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Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he successfully transformed into a hardbitten leading man of darker projects.
Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College in the state capital, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in the midwest. He recorded a number of records with Davis and on his own, for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s.
Powell moved to Pittsburgh, where he found great local success as the Master of Ceremonies at the Enright Theater and the Stanley Theater. In April 1930, Warner Bros. bought Brunswick Records, which at that time owned Vocalion. Warner Bros. was sufficiently impressed by Powell's singing and stage presence to offer him a film contract in 1932. He made his film debut as a singing bandleader in Blessed Event. He went on to star as a boyish crooner in movie musicals such as 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Dames, Flirtation Walk, and On the Avenue, often appearing opposite Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell.
Actors: Dolph Lundgren (actor), Simón Andreu (actor), Ralph Brunjes (editor), Ted Kotcheff (director), John 'Frenchie' Berger (miscellaneous crew), Assumpta Serna (actress), Stefano Mainetti (composer), John Ashton (actor), Michael Rogers (actor), Jonathan Matthews (miscellaneous crew), Paul Pompian (producer), Maruschka Detmers (actress), Cheryl Starbuck (miscellaneous crew), Craig Baumgarten (producer), Billy Ray (writer),
Plot: The Ambassador of Cuba was killed in New York. To prevent another attack of the terrorists at the US-Cuba-summit in Prague the CIA sends one of their best federal agents, Michael Dane (Dolph Lundgren). The suspected killer Nikita is a lesbian club owner, Simone Rosset. But as usual everything is much more complicated than it seemed at first; and therefore Dane has to work much more with his brain than with his muscles to survive.
Keywords: action-hero, agent, ambassador, ambush, assassination, bare-breasts, bath, bisexual, blood, blood-on-shirtActors: Robert Pine (actor), Robert O. Ragland (actor), Burgess Meredith (actor), Grainger Hines (actor), Bo Hopkins (actor), Bill Baldwin (actor), Norman Leavitt (actor), Bob Holt (actor), Dennis Dugan (actor), William Atherton (actor), Richard Dysart (actor), William Castle (actor), Billy Barty (actor), John Hillerman (actor), Wally Rose (actor),
Plot: Life's flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930's Holloywoodland's door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Tod Hackett, artist, has inspirations to become noticed until he meets Faye Greener, blonde bombshell, and is immediately smitten. She has other ideas. She has Homer Simpson, victim, in her sights and cruelty and loneliness takes new meaning as all three are slowly sucked into the Hollywood system of sycophants, liggers and parasites, sucking the life from others as the life, and soul, is slowly sucked from them.
Keywords: 1930s, accountant, actor, actress, adding-machine, african-american, alcoholic, androgyny, apartment, architectural-accident