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Ronald Colman
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Dr. Martin Arrowsmith (Ronald Colman) is a freshly minted doctor who longs to work in research in the engrossing medical drama Arrowsmith (1931), directed by John Ford. As the story unfolds, Arrowsmith forsakes his dream to work as a country doctor in the Minnesota hometown of his new wife Leora (Helen Hayes). Restless and ill suited to family medicine, he turns back to his original love of research. He discovers a serum to cure a breakout of Black Leg disease in the local cattle. And his methods attract the notice of a former mentor, Dr. Max Gottlieb (A.E. Anson) who offers him a research job at New York’s McGurk Institute.
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Romantic lead Ronald Colman was a hero to millions of women, who sighed over him for decades. Born in Richmond, England on February 9th, 1891, and orphaned at age sixteen, Ronald obtained employment with a British steamship company as a young lad. He served, and was wounded in World War One, and upon returning to England he decided to become an actor. In 1918 he starred in a play called "Damaged Goods" in London, and this lead to film work. He played bit parts until he got his first big break in a successful British film "The Black Spider" (1920), but an economic decline in England's film industry at the time made Hollywood seem a more lucrative option for success. He moved to Hollywood, where he caught the attention of actress Lillian Gish, who picked him as her co-star in the dramatic "The White Sister" (1923).
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Synopsis: In an interesting precursor to his later vehicle The Prisoner of Zenda, Ronald Colman essays a dual role in Goldwyn's The Masquerader. Colman is cast as Member of Parliament Sir John Chilcote and his identical cousin, a newspaper journalist ... named John. A mean-spirited alcoholic and drugRead More
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Ronald Colman had first appeared in films in England in 1917 and 1919 under Cecil Hepworth, and subsequently with the old Broadwest Film Company in The Snow of the Desert. While appearing on stage in New York in La Tendress, Director Henry King saw him, and engaged him as the leading man in the 1923 film, The White Sister, opposite Lillian Gish, and was an immediate success. Thereafter Colman virtually abandoned the stage for film. He became a very popular silent film star in both romantic and adventure films, and successfully made the transition to "talkies" because of his elegant and sonorous speaking voice.
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Ronald Colman (9 februari 1891 - 19 mei 1958) was een Engelse acteur, geboren in Richmond (Surrey; Engeland). Hij zou aanvankelijk naar de Universiteit van Cambridge gaan, maar zijn vader's dood maakte daar een einde aan. Hij vechtte mee in de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Tijdens de Derde Slag om Ieper raakte hij ernstig gewond.
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Ronald Colman stars as Sinclair Lewis' idealistic young doctor, who leaves his small town home to work in the West Indies, in director John Ford's dramatic story of personal and professional sacrifice. Helen Hayes and Myrna Loy co-star as the women in Arrowsmith's life. 99 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.
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