#charles halton

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Charles Halton, Lyda Roberti, Tom Dugan, Jack Haley, Rosina Lawrence, Mischa Auer, Patsy Kelly, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on the set of Pick a Star (1937)

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Midnight Manhunt (1945) William C. Thomas

July 12th 2024

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June Storey-Charles Halton "Dance Hall" 1941, de Irving Pichel.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Charles Halton, born 147 years ago today. The prolific character enjoyed a career in theatre, movies and TV that spanned more than 60 years.

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Dr. Cyclops | Episode 437

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Dr. Cyclops | Episode 437

Jim discusses a classic sci-fi film from 1940 – “Dr. Cyclops, ” starring Albert Dekker. Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, for producers Merian C. Cooper and Dale Van Every. A reclusive scientist with a laboratory laboratory deep in the Amazon jungle invites three scientists to assist. Upon discovering a horrific secret, they are subjected to experiments involving radiation. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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Bad movie I have In Old California 1942

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Clássico inovador: "O delírio de um sábio" (Dr. Cyclops, 1940)

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Midnight Manhunt

Midnight Manhunt – a dead gangster, worth $5,000 dead or alive, is ffound dead in a wax museum. And it’s a case of who’s got the body! The murderer? The reporter? Her reporter boyfriend? The office boy? Continue reading Midnight Manhunt

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Why is it that if a man kisses another man's wife, he's seducing her?

And why is it that if Dorothy kisses another woman's husband, she's betraying her own husband?

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baby  (  me  )  has  a  new  theme  &  new  muse  page  ,  soooo  i  thought  this  was  the  perfect  time  to  post  a  plotting  call  for  those  who  might  be  interested  in  writing  with  me  !  if  you  want  threads  with  someone  who  will  bombard  you  with  messages  abt  headcanons  (  i  have  never  shut  up  once  i  fear  )  ,  musings  (  i  am  constantly  spamming  @girlzstupid  )  ,  and  create  graphics  for  our  characters  (  photoshop  &  i  are  best  friends  !!  )  —  then  look  no  further  !  below  the  cut  you'll  find  a  list  of  wanted  faceclaims  ,  opposites  ,  &  plots  that  i  would  love  to  do  !  if  anything  catches  your  eye  please  give  this  post  a  like  and  i'll  message  you  !  this  is  for  mutuals  &  non  mutuals  ,  so  feel  free  to  like  this  even  if  we  have  threads  /  plots  happening  already  !

faceclaims  i’d  love  to  play  /  play  against  !

males  :  pedro  pascal  ,  joe  keery  ,  christopher  briney  ,  drew  starkey  ,  jonathan  daviss  ,  rudy  pankow  ,  alex  fitzalan  ,  dylan  o’brien  ,  nick  robinson  ,  jacob  elordi  ,  damson  idris  ,  archie  renaux  ,  manny  jacinto  ,  keith  powers  ,  charles  melton  ,  aron  piper  ,  michael  cimino  ,  paul  mescal  ,  harris  dickinson  ,  evan  mock  ,  vinnie  hacker  ,  nicholas  galitzine  ,  xolo  mariduena  ,  michael  evans  behling  ,  mat  barzal  ,  devin  craig  ,  &  steven  yeun

females  :  jennie  ,  aisha  potter  ,  havana  rose  liu  ,  zendaya  ,  rachel  sennott  ,  ayo  edebiri  ,  amandla  stenberg  ,  madison  bailey  ,  maia  reficco  ,  jamilla  strand  ,  leah  halton  ,  madelyn  cline  ,  greta  onieogou  ,  simone  ashley  ,  jenna  ortega  ,  lola  tung  ,  mikey  madison  ,  ryan  destiny  ,  cindy  kimberly  ,  savannah  lee  smith  ,  christina  nadin  ,  nailea  devora  ,  keke  palmer  ,  coco  jones  ,  laura  harrier  ,  dua  lipa  ,  &  halle  bailey 

this  list  isn’t  exhaustive  &  it’s  almost  one  hundred  percent  missing  some  of  my  faves  !!!

plots  i’d  love  to  do  !

tropes  i  love  :  fake  dating  ,  slow  burn  of  any  and  every  kind  ,  friends  to  lovers  (  bonus  points  if  they’re  childhood  friends  )  ,  hateships  ,  opposites  attract  ,  and  more  than  anything  i  love  ANGST  !!!!!

relationship  dynamics  i  die  for  :  high  school  sweethearts  who  fall  out  of  love  and  then  find  their  way  to  each  other  again  ,  a  rockstar  and  their  significant  other  ,  siblings’  best  friend  ,  divorced  couples  who  slowly  fall  in  love  again  (  bonus  points  if  they  have  to  coparent  !!  )  ,  and  on  that  note  toxic  married  couples  who  should  be  divorced  but  can’t  help  but  live  for  each  other  ,  hitman  and  their  target  (  or  mr  &  mrs  smith  <3  )  ,  aggressive  hockey  player  and  someone  who  patches  them  up  ,  exes  who  are  so  in  love  with  each  other  it  ruins  them  but  try  to  remain  friends  because  their  lives  are  so  intertwined  ,  roommates  with  unspoken  feelings  (  and  yes  i’m  talking  nick  and  jess  from  new  girl  levels  on  tension  )  ,  i’m  getting  married  but  i  can’t  go  through  with  it  because  i’m  still  in  love  with  you  ,  newlyweds  ,  new  parents  (  i  will  take  fluff  or  angst  !!  )  ,  secret  relationships  ,  power  couples  !!!  we  have  lost  the  art  of  creating  power  couples  !!!!  ,  bodyguard  and  their  client  duhhhh  ,  evil  women  and  soft  men  ,  snotty  rich  girl  &  the  southern  boy  with  soft  eyes  and  rough  hands  ,  friends  with  benefits  who  are  DEFINITELY  more  than  friends  ,  &  sorry  to  be  problematic  but  any  variation  of  a  cheating  plot  (  we  slept  together  &  now  i’m  marrying  your  sibling  ,  bandmates  who  are  sharing  a  girlfriend  ,  i  come  back  to  you  every  time  i  have  a  fight  w  my  significant  other  ,  etc  etc  .  )

some  verse  ideas  :  apartment  !!!  townhouse  !!!  condos  !!!  i  don’t  care  i  just  crave  roommates  in  a  little  intertwined  universe  !!!  up  next  ,  scream  !!!  getting  to  plan  out  the  ghostface  ,  the  dynamics  between  the  survivors  .  .  .  just  think  about  it  okay  .  .  .  on  the  topic  of  spooky  things  a  couple  who  disappears  before  their  wedding  day  and  leaves  clues  to  their  close  friends  !!!  next  ,  this  one  is  a  little  niche  but  a  gen  v  !!!  it  doesn’t  have  to  be  related  to  the  boys  ,  i  just  want  superhero  college  antics  !!!  a  band  (  or  group  of  bands  )  going  on  tour  !!!  beachy  tsitp  inspired  found  family  !!!!  literally  any  kind  of  reality  tv  show  !!  could  be  love  island  ,  could  be  big  brother  ,  even  jersey  shore  okay  !!  i  just  love  reality  tv  !!!  something  inspired  the  bear  !!  i  just  want  coworkers  working  in  a  high  stakes  restaurant  environment  !!!  anddd  lastly  !!!  a  bunch  of  fresh  faces  on  the  acting  scene  starring  a  new  tv  show  ???  bonus  points  if  it’s  a  crime  or  medical  drama  <33  listen  something  about  writing  fiction  within  fiction  speaks  to  my  little  theatre  kid  heart  !!

now  here’s  where  bambi  begs  for  things  :  if  someone  doesn’t  man  up  and  give  me  more  sibling  plots  &  platonic  plots  i  will  literally  explode  , i  want  to  headcanon  family  traditions  !  i  want  joey  &  chandler  level  brotps  !  someone  please  anyone  !!!  with  that  i  am  almost  craving  more  f  /  f  &  m  /  m  ships  !!!  literally  any  of  the  plots  i  have  above  and  make  them  gay  !  please  please  please  !!!  lastly  ,  i  will  literally  give  you  my  left  kidney  if  you  give  me  historical  plots  ,  thank  youuu  !!!  

lastly  anything  from  this  tag  !

if  you  made  it  this  far  ,  thank  you  !!!  i  hope  something  here  caught  your  eye  and  i  look  forward  to  plotting  with  you  soon  !!!

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Dread by the Decade: Stranger on the Third Floor

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★★★½

Plot: After his testimony leads to a man being sentenced to death, a reporter and his fiancée are haunted by the possibility that a mistake was made.

Review: Arguably the first film noir ever made, this movie is emotionally and stylistically evocative, albeit hamstrung by its too-short runtime.

Year: 1940 Genre: Psychological Horror, Crime Thriller Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 4 minutes

Director: Boris Ingster Writers: Frank Partos, Nathanael West Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca Editor: Harry Marker Composer: Roy Webb Cast: John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Halton, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook, Jr., Peter Lorre

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Story: 3/5 - Despite well rounded characters and a compelling central question, this story ends a bit too abruptly for it to breathe.

Performances: 4/5 - McGuire and Tallichet have great chemistry, and Halton is great as Mike's unbearable neighbor, but Lorre is criminally underused.

Cinematography: 4.5/5 - Gorgeous nods to expressionism. The nightmare sequence's cinematography is hypnotic.

Editing: 4.5/5 - Very stylistic. Especially shines during the nightmare sequence.

Music: 3.5/5 - Fitting, if not the most memorable

Sets: 4/5 - Limited but believable. Made surreal well during Mike's nightmare.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 4/5

Trigger Warnings:

Brief but graphic discussion of violence (dialogue-only)

Mild misogyny

Ableist portrayal of a mentally ill person

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Ray Milland and Carole Lombard in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)

Cast: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, Lucile Watson, William Tracy, Charles Halton, Esther Dale. Screenplay: Norman Krasna. Cinematography: Harry Stradling Sr.. Art direction: Van Nest Polglase, Albert S. D'Agostino. Film editing: William Hamilton. Music: Edward Ward.

If Alfred Hitchcock's name were not attached to Mr. & Mrs. Smith, would we remember it at all today? Perhaps as one of the last films of Carole Lombard -- it was the last released before her death in January 1942, though the posthumously released To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) was the last one she completed filming. Or perhaps as one of the lesser examples of the romantic/screwball  comedy genre that flourished in the 1930s and '40s. But even hardcore Hitchcockians find it difficult to fit it into the director's canon. Hitchcock had said he wanted to work with Lombard, and when Lombard liked Norman Krasna's story and screenplay, the teaming was put into play. Lombard and Robert Montgomery play Ann and David Smith, who discover that their three-year-old marriage is invalid, owing to a legal technicality. Complications ensue, especially when David doesn't rush into remarriage as quickly as Ann likes. She kicks him out of the apartment, and then his law partner, Jeff Custer (Gene Raymond), makes a play for her affections. Lombard is very much at home in this kind of comedy, and Montgomery is good at it too. The weak link is Raymond, who has the kind of role, the "other man" patsy, at which actors like Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937) and His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) and John Howard in The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940) excelled. Raymond plays his part with a pinched, rather prissy manner that hardly sits well with the fact that he's supposed to have been the best fullback at the University of Alabama. In fact, the character seems to have been coded as latently gay: Witness Lombard's reaction when Ann learns that he decorated his own very tasteful apartment. Much of the film skirts around matters forbidden by the Production Code, including whether the now-unmarried Smiths should sleep together, which a director like Lubitsch or Hawks would have treated with more wit and finesse than Hitchcock does. This was only his third film made in Hollywood, and it was his first with a completely American setting; the first two, Rebecca (1940) and Foreign Correspondent (1940), were set in Europe and England. His unfamiliarity with American idiom shows up particularly in his treatment of the Alabama football jock Jeff and his parents (Philip Merivale and Lucile Watson), proper Southerners who are shocked at the suggestion that Ann has been sleeping with David. But whenever Hitchcock is working with Lombard and Montgomery, especially using Lombard's great gift for uninhibited physical comedy, the movie comes to fitful life.

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Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937) Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton, Ernest Cossart, Laura Hope Crews, Herbert Mundin, Dennie Moore. Screenplay: Samson Raphaelson, Guy Bolton, Russell G. Medcraft, based on a play by Melchior Lengyel. Cinematography: Charles Lang. Art direction: Hans Dreier, Robert Usher. Film editing: William Shea. Costume design: Travis Banton. Music: Friedrich Hollaender.

In Ernst Lubitsch’s Angel, you can almost feel the Production Code censors breathing hotly down the director’s neck, driving some of the oxygen out of the room. What’s meant to be a light and airy sophisticated comedy, like for example Lubitsch’s pre-Code masterpiece Trouble in Paradise (1932), often feels starchy and coy. The emigrée grand duchess played by Laura Hope Crews is clearly a high-class procuress and her “salon” a very upscale brothel that enables a “fling” by Lady Maria Barker (Marlene Dietrich) with a curiously naïve Anthony Halton (Melvyn Douglas). Their affair never seems to get consummated, although there are the usual narrative jumps when the relationship comes to the boiling point. And of course the Code’s aversion to divorce and abhorrence of any sign that adulterers might get away with it unpunished means that the film must end with Lady Maria and Sir Frederick (Herbert Marshall) happily reconciled. We’re used to such evasions in Hollywood movies of the 1930s through the 1950s, but it’s a little depressing to see them stifle Lubitsch’s usually sublime naughtiness. Sometimes it feels as if Dietrich is to blame: She never really strikes sparks with either Douglas or Marshall – certainly not the way Greta Garbo does with Douglas in Ninotchka (1939) or Miriam Hopkins with Marshall in Trouble in Paradise. But lovers of Lubitsch have plenty to enjoy in Angel, chiefly the way the director subverts expectations. When Sir Frederick invites Halton, an old war buddy, to dine with him and his wife, who neither man knows is the “Angel” Halton met in Paris and has been rhapsodizing about ever since, we expect a big explosion, especially when the husband points out his wife’s picture to her lover. But just as Halton is about to look at the photograph, Lubitsch cuts. We don’t see the awkward encounter between wife and lover we expect when she comes downstairs to meet the guest. Instead, we pick up with them later and realize that both have exerted exceptional self-control at the meeting. And we don’t see the three of them at the dinner table; instead, Lubitsch takes us into the kitchen, where the servants are wondering why neither Lady Maria nor Mr. Halton has touched their food. Lubitsch leaves to our imagination scenes that other directors would have milked shamelessly. In another example, at their first encounter Maria and Halton are in a Parisian park at night, and after he proclaims his love for her he spots an old woman selling violets. He goes to buy the flowers, but Lubitsch holds the camera on the old woman, whose expressions tell us what’s going on: Maria has chosen the moment to disappear and we hear Halton calling out “Angel!” in his pursuit of her. The flower seller sighs and picks up the dropped bouquet, dusts it off, and puts it back with the other flowers, then turns and walks away. Similarly, Lubitsch doesn’t linger on the reconciliation scene between Maria and Frederick: They simply walk out the door, headed for Vienna and what we hope is a revived marriage. In the end, these “Lubitsch touches” aren’t quite enough to lift Angel out of the middle tier of the director’s films, but they constitute its saving grace notes.  

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Lewis Carroll Memoriais famosos

Nome original Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Nascimento 27 jan 1832

Daresbury, Halton Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England

Óbito14 jan 1898 (idade 65 anos)

Guildford, Guildford Borough, Surrey, England

Sepultamento

Guildford Cemetery

Guildford, Guildford Borough, Surrey, England

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Home for Sale - 13 Charles Street, Halton Hills, ON L7G 2Z1 Virtual Tour: http://13charles.com/

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Stranger on the Third Floor | Boris Ingster | 1940

Margaret Tallichet, John McGuire, Ethel Griffies, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Halton