Gwen Wakeling Trailers
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Costume designer Gwen Wakeling (birth name Gwen Sewell, March 3, 1901, Detroit, Michigan – June 16, 1982, Los Angeles, California) was a personal favourite of Cecil B. DeMille. Indeed her first film was his 1927 epic "The King of Kings", and she earned an Academy Award for her work on his version of "Samson and Delilah" in 1950.
In a career spanning over 140 films, she also worked for director John Ford on such films as "The Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936), "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), and provided the costumes for most of the Shirley Temple films, such as Little Miss Broadway, in the 1930s. One of her last assignments was creating Barbara Eden's "Jeannie" costumes for I Dream Of Jeannie in 1965.
Wakeling was a member of the Bahá'í Faith, and her husband, Henry J. Staudigl, set up an arts endowment in her memory at Bosch Bahá'í School in Santa Cruz to promote artistic endeavors and included a research and resource library.
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27 September 1940
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City.
31 March 1966
Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a cat fight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.
10 October 1947
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
18 July 1936
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father.
30 July 1937
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
21 December 1949
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
22 March 1944
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
15 August 1934
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed.
23 July 1954
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000.
31 October 1941
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
26 November 1958
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X.
03 July 1954
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
21 November 1941
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football e
25 September 1936
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
30 December 1938
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
25 September 1931
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
17 October 1941
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast.
01 October 1955
An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
18 March 1938
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
19 February 1932
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
05 August 1938
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
11 December 1936
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
12 March 1937
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father.
14 November 1935
A Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied to him by Parisian Russians.
12 May 1942
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch.
01 July 1956
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
13 June 1939
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood).
29 July 1938
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
04 July 1961
An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervious to everything.
09 October 1936
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.
27 July 1938
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
15 September 1939
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur.
17 March 1939
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
28 October 1941
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
01 September 1939
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime.
18 May 1934
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of.
16 November 1941
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
12 February 1937
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
25 November 1938
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
03 January 1936
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway.
12 February 1932
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career.
11 April 1957
A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico.
19 April 1940
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release.
03 August 1939
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
19 February 1939
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it.
05 June 1936
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications.
18 June 1938
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands.
24 August 1934
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
06 April 1940
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
31 December 1931
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
30 August 1940
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
17 April 1931
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
29 January 1942
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant.
04 September 1931
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
16 May 1956
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
03 July 1930
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
07 March 1941
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook.
16 October 1931
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
23 August 1937
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
23 October 1936
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape.
