Where results make sense

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us

Topic: Holiday (1938 film)

    Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

Living - The Cincinnati Post The film, the directing debut of actor Chazz Palminteri, has a different marketing tactic: It has a one-time cable showing while also released in a limited theatrical run. It is also the high holy time for HGTV, which launches its annual "12 Days of Christmas Specials" beginning at 8 tonight with "Holiday Gifts 2004." Returning favorites in the 12-night series include "Decorating Cents: Deck the Halls" (8 p.m. While the plot sounds like a holiday bummer, CBS assures us it is a light-hearted look at family and marriage. www.cincypost.com /2004/11/26/xmastv11-26-2004.html

news from me - ARCHIVES Unfortunately, by the time he got around to acting on it, the 1938 film of A Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen was already in the works, and the studio (Universal, I guess) told him, "We can't have two versions out so close to one another. There have now been over 72,500 adaptations of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, with most of the film and television versions getting rerun during a holiday viewing season that extends from just before Columbus Day 'til well after the Winter Solstice. Years ago, there was a vice-president at one of the networks who couldn't imagine a holiday show based on anything else. www.newsfromme.com /archives/2003_12_24.html

1938 in film -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Holiday, starring (United States film actress who appeared in many films with Spencer Tracy (born in 1909)) Katharine Hepburn and (United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)) Cary Grant January — (Click link for more info and facts about MGM) MGM announces that (United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)) Judy Garland would be cast in the role of "Dorothy" in the upcoming (Click link for more info and facts about Wizard of Oz) Wizard of Oz motion picture. Hamilton, who was cast in the role of the "Wicked Witch", left the film for six weeks. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1938_in_film.htm

Scrooged (1988) As he oversees the production of a live adaptation of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ for the holiday season, Frank’s ruthlessness begins to catch up with him. It comes from director Richard Donner, who was then riding on the successes of big mainstream genre films such as The Omen (1976), Superman (1978), Ladyhawke (1985) and the previous year’s non-genre buddy cop hit And there are some fine effects involved in turning John Forsythe into a decrepit corpse (as the Jacob Marley equivalent) and in creating the Ghost of Christmas to Come as a giant twelve foot Angel of Death that hides tortured souls inside its cape. www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/scrooged.htm

Best 1984 carol christmas Site Resources Christmas Carol and its film adaptations by Fred Guida My favorite film version of A Christmas Carol is the 1984 made-for-TV version starring George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. Christmas Carol [DVD]   (1984) A marvelous performance by George C. Scott as repentant pinchpenny Ebenezer Scrooge fuels this acclaimed adaptation of Dickens' beloved holiday fable. Discusses other film adaptations of the film, especially the 1951 film with Alastair Sim and the 1984 version with George C. Scott, and how they... christmas.stones101.info /1984-carol-christmas.php

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Christmas Carol, A at Epinions.com Ebenezer Scrooge, the hard-hearted miser who believes that prisons and workhouses are suitable substitutes for holiday charities has been portrayed as everything from a TV executive (Scrooged) to a cantankerous duck (in the Disney version of the tale). Returning to his home on Christmas Eve night, Scrooge is stunned by a visit from the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley (Michael Hordern), who warns him that the path he is choosing will lead to a miserable after-life. Also, towards the end of the movie, during Scrooge’s time with the Spirit of Christmas Future, there is a scene where the dead Scrooge’s former employees all arrive in an unsavory section of London to sell off his wordly belongings. www.epinions.com /mvie-review-290E-26BE260E-3A3C5810-prod2

FilmHead.com - Video Picks These ghosts show him Christmas in the past, present, and future, and how his greed and disdain for the holiday will keep him from a long and happy life (and afterlife). Last year, it was on all Christmas Day, but why deal with commercials, when you could buy this film and all the above for your video collection. In 1990, this film was entered into the National Film Registry, so that it will continue to live forever. www.filmhead.com /video/122299.html

The Muppet Christmas Carol Movie: The Muppet Christmas Carol DVD is available from Bestprices.com Complete with original music and dazzling special effects, this heartfelt holiday movie is exceptional entertainment your family will enjoy for every Christmas to come. Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas and reforms his heartless and money-grubbing ways after being visited on Christmas Eve by four Ghosts: his old business partners Jacob and Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Also available on video are "A Jetsons Christmas Carol" (1989), "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983), "Mr. bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/786936185508IE?source=priceflo

AP881031-0301 Other misfires: ``Christmas Eve,'' three wayward sons (George Raft, Randolph Scott, George Brent) return to their mother (Ann Harding) for the holiday (1944); ``Christmas in July,'' a tame satire of the advertising industry by Preston Sturges (1940); ``Christmas in July,'' a soap opera with Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan (1945). Oddly, most films with ``Christmas'' in the title have fared poorly at the box office. The film, which also starred Maureen O'Hara, John Payne and a young Natalie Wood, has become a television perennial and has now been colorized _ much to the distress of purists. ils.unc.edu /~viles/172i/users/big/docs/AP881031-0301

Sugarzine : Film Of course, you all have films that remind you of the holidays, either because that was the time of year when you first saw them, or they contain some dominant element that conveys winter or Christmastime to you personally. In these two films, the casts, the direction, the scripts, the art direction, the music and the photography are as good as the very best from other eras. He insists that many of the pivotal plot points take place around the holidays, and that the sequence when Michael, while Christmas shopping with Kaye, finds out his father has been shot is the most beautiful Christmas footage of all time. sugarzine.com /site_12.02/film.html

Turner Classic Movies This Month Article A perfect DVD holiday package containing three Yuletide favorites - the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol, Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney in Boys Town & Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck. When Reynolds won the female lead in Holiday Inn, the Paramount publicity department dubbed her the "Saddle Cinderella." Although neither actress became a major movie star, Reynolds would find small-screen stardom a decade later, playing the wife of William Bendix in the 1950's TV series, The Life of Riley. With all those production numbers in Holiday Inn, and 70 costume changes among the four leads, designer Edith Head and her wardrobe department staff were hard-pressed to come up with the material they needed. turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,852538525429971,00.html   (910 words)

Happy Easter Parade in the 1942 film "Holiday Inn," and by Fred Astaire and Judy Garland in the 1948 -Sung by Don Ameche in the 1938 film "Alexander's Ragtime Band," by Bing Crosby www.angelfire.com /wa3/carolynward/easter2001/song2.html   (254 words)

Frank Thompson--Alamo, Foreign Legion, Holiday Greetings, Film History, and more! The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty (1938), a heretofore lost film. The Wellman biography was issued in a new edition in 1993 by the Filmoteca Espanol in conjunction with a Wellman tribute at the San Sebastian Film Festival, at which Thompson was a guest of honor. Frank Thompson is an author, filmmaker, comedy writer and film historian. www.frankthompson.tv /aboutme.htm   (722 words)

Biography for Walter Huston Regrettably, when the film Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) was made three years later, Huston's role went to Charles Coburn, who, nevertheless, sang the song in the film, one of the few songs retained from the show. By his own admission not much of a singer, Huston introduced the American pop music standard "September Song&; in the 1938 Broadway show "Knickerbocker Holiday." His recording of the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson song was a best-seller that year on the Brunswick label. He remained active-and prominent-in such movies as Summer Holiday (1948), The Great Sinner (1949), and The Furies (1950), the last-named completed shortly before his death. imdb.com /name/nm0404158/bio   (1004 words)

Holiday (1930 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holiday is a 1930 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a playboy who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancee's family. Holiday was also remade in 1938, starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres and Edward Everett Horton (playing the same role he had played in the 1930 version). The movie was adapted by Horace Jackson from the play by Philip Barry. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holiday_(movie)   (166 words)

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Billie Holiday Holiday joined Count Basie in 1937 and Artie Shaw in 1938, becoming one of the first black singers to be featured with a white orchestra. Holiday is often considered the foremost female singer in jazz history, a view substantiated by her influence on later singers. More than nearly any other singer, Holiday phrased her performances in the manner of a jazz instrumental soloist, and accordingly she has to be seen as a complete jazz musician and not merely a singer. www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_holiday_billie.htm   (867 words)

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Billie Holiday Holiday joined Count Basie in 1937 and Artie Shaw in 1938, becoming one of the first black singers to be featured with a white orchestra. Holiday is often considered the foremost female singer in jazz history, a view substantiated by her influence on later singers. More than nearly any other singer, Holiday phrased her performances in the manner of a jazz instrumental soloist, and accordingly she has to be seen as a complete jazz musician and not merely a singer. www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_holiday_billie.htm   (867 words)

Billie Holiday's Song ''Strange Fruit'' (Lesson Plan) Introduce Billie Holiday to the class by showing the section about her early life in Episode Five, approximately 107 minutes into the film. This lesson focuses on Billie Holiday's signature song, "Strange Fruit," a protest song Lewis Allen (Abel Meeropol) wrote in 1938 about the ongoing and intransigent problem of lynching in the American South. At the time Billie Holiday was ready to record "Strange Fruit" her record company thought the song was too controversial to release. www.teachervision.fen.com /civil-rights/lesson-plan/4839.html   (3883 words)

Billie Holiday Besides these two tracks one can find on the CD Yesterdays, I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues - in contrast to its title a very joyful tune -, I Cover the Waterfront and As Time Goes By, a song well-known since Casablanca - of course not sung by Billie Holiday in the film. In four sessions in the years 1939 and 1944, Billie Holiday sang on 45 complete takes for them. The Commodore Records were the first only-jazz label in the USA, created in 1938 by the legendary mid-Manhattan record store. www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo5/billie.htm   (201 words)

Billie Holiday's Song ''Strange Fruit'' (Lesson Plan) Introduce Billie Holiday to the class by showing the section about her early life in Episode Five, approximately 107 minutes into the film. This lesson focuses on Billie Holiday's signature song, "Strange Fruit," a protest song Lewis Allen (Abel Meeropol) wrote in 1938 about the ongoing and intransigent problem of lynching in the American South. At the time Billie Holiday was ready to record "Strange Fruit" her record company thought the song was too controversial to release. www.teachervision.fen.com /page/4839.html   (201 words)

Biography for Walter Huston Huston received a 1936 Oscar nomination for his solid, intelligent work in that film, although he more or less abandoned movies for the next few years (except for supporting turns in 1938's Of Human Hearts and 1939's The Light That Failed He earned another Academy Award nomination for his canny performance as "Mr. By his own admission not much of a singer, Huston introduced the American pop music standard "September Song" in the 1938 Broadway show "Knickerbocker Holiday." His recording of the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson song was a best-seller that year on the Brunswick label. Regrettably, when the film Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) was made three years later, Huston's role went to Charles Coburn, who, nevertheless, sang the song in the film, one of the few songs retained from the show. us.imdb.com /name/nm0404158/bio   (1004 words)

Nancy Carroll -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Carroll retired from films in 1938, but starred in the early (Click link for more info and facts about television series) television series The Aldrich Family in 1950. In 1930 she was nominated for the (Click link for more info and facts about Academy Award for Best Actress) Academy Award for Best Actress for (Click link for more info and facts about The Devil's Holiday) The Devil's Holiday. Although she made her film debut in 1918 at the age of 14, her second film wasn't until Ladies Must Dress in 1927. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nancy_carroll.htm   (227 words)

James Whale Whale retired from film in 1942 to become a painter, and mysteriously drowned in his Pacific Palisades swimming pool in 1957. Whale's brilliant versatility is evident in an array of other fine films including the original versions of Journey's End (1930), Waterloo Bridge (1931), Showboat (1936), and The Man In The Iron Mask (1939). (1935), The Road Back (1937), The Great Garrick (1937), Sinners in Paradise (1938), Wives Under Suspicion (1938), Port of Seven Seas (1938), and They Dare Not Love (1941). www.godsandmonsters.net /biojw.htm   (251 words)

Johan van der Keuken: Paris Mortel Van der Keuken (1938) moved from Amsterdam to Paris in 1956 to study at the School of Film, the Institute des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques (Idhec). His photography was a breeding ground for his film-making and functions as a "holiday from film making". As well as being a photographer, Van der Keuken is also a film maker, but seldom practises both media at the same time. www.noorderlicht.com /eng/fest99/wonder/keuken   (162 words)

ScreenSite Forums Post 281 Reefer Madness: The Special Addiction - FOX DVD Release on 4 The San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park will be the setting for the world color premiere of Reefer Madness, a classic 1938 anti-pot propaganda film, that has demonstrated the evils of marijuana for generations of youths ever since. The Reefer Madness world premiere takes place April 20, an unofficial holiday for pot smokers, at the world famous Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, a beautiful setting that Orson Welles used to represent Xanadu in his 1941 classic, Citizen Kane. Although the purpose of the new Reefer Madness is to prevent today's youths from suffering from the inevitable insanity caused by marijuana, Sandrew believes the film will be as effective at combating the dreaded scourge of marijuana "...as it has in the past." www.screensite.org /ftopicp-281.html   (731 words)

Turner Classic Movies This Month Article A perfect DVD holiday package containing three Yuletide favorites - the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol, Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney in Boys Town & Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck. As embodied by eleven-year-old Patty McCormack, Rhoda was a character with no precedent in film history (so much so that the censors tried to keep her off the screen). Her distinct presence coupled with the intensely emotional playing of the film's adult stars have made the film a cult favorite, with contemporary audiences see-sawing between laughter at the histrionics and stunned disbelief at Rhoda's evil ways. www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,78406,00.html   (926 words)

Music 2 >> German-Hollywood Connection Two films of Weill-Maxwell Anderson musicals were also produced: Knickerbocker Holiday (1944; orig., 1938) – featuring Nelson Eddy and the popular “September Song” — and Lost in the Stars (1974), a film version of the 1949 musical. Steiner also served as the musical director for many films, most notably five of the nine Fred Astaire -Ginger Roger musicals that appeared between 1933 and 1939 – which would be Steiner's last projects for RKO before he switched to Warner Brothers. The Austrian Maximilian Raoul Steiner was the film music composer for some of history's greatest films, including Gone With the Wind, Casablanca and The Caine Mutiny. www.germanhollywood.com /music_2.html   (926 words)

Amazon.com: Boys Town (1938) : Video Followed a couple of years later with a sequel titled "Men of Boys Town", and featuring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney in their old roles, this 1938 film is still the one to see. "Boys Town" doesn't have quite as close a connection to Christmas as the other two titles in the Classic Holiday Collection (there's one scene set on the holiday), but this true story of a priest who builds a boarding school for troubled youth is one that will warm your heart. Certainly many problems are sorted out perhaps a bit too easily in the script and most of the boys seem to be perhaps at times a bit too nice but they are really not things to take exception to and the fine writing and character development on display make "Boys Town", first class viewing. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003OSTE?v=glance   (2110 words)

Hepburn, Katharine - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn's many films include Little Women (1933); Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she spends much of the film disguised as a boy; Mary of Scotland (1936); the screwball comedies Bringing Up Baby (1938), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940); and The African Queen (1951). Hepburn was named the top female screen legend in an American Film Institute poll in 1999. She was a frequent collaborator with the director George Cukor, and appeared in several films with her off-screen partner Spencer Tracy, including Woman of the Year (1942) and Pat and Mike (1952). encyclopedia.farlex.com /Hepburn,+Katharine   (265 words)

Turner Classic Movies This Month Article A perfect DVD holiday package containing three Yuletide favorites - the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol, Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney in Boys Town & Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck. One doesn't usually expect a film about infidelity, divorce and murder to be a comedy but that's one reason Divorce, Italian Style, directed by Pietro Germi, became an unexpected international hit in 1962. In addition to Mastroianni's Best Actor Oscar nomination for Germi's film, he also won the Best Foreign Actor award in England (the BAFTA film award) and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a musical/comedy. www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,66944,00.html   (841 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us   Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.