
Donald Cook
Oyuncu · 1901 – 1961 · Portland, Oregon
Donald Cook (September 26, 1901 – October 1, 1961) was an American stage and film actor. Born in Portland, Oregon, he originally studied farming but later started business with a lumber company. He joined the Kansas Community Players and through this received an offer of stage work. He started screen work in "shorts" before going on to films. Cook was known for his portrayal of Mike Powers in the film The Public Enemy. He also was one of the first film actors to portray Ellery Queen, in The Spanish Cape Mystery. He played opposite Helen Morgan in the 1936 film adaptation of Show Boat was one of the suspects in the Philo Vance mystery The Casino Murder Case, starred as an heroic immigration inspector in Ellis Island. Other film credits include The Man Who Played God, Our Very Own and The Penguin Pool Murder (1932). Cook made his Broadway debut in 1926 as Donn Cook, and his New York theatrical career continued until 1959. His credits included a 1948 revival of Private Lives. Cook was married to Princess Gioia Tasca di Cuto from 1937 until his death from a heart attack in New Haven. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Cook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film7.2DramLilly (Baby Face), sefalet içinde yaşadığı onca yıldan sonra hayat basamaklarını tırmanmanın kolay yolunu bulmuştur; önüne gelenle yatmak... Lilly, babasının gizlice içki sattığı, bodrumdaki barda başlayan yolculuğuna, New York’un şaaşalı ofis binalarının çatı katında devam edecektir. Üstelik tüm basamakları tek tek çıkarak... Bankanın Alt-Düzey Yöneticisi Jimmy McCoy, Lilly’e önemli bir terfi imkanı olduğunu söyler. Fakat bir şart vardır; bankanın müdürüyle yatmak... Jimmy’nin son zamanlarda görememekten şikayetçi olduğu Lilly şöyle der; "Geceleri yatağa erken girebilmek için çok çalışıyorum."
Film7.2SuçDramTom Powers, Chicago’nun arka sokaklarında yavaş yavaş yükselmeye ve daha tehlikeli suçluların dikkatini çekmeye başlamış bir kabadayıdır. Ancak kısa süre sonra yaşanacak bir gangster cinayeti bu karışık ortamda çok daha büyük bir mafyatik savaşın fitilini ateşleyecektir. William A. Wellman’ın 1931 tarihinde peliküle döktüğü The Public Enemy, modern gangster filmlerinin köklerini de bünyesinde barındırır. Film “En İyi Senaryo” dalında da bir Oscar adaylığı kazanmıştır.
Film5.9KomediMolly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
Here Come the Co-Eds
1945 · 29 votes
Film7.0RomantikKomediIn this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Here Comes the Band
1935 · 2 votes
Film5.5KomediAileThe made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie missing his home in Transylvania. Soon the entire family bands together to teach the young boy everything great about the holiday season.
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
1996 · 36 votes
Film6.0RomantikDramYoung Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
The Night Is Young
1935 · 4 votes
Film6.7MüzikRomantikDespite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Show Boat
1936 · 50 votes
Film5.8DramRomantikAn unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes and Ward Bond.
Most Precious Thing in Life
1934 · 5 votes
Film7.2RomantikDramWhile giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".
The Man Who Played God
1932 · 10 votes
Film5.6GizemEllery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935 · 11 votes
Film9.0SuçDramVivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932 · 1 votes
Film4.0MaceraAksiyonA man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.
The Woman I Stole
1933 · 4 votes
Film6.6DramGizemA traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Murder in the Fleet
1935 · 5 votes
Film5.6GizemGerilimWhen a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
The Kiss Before the Mirror
1933 · 19 votes
Film6.7GerilimDramTo avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
Safe in Hell
1931 · 47 votes
Film6.8AksiyonGizemAfter socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer.
The Casino Murder Case
1935 · 11 votes
Film4.7DramSuçDan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935 · 3 votes
Film6.8KomediA poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
The Heart of New York
1932 · 4 votes
Film5.9KomediGizemNew York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
The Penguin Pool Murder
1932 · 19 votes
Film6.5KomediParty Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.
Party Husband
1931 · 2 votes
Film5.4DramRomantikKay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New York City clip-joint, which he operates on the theory that if the suckers want it he'll give it to them, albeit he does apply some principles regarding the matter. A Broadway playboy, Greg Emerson, falls in love with Kay and proposes but his high-society parents object strongly. Terry. although he also has fallen in love with Kay and doesn't realize she feels the same about him, sets out to provide a happy ending for the couple.
Gigolette
1935 · 5 votes
Film4.8DramGenerational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
The World Changes
1933 · 8 votes
Film7.0DramJoan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
Fury of the Jungle
1933 · 1 votes
Film4.8DramDespite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up engaged to socialite Gloria Endicott, a woman he doesn't love. Turmoil ensues for Ross as he tries to make his marriage work.
Ring Around the Moon
1936 · 6 votes
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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
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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
Dizi7.2DramKomediSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · 5 votes
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Too Young to Go Steady was a live primetime sitcom that aired on NBC in 1959. It centered on the romantic awakening of Pamela Blake, a pretty 15-year-old girl struggling to make the transition from tomboy to young lady.
Too Young to Go Steady
1959 · 1 votes