Akim Tamiroff

Akim Tamiroff

Nascimento : 1899-10-29, Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]

Morte : 1972-09-17

História

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff  (Russian: Аким Михайлович Тамиров; 29 October 1899 – 17 September 1972), Tiflis, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi, Georgia) was an Armenian actor. He won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was born of Armenian ethnicity, trained at the Moscow Art Theatre drama school. He arrived in the US in 1923 on a tour with a troupe of actors and decided to stay. Tamiroff managed to develop a career in Hollywood despite his thick Russian accent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akim Tamiroff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Akim Tamiroff
Akim Tamiroff

Filmes

La Classe américaine
Dino's Friend (archive footage)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
Don Quixote, accompanied by Sancho Panza, wander the roads of Spain protecting the weak and doing good deeds in the name of his beloved Dulcinea.
Death of a Jew
Inspector Mehdaloun
A confrontation between two enemies. One is a young, captured Israeli agent and the other an older Arab inspector who tries to get the agent talk by making him regain his desire to live.
The Great Bank Robbery
Papa (Juan's father)
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
Santuário Mortal
Du Harpin
Sem uma família, sem um centavo e separada de sua irmã, uma bela mulher casta terá que lidar com um desfile interminável de vilões, pervertidos e degenerados que reivindicarão não apenas sua preciosa virtude, mas também sua vida.
Then Came Bronson
Papa Bear
Jim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend, and sets out on a cross-country trip on his motorcycle in his quest for the meaning of life in which he befriends a runway bride, another searching soul, in this pilot for the TV series of the same name, and theatrically released in some parts of the world including Spain.
Catarina da Rússia
Sergeant
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
A Man Called Amen
Pigsty / Dean Light
A men is hired to find a stolen cache of $1,000,000 in gold coins while all the while he seems protected by a ghost.
Esses Médicos Irreverentes
Uncle Egidio
Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.
Uma Rosa para Todos
Basilio
Uma mulher vivaz tenta agradar a todos os seus amantes, mas descobre que não consegue lidar com o ciúme que surge entre eles. Rosa mantém relações com vários homens de diferentes idades e nível social. Mas quando seu médico recomenda que ela deixe esse tipo de vida por causa de saúde, Rosa decide sair e ver se os homens vão lutar por ela.
The Vulture
Prof. Hans Koniglich
A mad scientist turns himself into a half-man, half-bird monster to avenge the death of his ancestor.
A Gangster From Brooklyn
Joe Montano
O Fino da Vigarice
Okra
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
Our Husbands
Cesare
Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
O Fantástico Robin Crusoé
Tanamashu
O Tenente e piloto Robin Crusoé enfrenta grandes problemas no motor de seu avião e acaba caindo numa ilha deserta e paradisíaca. Não tendo como retornar, ele resolve construir uma casa, também encontra um velho submarino abandonado com armas e utensílios em bom estado, encontra o chimpanzé Floyd, que na verdade foi dispensado do programa espacial americano, e que acaba se tornando parceiro e arrumador de encrencas de Robin, e ainda conhece uma atraente nativa, a quem chama Quarta-Feira, que foi exilada na ilha pelo seu pai. Quarta-feira tem certeza que Crusoé quer se casar com ela e, já não bastando as confusões por aí, a coisa começa a ficar feia quando quando seu pai retorna à ilha para resgatá-la e Crusoé se recusa a casar com ela, causando então, uma verdadeira guerra entre eles numa deserta e até então, "pacata" ilha deserta.
Adultery Italian Style
Max Portesi
To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover.
Hotel Paradiso
Hotel Proprietor
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains), and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso; but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel, and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season.
Assassinato Por Encomenda
Sheriek
Coronel Mostyn é o chefe de uma seção do Serviço de Segurança britânico de serviços quando estão embaraçados pelo número de espiões e deserções. O Chefe diz-lhe para fazer algo sobre ele para que ele contrata Boys Oaks de agente L - O síndico, para assassinar pessoas para causar problemas. Embora os meninos gosta de carros e as meninas que sua nova posição atrai ele não é nenhum bom para ele. Ele também tem uma fobia sobre o vôo que faz jorrar fora a lugares exóticos um pouco de constrangimento.
The Blue Panther
Prof. Lambaré / Dr. Kha
Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger - apparently a fugitive from someone aboard - entrusts her with a jewel in the shape of a tiger with ruby eyes. Unknown to her, these false jewels contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind. Doctor Kha is just one among many spies from different nations trying to get their hands on the tiger, or Marie-Chantal... It will give any nation a tremendous control over all others! Marie-Chantal, a snob girl, will evade all attacks by sheer female cunning, and shows tigerish qualities in dealing with her male, and female foes.
Marco the Magnificent
The Old Man of the Mountain
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
Alphaville
Henri Dickson
O agente secreto Lemmy Caution parte em missão para a cidade futurista de Alphaville (onde os sentimentos foram abolidos) com o objetivo de persuadir o professor von Braun a voltar aos planetas exteriores. Natacha, filha do professor, lhe serve de guia. Lemmy reencontra Henri Dickson, antigo agente secreto, que lhe envia uma mensagem para destruir Alpha 60 e salvar aqueles que choram. Lemmy presencia uma execução pública. Depois, é submetido a um interrogatório conduzido por Alpha 60, o computador que governa a cidade, e é condenado à morte. Natacha, aos prantos, lhe murmura as palavras proibidas.
Crime on a Summer Morning
Frank Kramer
An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore.
Lord Jim
Schomberg
James Burke (Peter O'Toole) é o primeiro oficial de um navio a vapor que durante um furacão, covardemente abandona o navio deixando seus passageiros para morrer afogados. Desonrado, Lord Jim procura uma forma de consertar seu erro - não somente perante os olhos da comissão da marinha inglesa, como também para si próprio. Assim, ele recebe a dura missão de entregar um carregamento de dinamite para uma tribo de nativos em algum lugar inexplorado do oriente e acaba se unindo aos nativos em sua luta contra O General (Eli Wallach), um brutal e rude opressor. Em sua jornada de aventuras, ele se encontra com Brown (James Mason), um pirata educado e cavalheiro que tem um plano misterioso o qual irá colocá-lo num confronto com seu verdadeiro destino. Agora, Lord Jim terá que aprender a diferença entre um herói e um covarde, uma verdade que é impiedosa e sem fuga.
As Bonecas
Monsignor Arendi (segment "Monsignor Cupido")
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
Topkapi
Gerven the Cook
Um vigarista se junta com um grupo de ladrões que planejam entrar num museu de Istambul para roubar uma adaga adornada com pedras preciosas. Um vigarista de pequeno porte com problemas de passaporte se junta com uma gangue de ladrões de jóias de classe mundial que planejam roubar o museu de Topkapi, em Istambul. A inteligência turca, suspeitando de contrabando de armas, se envolve e, sob pressão, o vigarista vai até onde nunca sonhara.
Panic Button
Pandowski
A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
A Tulipa Negra
Marquis de Vigogne
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
A Queen for Caesar
Pompey
Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.
O Processo
Bloch
Joseph K. é acordado por um inspetor de polícia na pensão em que mora. Ao saber que está preso em casa sem explicação e que precisa ficar à disposição das autoridades, ele parte em busca de respostas.
The Reluctant Saint
Bishop Durso
The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino who was sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy because his mother believed him too simple for anything else.
Sangue Por Liberdade
Mielski Zasloba
Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film concerns the star-crossed romance between a Polish military officer and a gorgeous Slavic princess. The princess' vengeful lover cuts a path of death and destruction throughout the land.
Ursus and the Tartar Princess
Khan of the Tartars
Peplum movie from 1961
Legenda Histórica
O Zingaro
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
O Juízo Universal
Play director
Em Nápoles, uma voz dos céus anuncia numa manhã que o julgamento final será às 18:00 naquele dia. O que se segue é uma série de histórias retratando as reações de várias pessoas (ou falta dela) ao anúncio. Tem um elenco de estrelas italiana e internacional, incluindo os americanos Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; a grega Melina Mercouri e os franceses Fernandel, Anouk Aimée e Lino Ventura. O filme foi um fracasso enorme, massacrado por críticos e público quando foi lançado. Foi filmado em preto e branco, mas a última sequência, a dança no teatro, é colorida.
Romanoff and Juliet
Vadim Romanoff
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.
The Bacchantes
Teiresias
The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.
La moglie di mio marito
Onze Homens e Um Segredo
Spyros Acebos
Em Las Vegas, onze homens tomam parte de um fantástico plano de assaltar cinco cassinos ao mesmo tempo, durante a virada do ano. Tudo parece perfeito, mas algo acaba saindo errado.
Desert Desperadoes
The Merchant
A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant who hired the caravan is against taking The Woman along, but the commander of the soldiers, Verrus, overrules him. Verrus tries to get friendly with her, promising all kinds of wealth for her favors. The caravan encounters a group of Jdean refugees fleeing from King Herod's orders to kill all male children. They are on their way to Egypt with a male child with them. The Merchant begins to ponder the reward that would be paid by the King and orders The Woman to seduce a Roman guard to enable the messenger to get away. When the King's soldiers show up, Verrus refuses to surrender the refugees. Then the sand hits the fan.
Eu e o Coronel
Szabuniewicz
Jacobowsky (Danny Kaye), um refugiado judeu, foge dos nazistas com o Coronel Prokoszny (Curd Jürgens), um aristocrático e anti-semita oficial polonês, que está tentando levar uns documentos para a Inglaterra. Ao longo da história Jurgens aprende a gostar de Kaye, apesar de sua disputa pela mesma mulher, e juntos eles tentam despistar seus perseguidores.
A Marca da Maldade
'Uncle' Joe Grandi
Quando um carro-bomba explode no lado norte-americano da fronteira entre os EUA e o México, Miguel Vargas, o agente antidrogas mexicano, inicia sua investigação, junto com o capitão da polícia americana Hank Quinlan. Quando Vargas começa a suspeitar que Quinlan e seu parceiro obscuro, Menzies, estão plantando provas para enquadrar um homem inocente, suas investigações sobre sua possível corrupção rapidamente colocaram em risco a si e sua nova esposa, Susie.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Colonel Peng
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Anastacia: A Princesa Esquecida
Boris Adreivich Chernov
Com a revolução russa em 1917, o Czar Nicolau II e sua família foram capturados e executados, mas segundo rumores, sua filha mais nova Anastácia havia sobrevivido e vivia na Europa. Anos depois, um ex-general russo, que vive de um empreendimento fraudulento envolvendo a herança real, precisa provar aos seus investidores a existência da princesa, e se utiliza de uma mulher perturbada e sem identidade para assumir o papel de Anastácia.
A Torre dos Monstros
Odo the Gypsy
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
The Widow
The Uncle
A woman falls in love with a race-car driver who two-times her for another girl.
Cartouche
Il marchese di Salpiere
The son of an ailing nobleman returns to France to clear his name and prove where the true guilt lies.
Grilhões do Passado
Jakob Zouk
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
You Know What Sailors Are
The best of British humor is on display in this satirical cold war romp! Donald Sinden plays Lieutenant Green, a radar expert in the Royal Navy. One night, whilst under the influence of alcohol, he welds an old pram to the deck of a foreign destroyer for a joke. The next morning, British Intelligence is desperate to know what the enemy’s new weapon is. To cover his tracks, Green calls it the ‘998’. When he is posted to the destroyer to explain about radar techniques, Green soon realizes that his prank has gone too far.
They Who Dare
Captain George One
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.
Desert Legion
Pvt. Plevko
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
Memórias de um Médico
Gitano
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Posto Avançado em Marrocos
Lieutenant Glysko
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
Relentless
Joe Faringo
A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.
My Girl Tisa
Mr. Grumbach
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
The Gangster
Nick Jammey
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Fiesta
Chato Vasquez
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
A Scandal in Paris
Emile Vernet
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
Pardon My Past
Jim Arnold
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
Can't Help Singing
Prince Gregory Stroganovsky
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Papai Por Acaso
The Boss
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
A Estirpe do Dragão
Wu Lien
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Uncle Pio
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
His Butler's Sister
Popoff
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Por Quem os Sinos Dobram
Pablo
Guerra Civil Espanhola, anos 30. O idealista Robert Jordan (Gary Cooper) se engaja no conflito para defender os princípios de liberdade e democracia. Numa missão de altíssimo risco, ele aguarda o melhor momento de explodir uma ponte de importância vital para as tropas inimigas. Neste cenário de idealismos e tensões quase insuportáveis, a mística Pilar, líder das forças da resistência civil, encoraja a bela e jovem Maria (Ingrid Bergman) a ajudar Robert em sua missão. Durante uma noite debaixo das estrelas, o medo da morte e a possibilidade do amor caminham lado a lado, em pleno horror da guerra.
Cinco Covas No Egito
Farid
O Exército Britânico, retirando-se à frente do vitorioso Rommel, deixa um único sobrevivente na fronteira egípcio que encontra refúgio em um remoto hotel no deserto. Ele é ajudado pelo proprietário do hotel, apesar dos protestos da camareira francesa, com medo da chegada iminente de Rommel e os alemães. Para sobreviver John assume a identidade do garçom do hotel, recentemente falecido.
Tortilla Flat
Pablo
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Vendaval de Paixões
The Lamb (uncredited) (voice)
Loxi é a jovem empresária que cuida de uma empresa de manutenção de barcos. O negócio é muito lucrativo, uma vez que a costa da Flórida em 1840 possui águas rasas e coberta de corais. Quando resgata um navio bastante danificado, Loxi conhece o capitão Jack Stuart, por quem se apaixona. A ponto de lutar ao lado do amado para convencer os proprietários do barco que Stuart não teve nenhuma culpa nos estragos. O romance entre eles estará em risco quando o advogado contratado por ela, Stephen Tolliver, também se apaixona pela moça.
The Corsican Brothers
Baron Colonna
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
New York Town
Stefan Janowski
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Mio Pio
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Legião de Heróis
Dan Duroc
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Untamed
Joe Easter
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
O Homem Que Se Vendeu
The Boss
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
The Way of All Flesh
Paul Kriza
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Ídolos de Barro
Dr. 'Tubby' Forster
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
Honeymoon in Bali
Tony
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars.
The Magnificent Fraud
Jules LaCroix / President Alvarado
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Aliança de Aço
Fiesta
Sinopse: Cecil B. DeMille nos leva de volta ao ano 1860, então reconstrói a primeira ferrovia intercontinental, a Union Pacific. Um dos últimos feitos do Presidente Lincoln foi autorizar a expansão da Union Pacific para o oeste dos EUA. Um espetáculo real e histórico, que as vezes mescla as aventuras fictícias do inspetor ferroviário (McCrea), a bilheteira (Stanwyck), e o melhor amigo de McCrea, Preston. Infelizmente, Preston une-se a Donlevy, que está empenhado a destruir a ferrovia, em nome de um cartel de políticos corruptos. Durante um ataque indígena, McCrea e Preston lutam lado a lado para salvar Stanwyck, então o inspetor tenta convencer Preston, a tornar-se um homem honesto.
King of Chinatown
Frank Baturin
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Paris Honeymoon
Mayor Peter Karloca
A Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant girl. He falls in love with her, then must decide if he wants her or the rich countess.
Ride a Crooked Mile
Mike Balan
The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.
Lobos do Norte
Red Skain
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
Dangerous to Know
Stephen Recka
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
Lafitte, O Corsário
Dominique You
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
This Way Please
Tartar Chieftain (uncredited)
A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her impending marriage.
High, Wide and Handsome
Joe Varese
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.
The Great Gambini
The Great Gambini
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
King of Gamblers
Steve Kalkas
A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy.
The Soldier and the Lady
Ivan Ogareff
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Her Husband Lies
Big Ed Bullock
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
Breakdowns of 1936
Himself
Time marches on.
The Jungle Princess
Karen Neg
Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving him for dead. But the tiger is the pet of Ulah, a beautiful young woman who grew up by herself in the jungle. She rescues Chris and takes him back to her cave, where she nurses him to health and falls in love with him. When he eventually returns to camp, she follows. The fiancée is jealous, and the natives don't like Ulah or her pet tiger either, all of which leads to a lot of trouble.
O General Morreu ao Amanhecer
General Yang
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
Adversidade
Carlo Cibo
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
Desejo
Avilia
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
Woman Trap
Joe Ramirez de la Valle
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.
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Dr. Zaranoff
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
Two-Fisted
Taxi Driver
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
The Big Broadcast of 1936
Boris
The wisp of a storyline involves two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller, who doubles as the station's sole announcer while his comic partner Smiley serves as the house crooner. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device which can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
The Gay Deception
Spellek
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Mares da China
Romanoff
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
Paris in Spring
Cafe Manager
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
Inferno Negro
Sokolsky
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
Go Into Your Dance
Mexican in La Cucaracha Cantina
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Tentação dos Outros
Chef at Wedding (uncredited)
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Naughty Marietta
Rudolpho
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
The Winning Ticket
Guiseppe
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Lanceiros da Índia
Otamanu
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. After two casualties, the experienced but insubordinate Lieutenant Alan McGregor receives as replacement, the arrogant Lieutenant Forsythe and the immature son of Colonel Stone, Lieutenant Donald Stone. With the intention to prove that he will not have any privilege in the troop, the reception of Colonel Stone to his son is absolutely cold, but he becomes the protégé of McGregor. When Lieutenant Stone is kidnapped by Mohammed Khan, McGregor and Forsythe disobey the direct order of their commander, disguise as Indian peddlers and go to Khan's fortress to attempt to rescue their friend
Here Is My Heart
Manager of Hotel
A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
The Merry Widow
Manager at Maxim's
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
The Captain Hates the Sea
General Salazaro
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
Lady by Choice
Poupolis (uncredited)
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.
Agora e Sempre
French Jeweller
Young freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Despite the responsibility of his new family, Jerry is swayed by the corruptible influence of jewelry thief Felix Evans. When Evans lures Jerry into a job, it puts the continuation of his new family life at risk.
Acorrentada
Pablo, the Ranch Chef
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
Straight Is the Way
Mr. Slavko (uncredited)
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
Whom the Gods Destroy
Peter Korotoff
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
The Great Flirtation
Paul Wengler
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
A Imperatriz Vermelha
Bit Part (uncredited)
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Três Amores
Cafe Owner Riccori
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Fugitive Lovers
Deaf-Mute Bus Passenger (uncredited)
In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict Paul Porter, who quickly allies himself with Letty. With the police in hot pursuit and Legs monitoring his every move with Letty, Paul is running out of both time and ideas.
Rainha Cristina
Pedro (uncredited)
Naquele que é considerado seu maior papel, Greta Garbo interpreta a Rainha Christina de Suécia, que no Século XVII, chocou toda Europa ao renunciar o trono por amor à Don Antônio. O roteiro de H.M combinado à direção de Rouben Mamoulian fazem deste um dos melhores filmes já surgidos na usina de sonhos de Hollywood.
The Devil's in Love
Adjutant
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
Storm at Daybreak
Gypsy Fiddler (uncredited)
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
Gabriel Over the White House
Delegate to the Debt Conference (uncredited)
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Clear All Wires!
Hotel desk clerk (uncredited)
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
Okay, America!
Bit Role (uncredited)
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.