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Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he re-organized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone, and was extremely influential on up and coming trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of motion pictures that usually featured his bands in some way.
Harry James was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of Myrtle Maybelle (Stewart), an acrobat and horseback rider, and Everett Robert James, a bandleader in a traveling circus, the Haag Circus. According to the Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel broadcast on September 12, 1942, on which James appeared, he was saved from being trampled, at the age of 6, by his mother's horse after performing with the horse. By the age of 10 he was taking trumpet lessons from his father, who placed him on a strict daily practice schedule. Each day, James was given one page to learn from the Arban's book and was not allowed to pursue any other pastime until he had learned that particular page.
James Angus (born 1970) is an Australian artist known for 'his engaging and rigorously crafted sculptures'.
James Angus was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1970. Angus holds a degree in Fine Arts from Curtin University of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture) from Yale University School of Art. He has also lectured at UTS.
Angus has been honoured with a number of prestigious awards across his career. These include Fulbright Postgraduate Award, 1996; Yale University Travelling Fellowship, 1998; Australia Council Professional Development Grant, 1998 and 2001; Studio residency, Cite des Arts, Paris, 2003; Short listed for National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, 2005; Basil Sellers Art Prize, Melbourne; 2008 and Australia Council Fellowship, 2009.
He has exhibited widely at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Monash University Art Gallery, Melbourne; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France; and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
Actors: Laura Karpman (composer), Richard Grieco (actor), Wil Wheaton (actor), Lea Thompson (actress), Dee Wallace (actress), Bill Capizzi (actor), Donovan Scott (actor), Ari Halpern (miscellaneous crew), Xavier Barquet (producer), Jay Kamen (editor), Lee Friedlander (producer), Tonie Perensky (actress), Aditya Chandora (producer), Randy Becker (actor), Dan Harris (producer),
Plot: A desperate young couple, on the run from the mob, drop anchor at a remote rundown restaurant in the middle of the desert named the Nautilus. At first, it seems like a great place to hideout but soon they find themselves smack dab in the center of a family that gives a whole new definition to the word crazy and makes them think that maybe they'd be better off with the mob.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Harry James (actor), George Robinson (director), George Robinson (producer), Cherie De Castro (actress), Babette De Castro (actress), Peggy De Castro (actress), Harry James and His Music Makers (actor), John O'Neill (actor), John O'Neill (actor), Ralph & Lorraine (actor),
Genres: Music, Short,Actors: Harry Antrim (actor), Tom Greenway (actor), Dan Dailey (actor), John Hamilton (actor), John Close (actor), Steve Allen (actor), Tom Hanlon (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), John Butler (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), Reginald Gardiner (actor), Harry Lauter (actor),
Plot: Updated version of "Tin Pan Alley" concerns two songwriters and their romantic entanglements with the pretty pair of sisters helping them plug their songs.
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, contraction-in-title, punctuation-in-title, songwriterActors: Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), George Davis (actor), William Demarest (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Tom Fadden (actor), Henry Fonda (actor), Hugh Herbert (actor),
Plot: Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
Keywords: 1940s, 4-stories, 42nd-street-manhattan-new-york-city, actor, actress, anthology, apology, applause, auto-mechanic, autographActors: Shirley Ulmer (miscellaneous crew), William Prince (actor), Fred R. Feitshans Jr. (editor), Max Rée (costume designer), Edgar G. Ulmer (director), Seena Owen (writer), Frank McHugh (actor), Bert Freed (actor), Marsha Hunt (actress), Barbara Woodell (actress), William LeBaron (producer), Cloris Leachman (actress), Hans Jaray (actor), Martha O'Driscoll (actress), Harry James (actor),
Plot: A mother (Marsha Hunt) wants her son (William Prince) to grow up to be a pianist good enough to play at Carnegie Hall but, when grown, the son prefers to play with Vaughan Monroe's orchestra. But Mama's wishes prevail and the son appears at Carnegie Hall as the composer-conductor-pianist of a modern horn concerto, with Harry James as the soloist. Frank McHugh is along as a Carnegie Hall porter and doorman, and Martha O'Driscoll is a singer who provides the love interest for Prince. Meanwhile and between while a brigade of classical music names from the 1940's (and earlier and later)appear; the conductors Walter Damrosch, Bruno Walter, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner and Leopold Stokowski; singers Rise Stevens, Lily Pons, Jan Peerce and Ezio Pinza, plus pianist Arthur Rubinstein, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and violinist Jascha Heifetz.
Keywords: carnegie-hall-manhattan-new-york-city, manhattan-new-york-city, mother-son-relationship, new-york-city, pianistActors: Andrew Tombes (actor), Ray Teal (actor), Francis Pierlot (actor), Alphonse Martell (actor), Edmund Mortimer (actor), Red Skelton (actor), Basil Rathbone (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Donald Meek (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Xavier Cugat (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Dorothy Adams (actress), Joe Yule (actor),
Plot: Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman who's been paid by Steve's agent to say she's his wife interrupts the ceremony. An angry Caroline gets her old job back teaching at a girl's college. Determined to win her back, Steve enrolls in the school to become its only male student.
Keywords: actress, airplane, annulment, ballet, bigamy, college, confession, dance-teacher, dean, dogActors: LeRoy Prinz (director), Jack Carson (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Cary Grant (actor), Jimmy Lydon (actor), Herbert Marshall (actor), Dennis Morgan (actor), Charles Ruggles (actor), Frank Sinatra (actor), Olive Blakeney (actress), Gordon Hollingshead (producer), Jack L. Warner (producer), Harry James (actor), Benny Goodman (actor), Mildred Shay (actress),
Plot: Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1951 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
Keywords: reenactment, world-war-twoActors: Nana Bryant (actress), June Allyson (actress), Lucille Ball (actress), Barbara Bedford (actress), Henry O'Neill (actor), Robert Emmett O'Connor (actor), Chill Wills (actor), Donald MacBride (actor), Stanley Donen (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), James Ellison (actor), Bess Flowers (actress), Gloria DeHaven (actress),
Plot: Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
Keywords: actress, actress-playing-herself, based-on-play, blind-date, bus, chaperon, dancing, dormitory, fur-coat, graduationActors: William H. O'Brien (actor), Edmund Mortimer (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), Sidney Miller (actor), George Chandler (actor), Dick Foran (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Eddie Bruce (actor), Shemp Howard (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Donald O'Connor (actor),
Plot: A Universal Army enlistment promotion, produced as a musical showcase for Harry James, the Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Lewis, and Donald O'Connor & Peggy Ryan. The film's thin plot has James drafted, and joining him is the band's lead vocalist Lon Prentice (Dick Foran), who doesn't believe that Army training and regulations are necessary for anyone of his skill and fame. Shemp Howard steals the film whenever James and the Andrews aren't performing. As Sgt. Snavely, he's effectively teamed with Mary Wickes as his shrewish fiancée, trying desperately to keep her away from the attentions of nightclub comic and USO performer Lancelot Pringle McBiff (Joe E. Lewis). Shemp also has the opportunity to clown onstage with the Andrews Sisters during a musical finale, as they perform Don't Sit Under the Appletree. Arguably, Shemp's best solo feature film credit.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, archive-footage, army-base, army-buddy, bandleader, canteen, cigarette-smokingActors: Gladden James (actor), Owen Moore (actor), Florence Lawrence (actress), Harry Solter (director),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Oh, But I Do!
Harry James
Music and Lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Leo Robin
You think I don't love you,
Oh, but I do!
How can I show that I do?
You think I don't get blue,
Oh, but I do!
Though I get light hearted too.
First Im singing then Im sighing
Then Im flying high above.
You think I don't know why,
Oh, but I do!
I know that it's you I love.