
Charley Grapewin
Oyuncu · 1869 – 1956 · Xenia, Ohio, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Ellsworth Grapewin (December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956) was an American vaudeville performer, writer and a stage and silent and sound actor, and comedian who was best known for portraying Aunt Em's husband, Uncle Henry in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939) as well as Grandpa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (1941). He usually portrayed elderly folksy-type characters in a rustic setting, in all appearing in over 100 films. He was the oldest cast member of The Wizard of Oz. Born in Xenia, Ohio, Charles Ellsworth Grapewin ran away from home to be a circus acrobat which led him to work as an aerialist and trapeze artist in a traveling circus before turning to acting. He traveled all over the world with the famous P. T. Barnum circus. Grapewin also appeared in the original 1903 Broadway production of The Wizard of Oz, 36 years before he would appear in the famous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film version. After this he continued in theatre, on and offstage, for the next thirty years, starting with various stock companies, and wrote stage plays as a vehicle for himself. His sole Broadway theatre credit was the short-lived play It's Up to You John Henry in 1905. Grapewin married actress Anna Chance (1875–1943) in 1896, and they remained a devoted couple until her death some 47 years later. Two years after his first wife's death, Grapewin married Loretta McGowan Becker on Jan 10, 1945. Grapewin began in silent films at the turn of the twentieth century. His very first films were two "moving image shorts" made by Frederick S. Armitage and released in November 1900; Chimmie Hicks at the Races (also known as Above the Limit) and Chimmie Hicks and the Rum Omelet, both shot in September and October 1900 and released in November of that year. During his long career, Grapewin appeared in more than one hundred films, including The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road, and in what is probably his best-remembered role: Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz. He also had a recurring role as Inspector Queen in the Ellery Queen film series of the early 1940s. Grapewin died of natural causes in Corona, California at age 86, and his ashes are interred with his wife's in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, at the Great Mausoleum's Columbarium of Inspiration.
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Film7.6MaceraFantastikHalası ve amcasıyla çiftliklerinde mutlu bir yaşantısı olan Dorothy, sevimli köpeği Toto komşusu tarafından elinden alınmak istenince evden kaçar. Pişman olup geri dönmeye çalıştığı sırada bir hortuma yakalanır ve kendisini Oz'un renkli dünyasında bulur. Üzerine düştüğü ev, Doğu'nun Kötü Cadısı'na aittir. Onu öldüren Dorothy, birden bire Oz'un en ünlü şahsiyeti haline gelir. Kardeşini öldüren Dorothy'den intikam almak isteyen Batı'nın Kötü Cadısı, genç kızın peşine düşer. Cadıdan kaçan Dorothy, Oz Büyücüsü'nün yardımını istemek için onun yaşadığı Zümrüt Şehri'ne gider.Dorothy, yolda 3 yeni arkadaş edinir. Kalpsiz Teneke Adam, beyinsiz Korkuluk ve korkak Aslan, uzun yolculuklarında Dorothy'e yardım eder ve onu korurlar. Yolculuğu başarıyla atlatmaları, kahramanlarımızın dileklerinin olmasını sağlayacaktır.
Film7.8DramJohn Steinbeck'in Pulitzer ödüllü romanından uyarlanmış, John Ford imzalı 2 Oscarlı bir başyapıt. Hapisten çıkan Tom Joad, Oklahoma'daki ailesinin çiftliğine gider. Ancak gittiğinde görür ki banka çiftliğe el koymuştur. Zira Büyük Buhran tüm Amerika'yı etkisi altına almıştır. Ertesi gün tüm Joad Ailesi, eşyaları ile birlikte eski püskü bir kamyonla California'ya doğru yola çıkar.
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1937 · 196 votes
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1941 · 126 votes
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1936 · 136 votes
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1976 · 45 votes
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1937 · 15 votes
Film7.2KomediBelgeselFilm clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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1964 · 6 votes
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1940 · 22 votes
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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1941 · 4 votes
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1936 · 224 votes
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Stand Up and Fight
1939 · 5 votes
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1947 · 24 votes
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1932 · 25 votes
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1984 · 2 votes
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1933 · 53 votes
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1938 · 8 votes
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1938 · 6 votes
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Crash Dive
1943 · 27 votes
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1938 · 5 votes
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Of Human Hearts
1938 · 26 votes
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Dust Be My Destiny
1939 · 20 votes
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The Dark Side of the Rainbow
2000 · 3 votes
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Dizi7.5The original concept of the show was to allow the viewer to see the inner workings of a movie studio and featured interviews with MGM stars and explanations of how movies were made. Later, the format changed to show edited versions of MGM films.
MGM Parade
1955 · 2 votes