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Al Herman is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter British born on 21 february 1887
Al Herman est un acteur, réalisateur et scénariste britannique né le 25 février 1887 en Écosse au Royaume-Uni, mort le 2 juillet 1967 à Los Angeles aux États-Unis.
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Al Herman est un acteur, réalisateur et scénariste britannique né le 25 février 1887 en Écosse au Royaume-Uni, mort le 2 juillet 1967 à Los Angeles aux États-Unis.
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The I Don't Care Girl (1953)
, 1h18Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Mitzi Gaynor, Oscar Levant, Julie Newmar, Warren Stevens, David Wayne, Craig Hill
Roles Eisenberg (non crédité)
Rating60%
The story of vaudeville performer Eva Tanguay (Mitzi Gaynor) is told to a couple of writers who plan to do a script about her for Hollywood producer George Jessel.
Cody of the Pony Express (1950)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Jock Mahoney, Dickie Moore, Peggy Stewart, William Fawcett, George J. Lewis, Jack Ingram
Roles Storekeeper (uncredited)
Rating64%
The plot centers on a young Cody joining forces with the Lieutenant Jim Archer to battle an outlaw gang secretly headed by Mortimer Black, an unscrupulous lawyer who is tempted by greed into a series of crimes leading to murder. Original name is Cody O'Rourke.
Redhead from Manhattan (1943)
, 1h4Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Lupe Vélez, Gerald Mohr, Arthur Loft, Clancy Cooper, Lillian Yarbo, Lynton Brent
Roles Bartender
Rating62%
Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
, 1h7Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Walter Sande
Roles Guard (uncredited)
Rating63%
In the Christmas spirit, Boston Blackie decides to entertain the inmates at his old "alma mater" by bringing a variety show headed by clown Roggi McKay (George McKay). Roggi drops one of his showgirls, Eve Sanders (Adele Mara), as she has already visited her prisoner brother, Joe Trilby (Larry Parks), the maximum allowed number of times that month. However, Blackie kindheartedly lets her come along. Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane and Detective Joe Mathews (Walter Sande) unexpectedly join the group on the bus, just to keep an eye on Blackie. When Joe manages to escape from prison, by tying Roggi up and putting on his costume and makeup, Farraday suspects Blackie helped him.
Manpower (1941)
, 1h43Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Frank McHugh, Eve Arden, Barton MacLane
Roles Power Company Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Rating65%
A leg injury causes Los Angeles power line worker Hank McHenry to give up field work and accept a promotion to foreman. His crew includes good friend Johnny Marshall and old Pop Duval.
Young People (1940)
, 1h19Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery, Kathleen Howard
Roles Black Face Comedian
Rating62%
Believing that it's good for their daughter Wendy (Shirley Temple), Joe Ballantine (Jack Oakie) and his wife Kit (Charlotte Greenwood) decide to retire their vaudeville act and move the family to a small New England town. But despite Wendy's many attempts to charm the locals, the "show folk" are given the cold shoulder. That is, until a hurricane hits the town, and because of the generosity, strength and conviction in the face of disaster, it appears that the troupers just might win over the residents in their new hometown after all.
Oklahoma Renegades (1940)
, 57minutesDirected by Nate Watt
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Florine McKinney, William Ruhl, Al Herman
Roles Hank Blake
Rating73%
East of the River (1940)
, 1h14Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors John Garfield, Brenda Marshall, Marjorie Rambeau, George Tobias, William Lundigan, Moroni Olsen
Roles Hotdog Vendor (uncredited)
Rating62%
Un jeune gangster et son frère, qui lui est honnête, tombent tous les deux amoureux de la même femme.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
, 1h57Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about religion
Actors Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien, Harry Davenport
Roles Short Fat Soldier (uncredited)
Rating77%
The film opens in 1482 with King Louis XI and his close advisor, Frollo, the King's Chief Justice of Paris, in a printing shop. Frollo is determined to do everything in his power to rid Paris of anything he sees as evil, including the printing press and gypsies, who at the time are persecuted and prohibited from entering Paris. That day is Paris' annual celebration, the Festival of Fools. Esmeralda, a young gypsy girl, is seen dancing in front of an audience of people, including the King and Frollo. Quasimodo, the hunchback and bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, is crowned the Pope of Fools until Frollo catches up to him and takes him back to the church.
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
, 1h28Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan
Roles Wedding Audience Member (uncredited)
Rating67%
Joe Bell (John Garfield) becomes embittered after he is jailed for 16 months for something he did not do. Later, he gets into a fight with a crook (played by an uncredited Ward Bond) and is sentenced to a work farm for 90 days. There, he becomes friends with Mabel Alden (Priscilla Lane), which displeases Charles Garreth (Stanley Ridges), her stepfather and the farm's foreman. The two men fight, and Joe knocks Garreth out. Panicking, the young couple flee and get married, only to learn that Garreth has died and that Joe is wanted for his murder.
Let Us Live (1939)
, 1h8Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter, Stanley Ridges, Henry Kolker
Roles Garage Attendant Juror (uncredited)
Rating66%
On the eve of his marriage to waitress Mary Roberts (O'Sullivan), taxi driver "Brick" Tennant is questioned as a murder suspect along with 120 other drivers, because a taxi served as the getaway car in a theater robbery in which a man was killed. When one of the witnesses swears that Brick and his friend Joe Linden (Baxter) were the killers, the district attorney (Ridges), eager for a conviction, brings the taxi drivers to trial even though Brick and Mary were in a church when the robbery took place. Although innocent, Brick and Joe are found guilty and sentenced to die on the electric chair. Mary, however, refuses to give up hope, and when she unearths a bullet from another robbery that was shot from the murder weapon, she convinces Police Lieutenant Everett (Bellamy) that the wrong men have been convicted. To prove Brick and Joe's innocence Everett and Mary search for the real culprits . As the time of his execution approaches, Brick is transformed from an idealistic youth into a man whose faith in the system has been shattered. On the day of the execution, Mary and Everett finally find the real culprits. The governor then pardons Brick, but although his life has been spared, his faith can never be repaired.
Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
, 1h8Directed by William Clemens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frankie Thomas, Mary Lee, Dickie Jones, Betty Amann
Roles Gym Spectator (uncredited)
Rating64%
Nancy Drew, competing in the local newspaper's amateur reporter contest, clears a girl named Eula Denning of murder charges.
Swanee River (1939)
, 1h24Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart, Chick Chandler, Russell Hicks
Roles Tambo
Rating62%
The family of Stephen Foster (Ameche) insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs. Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no faith in Stephen, who wants to write "music from the heart of the simple people of the South." The struggling composer is content to sell "Oh! Susanna" for fifteen dollars to minstrel singer E. P. Christy and allows Christy to take credit as its writer.
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
, 1h44Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn
Roles Gorman Gin-Taster (uncredited)
Rating78%
Three men meet in a foxhole during the waning days of World War I: Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), George Hally (Humphrey Bogart) and Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), and experience trials and tribulations from the Armistice through the passage of the 18th Amendment leading to the Prohibition period of the 1920s and the violence which erupted due to it, all the way through the 1929 stock market crash to its conclusion at the end of 1933, only days after the 21st Amendment brought an end to the Prohibition era.
Naughty But Nice (1939)
, 1h29Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, Helen Broderick, Allen Jenkins
Roles Second Waiter (uncredited)
Rating60%
Professor Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell), who lectures his students against swing music and jitterbugging, goes to New York City to get his symphony published, but accidentally writes a hit swing song ("Hooray for Spinach, Hooray for Milk") with the connivance of aspiring lyricist Linda McKay (Gale Page), which brings him into disrepute with the Dean of his college (Halliwell Hobbes). After the teetotaling professor accidentally gets drunk, Hardwick promises to stay in New York City for the summer and write songs with McKay, and they have three more hits.