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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1931 horror film directed by Rouben Mamoulian.[1] Image File history File links JekyllHyde1931. ...
Rouben Mamoulian (October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an American film and theatre director. ...
Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ...
Samuel Hoffenstein (October 9, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. ...
Percy Heath, (April 30, 1923 – April 28, 2005), was a jazz musician, most famous for his 40+ years as the double bass player for the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ). ...
Fredric March (August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
Ellen Miriam Hopkins (October 18, 1902 – October 9, 1972) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. ...
Rose Hobart (May 1, 1906 - August 29, 2000) was an American film actress. ...
Karl Struss (November 30, 1886—December 16, 1981) was a photographer and an Academy Award-winning cinematographer of the 1920s through the 1950s. ...
William Alfred Bill Shea (June 21, 1907 – October 2, 1991) was a lawyer who is best known for his part in the return of National League professional baseball to New York City after the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants after the 1957 season, and for the...
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...
is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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// Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff Ingagi, starring Sir Hubert Winstead Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore City Lights starring Charles Chaplin Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ Best Actor: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. ...
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Rouben Mamoulian (October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an American film and theatre director. ...
The picture is an adaptation of the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a crude homicidal maniac. For other uses, see Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (disambiguation). ...
Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ...
Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ...
Unlike most sound features produced by Paramount Pictures prior to 1950, this film is not owned by Universal Studios. Rather, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought the rights when they did their own film adaptation of the story. The film passed on to Turner Entertainment after Ted Turner's short-lived acquisition of MGM, and then to Warner Bros. when Time Warner bought out Turner. Since then, Warner Home Video has released this film on DVD as a double feature with the 1941 version. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...
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Turner Entertainment Company was established August 4, 1986 to oversee Turner Broadcastings film library after its acquisition of MGM/UA. In addition to the studio, Turner got its library, which included all of MGMs films, Warner Bros. ...
Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19, 1938) in Cincinnati, Ohio[1]) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. ...
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Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...
It is also said that the movie had inspired the 1970s song "You Can Run" by A Flock of Seagulls. For the bands self-titled debut album, see A Flock of Seagulls (album). ...
Plot The film tells of Dr. Jekyll (Fredric March), a kind doctor who experiments with drugs because he's certain that within each man lurks impulses for both good and evil. Fredric March (August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
Dr. Jekyll develops a drug to release the evil side in himself, becoming the hard drinking, woman-chasing Mr. Hyde. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the formula, and unable to control the violent and unstable Mr. Hyde.
Background The film, made prior to the full enforcement of the Hays code, is remembered today for its strong sexual content, embodied mostly in the character of the prostitute, Ivy, played by Miriam Hopkins. The Production Code (also known as the Hays Code) was a set of guidelines governing the production of motion pictures. ...
Ellen Miriam Hopkins (October 18, 1902 – October 9, 1972) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. ...
The secret of the astonishing transformation scenes was not revealed until decades later (Mamoulian himself revealed it in a volume of interviews with Hollywood directors published under the title The Celluloid Muse).
A series of rotating filters matching the make-up was used on the lenses, enabling the make-up to be gradually exposed or made invisible, depending upon the scene. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Wally Westmore's make-up for Hyde, simian and hairy with tusks influenced greatly the popular image of Hyde in media and comic books (the American Classics Illustrated edition of Jekyll and Hyde clearly based its design of Hyde on the Fredric March movie, although it is more toned down); in part this reflected the novella's implication of Hyde as embodying repressed evil and hence being semi-evolved or simian in appearance. Walter Wally James Westmore (February 13, 1906 – July 3, 1973) was a make-up artist for Hollywood films. ...
Cast - Fredric March as Dr. Henry L. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
- Miriam Hopkins as Ivy Pearson
- Rose Hobart as Muriel Carew
- Holmes Herbert as Dr. Lanyon
- Halliwell Hobbes as Brig. Gen. Danvers Carew
- Edgar Norton as Poole
- Tempe Pigott as Mrs. Hawkins, Ivy's landlady
Fredric March (August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
Ellen Miriam Hopkins (October 18, 1902 – October 9, 1972) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. ...
Rose Hobart (May 1, 1906 - August 29, 2000) was an American film actress. ...
Awards Wins Nominations Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor, best known for his many cinema appearances. ...
The Champ is a 1931 movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ...
The Venice Film Festival ( ) is the oldest film festival in the world. ...
- Academy Awards: Oscar; Best Cinematography, Karl Struss; Best Adaptation Writing, Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein; 1932.
Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
Footnotes The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...
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