"Arsenic and Old Lace (play) Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the subsequent film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the play moved to the Hudson Theatre. It closed there on June 17, 1944, having played 1,444 performances. Of the twelve plays written by Kesselring, ""Arsenic and Old Lace"" was the most successful, and, according to the opening night"
"later ""Arsenic and Old Lace"" (1944) and ""I Was a Male War Bride"" (1949); these films are frequently cited as among the all-time great comedy films. Having established himself as a major Hollywood star, he was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for ""Penny Serenade"" (1941) and ""None but the Lonely Heart"" (1944). In the 1940s and 1950s, Grant forged a working relationship with the director Alfred Hitchcock, appearing in films such as ""Suspicion"" (1941), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955) and ""North by Northwest"" (1959). Hitchcock admired Grant and considered him to have been the"
"In ""Rear Window"" (1954), Lisa (Grace Kelly) risks her life by breaking into Lars Thorwald's apartment. In ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955), Francie (Grace Kelly again) offers to help a man she believes is a burglar. In ""Vertigo"" (1958) and ""North by Northwest"" (1959) respectively, Kim Novak and Eva Marie Saint play the blonde heroines. In ""Psycho"" (1960), Janet Leigh's character steals $40,000 () and is murdered by Norman Bates, a reclusive psychopath. Tippi Hedren, a blonde, appears to be the focus of the attacks in ""The Birds"" (1963). In ""Marnie"" (1964), the title character, again played by Hedren, is"
"Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner Jr. (; born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television, best known for starring in the television shows ""It Takes a Thief"" (1968–70), ""Switch"" (1975–78), and ""Hart to Hart"" (1979–84). He also had a recurring role as Teddy Leopold on the TV sitcom ""Two and a Half Men"" and has a recurring role as Anthony DiNozzo Sr. on the police procedural ""NCIS"". In movies, Wagner is known for his role as Number Two in the ""Austin Powers"" trilogy of films (1997, 1999, 2002), as well as for ""A Kiss Before"
"Alan Ladd Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film and television producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns such as ""Shane"" (1953) and in films noir. He was often paired with Veronica Lake, in noirish films such as ""This Gun for Hire"" (1942), ""The Glass Key"" (1942) and ""The Blue Dahlia"" (1946). His other notable credits include ""Two Years Before the Mast"" (1946), ""Whispering Smith"", his first Western and color film, (1948) and ""The Great Gatsby"" (1949). His popularity diminished in the late"
"""North by Northwest"" (1959), both starring Cary Grant and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In ""North by Northwest"" she played Grant's character's mother, and in ""To Catch a Thief"" and ""The Swan"" (1956), she played the mother of characters played by Grace Kelly. Landis's appearance in ""North by Northwest"" earned her publicity for portraying Cary Grant's mother despite claiming to be nearly a year younger. Landis listed 1904 as the year of her birth. However, she had actually shaved eight years off her age. She appears in the 1900 U.S. Census as a 3-year-old born in November 1896; not old enough"
"refused to speak to detectives. On February 1, 2018, Wagner was named a ""person of interest"" in the death of Natalie Wood by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner Jr. (; born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television, best known for starring in the television shows ""It Takes a Thief"" (1968–70), ""Switch"" (1975–78), and ""Hart to Hart"" (1979–84). He also had a recurring role as Teddy Leopold on the TV sitcom ""Two and a Half Men"" and has a recurring role as Anthony DiNozzo Sr. on the police procedural"
"Arsenic & Old Lace Arsenic & Old Lace is a 1962 television film directed by George Schaefer and starring Tony Randall. It first aired during season 11 of the NBC anthology series ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"". It is an adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's 1939 play ""Arsenic and Old Lace"". Boris Karloff reprised his role as Jonathan Brewster (who is described by the other characters as resembling the ""Frankenstein"" star), which he had originated on Broadway. He had been unable to appear in Frank Capra's 1944 film due to a scheduling conflict, but had played Jonathan on television once before, in"
"Gregory Peck Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. He is one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five Academy Award for Best Actor nominations and won once for his performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Peck also received Oscar nominations for his roles in ""The Keys of the Kingdom"" (1944), ""The Yearling"" (1946), ""Gentleman's Agreement"" (1947) and ""Twelve O'Clock High"" (1949). Other notable films in which he appeared include ""Spellbound"" (1945), ""The Gunfighter"" (1950), ""Roman Holiday"" (1953),"
"film ""Foolish Wives"" although it was filmed in California. The casino featured in the James Bond films ""Never Say Never Again"" (1983), and ""GoldenEye"" (1995). ""To Catch a Thief"" (1954) was an Alfred Hitchcock film with Monte Carlo and its famous casino as the setting and featured Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, the future Princess Grace of Monaco, as the stars. There is a scene in the movie where the-then Grace Kelly drives a car very quickly—and dangerously—along the steep winding roads of Monaco that surround the heights of Monte Carlo; an interesting coincidence to her actual fate in 1982."
"series featuring David Kossoff and Mount as a suburban London couple, Alf and Ada Larkin, and their family. Six series of the show were made between 1958 and 1964, and the leading characters, the put-upon but wily Alf and the formidable Ada, appeared in three spin-off feature films between 1958 and 1960. In a 1958 television version of ""Arsenic and Old Lace ""Mount was cast against type in the role of the well-meaning poisoner Abby Brewster. Her last stage role of the 1950s was Florence Povis in ""Farewell, Farewell, Eugene"" at the Garrick Theatre in June 1959, co-starring with Margaret"
"became ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" in 1962, and NBC broadcast the final episode on 10 May 1965. In the 1980s, a new version of ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" was produced for television, making use of Hitchcock's original introductions in a colourised form. In 1955 Hitchcock became a United States citizen. The same year, his third Grace Kelly film, ""To Catch a Thief"", was released; it is set in the French Riviera, and pairs Kelly with Cary Grant. Grant plays retired thief John Robie, who becomes the prime suspect for a spate of robberies in the Riviera. A thrill-seeking American heiress played"
"six-gun justice and lynch law. Broadway to Cheyenne Broadway to Cheyenne is a 1932 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Harry L. Fraser. The film is also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne (American poster title). The film successfully combines the Western with the gangster film and vigilante film. A young and honest New York Police Department detective ""Breezy"" Kildare is attempting to arrest B.H. ""Butch"" Owens, the leader of a gang of criminals who attempted to bribe him. He is wounded in a shootout between Owens' gang and another gang in a Broadway night club. His police chief allows"
"VIII in ""A Man for All Seasons"" (1966); General George Armstrong Custer in ""Custer of the West"" (1967); Lord Randolph Churchill, in ""Young Winston"" (1972); mobster Doyle Lonnegan in ""The Sting"" (1973); the subway-hijacker and hostage-taker ""Mr. Blue"" in ""The Taking of Pelham One Two Three"" (1974); the shark-obsessed fisherman Quint in ""Jaws"" (1975), lighthouse keeper and treasure-hunter Romer Treece in ""The Deep"" (1977); and Israeli Mossad agent David Kabakov in ""Black Sunday"" (1977). Shaw was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ""A Man for All Seasons"". He"
"motion picture ""To Catch a Thief"", directed by Alfred Hitchcock; both of their titles stem from the English proverb ""Set a thief to catch a thief"". (Or as is more widely used, ""It takes a thief to catch a thief"".) ""It Takes a Thief,"" which was created by television writer Roland Kibbee, featured the adventures of cat burglar, pickpocket, and thief Alexander Mundy, who steals to finance his life as a polished playboy and sophisticate. He is in prison when the U.S. government's SIA (the fictional Secret Intelligence Agency) proposes a deal to Mundy: steal for the government in exchange"
"by Northwest"" (Cary Grant), ""Lust for Life"" (Kirk Douglas) and (Anthony Quinn), ""The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"" (Gregory Peck), ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (Alec Guinness), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor), ""White Christmas"" (Bing Crosby), and ""Ben-Hur"" (Charlton Heston), a film which holds (with ""Titanic"" and """") a record for most Academy Awards. The Stanislavski system's theater-orientated, yet organic approach to acting influenced the work of film actors including Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando James Dean, and Paul Newman. Brando's performances in ""On the Waterfront"", ""The Wild One"", and ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" influenced"
"of other candidates for the femme fatale role in what was to become a suspense classic ""North by Northwest"" (1959) with Cary Grant and James Mason. Written by Ernest Lehman, the film updated and expanded upon the director's early ""wrong man"" spy adventures of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, including ""The 39 Steps"", ""Young and Innocent"", and ""Saboteur"". ""North by Northwest"" became a box-office hit and an influence on spy films for decades. The film ranks number forty on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time. At the time of the film's production,"
"Gould Fisher. Betty Hutton was originally selected to play the role of Nora Johnson, but she was fired. The film also has a small racial twist, common in films of the late 1960s. Sung Lee (played by Aleong) is a Chinese worker who is a victim of prejudice, Chaddock (Sullivan) fights for him during the film. Buckskin (film) Buckskin (1968) is a western film, released by Paramount Pictures, released on a low budget and starring an all-star cast. The main stars were Barry Sullivan and Joan Caulfield. Lon Chaney Jr. plays the role of Sheriff Tangley and Richard Arlen plays"
"MacDonald, sang several of his more classical pieces in her concerts and recorded one entitled ""Let Me Always Sing"". His most notable films, mostly as a second lead actor, include ""Red Dust"" (1932) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, ""Zoo in Budapest"" (1933) with Loretta Young, ""Ex-Lady"" (1933) with Bette Davis, ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933) with Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, ""I Am Suzanne"" (1934) with Lilian Harvey, ""Sadie McKee"" (1934) with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's ""Mr. and Mrs. Smith"" (1941) with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and ""The Locket"" (1946) with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne,"
"produced a second series character, expatriate private investigator and tough-guy adventurer Al Colby, who first appears in ""The Long Escape"" (Random House, 1948). After two more well-received Colby books in 1949 and 1950, Dodge abandoned series characters and focused on stand-alone suspense adventures set in exotic locales around the world; ""To Catch a Thief"" was Dodge's greatest career success, primarily due to the fact the Alfred Hitchcock purchased film rights before the novel was even published in 1952 and turned it into the 1955 Paramount film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. For the remainder of his career, Dodge alternated"
"movies, usually a step or two behind Hollywood's elite, in ""To Have and Have Not"" (prominently featured as the fisherman who tries to cheat Bogie), in ""Along Came Jones"", ""The Blue Dahlia"", ""Dark City"" and ""Bad Day at Black Rock"", among hundreds of others. A regular authoritative presence in such classic sci-fi films as ""Red Planet Mars"", ""The War of the Worlds"" and ""Invaders from Mars"", he also had a recurring featured part in the 1940s ""Boston Blackie"" film series playing Detective Matthews alongside Chester Morris, former thief-turned-crime hero. A primary support player during the ""Golden Age"" of television, Sande"
"nine films, beginning with ""The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt"" (1939), and appeared as Detective Philo Vance in two of the series films,""The Dragon Murder Case"" (1934) and the comedic ""The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)"". He also starred as Sam Spade (renamed Ted Shane) in ""Satan Met a Lady"" (1936), the second screen version of """"The Maltese Falcon"""". Other roles include Mae West's manager in ""Go West, Young Man"" (1936), a jealous district attorney in another James Whale film, ""Wives Under Suspicion"" (1938), copper-magnate Jesse Lewisohn in 1940's ""Lillian Russell"", the evil Jefferson Carteret in ""Arizona"" (also 1940), and sympathetic"
"was developed from the saloon platform, it suffered from rigidity compromises despite extra side members in the chassis. The gearbox ratios were changed, and from 1954 an overdrive unit became standard. The gearchange lever was column-mounted. A true open 2-seater, there were no external door handles or wind-up windows. Very few of these cars are ever seen on the big screen. However, a sapphire blue Alpine featured prominently in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film ""To Catch a Thief"" starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. More recently, the American PBS show ""History Detectives"" tried to verify that an Alpine roadster owned"
"Victor Sutherland Victor Sutherland (February 28, 1889 – August 29, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Sutherland worked on stage and in motion pictures from the 1910s through the 1950s, when he also acted on television, including several episodes of ""Perry Mason"". He was also in the original cast of the 1939 hit play ""Arsenic and Old Lace"". At age 19, Sutherland acted in a production of ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" for 25 weeks. Sutherland made films for Fox Film Corporation, among other studios, and he acted in stock theater. On October"
"comedy. Trevor Howard and Tom Courtenay seem more at home with the spy spoof material."" To Catch a Spy To Catch a Spy is a 1971 comedy spy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Richard Pearson, Garfield Morgan, Angharad Rees and Robert Raglan. It was written by Clement and Ian La Frenais. It was a co-production between Britain, the United States and France, which was filmed in Bucharest, Romania. It was also part filmed on Loch Awe and Loch Etive, Scotland, where the gunboat scenes were filmed, and featured Kirk Douglas running through"
"in the navy. In 1960 he acted in the film ""A Taste of Money"" and later appeared in many other films including ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1968), ""The Wicker Man"" (1973), ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1982), ""Coming Out of the Ice"" (1982), ""The Dresser"" (1983), ""The Master of Ballantrae"" (1984), ""A Private Function"" (1984) and ""Young Sherlock Holmes"" (1985). He also appeared in many television roles, such as Pollio in ""I, Claudius"" and Mr Justice Vosper in the second series of ""Rumpole of the Bailey"", until his death in a road accident in Brighton. Donald Eccles Donald Eccles (26"
"the score with Nolan for railroading him and stealing his woman, Katy (Diana Muldaur) . One More Train to Rob One More Train to Rob is a 1971 American Technicolor Western film directed by Andrew McLaglen. It stars George Peppard and Diana Muldaur. Set in the Old West, the story is about train-robber Harker Fleet (Peppard), who is sent to prison for assaulting a sheriff and his deputy while trying to escape a forced marriage, set up by his former partner, Timothy Xavier Nolan (John Vernon). Fleet serves his time, but gets out of prison early, for good behavior. Once"
"television series including ""Cannon"", Rod Serling's ""Night Gallery"", ""Mod Squad"", ""It Takes a Thief"", ""The Big Valley"", ""The Flying Nun"", ""Vacation Playhouse"", ""The Tammy Grimes Show"", ""The Wild Wild West"", ""Burke's Law"", ""The Rogues"", ""The Farmer's Daughter"", ""The Lloyd Bridges Show"", ""The Dick Powell Theatre"", ""Dr. Kildare"", ""Checkmate"", ""87th Precinct"", ""Zane Grey Theater"", ""The Rifleman"", ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"", ""Honky Tonk"", and others. Don Taylor (American actor and director) Donald Richie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir ""The Naked City"","
"peak of his craft, with films such as ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), ""Dial M for Murder"" (1954), ""Rear Window"" (1954), ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955), ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1956), ""Vertigo"" (1958), and ""North by Northwest"" (1959), with James Stewart and Grace Kelly starring in three each. The Bengali Indian director Satyajit Ray, who began his career in the 1950s, was also at the peak of his career during this decade, with films such as ""The Apu Trilogy"" (1955–1959), ""Jalsaghar"" (1958), and ""Parash Pathar"" (1958). 1950s in film The decade of the 1950s in film involved many"
"movie. Tobin's henchmen Coaley, Trout and Ponch (who rob the train) were played by Jack Lord, Royal Dano and Robert J. Wilke respectively. J. Williams played Alcutt, one of the passengers on the train and Chief Tahachee was cast as Pio. Joe Dominguez, Dick Elliott, Frank Ferguson, Herman and Signe Hack, Anne Kunde, Tom London, Tina Menard, Emory Parnell, Chuck Roberson, Glen Walters and Glen Wilkerson play minor roles in the film and are uncredited. Principal photography of ""Man of the West"" started and ended in 1958, with a budget of $1.5 million. The film was shot on the widescreen"
"were taken outside the corner shop at 2a Kinnaird Street. This and surrounding streets, which were also a location for scenes in ""The Blue Lamp"" (1950), were demolished in 1965 to make way for the Warwick Estate major housing redevelopment adjacent to Little Venice. ""Never Let Go"" was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on 7 June 2005, as a Region 1 fullscreen DVD. Never Let Go Never Let Go is a 1960 British thriller film starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers and Elizabeth Sellars. It concerns a man's attempt to recover his stolen Ford Anglia car. Sellers plays a"
"Alfred Hitchcock's ""To Catch a Thief"". A trend of bodysuits was observed by film reviewer Alan Farrell in his book ""High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans"", and a number or occurrences of the garb in films were mentioned - Charlize Theron in ""Aeon Flux"", Milla Jovovich in the and film of the ""Resident Evil"" franchise, Carrie-Anne Moss in ""The Matrix"", Angelina Jolie in """", Kate Beckinsale in ""Underworld"", and Raquel Welch in ""Fantastic Voyage"". The trend of leather and vinyl catsuits were identified as an attempt to redefine the gender role of women through films. Theresa L. Geller described the"
"such screen legends as leading ladies Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, and Vivien Leigh and the actors Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Colman, Maurice Chevalier, and Gary Cooper. His films include such classics as ""The Prisoner of Zenda"" (1937), ""The Four Feathers"" (1939), Hitchcock's ""Rebecca"" (1940), ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" (1941), ""And Then There Were None"" (1945) in which he played General Mandrake, and the 1949 remake of ""Little Women"" starring Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh, in which he portrayed the aged grandfather of Laurie Lawrence, (played by a young Peter Lawford), who generously gives a piano to the frail"