Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The Movie - Border Flight (1936)

We've seen Border Flight movie

Movie Premier in 1936.


Debut of 'Frank Faylen' (qv)., One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
Certificates: Finland:K-16
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Runtimes: 68
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1
Release Dates: USA:29 May 1936, Denmark:14 December 1936, Finland:1 January 1937

In movie played:

Paul Barrett (actor)

Robert Cummings (actor)
In dramatic films he was billed in the credits as Robert Cummings; in lighter fare, often as Bob Cummings., (1928) Graduated from Joplin High School, During WWII, as a pilot, Cummings was once stationed at Oxnard, California., Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Sanctity., Godson of 'Orville Wright' (qv), an old family friend, who also taught him to fly. He piloted his own plane most of his life., Not only was he a health food fanatic, but he often carried a small suitcase with him full of vitamin pills., According to an article in Flying Magazine, when the government began licensing flight instructors, Bob received flight instructor certificate number "1", the first instructor to receive a license., Chosen by producer 'John Wayne (I)' (qv) as his co-star in _The High and the Mighty (1954)_ (qv), though director 'William A. Wellman' (qv) replaced him with 'Robert Stack' (qv).
Nick Names:Bob
Death Notes:Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (kidney failure)
Effective noiseless wag of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV cycle, Robert Cummings be illustrious inwardly encouragement of his eternally juvenile look (which he attributed to a demanding vitamin and health-food diet). He was cultured at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Deciding that Broadway producers would be more interested in an upper-crust Englishman than a kid from Joplin, Missouri, Cummings passed himself stale via mode of Blade Stanhope Conway, British entertainer. The manoeuvre was celebratory. Cummings inevitable that if it work lying on Broadway, it would sweat in Hollywood, afterwards he journey west and assumed the identity of a well-off Texan name Bruce Hutchens. The concoct worked all completed again, and he initiate securing slim parts in films. He in a while reverted to his physical cross and become a uncultured ascendant man in light hilarity, regularly playing well-meaning, friendly but to some extent bumbling infantile man. He achieve a great deal more glory, nevertheless, in his relatable box series in the '50s, _"The Bob Cummings Show" (1955)_ (qv) and _"My Living Doll" (1964)_ (qv).
Height:5' 10"
Quotes:[on his lifelong devotion to healthy eating] I'd love to tell all those critics how well I feel today because of my diet. But they're all dead.
Birth Notes:Joplin, Missouri, USA
Other Works:Magazine advertisements for Eshelman automobiles (1955-1960), Magazine advertisement for Winston cigarettes (1956), Book: "How to Stay Young and Vital", 1960 (sold more than one million copies), In 1960, he starred in an unsold television pilot for an adventure series about two brothers who are engaged in all sorts of dangerous assignments called "Double Hazard." According to the April 15, 1963 issue of Newsweek, the pilot was so terrible that the producers added a laugh track and tried to market the result as a comedy.
Birth Name:Cummings, Charles Clarence
Spouse:'Mary Elliott' (qv) (3 March 1945 - 15 January 1970) (divorced); 5 children, 'Vivi Janiss' (qv) (1933 - ?) (divorced), 'Janie Cummings' (1989 - 2 December 1990) (his death), 'Emma Myers' (1931 - 1933) (divorced), 'Regina Fong' (27 March 1971 - ?) (divorced); 2 children
Death Date:2 December 1990
Birth Date:10 June 1910

Keith Daniels (actor)

Edgar Dearing (actor)
Death Notes:Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (lung cancer)
Birth Notes:Ceres, California, USA
Death Date:17 August 1974
Burly behaviour entertainer who be probably Hollywood's crest familiarized Motorcycle policeman inwardly the 1930's and 40's.Appeared in copious wit,some next to Laurel & Hardy.His most undemanding montage role was(as a Motorcycle cop!)in their classic voiceless concise TWO TARS(1928).It's be said Dearing was a motorcycle cop in physical life span up and about to that instance he started acting.No consider!
Birth Date:4 May 1893

Eddie Dunn (actor)
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA
Birth Notes:Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birth Name:Dunn, Edward Frank
Supporting actress in oodles Hollywood films from the 1910s. Worked in slew down of a gagman and occasional chief at Hal Roach studios; he co-directed several Charley Chase the amusing edge. Also, Dunn sometimes appear in Laurel & Hardy films at Roach; and also alongside 'W.C. Fields' (qv) and 'Charles Chaplin' (qv).
Death Date:5 May 1951
Birth Date:31 March 1896

Clarence Elmer (actor)
Birth Notes:San Francisco, California, USA
Birth Date:26 April 1886

Matty Fain (actor)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:New York, USA
Death Date:8 October 1971
Birth Date:25 June 1905

Frank Faylen (actor)
Father of actress 'Carol Faylen' (qv)., Former father-in-law of 'Regis Philbin' (qv).
Death Notes:Burbank, California, USA (respiratory ailment & pneumonia)
American behaviour entertainer who specialized contained by average-guy parts and who could be communally essential in appreciative or unlikeable role. His parents, the vaudeville troop of Ruf and Cusik, take him onstage beside them when he be a kid, and Faylen spring stirring in the the boards. He attend St. Joseph's Preparatory College in Kirkwood, Missouri, but return to vaudeville with atmosphere of a clown pantomimist. He tour the bucolic through the continuing Twenties and untimely Thirties as a comic and later as song-and-dance man with admirable at sport agility. During a expedition bring to an end in Los Angeles, he was peak tested and bar a thirty-year hole as one of Hollywood's best acquainted character players. His most distinguished photo roles be as the vicious mannish nurse Bim in _The Lost Weekend (1945)_ (qv) and as the cabdriver Ernie in _It's a Wonderful Life (1946)_ (qv). But his main discovery come in box, in particular as Dobie's dad Herbert T. Gillis in _"The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" (1959)_ (qv). Faylen was married to actress 'Carol Hughes (I)' (qv), with whom he personal two daughters. He retire after _Funny Girl (1968)_ (qv), and die in 1985.
Birth Notes:St. Louis, Missouri, USA (often erroneously given as 1909)
Other Works:In 1965, he co-starred in an unsold sitcom pilot called "The Donald O'Connor Show" where Mr. O'Connor played a scientist who worked with ferocious-looking but tame animals like Fluffy the Lion.
Birth Name:Ruf, Frank
Spouse:'Carol Hughes (I)' (qv) (1936 - 2 August 1985) (his death); 2 children
Death Date:2 August 1985
Birth Date:8 December 1905

Samuel S. Hinds (actor)
He be a attorney delimited by Pasadena, CA, and nearly new to abuse in drama at the Pasadena Playhouse in coagulate of a hobby. Several producers be impressed ample next to his perform toil to approach him parts in their films, and after a few years he quit decree and become a full-time artist.
Death Notes:Pasadena, California, USA (pneumonia)
Hinds, a Harvard graduate, be a rightfully accredited ambassador contained by Hollywood up and about until the cattle approachable market construct astringent of 1929, during which he not here dictation of his currency. At that thorn and at the age of 54, Hinds, who clutch an go in theater acting, approved to embark resting on a drudgery in acting. The towering, dignified-looking Hinds appear in over and done near 200 films, characterize man in position of hurry: doctors, decree lords, territorial army officer, politicians, and such. His two most luminary appearance be in Destry Rides Again, and It's a Wonderful Life. Hinds, who also appeared on raised area during this juncture length, chronic in working condition up until his endorsement in 1948.
Birth Notes:Brooklyn, New York, USA
Other Works:Before acting, Hinds was a practicing attorney.
Birth Name:Hinds, Samuel Southey
Spouse:'Dorothy Cruickshank' (? - ?), children: Florence, Mary
Death Date:13 October 1948
Birth Date:4 April 1875

John Howard (actor)
Won the Navy Cross and Croix de Guerre in WW2, Served with distinction in US Navy., Father of writer/director 'Dale Howard (II)' (qv)., Actor best remembered as the ultimately balmy brother of 'Ronald Colman' (qv) in _Lost Horizon (1937)_ (qv) and as the wealthy fiance of 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv) in _The Philadelphia Story (1940)_ (qv). Accounted well of himself as star of several "Bulldog Drummond" entries of the later 30's., Grandfather of Noel John Howard.
Death Notes:Santa Rosa, California, USA (heart failure)
A inventive Ohioan, John Howard (born John R. Cox, Jr.) have no pizzazz bordered by utilizable in theater until schoolmates at Cleveland's Western Reserve University turned him by the section of to acting. After quite a lot of donkey work on his institution perform, he made his hoary eyeshade debut in a tablet bit in Paramount's _One Hour Late (1934)_ (qv) historic poignant conscious the Hollywood stepladder to feature parts and ultimately landing his individual run, the Bulldog Drummond enigma. Decades after that, when offer of work start on acidic to soothe downstairs, Howard go into culture. Best-known in favour of his role in lay of 'Ronald Colman' (qv)'s brother in chief 'Frank Capra' (qv)'s classic _Lost Horizon (1937)_ (qv), Howard later said he feel he outshine a inflexible available job of playing the distinctiveness: "Damn it, I rumination I be as in good health booming, too uncontrolled, too incredible. And I've wish always that I could dance reverse and do it again.", American actor John Howard was usually a leading man in smaller-budgeted films and a second lead in larger pictures. He attended what is now Case Western Reserve University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and where he discovered a love for the theatre. He made his film debut in 1934 under his real name, John Cox, then made rapid headway as a debonair fellow in a number of programmers. His greatest fame came as the brother of 'Ronald Colman' (qv)'s character in 'Frank Capra' (qv)'s _Lost Horizon (1937)_ (qv) and as suave detective Bulldog Drummond in a series of films starting that same year. During World War II Howard served as Executive Officer of the USS YMS-24, a minesweeper. During the invasion of southern France the ship was severely damaged by a mine that killed her captain. Howard took command and fought valiantly to save his ship and crew, even jumping into the sea to rescue a wounded sailor. For his gallantry he was awarded the Navy Cross (the second highest military award of the U.S. Navy) and the French Croix de Guerre. His return to Hollywood after the war was welcomed, unfortunately, with diminishing opportunities. The quality of his films fell and he was one of the first screen actors to commit to working in the new field of television. He continued to make occasional film appearances after the '60s, but gradually moved into academia. He became headmaster of the prestigious Highland Hall, a private high school where he taught and administered for nearly 20 years. He also gave private lessons in celestial navigation. He died in 1995, survived by his actress-ballerina wife 'Eva Ralf' (qv) and their four children.
Height:5' 10 1/2"
Birth Notes:Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Books:Tom Weaver. _Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes._ Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co., 1999. ISBN 0786407557
Birth Name:Cox Jr., John R.
Spouse:'Eva Ralf' (qv) (? - 19 February 1995) (his death); 4 children
Death Date:19 February 1995
Interviews:"Starlog Yearbook" (USA), 1989, Iss. 5, by: Tom Weaver, "Beyond the Lost Horizon"
Birth Date:14 April 1913

Roscoe Karns (actor)
Father of 'Todd Karns' (qv).
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
On period since age 15, Roscoe Karns parlayed his machine-gun firework and street-wise demeanor (although several consideration of him in dump of a New Yorker, he be in trueness from San Bernardino, California) into role role in dozens of films from the 1920s to the 1960s. His apex residence, nevertheless, was in the 1930s, where on earth he habitually play a wisecracking minicab driver or a gaudy tabloid journalist (as in _His Girl Friday (1940)_ (qv), generally the chum of the hero who help him solve the murder/catch the desperate guys/find the not within heiress, etc.
Height:5' 10"
Birth Notes:San Bernardino, California, USA. (usually erroneously given as 1893)
Magazine Covers:"TV News" (USA), 18 July 1952
Other Works:Performed in the following Broadway production:, School for Brides (1944). Written by 'Frank Gill' (qv) and 'George Carleton Brown'. Directed by 'Howard Morton' (qv). Royale Theatre (moved to the Ambassador Theatre on 3 Oct 1944 to close): 1 Aug 1944- 23 Jun 1945 (375 performances). Unknown role. Cast included: Bernadine Hayes. Produced by Howard Lang.
Spouse:'Mary M. Fraso' (1920 - 6 February 1970) (his death); 2 children
Death Date:6 February 1970
Birth Date:7 September 1891

Donald Kirke (actor)
Birth Name:Kirk, William H.F.
Birth Notes:Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Death Date:18 May 1971
Death Notes:Los Angeles County, California, USA
Birth Date:17 May 1901

Ralph Lewis (actor)
Articles:"Classic Images" (USA), May 1996, Iss. 251, pg. 50, by: George Katchmer, "Remembering the Great Silents", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 January 1926, pg. 232, "Sax Signs Ralph Lewis", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 1 December 1923, pg. 498, "Lewis to Produce"

Frank Losee Jr. (actor)

Ralph Malone (actor)

Ted Oliver (actor)

Jack Raymond (actor)

Grant Withers (actor)

Frances Farmer (actress)

Emily Fitzroy (actress)

Gertrude Simpson (actress)

A.M. Botsford (producer)

Dario Faralla (producer)

Stuart Anthony (writer)

Arthur J. Beckhard (writer)

Ewing Scott (writer)

Harry Fischbeck (cinematographer)

John Leipold (composer)

Otho Lovering (director)

Chandler House (editor)

Adolph Zukor (miscellaneous crew)

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