William K. Howard (1899–1954)
Auteur de Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: dga.org
Œuvres de William K. Howard
Evelyn Prentice [1934 film] 4 exemplaires
Vanessa: Her Love Story [1935 film] 1 exemplaire
The Cat and the Fiddle 1 exemplaire
Captain Fly-By-Night (Silent) 1 exemplaire
Fire over England (Digitally Remastered) [DVD] 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Carole Lombard - The Glamour Collection (Hands Across the Table/ Love Before Breakfast/ Man of the World/ The Princess… (2006) — Directeur — 25 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1899-06-16
- Date de décès
- 1954-02-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- St Marys, Ohio, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Cause du décès
- throat cancer
- Études
- Ohio State University (engineering law)
- Professions
- film director
soldier (US Army)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 71
- Popularité
- #245,552
- Évaluation
- 3.1
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 5
Lombard is Wanda Nash of Brooklyn, posing as a Swedish Princess, Olga. She’s heading for Hollywood by ocean liner to star in a film for Transcontinental Pictures. Alison Skipworth is her traveling companion, Lady Gertrude. A cabin mix-up has them meeting concertina player King Mantell (MacMurray) and his pal William Frawley, of I Love Lucy fame. There is an instant attraction between the two, but Lady Gertrude is afraid Wanda will slip up and ruin the charade if she and Mantell hook up. As she explains to Wanda: “No good ever comes from a concertina squeezer!”
An escaped murderer who is a master of disguise is on board the ship, but luckily for the captain, an international convention of police detectives, which includes Mischa Auer as a Russian cop, is along on the cruise as well. When a slimy blackmailer named Darcy ends up dead in Wanda’s cabin, the vulnerable Princess turns to King Mantell and his pal to get her out of the jam. King, on the verge of big success but with a bit of a shady past, throws caution to the wind.
Can any good come from a concertina player? It’s fun to find out in this somewhat tame but still very entertaining film. The sets are delicious and so is Lombard. The camera shows off her beauty while the story gives the down-to-earth Lombard a chance to poke a little good-natured fun at the `nose up in the air' variety of prestige star popular during the 1930s. A fun little film.… (plus d'informations)