John Boles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Boles (October 28, 1895 – February 27, 1969) was an American singer and actor best known for playing Victor Moritz in the 1931 film Frankenstein. He started out in Hollywood in silent movies, but became a huge star with the advent of talkies. After the war, Boles moved to New York to study music. He quickly became well known for his talents and was selected to replace the leading man in the 1923 Broadway musical Little Jesse James. He became an established star on Broadway and attracted the attention of Hollywood producers and actors. Boles' Broadway credits include One Touch of Venus (1943), Kitty's Kisses (1925), Mercenary Mary (1924), and Little Jessie James (1923). He was hired by MGM to appear in a silent film in 1924. He starred in two more films for that studio before returning to New York and the stage. In 1927, he returned to Hollywood to star in The Love of Sunya (1927) opposite Gloria Swanson, which was a big success for him. Unfortunately, because the movies were still silent he was unable to show off his singing ability until late in the decade. In 1929, Warner Brothers hired him to star in their lavish musical operetta The Desert Song (1929). This film featured sequences in Technicolor and was a box-office success. Soon after, Radio Pictures (later known as RKO) selected him to play the leading man in their extravagant production (the last portion of the film was photographed in Technicolor) of Rio Rita, opposite Bebe Daniels. Audiences were enthralled by his beautiful voice, and John Boles suddenly found himself in huge demand. RCA Victor even hired him to make phonograph records of songs that he had sung in his films. As soon as Rio Rita was completed, Boles went back to Warner Brothers as the leading man in an even more extravagant musical entitled Song of the West (1930) that was filmed entirely in Technicolor. Shortly after this film, Universal Pictures offered John Boles a contract, which he accepted. He starred in a number of pictures for them, most notably the all-Technicolor musical revue entitled The King of Jazz (1930) and a historical operetta entitled Captain of the Guard (1930). In 1931, he starred in One Heavenly Night (1931), which would prove to be his last major musical. Boles portrayed Victor Moritz in Frankenstein (1931). He starred with Irene Dunne in a 1934 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence directed for RKO Radio Pictures by Philip Moeller, and took the role of Edward Morgan in Curly Top (1935), starring Shirley Temple In 1937, Boles starred alongside Barbara Stanwyck in the King Vidor classic Stella Dallas. In 1943, he co-starred with Mary Martin and Kenny Baker in One Touch of Venus. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Boles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Greenville, Texas, USA, 1895-10-27

Died: 1969-02-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1924	The Sixth Commandment	John Brant	10
2	1924	So This Is Marriage?	Uriah	0
3	1925	Excuse Me	Lt. Shaw	0
4	1927	The Love of Sunya	Paul Judson	71
5	1928	The Shepherd of the Hills	Young Matt	0
6	1928	We Americans	Hugh Bradleigh	0
7	1928	Fazil	John Clavering	51
8	1928	Virgin Lips	Barry Blake	10
9	1928	The Water Hole	Bert Durland	0
10	1928	Man-Made Women	John Payson	0
11	1928	Romance of the Underworld	Stephen Ransome	45
12	1928	The Last Warning	Richard Quayle	67
13	1929	The Desert Song	The Red Shadow	45
14	1929	Scandal	Maurice	0
15	1929	Rio Rita	Capt. Jim Stewart	85
16	1930	Song of the West	Captain Stanton	0
17	1930	Captain of the Guard	Rouget de L'isle	0
18	1930	King of Jazz	Vocalist ('Song of the Dawn' / 'It Happened in Monterey')	62
19	1930	One Heavenly Night	Count Mirko Tibor	52
20	1931	Resurrection	Prince Dmitri Nekhludoff	60
21	1931	Seed	Bart Carter	60
22	1931	Frankenstein	Victor Moritz	75
23	1931	Good Sport	Boyce Cameron	45
24	1932	Careless Lady	Stephen Illington	52
25	1932	Back Street	Walter D. Saxel	61
26	1932	6 Hours to Live	Karl Kranz	48
27	1933	Child of Manhattan	Paul Vanderkill	73
28	1933	Only Yesterday	James Stanton "Jim" Emerson	68
29	1933	My Lips Betray	King Rupert aka Captain von Linden	0
30	1934	Beloved	Carl Hausmann	0
31	1934	I Believed in You	Michael Harrison	0
32	1934	Bottoms Up	Hal Reed	48
33	1934	Hollywood on Parade No. B-9	Self	0
34	1934	Stand Up and Cheer!	John Boles	49
35	1934	Wild Gold	Steve Miller	50
36	1934	The Life of Vergie Winters	John Shadwell	59
37	1934	The Age of Innocence	Newland Archer	54
38	1934	The White Parade	Ronald Hall III	60
39	1934	Music in the Air	Bruno Mahler	48
40	1935	Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8		0
41	1935	Curly Top	Edward Morgan	64
42	1935	Orchids to You	Thomas Bentley	0
43	1935	Redheads on Parade	John Bruce	0
44	1935	Starlit Days at the Lido	Self	50
45	1935	The Littlest Rebel	Capt. Herbert Cary	62
46	1936	Rose of the Rancho	Jim Kearney	0
47	1936	A Message to Garcia	Lt. Andrew Rowan	50
48	1936	Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)	Self	60
49	1936	Craig's Wife	Walter Craig	63
50	1937	As Good as Married	Alexander Drew	70
51	1937	Stella Dallas	Stephen Dallas	68
52	1937	Fight for Your Lady	Robert Densmore	43
53	1937	She Married an Artist	Lee Thornwood	0
54	1938	Romance in the Dark	Antal Kovach	30
55	1938	Sinners in Paradise	Jim Taylor	54
56	1941	Road to Happiness	Jeff Carter	55
57	1942	Between Us Girls	Steven J. Forbes	60
58	1943	Thousands Cheer	Colonel Bill Jones	64
59	1952	Babes in Bagdad	Hassan	50

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