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May Boley is a Actor American born on 29 may 1881
May (Blossom) Boley, née le 29 mai 1881 à Washington (district de Columbia) et morte le 7 janvier 1963 à Los Angeles (quartier d'Hollywood, Californie), est une actrice américaine.
Au cinéma, elle apparaît dans trente-quatre films américains entre 1928 et 1941 (La Folle Alouette de Mark Sandrich, avec Claudette Colbert et Ray Milland). Entretemps, mentionnons Jim le harponneur de Lloyd Bacon (1930, avec John Barrymore et Joan Bennett), le western L'Attaque de la caravane d'Otto Brower et David Burton (1931, avec Gary Cooper et Lily Damita), Le Mouchard de John Ford (1935, avec Victor McLaglen et Heather Angel), ou encore Cette nuit est notre nuit d'Anatole Litvak (1937, avec Claudette Colbert et Charles Boyer).
Définitivement retirée après La Folle Alouette précitée, May Boley meurt à Hollywood en 1963, à 81 ans.
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Très active au théâtre, May Boley joue notamment à Broadway (New York), où elle débute en 1898 dans l'opérette The Fortune Teller de Victor Herbert et joue régulièrement (principalement dans des comédies musicales) jusqu'en 1926. Puis elle se produit une dernière fois à Broadway en 1935-1936, dans la comédie musicale Jubilee de Cole Porter et Moss Hart, avec Mary Boland et Melville Cooper dans les rôles principaux.Au cinéma, elle apparaît dans trente-quatre films américains entre 1928 et 1941 (La Folle Alouette de Mark Sandrich, avec Claudette Colbert et Ray Milland). Entretemps, mentionnons Jim le harponneur de Lloyd Bacon (1930, avec John Barrymore et Joan Bennett), le western L'Attaque de la caravane d'Otto Brower et David Burton (1931, avec Gary Cooper et Lily Damita), Le Mouchard de John Ford (1935, avec Victor McLaglen et Heather Angel), ou encore Cette nuit est notre nuit d'Anatole Litvak (1937, avec Claudette Colbert et Charles Boyer).
Définitivement retirée après La Folle Alouette précitée, May Boley meurt à Hollywood en 1963, à 81 ans.
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Skylark (1941)
, 1h32Directed by Mark Sandrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel, Grant Mitchell
Roles La femme corpulente dans le métro
Rating61%
Lydia Kenyon (Claudette Colbert) feels she is neglected and treated insensitively by her husband, Tony (Ray Milland), on their fifth wedding anniversary. She meets a lawyer, Jim Blake (Brian Aherne), and though she eventually divorces her husband, and nearly marries the young lawyer instead, in a moment of crisis she realises she loves her husband, and returns to him.
Kitty Foyle (1940)
, 1h48Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Doodles Weaver, Ernest Cossart
Roles Fainting Customer (uncredited)
Rating68%
Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers), a saleswoman in a New York boutique working for Delphine Detaille (Odette Myrtil), faces a life-changing decision: marry doctor Mark Eisen (James Craig) or run away to South America with the man she has loved for many years, the already-married Wyn Strafford (Dennis Morgan). As she wrestles with her decision, the film flashes back to her youth in Philadelphia.
Lady with Red Hair (1940)
, 1h18Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Laura Hope Crews, Helen Westley, John Litel
Roles Mrs. Peabody (uncredited)
Rating62%
When Caroline Carter is divorced by her wealthy husband, she also loses custody of her son Dudley in the proceedings. Down on the ground she decides to win her fortune and son back. She leaves Chicago for New York to become an actress and tries to get acquainted to the theatrical producer David Belasco.
Henry Goes Arizona (1939)
, 1h6Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Western
Actors Frank Morgan, Virginia Weidler, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, Owen Gould Davis, Jr., Douglas Fowley
Roles Henry's Landlady (uncredited)
Rating59%
Henry, un acteur new-yorkais déchu, hérite d'un ranch de son frère assassiné, Jim. Ce ranch, situé juste à l'extérieur de Tonto City en Arizona, est convoité par Ricky Dole et sa bande…
The Women (1939)
, 2h14Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine
Roles Mud Mask (uncredited)
Rating76%
The Women follows the lives of Manhattan women, focusing in particular on Mary Haines (Norma Shearer), the cheerful, contented wife of Stephen and mother of Little Mary (Virginia Weidler). After a bit of gossip flies around the salon these wealthy women visit, Mary's cousin Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) goes to a Salon to get the newest, exclusive nail color: Jungle Red. She learns from a manicurist that Mary's husband has been having an affair with a predatory perfume counter girl named Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). A notorious gossip, Sylvia delights in sharing the news with Mary's friends; she sets up Mary with an appointment with the same manicurist so that she hears the rumor about Stephen's infidelity.
Persons in Hiding (1939)
, 1h10Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lynne Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, William Henry, Judith Barrett, Helen Twelvetrees
Roles Mme. Thompson
Rating63%
Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
, 1h17Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Western
Themes Sports films, Musical films
Actors Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Priscilla Lane, Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Dick Foran
Roles Mrs. Krinkenheim
Rating57%
Singer Elly Jordan, a Brooklyn man who is terrified of animals, ends up broke along with his two musical partners at Hardy's Dude Ranch in Two Bits, Wyoming. The Hardys, Ma and Pop, daughter Jane and son Jeff, hire the men to play for the dudes. Sam Thorne, Jane's self-appointed boyfriend, ranch cowhand and amateur crooner, is jealous of Jane's interest in Elly. Elly is so successful as a cowboy singer, that when theatrical agent Ray Chadwick arrives at the ranch on a vacation and hears him, he signs Elly immediately. Chadwick thinks that Elly is a real cowboy and Jane coaches him to talk like one. In spite of his fear of animals, he gets away with the deception. He makes a successful screen test as a cowboy, using the name Wyoming Steve Gibson, but he and Chadwick, who now knows the truth, fear that the deception will be revealed when the movie people arrive in New York from Hollywood with Elly's contract.
Letter of Introduction (1938)
, 1h44Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, George Murphy, Rita Johnson, Ann Sheridan, Eve Arden
Roles Mrs. Meggs - the Landlady (uncredited)
Rating60%
An aging actor, John Mannering, is surprised when his estranged daughter, Kay Martin, shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He is persuaded to perform on Broadway for the first time in twelve years in a play with her. He is very nervous and turns to alcohol to overcome his problems. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Prison Farm (1938)
, 1h7Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Shirley Ross, Lloyd Nolan, John Howard, J. Carrol Naish, Porter Hall, Esther Dale
Roles 'Shifty' Sue
Rating61%
Tovarich (1937)
, 1h38Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper, Morris Carnovsky
Roles Louise
Rating70%
Russian Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff (Charles Boyer) and his wife, Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna (Claudette Colbert) flee from the Russian Revolution to Paris with the Czar's fortune, which he has entrusted to them for safekeeping. They keep the money in a bank, faithfully refusing to spend any of it for themselves. Then, destitute, they are forced to take jobs under false identities as butler and maid in the household of wealthy Charles Dupont (Melville Cooper), his wife Fermonde (Isabel Jeans), and their children, Helene (Anita Louise) and Georges (Maurice Murphy). After a shaky start, the servants gradually endear themselves to their employers. However, their secret is finally exposed when one of the guests at a dinner party, Soviet Commissar Gorotchenko (Basil Rathbone), recognises them.
Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
, 1h33Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ruby Keeler, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins, Louise Fazenda, Ross Alexander, Carol Hughes
Roles Mrs. Beadle
Rating58%
Without Orders (1936)
, 1h4Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Sally Eilers, Robert Armstrong, Charley Grapewin, Ward Bond, Vinton Hayworth, Frank M. Thomas
Roles Mrs. Maddy Overhose
Rating62%
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick (Vinton Haworth) lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick (Charley Grapewin) who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong (Sally Eilers) who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison (Robert Armstrong). Len dates her sister Penny (Frances Sage) who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
The Informer (1935)
, 1h30Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor
Roles Madame Betty
Rating73%
In 1922 Dublin, Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) has been kicked out of the outlaw Irish Republican Army (IRA) for not executing a Black and Tan who killed an IRA man. He becomes angry when he sees his streetwalker girlfriend Katie Madden (Margot Grahame) trying to pick up a customer. After he throws the man into the street, Katie laments that she does not have £10 for passage to America to start afresh.
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
, 1h25Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Comedy
Actors Wallace Beery, Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Bruce, Rochelle Hudson, Janet Beecher, Tammany Young
Roles J. P. Skiff
Rating65%
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
, 1h7Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart, Jean Dixon, Donald Cook
Roles Busybody in Courtroom
Rating64%
A lawyer (Morgan) fears his own wife (Carroll) might be having an affair while he defends a cuckolded wife-killer.