David Manners
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David Manners was a Canadian
- American
film
actor
.
Born Rauff de Ryther Daun Acklom in Halifax
, Nova Scotia
, Manners came to Hollywood at the beginning of the talking films
revolution after studying acting with Eva Le Gallienne
, and acting on stage with Helen Hayes
. His family moved to New York City
in 1907 and to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
in 1922.
In spite of his father's protestations of his thespian ambitions and his even having studied forestry (which bored him) at the University of Toronto
, Manners resolutely pursued a stage career and appeared in both Broadway and out-of-town productions, one of which caused Le Gallienne to comment that he was "a very bad actor."
at a Hollywood party, and within a few years, he was a popular leading man, playing opposite such up and coming actresses as Katharine Hepburn
, Gloria Stuart
, Myrna Loy
, Loretta Young
, and Ann Dvorak
, and he was paired several times with Helen Chandler
.
His very first film, directed by Whale, was unfortunately destroyed before having been released, but with his second movie, Journey's End
(1930), The New York Times
and Variety
officially bestowed their imprimatur upon the fledgling film actor. His subsequent film appearances in movies made at RKO Radio Pictures and Warner Brothers were critically praised (again including The New York Times, an early and prescient adherent of his acting abilities), and he was contracted by the latter studio.
In late 1930, he filmed his most famous role, as the hero John Harker (in the 1897 novel Dracula
, the character's first name is Jonathan) opposite Bela Lugosi
, in Universal's 1931 horror classic, Dracula
. Until the end of his life, Manners continued to receive fan mail from fans of the movie.
Numerous films followed. In only his tenth movie, he co-starred with one of the "grand dames of the silver screen," Barbara Stanwyck
, in Frank Capra
's critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful The Miracle Woman
(1931), and the movie's failure to attract an audience disappointed Capra tremendously. But The New York Times, again lauding Manners, featured this tribute, "Manners does exceptionally well with this sympathetic assignment."
During his brief tenure at Warners, which loaned him out to other studios quite frequently, Manners progressed from callow featured actor and leading man to finally attaining star stature with the lead in Crooner (1932). Shortly thereafter, he began to freelance with much success.
One of the final films he made before the termination of his Warner Bros. contract, was RKO's A Bill of Divorcement
. His co-star Katharine Hepburn
commented that, "David was a big star. I was so nervous working with him... He was... just a dear to work with and a totally professional and talented actor."
One ingenue commented, "David wasn't in the one scene I did in Roman Scandals
, but he watched every scene shot. He was tremendously enthusiastic, and he...invited me to supper. ... He was mobbed everywhere. All the time he kept telling me I had style and personality. He said if I persevered I'd get somewhere in Hollywood. Not once did he ever hint that he'd like to take me home to his boudoir. ... He was so utterly charming." That ingenue was Lucille Ball
.
Many studios vied for his talent and services besides RKO and Warner Brothers, including Columbia
, Universal
, Paramount
, Fox Film Corporation, Tiffany Pictures
, and United Artists
.
(1931), a "Lost Generation
" celebration of alcohol in Paris, and Karl Freund
's The Mummy
(1932) with Boris Karloff
were two standouts. But by 1936 he had grown bored with Hollywood, and abandoned his film career.
Manners never acclimated to Hollywood, which he found to be "a false place." Although he co-founded the Screen Actors Guild
along with the efforts of James Cagney
and Eddie Cantor
in 1933, he returned to New York City. From 1936 to 1956, he lived near Victorville, California
on a ranch, and then in Pacific Palisades and Santa Barbara
, living with a male partner until the partner's death in 1978.
In 1940, he officially changed his name to David Joseph Manners and became a naturalized citizen of the United States
. He returned to the theater where he worked regularly until his retirement in the 1950s. Appearing on Broadway, in summer stock, and on tour, Manners was cast in a variety of productions, including the ill-fated Broadway production of the Agatha Christie
play Hidden Horizon
(1946). The acclaimed actor Marlon Brando
, who was cast along with Manners in Maxwell Anderson
's play Truckline Cafe
(1946), said of his colleague, "I owe him my entire career."
He spent the remainder of his life in private pursuits, such as painting and writing. Several of his novels, published by Dutton, sold over 100,000 copies each. His reflections on philosophy and Being were put forth in Look Through: An Evidence of Self Discovery, published in 1971 by El Cariso Publications.
He died in Santa Barbara, California
on December 23, 1998 at the age of 98.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
- American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
.
Born Rauff de Ryther Daun Acklom in Halifax
City of Halifax
Halifax is a city in Canada, which was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County. It was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996...
, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
, Manners came to Hollywood at the beginning of the talking films
Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...
revolution after studying acting with Eva Le Gallienne
Eva Le Gallienne
Eva Le Gallienne was a well-known actress, producer, and director, during the first half of the 20th century.-Early life and early career:...
, and acting on stage with Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes Brown was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award...
. His family moved to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
in 1907 and to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Hastings-on-Hudson is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located in the southwest part of the town of Greenburgh. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 7,849. It lies on U.S. Route 9, "Broadway" in Hastings...
in 1922.
In spite of his father's protestations of his thespian ambitions and his even having studied forestry (which bored him) at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
, Manners resolutely pursued a stage career and appeared in both Broadway and out-of-town productions, one of which caused Le Gallienne to comment that he was "a very bad actor."
Hollywood career
Manners was serendipitously "discovered" by the film director James WhaleJames Whale
James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed such classics as Frankenstein , The Old Dark House , The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein...
at a Hollywood party, and within a few years, he was a popular leading man, playing opposite such up and coming actresses as Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
, Gloria Stuart
Gloria Stuart
Gloria Frances Stuart was an American actress, activist, painter, bonsai artist and fine printer. Over a Hollywood career which spanned, with a long break in the middle, from 1932 until 2004, she appeared on stage, television, and film, for which she was best-known...
, Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles...
, Loretta Young
Loretta Young
Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...
, and Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak was an American film actress.Asked how to pronounce her adopted surname, she told The Literary Digest: "My name is properly pronounced vor'shack. The D remains silent...
, and he was paired several times with Helen Chandler
Helen Chandler
Helen Chandler was an American film and theater actress.-Career:Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Chandler began her acting career in New York at the age of nine and was on Broadway two years later in 1917...
.
His very first film, directed by Whale, was unfortunately destroyed before having been released, but with his second movie, Journey's End
Journey's End (1930 film)
Journey's End is a 1930 British-American war film directed by James Whale. Based on the play of the same name by R. C. Sherriff, the film tells the story of several British soldiers involved in trench warfare during the First World War...
(1930), The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
officially bestowed their imprimatur upon the fledgling film actor. His subsequent film appearances in movies made at RKO Radio Pictures and Warner Brothers were critically praised (again including The New York Times, an early and prescient adherent of his acting abilities), and he was contracted by the latter studio.
In late 1930, he filmed his most famous role, as the hero John Harker (in the 1897 novel Dracula
Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...
, the character's first name is Jonathan) opposite Bela Lugosi
Béla Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...
, in Universal's 1931 horror classic, Dracula
Dracula (1931 film)
Dracula is a 1931 vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal and is based on the stage play of the same name by Hamilton Deane and John L...
. Until the end of his life, Manners continued to receive fan mail from fans of the movie.
Numerous films followed. In only his tenth movie, he co-starred with one of the "grand dames of the silver screen," Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...
, in Frank Capra
Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...
's critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful The Miracle Woman
The Miracle Woman
The Miracle Woman is a film released by Columbia Pictures about a woman preacher and the blind man who loves her . Directed by Frank Capra, it was the second of his five film collaborations with Stanwyck...
(1931), and the movie's failure to attract an audience disappointed Capra tremendously. But The New York Times, again lauding Manners, featured this tribute, "Manners does exceptionally well with this sympathetic assignment."
During his brief tenure at Warners, which loaned him out to other studios quite frequently, Manners progressed from callow featured actor and leading man to finally attaining star stature with the lead in Crooner (1932). Shortly thereafter, he began to freelance with much success.
One of the final films he made before the termination of his Warner Bros. contract, was RKO's A Bill of Divorcement
A Bill of Divorcement
A Bill of Divorcement is a 1932 American drama film, directed by George Cukor and starring John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn in her movie debut. It is based on the British play of the same name, written by Clemence Dane as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed...
. His co-star Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
commented that, "David was a big star. I was so nervous working with him... He was... just a dear to work with and a totally professional and talented actor."
One ingenue commented, "David wasn't in the one scene I did in Roman Scandals
Roman Scandals
Roman Scandals is a 1933 black-and-white American musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle....
, but he watched every scene shot. He was tremendously enthusiastic, and he...invited me to supper. ... He was mobbed everywhere. All the time he kept telling me I had style and personality. He said if I persevered I'd get somewhere in Hollywood. Not once did he ever hint that he'd like to take me home to his boudoir. ... He was so utterly charming." That ingenue was Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy...
.
Many studios vied for his talent and services besides RKO and Warner Brothers, including Columbia
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
, Universal
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
, Paramount
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
, Fox Film Corporation, Tiffany Pictures
Tiffany Pictures
Tiffany Pictures was a Hollywood motion picture studio in operation from 1921 until 1932.-History:...
, and United Artists
United Artists
United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....
.
Pursuit of other interests
After the success of Dracula, Manners worked for several years as a romantic leading man, and was most often seen in a tuxedo in romantic comedies and light dramas. The Last FlightThe Last Flight (film)
The Last Flight is a 1931 ensemble film starring Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, John Mack Brown, and Helen Chandler.-Plot:The film is known as a Lost Generation celebration of alcohol involving three young World War I veterans who opt to drink indefinitely and almost continuously in Paris with...
(1931), a "Lost Generation
Lost Generation
The "Lost Generation" is a term used to refer to the generation, actually a cohort, that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to...
" celebration of alcohol in Paris, and Karl Freund
Karl Freund
Karl W. Freund, A.S.C. was a cinematographer and film director most noted for photographing Metropolis , Dracula , and television's I Love Lucy .-Early life:...
's The Mummy
The Mummy (1932 film)
The Mummy is a 1932 horror film from Universal Studios directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff as a revived ancient Egyptian priest. The movie also features Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward Van Sloan...
(1932) with Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff
William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...
were two standouts. But by 1936 he had grown bored with Hollywood, and abandoned his film career.
Manners never acclimated to Hollywood, which he found to be "a false place." Although he co-founded the Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
along with the efforts of James Cagney
James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth...
and Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter...
in 1933, he returned to New York City. From 1936 to 1956, he lived near Victorville, California
Victorville, California
Victorville is a city located in the Victor Valley of southwestern San Bernardino County, California. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 census, the city had a population of 115,903, up from 64,030 at the 2000 census.-Geography and climate:...
on a ranch, and then in Pacific Palisades and Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
, living with a male partner until the partner's death in 1978.
In 1940, he officially changed his name to David Joseph Manners and became a naturalized citizen of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. He returned to the theater where he worked regularly until his retirement in the 1950s. Appearing on Broadway, in summer stock, and on tour, Manners was cast in a variety of productions, including the ill-fated Broadway production of the Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
play Hidden Horizon
Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon
Murder on the Nile is a murder mystery play by crime writer Agatha Christie, based on her 1937 novel Death on the Nile.-Background:...
(1946). The acclaimed actor Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St...
, who was cast along with Manners in Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson
James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.-Early years:Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second of eight children to William Lincoln "Link" Anderson, a Baptist minister, and Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson, both of Scots and Irish descent...
's play Truckline Cafe
Truckline Cafe
Truckline Cafe was the title of a 1946 Broadway play written by Maxwell Anderson, directed by Harold Clurman, produced by Elia Kazan, and starring Marlon Brando and Karl Malden...
(1946), said of his colleague, "I owe him my entire career."
He spent the remainder of his life in private pursuits, such as painting and writing. Several of his novels, published by Dutton, sold over 100,000 copies each. His reflections on philosophy and Being were put forth in Look Through: An Evidence of Self Discovery, published in 1971 by El Cariso Publications.
He died in Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
on December 23, 1998 at the age of 98.
Filmography
- The Sky Hawk (1929) uncredited
- Journey's EndJourney's End (1930 film)Journey's End is a 1930 British-American war film directed by James Whale. Based on the play of the same name by R. C. Sherriff, the film tells the story of several British soldiers involved in trench warfare during the First World War...
(1930) - He Knew Women (1930)
- Sweet Mama (1930)
- KismetKismet (1930 film)Kismet was a 1930 costume drama photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope. The film was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.-Production:Warner Bros....
(1930) - Mothers Cry (1930)
- The Truth About Youth (1930)
- The Right to Love (1930)
- DraculaDracula (1931 film)Dracula is a 1931 vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal and is based on the stage play of the same name by Hamilton Deane and John L...
(1931) - The MillionaireThe Millionaire (1931 film)The Millionaire is a 1931 comedy film starring George Arliss in the title role. The film is a remake of the 1922 film called The Ruling Passion, which also starred Arliss. The film was based on the short story "Idle Hands" by Earl Derr Biggers...
(1931) - The Miracle WomanThe Miracle WomanThe Miracle Woman is a film released by Columbia Pictures about a woman preacher and the blind man who loves her . Directed by Frank Capra, it was the second of his five film collaborations with Stanwyck...
(1931) - The Last FlightThe Last Flight (film)The Last Flight is a 1931 ensemble film starring Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, John Mack Brown, and Helen Chandler.-Plot:The film is known as a Lost Generation celebration of alcohol involving three young World War I veterans who opt to drink indefinitely and almost continuously in Paris with...
(1931) - The Ruling Voice (1931)
- The Greeks Had a Word for ThemThe Greeks Had a Word for ThemThe Greeks Had a Word for Them , also known as Three Broadway Girls, is a Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lowell Sherman, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and released by United Artists. It stars Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, and Ina Claire and is based on the play The Greeks Had a Word for It by Zoe Akins...
(1932) - Lady with a PastLady with a PastLady with a Past is a 1932 romantic comedy film starring Constance Bennett as a shy and very proper young lady who decides to invent a scandalous past for herself to spice up her life...
(1932) - Beauty and the Boss (1932)
- Man WantedMan WantedMan Wanted is a 1932 romance film starring Kay Francis as a married magazine editor who hires a handsome secretary .-Cast:*Kay Francis as Lois Ames*David Manners as Thomas Sherman*Una Merkel as Ruth Holman*Andy Devine as Andy Doyle...
(1932) - Stranger in Town (1932)
- Crooner (1932)
- A Bill of DivorcementA Bill of DivorcementA Bill of Divorcement is a 1932 American drama film, directed by George Cukor and starring John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn in her movie debut. It is based on the British play of the same name, written by Clemence Dane as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed...
(1932)
- They Call It Sin (1932)
- The MummyThe Mummy (1932 film)The Mummy is a 1932 horror film from Universal Studios directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff as a revived ancient Egyptian priest. The movie also features Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward Van Sloan...
(1932) - The Death KissThe Death KissThe Death Kiss is a mystery film starring David Manners as a crusading studio writer, Adrienne Ames as an actress, Bela Lugosi as a studio manager, and Edward Van Sloan as a film director. The comedy thriller features three leading players from the previous year's Dracula , and was the first film...
(1932) - From Hell to Heaven (1932)
- The Warrior's Husband (1932)
- The Girl in 419 (1932)
- The Devil's in Love (1932)
- Torch SingerTorch SingerTorch Singer is a 1933 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes, and starring Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez and David Manners and Lyda Roberti.The screenplay was written by Lenore J...
(1933) - Roman ScandalsRoman ScandalsRoman Scandals is a 1933 black-and-white American musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle....
(1933) - The Black CatThe Black Cat (1934 film)The Black Cat is a 1934 horror film that became Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year. It was the first of eight movies to pair actors Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff. Edgar G. Ulmer directed the film; Peter Ruric wrote the screenplay...
(1934) - Luck of a Sailor (1934)
- The Great Flirtation (1934)
- The MoonstoneThe Moonstone (film)- Cast :*David Manners as Franklyn Blake*Phyllis Barry as Ann Verinder *Gustav von Seyffertitz as Carl Von Lucker*Jameson Thomas as Godfrey Ablewhite*Herbert Bunston as Sir John Verinder*Charles Irwin as Inspector Cuff...
(1934) - The Perfect Clue (1935)
- The Mystery of Edwin DroodThe Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935 film)The Mystery of Edwin Drood was the third film adaptation and first sound film version of Charles Dickens's unfinished novel of the same name. It starred Claude Rains in the role of the villainous John Jasper...
(1935) - Jalna (1935)
- Lucky Fugitives (1936)
- Hearts in Bondage (1936)
- A Woman RebelsA Woman RebelsA Woman Rebels is a 1936 RKO film adapted from the novel Portrait of a Rebel by Netta Syrett and starring Katharine Hepburn as Pamela Thistlewaite, who rebels against the social mores of Victorian England...
(1936)
External links
- David Manners homepage
- David Manners 1997 interview, accessed 1 October 2007