"Which 1951 Oscar winning actor made his cinema debut in the 1930 film ""A Devil with Women""?"
"The Caine Mutiny (film) The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American film. A fictional Navy drama set in the Pacific during World War II, it was directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer, and stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, and Fred MacMurray. The film is based on ""The Caine Mutiny,"" the 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Herman Wouk. It depicts the events on board a fictitious World War II U.S. Navy minesweeper and a subsequent court-martial for mutiny. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bogart), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Tully), Best"
"in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Murder!"" (1930). The following year, he returned to Hollywood to make ""Secrets of a Secretary"" for Paramount Studios. After a few additional British films in the early 1930s, he primarily made films in the United States for the remainder of his life. As a Hollywood leading man, the suave, gentlemanly actor played romantic roles opposite such stars as Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s. The 1932 film, ""Blonde Venus"", brought him to fame among the general American public. Later that same"
"international star through positive reception for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in ""Champion"" (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Other early films include ""Young Man with a Horn"" (1950), playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day; ""Ace in the Hole"" opposite Jan Sterling (1951); and ""Detective Story"" (1951). He received a second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" (1952), opposite Lana Turner, and his third nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in ""Lust for Life"" (1956). In 1955, he established Bryna Productions, which"
"Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde (October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and film director. Wilde's acting career began in 1935, when he made his debut on Broadway. In 1936 he began making small, uncredited appearances in films. By the 1940s, he had signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and by the mid-1940s, he was a major leading man. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in 1945's ""A Song to Remember"". In the 1950s, he moved to writing, producing and directing films, and still continued his career as an"
"to Hollywood in April 1932 and negotiated a new contract with Paramount for two films per year, a salary of $4,000 a week, and director and script approval. In 1932, after completing ""Devil and the Deep"" with Tallulah Bankhead to fulfill his old contract, Cooper appeared in ""A Farewell to Arms"", the first film adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway novel. Co-starring Helen Hayes, a leading New York theatre star and Academy Award winner, and Adolphe Menjou, the film presented Cooper with one of his most ambitious and challenging dramatic roles, playing an American ambulance driver wounded in Italy who falls"
"What Price Hollywood? What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Constance Bennett with Lowell Sherman. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Ben Markson, and Jane Murfin is based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns and Louis Stevens. Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans (Constance Bennett) is an aspiring actress who has an opportunity to meet film director Maximillan Carey (Lowell Sherman) when she serves him one night. He is very drunk but is charmed by the young girl, and he invites her to a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre."
"as a diversionary time killer, but it's just too bad it never was convincing."" The Man with My Face (film) The Man with My Face is a 1951 American film noir directed by Edward Montagne featuring Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews and Lynn Ainley. The film marks Jack Warden's movie debut. Though the original novel is set in California, the movie takes place in Puerto Rico. It is the only film noir shot on location in that country. The film is set in Puerto Rico, where Charles ""Chick"" Graham (Nelson) has settled down after the war to run a small business"
"The Man with My Face (film) The Man with My Face is a 1951 American film noir directed by Edward Montagne featuring Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews and Lynn Ainley. The film marks Jack Warden's movie debut. Though the original novel is set in California, the movie takes place in Puerto Rico. It is the only film noir shot on location in that country. The film is set in Puerto Rico, where Charles ""Chick"" Graham (Nelson) has settled down after the war to run a small business with his old army buddy (now his brother-in-law) Buster Cox (Harvey). Graham comes home"
"Devil's Doorway ""For the Devil's Doorway rock formation in Wisconsin see Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin)"" Devil's Doorway is a 1950 western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Robert Taylor as an Indian who returns home from the American Civil War a hero awarded the Medal of Honor. However, his hopes for a peaceful life are shattered by bigotry and greed. The Civil War may be over back East, but prejudice still rules the West. A full-blooded Shoshone Indian named Lance Poole distinguished himself in the war, winning the Medal of Honor, only to return home to Medicine Bow,"
"Los Angeles. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Cornel Wilde has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1635 Vine Street. Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde (October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and film director. Wilde's acting career began in 1935, when he made his debut on Broadway. In 1936 he began making small, uncredited appearances in films. By the 1940s, he had signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and by the mid-1940s, he was a major leading man. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his"
"The Deceiver (film) The Deceiver is a 1931 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Louis King. The film stars Lloyd Hughes, Ian Keith and Dorothy Sebastian. John Wayne makes a minor appearance as a corpse. The film premiered on November 21, 1931. Actor Reginald Thorpe is found dead in his dressing room, stabbed in the back. Suspects abound. Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of Othello. A rat with women, Thorpe has scattered broken female hearts all along the Great White Way, giving lots of"
"Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. After achieving success in the Western TV series ""Rawhide"", he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's ""Dollars"" Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five ""Dirty Harry"" films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. For his work in the Western film ""Unforgiven"" (1992) and the sports drama ""Million Dollar Baby"""
"Wyndham Standing Wyndham Standing (23 August 1880 – 1 February 1963) was an English film actor. Standing appeared in 131 films between 1915 and 1948. A popular and much beloved leading man in the silent film era, he starred and co-starred along many famous names of the day, both men and women. He and Ronald Colman were the stars of the now lost classic ""The Dark Angel"" (1925). Standing delivered a memorable performance in ""Hell's Angels"" (1930) as the commanding officer who gets fed up with the cowardly antics of Ben Lyon and James Hall just before sending them off"
"Archie Mayo Archibald L. ""Archie"" Mayo (January 29, 1891 – December 4, 1968) was a film director, screenwriter and actor. The son of a tailor, Mayo was born in New York City. After attending the city's public schools, he studied at Columbia University. Mayo moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917. His films include ""Is Everybody Happy?"" (1929) with Ted Lewis, ""Bought!"" (1931) with Constance Bennett, ""Night After Night"" (1932) with Mae West, ""The Doorway to Hell"" (1930) with James Cagney and Lew Ayres, ""Convention City"" (1933) with Joan Blondell, ""The Mayor of Hell"""
"underworld of women sucked into prison life again brought Oscar nominations for his cast and story. Finally, in 1951, Cromwell had the idea to resurrect the 1928 play which had made him a director and Edward G. Robinson a star, and in doing so created another noir, ""The Racket"" (1951) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan. By this point, the House Un-American Activities Committee had begun its investigation of Hollywood writers, actors and directors Communist affiliations. Cromwell was blacklisted in Hollywood from 1951 to 1958 for his political affiliations, which seemed primarily to consist of heading up a"
"Bela Lugosi Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; 20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in other horror films. After playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary, Lugosi got his first role in a film in 1917. He had to leave the country after the failed Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919. He acted in several films in Weimar Germany before arriving in the United States as a seaman on a merchant ship. In 1927,"
"a corner gas station with Greg Wilson (Dane Clark). That Way with Women That Way with Women is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova, written by Leo Townsend and Francis Swann, and starring Dane Clark, Martha Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale, Sr., Craig Stevens and Barbara Brown. It was released by Warner Bros. on March 29, 1947. The screenplay was adapted from the ""Saturday Evening Post"" story ""Idle Hands"", which was previously made into the films ""The Ruling Passion"" (1922) and ""The Millionaire"" (1931). James P. Alden (Sydney Greenstreet), an automobile tycoon assumes the identity of"
"had cameos in the musical ""Happy Days"" (1929). He was reunited with Edmund Lowe and Raoul Walsh in a sequel to ""What Price Glory?"", ""The Cock-Eyed World"" (1929), which was another huge success at the box office. McLaglen made a musical with Walsh, ""Hot for Paris"" (1930), then made ""On the Level"" (1930). ""A Devil with Women"" (1931) was a buddy comedy with Humphrey Bogart. He was borrowed by Paramount for ""Dishonored"" (1931), starring Marlene Dietrich and directed by Joseph von Sternberg. He was in ""Not Exactly Gentlemen"" (1931) and hada cameo in the short film ""The Stolen Jools"" (1931)."
"Fortune Is a Woman Fortune Is a Woman is a 1957 British film noir crime film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price and Greta Gynt. Its plot concerns an attempted insurance fraud that goes badly wrong. In the United States, it was released as She Played With Fire. The film is based on Winston Graham's novel ""Fortune Is a Woman"" (1953). London insurance investigator Oliver Branwell goes to Louis Manor to probe a recent fire. Tracey Moreton lives there with his wife Sarah and his mother. He introduces Branwell to them and to his"
"in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. He started his film career at the age of 47, debuting in the 1913 silent short film ""Kenton's Heir"". The next year, he starred in ""Fogg's Millions"" co-starring Rose Tapley. The film would go on to become the first in a series of silent comedy shorts. In addition, he also directed some silent features and many shorts between 1915 and 1917, including many of the films in the ""Mr. and Mrs. Jarr"" series. Harry Davenport played Dr. Meade in ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). Some of his other film roles are a"
"The Devil to Pay! The Devil to Pay! is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Ronald Colman, Frederick Kerr, Myrna Loy, and Loretta Young. It was written by Frederick Lonsdale and Benjamin Glazer. After selling his house and belongings in East Africa, upper-class black sheep Willie Hale (Colman) returns home to England, where he buys a dog with most of his remaining money. Lord Leeland (Kerr), his wealthy father, is furious and insists to Susan and Arthur, his other adult offspring, that he will kick his wayward son out if he dares show"
"The Devil Is a Woman (1935 film) The Devil Is a Woman is a 1935 romance film directed and photographed by Josef von Sternberg, adapted from the 1898 novel ""La Femme et le pantin"" by Pierre Louÿs. The film was based on a screenplay by John Dos Passos, and stars Marlene Dietrich, with Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton, and Luisa Espinel. The movie is the last of the seven Sternberg-Dietrich collaborations for Paramount Pictures. The story unfolds amidst the festivities of Seville's Carnival set in the fin de siècle Spain. The events revolve around four characters – there"
"Devil and the Deep Devil and the Deep is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Marion Gering, based on Maurice Larrouy's novel (""Sirenes et Tritons""), and starring Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and Cary Grant. It follows a naval commander who has alienated his wife due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. After his obsessive behavior drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant, tragic drama ensues. Charles Sturm (Laughton) is a naval commander whose jealousy and abuse makes life miserable for his wife Diana (Bankhead). His suspicions fall on his own"
"Robert Cummings Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings (June 9, 1910 – December 2, 1990), was an American film and television actor known mainly for his roles in comedy films such as ""The Devil and Miss Jones"" (1941) and ""Princess O'Rourke"" (1943), but was also effective in dramatic films, especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, ""Saboteur"" (1942) and ""Dial M for Murder"" (1954). Cummings received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. On February 8, 1960, he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his"
"Beauty and the Devil La Beauté du diable (literally ""the beauty of the devil""; originally released in the UK and USA as Beauty and the Devil) is a 1950 Franco-Italian fantasy film drama directed by René Clair. A tragicomedy with allegorical meaning, set in the early 19th century, it is about an ageing alchemist who is given the chance to be eternally young by the devil Mephistopheles. The film was nominated or Best Film at the 1951 BAFTA Awards and won two awards at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists with a Silver Ribbon Best Actor award going to"
"front of the lens to create a three-dimensional effect. When an actor steps into this pictorial canvass, the most delicate gesture registers emotion. His outstanding control over the visual integrity is the foundation for much of the eloquence and force of Sternberg's cinema. The March 1935 premiere of ""The Devil is a Woman"" in Hollywood was accompanied by a press statement from Paramount announcing that Sternberg's contract would not be renewed. The director anticipated his termination with his own declaration before the film's release explicitly severing his professional ties with Dietrich, writing ""Miss Dietrich and I have progressed as far"
"Roy D'Arcy Roy D'Arcy (born Roy Francis Giusti, February 10, 1894 – November 15, 1969) was an American film actor of the silent film and early sound period of the 1930s noted for his portrayal of flamboyant villains. He appeared in 50 different films between 1925 and 1939, such as ""The Temptress"" in 1926 with actresses such as Greta Garbo. Roy D'Arcy was born in San Francisco but educated in Europe and studied painting in Paris. After several years of traveling and various business ventures in South America and Asia he returned to the United States and decided to become"
"Weird Sisters"" as a police officer. He continued his connection with Welsh cinema in 1949 when he took the role of Septimus in ""The Last Days of Dolwyn"" and as a burly stranger in the comedy ""A Run for Your Money"". In 1950 he took on the role of Mr. Arrow, the first mate of ""The Hispaniola"" who comes to an unfortunate end at the hands of Robert Newton's Long John Silver in the Disney live action adaptation of ""Treasure Island"". That year he also appeared in the British Drama ""The Angel with the Trumpet"" as a Nazi leader. By"
"actress. An Amateur Devil An Amateur Devil is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Maurice Campbell and written by Douglas Bronston based upon the short story ""Wanted: A Blemish"" by Henry J. Buxton and Jessie Henderson. The film stars Bryant Washburn, Charles Wingate, Ann May, Sidney Bracey, Graham Pettie, and Anna Dodge. The film was released on December 19, 1920, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives. As described in a film magazine, Carver Endicott (Washburn), born into wealth, has a sweetheart Margaret (May) who has become boresome to him. To stimulate his"
"Women of All Nations Women of All Nations is a 1931 American pre-Code military comedy directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Greta Nissen and El Brendel. This was the second of three sequels to Walsh's 1926 film, ""What Price Glory?"", with McLaglen and Lowe reprising their roles. The film opens at the end of World War I, with lifelong rivals Captain Jim Flagg and Sergeant Harry Quirt in the trenches. After the war ends, both men re-enlist, and the film follows their adventures through the Philippines, Asia, and the Panama Canal. After a stint in the"
"His Kind of Woman His Kind of Woman is a 1951 American black-and-white film noir, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. The film features supporting roles by Vincent Price, Raymond Burr and Charles McGraw. The movie was officially directed by John Farrow and based on the unpublished story ""Star Sapphie"" by Gerald Drayson. Post-production on the film was rife with problems; RKO executive producer Howard Hughes was dissatisfied with John Farrow's work and a number of scenes were cut, added and re-shot by the uncredited Richard Fleischer, who had just completed ""The Narrow Margin"" for RKO. Hughes also organized a"
"Ace in the Hole (1951 film) Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American film noir starring Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who stops at nothing to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. The film co-stars Jan Sterling and features Robert Arthur and Porter Hall. It marked a series of firsts for auteur Billy Wilder: it was the first time he was involved in a project as a writer, producer, and director; his first film following his breakup with long-time writing partner Charles Brackett, with whom he had collaborated"
"and Dietrich would unite to make six brilliant and controversial films for Paramount: ""Morocco"" (1930), ""Dishonored"" (1931), ""Shanghai Express"" (1932), ""Blonde Venus"" (1932), ""The Scarlet Empress"" (1934), and ""The Devil is a Woman"" (1935). The stories are typically set in exotic locals including Saharan Africa, World War I Austria, revolutionary China, Imperial Russia, and fin-de- siècle Spain. Sternberg's ""outrageous aestheticism"" is on full display in these richly stylized works, both in technique and scenario. The actors in various guises represent figures from Sternberg's ""emotional biography"", the wellspring for his poetic dreamscapes. Sternberg, largely indifferent to the studio publicity or to"