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Ricca Allen is a Actor Canadienne born on 9 june 1863 at Victoria (Canada)
Ricca Allen (June 9, 1863 – September 13, 1949) was a Canadian stage and film actress. She appeared in 58 films between 1913 and 1941. She was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Nationality Canada
Birth 9 june 1863 at Victoria (Canada)
Death 13 september 1949 (at 86 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 9 june 1863 at Victoria (Canada)
Death 13 september 1949 (at 86 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
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One Million B.C. (1940)
, 1h20Directed by Hal Roach, D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Volcanisme, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney, Jr., Conrad Nagel, John Hubbard, Nigel De Brulier
Roles Rock Person
Rating57%
In a modern day prologue, a group of hikers caught in a storm seek shelter in a cave. They encounter an anthropologist (Conrad Nagel, "The Narrator") who interprets prehistoric carvings that introduce the story of a young caveman.
They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
, 1h36Directed by Garson Kanin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, William Gargan, Harry Carey, Karl Malden, Frank Fay
Roles Mrs. Thing (uncredited)
Rating59%
When visiting San Francisco, Tony Patucci, an ageing illiterate winegrower from the Napa Valley, sees waitress Amy Peters and falls in love. Returning home, he persuades his foreman Joe, an incorrigible womanizer, to write her a letter in Tony's name. Tony's courtship by mail culminates with a proposal, and when she requests a picture of him, he sends one of Joe. Amy accepts and goes to Napa to be married. Although horrified to discover that her prospective husband is the portly Tony, she decides to go through with the marriage. However, while Tony is in bed after an accident, Amy and Joe have an affair. Two months later, as Tony plans the wedding, she discovers that she is pregnant. Upon learning this, Tony pummels Joe, who leaves the vineyards. but forgives Amy, and insists that they still be married, But she is unable to forgive herself, so she leaves with the priest who's come to marry them, while Tony looks on, hoping that she will return one day.
Maid of Salem (1937)
, 1h25Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard, Louise Dresser, Benny Bartlett
Roles Townswoman (Uncredited)
Rating64%
It tells the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, who has an affair with an adventurer. She is sentenced as a witch, but saved by him.
Exclusive (1937)
, 1h25Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Charles Ruggles, Lloyd Nolan, Fay Holden, Ralph Morgan
Rating67%
Show Boat (1936)
, 1h53Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley
Rating73%
The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.
, 1h42Directed by Henry Hathaway, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi
Roles Tolliver family member
Rating67%
A feud between Kentucky clans the Tollivers and Falins has been ongoing for as long as anyone can recall. After an engineer, Jack Hale, arrives with coal and railroad interests, he saves the life of Dave Tolliver, whose injury has developed gangrene.
Fury (1936)
, 1h30Directed by Fritz Lang, Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Bruce Cabot, Walter Abel, Walter Brennan, Edward Ellis
Roles Townswoman Gossip (uncredited)
Rating77%
En route to meet his fiancée, Katherine Grant (Sylvia Sidney), Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) is arrested on flimsy circumstantial evidence for the kidnapping of a child. Gossip soon travels around the small town, growing more distorted through each retelling, until a mob gathers at the jail. When the resolute sheriff (Edward Ellis) refuses to give up his prisoner, the enraged townspeople burn down the building, two of them also throwing dynamite into the flames as they flee the scene. Unknown to anyone else there, the blast frees Wilson, but kills his little dog Rainbow, who had run in to comfort him in the cell.
Men Without Names (1935)
, 1h6Directed by Ralph Murphy, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Fred MacMurray, Madge Evans, David Jack Holt, Lynne Overman, Elizabeth Patterson, Grant Mitchell
Roles Miss Lucy Withers
Rating64%
Il met en scène le Ministère de la Justice des États-Unis et ses agents. Un gang impitoyable vole audacieusement un camion postal et s'enfuit vers l'ouest des États-Unis. Quand l'argent du vol arrive dans une petite ville du Kansas, le département envoie l'agent Dick Grant pour enquêter, se faisant passer pour un homme d'affaires. Il est gêné dans sa tâche par une journaliste locale, Helen Sherwood, et quand il tombe amoureux d'elle, il est incapable de lui révéler qui il est vraiment et pourquoi il est là.
Close Harmony (1929)
, 1h10Directed by John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Buddy Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jack Oakie, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Ricca Allen, Wade Boteler
Roles Mrs. Prosser
Rating62%
A musically talented young woman named Marjorie who is part of a stage show, meets a warehouse clerk named Al West who has put together an unusual jazz band. She becomes interested in him and his work and so manages to use her influence to get him into the program for one of the shows at her theatre company.
Headin' Home (1920)
, 55minutesDirected by Lawrence C. Windom
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, James A. Marcus, Ralf Harolde, Ann Brody, Ricca Allen
Roles Almira Worters
Rating51%
Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized. In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory [1]. In the film, shades of the baseball movie The Natural, Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.
The Divorcee (1919)
Directed by Herbert Blaché
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ethel Barrymore, Holmes Herbert, Edward J. Ratcliffe, Naomi Childers, Joseph Kilgour, Maude Turner Gordon
Roles Madame Claude
As described in a film magazine, Betsy O'Hara (Barrymore) marries Lord Frederick Berolles (Ratcliffe) to please her parents, and while now is Lady Frederick, she finds herself miserable when her husband constantly insults her after discovering that she loves another. It does not help that Sir Paradise Fuldes (Herbert), the man she would have married except for his poverty, soon thereafter comes into a fortune. Her sister Kitty (Childers), while married to a man of position, has foolishly compromised herself with Robert Montgomery (Kilgour), a cad who forces her to visit his rooms on threat of disclosure. While assisting her sister in the recovery of some old love letters, she is surprised in the apartments of Montgomery, and assumes the situation to save her sister's reputation. She is then divorced, and sinks in the social scale. Lord Charles Mereston (Entwistle) meets her while gambling in Monte Carlo and falls in love with her. Lady Frederick does not encourage him, but he will not take no for an answer. His wife Lady Mereston (Gordon) appeals to her brother Sir Paradise to intervene, and while Lady Frederick resents the interference, she sends Mereston about his business using an ingenious device, and finds her reward in the arms of Paradise.
Our Mrs. McChesney (1918)
, 50minutesDirected by Ralph Ince
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ethel Barrymore, Huntley Gordon, Ricca Allen
Roles Hattie Stitch
The Mortal Sin (1917)
Origin USA
Actors Viola Dana, Robert D. Walker, Augustus Phillips, Ricca Allen
Roles Landlady
Life's Whirlpool (1917)
Directed by Lionel Barrymore
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ethel Barrymore, Alan Hale, Ricca Allen, Walter Hiers, Frank Leigh
Roles Ruth Martin
As described in a film magazine, Esther (Barrymore), upon the death of her father, is advised by her kindly neighbors to get married. She is forced to sell the homestead and marries a domineering old miser named John Martin (Carrington), who lives with his maiden sister Ruth (Allen). Because she passes the time of day on the street with young men, her husband becomes jealous. He chokes her after he finds a letter from a former friend, Dr. Henry Grey (Hale), and she decides to leave him. While escaping with her son she is detained in a hut by a drunken farmer who tries to embrace her. She shoots him dead, and a posse arrests her for the death of her husband, who was found strangled in the library. However, the death confession of the real murderer clears her of her husband's death, and the return of her former friend from France completes her happiness.
The Lifted Veil (1917)
Directed by George D. Baker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ethel Barrymore, William B. Davidson, Frank Gillmore, Robert Ellis, Ricca Allen
Roles Mrs. Scattergood
As described in a film magazine, Clorinda Gildersleeve (Barrymore) has drifted into an affair with a married man, Leslie Palliser (Ellis). She goes to Europe to forget and meets Malcolm Grant (Davidson), a young surgeon, who falls in love with her. However, because of her affair with Palliser, she believes she has no right to accept his love. She hears an excellent sermon preached by Reverend Arthur Bainbridge (Gillmore) on the text "Woman, go and sin no more" and appeals to the minister in regards to Malcolm's attentions. She sends Malcolm to see the minister, but he does not disclose Clorinda's secret. The minister interests her in a home for erring girls and Clorinda adopts one of the inmates. Reverend Bainbridge urges her to marry Malcolm, but during the ceremony she falls in a faint. That night, however, she writes to the minister announcing her marriage to Malcolm and their departure for France, where he will do surgical work and she will become a nurse.