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Ricardo Cortez (September 19, 1900 – April 28, 1977) was an American film actor who began his career during the silent film era.
Born Jacob Krantz in New York City into a Jewish family, he worked on Wall Street in a broker's office and as a boxer before his looks got him into the film business. Hollywood executives changed his name to Cortez to appeal to film-goers as a "Latin lover" to compete with such highly popular actors of the era as Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro and Antonio Moreno. When rumour began to circulate that Cortez was not actually Spanish, the studios tried to pass him off as a different type of Latin, French, before they finally admitted his (supposedly) Viennese origin.
Cortez appeared in over 100 films. He played opposite Joan Crawford in Montana Moon in 1930, played Sam Spade in the original The Maltese Falcon in 1931, co-starred with Charles Farrell and Bette Davis in The Big Shakedown and Wonder Bar (with Al Jolson and Dolores del Río) in 1934. He also played Perry Mason in the 1936 film The Case of the Black Cat. Although he began his career playing romantic leads with actresses like Greta Garbo, when sound cinema arrived, his powerful delivery and New York accent made him an ideal villain and conman, and he switched from sex symbol to character actor.
Cortez was married to silent film actress Alma Rubens until her death of pneumonia in 1931.
When he retired from the film business, Cortez went to work as a stockbroker for Solomon Brothers on New York's Wall Street. He died in New York City in 1977 and was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.
He was the older brother of noted cinematographer Stanley Cortez (born Stanislaus Krantz).
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13 December 1940
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
17 April 1942
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts.
05 May 1939
When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare.
17 January 1941
When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.
06 May 2003
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content.
16 August 1936
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
26 June 1942
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort.
03 November 1934
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette.
08 December 1932
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
29 April 1932
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested.
18 February 1924
While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.
01 June 1931
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
17 October 1926
Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.
03 November 1939
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
01 September 1950
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances.
13 January 1940
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
16 December 1923
Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover.
29 January 1936
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
12 October 1926
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career.
26 July 1934
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
14 February 1931
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
11 January 1936
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
24 March 1934
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros.
16 June 1939
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers).
24 July 1947
A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.
16 September 1932
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
10 June 1944
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney.
11 January 1936
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs.
30 November 1935
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
17 June 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit.
18 July 1937
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families.
28 November 1941
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
30 October 1937
American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
04 May 1925
In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him.
15 March 1931
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
21 September 1930
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
14 September 1935
A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper.
21 August 1948
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent.
27 June 1931
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
10 January 1960
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.
19 October 1933
When a married stockbroker falls in love with another woman, he becomes the prime suspect in his wife's accidental death.
26 December 1931
A gambler falls for a fake countess.
08 June 1924
William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collaborator, scenarist Clara Beranger, for the 7-reel silent The Bedroom Window.
30 December 1936
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
05 October 1939
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home.
19 February 1923
Two Army buddies, Dennis O'Shane and Johnny Day, decide to take their furlough in Paris but instead end up in Spain.
20 October 1929
A man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife.
28 March 1940
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
07 August 1946
A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
31 December 1958
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
03 September 1925
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
23 September 1942
Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost who runs a desert night club several miles away.
07 September 1925
Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she devours -- finds one prospect in an earnest denizen of the Bowery, and another in an elegant young aristocrat.
08 September 1933
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.
13 August 1927
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk.
16 October 1931
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
29 September 1934
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
23 May 1931
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
23 December 1933
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
20 December 1946
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
