of their job.
Men of the Fighting Lady
1954 · 12 votes
Film5.8RomantikKomediA stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
Athena
1954 · 8 votes
Film6.7DramTarihA fictionalized account of famous French writer Émile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success documenting the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, his complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for espionage. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens an exposé, only to be charged with libel and now he must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.
The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · 161 votes
Film6.5DramTarihThe newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Juarez
1939 · 25 votes
Film6.0KomediGizemA singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
Remains to Be Seen
1953 · 4 votes
Film5.8AileKomediTexas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
Confidentially Connie
1953 · 4 votes
Film6.4SuçDramBrash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932 · 47 votes
Film6.4KomediMüzikThe Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
Two Weeks with Love
1950 · 14 votes
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Dizi6.8KomediTalk ShowThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · 23 votes