Dinning Sisters:


Filmography

Strictly in the Groove (1942)

Photos & Videos

Double Harness - Behind-the-Scenes Photos
The Magnificent Yankee - Publicity Stills
Double Harness - Movie Poster

Biography

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Strictly in the Groove (1942)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Double Harness - Behind-the-Scenes Photos
Here are a few photos taken during production of RKO's Double Harness (1933), directed by John Cromwell and starring Ann Harding and William Powell.
The Magnificent Yankee - Publicity Stills
Here are a few photos taken to help publicize The Magnificent Yankee (1950), starring Louis Calhern and Ann Harding. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.
Double Harness - Movie Poster
Here is a Window Card from RKO's Double Harness (1933), starring William Powell and Ann Harding. Window Cards were mini posters designed to be placed in store windows around town during a film's engagement. A blank space at the top of the poster featured theater and playdate infromation.
Double Harness - Pressbook
Here is the campaign book (pressbook) for the American release of RKO's Double Harness (1933). Pressbooks were sent to exhibitors and theater owners to aid them in publicizing the film's run in their theater.
(Pressbook images courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
Double Harness - Scene Stills
Here are a number of scene stills from RKO's Double Harness (1933), starring Ann Harding and William Powell.

Videos

Movie Clip

When Ladies Meet (1933) -- (Movie Clip) One Of My Horses First scene, golfing, for Ann Harding (as "Claire"), being schmoozed by Jimmy (Robert Young), unhappy that his not-girlfriend, novelist Mary (Myrna Loy) is staying with her amorous publisher, Claire's husband (Frank Morgan), at the home of Bridget (Alice Brady), in When Ladies Meet, 1933.
When Ladies Meet (1933) -- (Movie Clip) There Are Cousins And Cousins Jimmy (Robert Montgomery) has contrived to arrive with Claire (Ann Harding), posing as his "cousin" and date, annoying his hoped-for girlfriend, novelist Mary (Myrna Loy), who doesn't know she's the wife of her lusty publisher, Alice Brady their hostess, in When Ladies Meet, 1933.
Janie Gets Married (1946) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Have The Screaming Meanies! Mayhem on wedding day at the Conway household, mom (Ann Harding) greets bridesmaids (Anne Gillis, Ruth Tobey), meets Dad (Edward Arnold) and preoccupied Joan Leslie (title character) tangles with her sly little sister (Clare Foley), Hattie McDaniel the exasperated maid, early in Janie Gets Married, 1946.
Janie Gets Married (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Sort Of A War Emergency On their wedding day, engaged only briefly after his return from the war, Joan Leslie (title character) and Robert Hutton as Dick confer in secret, him disoriented by advice from his dad, her offering a contract, the parents (Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, Barbara Brown) intervening, in Janie Gets Married, 1946.
Kismet (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Stranger In Paradise Romantically inclined Caliph (Vic Damone) hasn’t revealed his identity though he’s dazzled by Marsinah (Ann Blyth), whom he’s assumed is a gardener, not that it matters much, as they join in MGM Baghdad for the hit song, adapted by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest, in Kismet, 1955.
Kismet (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Baubles, Bangles And Beads Left in the Baghdad bazaar by her impoverished poet father (Howard Keel, not seen) Ann Blyth as Marsinah pretty-much solos the tune, already famous from Broadway, from music by Alexander Borodin, adaptation and lyrics by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest, in MGM’s Kismet, 1955.
Double Harness (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Make His Future Mine Joan (Ann Harding), with her dad (Henry Stephenson) , has been wedding shopping for her sister Valerie (Lucile Browne) when they encounter man-about-town Fletcher (William Powell) for whom she, we learn, has big plans, opening Double Harness, 1931.
Double Harness (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Even Have The Moon Trained Joan (Ann Harding) who has confided to allies her plan to snag bachelor shipping heir Fletcher (William Powell), accepts his after-theater invitation, which she predicted, to his plush San Francisco flat, in RKO's Double Harness, 1931.
Christmas Eve (1947) -- (Movie Clip) We Have No License Opening scenes, we meet Philip (Reginald Denny) who's brought a judge and doctor (Clarence Kolb, Carl Harbord) to meet his maybe-nutty New York heiress Aunt Matilda (Ann Harding), in the holiday crime-comedy hybrid Christmas Eve (a.k.a. Holiday For Sinners), 1947.
Christmas Eve (1947) -- (Movie Clip) The Sea Is A Wide Place In the byzantine tale of his imperiled maiden aunt back in New York, ex-pat South American club owner Mario (George Raft) discovers a fugitive Nazi (Konstantine Shayne) has been scamming his girlfriend (Virginia Field), in the crime-comedy Christmas Eve (a.k.a. Holiday For Sinners), 1947.
Eyes In The Night (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Not Having Eyes In director Fred Zinnemann's second feature, early plotting as the baffled butler (Mantan Moreland) brings friend Norma (Ann Harding) to see blind detective Duncan MacLain (Edward Arnold, his first of two appearances in the role), in Eyes In The Night, 1942, from the Baynard Kendrick novel.
Eyes In The Night (1942) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Bad Man Well-meaning stepmother Norma (Ann Harding) attempts to warn stepdaughter Barbara (Donna Reed, especially mean) away from an older man she once knew, early in Eyes In The Night, 1942, directed by Fred Zinnemann from the Duncan MacLain detective novel series.

Trailer

Janie - (Original Trailer) A small-town girl (Joyce Reynolds) defies her father by falling for a soldier (Robert Hutton).
Two Weeks With Love - (Original Trailer) Two sisters (Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds) find romance during a turn-of-the-century family vacation in MGM's Technicolor musical Two Weeks With Love (1950).
Eyes In The Night - (Original Trailer) Blind detective Duncan Maclain (Edward Arnold) gets mixed up with Nazi agents when he tries to help an old friend in Eyes In The Night (1942).
Flame Within, The - (Original Trailer) Ann Harding is a psychiatrist who thinks she is remote from her patients' problems until she falls in love with one of them.
Magnificent Yankee, The - (Original Trailer) Lionel Barrymore, though not appearing in the film himself, takes the lead in MGM's trailer for The Magnificent Yankee 1950, starring Louis Calhern as the famed American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Mission to Moscow - (Original Trailer) Mission to Moscow (1943) features the true story of U.S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' attempts to forge a wartime alliance with the Soviet Union.
Right To Romance, The - (Original Trailer) A plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) jeopardizes her marriage when she must operate on her husband's ex-girlfriend in The Right to Romance (1933).
Janie Gets Married - (Original Trailer) In the sequel to Janie (1944), Janie (Joan Leslie) marries her soldier boy and helps him adjust to civilian life.
Biography of a Bachelor Girl - (Original Trailer) Ann Harding had a fling with Edward Everett Horton. For some reason she wants people to know in Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935).
Unknown Man, The - (Original Trailer) A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty in The Unknown Man (1951), starring Walter Pidgeon and Ann Harding.
Double Harness - (French release Trailer) After tricking a playboy into marriage, a woman sets out to win his love honestly in Double Harness (1933).

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