"We'll Meet Again ""We'll Meet Again"" is a 1939 British song made famous by singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the most famous of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight and their families and sweethearts. The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film ""We'll Meet Again"" in which Dame Vera Lynn played the lead role (""see"" 1943 in music). Lynn's recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film ""Dr. Strangelove"", and was"
"One Thrilling Night One Thrilling Night is a 1942 American film directed by William Beaudine. The film is also known as Horace Takes Over (American TV title) with working titles being ""Do Not Disturb"" and ""Army Bride"". The newlywed country bumpkins from Connecticut, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Jason (John Beal and Wanda McKay), check into the Hotel Clarke in New York City, prepared to spend their first night together as a married couple. It is also their first and last night before Horace joins the Army. The couple decides to buy some champagne and celebrate. Horace leaves to buy the"
"Jeanette MacDonald Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (""The Love Parade"", ""Love Me Tonight"", ""The Merry Widow"" and ""One Hour With You"") and Nelson Eddy (""Naughty Marietta"", ""Rose-Marie"", and ""Maytime""). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (""The Love Parade"", ""One Hour with You"", ""Naughty Marietta"" and ""San Francisco""), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one"
"Vera Lynn Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (; born 20 March 1917), widely known as ""the Forces' Sweetheart"", is an English singer of traditional pop, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War. During the war she toured Egypt, India, and Burma as part of ENSA, giving outdoor concerts for the troops. The songs most associated with her are ""We'll Meet Again"", ""The White Cliffs of Dover"", ""A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"" and ""There'll Always Be an England"". She remained popular after the war, appearing on radio and television in the UK"
"I Loved a Soldier I Loved a Soldier (also known as Invitation to Happiness) is an unfinished 1936 American romantic-comedy-drama film directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Paramount Pictures. It stars Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Walter Catlett, Lionel Stander, and Margaret Sullavan. The Paramount picture was intended to be a remake of Pola Negri's 1927 ""Hotel Imperial"", which was based on a play by Lajos Bíró. Film shooting began in early January 1936 where the film was officially named ""Invitation to Happiness"". Early on into the shooting, there was an accident with a gun that injured one of the"
"it's notable for containing rare performance footage of the legendary pianist, then in exile from his native Nazi-occupied Poland. By 1941, Mendes had returned to Hollywood where he co-directed the pro-British ""International Squadron"" (1941), starring Ronald Reagan; this was one of several films on the Eagle Squadron of American pilots who volunteered to fly in the Battle of Britain before the US entered the war. His last feature films were patriotic World War II fare with such stars as Rosalind Russell as a Navy reconnaissance pilot who must fly one more mission before getting married in ""Flight for Freedom"" (1943)"
"discovered while doing research for his own World War II film, ""Inglourious Basterds"". Tonight We Raid Calais Tonight We Raid Calais is a 1943 American film directed by John Brahm and starring John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, and Annabella. Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton), a young commando British intelligence officer, is sent into Nazi-occupied France as a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant with help from a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard (Lee J. Cobb). Carter confronts a French woman Odette Bonnard (Annabella) who hates the British and the Germans. Quentin Tarantino picked ""Tonight We Raid Calais"" as one of his"
"'Til We Meet Again 'Til We Meet Again is a 1940 romance film directed by Edmund Goulding and Anatole Litvak and starring Merle Oberon and George Brent as two doomed, star-crossed lovers. It is a remake of the 1932 film ""One Way Passage"" and itself was remade into the 1954 Mexican 3-D film ""El valor de vivir"". Total strangers Dan Hardesty (George Brent) and Joan Ames (Merle Oberon) meet by chance in a bar in Hong Kong. They share a single drink before leaving, called by Dan the ""Paradise Cocktail"". They romantically shatter their glasses, which Dan tells Joan is"
"We'll Smile Again We'll Smile Again is a 1942 British musical comedy film, directed by John Baxter, and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Meinhart Maur. A ring of Nazi spies infiltrate a film studio planning to use it for sending coded messages, but they are foiled by two of the low-level staff at the studio. The ""Radio Times"" gave the film three out of five stars, and wrote ""Unlike many stage, radio or television double acts who flounder when put on the big screen, Flanagan and Allen fared rather well as movie stars, and this is a typical effort,"
"Of The World newspaper, with proceeds in aid of the Gulf Trust. Vera Lynn Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (; born 20 March 1917), widely known as ""the Forces' Sweetheart"", is an English singer of traditional pop, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War. During the war she toured Egypt, India, and Burma as part of ENSA, giving outdoor concerts for the troops. The songs most associated with her are ""We'll Meet Again"", ""The White Cliffs of Dover"", ""A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"" and ""There'll Always Be an England"". She remained"
"Tonight We Raid Calais Tonight We Raid Calais is a 1943 American film directed by John Brahm and starring John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, and Annabella. Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton), a young commando British intelligence officer, is sent into Nazi-occupied France as a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant with help from a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard (Lee J. Cobb). Carter confronts a French woman Odette Bonnard (Annabella) who hates the British and the Germans. Quentin Tarantino picked ""Tonight We Raid Calais"" as one of his five favorite World War II films. It was one of the films he"
"outbreak of hostilities in Europe in 1939, von Brincken was often cast in the role of a Nazi, such as in 1939's ""Confessions of a Nazi Spy""; the Fay Wray film ""Navy Secrets"" (1939); and 1941's ""So Ends Our Night"", which stars Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, and Glenn Ford. Not only did he appear in dramas and suspense films, but he would also do comedies such as The Ritz Brothers' 1939 film, ""Pack Up Your Troubles"", and ""Once Upon a Honeymoon"" (1942), starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers. In November 1915, von Brincken married again to the San"
"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"
"Once Upon a Honeymoon Once Upon a Honeymoon is a 1942 romantic comedy/drama starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, and Walter Slezak, directed by Leo McCarey, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Recording (Stephen Dunn). In the days leading up to World War II, Katie O'Hara (Ginger Rogers), an American burlesque performer masquerading as American socialite ""Katherine Butt-Smith"", pronounced byüt-smith, is about to marry Austrian Baron Von Luber (Walter Slezak). Foreign correspondent Pat O'Toole (Cary Grant) suspects Von Luber of being a Nazi sympathizer and tries unsuccessfully to get information from"
"Griffith. ""One Exciting Night"" was shot at Griffith's Mamaroneck studios on Long Island. The 1921 version of ""Disraeli"" is a lost film with one reel in existence at the George Eastman House. However a complete print is rumored to exist at Gosfilmofond in Russia. ""One Exciting Night"" was on home video (VHS) briefly in the 1990s. In 2014 it is available on DVD from Alpha Video Dale's last film and only talkie was ""The Man with Two Faces"" starring Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor and now available from Warner Archive Collection. Margaret Dale (actress) Margaret Dale (March 6, 1876"
"combining bright comedy with songs and human interest...Directed with no pretension by John Baxter, who made several of the duo's other popular films, it is an engaging showcase for one of Britain's best-loved song-and-comedy teams."" We'll Smile Again We'll Smile Again is a 1942 British musical comedy film, directed by John Baxter, and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Meinhart Maur. A ring of Nazi spies infiltrate a film studio planning to use it for sending coded messages, but they are foiled by two of the low-level staff at the studio. The ""Radio Times"" gave the film three out of"
"role in the development of pop music. Artists expressed their feelings of hardships during the war. Others sang songs that aimed to lift the spirits of the citizens. British singer Vera Lynn, or the Forces Sweetheart, sang popular songs such as ""We'll Meet Again"" and ""The White Cliffs of Dover"", which restored an optimistic outlook for soldiers and families while uplifting Allied spirits during a time of hardship when Nazi Germany was bombing Britain. American singer and stage actress Adelaide Hall also entertained extensively throughout WWII entertaining both the public and the troops in the UK and with ENSA across"
"the show when it toured on the road in 1943. This brought him to the attention of executives at Columbia Pictures who signed him to a long-term contract. Parker was the second male lead in ""What a Woman!"" (1943), a romantic comedy with Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne. His career was interrupted by service with the US Marines. Then when he returned Columbia promoted him to leading man status in the swashbuckler ""The Fighting Guardsman"" (1945). Then they starred him in a comedy ""One Way to Love"" (1946); and a Western, ""Renegades"" (1946). These films were not particularly successful and"
"let them go. Kalem had about two dozen piano scores published in 1912–1913, to be sold to theaters for 25 cents apiece. The score for this film, composed by Walter Cleveland Simon (1884–1958), is one of the only two in the series for which the film also survives intact. The Confederate Ironclad The Confederate Ironclad is a 1912 short spy film set during the American Civil War. It stars Guy Coombs, Anna Q. Nilsson and Miriam Cooper. It was released 50 years after the famous Battle of the ""Monitor"" and ""Merrimack"" between two ironclad warships. Nilsson was later briefly married"
"supply three letters of recommendation. After 1942 problems in communication caused by the war slowed the recruitment effort. However, that year, Darryl Zanuck released ""Sun Valley Serenade"", starring Sonja Henie and featuring the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and filmed on location in Sun Valley. The movie was a hit and the Hollywood effort helped to interest trainees in the ski corps. Two more wartime movies were made, each filmed at Camp Hale, featuring the white-clad elite troops—""Mountain Fighters"" in 1943 and ""I Love a Soldier"" in 1944. The ski corps was featured on national magazine covers and popular radio shows. Although"
"(1944), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""An Affair to Remember"" (1957), ""North by Northwest"" (1959), and ""Charade"" (1963). Cary Grant on screen, stage and radio Cary Grant on screen, stage and radio During his acting career, between 1932 and 1966, Grant acted in at least 76 films. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart). He was nominated twice for the Academy Award as Best Actor in ""Penny Serenade"" (1941) and ""None but the Lonely Heart"" (1944). Widely recognized for comedic and dramatic roles, among his best-known films are ""Bringing"
"Soldier"" was used in the final film and no footage of ""I Loved a Soldier"" is known to have survived. The film tells the story of a young servant girl (Marlene Dietrich) who works at Hotel Imperial. One day, she falls in love with a known customer who turns out be a soldier (Charles Boyer), locally known as the ultimate ladies man. I Loved a Soldier I Loved a Soldier (also known as Invitation to Happiness) is an unfinished 1936 American romantic-comedy-drama film directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Paramount Pictures. It stars Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Walter Catlett,"
"We'll Meet Again (TV series) We'll Meet Again is a British television drama set in the Second World War. It was produced by London Weekend Television (LWT) for the ITV network and was broadcast in early 1982 in the Friday primetime slot of 9 pm. The show, based in a fictional village in East Anglia, was set around the clandestine and illicit love affair between civilian doctor Helen Dereham (played by Susannah York) whose husband was away fighting in Africa and the commanding officer of the nearby USAAF base, Major Jim Kiley (Michael J. Shannon). Although a major commission for"
"Brief Encounter Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about British suburban life on the eve of World War 2, centring on Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger, Alec. They fall in love, bringing about unexpected consequences. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play ""Still Life"". The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff,"
"is best known for her 1939 recording of the popular song ""We'll Meet Again"", written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles; the nostalgic lyrics (""We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day"") were very popular during the war and made the song one of its emblematic hits. During the Phoney War, the ""Daily Express"" asked British servicemen to name their favourite musical performers: Vera Lynn came out on top and as a result became known as ""the Forces' Sweetheart"". In 1941, during the darkest days of the Second World War,"
"Ann Sheridan Clara Lou ""Ann"" Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967) was an American actress and singer. She worked regularly from 1934 to her death in 1967, first in film and later in television. Notable roles include ""Angels with Dirty Faces"" (1938) with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, ""They Drive by Night"" (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, ""The Man Who Came to Dinner"" (1942), ""Kings Row"" (1942) with Ronald Reagan, ""Nora Prentiss"" (1947) and ""I Was a Male War Bride"" (1949) with Cary Grant. Born in Denton, Texas on February 21, 1915, Sheridan was the daughter of"
"named him the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in ""Penny Serenade"" (1941) and ""None but the Lonely Heart"" (1944). Widely recognized for comedic and dramatic roles, among his best-known films are ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), ""Only Angels Have Wings"" (1939), ""His Girl Friday"" (1940), ""The Philadelphia Story"" (1940), ""Arsenic and Old Lace"" (1944), ""North by Northwest"" (1959), and ""Charade"" (1963). Cary Grant Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's"
"Reds (film) Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty. The picture centers on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book ""Ten Days That Shook the World"". Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill. The supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman, Ramon Bieri, Nicolas Coster, and M. Emmet Walsh. The film also features, as ""witnesses,"" interviews with the 98-year-old radical educator and"
"One Exciting Night One Exciting Night is a 1922 American Gothic silent Mystery film directed by D. W. Griffith. The plot revolves around the murder of a bootlegger and the attempts of the cast to uncover the true murderer. The film, inspired by the Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood play ""The Bat"" (1920), led to the production of similar ""murder mystery/old dark house"" films such as ""The Ghost Breaker"" (1922), previously filmed by C. B. DeMille in 1914, ""The Bat"" (1926) based on the play, ""Midnight Faces"" (1926), ""The Cat and the Canary"" (1927), ""The Old Dark House"" (1932)"
"interred in a niche in the Chapel Columbarium at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005. Ann Sheridan Clara Lou ""Ann"" Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967) was an American actress and singer. She worked regularly from 1934 to her death in 1967, first in film and later in television. Notable roles include ""Angels with Dirty Faces"" (1938) with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, ""They Drive by Night"" (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, ""The Man Who Came to Dinner"" (1942), ""Kings Row"" (1942) with Ronald Reagan, ""Nora Prentiss"" (1947) and ""I Was a Male War Bride"" (1949) with"
"Wedding Bells (1921 film) Wedding Bells is a lost 1921 American silent romantic-comedy film directed by Chester Withey and starring Constance Talmadge and Harrison Ford. As described in a film magazine, Rosalie Wayne (Talmadge) meets Reginald Carter (Ford) after he introduces himself while chasing her dog with one of his oxfords, and she marries him in haste. Reggie comes down with the measles following a quarrel over her bobbed hair, not knowing he is ill she leaves for Reno and then Europe. After a year's absence and having secured her divorce, she meets Reggie again and finds him engaged to"
"Cary Grant on screen, stage and radio Cary Grant on screen, stage and radio During his acting career, between 1932 and 1966, Grant acted in at least 76 films. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart). He was nominated twice for the Academy Award as Best Actor in ""Penny Serenade"" (1941) and ""None but the Lonely Heart"" (1944). Widely recognized for comedic and dramatic roles, among his best-known films are ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), ""His Girl Friday"" (1940), ""The Philadelphia Story"" (1940), ""Arsenic and Old Lace"""
"Meet You Again."" Max Steiner conducted the Warner Bros. Orchestra, and the featured artist was George Greeley as guest pianist. George Greeley was also featured on several singles issued by Warner Brothers. The film was a success at the box office but received little critical acclaim. A 1965 ""New York Times"" article called it ""pure camp"". In 1967, Donahue described the film as the most satisfying of his movies to date. ""I had the best script and the best opportunity as an actor,"" he said. ""Not too many of those came my way."" Parrish (film) Parrish is a 1961 American"