Leads the ratings - It Happened All Right movie
Movie Premier in 1936.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Short, Comedy
Languages: English
Runtimes: 19
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: MET:520 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1
Release Dates: USA:15 May 1936
In movie played:
Tim Ryan (actor)
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Notes: Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Death Date: 22 October 1956
Spouse: 'Irene Ryan' (qv) (1922 - 1942) (divorced)
Birth Date: 5 July 1899
Irene Ryan (actress)
When she didn't have her Granny make-up on, Irene Ryan often went unrecognized on the streets. Toured with Bob Hope's troupe during World War II., Was appearing in her first Broadway musical, "Pippin", when she died from a stroke., Interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, California, USA., Since 1972, College actors and actresses from all over America compete yearly for the prestigious "Irene Ryan Scholarships" (started by the Irene Ryan Foundation) at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Her grave marker has the name "Granny" on it., Co-starred on NBC Radio's "The Bob Hope Show" (1948-1950)., Had no surviving relatives; with an estate worth over $1 million, she decided to start the Irene Ryan Foundation for theatre aspirants., After the cancellation of "The Beverly Hillbillies", she was offered a starring role in a proposed TV series in which she would have played a character similar to that of her Hillbillies character Granny. However, despite her interest in the idea of doing a new series, she decided to put the project on hold so that she could fulfill her dream of performing on Broadway. Ultimately, the proposed TV series never came into fruition, since her death in 1973 ended any chances of it being produced., Was posthumously nominated for Broadway's 1973 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for "Pippin.", Commonly thought to have been born in El Paso, Texas, Irene was actually born in San Francisco, California. This is proven by personal records closer to the family, and census records. Though she may never have known it, Irene was a 3rd cousin once removed to another actress, Mary Castle, (born Mary Ann Noblett). Both had common ancestral roots in the Noblet - Noblitt - Noblett family of Appalachian Georgia and North Carolina, reaching back to Quaker immigrants from Ireland to Pennsylvania, and from Ireland to a centuries-long line of French lords named Noblet and Noblette.
Nick Names: Reenie
Death Notes: Santa Monica, California, USA (brain tumor)
Before human being preset to millions by encircling things of "Granny" by The Beverly Hillbillies, Irene Ryan be an confirmed vaudeville, radio and big peak actress, then again not as eminent prior to her small screen withhold. She was a helping of Bob Hope's famous martial tour and she was known as "the gal who make Bob Hope chortle." After getting her role as "Granny", she become famous overnight. When the Hillbillies completed, she co-starred delimited by the Broadway tuneful "Pippin" beside Ben Vereen. Unfortunately, although spectacular review from critic, Ryan take not at your best and die in two shakes of a lamb`s tail after at the age of 70.
Height: 5' 2"
Birth Notes: San Francisco, California, USA
Birth Name: Noblette, Irene
Spouse: 'Harold E. Knox' (qv) (March 1946 - 18 October 1961) (divorced), 'Tim Ryan (I)' (qv) (1922 - 1942) (divorced)
Death Date: 26 April 1973
Portrayed: _"The Simpsons" (1989)_ (qv)
Birth Date: 17 October 1902
Al Christie (producer)
Brother of producer 'Charles Christie (I)' (qv)., He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6771 Hollywood Boulevard., Born at John Street, London, Ontario, Canada. His parents were George Christie and Mary Jarvis. His father was a police constable who died of consumption on April 20, 1882 when Al was only six months old.
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA
Al Christie inception his craft contained by 1909 near the Nestor Company. In 1912 he be deposit in door allowance of amount produced in endorse of a sequence of westerns. By 1916 he enclose arranged in the air his individual production firm that produced the witty on its side two-reelers and occasionally a complete facet. He was the brother of producer/director 'Charles Christie (I)' (qv), Al come upon intricate times during the Depression and turned to selling legitimate estate. In 1926 Christie, along with 'Vera Steadman' (qv) and H. Prevost, 'Marie Prevost' (qv)'s mother, was in a sports car calamity in Florida that departed Mrs. Prevost unresponsive from a defunct pine needle. Steadman and Christie suffer cut and bruise., Born the second son to George Wiseman Christie and Mary Ann Jarvis Christie (George's second wife, his first wife was named Mary Reynolds Christie, and died prematurely) Al and his older brother Charles grew up in the household of a single mother and a half-sister, Anne, as George, a longtime military man turned police constable, died of consumption when Alfred was just a few months old. They lived on Dufferin Avenue in London Ontario Canada. After George's sudden death, Mary rented spare rooms in their home to boarders to make ends meet. Letting to day laborers and theater players was a good source of income for this Victorian single mother. Al became fascinated with the theater and left his position as a clerk in a Biscuit Manufactory to pursue his theatrical career, at the age of 20, as a stagehand and carpenter for the London (Ontario) Opera House. By the time he left the Opera House, he had attained the position of stage manager. In 1909, he began to work with David Horsley at the Nestor Film Company directing comedies and westerns in Bayonne, New Jersey, Staten Island, New York and Baltimore, Maryland. The flip of a nickel landed Christie, a small troupe of players and directors and a train car load of equipment to Hollywood; as Horsley thought Florida would be the ideal place to film under sunny skies, Christie thought California better suited to their industry and quite a bit further from the process servers that were chasing producers who were supposed to be using cameras controlled by the Motion Picture Patents Company. Heads-Florida, tails-California. Al won the toss. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, Christie, while accompanied by a real estate agent,and an assistant, spied the Blondeau Tavern at the corner of Sunset and Gower. The Maier Brewing Company who was the lessee at the time, rented it to Christie for $30.00 a month. The following day, October 27, 1911, saw the opening of the first studio in Hollywood California. During the next few months, Christie was incredibly busy turning the tavern into a viable studio and meeting his weekly short. On January 17, 1912, Christie and his wife, Nora, welcomed their only child, Lenora "Shirley" Christie to Los Angeles. The Nestor Company eventually merged with Universal Films and by the time Universal City was built in 1915, Mr. Christie came on board as the head of the comedy department. By the middle of 1916, Christie left Universal and returned to the Sunset and Gower location which became the home of Christie Film Company, incorporating on June 15,1917 with Charles Christie (brother), Al Christie, Mary Christie (mother), Fred Porter and Kenyon Lee to serve as the Trustees for the corporation. The Christie brothers built their empire specializing in two-reel comedies, and as the industry grew, full-length features. 1918 was a difficult personal year for both of the Christie brothers. Charles lost Edna, his wife of nearly 16 years, following a surgery to repair a chronic ulcer. She died July 16, 1918. They never had any children and Charles never re-married. Meanwhile, Al wrote and/or directed titles like: Know Thy Wife, All Mixed Up, Why Husbands Flirt and Why Get A Divorce? The names of these scenarios and shorts were mirroring his own marriage. By September, when Al registered for the draft during World War I, he and Nora had split. He was living at 6680 Sunset, and she was living at the Hotel Savoy at the corner of Sixth and Grand. Shirley, their daughter, continued to live with Al and his mother in Los Angeles.
Height: 6' 1"
Birth Notes: London, Ontario, Canada
Birth Name: Christie, Alfred Ernest
Spouse: 'Nora Carlton Leadbitter' (27 July 1909 - ?) (divorced); 1 child, 'Fern E Crum' (15 August 1928 - ?) (divorced)
Death Date: 14 April 1951
Birth Date: 26 November 1881
Tim Ryan (writer)
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Notes: Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Death Date: 22 October 1956
Spouse: 'Irene Ryan' (qv) (1922 - 1942) (divorced)
Birth Date: 5 July 1899
George Webber (cinematographer)
Articles: "Variety" (USA), 6 September 1967, "George Webber"
Death Notes: New York City, New York, US
Birth Notes: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Death Date: 29 August 1967
Birth Date: 10 May 1876
William Watson (director)
Articles: "Moving Picture World" (USA), 31 December 1921, pg. 1079, "Engages Watson"
Birth Notes: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Death Date: 20 January 1967
Birth Date: 3 January 1896
E.W. Hammons (miscellaneous crew)
Death Notes: New Rochelle, New York, USA
Birth Notes: Winona, Mississippi, USA
Death Date: 31 July 1962
Founded Educational Pictures Inc. bordered by 1915 to give out and propagate classroom artistic films, but immediately branched out into the effectiveness of sticky wit films, produce hundreds of comedy shorts back Educational go underneath in 1939.
Birth Date: 2 December 1882
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