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Carl Laemmle Jr. is a Producer American born on 28 april 1908 at Chicago (USA)
Carl Laemmle Jr. est un producteur de cinéma américain, né Julius Laemmle le 28 avril 1908 à Chicago (Illinois), mort le 24 septembre 1979 à Los Angeles (Californie).
(1930)
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Birth name Julius Laemmle
Nationality USA
Birth 28 april 1908 at Chicago (USA)
Death 24 september 1979 (at 71 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 28 april 1908 at Chicago (USA)
Death 24 september 1979 (at 71 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Carl Laemmle Jr. est un producteur de cinéma américain, né Julius Laemmle le 28 avril 1908 à Chicago (Illinois), mort le 24 septembre 1979 à Los Angeles (Californie).
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Fils de Carl Laemmle (1867-1939), fondateur d'Universal Pictures, il est nommé à la tête de ces studios, en remplacement de son père, en 1928, à l'âge vingt ans. En 1936, son père (réduit à un rôle subalterne) et lui sont définitivement évincés d'Universal. Dès 1926 et jusqu'à cette éviction, il produit environ 140 films américains, dont plusieurs bien connus dans les genres fantastique et d'horreur, réalisés par James Whale ou Tod Browning, entre autres.Best films
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Show Boat (1936)
, 1h53Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley
Roles Producer
Rating73%
The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
, 1h11Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor
Roles Producer
Rating77%
On a stormy night, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon) praise Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) for her story of Frankenstein and his Monster. Reminding them that her intention was to impart a moral lesson, Mary says she has more of the story to tell. The scene shifts to the end of the 1931 Frankenstein.
The Good Fairy (1935)
, 1h38Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Eric Blore, Beulah Bondi
Roles Producer
Rating74%
Luisa Ginglebusher (Margaret Sullavan) is a young, naive orphan who is given a job as an usherette in a Budapest movie palace. Detlaff (Reginald Owen), a waiter she meets in the theatre, takes her to an exclusive party where, to hold off the advances of Konrad (Frank Morgan), a meat-packing millionaire a little too fond of drink, she picks a name from the phone book to be her "husband", hoping to do a good deed and divert some of Konrad's wealth to someone else.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
, 1h27Directed by Stuart Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Actors Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners, Francis L. Sullivan, E. E. Clive
Roles Producer
Rating63%
Remember Last Night? (1935)
, 1h21Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Edward Arnold, Constance Cummings, Robert Young, George Meeker, Sally Eilers, Reginald Denny
Roles Producer
Rating66%
To celebrate their six-month anniversary, Long Island socialites Tony and Carlotta Milburn arrange a wild drinking party with friends, culminating in a stop at the restaurant owned by Faronea. They are unaware that Faronea is conspiring with Baptiste Bouclier, the chauffeur of party host Vic Huling, to kidnap Vic. The next morning the Milburns awake hung over to find Vic dead from a gunshot through the heart and his wife Bette missing. Tony calls his friend, district attorney Danny Harrison to investigate. Bette arrives with Billy Arliss at whose home she had slept. Because of their excessive drinking, no one can remember anything about what had happened the night before. As circumstantial evidence mounts against Tony, he calls in hypnotist Professor Karl Jones to help everyone try to recover their memories. Just as the professor is about to reveal the murderer, he is murdered.
Night Life of the Gods (1935)
Directed by Lowell Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Alan Mowbray, Peggy Shannon, Florine McKinney, Richard Carle, Phillips Smalley, Wesley Barry
Roles Producer
Rating63%
Eccentric scientist Hunter Hawk (Alan Mowbray) nearly blows himself up during an experiment. When he comes to, he finds that he is successful at last: he has created a ring that can turn living creatures into statues as well as bring statues to life. After testing the device on his dog, he makes statues of his disagreeable family; only his favorite niece, Daphne (Peggy Shannon), is spared. Hawk and Daphne celebrate the petrification of their relatives with a bottle of wine after which Daphne goes off to meet her boyfriend Cyril (Douglas Fowley). Hawk takes a drunken stroll through the cornfield where he encounters the gardener, Old Man Turner (Ferdinand Gottschalk), who turns out to be a leprechaun. Turner takes Hawk home to meet his daughter, Meg (Florine McKinney), and the two hit it off. They embark on a spree, turning other disagreeable people into statues left and right. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hawk brings statues of Greek gods to life. Hawk and Meg take the gods on a whirlwind tour of the modern world embodied by Manhattan resulting in more mayhem, the disillusionment of the gods, and Hawk's eventual weariness with what he has wrought. Since he and Meg wish to be together, and concluding that he is certain to be locked up as a madman, he turns the ring on Meg and himself. Hawk then awakens in an ambulance and discovers that the entire evening was the result of head injuries sustained in the explosion at the beginning of the story.
Little Man, What Now? (1934)
, 1h34Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet, DeWitt Jennings, G.P. Huntley
Roles Producer
Rating71%
Germany in the 1930s, a young couple struggling against poverty. Hans is a small business agent. He is happily married to Emma that he affectionately calls 'Lämmchen' (small lamb). They must keep their marriage a secret in order for Hans to keep his job, as his boss wants him to marry his daughter. Hans loses his job when the truth comes out. They move in with his stepmother in bustling Berlin to find success. Hans gets a small job in a department store. Things are okay until they find out that his stepmother is really a notorious madame and runs an exclusive brothel.
Imitation of Life (1934)
, 1h51Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington
Roles Producer
Rating74%
White widow Bea Pullman (Claudette Colbert) and her daughter Jessie (Juanita Quigley as a toddler, Marilyn Knowlden as an eight-year-old) take in black housekeeper Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers) and her daughter Peola (Sebie Hendricks), whose fair complexion reveals her mixed-race ancestry. Bea exchanges room and board for work, although struggling to make ends meet. Delilah and Peola quickly become like family to Jessie and Bea. They particularly enjoy Delilah's pancakes, made from a special family recipe. Five years later, Jessie and Peola prove to be challenging children to raise: Jessie is demanding, not particularly studious, relying instead on her charm. She is the first person to call Peola "black" in a hurtful way, making it clear that their childhood idyll is doomed. Peola does not tell her classmates at school that she is "colored" and is humiliated when her mother shows up one day, revealing her secret.
The Black Cat (1934)
, 1h5Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats
Actors Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Harry Cording, Henry Armetta
Roles Producer
Rating68%
Newlyweds Peter and Joan Alison, on their honeymoon in Hungary, learn that due to a mixup, they must share a train compartment with Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Béla Lugosi), a Hungarian psychiatrist. Eighteen years before, Werdegast went to war, never seeing his wife again. He has spent the last 15 years in an infamous prison camp. On the train, the doctor explains that he is traveling to see an old friend, Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff), an Austrian architect.
Gift of Gab (1934)
, 1h10Directed by Karl Freund
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Alice White, Paul Lukas
Roles Producer
Rating49%
Great Expectations (1934)
, 1h40Directed by Stuart Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Phillips Holmes, Henry Hull, Jane Wyatt, Valerie Hobson, Florence Reed, Francis L. Sullivan
Roles Executive Producer
Rating61%
Pirrip, âgé de 9 ans, orphelin vivant avec des parents, aide et se lie d'amitié avec un condamné évadé sur les landes, un acte qui aura un effet profond sur sa vie.
Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
, 1h8Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Lukas, Leila Hyams, Patricia Ellis, Phillip Reed, Onslow Stevens, Dorothy Burgess
Roles Producer
Rating67%
Beloved (1934)
, 1h25Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Boles, Gloria Stuart, Morgan Farley, Ruth Hall, Albert Conti, Dorothy Peterson
Roles Producer
Rating59%
À Vienne en 1838, le baron Franz von Hausmann élève son jeune fils Carl dans l'amour de la musique classique. Dix ans plus tard, Carl joue sa première composition en tant que violoniste. Mais son père est tué pendant la révolution, et Carl doit fuir avec sa mère en Caroline du Sud.
Secret of the Chateau (1934)
, 1h6Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Claire Dodd, Alice White, Osgood Perkins, Jack La Rue, George E. Stone, William Faversham
Roles Executive Producer
Rating59%
Marotte, un inspecteur de la Sûreté, enquête sur des meurtres commis en lien avec le vol d'un exemplaire de la Bible de Gutenberg...
One More River (1934)
, 1h28Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Diana Wynyard, Colin Clive, Frank Lawton, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Jane Wyatt, Reginald Denny
Roles Producer
Rating66%
Clare, Lady Corven (Diana Wynyard) and Sir Gerald Corven (Colin Clive) are to all outward appearances a happily married upper class British couple. But privately, Lady Clare's husband is physically and emotionally abusive toward her, and one day she can take no more, and walks out of the relationship. Clare books passage on a ship, where she is befriended by a kind and handsome young man, Tony Croom (Frank Lawton). Though their relationship remains strictly platonic, Tony displays strong feelings for Lady Corven, which are duly noted by a private detective hired by Sir Gerald to keep tabs on his wife. Sir Gerald threatens to paint Clare's relationship with Tony in an unflattering light in court, this being a time when divorce was considered scandalous, especially among England's "privileged" classes.