George Murphy
Nascimento : 1902-07-04, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Morte : 1992-05-03
História
George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-dance man and appeared in many big-budget musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal. He made his movie debut shortly after talking pictures had replaced silent movies in 1930, and his career continued until he retired as an actor in 1952, at the age of 50. During World War II, he organized entertainment for American troops.
In 1951, he was awarded an honorary Academy Award. He was never nominated for an Oscar in any competitive category.
He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946. He was also a vice president of Desilu Productions and of the Technicolor Corporation. He was director of entertainment for presidential inaugurations in 1953, 1957 and 1961.
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
(archive footage)
Algumas das estrelas musicais da MGM revisam a história dos musicais dos estúdios. De 'The Hollywood Revue' de 1929 a ' A Lenda dos Beijos Perdidos' de 1954. Dos primeiros talkies musicais a Gene Kelly em 'Cantando na Chuva' de 1952.
From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentário que traça um panorama dos musicais no cinema desde a década de 20 até os anos 50, e traz entrevistas com algumas das estrelas do gênero.
This short features theatrical trailers of original musicals released by MGM in 1955 and visits the sets of films still in production. At the end, William Gibson, author of the novel "The Cobweb," introduces the cast of the film adaptation of his book.
Narrator (voice)
A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life.
Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
Robert Fontaine Sr.
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Mr. Patrick Callaghan
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
Police Insp. Matt Duggan
A young lawyer's primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
'Pop' Stazak
Um esquadrão da divisão 101st Airborne fica encurralado na cidade sitiada de Bastogne durante a Batalha do Bulge. Nós acompanhamos um grupo de soldados norte-americanos, como eles lutam com os alemães, em um nevado e nebuloso inverno, perto Bastogne na II Guerra Mundial. Eles estão com pouco combustível, rações e munição. Os alemães estão constantemente incentivando a sua rendição via rádio e folhetos. E mais importante, o nevoeiro espesso e abrangente dificulta a movimentação e identificação do inimigo e impede a ajuda pelo apoio aéreo aliado. Este filme centra-se muito mais sobre a psicologia e moral dos soldados do que em cenas de ação e heroísmo.
Jack Bearnes
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.
Patrick O'Donnell
A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
Steve Abbutt
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and Steve out of trouble.
Larry Bishop
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Theodore 'Ted' Parkson
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
Joseph Morton
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
Jake Justus
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Gordon Miller
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
George Doane
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
Johnny Demming
Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Jerry Jones
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Lt. Steve Bentley
Japão acaba invadiram as Filipinas e do Exército dos EUA tenta uma defesa desesperada. Treze homens são escolhidos para explodir uma ponte na península de Bataan.
Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Jerry Hendricks
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
Jimmy K. Metcalf
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
Joe Jonathan
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns out that the ex-con is only interested in trying to use the agency as a front for extortion. Songs include the Oscar nominated "When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise," "Your Face Looks Familiar," "Heavenly, Isn't He?" "Let's Forget It," "You're Bad For Me," and "A Million Miles From Manhattan."
Jimmy McGonagle
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
Cavalryman (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Francis X. 'Skeets' / 'Skeeter' Maguire
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.
Tom
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
Claudius "Coffee Cup" Cup
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Jerry Kelly
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
Self
Douglas Shearer, engenheiro de som da MGM, nos leva num passeio pelos bastidores para apresentar a forma como a parte de som de um filme falado é criada. Usa o filme Divino Tormento ou Bitter Sweet (1940) (Com imagens de Jeanette MacDonald e Nelson Eddy) e o filme O Inimigo X ou Comrade X (1940) (Com imagens de Clark Gable e Hedy Lamarr) para ilustrar as técnicas. Partes deste curta estão em Technicolor, incluindo um impressionante teste de tela de Greer Garson para o filme Flores do Pó ou Blossoms in the Dust (1941). O resultado é um "desfile" de trailers dos próximos filmes da MGM que mostram quase toda a constelação de estrelas da MGM.
Alan Blake
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Eddie Kerns
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.
King Shaw
Johnny Brett e King Shaw vêm tentando fazer sucesso como uma dupla de dança em Nova York. O produtor Bob Casey quer um novo parceiro para a estrela da dança Clare Bennett, ele escolhe Johnny, mas Brett acha que o produtor é um cobrador e diz que ele é King Shaw, que deve dinheiro. Devido a essa confusão o homem errado ganha o papel principal em um show da Broadway.
Himself (uncredited)
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
Himself (uncredited)
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
Dan Clifford
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Rusty Stevens
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
Barry Paige
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Roger Wendling
Betsy é uma órfã talentosa que passa a ficar sob os cuidados de seu tio Pop, gerente de uma casa teatral. Em pouco tempo a garota se transforma na queridinha da clientela, incluindo o maestro Jimmy Clayton. Mas a proprietária do edifício, Sarah Roger não está gostando nada da situação.
Hal Adams
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Bill Raeburn
A newsman (George Murphy) with a no-good wife (Claire Dodd) exposes a religious racket with a newswoman (Josephine Hutchinson) who loves him.
Sonny Ledford
Steve Raleight quer produzir um show na Broadway. Ele já conta, inclusive, com sua atriz principal, a bela Sally Lee. Mas, infelizmente, a peça está passando por muitos problemas financeiros, o que está impedindo sua estreia.
Além disso, Caroline Whipple está forçando Steve a usar uma atriz já veterana em vez de Sally, para que então possa lhe conseguir o dinheiro para o lançamento do show.
Então, para ajudar Steve, Sally compra um cavalo que ela costumava treinar quando era mais nova, quando seus pais possuíam uma fazenda. Com muita garra, Sally o treina para competir, para que assim possa ajudar Steve.
Michael Denis
A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood.
Ted Lane
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Self
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
Charlie Hall
Mary Jones and Charlie Hall have worked for four years in the same office at the Acme Carpet Sweeper Company, but they have never shown any interest in each other. At the suggestion of a janitor, the president of the company uses psychology to try to get them together.
Keat Shevlin
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
Edward Joseph "Red" Foster
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
Jerry Davis
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
Carl Brent
Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He finally acquires a position that will require him to go to Russia for a period of time, while Nora goes back to the stage during his absence. But he loses out on the job at the last minute, and rather than tell Nora he has failed again, he steals a roll of money from his prospective employer to buy some things for Nora and go out and have a good time before, she things, his departure. His departure is to jail rather than Russia and he hides the truth from Nora by having an acquaintance mail his letters from Russia. He then finds out that Nora is pregnant.
Larry O'Roarke
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
Jerry Lane
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
