* In 1927, a feature-length silent film Casey at the Bat was released, starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and ZaSu Pitts.

After leaving Paramount, she signed deals with various film companies, being cast in her first horror film roles among many other types of roles, including in The Bowery ( 1933 ) and Viva Villa ( 1934 ), both huge productions starring Wallace Beery.

Hawks's next two films at MGM were the boxing drama The Prizefighter and the Lady and the bio-pic Viva Villa !, starring Wallace Beery as Mexican Revolutionary leader Pancho Villa.

In 1979, Voight once again put on boxing gloves, starring in 1979's remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper vehicle, The Champ, with Voight playing the part of an alcoholic ex-heavyweight and a young Rick Schroder playing the role of his adoring son.

* April 15 – Wallace Beery, American actor ( b. 1885 )

* April 1 – Wallace Beery, American actor ( d. 1949 )

The 1930s movie The Bowery with George Raft and Wallace Beery includes a NYC sports-bar named " Nigger Joe's ".

With Wallace Beery in Grand Hotel ( 1932 )

The movie stars Wallace Beery ( Andy " Champ " Purcell ) and Jackie Cooper ( Dink ), and tells the story of a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life together for the sake of his young son.

Screenwriter Frances Marion wrote the title role specifically for Wallace Beery, who by 1931 was no star but merely an aging character actor.

Wallace Beery flew his own plane from Los Angeles, California, cross-country to attend the premiere.

Andy " Champ " Purcell ( Wallace Beery ) is the former world heavyweight champion, now down on his luck and living in squalid conditions with his eight-year-old son " Dink " in Tijuana, Mexico.

* Wallace Beery as Champ

A number of motion pictures in the 1930s, some of them even starring Wallace Beery, repeated the basic story about a man surrendering to drink and redeemed by the love of his long-suffering son.

is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade.

* Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa

The Big House is a 1930 film starring Robert Montgomery, Wallace Beery and Chester Morris.

In an overcrowded prison designed for 1800 and actually holding 3000, he is placed in a cell with Butch ( Wallace Beery ) and Morgan ( Chester Morris ), the two leaders of the inmates.

* Wallace Beery as Butch

The adventure film stars Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall, Henry Woodward, James Gordon, George Hackathorne, Nelson McDowell, Harry Lorraine, and Theodore Lorch.

Silent film stars Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee and Wallace Beery stayed with local families during production.

He played adventurers in the dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ) with Wallace Beery and The Mask of Fu Manchu ( 1932 ) with Boris Karloff, and a police captain in Bureau of Missing Persons ( 1933 ).

Wallace Fitzgerald Beery ( April 1, 1885-April 15, 1949 ) was an American actor.

Wallace Beery attended the Chase School in Kansas City and took piano lessons as well, but showed little love for academic matters.

His family, like many Wallaces, claimed a connection to William Wallace, a Scottish patriot and leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th century.

The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from tales of outlaws, such as Hereward the Wake, Eustace the Monk, Fulk FitzWarin and William Wallace.

An 1855 paper on the " introduction " of species, written by Alfred Russel Wallace, claimed that patterns in the geographical distribution of living and fossil species could be explained if every new species always came into existence near an already existing, closely related species.

Wallace claimed that Grant's orders were unsigned, hastily written, and overly vague.

Grant later claimed that he had specified that Wallace take the " lower " path ( River Road ), although circumstantial evidence suggests that Grant had forgotten that more than one path existed.

Gaddis's influence is vast ( although frequently subterranean ): for example, postmodern authors such as Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon seem to have been influenced by Gaddis ( indeed, upon publication of V., Pynchon was actually speculated to have been a pen name for Gaddis due to the similarity of styles and the dearth of information about the two authors ; the Wanda Tinasky letters also claimed that Gaddis, Pynchon, and Jack Green were the same person ), as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, David Markson, and David Foster Wallace, who have all stated their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recognitions in particular.

There is good evidence he had already been developing literary ambitions as a student at St Andrews where he claimed to have begun drafting a play on the life of William Wallace.

For his 2005 television show How To Start Your Own Country, presenter Danny Wallace claimed to be " Leader " of Eel Pie Island after invading the island via the footbridge.

" Wallace rebuffed critics who claimed that he had " dragooned " his wife into the race.

Wallace claimed that the law would thwart the national government from intervening in schools.

Wallace later claimed that he had facilitated a fellow southerner's nomination ; however, no position advocated by Wallace was included in the 1976 Democratic platform.

Soon enough Ford's former alleged common-law wife, Hazel Ford, stepped forward with what she claimed was proof that W. F. Muhammad ( alias Wallace D. Fard ) and Wallace D. Ford were indeed the same person.

He claimed bad luck and injuries disrupted the progress of two other prospects Alf Arrowsmith and Gordon Wallace ; Shankly compared the latter to Tom Finney.

" Wallace, however, claimed that segregation was but one issue symbolic of a larger struggle for states ' rights ; in that view, which some historians dispute, his replacement of segregation with states ' rights would be more of a clarification than a euphemism.

Dixon claimed the World Bantamweight Championship in 1888 and was officially considered the champion after knocking out Nunc Wallace of England in 18 rounds on June 27, 1890.

It has even been claimed that Wallace's relative lack of success after 1297, and the fact that Moray's name was always mentioned first in joint statements, suggests that the successful campaign of 1297 owes more to Moray than Wallace.

Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike.

However, it was later acknowledged that some of his biographers, such as Amy Wallace, exaggerated how high his IQ actually was and exactly what Sperling had claimed.

Wallace claimed that the law would thwart the national government from intervening in schools.

Treen claimed that Wallace supporters " became very cool to my candidacy.

The community was further split when Wallace Fard Muhammad, known within the temple as David Ford El, also claimed ( or was taken by some ) to be the reincarnation of Drew Ali.

Wallace claimed that the books contained hidden but detailed descriptions of the murders.