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The President's Mystery is a 1936 American film directed by Phil Rosen.
The film is also known as One for All in the United Kingdom.
Directed by Phil Rosen
Produced by Burt Kelly (associate producer)
Nat Levine (producer)
Albert E. Levoy (executive producer)
Written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (story concept)
Samuel Hopkins Adams (story)
Lester Cole (screenplay)
John Erskine (story)
Rupert Hughes (story)
Fulton Oursler (story)
S.S. Van Dine (story)
Rita Weiman (story)
Nathanael West (screenplay)
Starring See below
Music by Hugo Riesenfeld
Cinematography Ernest Miller
Editing by Robert L. Simpson
Release date(s) 28 September 1936
Running time 80 minutes
53 minutes (edited US version)
Country USA
Language English
Cast
Henry Wilcoxon as James Blake
Betty Furness as Charlotte Brown
Sidney Blackmer as George Sartos
Evelyn Brent as Ilka Blake
Barnett Parker as Roger
Mel Ruick as Andrew
Wade Boteler as Sheriff
John Wray as Shane
Guy Usher as Police Lieutenant
Robert Homans as Sergeant
Si Jenks as Earl
Arthur Aylesworth as Joe Reed
Henry Wilcoxon (September 8, 1905 -- March 6, 1984) was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films.
Elizabeth Mary Furness (3 January 1916 -- 2 April 1994) was an American actress, consumer advocate and current affairs commentator.
Sidney Alderman Blackmer (13 July 1895 -- 6 October 1973) was an American actor.
Evelyn Brent (October 20, 1899 -- June 4, 1975) was an American film and stage actress.
She began her film career working under her own name at a New Jersey film studio then made her major debut in the 1915 silent film production of the Robert W. Service poem, The Shooting of Dan McGrew.
As Evelyn Brent, she continued to work in film, developing into a young woman whose sultry looks were much sought after. After World War I, she went to London for a vacation. She met American playwright Oliver Cromwell who urged her to accept an important role in The Ruined Lady. The production was presented on the London stage. The actress remained four years in England, performing in films produced by British companies. She also worked on stage there before going to Hollywood in 1922.
There, her career received a major boost the following year when she was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. Signed by Douglas Fairbanks Sr., he failed to find a story for Brent. She left his company to join Associated Authors.
Evelyn went on to make more than two dozen silent films including three for the noted Austrian director, Josef von Sternberg. In 1928 she starred opposite William Powell in Paramount Pictures' (and her own) first talkie. One film, Interference (1928), did not live up to expectations at the box office. Not dissuaded, Brent played major roles in several more features, most notably The Silver Horde and the Paramount Pictures all-star revue Paramount on Parade (both 1930).
By the early part of the 1930s, she was busy working in secondary roles in a variety of films as well as touring with vaudeville shows.
Her career reached its least prestigious point in 1941. Too mature for ingenue roles, she played feminine leads opposite older leading men: Neil Hamilton in Producers Releasing Corporation's poverty row production Dangerous Lady, and Jack Holt in the serial Holt of the Secret Service, produced by the frugal Larry Darmour. Her performances were still persuasive, and her name was still recognizable to moviegoers: theater owners often put "Evelyn Brent" on their marquees. She worked in the Pine-Thomas "B" action features for Paramount Pictures release. Veteran director William Beaudine cast her in many "B" productions, including Emergency Landing (1941), Bowery Champs (1944), The Golden Eye (1948), and Again Pioneers (1950). After performing in more than 120 films, she retired from acting in 1950 and worked for a number of years as an actor's agent.
Evelyn returned to acting in television's Wagon Train for one episode in 1960, The Lita Foladaire Story.
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