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Pert Kelton is a Actor American born on 14 october 1907 at Great Falls (USA)

Pert Kelton

Pert Kelton
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 october 1907 at Great Falls (USA)
Death 30 october 1968 (at 61 years) at Ridgewood (USA)

Pert Kelton (October 14, 1907 – October 29, 1968) was an American vaudeville, movie, radio and television actress. She was the first actress who played Alice Kramden in The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason and was a prominent comedic supporting film actress in the 1930s. She performed in a dozen Broadway productions between 1925 and 1968. However, her career was interrupted during the 1950s as a result of blacklisting.

Biography


Pert Kelton entame sa carrière d'actrice au théâtre et débute à Broadway (New York) dans deux comédies musicales, Sunny sur une musique de Jerome Kern (1925-1926, avec Marilyn Miller et Clifton Webb), puis The Five O'Clock Girl sur une musique d'Harry Ruby (1927-1928, avec Mary Eaton). Suivent l'opérette La Comtesse Dubarry sur une musique de Karl Millöcker (1932-1933, avec Nana Bryant dans le rôle-titre), puis une revue en 1940.

Toujours à Broadway, elle joue ensuite dans sept pièces à partir de 1942, dont Come Blow Your Horn de Neil Simon (1961-1962, avec Lou Jacobi et Hal March), Sortie des artistes d'Edwin O'Connor (1964, avec Orson Bean et Burgess Meredith) ; la septième est Spofford d'Herman Shumlin (avec Melvyn Douglas dans le rôle-titre et Barbara Britton), représentée du 14 décembre 1967 au 8 juin 1968 (elle meurt brusquement d'une crise cardiaque à peine plus de quatre mois plus tard, à 61 ans).

Enfin, elle participe encore sur les planches new-yorkaises à deux autres comédies musicales, The Music Man sur une musique de Meredith Willson (1957-1961, avec Robert Preston et Barbara Cook) et Greenwillow sur une musique de Frank Loesser (1960, avec Anthony Perkins et Cecil Kellaway).

Au cinéma, Pert Kelton apparaît dans trente-quatre films américains (principalement au cours des années 1930), depuis Sally de John Francis Dillon (1929, avec Marilyn Miller et Alexander Gray) jusqu'à The Comic de Carl Reiner (1969, avec Dick Van Dyke et Michele Lee), sorti plus d'un an après son décès.

Entretemps, mentionnons Les Faubourgs de New York de Raoul Walsh (1933, avec Wallace Beery et George Raft), La Gloire du cirque de George Stevens (1935, avec Barbara Stanwyck et Preston Foster) et The Music Man de Morton DaCosta, adaptation de la comédie musicale éponyme précitée (son antépénultième film, 1962, où Robert Preston et elle reprennent leurs rôles respectifs, celui tenu par Barbara Cook étant repris par Shirley Jones).

Enfin, à la télévision américaine, Pert Kelton contribue à deux téléfilms (diffusés respectivement en 1959 et 1965) et onze séries (1951-1968), dont Cavalcade of Stars (six épisodes, 1951-1952) et La Quatrième Dimension (un épisode, 1963).

Best films

Sally (1930)
(Actress)

Usually with

Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner
(1 films)
Pierre Watkin
Pierre Watkin
(3 films)
Max Steiner
Max Steiner
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Pert Kelton (24 films)

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Actress

The Comic
The Comic (1969)
, 1h34
Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about television
Actors Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Michele Lee, Cornel Wilde, Nina Wayne, Pert Kelton
Roles Mama
Rating63% 3.196873.196873.196873.196873.19687
Billy Bright (Dick Van Dyke), a silent-era film comedian, narrates this film which begins at his character's funeral in 1969 and tells his life story in flashbacks, unable to see his own faults and morosely (and incorrectly) blaming others for the turns of the events in his life.
Love and Kisses, 1h27
Directed by Ozzie Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Rick Nelson, Jack Kelly, Kristin Harmon, Jerry Van Dyke, Pert Kelton, Howard McNear
Roles Nanny
Rating65% 3.276993.276993.276993.276993.27699
On the day he graduates from high school, Buzzy Pringle (Ricky Nelson) secretly marries his girlfriend Rosemary (Kristin Nelson), whom he met at school and who still has to do another year because she has failed French. Buzzy's family are horrified on hearing the news of their wedding, especially as Buzzy, unable to care for Rosemary, suggests that for the time being he and his wife live in his old room in the Pringles' suburban home. At first Buzzy's parents suspect that Rosemary must be pregnant, but it soon turns out that neither of them has had sex before. It falls on Buzzy's father (Jack Kelly) to have a man-to-man talk with his son on the latter's wedding night and to tell him all there is to know about the birds and the bees.
The Music Man, 2h31
Directed by Morton DaCosta
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton
Roles Mrs. Paroo
Rating76% 3.8468353.8468353.8468353.8468353.846835
In July 1912, a traveling salesman, "Professor" Harold Hill (Robert Preston), arrives in the fictional location of River City, Iowa, intrigued by the challenge of swindling the famously stubborn natives of Iowa ("Iowa Stubborn"). Masquerading as a traveling band instructor, Professor Hill plans to con the citizens of River City into paying him to create a boys' marching band, including instruments, uniforms, and music instruction. Once he has collected the money and the instruments and uniforms have arrived, he will hop the next train out of town, leaving them without their money or a band.
You Can't Take It with You, 2h6
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller
Roles une jeune femme à la prison
Rating77% 3.8974953.8974953.8974953.8974953.897495
Successful banker Anthony P. Kirby (Edward Arnold) has just returned from Washington, D.C., where he was effectively granted a government-sanctioned munitions monopoly, which will make him very rich. He intends to buy up a 12-block radius around a competitor's factory to put him out of business, but there is one house that is a holdout to selling. Kirby instructs his real estate broker, John Blakely (Clarence Wilson), to offer a huge sum for the house, and if that is not accepted, to cause trouble for the family.
Rhythm of the Saddle, 55minutes
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Western
Themes Musical films
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Pert Kelton, Peggy Moran, LeRoy Mason, Arthur Loft
Roles Aunt Hattie
Rating60% 3.0036353.0036353.0036353.0036353.003635
The owner of the Silver Shadow ranch, Maureen McClune (Peggy Moran), runs the Frontier Week rodeo every year, relying on the financial success of the event to support the ranch. The current rodeo is the most profitable in the event's history, but Maureen is told by the rodeo organizers that she must do even better if she hopes to get her contract renewed. Maureen's main competition is Jack Pomeroy (LeRoy Mason), who owns a rival ranch and a local nightclub and gambling house.
Slander House, 1h5
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Adrienne Ames, Craig Reynolds, Esther Ralston, George Meeker, Pert Kelton, Edward Keane
Roles Mazie Mason
Rating53% 2.692532.692532.692532.692532.69253
Differences from novel Scandal House
Meet the Boy Friend, 1h3
Directed by Ralph Staub
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Warren Hymer, Robert Paige, Carol Hughes, Pert Kelton, Andrew Tombes, Gwili Andre
Roles Beulah Potts
Rating55% 2.780442.780442.780442.780442.78044
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
Cain and Mabel, 1h30
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns, Walter Catlett, Robert Paige
Roles Toddy Williams
Rating63% 3.198573.198573.198573.198573.19857
Waitress-turned-Broadway star Mabel O'Dare (Marion Davies) and garage-mechanic-turned-prize fighter Larry Cain (Clark Gable) dislike each other intensely, but press agent Aloysius K. Reilly (Roscoe Karns) cooks up a phony romance between them for publicity. Inevitably, the two fall in love for real, and plan on getting married, with Mabel quitting show business to be a housewife and Cain quitting the fight racket to run garages in New Jersey.
Kelly the Second, 1h10
Directed by Gus Meins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films
Actors Patsy Kelly, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Charley Chase, Pert Kelton, Edward Brophy, Harold Huber
Roles Gloria
Rating58% 2.9081652.9081652.9081652.9081652.908165
A feisty Irishwoman named Molly Kelly (Patsy Kelly) helps a truck driver named Cecil Callahan (Guinn Williams) to become a professional boxer.
Annie Oakley, 1h30
Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Circus films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Pert Kelton, Andy Clyde
Roles Vera Delmar
Rating65% 3.2964753.2964753.2964753.2964753.296475
In late 1800s Ohio, a young woman from the backwoods, Annie Oakley (Stanwyck) delivers six dozen quail she has shot to the owner of the general store. He sends them to the MacIvor hotel in Cincinnati, where the mayor is holding a large banquet in honor of Toby Walker (Foster), the "greatest shot in the whole world". Walker is particular about what he eats–the hotel owner (James MacIvor, played by Andy Clyde) bought Oakley's quail because she shoots the quail cleanly through the head, leaving no buckshot elsewhere.