
Walter Abel
Oyuncu · 1898 – 1987 · Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Walter Abel (June 6, 1898 – March 26, 1987) was an American stage and film character actor. His eyes were brown and his (adult) height was five foot ten inches. Abel was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Christine (née Becker) and Richard Michael Abel. Abel graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where he had studied in 1917 and joined a touring company. He made his Broadway debut in Forbidden in 1919. His many theatre credits include As You Like It, Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, Merrily We Roll Along, and Trelawny of the 'Wells'. On the stage, he appeared in Channing Pollock's 1926 production of The Enemy together with Fay Bainter. Abel was married to concert harpist Marietta Bitter. He died of a myocardial infarction in Essex, Connecticut. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Abel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film6.3WesternDüşman Kızılderili topraklarında bir vagon trenine liderlik eden bir izci, farkında olmadan bir Siu şefinin kızıyla ilişkiye girer.
Film6.8DramRomantikBette Davis, kardeşinin kumar borçlarını ödemek için sevmediği banker Bay Skeffington'la evlenen güzel bir sosyetik kadını oynuyor. Evlilik uzun sürmez, eski Bayan Skeffington arkasında kırık kalpler bırakarak erkekten erkeğe koşar. Ama yakalandığı difteri hastalığı, yüzünde korkunç izler bırakınca güzelliği yok olur. Artık erkeklerin kalbini fethedemeyen orta yaşlı bir kadındır ama sonunda yıllar önce evlendiği, şimdi ise kör bir adam olan Bay Skeffington'da aşkı bulur.
Film7.0BelgeselKomediOut-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · 3 votes
Film3.5KomediDramMaster thief Mario Forni and bordello owner Madame Rinaldi use confusion over a miracle to loot a local statue's legendary treasure.
Quick, Let's Get Married
1964 · 4 votes
Film7.5SuçDramNorman Krasna'nın Mob Rule romanından uyarlanan 1936 yapımı bu başyapıtın konusu şöyle; Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant birbirlerine aşıktır ancak Joe'nun evlenmeleri için yeterince parası yoktur. Bu yüzden Katherine para kazanabileceği başka bir kasabaya taşınır. Joe'nun bir yabancı olarak kasabaya gelmesiyle olaylar başlar. Bundan sonra yönetmen Fritz Lang bizlere ustalıkla, nazik ve uygar bir adamın nasıl olup da merhametsiz ve sert bir adama dönüşebileceğini gösteriyor.
Film6.4RomantikDramIn 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Raintree County
1957 · 59 votes
Film7.1KomediDramLovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
Holiday Inn
1942 · 231 votes
Film6.1DramSuçA US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent American businessman. In exchange for the soldier's return, the Russians attempt to barter a trade for an elderly German couple who they want for treason.
Night People
1954 · 39 votes
Film6.4DramKomediJudy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940 · 74 votes
Film5.9SavaşDramDuring the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
So Proudly We Hail
1943 · 26 votes
Film6.7DramRomantikRomanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · 51 votes
Film6.2MaceraDramA C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
Island in the Sky
1953 · 74 votes
Film6.3KomediShy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946 · 14 votes
Film5.4DramOn Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the young woman finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture.
Miracle on Main Street
1939 · 19 votes
Film6.6KomediDramSusan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
The Affairs of Susan
1945 · 11 votes
Film5.9KomediÇılgın İkili, kasvetli bir New York dairesinde yalnız yaşayan yaşlı bir dul olan Grace'e odaklanıyor. İki kez intihar etmeyi dener ve başarısız olur, bu yüzden kendini öldürmesi için bir tetikçi olan Seymour'u kiralamaya ve sonra kendisi gibi yaşlı, yalnız ve yaşamaktan bıkmış başkalarını öldürmeye karar verir. Onun düşüncesine göre, bu profesyonel katil cinayet değil merhamet eylemleri yapacak.
Film7.1GizemGerilimÇalıştığı binada elektrikler ansızın kesilince, David Stillwell merdivenlerden aşağı inmeye başlar. Çekici bir kadın da ona katılır. El feneri sayesinde kadını görebilmekte, ama kadın onu görmemektedir. Bununla beraber,onu sesinden tanıdığını söyler ve sanki tanıması gerekirmiş gibi Binbaşı dediği birisinden söz eder. David, binadan çıktığında işlerin giderek karıştığını fark eder: bir adam pencereden atlayarak intihar etmiş gibi görünmektedir. Evine vardığında ise, işler tehlikeli bir hâl alır. İki gün içerisinde David'in karşısına tombul bir hayut, bağa gözlüklü kaba bir bakımcı, sinir bozucu bir ruh doktoru veacemi ama kurnaz bir özel hafiye çıkacaktır. Bu arada çekci kadınla sık sık karşılaşmaktadır. En önemlisi kendisiyle karşılaşacaktır; çünkü olduğunu sandığı kişiyle, gerçekten kim olduğu farklı şeylerdir.
Film4.3MüzikRomantikFilm biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
So This Is Love
1953 · 6 votes
Film6.1GerilimSavaşBob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.
13 Rue Madeleine
1947 · 39 votes
Film6.0KomediRomantikCirca 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...
That Lady in Ermine
1948 · 19 votes
Film5.1GerilimKorkuA man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.
Night of the Dark Full Moon
1972 · 104 votes
Film5.8SuçDramA respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
Law of the Underworld
1938 · 5 votes
Film6.1SuçDramWhen Mr. X wakes up in the city park with amnesia, bloody and apparently connected to a murder of a well-known producer, fast talking Marie Smith takes pity on him. They solve the case and discover his identity.
Two in the Dark
1936 · 10 votes
Film6.3KomediRomantikA dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Arise, My Love
1940 · 24 votes
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Dizi3.8DramGizemClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
Climax!
1954 · 12 votes
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · 8 votes
Dizi6.0DramRobert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · 8 votes
Dizi5.4DramAn American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
Studio One
1948 · 13 votes
Dizi6.3DramThe Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
The Defenders
1961 · 11 votes
Dizi6.6DramThe Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · 8 votes
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
Dizi6.9KomediThe Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · 13 votes
Dizi7.8DramThis show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 · 4 votes
Dizi6.0DramThe 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · 10 votes
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Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · 7 votes
Dizi6.4Bilim Kurgu ve FantastikTales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
Tales of Tomorrow
1951 · 7 votes
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Playwrights '56
1955 · 4 votes
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Hollywood Preview
1955 · 2 votes