Some cool ice pictures.
Flappers on ice.
Ann Sheridan as the Ice Cream Redhead.
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A Blog For Thelma Todd Thelma Todd was a star of silent movies and later the talkies. She is remembered as much today for her mysterious death as she is for her films. In this blog, we take a look at Thelma Todd, her movies, and various commentaries.
Showing posts with label Ann Sheridan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ann Sheridan. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
A Girl And A Block Of Ice
Some cool ice pictures.
Flappers on ice.
Ann Sheridan as the Ice Cream Redhead.
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Marie Wilson Photos
Marie Wilson and friends at Paula Stone's party in late 1935.
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Same girls that were in the Christmas carol picture.
With Ann Sheridan.
Marie Wilson, Ann Sheridan, and Margaret Lindsay in BROADWAY MUSKETEERS.
With Ruth Terry in ROOKIES ON PARADE ( 1941 )
With Martha Raye at a charity event to raise funding for a dog hospital.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Guinn Williams was one of Thelma Todd's costars at the Roach studio.
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Guinn Williams | |
|---|---|
| Born | Guinn Terrell Williams Jr. April 26, 1899 Decatur, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | June 6, 1962 (aged 63) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1919–1961 |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Weeks Kathleen Collins Dorothy Peterson (1943-1962) (his death) |
Williams made his screen debut in the 1919 comedy, Almost A Husband, with Will Rogers and Cullen Landis, and was featured in a large supporting role ten years later in Frank Borzage's Lucky Star with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Throughout the 1920s Williams would have a string of successful films, mostly westerns.
He then appeared in The Great Meadow alongside Johnny Mack Brown, which was Brown's breakout film. Throughout the 1930s, Williams acted in supporting roles, mostly in westerns, sports, or outdoor dramas. Although not the lead actor in any of them, he was always employed, and was successful as a supporting actor. He often played alongside Hoot Gibson and Harry Carey during that period. In 1941, he became one of many actors cast by Universal Pictures in their large film series, Riders of Death Valley. From the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, Williams appeared in supporting roles in a number of A-pictures, sometimes with high billing, such as in Columbia's first Technicolour film The Desperadoes (1943).
His father, Guinn Williams Sr, represented the 13th Texas Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1922 to 1932. Williams was frequently teamed with Alan Hale, Sr. as sidekicks to Errol Flynn in several of his pictures. In 1960, he was cast in the epic film The Alamo and in Home from the Hill with Robert Mitchum. His last role was opposite his close friend John Wayne and Stuart Whitman in The Comancheros.
Williams died unexpectedly of uremic poisoning[1] on June 6, 1962, aged 63.
Partial filmography[edit]
- Rounding Up the Law (1922)
- Rose of the Desert (1925)
- Polly of the Circus (1932)
- The Mystery Squadron (1933)
- The Glass Key (1935)
- The Law of 45's (1935)
- Dodge City (1939)
- Blackmail (1939)
- The Fighting 69th (1940)
- Virginia City (1940)
- Santa Fe Trail (1940)
- Swamp Water (1941)
- The Desperadoes (1943)
- Rocky Mountain (1950)
- The Hired Gun (1957)
- The Alamo (1960)
- The Comancheros (1961)
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams at the Internet Movie Database
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams at AllRovi
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams full biography
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams at Find a Grave
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Guinn "Big Boy" Williams appeared in two films with Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd, CATCH AS CATCH CAN and WAR MAMMAS. He later appeared with Patsy Kelly in her feature film debut at the Roach studio, KELLY THE SECOND. He made all kinds of movies, but is best known today for working in westerns, frequently with Errol Flynn. Williams eventually died of the same condition as Jean Harlow, uremic poisoning.
Here we see Janet Gaynor lifted off the floor by Guinn as they dance in LUCKY STAR ( 1929 ).
CATCH AS CATCH CAN - Marshall Neilan, Thelma Todd, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Zasu Pitts
With Zasu Pitts in another publicity picture for CATCH AS CATCH CAN.
Reblogged from http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/stage-and-screen-personalities-pic-circa-1931-american-news-photo/78978966
A photo from a polo game in 1934,
with a caption which mentions Hal Roach.
With Patsy Kelly in her KELLY THE SECOND ( 1936 ), which also featured Pert Kelton.
As a boxer again in PARDON OUR NERVE, 1939, with June Gale and Lyn Bari.
Guinn Williams with Ann Sheridan and Victor Jory in DODGE CITY, 1939.
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With Lupe Velez in SIX LESSONS FROM MADAME LA ZONGA ( 1941 )
With Judy Canova in SINGING IN THE CORN ( 1946 ).
Guinn is perhaps best known for the many westerns he appeared in. Here is a picture from 1933
and another from the forties.
Lobby card for THE EAGLE'S CLAW ( 1924 ) a silent movie in which Guinn starred.
Poster for KELLY THE SECOND.
KELLY THE SECOND lobby cards.
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams:
http://www.b-westerns.com/bigboy.htm
http://smmercury.com/2012/08/23/bartee-haile-big-boy-williams-has-eerie-premonition-of-his-death/
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Ann Sheridan
Ann Sheridan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Ann Sheridan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Clara Lou Sheridan February 21, 1915 Denton, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | January 21, 1967 (aged 51) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Cause of death
| esophageal and liver cancer |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1934–1967 |
| Spouse(s) | Edward Norris (m. 1936–1939; divorced) George Brent (m. 1942–1943; divorced) Scott McKay (m. 1966–1967; her death) |
Life and career
Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas on February 21, 1915, she was a student at the University of North Texas when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Pictures. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a Paramount film. She abandoned college to pursue a career in Hollywood.She made her film debut in 1934, aged 19, in the film Search for Beauty, and played uncredited bit parts in Paramount films for the next two years. Paramount made little effort to develop Sheridan's talent, so she left, signing a contract with Warner Bros. in 1936, and changing her name to Ann Sheridan.
Sheridan's career prospects began to improve. She received as many as 250 marriage proposals from fans in a single week.[1] Tagged The Oomph Girl — a sobriquet which she reportedly loathed[2][3][4] — Sheridan was a popular pin-up girl in the early 1940s.
She was the heroine of a novel, Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx, written by Kathryn Heisenfelt, published by Whitman Publishing Company in 1943. While the heroine of the story was identified as a famous actress, the stories were entirely fictitious. The story was probably written for a young teenage audience and is reminiscent of the adventures of Nancy Drew. It is part of a series known as "Whitman Authorized Editions", 16 books published between 1941-1947 that always featured a film actress as heroine.[5]
She also appeared in such musicals as It All Came True (1940) and Navy Blues (1941). She was also memorable in two of her biggest hits, Nora Prentiss and The Unfaithful, both in 1947.
Despite these successes, her career began to decline. Her role in I Was a Male War Bride (1949), directed by Howard Hawks and costarring Cary Grant, gave her another success, but by the 1950s she was struggling to find work and her film roles were sporadic. In 1950, she appeared on the ABC musical television series Stop the Music. In 1962, she played the lead in "The Mavis Grant Story" on the Western series Wagon Train. In the middle 1960s, Sheridan appeared on the NBC soap opera Another World.
For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ann Sheridan has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 7024 Hollywood Boulevard.
Marriages
Sheridan married three times, including a marriage lasting one year to fellow Warner Brothers star George Brent, who co-starred with her in Honeymoon for Three (1941).Death
In 1966, Sheridan began starring in a new TV series, a Western themed comedy called Pistols 'n' Petticoats. She became ill during the filming, and died of esophageal and liver cancer at age 51 on January 21, 1967, in Los Angeles, California, one month before her 52nd birthday. She was cremated, and her ashes were stored at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles until her remains were interred in a niche in the Chapel Columbarium at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005.[6]Filmography
References
- Jump up ^ "Everybody Wants to Marry Annie," AP, May 25, 1941. Accessed June 2, 2009.[1]
- Jump up ^ Ann Sheridan, Actress, Born Clara Lou Sheridan on Feb. 21, 1915 in Denton, TX, Died Jan. 21, 1967 of cancer in Los Angeles, CA, by Paul Houston, Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1967
- Jump up ^ When a Woman Could Be an Oomph Girl by Art Rogoff, New York Times, September 12, 1988
- Jump up ^ "The Oomph Girl", Classic Cinema Gold, February 21, 2012
- Jump up ^ Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls
- Jump up ^ http://classicfilm.about.com/od/classicfilmactresses/a/annshrdan20705.htm
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ann Sheridan. |
- Ann Sheridan at the Internet Movie Database
- Ann Sheridan at the TCM Movie Database
- Ann Sheridan at AllMovie
- Interview with Ann Sheridan biographer
- Photographs and literature
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Ann Sheridan was famous as the "Oomph" girl, a title that can be seen as somewhat similar to Clara Bow's title of the "It" girl.
After Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart co-starred in "San Quentin" (1937) directed by Lloyd Bacon, in which their characters were siblings, they became friends and began referring to each other as Sister Annie and Brother Bogie.
ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES ( 1938 ) with Jimmy Cagney.
THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT ( 1940 ) with George Raft.
Martha Raye, Ruby Keeler, Jane Wyman and Ann Sheridan at a wedding shower for Martha on the set of NAVY BLUES.
Ann Sheridan and Carole Landis were friends.
With Carole Landis at the Stork Club.
With Jimmy Durante in THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER ( 1942 ).
Signing autographs for the soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen, 1943.
Ann Sheridan is one of a number of movie stars caricatured in the 1941 Warner Brothers cartoon HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT.
With Edward G. Robinson.
An Ann Sheridan character appeared in a Superman story which was also a sort of Li'l Abner story, "A Goof Named Tiny Rufe".
This story appeared in ACTION COMICS #55, which was originally published in December 1942.
In the Doc Savage adventure THE HEADLESS MEN, Doc's sidekick Monk calls a redhead named Lynda Ladore "The Oomph Girl of the movies". That would make her Ann Sheridan, who was termed "The Oomph Girl" at the time. THE HEADLESS MEN was originally published in DOC SAVAGE magazine in June 1941.
Vaugely connected to the Ann Sheridan "Oomph" business was a character named "Oomphie" played by Marion Martin in the 1941 movie HARVARD HERE I COME, which starred Maxie Rosenbloom. Also in the cast was Marie Wilson, who was sometimes seen in Warner Brothers publicity pictures with Ann Sheridan, such as the one at the top of this page..
"A Goof Named Tiny Rufe":
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/02/superman-meets-lil-abner.html
HARVARD, HERE I COME:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034831/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_27
THE HEADLESS MEN:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2014/05/doc-savage-meets-oomph-girl-of-movies.html
HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/03/hollywood-steps-out.html
Ann Sheridan:
http://trainbellies.blogspot.com/2011/12/ann-sheridan-warner-boys-humphrey.html
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