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Louis Adlon is a Actor born on 7 october 1907 at Berlin (German)
Louis Adlon (7 October 1907 – 31 March 1947), a.k.a. Duke Adlon, was a German-born American motion-picture actor.
Adlon became a war correspondent for International News Service during the war, and was married to Rose Douras Davies, sister of actress Marion Davies. He died of a heart attack following a trip to Mexico. Originally interred in the Douras Family Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, he was removed and buried in front of the mausoleum in March 1951.
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Louis Adlon
Biography
A supporting actor and bit player from Germany, in Hollywood from the late-1930s. Adlon was the grandson of Lorenz Adlon, founder of the famous Adlon Hotel in Berlin, where he spent much of his childhood. Although his Hollywood screen roles were minuscule at best, Adlon later gained fame as the main character of the 1997 semi-documentary In The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel, written and directed by his nephew, German cult director Percy Adlon.Adlon became a war correspondent for International News Service during the war, and was married to Rose Douras Davies, sister of actress Marion Davies. He died of a heart attack following a trip to Mexico. Originally interred in the Douras Family Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, he was removed and buried in front of the mausoleum in March 1951.
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The Big Show-Off (1945)
, 1h19Directed by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Arthur Lake, Dale Evans, Lionel Stander, George Meeker, Paul Hurst, Louis Adlon
Roles Muckenfuss
Rating56%
Nightclub pianist Sandy Elliott is madly in love with nightclub singer June Mayfield, who ignores his existence, preferring the obnoxious Wally Porter, the nightclub emcee. Sandy follows June to discover to his disgust that she is a big fan of professional wrestling. Sandy's friend Joe the night club owner decides to make the shy Sandy attractive to June by paying a thug to disrupt June's singing, then being thrown out by Sandy. Joe adds fuel to June's new, smoldering love for Sandy by making her promise not to tell a secret: that Sandy is really the masked wrestler known as "The Devil".
Counter-Attack (1945)
, 1h30Directed by Zoltan Korda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks, Roman Bohnen, George Macready, Ludwig Donath
Roles Huebsch
Rating67%
In 1942, both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are gathering forces and supplies in one particular sector of the Eastern Front for a major attack. The Soviets are secretly constructing a bridge at night over a river. To avoid detection, it is being built underwater, just below the surface.
, 1h10Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Arthur Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan, Louis Adlon, Don Porter, Craig Stevens, George Dolenz
Roles Major Franz Kohmer (uncredited)
Rating67%
The movie centers around efforts by German intelligence to find the target of an upcoming raid by the mythical "B-99 bomber." To achieve this end, they interrogate a recently shot-down air crew.
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
, 2h6Directed by Raoul Walsh, Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene
Rating69%
An American oil tanker mastered by Capt. Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) is sunk in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat. He and the first officer, his friend Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart), make it to a lifeboat along with other crewmen. When the U-boat crew starts filming their plight they respond with rude gestures and are rammed. The men swim to a raft and are rescued after 11 days adrift.
Sahara (1943)
, 1h37Directed by Zoltan Korda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Frederick Worlock, Lloyd Bridges, J. Carrol Naish, Dan Duryea
Rating74%
The crew of an M3 Lee tank, attached to the British Eighth Army, commanded by U.S. Army Master Sergeant Joe Gunn (Humphrey Bogart), and nicknamed Lulu Belle, become separated from their unit during a general retreat from German forces after the fall of Tobruk. Heading south across the Libyan desert to rejoin their command, they come across a bombed-out field hospital, where they pick up a motley collection of stragglers, among them British doctor Captain Halliday (Richard Nugent), four Commonwealth soldiers, and Free French Corporal Leroux (Louis Mercier). Halliday, the only officer, cedes command to Gunn.
My Favorite Spy (1942)
, 1h31Directed by Tay Garnett, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre
Themes Spy films
Actors Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman, Robert Armstrong, William Demarest, Helen Westley, Una O'Connor
Rating56%
Une mission secrète oblige un chef d'orchestre à reporter sa lune de miel.
Mystery Sea Raider (1940)
, 1h13Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon, Onslow Stevens, Kathleen Howard, Henry Victor, Roland Varno
Roles Lerner
Rating64%