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Somewhere in the Night
Somewhere in the Night is a 1946 Joseph L. Mankiewicz-directed film noir. Mankiewicz's first directing effort from 20th Century Fox is about a man who returns from the war with amnesia. The complicated storyline is typical of film noir. A man returns from World War II with amnesia. He tries to track down his old identity and ends up stumbling into a 3-year old murder mystery involving millions of dollars.
Cast
- John Hodiak as Larry Cravat aka George W. Taylor
- Nancy Guild as Christy Smith
- Lloyd Nolan as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
- Richard Conte as Mel Phillips
- Josephine Hutchinson as Elizabeth Conroy
- Fritz Kortner as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
- Sheldon Leonard as Sam
- Whit Bissell as John the Bartender
- Harry Morgan as Bath attendant
External links
[http://noiroftheweek.blogspot.com/2005/01/somewhere-in-night-1946.html Noir of the Week]
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Joseph L. MankiewiczJoseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909–February 5, 1993) was a Jewish-American Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to Franz Mankiewicz and Johanna Blumenau, Mankiewicz moved with his family to New York City where he graduated from Stuyvesant High School. In 1928, he obtained a bachelor's degree from Columbia University. For a time he worked in Berlin, Germany as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper before being lured into the motion picture business.
During his long career in Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote forty-eight screenplays, including All About Eve, for which he won an Academy Award. He also produced more than twenty films including The Philadelphia Story which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. However, he is best known for the films he directed, twice winning the Academy Award for Directing.
He was the younger brother of Herman J. Mankiewicz.
On his passing in 1993, Joseph Mankiewicz was interred in Saint Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard cemetery, Bedford, New York.
Award wins (partial):
- 1949 - Academy Award for Directing for A Letter to Three Wives
- 1949 - Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives
- 1949 - Directors Guild of America Awards for A Letter to Three Wives
- 1950 - Academy Award for Directing for All About Eve
- 1950 - Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for All About Eve
- 1951 - Cannes Film Festival - Jury Special Prize
Award nominations (partial):
- 1931 - Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Skippy
- 1942 - Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives
- 1950 - Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for No Way Out
- 1952 - Academy Award for Directing for 5 Fingers
- 1954 - Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for The Barefoot Contessa
- 1972 - Academy Award for Directing for Sleuth
Partial filmography (directing):
- Skippy (1931)
- Dragonwyck (1946)
- Backfire (1946)
- Somewhere in the Night (1946)
- The Late George Apley (1947)
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
- Escape (1948)
- House of Strangers (1949)
- A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
- All About Eve (1950)
- No Way Out (1950)
- People Will Talk (1951)
- 5 Fingers (1952)
- Julius Caesar (1953)
- The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
- Guys and Dolls (1955)
- The Quiet American (1958)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
- Cleopatra (1963)
- Carol for Another Christmas (1963)
- The Honey Pot (1967)
- There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
- King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis (1970)
- Sleuth (1972)
External links
- [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/mankiewicz.html Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
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Amnesia:See Amnesia (Computer Game) for other meanings of this word
Amnesia (or amnaesia in Commonwealth English) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma or disease, or use of certain (generally sedative) drugs. Functional causes are psychological factors, such as defense mechanisms. Hysterical post-traumatic amnesia is an example of this. Amnesia may also be spontaneous, in the case of [http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic380.htmtransient global amnesia]. This global type of amnesia is more common in middle-aged to elderly people, particularly males, and usually lasts less than 24 hours.
Types of amnesia
- In anterograde amnesia, new events are not transferred to long-term memory, so the sufferer will not be able to remember anything that occurs after the onset of this type of amnesia for more than a few moments. The complement of this is retrograde amnesia, where someone will be unable to recall events that occurred before the onset of amnesia. The terms are used to categorise patterns of symptoms, rather than to indicate a particular cause or etiology. Both categories of amnesia can occur together in the same patient, and commonly result from damage to the brain regions most closely associated with episodic/declarative memory: the medial temporal lobes and especially the hippocampus.
- Traumatic amnesia is generally due to a head injury (fall, knock on the head). Traumatic amnesia is often transient; the duration of the amnesia is related to the degree of injury and may give an indication of the prognosis for recovery of other functions. Mild trauma, such as a car accident that could result in no more than mild whiplash, might cause the occupant of a car to have no memory of the moments just before the accident due to a brief interruption in the short/long-term memory transfer mechanism. "Traumatic amnesia" is also sometimes used to refer to long-term repressed memory that is the result of psychological trauma.
- Long-term alcoholism can cause a type of memory loss known as Korsakoff's syndrome. This is caused by brain damage due to a Vitamin B1 deficiency and will be progressive if alcohol intake and nutrition pattern are not modified. It will usually improve little over time even if they are. Other neurological problems are likely to be present.
- Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event.
- Fugue state is also known as dissociative fugue. It is caused by psychological trauma and is usually temporary. The Merck Manual defines it as "one or more episodes of amnesia in which the inability to recall some or all of one's past and either the loss of one's identity or the formation of a new identity occur with sudden, unexpected, purposeful travel away from home" [http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section15/chapter188/188c.jsp].
- Childhood amnesia (also known as Infantile amnesia) is the common inability to remember events from your own childhood. Whilst Sigmund Freud attributed this to sexual repression, others have theorised that this may be due to language development or immature parts of the brain.
- Global amnesia is total memory loss. This may be a defence mechanism which occurs after a traumatic event. Post-traumatic stress disorder can also involve the spontaneous, vivid retrieval of unwanted traumatic memories. It is believed that Mauritania's Silent Flute Man suffered from this condition.
- Posthypnotic amnesia is where events during hypnosis are forgotten, or where past memories are unable to be recalled.
- Source amnesia is a memory disorder in which someone can recall certain information, but they do not know where or how they obtained it.
- Memory distrust syndrome is a term invented by the psychologist Gisli Gudjonsson to describe a situation where someone is unable to trust their own memory.
Amnesia in fiction
Amnesia is a common motif in fiction. Anterograde amnesia features in the movie Memento, and retrograde amnesia features in the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
See also
- HM (patient)
- Clive Wearing
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Nancy GuildNancy Guild (October 11, 1925 - August 16, 1999) was a film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. The blonde-haired actress appeared in Somewhere in the Night (1946); The Brasher Doubloon (1947) and the comedy Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951). Guild (Hollywood publicity writers in the 1940s said "Guild rhymes with wild!") dropped out of films in the early 1950s after marrying Broadway producer Ernest Martin.
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Richard Conte
Richard Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975) was an American actor who appeared in films such as I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Godfather.
He was born Nicholas Conte in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of a barber.
In 1935, Conte was spotted by Elia Kazan and John Garfield when he was working as an entertainer at a Connecticut resort, which led to Conte finding stage work. Conte eventually earned a scholarship to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, where he became a standout actor. The 5' 8" Conte became a Broadway actor in the late 30s, starring in such plays as Night Music and Walk Into My Parlor. That lead to his first film performance in 1939, Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence.
In 1942 he signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. He then changed his stage name to Richard. His first film at Fox was Guadalcanal Diary (1943). During the World War II years, Conte played mostly soldiers in war dramas, including A Walk in the Sun (1945).
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Following the war, Conte appeared in many films noir after World War II. Conte appeared in such Fox crime dramas as Cry of the City and Call Northside 777 (both from 1948).
In the early 1950s, Conte, now not working for Fox, began appearing in films for various studios. Critics and fans consider his best films from that era include the film noir B-movies Highway Dragnet (1954) and The Blue Gardenia (1953).
Once film noir became less popular in the 60s Conte’s career was at a standstill. He appeard as Lt. Dave Santini in two Frank Sinatra crime films, Tony Rome (1967) and Lady in Cement (1968). He eventually moved to Europe and acted in a number of films. Later in life, Conte acted one of his most memorable performances in The Godfather (1972) as Don Barzini (he was at one time also considered for title role, a role that Marlon Brando eventually filled.) He continued to work in European films until a heart attack in 1975 at the age of 65.
He is the father of film actor Mark Conte.
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Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner (Vienna, May 12, 1892 – July 22, 1970, Munich) was an Austrian-born stage and film actor.
His original name was Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year he made his first appearance in a silent film. He became one of Germany's best known character actors. His speciality was playing sinister and threatening roles. The coming of the Nazis to power forced Kortner to flee Germany in 1933, and he emigrated to the United States, where he found work as a character actor and play director for a time before returning to Germany in 1949. Upon his return, he became noted for his innovative staging and direction, particularly of classics such as his Richard III (1964) in which the king crawls over piles of corpses at the end.
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Whit Bissell
Whitner Nutting Bissell (born 29 October 1909 in New York City, died 5 March 1996 in Woodland Hills, California) was an American character actor.
Bissell was trained in the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and had a number of roles in Broadway theatre.
In a career that began in 1943 with the film Holy Matrimony, Bissell appeared in literally hundreds of films and television series episodes.
Viewers of 1950s low-budget science fiction and horror films know him as one of "those actors" (perhaps the actor) that always shows up somewhere in such movies. The most well-known of these roles was as a mad scientist in the 1957 film I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
Bissell was a regular for the last two seasons of the television series Bachelor Father (1959-1961) and appeared as a guest star in practically every dramatic television series that aired between the early 1950s and the mid 1970s, with more sporadic appearances after that.
His most prominent television role came when he co-starred as General Heywood Kirk in the 1966-1967 science-fiction television series The Time Tunnel. He often played silver-haired figures of authority, here as in many other roles (as described by All Movie Guide) "instantly establishing his standard screen characterization of fussy officiousness," leavened in this case with a military bearing. Whit Bissell was an actor from the old school: even with the sound turned down, it was always possible to know what General Kirk was about to do, as Bissell used a varied set of facial expressions and postures to indicate thought, mood, and imminence of action.
Star Trek fans knew Bissell from his appearance in the classic episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", footage of which was re-used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nines "Trials and Tribble-ations".
Bissell received a life career award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in 1994. He also served for many years on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild, as well as representing the actors to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board of governors.
Bissell was married three times and had three daughters and a stepson.
On his passing in 1996, he was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
External links
- [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000946/ Whit Bissell] at the Internet Movie Database
- [http://www.dougmacaulay.com/kingspud/sel_by_actor_index_2.php?actor_first=Whit&actor_last=Bissell Great Character Actors entry]
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Harry Morgan (born Henry Bratsburg on April 10, 1915 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American television actor of Norwegian extraction.
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Family
Morgan has been married twice, first to Eileen Detchon from 1940 until her death in 1985, and then to Barbara Bushman Quine from 1998 to the present. He had four sons with his first wife, Christopher, Charles, Paul and Daniel (who died in 1982).
Career
Morgan made his debut, originally using the name Henry Morgan, in the 1942 movie To the Shores of Tripoli. His screen name later would become Henry "Harry" Morgan and eventually Harry Morgan, to avoid confusion with the then-popular comedian of the same name on radio and TV.
Morgan continued to play a number of significant roles on the big screen in such films as Dragonwyck (1946), The Glenn Miller Story (1953), Inherit the Wind (1960), How The West Was Won (1962), Frankie and Johnny (1966), and Support Your Local Sheriff (1969).
On TV he played Pete in Pete and Gladys (1960-1962), a spin off of his character in "December Bride" starring Spring Byington. He is more widely-recognized as Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's partner in the revived version of Dragnet (1967-1970). Morgan had also appeared with Dragnet star Jack Webb in two film noir movies, Dark City (1950) and Appointment with Danger (1951).
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In 1980, Morgan won an Emmy award for his performance on M
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In 1987, Morgan also reprised his Bill Gannon character for a supporting role in the film version of Dragnet, a comedy starring and written by Dan Aykroyd, and co-starring Tom Hanks and Christopher Plummer. On the old TV show, Morgan had usually played Gannon fairly light and comedic, in keeping with his general acting style in those days, and contrasting well with Jack Webb's no-nonsense portrayal of Joe Friday. Curiously, or perhaps purposely, in the film version, he played Gannon as a brusque, authoritarian captain of police, quite different from his Detective Gannon in the 1967 TV show, and rather closer to his characterization of Colonel Potter.
In the 1990s, he played the role of "Judge Stoddard Bell" on the series of The Incident TV movies.
Morgan also directed episodes for several TV series, including 2 episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and 9 episodes of M
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Category:1946 filmsThis category lists the titles of films originally released in the year 1946.
See also 1946 in film.
Category:Films by year
Category:1946
Category:Film noirFilm noir originally referred to the classic period of 1940s-1950s films during and after World War II. The period is usually defined between the release of films like Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) and Touch of Evil (1958). Modern films that evoke this period and style may be referred to as neo-noir.
A film noir usually have the following characteristics:
- pessimistic atmosphere;
- a plot in which the characters are either: involved in a mystery, commiting crime, in a love triangle, or facing a desperate situation;
- characters either devoid of glamour (criminals, low-class people, policemen, detectives, addicts), financially broken or morally decadent;
- an unhappy (or vaguely bitter) end;
- dense music.
Although of French origin, the term is most often applied to American and British films.
Category:Film styles
Noir Stanley WatersStanley Charles Waters (commonly referred to as Stan Waters) (June 14, 1920–September 25, 1991) was Canada's first, and so far only, elected Senator.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Waters enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1941, and chose to remain in the military after the war. He rose steadily through the ranks, and ended his career as a Lieutenant-General and Commander of the Canadian Forces Mobile Command (1973-75). In 1975, he joined Mannix organization at Calgary, becoming president of Loram Group, a subsidiary of the parent company. He was a co-founder of the Bowfort Group of Companies, which engage in farming, real estate and investment operations throughout Western Canada. He held a variety of executive positions until his retirement from business in 1989.
Stan Waters was also keenly interested in Canadian politics. In 1987, Waters became a founding member of Preston Manning's Reform Party of Canada. While Waters did not choose to participate as a Reform Party candidate in the federal election of 1988, he was seen as one of the party's most popular early spokesmen and policy communicators, speaking at numerous party rallies and events from 1987 to 1991.
In 1989, under strain from the troubling and complex wrangling surrounding the Meech Lake Accord constitutional amendment talks and pressured by Alberta Premier Don Getty, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney agreed to appoint to the Canadian Senate any individual who could win a province-wide "Senate Election" in Alberta. Stan Waters came forward as the Reform Party candidate for the open Alberta Senate seat. On October 16, 1989, he received 53% of the over 620,000 votes cast by Albertans in his bid to go to Ottawa as the first elected Canadian Senator in the country's history. He represented the senate division of Alberta.
On June 11, 1990, Stan Waters was sworn in as Canada's first democratically elected Senator. He was also the first and only representative of the Reform Party in the Upper House. During his year-long tenure as a Senator, Waters spoke for Western Canadian and conservative values. He pushed for an end to official bilingualism, urged health care reform, opposed federal funding grants to artists and fervently pushed the Mulroney Government to adopt a "Triple-E Senate" (Elected, Effective and Equal) during the constitutional debates of 1990-91.
In September 1991, Waters died. When the federal Liberal Party was returned to power in the 1993 election under party leader Jean Chrétien, Senate reform was all but abandoned. Chrétien, and his successor, Paul Martin, have not appointed to the Senate candidates senators elected by Albertans.
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