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Monogram agreed, and Katzman launched the " Teen Agers " series, featuring singer Freddie Stewart and future " Superman " co-star Noel Neill.
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After Warner Brothers released the remaining Dead End Kids from their contracts in 1939, producer Sam Katzman at Monogram acted quickly and hired several of them, including Jordan and the Gorcey brothers, as well as Chester and some of the other Little Tough Guys to star in a new series using the name " The East Side Kids.
Black Dragons appeared as villains in two Sam Katzman 1942 Monogram Pictures releases Black Dragons and Let's Get Tough!
This prompted producer Sam Katzman to engage Bela Lugosi for a follow-up series of Monogram thrillers.
Katzman sold Monogram on a juvenile delinquency series, to cash in on the successful cycle of the Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys melodramas.
Katzman branched out with companion series for Monogram.
Monogram and launched
In 1896, the company launched the signature Monogram Canvas and made the worldwide patents on it.
Monogram and Teen
Upon his return to civilian life, Monogram welcomed him back and cast the perennially youthful Darro in its " Teen Agers " campus comedies.
Monogram and series
Storm acted and sang in Monogram Pictures ' popular Frankie Darro series, and played ingénue roles in other Monogram features with the East Side Kids, Edgar Kennedy and The Three Stooges, most notably in the film Swing Parade of 1946.
Because the original Dead End Kids were now working for several studios, their Universal films were made at roughly the same time as the Warner Brothers ' ' Dead End Kids ' series, and later, Monogram Picture's " The East Side Kids " series.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast him in a recurring role in its Dr. Kildare film series, and Monogram Pictures featured him in its Frankie Darro comedies and starred him as Mr. Wong in Phantom of Chinatown.
( Monogram Pictures continued the series from 1944 to 1949 with 17 more entries.
Following the debacle surrounding the production of The Magnificent Ambersons ( which ended with the expulsion of the Mercury team from the RKO lot ) Endfield signed on as a contract director at MGM, directing a wide variety of shorts ( including the last films in the long-running Our Gang series ), before moving on to freelance on low-budget productions for Monogram and independents.
In the late 1940s Monogram Pictures hired him for a series of mounted-police adventures, featuring " Chinook the Wonder Dog.
Billed as " Tim and Irene ", they had their own series of short subjects in the 1930s for Educational Pictures, and later worked in feature films for Monogram Pictures.
* The Bowery Boys, a series of movies made by Monogram Pictures from 1946 to 1958
He began his screen career in the 1930s, having been featured in Monogram Pictures ' series of " Tailspin Tommy " adventures.
They were in the independently-produced, RKO-released 1939 Jean Hersholt vehicle Meet Dr. Christian, made brief cameo appearances in RKO's 1940 Anne of Green Gables installment Anne of Windy Poplars and co-starred with Frankie Darro, Keye Luke and Mantan Moreland in two 1941 Monogram series films, The Gang's All Here and Let's Go Collegiate.
Allied Artists did retain a few vestiges of its Monogram identity, continuing its popular Stanley Clements action series ( through 1953 ), its B-Westerns ( through 1954 ), its Bomba, the Jungle Boy adventures ( through 1955 ) and especially its breadwinning comedy series with The Bowery Boys ( through 1958, with Clements replacing Leo Gorcey ).
In 1938 Monogram began a long and profitable policy of making series and hiring familiar players to star in them.
Monogram continued to experiment with series ; some hit and some missed.
Definite hits were Charlie Chan ( which Monogram picked up after the series had been dropped by Twentieth Century Fox ), The Cisco Kid, and Joe Palooka, all proven movie properties abandoned by other studios and revived by Monogram.
That same year Monogram Pictures teamed him with the urbane stage comedian Frank Fay for a comedy series ; Fay left the series after the first entry, and was replaced by a more appropriate foil, fellow vaudeville veteran Shemp Howard, who had been one of the Three Stooges before being replaced by his brother Curly.
Monogram and featuring
It had a special pattern that had been designed by Ruth Lane Poole in 1926 featuring the Prime Ministerial Monogram.
Monogram and singer
Fay made four movies with her husband, country singer and actor Tex Ritter, at Monogram Pictures: Song of the Buckaroo ( 1938 ), Sundown on the Prairie ( 1939 ), Rollin ' Westward ( 1939 ) and Rainbow Over the Range ( 1940 ).
They recorded for Monogram and then Art Records, with Mighty Panther and the Haitian singer Calypso Mama.
Actor / cowboy singer / producer Gene Autry purchased the Monogram Ranch property from the Hickson heirs in 1953, renaming it after his film Melody Ranch.
Monogram and Stewart
In 1940, she asked Monogram to give her a different part and was loaned to MGM for a small role in The Philadelphia Story, which starred Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart.
Monogram and co-star
His most frequent co-star was the one-year-younger Marcia Mae Jones, who appeared with him in eleven films, including four Monogram tributes to life in idealized pre-World War II rural America, 1938's Barefoot Boy and, in 1940, Tomboy, Haunted House and The Old Swimmin ' Hole.
Monogram and Noel
In the mid-1940s Noel had a leading role in one of Monogram Pictures ' wayward-youth melodramas, and she became a familiar face in Monogram features for the next several years, especially in the recurring role of Betty Rogers.
Noel appears in the last of the original Charlie Chan movies, Sky Dragon ( 1949 ), and also played damsels in distress in Monogram westerns and Republic Pictures serials.
Monogram and .
Movies with budgets a step up the ladder, known as " intermediates " within the industry, might be treated as A or B pictures depending on the circumstance — Monogram created a new unit, Allied Artists, in the late 1940s to focus on this sort of production.
Hawks told her that she meant nothing to Bogart and even threatened to send her to Monogram, the worst studio in Hollywood.
The minor studios such as Republic Pictures made Bob Crosby and Eddie Foy Jr Rookies on Parade and Monogram Pictures enlisted Nat Pendleton as Top Sergeant Mulligan.
VOC Monogram formerly above the entrance to the Castle of Good Hope.
Helmeted and cuirass-wearing facing bust, holding shield Monogram ; cross above, 100 below.
The picture was originally slated for Monogram release, yet the producers, the King Brothers Productions, chose United Artists as the distributor.
Image: Royal Monogram of King Henri II of France. svg | Royal Monogram
A number of the top Poverty Row firms consolidated: Sono Art joined another company to create Monogram Pictures early in the decade.
In 1935, Monogram, Mascot, and several smaller studios merged to establish Republic Pictures.
The former heads of Monogram soon sold off their Republic shares and set up a new Monogram production house.
Into the 1950s, most Republic and Monogram product was roughly on par with the low end of the majors ' output.
Low-budget motion picture studio Monogram Pictures produced a trio of quickie Shadow B-movie features in 1946 starring Kane Richmond: The Shadow Returns, Behind the Mask and The Missing Lady.
After Oland's death, American actor Sidney Toler was cast as Chan ; Toler made 22 Chan films, first for Fox and then for Monogram Studios.
In 1908 Sweatman moved to Chicago, playing around the city in places like the Pekin Inn and the Monogram Theater before becoming the bandleader at the Grand Theater, and began to attract notice ; a 1910 article referred to his nickname, " Sensational Swet.
Monogram had always relied on established actors with reputations, but in Gale Storm the studio finally had a star of its own.
She performed in more than three dozen motion pictures for Monogram, experience which made possible her success in other media.
Autry purchased the 110 acre Monogram Movie Ranch in 1953, located in Placerita Canyon near Newhall, California in the northern San Gabriel Mountains foothills.
In 1952 Autry bought the old Monogram Ranch in Placerita Canyon ( Newhall-Santa Clarita, California ,) and renamed it Melody Ranch.
Lord worked briefly for Monogram Pictures in 1946, and returned to Columbia in 1948.
Monogram Pictures producer Scott R. Dunlap was hosting a party at the nightclub in honor of Jones.
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