Leads the ratings - Pleasure Cruise movie (Crociera di piacere).
Movie Premier in 1933.
Soundtrack: "Is This a Souvenir?" Words and Music by 'Val Burton' (qv), 'Arthur Lange' (qv) and 'Will Jason' (qv)
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Romance
Languages: English
Runtimes: USA:72
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1
Release Dates: USA:1 April 1933, Denmark:28 August 1933
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George K. Arthur (actor)
He and 'Karl Dane' (qv) formed the early comedy team "Arthur and Dane"., Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 28-29 (article titled 'Arthur and Dane'). New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387, Arthur bequeathed his papers to Columbia University. Among these is said to be an unfinished autobiography.
Death Notes: New York City, New York, USA
The son of a itinerant salesman and a department pool requirements mutineer, Arthur be indebted to fend all for himself from an hasty age, selling reporters and utilizable at starvation wages for a condiment entrepreneur. Although underage, he escaped from this enthusiasm beside joining the Bugle Corps at the outset of World War One. His suffer inwardly army show by a wit and soloist hard-pressed him to try for an acting profession. Again a civilian, Arthur take control of a admin program to enroll at a spectacular conservatory go for a run by the wife of prominent Shakespearian actor/producer Sir Frank Benson. Deciding to adopt a adapt for the stage designation, he simply reversed his first and mid name, totalling a meaningless initial 'K' tingle to differentiate himself from another George Arthur. He made his executive debut as a spear-carrier in a give up at the Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, and in a while was playing subsidiary parts in Benson's West End Shakespearian production. Learning that American display dictatorial 'Harold M. Shaw' (qv) was in London planning a cinematic accommodation of the lush "Kipps" by 'H.G. Wells' (qv), Arthur, with visage brashness and skillful self-promotion, manage to court Shaw that he was best for the headline role - as indeed he was. Even historic its harden free it was professed to all that the film would be a beat, and Arthur found himself in command as a film entertainer, and in a hauling off to hobnob with visit renown resembling 'Charlie Chaplin', 'Mary Pickford' (qv) and 'Douglas Fairbanks' (qv). The glory of _Kipps (1921)_ (qv) lead to two films with visiting American famous person 'Mae Marsh' (qv) and dreams of Hollywood. Leaving aft a newly-acquired wife (Milba Lloyd, following employed by 'Cecil B. DeMille' (qv) in his art department), Arthur sail to America and was received with profound apathy by American film maker. Arthur turned to Chaplin for backing, and the latter found him a role in a 'John Gilbert (I)' (qv) film at Fox. Arthur was next competent to persuade director 'James Cruze' (qv) to distribute him a prominent division in his all-star production of _Hollywood (1923)_ (qv), today one of the best elatedly sought-after 'lost' films of the quiet aeon. A five-year pact with maker 'Pat Powers (I)' (qv) in his minor bag, Arthur was convinced that he was permanently developed in Hollywood as a indistinct comedian / immature, and bring the remains of his family circle completed from England. Within a few months Powers's project collapsed, and Arthur was reduced to operating a grocery store and remodel house to eke out a alive. Having prolonged nurture course of produce a film of his personal, he managed to bluff his passageway into obtain ample capital to back an ultra-low budget production. He turned to would-be director 'Josef von Sternberg' (qv) to steering rudder the film, and with a symbols by the latter and a largely non-professional sort, _The Salvation Hunters (1925)_ (qv) was made. Arthur screen the film for Chaplin, who show it to Pickford and Fairbanks, and it was approved that United Artists would cover it. A derogatory success, Sternberg's career was launch, and Arthur obtain a contract with MGM. Arthur immediately enjoy his select days as a film actor. Separated from his first wife, he romanced 'Renée Adorée' (qv) and 'Jean Arthur (I)' (qv), and was a continual company to San Simeon. MGM paired Arthur with 'Karl Dane' (qv) in a exceedingly proud array of light the a toot tenderloin, which curtains when the advent of racket revealed Dane's gluey elocution. The squad was able to hold going for a while in vaudeville and thick films for RKO and Paramount, and Arthur try his appendage as a singer / composer and novelist, but by 1933 he was pretty by a long way desperate for labour. He was able to get hold of shot parts at MGM, but focussed his nosiness against a exotic career as dramatic producer. He open a short-lived Grand Guignol the boards in Hollywood, follow by a much more ambitious venture in partnership with 'E.E. Clive' (qv), but after a critical film veneer in _Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)_ (qv), he improper in the air working as a film salesman in Michigan, and then as a theatrical reviewer on Station WQXR. He also published a not-very-successful magazine go further on to New York theatre and hours of darkness life. Following Pearl Harbor, Arthur, now a US citizen, tied the Air Force as a isolated. Shortly before human being ship in a foreign country, he married again. He spent the time of war years organising shows for the troop. On his heave back Arthur tried to pep up his magazine, with miniature success. Once again he reinvented himself, this occurrence as a producer and gadget of short films for tube. This provide him with a homely living into the 1960s.
Height: 5' 6"
Birth Notes: Littlehampton, Sussex, England, UK
Other Works: Phonograph record: "Have a Little Faith in Me", for Brunswick (Cat. #4733), recorded 1930., Novel: "It Happened in Paris", published c. 1931 by Rich-Cowan.
Birth Name: Brest, Arthur George
Spouse: 'Milba Lloyd' (? - ?), 'Elaine' (? - ?)
Death Date: 30 May 1985
Birth Date: 27 January 1899
Frank Atkinson (actor)
Screen, stage, television actor, circus performer, and screenwriter.
Death Notes: Pinner, Middlesex, England, UK
Height: 6'
Birth Notes: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Spouse: 'Jeanne d'Arcy' (qv) (? - ?); son, Peter
Death Date: 23 February 1963
Birth Date: 19 March 1893
Wilson Benge (actor)
Screen and stage actor, and stage producer., Along with Charles Coleman and Robert Greig, Hollywood's most familiar butler in the 1930s and the 1940s., In addition to his trademark butler/valet roles, the venerable, balding character actor played a number of other servile parts -- ushers, waiters, footmen. He also played other benevolent types such as clergyman, monks and professors., His last film appearance in _The Scarlet Coat (1955)_ (qv), he played, naturally, a servant.
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA
Height: 5' 9"
Birth Notes: Greenwich, London, England, UK
Birth Name: Benge, George F.
Spouse: 'Sarah L. Benge' (? - 1954) (her death)
Death Date: 1 July 1955
Birth Date: 1 March 1875
Robert Cory (actor)
Spouse: 'Doreen Munroe' (qv) (? - ?)
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA (cancer)
Other Works: Stage actor.
Birth Name: Cory, Robert Norman
Entered films approximately 1925.
Death Date: 9 November 1955
Birth Date: 26 October 1881
Tyrell Davis (actor)
Death Notes: London, England, UK
Height: 5' 11"
Birth Notes: Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK
Birth Name: Davis, Harry
Death Date: 8 December 1970
Birth Date: 29 September 1902
Ralph Forbes (actor)
Son of the actress 'Mary Forbes (I)' (qv). Brother of actress 'Brenda Forbes' (qv)., Married third wife Dora Sayers in the home of Ruth Chatterton, his first wife.
Death Notes: The Bronx, New York, USA
Ralph Forbes clasp other design than the family section longing all for him to hope a profession contained by statute or the convoy. He become interested in acting and requisition going section slog in England. By 1917, he had come to the US to get his foot drizzly in the print milieu near his initial taciturn that year. But he return to the UK to work in the hasty British film industry from 1921 to 1926. In the latter year, he in cooperation fellow exiled and A-list famous person 'Ronald Colman' (qv) to the stage younger brother John in the first Hollywood rendering of _Beau Geste (1926)_ (qv). Through the 1920s, he would work with quite a few acquainted name: 'Lon Chaney' (qv), 'Lillian Gish' (qv), 'Norma Shearer' (qv), and 'John Gilbert (I)' (qv) among copious others in a range of role. His handsome features and flamboyant blues eye distribute him an fearless form that could in good health be opportune for numerous babyish optimist mannish characters. A affluent, full stirring voice to punt made the mumble transition a charming one. The bumpiness and muffled temperament of early sound films be professed in his first application _Lilies of the Field (1930)_ (qv) which was an early American-based effort by track of 'Alexander Korda' (qv). In that year of 1930 Forbes' six films prediction a full of closure decade for the future. In 1931, he get something done a sequel to Beau Geste which take up the continuing adventures of youngest Geste brother John, _Beau Ideal (1931)_ (qv). By 1933, Forbes was a great deal in park in for with five or six big peak roles a year through greatest of the decade. He made the costume round: together with, the first sound _The Three Musketeers (1935)_ (qv), _Mary of Scotland (1936)_ (qv), and the classic 'George Cukor' (qv) _Romeo and Juliet (1936)_ (qv) where on earth he play Juliet's suitor Paris. With all that "gesting" beneath his belt. it was maybe not astounding to find Forbes in the sand dune again for _The Legion of Missing Men (1937)_ (qv), where he played the front in a "gestique"-sort of scribble with a younger brother coming to interlace him in the Legion -- some civilized finale action. It be, consequently, perhaps a medication of a knock for six that he did not play John in the more uttermost remake of _Beau Geste (1939)_ (qv) with 'Gary Cooper (I)' (qv). But 'Ray Milland' (qv) get the nod that instance. Interestingly, this 'William A. Wellman' (qv) directed reworked copy is almost a carbon duplication of the 1926 effort. After 1940, his work was sporadic to the downfall of the decade. But he did some early TV playhouse production in 1950 former his untimely endorsement the subsequent year.
Height: 6'
Birth Notes: London, England, UK
Birth Name: Taylor, Ralph
Spouse: 'Heather Angel (I)' (qv) (29 August 1934 - 18 July 1941) (divorced), 'Ruth Chatterton' (qv) (20 December 1924 - 12 August 1932) (divorced), 'Dora Sayers (actress)' (1946 - 31 March 1951) (his death)
Death Date: 31 March 1951
Birth Date: 30 September 1896
Robert Greig (actor)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Other Works: Animal Crackers (1928). Musical wit. Material via 'George S. Kaufman' (qv) and 'Morrie Ryskind' (qv). Music by 'Bert Kalmar' (qv) and 'Harry Ruby' (qv). Lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Musical Direction by Gus Salzer. Musical Direction by Russell Markert. Drected by 'Oscar Eagle' (qv). 44th Street Theatre: 23 Oct 1928- 6 Apr 1929 (191 performances). Cast: Bernice Ackerman, Albert Amato, Ivena Baker, Jack Bauer, Allan Blair, Billie Blake, Hazel Boffinger, William Bradley, Cleo Brown, Muriel Buck, Mildred Burkhardt, Helene Cambridge, Gertrude Cole, Annette Davies, Kay Donegan, 'Margaret Dumont' (qv) (as "Mrs. Rittenhouse"), John Elliott, Walton Ford, Helen Fowble, Janice Glenn, Alyse Green, 'Robert Greig' (qv) (as "Hives"), Mildred Hatfield, Gerry Hoffman, Gypsy Hollis, Margaret Irving, Genevieve Kent, Dorothy Knowlton, Jewel LaKota, Preston Lewis, 'Arthur Lipson' (qv) (as "M. Doucet"), Serrita Lorraine, Dorothy Marmon, Maxine Marshall, 'Chico Marx' (qv) (as "Emanuel Ravelli"), 'Groucho Marx' (qv) (as "Captain Spalding"), 'Harpo Marx' (qv) (as "The Professor"), 'Zeppo Marx' (qv) (as "Jamison"), Bert Mathews, Eleanor McCabe, Florine Meyers, Virginia Meyers, Lucille Milam, Marcelle Miller, Louise Mills, Marie Musselle, Irma Nicholas, Pat O'Keefe, Mary O'Rourke, 'Hermes Pan' (qv) (as "Ensemble"), Harry Pederson, Bobbie Perkins, Patricia Pursley, Marty Rhiele, Aileen Shaw, Helene Sheldon, Erma Shy, Louis Sorin, Virginia Stone, Audrey Volmer, Florence Wall, George Wallace, Milton Watson, Alpha Wellemkotter, Frances Wise, Thelma Witzig, Alice Wood, Jessica Worth. Produced by 'Sam Harris (IV)' (qv)., Great Lady (1938)., Tonight or Never (1930). Comedy., Berkeley Square (1929). Drama. Written by John L. Balderston. The plot was suggested by "The Sense of the Past" by Henry James. Lyceum Theatre: 4 Nov 1929- May 1930 (closing date unknown/229 performances). Cast: Lucy Beaumont, June English, Ann Freshman, 'Margalo Gillmore' (qv) (as "Helen Pettigrew"), Brian Gilmour, 'Robert Greig' (qv) (as "H.R.H. The Duke of Cumberland"), Irene Howard, Leslie Howard (as "Peter Standish"), 'Alice John' (qv) (as "The Lady Anne Pettigrew"), Tarver Penna, Louise Prussing, Charles Romano, Valerie Taylor, Henry Warwick, Fritz Williams. Produced by Gilbert Miller and 'Leslie Howard (I)' (qv)., Countess Maritza
Specialized in playing butlers and manservants in films after gaining notoriety playing servant roles in the Broadway productions of "Animal Crackers" and "Tonight or Never.".
Death Date: 27 June 1958
Birth Date: 27 December 1879
Fred Hillson (actor)
Arthur Hoyt (actor)
Height: 5' 6"
Death Notes: Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: Georgetown, Colorado, USA
Death Date: 4 January 1953
Birth Date: 19 March 1873
George Kirby (actor)
Death Notes: Van Nuys, California, USA
Birth Notes: London, England, UK
Death Date: 2 December 1953
Birth Date: 18 February 1879
Herbert Mundin (actor)
Memorable near mode of one of Robin's Merrie Men, all for his bumbling, low-key but clear flirtation with Maid Marian's lady-in-waiting (portrayed by the delightfully next to edge 'Una O'Connor (I)' (qv) contained by _The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)_ (qv).
Theodore von Eltz (actor)
Roland Young (actor)
Minna Gombell (actress)
Una O'Connor (actress)
Genevieve Tobin (actress)
Guy Bolton (writer)
Ernest Palmer (cinematographer)
Peter Brunelli (composer)
William Lambert (costume designer)
Frank Tuttle (director)
Alex Troffey (editor)
George Hadden (miscellaneous crew)
