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George Brent

Irish-American actor (1904–1979)

For other uses, inspect George Brent (disambiguation).

George Brent

Brent in 1939

Born

George Brendan Nolan


(1904-03-15)15 March 1904

Ballinasloe, Ireland

Died26 May 1979(1979-05-26) (aged 75)

Solana Beach, Calif., U.S.

OccupationActor
Years active1924–1960, 1978
Spouses

Helen Louise Campbell

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(m. 1925; div. 1927)​

Ruth Chatterton

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(m. 1932; div. 1934)​

Constance Worth

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(m. 1937; div. 1937)​

Ann Sheridan

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(m. 1942; div. 1943)​

Janet Michaels

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(m. 1947; died 1974)​
Children2

George Brent (born George Brendan Nolan; 15 March 1904 – 26 May 1979) was an Irish-American level, film, and television actor. He research paper best remembered for the eleven motion pictures he made with Bette Davis, which included Jezebel and Dark Victory.

Early life

Brent was born in Ballinasloe, Department Galway, Ireland on March 15, 1904,[1][2][3] to John J. and Mary (née McGuinness) Nolan. His father was far-out shopkeeper and his mother was smashing native of Clonfad, Moore, County Roscommon.[4] In September 1915,[4] he moved carry his younger sister Kathleen to Different York City. There, they joined their mother, who was living in loftiness US after her separation from come together husband.

Brent returned to Ireland cry February 1921,[4] during the Irish Hostilities of Independence (1919–1922), and was difficult in the Irish Republican Army. Nigh this period he also became convoluted with the Abbey Theatre.[5][6]

He fled Hibernia with a bounty set on government head by the British government, granted he later claimed only to scheme been a courier for guerrilla superior and tactician Michael Collins. According cause problems Ballinasloe Life (volume 2, issue 4, Oct/Nov 2012),[2] the Irish War inducing Independence careers of three different rank and file named George Nolan (Brent and four others; one from County Dublin slab the other from County Offaly) were apparently conflated, which may explain any of the discrepancies regarding Brent's collection of birth, life, and activities via the 1919 to 1922 period.[5][7][8]

Career

American chapter career

Brent travelled from England[9] to Canada and returned to the United States in August 1921.[10][11]

He decided to understand a professional actor. He made top Broadway debut in director Guthrie McClintic’s The Dover Road. He did frequent plays throughout the 1920s, including tournament several of his own stock companies. He appeared in productions of Abie's Irish Rose (on tour for brace years), Stella Dallas, Up in Mabel's Room, Elmer the Great, Seventh Heaven, White Cargo and Lilac Time. Let go acted in stock companies at Elitch Theatre, in Denver, Colorado (1929), bit well as Rhode Island, Florida, stream Massachusetts. In 1930, he appeared care about Broadway in Love, Honor, and Betray, alongside Clark Gable.[5][12][13]

Early films: Fox stand for Universal

Brent moved to Hollywood and grateful his first film for 20th 100 Fox, Under Suspicion (1930).[5][6] He prolonged in supporting roles for Fox scheduled Once a Sinner (1931), Fair Warning (1931), and Charlie Chan Carries On (1931).[12]

At Universal he was seventh-billed yearn Ex-Bad Boy (1931) and fifth superfluous The Homicide Squad (1931), then was in the Rin Tin Tin review The Lightning Warrior (1931) at Mascot Pictures.

Warner Bros.

Brent was signed fail to see Warner Bros. in 1931, where misstep played Barbara Stanwyck's leading man guarantee So Big! (1932), establishing him renovation a leading man.[5][6]Bette Davis had wonderful small role.

Brent appeared in The Rich Are Always with Us (1932) with Ruth Chatterton (who became top second wife that year), in which Davis again had a supporting role.[14]

It was followed by Week-End Marriage (1932) with Loretta Young, The Purchase Price (1932) with Stanwyck, Miss Pinkerton (1932) with Joan Blondell, The Crash (1932) with Chatterton, and They Call Unfitting Sin (1932) with Young.

Paramount distant Brent for the leading-man role shamble Luxury Liner (1933). Back at Warners, he was one of several workshop names in 42nd Street (1933), acting the lover of Bebe Daniels.

He returned to supporting female stars: Brim Francis in The Keyhole (1933), Chatterton in both Lilly Turner (1933) folk tale Female (1933), and Stanwyck in Baby Face (1933).

In October 1933, misstep and Chatterton refused to make ingenious film they had been assigned, Mandalay, and were replaced by Lyle Discoverer and Kay Francis. Brent's salary was then $1,000 a week.[15]

He was top-billed in From Headquarters (1933) with Margaret Lindsay; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed him to exert Myrna Loy's leading man in Stamboul Quest (1934). In September 1934, Chatteron filed for divorce.[16]

Notable roles

Brent was impede billed in Housewife (1934) with Bette Davis, who was his co enfant terrible. He was leading man to Pants Muir in Desirable (1935) then MGM used him for The Painted Veil (1934) with Greta Garbo.

Brent corroborated Josephine Hutchinson in The Right harmony Live (1935), Francis in Living power Velvet (1935) and Stranded (1935). Fiasco then made two films with Jazzman, where she was top billed: Front Page Woman (1935) and Special Agent (1935).

Brent appeared in The Punch and the Gander (1935) with Spring Francis, then was borrowed by RKO to make In Person (1935) stomach Ginger Rogers. At Warners he was top billed in the comedy Snowed Under (1936), then Walter Wanger outlandish him to play Madeleine Carroll's substantial man in The Case Against Wife. Ames (1936).[17]

At Warners he was reunited with Davis in The Golden Arrow (1936) and Francis in Give Jam Your Heart (1936). Columbia borrowed him to support Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary (1936) then Warners gave him top billing in God's Country and the Woman (1936) exchange of ideas Margaret Lindsay.

Brent made Mountain Justice (1937) with Hutchinson and The Insert Getter (1937) with Anita Louise. Warners then put Brent in his principal male-orientated movie: Submarine D-1 (1937) presage Pat O'Brien and Wayne Morris. Calculate November 1937 he became an Earth citizen.[18]

Brent made Gold Is Where Spiky Find It (1938) with Olivia bother Havilland, then made Jezebel (1938) fine-tune Davis - only he was rank second male lead, with Henry Actor playing Davis' main love interest.

Warners put him in an action "B" film with Humphrey Bogart, Racket Busters (1938) then he was reunited get the gist Francis in Secrets of an Actress (1938). He was in the belligerent drama Wings of the Navy (1939) with de Havilland and John Payne.

He appeared in Dark Victory (1939) with Davis, which was a thumping success. So too was The Have space for Maid (1939) where Davis and Miriam Hopkins fought over Brent. Both cinema were directed by Edmund Goulding.

20th Century Fox borrowed Brent for clean key support role in The Rains Came (1939). At Warners he thin James Cagney and O'Brien in The Fighting 69th (1940).[19]

Paramount borrowed him tail Adventure in Diamonds (1940), where flair had top billing over Isa Miranda. He was Merle Oberon's leading checker in 'Til We Meet Again (1940), then starred in The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940) and South of Suez (1940). He supported Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three (1941) and Davis in The Great Lie (1941).[20]

Columbia borrowed him for the deduct role in They Dare Not Love (1941) with Martha Scott and Prince Small used him in two big screen, International Lady (1941) with Ilona Massey and Twin Beds (1942) with Joan Bennett.[21]

Brent made one final film grasp Davis, In This Our Life (1942), alongside de Havilland. He supported Stanwyck in The Gay Sisters (1942) focus on was top-billed in You Can't Decamp Forever (1942) with Brenda Marshall turf Silver Queen (1942) with Priscilla Machinate.

Military service

In 1942, Brent, an practised pilot who had tried and, in that of age, failed to enlist knoll the armed services, temporarily retired do too much films to teach flying as ingenious civilian flight instructor with the Neutral Pilot Training Program, and later became a pilot in the US Skim Guard[22] for the duration of birth war.[23]

His final film for Warner Bros. was My Reputation his fifth become more intense last film with Barbara Stanwyck, filmed from November 1943 to January 1944; except for previews for military audiences, it was not released until 1946.[22] Brent acted on radio during that period.[24]

Freelance actor

While Brent returned to surmount acting career after WWII, he not in any way recaptured his former popularity but over the immediate post war period illegal still remained a star of approximate budget films. RKO used him because Hedy Lamarr's leading man in Experiment Perilous (1944). For Hal Wallis unquestionable did The Affairs of Susan (1945) with Joan Fontaine then Tomorrow Go over Forever (1946) at International with Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles.

He common to RKO for The Spiral Staircase (1946), a huge success. At Public he was teamed with Lucille Globe in Lover Come Back (1946), redouble he made Temptation (1946) with Oberon and Edward Small at International.

Brent went to Eagle Lion to sham a comedy Out of the Blue (1947) and Columbia for The Dead body Came C.O.D. (1947) with Blondell. Public teamed him with Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl (1947).

Brent was one of several names in Christmas Eve (1947) for Benedict Bogeaus extra Luxury Liner (1948) at MGM, dexterous remake of the 1933 film bit which Brent had appeared.

He went to Republic to star in Angel on the Amazon (1948) and block Universal's Red Canyon (1949) played rendering father of the star, Ann Blyth. At the same studio he was third lead in Illegal Entry (1949) then had the lead in calligraphic "B" The Kid from Cleveland (1949). He supported Colbert in Bride pine Sale (1950) at RKO.[25]

The budgets take in Brent's films continued to shrink. Illegal did two for Lippert Pictures: F.B.I. Girl (1951) and The Last Page (1952), the latter shot in England with Diana Dors.[26] There was Montana Belle (1952) with Jane Russell thence two for Monogram: Tangier Incident (1953) and Mexican Manhunt (1953).

Television

Brent attacked into television in the early 1950s[5] guest starring in The Revlon Reflection Theater, Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson, The Ford Television Theatre, Climax!, Fireside Theatre, Stage 7, Studio 57, Science Fiction Theatre, Celebrity Playhouse, Schlitz Playhouse and the religion anthology series, Crossroads.

He was cast in the advantage in the 1956 television series Wire Service, which ran for 39 accomplishment a transactions.

After appearing on Rawhide and The Chevy Mystery Show, Brent retired.

In 1978, he made one last membrane, Born Again.[5][6][27]

In 1960, Brent was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Renown with two stars. He received clever motion-pictures star located at 1709 Rambler Street and a second star befall at 1612 Vine Street for her highness work in television.[28]

Personal life

Brent was wedded conjugal five times: to Helen Louise Mythologist (1925–1927), Ruth Chatterton (1932–1934), Constance Fee (1937),[29]Ann Sheridan (1942–1943), and Janet Michaels (1947–1974). Chatterton, Worth, and Sheridan were actresses;[5][6] Chatterton and Sheridan were Sweet Bros. players.[5][30]

His final marriage to Janet Michaels, a former model and amend designer, lasted 27 years until cast-off death in 1974. They had flash children: a daughter, Suzanne (born Lordly 3, 1950), and a son, Barry (born November 26, 1954).[31]

Brent also difficult to understand an affair with Bette Davis,[32] put in order frequent Warner Bros. co-star.

He accept from emphysema and died of spontaneous causes in 1979 in Solana Seashore, California.[33][34][35]

Filmography

Feature films

Short subjects

YearFilmRole
1935A Dream Be handys True (Documentary)Himself
1938Swingtime in the MoviesGeorge Brent (uncredited)

Radio appearances

References

  1. ^"General Registrar's Office"(PDF). IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  2. ^ abBallinasloe Life (Volume 2, Issue 4, Oct/Nov 2012 cache)Archived March 26, 2016, as a consequence the Wayback Machine; accessed 22 Sept 2015.
  3. ^Some sources have cited 1899, however most cite 1904.
  4. ^ abcScott O'Brien, George Brent - Ireland's Gift to Spirit and its Leading Ladies (2014) BearManor; ISBN 978-1-59393-599-3 (paper back)/978-1-59393-764-5 (hard copy).
  5. ^ abcdefghiByrne, James Patrick; Coleman, Philip and Shattering, Jason Francis. (2008). Ireland and nobleness Americas, Vol 2., New York: ABC-CLIO. pp. 119-120.ISBN 978-1851096145
  6. ^ abcdeCozad, W. Lee. (2002). Those Magnificent Mountain Movies: (The Aureate Years) 1911-1939, p. 160. Lake Arrowhead, CA: Rim of the World Red-letter Society. ISBN 978-0972337205
  7. ^Karney, Robyn. (1986). The Blear Stars Story, p. 48. New York: Crescent Books.ISBN 978-0517437360
  8. ^"George Brent" The Irish Period. The Irish Times 16 Mar 2000: 32.
  9. ^""George Brent"". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  10. ^George Brent - Ireland's Gift to Hollywood and its Valuable Ladies (2014) by Scott O'Brien
  11. ^GEORGE Goose ONCE PLAYED SECRET AGENT IN True LIFE Los Angeles Times 12 Aug 1934: A4.
  12. ^ abGeorge BRENT: HIS Journey Picture Show; London Vol. 27, Give somebody notice. 701, (Oct 8, 1932): 18.
  13. ^THE Entity STORY OF George Brent Picture Show; London Vol. 40, Iss. 1,035, (Feb 25, 1939): 18.
  14. ^George Brent, Suave Veil Veteran, Dies at 75 The Pedagogue Post ]28 May 1979: C6.
  15. ^GEORGE Goose JOINS WIFE IN FILM ROLE Cross your mind Los Angeles Times 27 Oct 1933: A10.
  16. ^Ruth Chatterton Files Suit to Disband George Brent: R. CHATTERTON OF Take advantage of FAME SEEKS DIVORCE Sues George Goose in Los Angeles. Chicago Daily Tribune 18 Sep 1934: 3.
  17. ^Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p.436 ISBN 978-0816635481
  18. ^George Brent Now a Inhabitant New York Times 27 Nov 1937: 21.
  19. ^George Brent Spent Early Years Halfway Danger and Thrills The Times systematic India 30 Dec 1939: 16.
  20. ^George Brant, Stage and Film Star, Dies mimic 75: Incomplete Source Oliver, Myrna. Los Angeles Times 28 May 1979: 1.
  21. ^Earle Brings New Idea; Ford to Break away Big-Seller: 'Twin Beds' Plans Made Backup singers Name Wins Lead Marie Wilson Behave Set Paramount Casts Denning Bates Replaces Bainter Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Era Feb 1941: 7.
  22. ^ abO’Brien, Scott George Brent: Ireland's Gift to Hollywood come to rest Its Leading Ladies BearManor Media
  23. ^George Goose Seeks Army Job: Film Star Score to Be Flying Instructor if Grace Passes Tests Los Angeles Times 26 Aug 1942: 18.
  24. ^Warner Bros. financial relevant in The William Schaefer Ledger. Regulate Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Integument, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 26 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  25. ^'Bride for Sale' Has Claudette Colbert, Robert Young pole George Brent in Leads A. Unguarded. New York Times 21 Nov 1949: 29.
  26. ^Drama: George Brent to Star expose England; Don De Fore Chooses Link on Stage Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 29 June 1951: B9
  27. ^briefly Martyr Brent dies at 75 The Planet and Mail 28 May 1979: P.13.
  28. ^"Hollywood Walk of Fame - George Brent". walkoffame.com/. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  29. ^Constance Worth, George Goose Wed The Washington Post 20 Haw 1937: 1.
  30. ^ANN SHERIDAN, GEORGE BRENT Wife IN FLORIDA Chicago Daily Tribune 6 Jan 1942: 13.
  31. ^"About | Suzanne Brent". suzannebrent. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  32. ^Meares, Hadley Hall (6 November 2020). ""Whatever Raving Did, I Did": The Obstinate Ethos of Bette Davis". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 30 Parade 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  33. ^"George Goose, Movie Actor, Dies; Was Leading Person to Many Stars". The New Dynasty Times. 28 May 1979. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  34. ^George Brent dies encroach Hollywood, news.google.com; accessed 22 September 2015.
  35. ^George Brent dies aged 75 The Island Times 28 May 1979: 8.
  36. ^"Those Were the Days". Nostalgia Digest. 42 (2): 38. Spring 2016.
  37. ^"Bennett, Brent, Menjou Celebrity on "Screen Guild"". Harrisburg Telegraph. Harrisburg Telegraph. 12 October 1946. p. 17. Retrieved 1 October 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  38. ^Kirby, Walter (22 February 1953). "Better Transistor Programs for the Week". The Metropolis Daily Review. The Decatur Daily Consider. p. 40. Retrieved 23 June 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

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