Rose Hobart
Nacimiento : 1906-05-01, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 2000-08-29
Historia
Rose Hobart (born Rose Kefer) was an American actress and Screen Actors Guild official. When Hobart was 15, she debuted professionally in Cappy Ricks, a Chautauqua production. She was accepted for the 18-week tour because she told officials that she was 18. At that same age, she was cast in Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, which opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hobart's Broadway stage debut was on September 17, 1923 at the Knickerbocker Theater, playing a young girl in Lullaby. In 1925, she played Charmian in Caesar and Cleopatra.
Hobart was an original member of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. In 1928, she made her London debut, playing Nona Rolf in The Comic Artist. During her career in theater, she toured with Noël Coward in The Vortex and was cast opposite Helen Hayes in What Every Woman Knows.
Her performance as Grazia in Death Takes a Holiday won her a Hollywood contract. Hobart appeared in more than 40 motion pictures over a 20-year period. Her first film role was the part of Julie in the first talking picture version of Liliom, made by Fox Film Corporation in 1930, starring Charles Farrell in the title role, and directed by Frank Borzage. Under contract to Universal, Hobart starred in A Lady Surrenders, East of Borneo, and Scandal for Sale. On loan to other studios, she appeared in Chances and Compromised. In 1931, she co-starred with Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Rouben Mamoulian's original film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She played the role of Muriel, Jekyll's fiancée. In 1936, Surrealist artist Joseph Cornell, who bought a print of East of Borneo to screen at home, became smitten with the actress, and cut out nearly all the parts that did not include her. He also showed the film at silent film speed and projected it through a blue-tinted lens. He named the resulting work Rose Hobart. Hobart often played the "other woman" in movies during the 1940s, with her last major film role in Bride of Vengeance.
The House Un-American Activities Committee investigated Hobart in 1949, effectively ending her career. She believed that she first came to the attention of anti-Communist activists because of her commitment to improving working conditions for actors in Hollywood.
Self - Interviewee
Documental sobre el cine de terror de la Universal.
Self
This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers actor Humphrey Bogart's life and career, including archival footage and interviews with Lauren Bacall and his son Stephen Bogart.
Self
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
Lady Eleanora
Versión estilo Hollywood de la historia de la sórdida familia Borgia, en la que se elimina toda alusión a la corrupción y al desenfreno sexual que caracterizaron a esta familia. La pérfida Lucrecia trata de vengar la muerte de su primer marido, sirviéndose para ello todo tipo de intrigas políticas.
Lydia Matthews
A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.
Diantha Marl
El juez Timberlane se casa con la chica equivocada. Ella se dedica cada vez más al amigo del juez Brad Criley. Durante una pelea, el juez le dice a Virginia que se quede con Brad, pero cuando enferma se la lleva a casa.
Agnes Meeler
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
Virginia Thatcher
Una mujer de origen sueco, abandona la granja de su padre rumbo a la gran ciudad. Allí se emplea como sirvienta en la casa del congresista Glen Morley, y a fuerza de tesón pronto llega a triunfar en política, logrando un puesto en Washington dentro del Congreso. (FILMAFFINITY)
Marta Lestrade
Logan Stewart, el propietario del principal almacén de mercancías de Jacksonville es un próspero hombre de negocios que desea vivir tranquilo. Sin embargo, no puede evitar verse envuelto en problemas: por un lado, un matón lo busca para matarlo; por otro, intenta proteger a un amigo que es banquero y jugador y al que los vecinos quieren linchar. Finalmente, un terrible ataque de los indios lo deja completamente arruinado. (FILMAFFINITY)
Connie Palmer
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
Edith Dexter
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
Un variopinto grupo de personas queda aislado en una pequeña isla griega, al declararse una cuarentena debido a una epidemia de septicemia, enfermedad mortal cuyos síntomas son escalofríos, náuseas, etc. (FILMAFFINITY)
Kathryn Mason
Richard Mason (Humphrey Bogart) trama el crimen perfecto: el asesinato de su esposa para poder desposar luego a la hermana de ésta.
Dorothy Kent
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Lilyan Gregg
A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
Mrs. Powell
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
Mrs. Diana Burns
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
Della Elliott, reporter
Dr. Alfred Morris, a university chemistry professor, rediscovers an ancient Mayan formula for a gas which turns men into pliant, obedient, zombie-like ghouls. After medical student Ted Allison becomes a guinea pig for Morris, the professor imagines that Allison's fiancée, a beautiful concert singer Isabel Lewis, wants to break off the engagement because she prefers the professor as a more "mature" lover but in reality loves Eric, her accompanist. In order to bring Ted back from his trance-like states, Morris commands him to perform a cardiectomy on recently deceased or living bodies in order to use serum from their hearts as a temporary antidote. When the serial murders seem to coincide with Isabel's touring schedule, ace reporter "Scoop" McClure gets on the mad scientist's trail.
Lead Woman (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Mrs. Carson
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
Trudy Muller, aka Fraulein von Teufel
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
Mrs. Black
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
Rosemary Walsh
A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.
Alma Pearce
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Carol Brent
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
Claire Barrington
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
Mrs. Marion West
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
Mrs. Harriet Donnelly
El agente de bolsa T.T. Ralston ha prometido a su sobrina Gwen el doble si consigue reunir 20.000 dólares para la caridad. Sin embargo, T.T se confabula con todos sus amigos para que estos se nieguen a darle a Gwen más dinero del que ya ha conseguido, 10.000 dólares. Gwen se reúne en secreto con el nuevo socio de T.T., Steve Bennett, y le da los 10.000 dólares para que este le doble la cantidad invirtiéndolos. Más tarde, en una discusión con T.T., un socio de negocios y un cliente, acerca de la honestidad en el mundo de los negocios, Steve apuesta los 10.000 dólares a que él puede decir la verdad durante 24 horas. Después de haber aceptado una invitación para pasar un fin de semana en un barco de T.T., Steve se somete a 24 horas de interrogatorios para intentar que este mienta y, consecuentemente, pierda la apuesta y, con ello, el dinero de Gwen.
Mrs. Carter Wardley
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
Dale Layden
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
Alice North
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Mrs. Merton
Tres mujeres sueñan con actuar en los musicales de Broadway de Florence Ziegfeld. Susan teme que su éxito apene a su padre, actor de vodevil en declive. Sheila se debate entre el amor a su novio y las atenciones de un millonario. Sandra está casada con un virtuoso del violín que no soporta que su mujer consiga el éxito en el mundo de las lentejuelas.
Ramona Lisa
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
Irene
Susana está casada y tiene una hija, pero tras un viaje por Europa, comienza a sentir una ferviente vocación religiosa que le hará abandonar todo aquello que ha construido. Su marido Barrie intentará no perderla.
Peggy Nolan
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
Anne Neville
En el siglo XV, Ricardo, Duque de Gloucester (Basil Rathbone), ayudado por su patizambo verdugo Mord (Boris Karloff), elimina a todos aquellos que se le enfrentan en la sucesión al trono, entonces ocupado por su hermano el Rey Eduardo IV de Inglaterra. Cada vez que lleva a cabo un asesinato, disfruta eliminado una de las figuritas que tiene colocadas en la sala del trono de su casa de muñecas, cuyo aspecto se asemeja a cada uno de los posibles sucesores al trono, hasta que queda sólo la suya. Después de la muerte de Eduardo se convierte en Ricardo III, Rey de Inglaterra. Sólo le falta derrotar al exiliado enrique Tudor para mantener el poder.
Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal
A cabaret hostess is broken-hearted because she loves a gambler who does not love her.
Ruth Hackett
The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.
Claire Strong
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
Muriel Carew
Ante un auditorio científico el doctor Henry Jekyll expone su teoría de que el ser humano está dividido en dos personalidades, una positiva y otra negativa, y que ambas se pueden separar, pero no logra convencer a sus oyentes. Después de visitar a su prometida Muriel, y paseando con su amigo el doctor Lanyonal que intenta convencer de que su idea es viable, conoce a una joven artista de music-hall, Champagne Ivy. En su laboratorio Jekyll experimenta con una droga y se transforma en el señor Hyde y, bajo esta personalidad y por medio de amenazas, se convierte en amante de Ivy...
Linda Rudolph
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
Molly Prescott
Amor y muerte. Paz y guerra. Tempestad en las almas de los hombres encendida por el amor de una mujer, y tempestad de metralla en los campos desencadenada por el odio y la rivalidad de las naciones… Historia de dos hermanos enamorados de una misma muchacha, que sin quererlo destroza el afecto fraternal de aquellos, haciendo de uno el favorito de su corazón y haciendo que el otro haga el sacrificio heroico y voluntario de su vida, en las trincheras, devoradoras de vidas...
Isabel Beauvel
La mujer de un rico industrial se pelea con él y decide irse de crucero. Él cree que le ha abandonado definitivamente, de modo que se casa con otra. Cuando regresa su primera esposa, surgen complicaciones.
Julie
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
Herself
An ongoing exploration of the films of Rose Hobart and a re-duplication of Joseph Cornell's infamous found footage masterpiece
