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James Hall is a Actor American born on 22 october 1900 at Dallas (USA)
For other people named James Hall, see James Hall (disambiguation).
James Hall (October 22, 1900 – June 7, 1940) was an American film actor.
Parmi ses quinze films muets, mentionnons Hôtel Impérial de Mauritz Stiller (1927, avec Pola Negri) et Les Quatre Fils de John Ford (1928, avec George Meeker).
Son premier film parlant est The Canary Murder Case de Malcolm St. Clair et Frank Tuttle (1929, avec William Powell, Louise Brooks et Jean Arthur). Citons également Just Married avec Ruth Taylor de Frank R. Strayer de 1928, La Cadette avec Clara Bow et Jean Arthur, d'A. Edward Sutherland de 1929 et Les Anges de l'enfer avec Ben Lyon et Jean Harlow, d'Howard Hughes en 1930.
Son dernier film est Manhattan Tower de Frank R. Strayer (1932, avec Mary Brian et Irene Rich). Huit ans après son retrait de l'écran, en 1940, il meurt prématurèment d'une cirrhose.
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Birth name James E. Brown
Nationality USA
Birth 22 october 1900 at Dallas (USA)
Death 7 june 1940 (at 39 years) at Jersey City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 22 october 1900 at Dallas (USA)
Death 7 june 1940 (at 39 years) at Jersey City (USA)
James Hall (October 22, 1900 – June 7, 1940) was an American film actor.
Biography
Sous le pseudonyme de James Hall, il contribue à seulement trente-trois films américains entre 1923 et 1932, notamment pour la Paramount Pictures.Parmi ses quinze films muets, mentionnons Hôtel Impérial de Mauritz Stiller (1927, avec Pola Negri) et Les Quatre Fils de John Ford (1928, avec George Meeker).
Son premier film parlant est The Canary Murder Case de Malcolm St. Clair et Frank Tuttle (1929, avec William Powell, Louise Brooks et Jean Arthur). Citons également Just Married avec Ruth Taylor de Frank R. Strayer de 1928, La Cadette avec Clara Bow et Jean Arthur, d'A. Edward Sutherland de 1929 et Les Anges de l'enfer avec Ben Lyon et Jean Harlow, d'Howard Hughes en 1930.
Son dernier film est Manhattan Tower de Frank R. Strayer (1932, avec Mary Brian et Irene Rich). Huit ans après son retrait de l'écran, en 1940, il meurt prématurèment d'une cirrhose.
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Manhattan Tower (1932)
, 1h7Directed by Frank R. Strayer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Brian, James Hall, Irene Rich, Wade Boteler, Hale Hamilton, Noel Francis
Roles Jimmy Duncan
Rating63%
Manhattan Tower is about a couple by the names of Mary Harper (Mary Brian) and Jimmy Duncan (James Hall). Both work at the Empire State Building: he as an engineer, she's a secretary. They would like to marry and buy a house that they saw advertised in a window in the building lobby, but they need more money. Mary asks her womanizing boss for advice, and he persuades her to give him all her savings to invest. Unbeknownst to her, the boss has speculated in the commodity market, and lost not only his money and that of his wealthy wife, but also some of the firm's funds too. His wife would like to quietly divorce him to marry her politician friend, but the husband asks her for money to avoid a scandal. When Mary changes her mind and asks for the restitution of her savings, her boss refuses and mistreats her. That causes a confrontation between Jimmy and Mary's boss, and they fight. Meanwhile, also the politician and an honest accountant of the firm, who discovered his superior's misdeeds but kept silent fearing to lose his job, decide to confront Mary's boss. During the fight, he takes a gun from a drawer, and menaces them all. He trips and falls through a window to his death. The witnesses decide to declare it was a suicide and go on with their lives.
Millie (1931)
, 1h25Directed by George Roy Hill, John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Downing Ames, James Hall, John Halliday, Joan Blondell
Roles Jack Maitland
Rating61%
Millie (Helen Twelvetrees) is a naive young woman who marries a wealthy man from New York, Jack Maitland (James Hall). Three years later, unhappy in her marriage due to her husband's continued infidelity, she asks for and receives a divorce. Because of her pride, she does not want his money, however, she also does not want to remove her daughter from a comfortable lifestyle. She allows Jack and his mother (Charlotte Walker), to retain custody of Millie's daughter, Connie (Anita Louise). Focusing on her career, she rises through the hierarchy of the hotel where she is employed, shunning the attention of the rich banker, Jimmy Damier (John Halliday), preferring the attentions of the reporter, Tommy Rock (Robert Ames), although, due to her prior sour relationship, refuses to marry. Eventually, Millie is promoted to the head of operations for the hotel. At the same time, Tommy is offered a lucrative position at the bank by Damier, as a favor to Millie. However, at the celebration party, Millie discovers that Tommy, just like Maitland, is cheating on her.
Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)
, 1h13Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance, Western
Actors Helen Kane, Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Erwin, Frank Morgan, Louise Closser Hale
Roles Bob Dawes
Rating48%
Helen Kane takes the lead role and stars as Dangerous Nan Mcgrew, an entertainer in a travelling medicine show run by her boss. Muldoon one of the members of the medicine show is a fugitive who is on the run from a murder charge. Its up to Dangerous Nan Mcgrew the Sharpshooting singer to save the day. The medicine show gets stranded at a snowbound hunting lodge of a wealthy woman. Performing at a Christmas Eve show for the lodge guests, the saxophone playing nephew of the landlady falls in love with Nan. Enter the villain, a bank robber (how did he get through the snow?).
Divorce Among Friends (1930)
, 1h5Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Lew Cody, James Hall, Natalie Moorhead, Edward Martindel, Margaret Seddon, Bess Flowers
Roles George Morris
Rating53%
George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul Wilcox, who is in love with Helen. By the end of the party, however, George and Helen have reconciled yet again. Soon after, George meets Joan Whitley and loses a lighter which his wife has given him; Whitley drives off with it. When Helen throws a party, Joan, who is an old friend of Helen, arrives. When Helen introduces Joan to George, they pretend not to know each other. George pleads with Joan to return his lighter. She agrees to meet him later in the library and if he is nice to her she will give him back the lighter.
Hell's Angels (1930)
, 2h7Directed by James Whale, Howard Hughes, Jr., Edmund Goulding, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, James Hall, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Jane Winton
Roles Roy Rutledge
Rating72%
Roy (James Hall) and Monte Rutledge (Ben Lyon) are very different British brothers. Strait-laced Roy loves and idealizes the apparently demure Helen (Jean Harlow). Monte, on the other hand, is a womanizer. Their German friend and fellow Oxford student Karl (John Darrow) is against the idea of having to fight England when World War I breaks out.
Let's Go Native (1930)
, 1h17Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, James Hall, E. H. Calvert, William Austin
Roles Wally Wendell
Rating57%
Paramount on Parade (1930)
, 1h42Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Brower, Rowland V. Lee, Dorothy Arzner, Victor Schertzinger, Frank Tuttle, A. Edward Sutherland, Edmund Goulding, Victor Heerman, Lothar Mendes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jean Arthur, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, Evelyn Brent, Mary Brian, Nancy Carroll
Rating58%
Plusieurs épisodes de music-hall mis en scène par 11 réalisateurs hollywoodiens.
The Third Alarm (1930)
, 1h19Directed by Emory Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Anita Louise, James Hall, Paul Hurst, Jean Hersholt, Hobart Bosworth, Mary Doran
Roles Dan
Rating32%
À la caserne n° 8, un des pompiers les plus chevronnés est Frank "Dad" Morton. Morton est veuf, il essaie d'élever ses deux enfants, Milly et Jimmy. Les enfants adorent traîner dans la caserne et ils apprécient plus particulièrement les pompiers Dan et Beauty. Lors d'une intervention, Morton meurt en combattant les flammes. Dan et Beauty, eux, voudraient adopter les enfants mais, comme ils sont célibataires, leur proposition échoue. Les enfants se rendent à l'orphelinat. Les deux pompiers décident de se marier pour pouvoir adopter les enfants.
Maybe It's Love (1930)
, 1h14Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, American football films, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown, James Hall, Sumner Getchell, George Irving, Anders Randolf
Roles Tommy
Rating50%
George Irving, the president of Upton college is in serious danger of losing his job. For the last twelve years Upton has lost the football match against Parsons college. The trustees of Upton insist that Irving must resign if Upton fails to win the upcoming football match. Joan Bennett, who is Irving's daughter, overhears the threat of the trustees and tells her friend Joe E. Brown, who is a star football player. Together they come up with a scheme to get some of the best football players around to sign up to play for Upton. Bennett completely changes her appearance to vamp the various men into thinking she will be interested in them if they attend Upton in the following season and play for the football team. One by one they all fall for the scheme and sign up for Upton. Irving, however, refuses to admit James Hall into the college because of his poor performance in academics. Because of the coach's insistence on needing him to win the game, Bennett helps Hall sign up under a fictitious name and credentials. All is well until Hall finds out about Bennett scheme and tells the rest of the team. Just before the game, the Upton team pretends to be drunk in order to teach Bennett a lesson. Just as the game is about to begin, the team decides to forgive Bennett and they win the game for Upton.
The Saturday Night Kid (1929)
, 1h3Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Edna May Oliver, Charles Sellon, Irving Bacon
Roles William Taylor
Rating58%
Set in May 1929, the film focuses on two sisters - Mayme (Clara Bow) and Janie (Jean Arthur) - as they share an apartment in New York City. In daytime, they work as salesgirls at the Ginsberg's department store, and at night they fee for the attention of their colleague Bill (James Hall) and fight over Janie's selfish and reckless behavior, such as stealing Mayme's clothes and hitchhiking to work with strangers. Bill prefers Mayme over Janie and constantly shows his affection for her. This upsets Janie, who schemes to break up the couple.
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
, 1h22Directed by Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors William Powell, Louise Brooks, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Charles Lane, Charles Lane
Roles Jimmy Spottswoode
Rating58%
Charles Spotswoode's son Jimmy became involved with "the Canary", a conniving star showgirl. Fortunately, Jimmy has regained his senses and reconciled with Alyce LaFosse. However, the Canary is determined to force Jimmy to marry her so she can join the social elite, threatening to reveal that Jimmy was embezzling from his father. She turns down the elder Spotswoode's offer of money to leave Jimmy alone. She also telephones two men she has been blackmailing, Cleaver and Mannix, and demands one final generous gift from each of them by the next day. She also informs "creepy" admirer Dr. Lindquist. Her ex-husband Tony Sheel eavesdrops and wants half, but she refuses to give him anything, even after he hits her. Cleaver, Mannix and Lindquist are all shown lurking about her apartment building late that night.
Smiling Irish Eyes (1929)
, 1h30Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Colleen Moore, James Hall, Robert Homans, Claude Gillingwater, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Aggie Herring
Roles Rory O'More
Rating45%
Rory O'More leaves his sweetheart Kathleen O'Connor back in the old country while he travels to America to establish himself. He is a musician, and hopes to make it big. Kathleen grows tired of waiting and travels to America, only to find him on stage performing "their" song and kissing another woman. Kathleen returns to Ireland, followed by Rory, who explains everything. In the end they wed and return to America.
This Is Heaven (1929)
, 1h30Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Vilma Bánky, James Hall, Fritzi Ridgeway, Lucien Littlefield, Richard Tucker
Roles James Stackpoole
Rating27%
The Case of Lena Smith (1929)
, 4minutesDirected by Josef von Sternberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Esther Ralston, James Hall, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Emily Fitzroy, Fred Kohler, Lawrence Grant
Roles Franz Hofrat
Rating62%
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, simple peasant girl Lena Smith falls in love with young aristocrat Franz Hofrat. They are secretly married, despite intense pressure from Hofrat's aristocratic family, and Lena has Franz's child. Slowly but surely, Lena's good nature and unbounded optimism are crushed and shattered by the merciless juggernaut of class consciousness and public opinion, leading to tragedy. Her husband was jailed for the murder of his brother. Lena met Horan Duwent who promised her a life of wonder, pure happiness. But sadly nothing prevailed, he was not a man of his word and 2 years later Lena took her own life. Crushed by the man she finally felt loved and adored by after so many years of troth and sadness.
Four Sons (1928)
, 1h40Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about immigration, Political films, Children's films
Actors James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., George Meeker, June Collyer
Roles Joseph - Her son
Rating71%
Mother Bernle is a widow in Bavaria with four sons: Franz, Johann, Andreas and Joseph.