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Tag Archives: Louis Calhern
Frisco Jenny (1932) William A. Wellman, Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. Read More »
Stolen Heaven (1931) George Abbott, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louis Calhern
Engineering a $20,000 robbery, Mary and Joe draw up a pact to spend all the money foolishly and then commit suicide. Read More »
Washington Story (1952) Robert Pirosh, Van Johnson, Patricia Neal, Louis Calhern
Van Johnson’s character is a congressman. Reporter Alice Kingsly arrives in Washington D.C. Read More »
Julius Caesar (1953) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason
Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. Read More »
Blonde Crazy (1931) Roy Del Ruth, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern
At a midwestern hotel, conniving bellhop Bert Harris has a finger in every pie. Read More »
Devil’s Doorway (1950) Anthony Mann, Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond
Lance Poole, an Indian who won a Medal of Honor fighting at Gettysburg, returns to his tribal lands intent on peaceful cattle ranching. Read More »
Nobodys Darling (1943) Anthony Mann, Mary Lee, Louis Calhern, Gladys George
Teens of Hollywood parents board at an exclusive school and grapple with the usual teen issues while preparing to put on a show. Read More »
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Rowland V. Lee, Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern
Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d’If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. Read More »
Remains to Be Seen (1953) Don Weis, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern
June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. Read More »
Confidentially Connie (1953) Edward Buzzell, Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor Read More »
The Blackboard Jungle (1955) Richard Brooks, Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Drama
War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school. Read More »
Annie Get Your Gun (1950) George Sidney, Busby Berkeley, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, Biography, Comedy, Musical
A story very loosely based on the love story of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler who meet at a shooting match. Read More »
The Red Pony (1949) Lewis Milestone, Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Drama, Family, Western
In the coast range mountains on the western edge of the Salinas Valley is a ranch where Tom, a lad of about ten, longs for a pony. Read More »
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) John Huston, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Crime, Film-Noir, Drama
When the intelligent criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich that offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safecracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
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