John Garrick

John Garrick

Born: August 31, 1902
Died: October 22, 1966

Movies for John Garrick...

The Great Victor Herbert
Title: The Great Victor Herbert
Character: Warner Bryant
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Tom Blake
Released: December 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Popular comedian Claude Dampier is seen at his best here, as he disrupts the sedate peace of Victorian England in his attempt to help a village blacksmith win both a bicycle race and the girl. Can the blacksmith's new bicycle design triumph over his rival's trusty penny farthing?
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A Woman Alone
Title: A Woman Alone
Character: Yakov Sharialev
Released: May 19, 1936
Type: Movie
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
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Shipmates o' Mine
Title: Shipmates o' Mine
Character: Jack Denton
Released: March 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
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Royal Eagle
Title: Royal Eagle
Character: Jim Hornby
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.
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Street Song
Title: Street Song
Character: Tom
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
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D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Title: D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Character: Major John Peel
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
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Turn of the Tide
Title: Turn of the Tide
Character: Marney Lunn
Released: June 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Turn of the Tide is a 1935 British film directed by Norman Walker. It was the first feature film made by J. Arthur Rank. It is set in a North Yorkshire fishing village, and relates the rivalry between two fishing families. The actors included John Garrick, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson speak in the local accent. The work is based on the novel Three Fevers by Leo Walmsley.
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The Rocks of Valpre
Title: The Rocks of Valpre
Character: Louis de Monteville
Released: January 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A framed captain breaks jail and saves his ex-fiancée from blackmail.
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Anything Might Happen
Title: Anything Might Happen
Character: Nicholson / Raybourn
Released: September 12, 1934
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by George A. Cooper.
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The Broken Melody
Title: The Broken Melody
Character: Paul Verlaine
Released: May 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
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Chu Chin Chow
Title: Chu Chin Chow
Character: Nur-al-din Baba
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
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Bad Company
Title: Bad Company
Character: Steve Carlyle
Released: October 16, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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Always Goodbye
Title: Always Goodbye
Character: Cyril Shayne
Released: May 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Stranded and broke after her erstwhile boyfriend leaves her, A onetime London heiress joins a con man to bilk a millionaire at his Italian villa. Little do they realize that he knows full well who they are after being tipped off by Scotland Yard.
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Charlie Chan Carries On
Title: Charlie Chan Carries On
Character: Mark Kenaway
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
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Are You There?
Title: Are You There?
Character: Geoffrey Troon
Released: November 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Beatrice Lillie shines in disguise as a private detective.
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Just Imagine
Title: Just Imagine
Character: J-21
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
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The Lottery Bride
Title: The Lottery Bride
Character: Chris
Released: September 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
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Song o' My Heart
Title: Song o' My Heart
Character: Fergus
Released: March 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man who’s off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, he’s nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?
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The Sky Hawk
Title: The Sky Hawk
Character: Jack Bardell
Released: January 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Jack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to private life, to the shame of his father, Lord Bardell, he gets his chance for redemption during a German Zepplin attack over London. He puts on a good show.