Jack Kost

Thursday, April 11, 2024

On this day in movie history - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974):

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

directed by Ted Kotcheff,

written by Mordecai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd,

based on the novel by Mordecai Richler,

was released in the United States on April 11, 1974.
Music by Stanley Myers and Andrew Powell.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid, Joseph Wiseman, Denholm Elliott, Henry Ramer, Joe Silver, Zvee Scooler, Robert Goodier, Alan Rosenthal, Barry Baldaro, Allan Kolman, Barry Pascal, Susan Friedman, Jacques Durette, Jonathan Robinson, Edward Resmini, Henry Gamer, Lou Levitt, Sonny Oppenheim, Lionel Schwartz, Mickey Eichen, Robert Desroches, Judith Gault, Norman Taviss.

On this day in movie history - The Captive City (1952):

The Captive City

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Karl Kamb and Alvin M. Josephy,

based on a story by Alvin M. Josephy,

was released in the United States on April 11, 1952.
Music by Jerome Moross.

Cast:

John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Marjorie Crossland, Victor Sutherland, Ray Teal, Martin Milner, Geraldine Hall, Hal K. Dawson, Ian Wolfe, Gladys Hurlbut, Jess Kirkpatrick, Paul Newlan, Frances Morris, Paul Brinegar, Patricia Goldwater, Robert Gorell, Glenn Judd, William C. Miller, Estes Kefauver, Charles Regan, Victor Romito, Charles Wagenheim.

Born on this day – Shirley Grey:

Shirley Grey

Actress

April 11, 1902 – August 12, 1981

Credits:

City for Conquest (1940); Phantom Ship (1935); The Public Menace (1935); The Girl Who Came Back (1935); The People's Enemy (1935); Circumstantial Evidence (1935); Public Opinion (1935); Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934); Wednesday's Child (1934); Girl in Danger (1934); Beyond the Law (1934); His Greatest Gamble (1934); The Defense Rests (1934); Green Eyes (1934); One Is Guilty (1934); The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934); Sisters Under the Skin (1934); I Like It That Way (1934); Bombay Mail (1934); Twin Husbands (1933); Murder on the Campus (1933); Hold the Press (1933); Too Much Harmony (1933); Don't Bet on Love (1933); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Girl in 419 (1933); Terror Aboard (1933); The Little Giant (1933); Out All Night (1933); Private Jones (1933); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Treason (1933); Uptown New York (1932); Virtue (1932); Drifting Souls (1932); Cornered (1932); Back Street (1932); The Hurricane Express (1932); Get That Girl (1932); The Riding Tornado (1932); Texas Cyclone (1932); Air Eagles (1931); One Man Law (1931); Secret Service (1931); The Public Defender (1931); The Golf Specialist (1930); Who's Got the Body? (1930); Hot Bridge (1930).

Born on this day – Marshall Neilan:

Marshall Neilan

Actor

Director

Producer

Writer

April 11, 1891 – October 27, 1958

Credits:

A Bottled Romance (1914); A Busy Day in the Jungle (1912); A Coupon Courtship (1913); A Face in the Crowd (1957); A Girl of Yesterday (1915); A Little Princess (1917); A Model Wife (1915); A Mountain Tragedy (1912); A Peach at the Beach (1914); A Star Is Born (1937); A Strange Adventure (1917); A Substitute for Pants (1914); A Thing or Two in Movies (1915); Absent Minded Abe (1913); Accidents Will Happen (1912); Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918); An Elopement in Rome (1914); Bits of Life (1921); Black Waters (1929); Bob Hampton of Placer (1921); Broadway Gold (1923); Bud, Bill and the Waiter (1914); Calamity Anne's Ward (1912); Catch-As Catch-Can (1931); Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934); Classmates (1914); Cupid Backs the Winners (1914); Cupid Through Padlocks (1912); Cupid's Lariat (1913); Curing Her Extravagance (1913); Daddy-Long-Legs (1919); Dinty (1920); Diplomacy (1926); Dippy's Dream (1914); Don't Ever Marry (1920); Don't Monkey with the Buzz Saw (1914); Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924); Everybody's Acting (1926); Ex-Sweeties (1931); Father's Favorite (1912); Fatty's Busy Day (1913); Fatty's Deception (1913); Fleeing from the Fleas (1914); Fools First (1922); For the Good of Her Men (1912); Forever Yours (1930); Freckles (1917); Getting Father's Goat (1915); Go and Get It (1920); Ham and the Sausage Factory (1915); Ham and the Villain Factory (1914); Ham at the Garbage Gentleman's Ball (1915); Ham the Iceman (1914); Ham the Lineman (1914); Ham, the Piano Mover (1914); Heart of the Wilds (1918); Hell's Angels (1930); Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919); Her Wild Oat (1927); His Last Haul (1928); Hit-the-Trail Holliday (1918); Hollywood Boulevard (1936); How Jim Proposed (1912); In Love and War (1913); In Old Kentucky (1919); Jones' Jonah Day (1913); Judith of Bethulia (1914); Landing the Hose Reel (1915); Little Pal (1915); Lizzie the Life Saver (1914); Love, Oil and Grease (1914); Madame Butterfly (1915); Man's Duty (1913); May Blossom (1915); McBride's Bride (1914); Men and Women (1914); Mental Suicide (1913); Mice and Men (1916); Mike (1926); Minnie (1922); M'Liss (1918); One, Two, Three (1912); Only One Shirt (1914); Out of a Clear Sky (1918); Parcel Post Johnnie (1913); Partners (1913); Pat, the Cowboy (1913); Penrod (1922); Percy's Wooing (1913); Put Me Off at Wayville (1915); Rags (1915); Ranch Girls on a Rampage (1912); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917); Rube, the Interloper (1914); Sally's Guardian (1913); Saved from Court Martial (1912); Screen Snapshots No. 2 (1925); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 11 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 21 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 9 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 17-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 6 (1922); Seeing Stars (1922); Sherlock Bonehead (1914); Sing While You're Able (1937); Si's Wonderful Mineral Spring (1914); Social Register (1934); Souls for Sale (1923); Spooks (1916); Stella Maris (1918); Stung (1914); Sweethearts on Parade (1930); Swing It Professor (1937); Take Me Home (1928); Tanned Legs (1929); Taxi 13 (1928); Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924); Thanks for Listening (1937); 3-Ring Marriage (1928); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938); The Animal (1913); The Awful Truth (1929); The Bandit of Point Loma (1912); The Best Man Wins (1912); The Billionaire (1914); The Bingville Fire Department (1914); The Black Hand (1913); The Bold Banditti and the Rah, Rah Boys (1914); The Bottle Imp (1917); The Brand (1912); The Bravest Girl in California (1913); The Cat and the Bonnet (1913); The Chronicles of Bloom Center (1915); The Cold Storage Egg (1913); The Come Back of Percy (1915); The Comedy Team's Strategy (1913); The Commanding Officer (1915); The Country Boy (1915); The Country That God Forgot (1916); The Crisis (1916); The Cycle of Fate (1916); The Deadly Battle at Hicksville (1914); The Egyptian Mummy (1913); The Eternal Three (1923); The 'Fired' Cook (1913); The Foreclosure (1912); The Girl at Home (1917); The Greaser and the Weakling (1912); The Great Love (1925); The Guerilla Menace (1913); The Harvest of Flame (1913); The Hash House Count (1913); The Hobo and the Myth (1913); The Horse That Wouldn't Stay Hitched (1913); The House of Discord (1913); The Intrusion at Lompoc (1912); The Jaguar's Claws (1917); The Kidnapped Conductor (1912); The Lemon Drop Kid (1934); The Lotus Eater (1921); The Love Route (1915); The Manicurist and the Mutt (1913); The Matrimonial Venture of the 'Bar X' Hands (1913); The Mission of a Bullet (1913); The Outlaw Colony (1912); The Pasadena Peach (1912); The Peace Offering (1912); The Phony Singer (1913); The Picket Guard (1913); The Powder Flash of Death (1913); The Prince Chap (1916); The Reformation of Dad (1913); The Reformation of Ham (1914); The Rendezvous (1923); The Reward of Valor (1912); The River's End (1920); The Romance of a Dry Town (1912); The Rube and the Boob (1913); The Sentimental Sister (1914); The Sheriff of Stone Gulch (1913); The Silent Partner (1917); The Skyrocket (1926); The Slavery of Foxicus (1914); The Spirit of the Flag (1913); The Sporting Venus (1925); The Stranger at Coyote (1912); The Strangers' Banquet (1922); The Tattered Duke (1914); The Tell-Tale Shells (1912); The Tenderfoot's Troubles (1912); The Tides of Barnegat (1917); The Toilers (1915); The Unpardonable Sin (1919); The Vagabond Lover (1929); The Vengeance That Failed (1912); The Wages of Sinn (1914); The Wall of Money (1913); The Wanderer (1913); The Weaker Brother (1912); The Wedding Gown (1913); The Will of James Waldron (1912); The Winning Whiskers (1914); The Wooers of Mountain Kate (1912); This Is the Life (1935); Those Without Sin (1917); Three Men and a Girl (1919); Three Suitors and a Dog (1913); Toothache! (1913); Trixie and the Press Agent (1913); Vaccinating the Village (1914); Venus of Venice (1927); Walk, -- You, Walk! (1912); Wanted: An Heir (1914); War Mamas (1931); War Relief (1918); When Men Wear Skirts (1914); When the Fire-Bells Rang (1912); When Women Are Police (1913); Why Tightwad Tips (1912); Wild Oats Lane (1926); Women and War (1913).