John Lodge


Actor

About

Also Known As
John Davis Lodge
Birth Place
Washington, Washington D.C., USA
Born
October 20, 1903
Died
October 29, 1985

Photos & Videos

The Scarlett Empress - Lobby Cards
Murders in the Zoo - Movie Poster
Murders in the Zoo - Publicity Stills

Biography

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Scarlett Empress - Lobby Cards
Here are several Lobby Cards from Paramount's The Scarlett Empress (1934), starring Marlene Dietrich. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.
Murders in the Zoo - Movie Poster
Here is the Window Card from Paramount's Murders in the Zoo (1933), starring Lionel Atwill, Charlie Ruggles, Kathleen Burke, and John Lodge. Window Cards were 14x22 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 information.
Murders in the Zoo - Publicity Stills
Here are a few photos taken to help publicize Paramount's Murders in the Zoo (1933), starring Lionel Atwill, Charlie Ruggles, Kathleen Burke, Randolph Scott, and Gail Patrick. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.
Murders in the Zoo - Lobby Cards
Here are a few lobby cards from Paramount's Murders in the Zoo (1933), starring Lionel Atwill, Charlie Ruggles, Kathleen Burke, and John Lodge. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Movie Clip

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I Ought To Kill You After a mild opening scene establishing Kentucky “in the 70’s,” just about the whole premise, Elizabeth (Evelyn Venable) aided by Hattie McDaniel wants to elope with yankee Jack (John Lodge) who seems decent but her grandfather the colonel (Lionel Barrymore) doesn’t care, in Shirley Temple’s first film with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, The Little Colonel, 1935.
Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You've Captured An Entire Regiment After the marriage of her yankee father (John Lodge) and rebel mom in the 1870’s we leap forward to introduce the star, (Shirley Temple as young Lloyd Sherman, in the year she turned 7) at a U.S. Army outpost where Robert Warwick oversees her honorary investiture, in Fox Films’ The Little Colonel, 1935.
Scarlet Empress, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) About Your Beauty Director Josef von Sternberg consumes expensive sets and costumes as Marlene Dietrich (as Princess Sophia, who will become Catherine The Great) joins her Prussian father (C. Aubrey Smith) and his court meeting John Lodge as the commanding Count Alexei, emissary of her Russian fiancè, The Scarlet Empress, 1934.
Scarlet Empress, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) If You Come Any Closer I'll Scream Ever outlandish from director Josef von Sternberg, Princes Sophia (Marlene Dietrich), the future Catherine The Great, kicked out of a royal business conference, bumps into her lustful protector Count Alexei (John Lodge) in a barn, in The Scarlet Empress, 1934.
Scarlet Empress, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) What Do You Think Of Catherine? Following another grandiose montage depicting director Josef von Sternberg’s imperial Russia, Marlene Dietrich as German Princess Sophia who will become Catherine the Great, arrives Moscow, met by current Empress Elizabeth (Louise Dresser) escorted by Alexei (John Lodge) and her mother (Olive Tell), and finally meeting her betrothed, the daffy Grand Duke Peter, Sam Jaffe, in Paramount’s The Scarlet Empress, 1934.
Scarlet Empress, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Open, A Little Princess Credits and opening from Josef von Sternberg's 1934 Marlene Dietrich vehicle The Scarlet Empress, with Dietrich's daughter, Maria Sieber (billed as Maria Riva) as the young Catherine the Great, C. Aubrey Smith and Olive Tell her Prussian parents, Jane Darwell and Clyde David as servants.
Bulldog Drummond At Bay (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You'd Be The Two Men Two thugs (Brian Buchel, Jim Gerald) have kidnapped Scottish airplane designer Caldwell (Richard Bird) who, escaping momentarily, lucks out when his SOS reaches the reclining title character (American John Lodge, adopting an accent), in the English-made Bulldog Drummond At Bay, 1937.
Bulldog Drummond At Bay (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope I Didn't Burn You We immediately suspect that Doris (Dorothy Mackaill), acting like she has car trouble as she appears at the hero’s remote house on the Scottish moors, is linked to the skulduggery of the night before, the title character (John Lodge) playing it cagey, in Bulldog Drummond At Bay, 1937.
Bank Holiday (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Must Happen Every Day Treat for Anglophiles, director Carol Reed's montage of London, then introduction of principals, father-to-be Stephen (John Lodge) and maternity nurse Catherine (Margaret Lockwood) opening Bank Holiday (a.k.a. Three On A Week-End), 1938.
Murders in the Zoo -- (Movie Clip) From India to Newark! Press flack Yates (Charlie Ruggles) attempts a nutty toast at a fund-raiser when Roger (John Lodge) gets snake-bit, after which Woodford (Randolph Scott) investigates and Evelyn (Kathleen Burke) quivers, in Paramount's Murders in the Zoo, 1933.
Murders in the Zoo -- (Movie Clip) Forget the Orient! Jealous Gorman (Lionel Atwill) and spouse Evelyn (Kathleen Burke) at the sudden end of their expedition, then on the ship home where friend Roger (John Lodge) plays it safe, in Murders in the Zoo, 1933.

Family

Henry Cabot Lodge
Grandfather
Senator.

Bibliography