George Nicholls Jr.


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Anne Of Green Gables (1934) -- (Movie Clip) My Name Is Anne Shirley Anne Shirley, a movie veteran at 16, introduces herself by the name of her character, which she would use for the rest of her career (she retired in 1944), met by her prospective adopted father (O.P. Heggie), in the 1934 version of the L.M. Montgomery novel, Anne Of Green Gables.
Anne Of Green Gables (1934) -- (Movie Clip) You Mean Hateful Boy! Anne Shirley, as the character whose name she took, is the red-headed orphan on her first school day on Prince Edward Island, with teacher (Murray Kinnell), friend Diana (Gertrude Messinger) and meeting Gilbert (Tom Brown), in Lucy Maude Montgomery's Anne Of Green Gables, 1934.
Finishing School (1934) -- (Movie Clip) So Smart And Proper Forceful opening credits and harsh, if humorous take on society mom Billie Burke, delivering top-billed Frances Dee to the school run by Miss Van Alstyne (Beulah Bondi), in RKO’s Finishing School, 1934, co-directed and co-written by Wanda Tuchock, with Ginger Rogers and Bruce Cabot.
Finishing School (1934) -- (Movie Clip) The Gentile Racketeering The school head (Beulah Bondie) introduces new girl Virginia (Frances Dee) to roommate Celeste (a.k.a. "Pony," Ginger Rogers) who immediately takes over the movie, Ruth and Maggie (Marjorie Lytell, Adalyn Doyle) trying to keep up, early in Finishing School, 1934.
Return Of Peter Grimm, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Give Up The Ghost Grumpy up-state New York flower grower Grimm (Lionel Barrymore) continues his spat with doctor friend Andrew (Edward Ellis) about ghosts, when the circus appears and afflicted nephew William (George Breakston) gets excited, in The Return Of Peter Grimm, 1936.
Return Of Peter Grimm, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Dutchman's Luck Summer afternoon, turn of the century upstate New York, Dutch-descended nurseryman Grimm (Lionel Barrymore), with adopted daughter Catherine (Helen Mack), doctor pal Andrew (Edward Ellis) and nephew William (George Breakston) in The Return Of Peter Grimm, 1936.
Return Of Peter Grimm, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Raise Flowers Not Spirits! Opening scene, Lionel Barrymore as grumpy florist Grimm, the reluctant host of a seance run by his medium friend Dr. MacPherson (Edward Ellis), Donald Meek, Ethel Griffies among the irritated guests, in the RKO remake of The Return Of Peter Grimm, 1936, based on a play by David Belasco.

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