生于柏林。他在未到好莱坞以前就在柏林电影界的冲印部门工作,剪接尤为特长,有一段时期当过卡通片的设计者,也干过电影记者,写出过很多改进影艺的文章,因此乌发公司请他担任制片,后来美国环球公司又邀请他去当导演。1936年他应聘到好莱坞,还是个年轻的小伙子,第一部片子是《春闺三凤》,...
生于加拿大的温尼伯,但是在加利福尼亚州长大。1936年在音乐短片《每个星期天》中初登银幕,同年由她主演的影片《满庭芳》获得巨大的成功。后来她到英国拍片,并在1939年至1942年成为英国最卖座的女明星。1938年,她与米盖.罗纳同获美国电影艺术与科学院授予的特别奖。1948年退出影坛。
生于英国约郡斯卡巴勒。父母本想让继承家业,可他从小就喜欢演戏。一战服役归来后加入业余剧团,后来终于突破家庭的限制,进入皇家戏剧艺术学院学习。在他的导师科米萨叶斯基的培养下逐步成熟,最后在其剧作《莉莉奥姆》中挑起了大梁。此后,他在西伦西区成功地演出一些剧目。1931年他...
Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for his eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet). He was educated at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Deciding that Broadway producers would be more interested in an upper-crust Englishman than a kid from Joplin, Missouri, Cummings passed himself off as Blade Stanhope Conway, British actor. The ploy was successful. Cummings decided that if it worked on Broadway, it would work in Hollywood, so he journeyed west and assumed the identity of a rich Texan named Bruce Hutchens. The plan worked once more, and he began securing small parts in films. He soon reverted to his real name and became a popular leading man in light comedies, usually playing well-meaning, pleasant but somewhat bumbling young men. He achieved much more success, however, in his own television series in the '50s, The Bob Cummings Show (1955) and My Living Doll (1964).