West Point (Sedgwick) (as Betty Channing) Rose-Marie (Hubbard) (title role) Across to Singapore (Nigh) (as Priscilla Crowninshield) The Law of the Range (Nigh) (as Betty Dallas) Four Walls (Nigh) (as Frieda) Our Dancing Daughters (Beaumont) (as Diana Medford) Dream of Love (Niblo) (as Adrienne) 1929 The Taxi Dancer (Millarde) (as Joslyn Poe) Winners of the Wilderness (Van Dyke) (as Renee Contrecoeur) The Understanding Heart (Conway) (as Monica Dale) The Unknown (Browning) (as Estrellita) Twelve Miles Out (Conway) (as Jane) Spring Fever (Sedgwick) (as Allie Monte) 1928 The Boob (Wellman) (as Jane) Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (Edwards and Capra) (as Betty Burton) Paris (Goulding) (as the Girl) 1927 The Circle (Borzage) (as young Lady Catharine) Old Clothes (Cline) (as Mary Riley) Sally, Irene, and Mary (Goulding) (as Irene) 1926 Lady of the Night (Bell) (as double for Norma Shearer) Proud Flesh (King Vidor) (as party guest) Pretty Ladies (Bell) (as Bobby) ![]() Awards: Best Actress Academy Award, for Mildred Pierce, 1945. ![]() Hush, Sweet Charlotte, replaced by Olivia de Havilland. Career: Took dancing lessons as a child, and became a dancer 1923-dancer at Oriole Terrace Club, Detroit 1924-in chorus of Broadway revue Innocent Eyes and The Passing Show of 1924 spotted by MGM talent scout 1925-contract with MGM, and given name " Joan Crawford," prize-winning name in movie magazine contest 1928-dancer in film Our Dancing Daughters 1929-first talkie, Untamed 1943-left MGM, signed with Warner Brothers occasional TV appearances from 1953 1955-after marriage to Alfred Steele, chairman of Pepsi-Cola Company, began making promotional appearances for company 1959-following death of Steele, became first woman member of company's board of directors, and later became company's official hostess and vice president 1964-suffered pneumonia while working on Hush. Family: Married 1) the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 1929 (divorced 1933) 2) the actor Franchot Tone, 1935 (divorced 1939) 3) Phillip Terry, 1942 (divorced 1946), adopted children: Christina, Christopher, Cynthia, and Cathy 4) Alfred N. Agnes School and Rockingham Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, for about three months. Born: Lucille LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, 23 March 1908 adopted name of stepfather, Cassin, as a child. Even today, the cold, dead eyes of the sinister dummy serve as nightmare fuel.Nationality: American. In the film’s climactic ending, we’re introduced to a story involving a ventriloquist dummy that set the stage for just about every inanimate-object-that’s-actually-alive film moving forward. Connecting five different stories from British filmmakers and a wrap-around, the film is a psychological creepfest and delivers what is arguably the best work of director Charles Crichton. Dead of Night (1945)īefore horror anthologies became a subgenre of its own, there was Ealing Studios’ Dead of Night. It’s moody, it’s creepy, and while it may not deliver the scares today like it did then, a rewatch showcases an influence that can still be felt. ![]() The Uninvited boasts high-caliber acting performances and, crucially, practical in-camera ghost effects that rely on lighting, sound, and wind machines. That’s a crime: It’s one of the titles that Guillermo del Toro cites as having a major impact on his own filmography. What is perhaps one of the first haunted-house films to treat ghosts as legitimate threats and sources of horror, the British-made flick has largely gone unnoticed by American audiences.
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