"Davis in the film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's book ""Of Human Bondage"" (1934) and later in the romantic comedy ""It's Love I'm After"" (1937) (also co-starring Olivia de Havilland). He played Professor Henry Higgins in the film version of George Bernard Shaw's play ""Pygmalion"" (1938), with Wendy Hiller as Eliza, which earned Howard another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Howard starred with Ingrid Bergman in ""Intermezzo"" (1939) and Norma Shearer in a film version of Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"" (1936). ""Pygmalion"" (1938) won a bevy of academy awards but went almost ignored in Britain. In 1939 as war"
"one film and return home to Sweden. Her husband, Dr. Petter Lindström, remained in Sweden with their daughter Pia (born 1938). In ""Intermezzo"", she played the role of a young piano accompanist opposite Leslie Howard as a famous violin virtuoso. She arrived in Los Angeles on 6 May 1939, and stayed at the Selznick home until she could find another residence. According to Selznick's son Danny, who was a child at the time, his father had concerns about Ingrid: ""She didn't speak English, she was too tall, her name sounded too German, and her eyebrows were too thick."" Bergman was"
"Intermezzo (1939 film) Intermezzo (also called Intermezzo: A Love Story) (1939) is a romantic film made in the US by Selznick International Pictures and nominated for two Academy Awards. It was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by David O. Selznick. It is a remake of the Swedish film ""Intermezzo"" (1936) and features multiple orchestrations of the Heinz Provost's piece of the same name, which won a contest associated with the original film's production. The screenplay by George O'Neil was based on the screenplay of the original film by Gösta Stevens and Gustaf Molander. The scoring by Lou Forbes was"
"while he was filming ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939) and ""Intermezzo: A Love Story"" (1939). His wife and daughter joined him in Hollywood before production ended on the two films, making his arrangement with Cunnington somewhat uncomfortable for everyone. He left the United States for the last time with his wife and daughter in August, 1939, and Cunnington soon followed. She appeared in """"Pimpernel"" Smith"" (1941) and ""The First of the Few"" (1942) in minor roles under the stage name of Suzanne Clair. She died of pneumonia in her early 30s in 1942, just six months before Howard's death. Howard"
"of them were scattered in the sea around the islet of Dannholmen off the fishing village of Fjällbacka in Bohuslän, on the west coast of Sweden, where she spent most of the summers from 1958 until her death in 1982. The rest were placed next to her parents' ashes in Norra Begravningsplatsen (Northern Cemetery), Stockholm, Sweden. According to biographer Donald Spoto, she was ""arguably the most international star in the history of entertainment"". After her American film debut in the film ""Intermezzo: A Love Story"" (1939), co-starring Leslie Howard, Hollywood saw her as a unique actress who was completely natural"
"in New York. She was given a six-month contract with the studio, earning $200 per week. While working at the studio, she attended MGM's ""Little Red Schoolhouse"" with other child actors like Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bartholomew. Her first film role was in ""Camille"" (1936), a romantic drama starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor. She played Taylor's younger sister Marie Jeanette, but her speaking scenes were deleted and she was uncredited. MGM had trouble finding suitable roles for her, and she was let go by the studio along with Deanna Durbin. Leslie returned to New York, working on the radio"
"Leslie Howard Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Howard also wrote many stories and articles for ""The New York Times"", ""The New Yorker"", and ""Vanity Fair"" and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s. He is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). He had roles in many other notable films, including ""Berkeley Square"" (1933), ""Of Human Bondage"" (1934), ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1934), ""The Petrified Forest"" (1936), ""Pygmalion"" (1938), ""Intermezzo"" (1939), """"Pimpernel"" Smith"" (1941), and ""The"
"starring role in the English-language remake of ""Intermezzo"" (1939). At her insistence, producer David O. Selznick agreed not to sign her to a contract—for four films, rather than the then-standard seven-year period, also at her insistence—until after ""Intermezzo"" had been released. Selznick's financial problems meant that Bergman was often loaned to other studios. Apart from ""Casablanca"", her performances from this period include Victor Fleming's remake of ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" (1941), ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1943), ""Gaslight"" (1944) and ""The Bells of St. Mary's"" (1945). Her last films for Selznick were Alfred Hitchcock's ""Spellbound"" (1945) and ""Notorious"" (1946)."
"up with her bare-chested native boyfriend to help her forget. In 1931, Leslie Howard was new to Hollywood, having only appeared in two films, ""Outward Bound"" (1930) and ""Devotion"" (1931). In the spring of 1931, he was filming ""Never the Twain Shall Meet"", ""A Free Soul"" with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and ""Five and Ten"" with Marion Davies—shooting one movie in the morning and another in the afternoon. This led to Howard's lifelong distaste for film acting, the studio system, contracts and the typical schedules required of a Hollywood actor. He said that a ""typical 'talkie'...is manufactured on the"
"extra in the 1932 film ""Landskamp""). She went on to act in a dozen films in Sweden, including ""En kvinnas ansikte"", which was later remade as ""A Woman's Face"" with Joan Crawford, and one film in Germany, ""Die vier Gesellen"" (""The Four Companions"") (1938). Bergman's first acting role in the United States came when Hollywood producer David O. Selznick brought her to America to star in ""Intermezzo: A Love Story"" (1939), an English language remake of her earlier Swedish film ""Intermezzo"" (1936). Unable to speak English, and uncertain about her acceptance by the American audience, she expected to complete this"
"cut. Her actual film debut was as Nurse Ryan in ""Soldiers in White"" in 1942. She was given some decent roles in B films, ""Busses Roar"" (1942) and ""The Mysterious Doctor"" (1943), and had a small role in an expensive production, ""Mission to Moscow"" (1943) as Emlen Davies. This impressed Warners enough so when Joan Leslie was held up on ""Rhapsody in Blue"", Parker replaced her in a strong role in a prestige production, ""Between Two Worlds"" (1944), playing the suicidal wife of Paul Henreid's character. She stayed in support roles for ""Crime by Night"" (1944) and ""The Last Ride"""
"for her roles in three 1947 films: ""The Woman on the Beach"", ""Under the Tonto Rim"" and ""Wild Horse Mesa"". The latter two films were productions based on Zane Grey's western novels, and both films starred Tim Holt. For a time she was ""unofficially engaged"" to marry Holt. Her acting career began with uncredited roles in 12 films, the first as Prudence in ""Under Western Skies"" (1945). Her first credited film role was as Jane Preston in the 1946 film ""Sunset Pass"" with co-star James Warren. In March 1947, Leslie was among several actors and actresses attending the premieres of"
"Christie"" (1944). Howard received his first credit for ""The Way to the Stars"" (1945), playing a pilot. Howard's performance in ""The Way Ahead"" came to the attention of David Lean, who was looking for someone to play the role of Alec in ""Brief Encounter"" (1945). Lean recommended him to Noël Coward, who agreed with the suggestion, and the success of the film launched Howard's film career. He followed it with ""I See a Dark Stranger"" (1946) with Deborah Kerr, and ""Green for Danger"" (1947), starring Alastair Sim. Both films were successful as was ""They Made Me a Fugitive"" (1947). That"
"and as a model. During this time, her older sister Mary was signed to Universal Studios. Leslie returned to Hollywood with the rest of her family, working for different studios as a freelancer. She mainly worked for RKO Pictures. Leslie was selected to play a small role in ""Men with Wings"" (1938). While shooting the film, director William A. Wellman discovered that Leslie's mother had lied about her daughter's age and that she was only thirteen years old. For the remainder of the filming schedule, Wellman replaced her with Mary. Leslie gained her first credited role in ""Winter Carnival"" (1939)"
"craft. Forrest began her film career in the 1940s as a chorus dancer in MGM musicals. She made her acting debut in ""Not Wanted"" (1949), written and produced by Ida Lupino. The film's controversial subject of unwed motherhood was a raw and unsentimental view of a condition that was rarely explored by Hollywood at that time. Forrest starred in two more Lupino projects, ""Never Fear"" (1949) and ""Hard, Fast and Beautiful"" (1951), as well as other film noir films, including ""Mystery Street"" (1950), directed by John Sturges, and the star-studded ""While the City Sleeps"" (1956), directed by Fritz Lang. Her"
"""Nothing Sacred"" (both 1937). In 1939 Selznick brought Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman to the United States to star in ""Intermezzo"" and the following year he brought Alfred Hitchcock over from England to direct ""Rebecca"". Also in 1939, Selznick produced his epic version of Margaret Mitchell's ""Gone With the Wind"", which became the most financially successful film of all time. Selznick liquidated his corporation in the early 1940s but returned to independent producing in 1943. His work from this period included two more Hitchcock films, ""Spellbound"" (1945) and ""The Paradine Case"" (1948) and several films starring Jennifer Jones, among them ""Since"
"Films expired, she was cast in ""The Skipper Surprised His Wife"" (1950), appearing with Robert Walker. The film was distributed by MGM, the studio in which she began her film career in 1936. In the early 1950s, Leslie chose to focus on raising her daughters, which resulted in a more irregular film career. In 1952, she signed a short-term deal with Republic Pictures, the low-budget studio which primarily produced western pictures. One of the films she made for Republic was ""Flight Nurse"" (1953). Leslie's character, Polly Davis, was based on the successful flight nurse Lillian Kinkella Keil's career in the"
"of Marco Denevi's bestselling mystery, ""Rosaura a la diez"" (""Rosaura at Ten O'Clock""), for whose 1958 screen release Soffici wrote, directed and starred. In 1958, the film ""Thunder Among the Leaves"" directed by Armando Bó was released. The film featured the later sex-symbol Isabel Sarli in her first starring role, and marked the beginning of her partnership with future husband Armando Bó, which would span almost three decades and made numerous sexploitation films. Now considered a classic, a scene in which she bathes in a lake was the first one to feature full frontal nudity in Argentine cinema. The film"
"singer. She received her first film role, uncredited, in 1934. From 1936 through 1945 she would receive steady acting roles. She began receiving credited roles in larger productions, and starred opposite Ricardo Cortez in the 1937 film ""The Californian"", and that same year she starred opposite Tyrone Power in ""Second Honeymoon"". From 1938 through 1945 she had twenty seven starring roles in films, some of which were B movies. The most notable film role was her role in ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" (1939), which also starred Henry Fonda and Alice Brady. Some of her more recognizable roles from that seven-year period"
"Intermission (film) Intermission is a 2003 Irish black comedy crime film directed by John Crowley and written by Mark O'Rowe. The film, set in Dublin, Ireland, has been shot in a documentary-like style, and contains several storylines which cross over one another. The film opens with a cashier being charmed by Lehiff (Colin Farrell) who after flirting with the girl punches her in the face and steals from the till. It quickly moves to John (Cillian Murphy) and Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald) who are a recently separated young couple. The film will revolve around their extended friends. It is quickly revealed"
"the smaller studios had restricted contract lists and were prepared to pay well to borrow good- looking guys whose acting consisted mainly of not bumping into the furniture."" Howard's first memorable role came on loan out to Columbia: as Ronald Colman's younger brother in ""Lost Horizon"" (1937), directed by Frank Capra. Capra had seen him in ""Annapolis Farewell"" and arranged for a screen test. The film was a huge success and really established Howard, who later said ""without ""Lost Horizon"" I doubt very much whether I would have survived in Hollywood"". Howard was borrowed by Universal for the lead in"
"Between Miracles Between Miracles () is a 1971 Italian commedia all'italiana film written and directed by Italian actor Nino Manfredi, in his debut as feature film director. A qualified surgeon is urgently called by a party in a small and inadequate private hospital to operate a man in critical condition because of a suicide attempt. This is the protagonist of the film, Benedict Parisi, whose first name seems prophetic of his story. In the waiting room is the companion Joan Micheli, pregnant with him, which—Benedict being alone in the world—gives consent to the risky operation. Her mother, Immaculate, however, hovers"
"survived for the enjoyment of audiences today. Leslie Howard Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Howard also wrote many stories and articles for ""The New York Times"", ""The New Yorker"", and ""Vanity Fair"" and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s. He is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). He had roles in many other notable films, including ""Berkeley Square"" (1933), ""Of Human Bondage"" (1934), ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1934), ""The Petrified Forest"" (1936), ""Pygmalion"" (1938),"
"and kept her in Portugal. After the war, actor Raymond Burr said that he was briefly married to Scottish actress Annette Sutherland who was killed on Flight 777. Burr's biographer Ona L. Hill writes that ""no one by the name of Annette Sutherland Burr was listed as a passenger on the plane."" The most intense intrigue surrounded actor Leslie Howard who was at the peak of his career and had world fame after ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1934) and ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). Aside from screen accolades, he was prized by the British government for his anti-Nazi propaganda and films"
"Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm 1907–1909, acted at the Swedish theatre in Helsinki 1909–1913, and then at the Royal Dramatic Theatre from 1913–1926. The last years there he headed the school; his students included Greta Garbo. Molander wrote several screenplays for Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, and was helped by the latter to get employment as a director for Svensk Filmindustri, where he worked 1923–1956. All in all, he directed sixty-two films. He often worked with Gösta Ekman, and his films include ""Intermezzo"" (1936), which became Ingrid Bergman's breakthrough and paved her way to America, where she starred in the 1939"
"Outward Bound (film) Outward Bound is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film based on the 1924 hit play of the same name by Sutton Vane. It stars Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Chandler, Beryl Mercer, Montagu Love, Alison Skipworth, Alec B. Francis, and Dudley Digges. The film was later remade, with some changes, as ""Between Two Worlds"" (1944). Henry and Ann, a pair of young lovers, are planning to commit suicide and are worried about what will happen to their dog when they are gone. The scene then changes to a disparate group of passengers who find themselves aboard"
"studied drama at the University of Southern California, where he studied for a master's degree in theater history. Parker began his show-business career in summer 1951 when he had a $32-a-week job as an extra in the play ""Mister Roberts"", although he is credited with the voice of Leslie, the chauffeur, in the 1950 film ""Harvey"". Within months, he was on location with a minor part in ""Untamed Frontier"" with Joseph Cotten and Shelley Winters. Parker became a contract player with Warner Bros., appearing in small roles in several films such as ""Springfield Rifle"" (1952), ""Island in the Sky"", ""The"
"Interlude (1957 film) Interlude is a 1957 American CinemaScope Technicolor drama romance film directed by Douglas Sirk starring June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch, Françoise Rosay and Keith Andes. Helen Banning, an American, moves to Munich, Germany to begin a new job with a cultural agency. She meets a handsome doctor, Morley Dwyer, but lets him know she is reluctant to begin any new relationships. New boss Prue Stubbins introduces her to symphony conductor Tonio ""Tony"" Fischer, then, concerned about the upcoming performance, asks Helen to follow him when he abruptly leaves the concert hall. At the estate of a"
"He was working as a poolroom porter when found by Edgar Kennedy, who took him to Mack Sennett where he started at $3.50 per day. His first role was as a ""Keystone Kop"" in ""Hoffmeyer's Legacy"" (1912). His tall, gangly appearance was well utilized in numerous short comedy films during the silent film era, and in addition to his many acting roles, he directed more than 50 short films. Occasionally, he played in dramatic films, such as ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" (1930) and ""Jesse James"" (1939). However, he was most successful in comedy films, including several with ZaSu"
"""What a Life"" (1939) with Betty Grable and ""Disputed Passage"" (1940) with Dorothy Lamour. The latter was a flop at the box office at Paramount were beginning to cool on Howard. Universal borrowed him to play a key role in ""Green Hell"" (1940). MGM used him in ""The Man from Dakota"" (1940), supporting Wallace Beery, and ""The Philadelphia Story"" (1940), where he played the fiancée of Katharine Hepburn, competing for her amorous attentions with characters played by Cary Grant and James Stewart. It remains one of his best known films. Back at Paramount Howard was top billed in ""Texas Rangers"
"together in other New York plays, including ""Bury the Dead"" (1936), ""Prelude"" (1936), ""200 Were Chosen"" (1936) and ""Journeyman"" (1938), and ""Six O'Clock Theatre"" (1948), all of which were short-lived. She made her on-screen debut in 1978, when she appeared in the television film, ""A Question of Guilt"". Subsequently, she appeared in her first feature film 1980, ""The Black Marble"". Her second feature film was ""Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype"", which featured Oliver Reed. She starred in ""2010"" in 1984. She is perhaps most recognized for her performance in the classic film Ron Howard's ""Cocoon"", and appeared in the sequel"
"""Domani è troppo tardi"" (1950) after being spotted by director Léonide Moguy and De Sica. MGM launched her in ""Teresa"" (1951), her first American film, which also saw the debuts of Rod Steiger and John Ericson. Reviews for this performance compared her to Greta Garbo, and she won the New Star of the Year–Actress Golden Globe. Under contract to MGM throughout the 1950s, she appeared in a series of films, including ""The Light Touch"" with Stewart Granger. Plans for a film of ""Romeo and Juliet"" with her and Marlon Brando fell through when a British-Italian production was announced. While filming"
"for the part. David O. Selznick eventually cast the more experienced and popular Leslie Howard. It was during this time that he received typecasting as ""the handsome romantic husband or boyfriend,"" ""the attractive, reliable love interest of the heroine,"" and ""the tall, stalwart hero."" Warners gave him the third lead in ""Espionage Agent"" (1939) alongside Joel McCrea and Brenda Marshall, and a lead role in ""The Roaring Twenties"" (1939), a gangster film that reunited him with ""Four Daughters"" star Priscilla Lane, as well as James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. As one of a trio of friends, and the only one"