Ned Sparks
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One of the most imitated comic actors in Hollywood history, stone-faced Ned Sparks began his career as a boy singer during the 1898 Klondike gold rush. After "gold fever" subsided, Sparks knocked around in tent theatricals, medicine shows, and... more
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Cast: Bing Crosby Ned Sparks Laura Hope Crewes Edith Head Roy Del Ruth
Tags: Musical
Length: 94min
The Star Maker is the story (with variations) of vaudeville enterpreneur Gus Edwards, here played by Bing Crosby. Determining that he can attain the uppermost showbiz rungs by spotlighting new, untried talents, Edwards rises to fame by hiring preteen...
Cast: James Stewart Jane Wyman Ned Sparks William Wellman Milo Anderson
Length: 103min
With Robert Riskin as screenwriter, director William Wellman proved in Magic Town that it was possible to make a Frank Capra-esque picture without Capra himself at the helm. James Stewart plays Rip Smith, a cynical pollster who comes across a small...
Cast: Ned Sparks Alice Faye Darryl F. Zanuck William Demarest Patsy Kelly
Tags: Parody/Spoof Satire Comedy Musical
Length: 91min
The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but that doesn't lessen the entertainment value of the Bernie/Winchell vehicle Wake Up and Live. Amidst the bickering of the two...
Cast: Ned Sparks Emil Newman Marjorie Weaver Margaret Dumont Joan Davis
Length: 62min
A Clarence Buddington Kelland story was the source for the mildly farcical For Beauty's Sake. If he wants to inherit a fortune, bookish astronomy professor B. E. Dillsome (Ted North) must operate his aunt's beauty parlor for a two-year period....
Cast: Ned Sparks Gibb McLaughlin Mary Brian Patric Knowles Gordon Harker
Length: 64min
Two's Company was based on Sydney Horler's stage comedy Romeo and Julia. The film's storyline is developed in parallel fashion, with the antics of American businessman B. G. Madison (Henry Holman) and his family and associates mirrored and sometimes...
Cast: Betty Grable Ned Sparks Hans Dreier Akim Tamiroff Edith Head
Length: 75min
This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The fact that Grable plays the new bride of Charles "Buddy" Rogers takes on special significance when one realizes that Betty was two months away from her first...
Cast: Ned Sparks Warren Hull Edward F. Cline Gloria Holden Ward Bond
Length: 72min
Though it may be difficult for modern audiences to understand or appreciate the appeal of canary-voiced boy soprano Bobby Breen, the fact remains that he was one of the most popular box-office attractions of the 1930s. Adapted from Don Blandings'...
Cast: Jean Hersholt Sonja Henie Adolphe Menjou Ned Sparks Don Ameche
Tags: Romantic Comedy Musical Comedy Musical
Length: 80min
Norwegian skating sensation Sonja Henie made her Hollywood screen debut in the splashy 20th Century-Fox musical One in a Million. While preparing for the 1936 Winter Olympics, Swiss skater Greta Muller (Henie) is discovered by American theatrical...
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck Robert Young Ned Sparks Gene Raymond Hattie McDaniel
Tags: Comedy
Length: 81min
Newlywed Carolyn Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) has been raised to expect the finer things in life, but these are things that can't be provided by her working-stiff husband Michael (Gene Raymond). Hoping to supplement the family coffers, Carolyn offers to...
Cast: Betty Grable Ned Sparks Jack Oakie Frances Langford Ralph Murphy
Length: 84min
In this musical comedy a Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school from his late aunt. He breathes life into the school by giving song and dance lessons. The financially ailing school is funded by an odd, but rich man who becomes the...
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