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Dewey Starkey is a Director, Production Manager and Assistant Director American born on 9 may 1898 at Ohio (USA)
Dewey Starkey (9 May 1898 – 3 September 1974), was an American assistant director. He worked on 41 films between 1930 and 1944. He won an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Assistant Director. He was born in Ohio and died in Orange County, California.
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Nationality USA
Birth 9 may 1898 at Ohio (USA)
Death 3 september 1974 (at 76 years) at Orange County (USA)
Birth 9 may 1898 at Ohio (USA)
Death 3 september 1974 (at 76 years) at Orange County (USA)
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Almost a Gentleman (1939)
, 1h4Directed by Dewey Starkey, Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors James Ellison, Robert Kent, Helen Wood, June Clayworth, Robert Warwick, Leonard Penn
Rating62%
After his new wife's family convinces her to leave him, attorney Dan Preston leaves his law practice and sets off to travel around the country as a vagabond. When he returns home he finds his house rented by a novelist, Shirley Haddon. He adopts a mongrel dog, Picardy Max, and sets out to avenge himself against his ex-wife's family by entering Max into dog shows to compete against their pedigreed animals. Preston also begins a romantic relationship with Haddon.
The Arizonian (1935)
, 1h15Directed by Charles Vidor, Dewey Starkey
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Musical, Romance, Western
Actors Richard Dix, J. Farrell MacDonald, Margot Grahame, Preston Foster, Willie Best, Louis Calhern
Rating67%
Clay Tallant is on his way to Silver City, Arizona to meet up with his brother, Orin. As he approaches the town, he stops a stagecoach robbery being attempted by Frank McCloskey and his gang. In intervening, Clay saves Kitty Rivers, a singer in the town's saloon, who is engaged to Orin. In town, the marshal accuses McCloskey of the robbery, after which he is killed by McCloskey, who works for the sheriff, Jake Mannen. Clay is offered the job of marshal by Mayor Ed Comstoc, and accepts. As he attempts to clean up the town, he runs afoul of Mannen. Clay arrests "Shot-gun" Keeler and the rest of McCloskey's gang, but they are released by the judge, who is on Mannen's payroll. Mannen hires gunman Tex Randolph to come in and dispose of Clay, but this backfires when Randolph instead joins Clay and Orin.
Professional Sweetheart (1933)
, 1h12Directed by William A. Seiter, Dewey Starkey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, Zasu Pitts, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins, Gregory Ratoff
Rating60%
Glory Eden is a radio star, the "Purity Girl" of the Ipsy-Wipsy Wash Cloth radio program, whose sponsor, Sam Ipswich, wants her public image to match her radio persona, and has her constantly chaperoned by the press agent, Speed Dennis. Glory's real personality is one of a party girl, who loves going to nightclubs, drinking, dancing and having a good time. During an interview with the columnist Elmerada de Leon, Glory hints that she might not re-sign with Ipsy-Wipsy. She says that she is tired of always being "the good girl", and needs to let down her hair for a while. Frightened of the prospect of losing their star attraction, and in order to placate her, Ipswich and Dennis hatch a publicity scheme to have her romanced by one of her many fans. They select a most unlikely subject, Jim Davey, who hails from the hills of Kentucky. However, when he arrives, the unlikely happens and Glory begins to fall in love with Jim, and when he proposes, she accepts.
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Winchester '73 (1950)
, 1h32Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Rock Hudson, Stephen McNally, Dan Duryea, Millard Mitchell
Roles Production Manager
Rating75%
In 1876, Lin McAdam (James Stewart) and friend 'High-Spade' Frankie Wilson (Millard Mitchell) pursue outlaw 'Dutch Henry' Brown (Stephen McNally) into Dodge City, Kansas. They arrive just in time to see a man forcing a saloon-hall girl named Lola (Shelley Winters) onto the stage leaving town. Once the man reveals himself to be Sheriff Wyatt Earp (Will Geer) Lin backs down. Earp informs the two men that firearms are not allowed in town and they must check them in with Earp's brother Virgil. Lin and Dutch Henry see each other in the saloon, but are unable to fight due to the presence of Earp. Lin enters a shooting competition, contending against Dutch Henry among others, that is held on the Fourth of July. They end up the two finalists for a prized one-of-one-thousand perfect Winchester rifle. Lin wins by betting that he can shoot through a stamp placed over the hole of round piece from an Indian necklace and then doing it. Dutch Henry claims that he is leaving town, but then goes to Lin's boarding house room and jumps Lin when he enters and steals the prize. He and his two cohorts leave town with Lin and High-Spade in hot pursuit.
I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Mona Freeman, Scott Brady, Charles Drake, Andrea King, Tony Curtis, Robert Gist
Roles Production Manager
Rating60%
A shoplifter, Faye Burton, is being watched by Herb Klaxon, a security guard at a Los Angeles department store, and by Jeff Andrews, a shopper there. Jeff tries to warn her, but Faye is nevertheless caught and placed under arrest. Faye signs a confession and is set free, warned that if she tries this again, she will go to jail.
Undercover Girl (1950)
, 1h23Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Alexis Smith, Scott Brady, Richard Egan, Gladys George, Edmon Ryan, Gerald Mohr
Roles Production Manager
Rating64%
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
, 1h16Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Tony Curtis, John McIntire, Leif Erickson
Roles Production Manager
Rating65%
A narcotics agent convinces a convict he helped send to Alcatraz go undercover with him to help expose a heroin drug smuggling ring. The unlikely pair travels from San Francisco to Vancouver and finally to a dude ranch in Tucson which is run by mob bosses. They end up getting help breaking the case from the gang leader's dingy blonde girlfriend (Winters), who falls for the narcotics agent during the sting.
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
, 1h20Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Tom Tully, Gary Gray, Sara Haden
Roles Production Manager
Rating69%
In colonial America, David Harvey (William Holden), a recent widower living in the wilderness, decides that his young boy Davey (Gary Gray) needs a woman around to help raise him. He goes to the nearest settlement and consults Parson Jackson (Tom Tully). David gets talked into buying the contract of an indentured servant named Rachel (Loretta Young) and marrying her.
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Heavenly Days (1944)
, 1h11Directed by Howard Estabrook
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Marian Driscoll Jordan, Eugene Pallette, Gordon Oliver, Raymond Walburn, Barbara Hale, Donald Douglas
Roles Assistant Director
Rating55%
Experiment Perilous (1944)
, 1h31Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, Carl Esmond, Olive Blakeney
Roles Assistant Director
Rating62%
The story takes place in 1903. During a train trip, psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey (George Brent) meets a friendly older lady (Olive Blakeney). She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and becomes suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Nick (Paul Lukas) keeps Allida (Hedy Lamarr), whom he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their London town house [a New York brownstone in the film], cutting off all contact with the outside world. The kindly Bailey takes it upon himself to attempt to free his new love Allida from the control of the insanely jealous Nick.
Suspicion (1941)
, 1h39Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, May Whitty, Isabel Jeans
Roles Assistant Director
Rating72%
Handsome, irresponsible playboy Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) meets dowdy Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) on a train, and charms her into running away and marrying him, despite the strong disapproval of her wealthy father, General McLaidlaw (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After a lavish honeymoon and returning to an extravagant house, Lina discovers that Johnnie has no job, no income, habitually lives on borrowed money, and was intending to try to sponge off her father. She talks him into getting a job, and he goes to work for his cousin, estate agent Captain Melbeck (Leo G. Carroll).
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
, 1h35Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, Lucile Watson
Roles Assistant Director
Rating62%
Ann (Carole Lombard) and David Smith (Robert Montgomery) are a married couple living in New York who, though happy, often have fights that last for days before they lovingly reconcile. One morning, Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her disappointment, although he is very happy with her now and wouldn't marry someone else, he answers that he would not. Later that day, Harry Deever (Charles Halton), an Idaho county official informs David that due to a jurisdictional mishap, their three-year-old marriage license from Idaho is not valid. Since Deever is a family acquaintance of Ann's from Idaho, he stops by their apartment to tell Ann and her mother (Esther Dale) the same thing. Ann does not mention this to David, and thinks he will remarry her that very night, as he just invited her out to a romantic dinner at the fancy restaurant they ate at before they were married. When they arrive at the restaurant, however, they realize that the restaurant has turned into a seedy joint, and they head home. When Ann feels she has given David long enough to propose and leave to get married, she confronts him and accuses him of not wanting to marry her again. While David protests and says he was going to ask her shortly, Ann dismisses that and kicks him out of their apartment.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
, 1h50Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Minor Watson, Mary Howard, Alan Baxter
Roles Assistant Director
Rating72%
Abe Lincoln leaves home for the first time, having been hired along with two of his friends by Denton Offut to take a load of pigs by water to New Orleans. When the boat overturns at the settlement of New Salem, Abe first sees and loses his heart to Ann Rutledge, the beautiful daughter of the local tavern keeper. Thus, when Denton later offers him a job at the store he has decided to set up in New Salem, Abe readily accepts.
In Name Only (1939)
, 1h34Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Charles Coburn, Katharine Alexander
Roles Assistant Director
Rating69%
Alec Walker (Cary Grant) puts up with a loveless marriage to Maida (Kay Francis) until he meets widow Julie Eden (Carole Lombard). They fall in love and he asks his wife for a divorce. She refuses; as she goes on to tell him, she married him solely for his social position and wealth and won't give them up. She is such a skillful liar that she has Alec's parents (Charles Coburn, Nella Walker) convinced that Julie is out to destroy the marriage.
Gunga Din (1939)
, 1h57Directed by Robert Parrish, George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Poésie, Political films, Adaptation d'un poème
Actors Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine
Roles Assistant Director
Rating71%
On the Northwest Frontier of India, circa 1880, contact has been lost with a British outpost at Tantrapur in the midst of a telegraph message. Colonel Weed (Montagu Love) dispatches a detachment of 25 British Indian Army troops to investigate, led by three sergeants of the Royal Engineers, MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), Cutter (Cary Grant), and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), long-time friends and veteran campaigners. Although they are a disciplinary headache for their colonel, they are the right men to send on a dangerous mission. Accompanying the detail are six Indian camp workers, including regimental bhisti (water carrier) Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe), who longs to throw off his lowly status and become a soldier of the Queen.