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French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 295. Photo: Warner Bros.
George Brent (1904- 1979) was an Irish-born actor who was mainly active in American cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the favourite leading man of Bette Davis and they were onscreen paired eleven times in such classics as Jezebel (1938) and Dark Victory (1939).
George Brent was born George Brendan Nolan in 1904 in Ballinasloe, a small village in County Roscommon, Ireland. He was the son of John J. Nolan and Mary (née McGuinness) Nolan. His father was a shopkeeper (according to some sources a British Army officer). In September 1915, George moved with his younger sister Kathleen to New York City. There, they joined their mother, who was living in the US after her separation from her husband. Again according to some sources, both his parents had died and he moved to his aunt in the US. There are many discrepancies regarding Brent's year of birth, life, and activities during the 1919 to 1922 period. According to Dutch Wikipedia, he later returned to study at Dublin University. In 1921, at the time of the Irish War of Independence, Brent was part of the IRA. In his later life, he claimed to have been active only as an errand boy for Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician Michael Collins. During this period he also became involved with the Abbey Theatre. He fled Ireland, travelled from England to Canada and returned to the United States in August 1921. He decided to become a professional actor. He made his Broadway debut in director Guthrie McClintic’s ‘The Dover Road’. He did numerous plays throughout the 1920s, including running several of his own stock companies. He appeared in productions of ‘Abie's Irish Rose’ (on tour for two years), ‘Stella Dallas’, ‘Up in Mabel's Room’, ‘Elmer the Great’, ‘Seventh Heaven’, ‘White Cargo’ and ‘Lilac Time’ He acted in stock companies at Elitch Theatre, in Denver, Colorado (1929), as well as Rhode Island, Florida, and Massachusetts. In 1930, he appeared on Broadway in ‘Love, Honor, and Betray’, alongside Clark Gable. George Brent took up residence in Hollywood sometime later to focus on a film career. He debuted for Fox Film Corporation with a supporting role in the musical drama Under Suspicion (A. F. Erickson, 1930), starring J. Harold Murray and Lois Moran. He continued in supporting roles for Fox in Once a Sinner (Guthrie McClintic, 1931) with Dorothy Mackaill and Joel McCrea, the Western Fair Warning (Alfred L. Werker, 1931) starring George O’Brien, and Charlie Chan Carries On (Hamilton MacFadden, 1931) with the first appearance of Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
George Brent's breakthrough followed after he signed a contract with Warner Brothers in 1931. He worked for the studio for 20 years and soon became a star. Warner Brothers recognised his potential as a handsome leading man for some of their more temperamental female stars. He played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the drama So Big! (William A. Wellman, 1932), in which Bette Davis had a small role. Another hot-tempered star was Ruth Chatterton who picked him to play opposite her in The Rich Are Always with Us (Alfred E. Green, 1932). This was the first of four films he made with the actress, who eventually became his second wife that year. Davis again had a supporting role. Paramount borrowed Brent for the leading-man role in Luxury Liner (Lothar Mendes, 1933). Back at Warners, he was one of several studio names in the musical 42nd Street Lloyd Bacon, (1933), playing the lover of Bebe Daniels. 42nd Street was one of the most successful motion pictures of 1933, earning almost $1.5 million at the box office. At the 6th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture. He returned to supporting female stars, like Barbara Stanwyck in Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933). He was top-billed in the murder mystery From Headquarters (William Dieterle, 1933) with Margaret Lindsay. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed him to play Myrna Loy's leading man in the Spy film Stamboul Quest (Sam Wood, 1934). In September 1934, Chatterton filed for divorce. Brent was top billed in Housewife (Alfred E. Green, 1934) with Bette Davis as his costar. MGM used him for the Greta Garbo vehicle The Painted Veil (Richard Boleslawski, 1934). The following year he made two films with Davis, where she was top-billed: the comedy Front Page Woman (Michael Curtiz, 1935) and the crime drama Special Agent (William Keighley, 1935). They were again reunited in the comedy The Golden Arrow (Alfred E. Green, 1936). Warners then put Brent in his first male-orientated movie: Submarine D-1 (Lloyd Bacon, 1937) with Pat O'Brien and Wayne Morris. In November 1937 George Brent became an American citizen. In 1938, he appeared with Davis in Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) - only he was the second male lead, with Henry Fonda playing Davis' main love interest. Just after his divorce from his third wife, Constance Worth, Brent made Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding, 1939) with Davis who also divorced. The two found comfort with each other and embarked on an affair that continued throughout filming and for a year – and three films – after. Goulding shot the film in sequence, and the arc of Judith's relationship with Dr. Steele mirrored Davis' relationship with Brent. Davis was later to say that she wanted to marry Brent but thought that it wouldn't work out. Still, "Of the men I didn't marry, the dearest was George Brent. Dark Victory was a huge success and so was The Old Maid (Edmund Goulding, 1939) where Davis and Miriam Hopkins fought over Brent. Brent also supported Davis in The Great Lie (Edmund Goulding, 1941) and In This Our Life (John Huston, Raoul Walsh, 1942). Brent and Davis appeared in 11 films together.
George Brent was an accomplished pilot who had tried and, because of age, failed to enlist in the armed services. In 1942, he temporarily retired from films to teach flying as a civilian flight instructor with the Civilian Pilot Training Program. He later became a pilot in the US Coast Guard for the duration of the war. His final film for Warner Bros. was My Reputation (1946) his fifth and last film with Barbara Stanwyck, filmed from November 1943 to January 1944, but released in 1946. Brent acted on the radio during this period. While Brent returned to his acting career after WWII, he never recaptured his former popularity but during the immediate post-war period, he remained a star of big-budget films. RKO used him as Hedy Lamarr's leading man in Experiment Perilous (Jacques Tourneur, 1944). For Hal Wallis, he did The Affairs of Susan (William A. Seiter, 1945) with Joan Fontaine then Tomorrow Is Forever (Irvin Pichel, 1946) at International with Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles. He returned to RKO for The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946), starring Dorothy McGuire as a mute young woman in an early-20th century Vermont town who is stalked and terrorized in a rural mansion by a serial killer targeting women with disabilities. Brent played against type the maniacal murderer. The psychological Horror film was a huge success. At Universal he was teamed with Lucille Ball in the romantic comedy Lover Come Back (William A. Seiter, 1946). In the late 1940s, Brent appeared in numerous B-movies and the budgets of his films continued to shrink. After two films for Monogram. he retired in 1953. He made a few more guest roles in TV series and returned to the big screen once for a supporting role in Born Again (Irving Rapper, 1978). The film depicts the involvement of President Richard Nixon's special counsel, Charles Colson (Dean Jones), in the Watergate scandal, his subsequent conversion to Christianity and his prison term. Brent retired from acting to concentrate on breeding race horses. During his heyday, Brent was known in Hollywood as a notorious womaniser. Besides a long-term relationship with Davis, five of his marriages are known, he married Helen Louise Campbell (1925-1927), Ruth Chatterton (1932-1934), Constance Worth (1937) and Ann Sheridan (1942-1943). In 1947, he married model and fashion designer Janet Michaels, with whom he had two children. They remained married until she died in 1974. After a long period of illness, George Brent died of pulmonary emphysema in 1979 in Solana Beach, California. He was 75.
Sources: I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch and English) and IMDb.
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Juniata Lodge No. 282, Hollidaysburg, PA. Past Masters Night 2012 - George Washington Gavel Presented by Potomac Lodge No. 5, Washington DC
The George Washington Parkway in Arlington, Virginia. Across the Potomac River, Georgetown can be seen on the left, the Watergate Complex is in the center, and the Washington Monument is on the right.
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A statue of a younger George Washington stands outside his headquarters in Winchester, VA.
George Washington used a little log building as a military office from September 1755 to December of 1756 while Fort Loudoun was being constructed at the north end of town. Winchester played an important role in George Washington’s early adult life; his military and political career began here. As a young man of sixteen, he came to the area to begin what he thought would be his life’s profession, surveying. With the earnings from his surveying business he was able to buy a number of acres around Frederick County and also a lot in the town that enabled him to serve as a Burgess from Frederick County 1758-1765. During the French and Indian War, he commanded the Virginia Regiment from his headquarters in Winchester.
George Takei speaking with attendees at the 2019 Phoenix Fan Fusion at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
George Takei speaking with attendees at the 2019 Phoenix Fan Fusion at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
George Carlin
February 18, 2001
Kalamazoo State Theatre
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA
We were living in Knollwood, about to graduate from WMU. Great timing!
This show was great. He read from cards while trying to perfect the HBO special that came out in November 2001 - 'Complaints and Grievances'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaints_and_Grievances
I was in Changzhou, China in June 2008 editing photos when I read the headline on CNN...RIP.
I just finished his autobiography 'Last Words' and am currently reading 'Seven Dirty Words : The Life and Crimes of George Carlin '.
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Arbroath and Scotland batsman George Salmond cutting another ball to the boundary as he added to his 72 in the second innings of a three-day international match against Ireland at Forthill in June, 1992. (Photograph - Alex Jamieson)
Mentioned at least 20 times in Dickens's "The Pickwick Papers," there used to be two taverns here: The George (claimed to go back to the 12th Century) and the Lively Vulture. But after the Great Fire, they were amalgamated. Rumor has it, that the Hell-fire Club would meet here.
This essentially ended the last walk - of the last 6 sights, at least 3 of them were gone. Saddened by the loss of history, this photographer took heart - because night was falling. And I know how I get with my photography at night. Stay tuned......
MasterChef Australia is a Logie award winning Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by FremantleMedia Australia and screens on Network Ten. Restaurateur and chef Gary Mehigan, chef George Calombaris and food critic Matt Preston serve as the show's main judges.[1] Journalist Sarah Wilson hosted the first season, however her role was dropped at the end of the season.
French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 38. Photo G. Fontaine.
Georges Lannes (1895–1983) was a French film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during his career (1920-1961). Lannes peaked with the serial Les Mystères de Paris (Charles Burguet, 1922) in which he had the lead as prince Rodolphe.
In 1920-1922 he acted in ten films by Charles Maudru, starting with Près des cimes (1920) and Le Droit de tuer (1920), and including the Zola adaptation L'Assommoir (1921), in which Lannes played Lantier, the young, lazy worker, who abandons his wife Gervaise (Louise Sforza) and their two children. His co-actors with Maudru were e.g. Gaston Jacquet and Suzanne Delvé.
Lannes peaked with the serial Les Mystères de Paris (Charles Burguet, 1922) in which he had the lead as prince Rodolphe. The serial, based on Eugène Sue's story, was in 12 episodes and had a cast with many familiar names such as Huguette Duflos, Andrée Lionel, Gilbert Dalleu, Camille Bardou, Suzanne Bianchetti, and in smaller parts Pierre Fresnay, Madeleine Guitty, Gaston Modot, Sarah Duhamel, Simone Vaudry and Régine Dumien. Prince Rodolphe takes care of a young street prostitute, Fleur-de-Marie (Duflos), but a jealous countess Sarah Mac Gregor (Lionel) manages to convince people from the low life to denounce Fleur-de-Marie, so she is sent to prison. In the end, after many adventures, the girl returns to Rodolphe while the countess, dying, confesses to Rodolphe Fleur-de-Marie is his lost daughter.
Lannes also played important parts in e.g. L'Abbé Constantin (Julien Duvivier, 1925) starrinng Jean Coquelin and Claude France, André Cornélis (Jean Kemm, 1926) with Malcolm Tod in the title role and again Claude France, Le Collier de la reine (Gaston Ravel, Tony Lekain, 1929) with Marcelle Chantal and Diana Karenne, and L'Emigrante (Léo Joannon, 1939) with Edwige Feuillère. From the 1930s Lannes's parts became smaller but he still continued to act in film with a high frequency. Lannes also directed films such as Le Petit Jacques (with Georges Raulet, 1923), and played on stage in the 1940s, while one his last parts was that of Louis XIII in the French telefilm Les Trois mousquetaires (Claude Barma, 1959), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.
TOTTON George. Private 3229, 3rd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Died 15th October 1919 aged 24. He was the son of George and Mary of 16, Convention Street, Belfast. He is at rest in Dundonald Cemetery, Dundonald, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Some notes from what remains of his army record.
He enlisted on the 9th March 1914 and was posted to the army reserve. he was aged 18 and 326days, He worked at Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queens Island, Belfast as a driller. He was living with his parents at 142, Wilton Street, Belfast. He was mobilised at private 3229, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on the 6th August 1914, and went absence. He rejoined on the 31st October 1914 and was posted to the 2nd Battalion on the 1st June 1915. He once again went absence from the 17th April 1916 to 3rd May 1916. He was posted to the 1st Battalion on the 24th September 1916 in France.
He was in France from the1st June 1915 to 21st February 1916. He was wounded, shot in the mouth and was treat at No2 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Le Treport. He was sent to England in Hospital Ship, Stad Antwerpen. He was admitted into Edinburgh War Hospital, Bangour, West Lothian, Scotland. He was discharged fit for war service to his regiment in France on the 7th April 1916.
He was once again admitted into 1st New Zealand Stationary Hospital, Amiens suffering from Varicocele ( varicose veins of the small veins next to one testis or both testes). On the 12th October 1916 he was discharged fit for duty. Whilst on battle on the front he was reported missing in battle on the 22nd March 1918. He was taken Prisoner of War by the Germans and sent to Germany. He was repatriated on the 25th December 1918 and demobilised to Class Z on the 2nd March 1919 to his home at 54, Parker Street, Belfast. Another home address given was 142, Wilson Street, Belfast. In a letter dated 19th September 1919, he informed his regimental record office in Dublin that he had now got married. He was called Ada and they were living at 30 Douglas Street, Beersbridge Road, Belfast, Ireland. His wife late informed the same office that her husband had died in Belfast on the 15th October 1919. The cause of death was not given by his wife or any other person.
Co. B, 97th ILL. Infantry
The Daily Mail, Saturday, Oct. 6, 1900, Pg 4
No. 5677, Vol. VI
Death of an Old Citizen.
George Armstrong, aged 60 years, died yesterday afternoon at his home four miles south of the city. The funeral service will be held at the house at 11 o'clock Sunday, Rev. W. A. Van Gurdy officiating. The remains will be buried in Prairie Lawn cemetery. The deceased has been sick all summer with cancer of the bowels, but had been bedfast only since July when he returned from Bethany hospital where he had been taking treatment.
He leaves a wife and three children, all of whom are at home. He had four brothers and a sister living. Only brother Henry, lives on the adjoining farm in Jackson township, one lives at Ottawa, one in Illinois and another in Oklahoma and all of them will attend the funeral.
The deceased was born in Logan county, Ohio, and came to this county from Illinois in 1871 and settled in Avon township. He was married in this county October 13, 1872, to Miss Alice G. Gregson, daughter of the late Joseph Gregson.
He was a member of the M. E. church and an old soldier. He enlisted at the beginning of the civil war, in the 59th Illinois infantry as a private, and after serving some time was sent home sick. After a few months he re-enlisted to the 97th Infantry and served to the close of the war, being mustered out as Captain of Co. B, in the 97th V. I.
Seattle's largest overwater residence, possibly the country, sits underneath the George Washington Memorial "Aurora" Bridge.
Called Aurora, the 4,850sq ft. (3 bedroom, 2.5 bath) property went up for sale in July of 2024 for $3.9 million dollars.
While it resembles a floating home, it was able to be classified as a houseboat due to its marine grade aluminum hull.
This is the first page of my copy of George Carlin's book, "Brain Droppings" that I got autographed. I scanned my ticket stub here to show that it's legit. As you can see, I was sitting in the front row. Next to me were a bunch of people from the press who were going backstage during intermission. I didn't have the guts to sneak back myself, so I got one of the press guys to take it back with him. In retrospect, I regret not trying to sneak backstage, but I have a feeling it wouldn't have ended well if I had. RIP George. :(