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George Lessey is a Actor and Director American born on 8 june 1875 at Amherst (USA)
George Lessey (June 8, 1879 – June 3, 1947) was an American actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in 123 films between 1910 and 1946. He also directed 76 films between 1913 and 1922. Lessey also appeared in the original Broadway production of Porgy and Bess (1935) in one of the few white roles, that of the lawyer Mr. Archdale.
He was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and died in Westbrook, Connecticut.
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He was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and died in Westbrook, Connecticut.
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The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
, 2h10Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure
Themes Films about writers
Actors Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine
Rating70%
A group of people are watching Halley's Comet overhead when Judge Clemens is called away for the birth of his son, Samuel Clemens. The film proceeds to mix in elements of many of Clemens' best-known stories as if they actually occurred. Thus, as he grows up, Sam plays with his friends Huck, Tom, and the slave boy Jim on a raft on the Mississippi, providing a fictitious "real–life" basis for the novels Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Bride by Mistake (1944)
, 1h21Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Laraine Day, Alan Marshal, Marsha Hunt, Allyn Joslyn, Edgar Buchanan, Michael St. Angel
Roles Business Man
Rating62%
Home from the war, Captain Tony Travis (Alan Marshal) eyes an estate in Santa Barbara and wonders what it must be like to be that rich. It is the property of the fabulously wealthy Nora Hunter (Laraine Day), who has secretary and friend Sylvia Lockwood (Marsha Hunt) impersonate her in public. Longtime guardian Jonathan Connors (Edgar Buchanan) protects his ward's privacy zealously. During a ship launching, a press photographer takes Nora's picture, but Connors sees to it that the camera film is ruined.
Buffalo Bill (1944)
, 1h30Directed by Otto Brower, William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell, Anthony Quinn, Thomas Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Mr. Schyler Vandervere
Rating63%
A fictionalized account of the life of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. A hunter and Army Scout in the early part of his life, he rescues a US Senator and his beautiful daughter, Louisa Frederici. Cody is portrayed as someone who admires and respects the Indians and is a good friend of Yellow Hand who will eventually become Chief of the Cheyenne. Everyone else, including the military, politicians and businessmen on the other hand hate the Indians and are perfectly prepared to trample on their lands and destroy their buffalo hunting grounds. He's eventually forced to fight the Cheyenne however. He's also met a writer, Ned Buntline, who writes about Cody's exploits and he becomes a sensation when he travels East. His career is not assured however, particularly when he attacks those in positions of authority over their maltreatment of the Native American population. He eventually establishes his wild west show that becomes an international sensation.
None Shall Escape (1944)
, 1h25Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Felix Basch, Richard Crane, Richard Hale
Roles Presiding Judge
Rating69%
The film centres around the trial of Grimm as a war criminal. Each character witness provides a flashback scene to a previous part of Grimm's life.
Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout (1944)
, 1h6Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John Litel, Darryl Hickman, Olive Blakeney, Minor Watson
Roles Mr. Towers
Rating63%
Mission to Moscow (1943)
, 2h4Directed by Michael Curtiz, Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker
Roles Bill - Well-wisher (uncredited)
Rating54%
The film chronicles ambassador Davies' impressions of the Soviet Union, his meetings with Stalin, and his overall opinion of the Soviet Union and its ties with the United States. It is made in faux-documentary style, beginning with Davies meeting with president Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss his new appointment as United States ambassador to the Soviet Union. It continues to show the Davies' family's trip by boat to Moscow, with stops in Europe.
Dixie Dugan (1943)
Directed by Otto Brower
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Lois Andrews, James Ellison, Charlotte Greenwood, Charles Ruggles, Raymond Walburn, Ann E. Todd
Roles Sen. Patterson
Rating71%
Roxie Hart (1942)
, 1h15Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Hugh Downs, Nigel Bruce
Roles Judge
Rating68%
As soon as Stuart Chapman (Ted North) starts his new job as a newspaper reporter in Chicago, he is pulled into a murder investigation together with his new colleague Homer Howard (George Montgomery). As they sit down in a bar having a drink after a long day, Homer starts telling about a case he reported on in 1927 - a murder case involving the young dancer Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers).
The Gay Sisters (1942)
, 1h50Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Gig Young, Nancy Coleman
Roles Judge Barrows
Rating65%
Fiona, Evelyn, and Susanna are the Gaylord sisters. There are no brothers. When their mother dies on the sunken RMS Lusitania, and their army officer father, Penn Gaylord, is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves—never realizing their half billion dollar inheritance because of legal system gimmickry. Fiona (Barbara Stanwyck) is the eldest of the three children, and the daughter whom Penn referred to as "my son" and "the head of the household" upon his departure for the European front. Fiona tells the family servants that she will henceforth be known as "Miss Gaylord" rather than "Miss Fiona".
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
, 1h26Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, Spring Byington, Shepperd Strudwick, Henry Stephenson
Roles Fenwick Sr.
Rating65%
Susan Miller (Gene Tierney) works as a girdle salesgirl in a big department store. She dreams of living on the other side. An elderly woman, calling herself Mrs. Maybelle Worthington (Spring Byington), comes to buy some underwear. As her partner Warren (Laird Cregar) meets her at the department store to announce her that her daughter run away to get married, they notice the "resemblance" of Susan with their "daughter". They ask her to impersonate her that evening at their party. She sees the opportunity to peek over the other side, dressing in expensive clothes as she never wore before.
Now, Voyager (1942)
, 1h57Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, Mary Wickes
Roles Uncle Herbert (uncredited)
Rating78%
Drab Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is an unattractive, overweight, repressed spinster whose life is brutally dominated by her dictatorial mother (Gladys Cooper), an aristocratic Boston dowager whose verbal and emotional abuse of her daughter has contributed to the woman's complete lack of self-confidence. It is revealed that Mrs. Vale had already brought up three sons, and Charlotte was an unwanted child born to her late in life. Fearing Charlotte is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, her sister-in-law Lisa (Ilka Chase) introduces her to psychiatrist Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains), who recommends she spend time in his sanatarium.
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
, 2h8Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Elsa Janssen, Ludwig Stössel
Roles Mayor of New Rochelle
Rating75%
Lou Gehrig (Cooper) is a young Columbia University student whose old-fashioned mother (Elsa Janssen) wants him to study hard and become an engineer. But the young man has a gift for baseball. A sportswriter (Brennan) befriends Gehrig and persuades a scout to come see him play. Before long Gehrig signs with the team he has always revered, the New York Yankees. With the help of his father (Ludwig Stössel), he endeavors to keep his career change a secret from his mother.
Girl Trouble (1942)
, 1h21Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Billie Burke, Frank Craven, Fortunio Bonanova, Alan Dinehart, Sr.
Roles Morgan
Rating66%
June Delaney belongs to the upper circles of New York City's social life. When she learns that her private money has been impounded by the British government, since most of her investments are made by her father in England before the outbreak of World War II, she is very annoyed. To make the most of what she got and continue living as before she is forced to rent out her upscale apartment. She advertises in a newspaper, and gets a response from a prospective tenant, a Venezuelan playboy and sole heir to an American rubber industry, Pedro Sullivan.
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
, 1h39Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marc Lawrence, Marsha Hunt, Fay Holden
Roles Mr. Keats
Rating68%
Edna et Charlotte ont été élevées ensemble. Lorsque Charlotte voit ses fiançailles rompues, elle se suicide. Quant à Edna elle se marie avec Sam Gladney et tombe enceinte.
Moon Over Miami (1941)
, 1h31Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley, Fortunio Bonanova
Roles William 'Willie' Boulton
Rating66%
Sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer are working as carhops in a Texas drive-in restaurant with their aunt Susan, the cook, when they are notified that an expected inheritance of $55,000 is only $4,000 after taxes and fees. Determined to marry a millionaire, Kay talks Barbara and Susan into spending the money on a trip to Miami, where she hopes to hook a rich man at a resort.