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The Glass Key (1942 film)

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The Glass Key is a 1942 American crime drama film and film noir directed by Stuart Heisler and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. [1]

48 relations: AFI Catalog of Feature Films, Alan Ladd, Ancestry.com, Bonita Granville, Brian Donlevy, Buddy DeSylva, Crime film, Dane Clark, Dashiell Hammett, Donald MacBride, Edward Arnold (actor), Film noir, Frances Gifford, Fred Kohlmar, Gene Kelly, George Raft, Hal Erickson (author), I Married a Witch, Jack Mulhall, Joel McCrea, Jonathan Latimer, Joseph Calleia, Margaret Hayes, Maurice Costello, Moroni Olsen, Paramount Pictures, Pat O'Malley (actor), Patricia Morison, Paulette Goddard, Red Harvest, Richard Denning, Saigon (1948 film), Star Spangled Rhythm, Stuart Heisler, The Big Sleep (1946 film), The Blue Dahlia, The Campbell Playhouse (radio), The Glass Key, The Glass Key (1935 film), The Maltese Falcon (novel), The Screen Guild Theater, Theodor Sparkuhl, This Gun for Hire, Variety (magazine), Variety Girl, Veronica Lake, Victor Young, William Bendix.

AFI Catalog of Feature Films

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute to catalog all commercially made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures, from the earliest days of the industry to the present.

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Alan Ladd

Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film and television producer.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Bonita Granville

Bonita Granville (February 2, 1923 – October 11, 1988) was an American film actress and television producer.

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Brian Donlevy

Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972) was an American actor, noted for playing dangerous tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s.

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Buddy DeSylva

George Gard "Buddy" DeSylva (January 27, 1895 – July 11, 1950) was an American songwriter, film producer and record executive.

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Crime film

Crime cinema, in the broadest sense, is a cinematic genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Dane Clark

Dane Clark (born Bernard Zanville, February 26, 1912September 11, 1998) was an American character actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average".

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist.

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Donald MacBride

Donald Hugh MacBride (June 23, 1893 – June 21, 1957) was an American character actor on stage, in films, and on television who launched his career as a teenage singer (making several recordings in 1907) in vaudeville and went on to be an actor on Broadway, where he appeared in Room Service.

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Edward Arnold (actor)

Edward Arnold (born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider, February 18, 1890 – April 26, 1956) was an American actor.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Frances Gifford

Mary Frances Gifford (December 7, 1920 – January 22, 1994) was an American actress who played leads and supporting roles in many 1930s and 1940s movies.

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Fred Kohlmar

Fred Kohlmar (August 10, 1905 - October 13, 1969) was a New York City-born film producer.

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Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer.

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George Raft

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Hal Erickson (author)

Harold "Hal" Erickson (born 1950) is a media historian who was a senior editor at AllRovi for 15 years starting in 1994 when it was known as "All Movies".

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I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch is a 1942 American fantasy romantic comedy film, directed by René Clair, and starring Veronica Lake as a witch whose plan for revenge goes comically awry, with Fredric March as her foil.

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Jack Mulhall

John Joseph Francis Mulhall (October 7, 1887 – June 1, 1979) was an American film actor beginning in the silent film era who successfully transitioned to sound films, appearing in over 430 films in a career spanning 50 years.

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Joel McCrea

Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned almost five decades and appearances in more than 90 films.

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Jonathan Latimer

Jonathan Wyatt Latimer (October 23, 1906 – June 23, 1983) was an American crime writer noted for his novels and screenplays.

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Joseph Calleia

Joseph Calleia (born Joseph Alexander Caesar Herstall Vincent Calleja, August 4, 1897 – October 31, 1975) was a Maltese-born American actor and singer on the stage and in films, radio and television.

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Margaret Hayes

Margaret Hayes (born Florette Regina Ottenheimer; December 5, 1916 – January 26, 1977) was an American film, stage, and television actress.

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Maurice Costello

Maurice George Costello (February 22, 1877 – October 29, 1950) was a prominent American vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s, who later played a principal role in early American films, as leading man, supporting player and director.

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Moroni Olsen

Moroni Olsen (June 27, 1889November 22, 1954) was an American actor.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Pat O'Malley (actor)

Patrick Henry O'Malley Jr. (September 3, 1890 – May 21, 1966) was an American vaudeville and stage performer prior to starting a prolific film career at the age of 16.

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Patricia Morison

Patricia Morison (born Ursula Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison; March 19, 1915 – May 20, 2018) was an American stage, television and film actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood and mezzo-soprano singer.

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Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress, a child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl; she became a major star of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s.

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Red Harvest

Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett.

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Richard Denning

Richard Denning (March 27, 1914 – October 11, 1998) was an American actor best known for starring in science fiction films of the 1950s, including Unknown Island (1948), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Target Earth (1954), Day the World Ended (1955), Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), and The Black Scorpion (1957).

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Saigon (1948 film)

Saigon is a 1948 American film noir crime film directed by Leslie Fenton starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.

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Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1942 American all-star cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a morale booster.

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Stuart Heisler

Stuart Heisler (December 5, 1896 – August 21, 1979) was an American film and television director.

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The Big Sleep (1946 film)

The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name.

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The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 American crime film and film noir, directed by George Marshall based on an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler.

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The Campbell Playhouse (radio)

The Campbell Playhouse (1938–40) is a live CBS radio drama series directed by and starring Orson Welles.

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The Glass Key

The Glass Key is a novel by Dashiell Hammett, said to be his favorite among his works.

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The Glass Key (1935 film)

The Glass Key, released in 1935, is the first of two film adaptations of the suspense novel The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett.

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The Maltese Falcon (novel)

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue.

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The Screen Guild Theater

The Screen Guild Theater is a radio anthology series broadcast from 1939 until 1952 during the Golden Age of Radio.

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Theodor Sparkuhl

Theodor Sparkuhl (October 7, 1894, Hannover, Germany – June 13, 1946, Los Angeles, California) was a German-born cinematographer with over 100 movies to his credit.

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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American crime drama film and film noir, directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the 1936 novel (published in America with the same title, and in Britain with the title A Gun for Sale) by Graham Greene.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Variety Girl

Variety Girl is a 1947 American musical comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures.

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Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake (born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman; November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film, stage, and television actress.

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Victor Young

Victor Young (August 8, 1900 – November 10, 1956)"Victor Young, Composer, Dies of Heart Attack", Oakland Tribune, November 12, 1956.

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William Bendix

William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Key_(1942_film)

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