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Arthur Shields (15 February 1896 - 27 April 1970) was an Irish stage and film actor.
Born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, he started acting in the Abbey Theatre when still a young man. He was the younger brother of actor Barry Fitzgerald. An Irish nationalist, he fought in the Easter Uprising of 1916. He was captured and was interned in Frongoch, North Wales. He afterwards returned to the Abbey theatre. In 1936 John Ford brought him to the United States to act in a film version of The Plough and the Stars.
He later returned to the U.S. and for health reasons, he decided to reside in California. He died at his home in Santa Barbara, California, aged 74.
Some of his memorable roles were in John Ford films. Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Ford's The Quiet Man, opposite John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald. He played Dr. Laughlin in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with Wayne and Joanne Dru, and appeared yet again with Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Ford's Long Voyage Home. His other films include: Little Nellie Kelly, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Fabulous Dorseys, Gallant Journey, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Drums Along the Mohawk, Lady Godiva, National Velvet and The River.
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05 June 1947
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter.
07 March 1947
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
26 February 1949
A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
31 January 1945
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
25 August 1948
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict.
08 May 1942
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
12 October 1953
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home.
28 January 1951
An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.
04 January 1947
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office.
23 November 1946
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
10 November 1942
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
11 May 1944
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance.
10 November 1939
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
01 September 1951
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
26 September 1941
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers.
21 July 1952
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
04 December 1942
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers.
28 August 1942
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
30 April 1954
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
10 August 1950
Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who loved family and church, gave to the needy, and donated most of his money to charity.
19 June 1962
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
01 July 1948
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.
28 October 1941
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change.
02 November 1955
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.
01 December 1943
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling.
30 September 1949
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess.
01 September 1944
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
21 May 1942
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
22 October 1949
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack.
16 December 1943
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab.
25 March 1949
Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous snake--the deadly swamp adder.
14 November 1942
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
26 January 1945
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family.
19 May 1951
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes.
10 September 1951
Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force.
17 May 1953
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba.
21 December 1956
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
16 November 1940
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II.
09 June 1945
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action.
24 October 1941
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways.
03 December 1951
Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community.
03 May 1945
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill.
01 December 1945
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
07 April 1952
Two down-on-their-luck loafers take a job babysitting, with a bedtime story of the titular tale turning into a wacky Abbott and Costello-faced musical retelling involving stolen cows, terrible giants, and the heroic boy with an opportunistic butcher in a castle above the clouds.
09 November 1946
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together.
27 June 1953
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war.
23 June 1950
The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village.
12 May 1942
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch.
25 December 1932
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
31 May 1943
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
12 December 1941
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
15 December 1944
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese.
29 March 1945
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
04 August 1943
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
31 January 1954
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
24 September 1946
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.
31 October 1949
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
26 December 1936
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
01 April 1951
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
02 October 1956
Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life at home in Bayport dull, the boys hope their father will let them work on one of his cases.
