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John Boles (October 28, 1895 – February 27, 1969) was an American singer and actor best known for playing Victor Moritz in the 1931 film Frankenstein. He started out in Hollywood in silent movies, but became a huge star with the advent of talkies. After the war, Boles moved to New York to study music. He quickly became well known for his talents and was selected to replace the leading man in the 1923 Broadway musical Little Jesse James. He became an established star on Broadway and attracted the attention of Hollywood producers and actors.
Boles' Broadway credits include One Touch of Venus (1943), Kitty's Kisses (1925), Mercenary Mary (1924), and Little Jessie James (1923).
He was hired by MGM to appear in a silent film in 1924. He starred in two more films for that studio before returning to New York and the stage. In 1927, he returned to Hollywood to star in The Love of Sunya (1927) opposite Gloria Swanson, which was a big success for him. Unfortunately, because the movies were still silent he was unable to show off his singing ability until late in the decade. In 1929, Warner Brothers hired him to star in their lavish musical operetta The Desert Song (1929). This film featured sequences in Technicolor and was a box-office success. Soon after, Radio Pictures (later known as RKO) selected him to play the leading man in their extravagant production (the last portion of the film was photographed in Technicolor) of Rio Rita, opposite Bebe Daniels. Audiences were enthralled by his beautiful voice, and John Boles suddenly found himself in huge demand. RCA Victor even hired him to make phonograph records of songs that he had sung in his films.
As soon as Rio Rita was completed, Boles went back to Warner Brothers as the leading man in an even more extravagant musical entitled Song of the West (1930) that was filmed entirely in Technicolor. Shortly after this film, Universal Pictures offered John Boles a contract, which he accepted. He starred in a number of pictures for them, most notably the all-Technicolor musical revue entitled The King of Jazz (1930) and a historical operetta entitled Captain of the Guard (1930). In 1931, he starred in One Heavenly Night (1931), which would prove to be his last major musical.
Boles portrayed Victor Moritz in Frankenstein (1931). He starred with Irene Dunne in a 1934 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence directed for RKO Radio Pictures by Philip Moeller, and took the role of Edward Morgan in Curly Top (1935), starring Shirley Temple In 1937, Boles starred alongside Barbara Stanwyck in the King Vidor classic Stella Dallas. In 1943, he co-starred with Mary Martin and Kenny Baker in One Touch of Venus.
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27 January 1931
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to.
08 June 1934
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there.
10 April 1936
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
04 June 1928
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
15 September 1929
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, though he suspects that her brother is the bandit.
12 April 1934
Three smart film-flammers help a homeless little girl to love and happiness by making monkeys out of Hollywood's big movie moguls.
12 December 1931
Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.
14 May 1931
Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children.
11 February 1933
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan.
25 December 1930
A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
10 November 1928
When a gangster's speakeasy is raided by the police, one of the people picked up is the gangster's pretty young girlfriend.
27 November 1937
Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which prompts Toni to seek retribution in divorce court.
11 March 1927
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
21 November 1931
Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.
02 April 1932
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
15 October 1932
The victim of a political assassination is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
04 September 1942
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
05 November 1937
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
09 January 1936
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union.
04 May 1934
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression.
08 April 1929
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert.
14 June 1934
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
19 December 1941
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
26 July 1935
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr.
28 September 1935
Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon with an orchestra playing, all sorts of stars and would-be stars sitting at tables near the pool alongside paying customers, and bathing beauties parading and diving.
13 December 1934
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
09 September 1928
The man who loved her showed her how to hold the man she loved. A novel picture story packed with drama, thrills and laughs.
27 April 1929
1929 picture starring Laura La Plante, Huntley Gordon, and John Boles.
06 August 1937
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
15 March 1930
Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited for a court martial.
01 November 1933
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk.
13 September 1943
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter.
28 March 1930
In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's symbolic leader.
22 January 1934
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
19 May 1938
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping.
09 April 1934
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune.
19 January 1925
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
01 June 1924
John Brant, a devoted minister, is in love with Marian Calhoun, but must keep it a secret because she is engaged to Robert Fields.
06 May 1928
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H.
14 September 1934
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
01 January 1928
David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways.
20 April 1930
A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early sound-era “all-star” musical productions.
07 September 1935
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
11 September 1936
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
04 August 1932
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
27 December 1935
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested.
09 May 1937
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
09 August 1935
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
25 December 1928
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
25 August 1928
Judith Endicott, the daughter of a wealthy eastern banker, vamps Philip Randolph, an Arizonan, when he comes east to talk business with her father.
28 April 1934
Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs.
01 January 1928
Silent romantic drama follows a couple as they make their way through the sheer scale of the Grand Canyon and the treacherous river rapids.
07 December 1952
The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
26 November 1924
After five years of marriage, Beth and Peter Marsh's life together is a series of rows and reconciliations.
25 September 1936
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
24 March 1938
A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.
16 November 1934
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade.
25 July 1928
In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel.
04 November 1933
In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money.
12 April 1935
Part of the Screen Snapshots series.
