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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Babes in Bagdad
Character:Hassan
Release Date:07/12/1952
Thousands Cheer
Character:Colonel Bill Jones
Release Date:13/09/1943
Between Us Girls
Character:Steven J. Forbes
Release Date:04/09/1942
Road to Happiness
Character:Jeff Carter
Release Date:19/12/1941
Sinners in Paradise
Character:Jim Taylor
Release Date:19/05/1938
Romance in the Dark
Character:Antal Kovach
Release Date:24/03/1938
She Married an Artist
Character:Lee Thornwood
Release Date:27/11/1937
Fight for Your Lady
Character:Robert Densmore
Release Date:05/11/1937
Stella Dallas
Character:Stephen Dallas
Release Date:06/08/1937
As Good as Married
Character:Alexander Drew
Release Date:09/05/1937
Craig's Wife
Character:Walter Craig
Release Date:25/09/1936
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Character:Self
Release Date:11/09/1936
A Message to Garcia
Character:Lt. Andrew Rowan
Release Date:10/04/1936
Rose of the Rancho
Character:Jim Kearney
Release Date:09/01/1936
The Littlest Rebel
Character:Capt. Herbert Cary
Release Date:27/12/1935
Starlit Days at the Lido
Character:Self
Release Date:28/09/1935
Redheads on Parade
Character:John Bruce
Release Date:07/09/1935
Orchids to You
Character:Thomas Bentley
Release Date:09/08/1935
Curly Top
Character:Edward Morgan
Release Date:26/07/1935
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
Character:
Release Date:12/04/1935
Music in the Air
Character:Bruno Mahler
Release Date:13/12/1934
The White Parade
Character:Ronald Hall III
Release Date:16/11/1934
The Age of Innocence
Character:Newland Archer
Release Date:14/09/1934
The Life of Vergie Winters
Character:John Shadwell
Release Date:14/06/1934
Wild Gold
Character:Steve Miller
Release Date:08/06/1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
Character:John Boles
Release Date:04/05/1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Character:Self
Release Date:28/04/1934
Bottoms Up
Character:Hal Reed
Release Date:12/04/1934
I Believed in You
Character:Michael Harrison
Release Date:09/04/1934
Beloved
Character:Carl Hausmann
Release Date:22/01/1934
My Lips Betray
Character:King Rupert aka Captain von Linden
Release Date:04/11/1933
Only Yesterday
Character:James Stanton "Jim" Emerson
Release Date:01/11/1933
Child of Manhattan
Character:Paul Vanderkill
Release Date:11/02/1933
6 Hours to Live
Character:Karl Kranz
Release Date:15/10/1932
Back Street
Character:Walter D. Saxel
Release Date:04/08/1932
Careless Lady
Character:Stephen Illington
Release Date:02/04/1932
Good Sport
Character:Boyce Cameron
Release Date:12/12/1931
Frankenstein
Character:Victor Moritz
Release Date:21/11/1931
Seed
Character:Bart Carter
Release Date:14/05/1931
Resurrection
Character:Prince Dmitri Nekhludoff
Release Date:27/01/1931
One Heavenly Night
Character:Count Mirko Tibor
Release Date:25/12/1930
King of Jazz
Character:Vocalist ('Song of the Dawn' / 'It Happened in Monterey')
Release Date:20/04/1930
Captain of the Guard
Character:Rouget de L'isle
Release Date:28/03/1930
Song of the West
Character:Captain Stanton
Release Date:15/03/1930
Rio Rita
Character:Capt. Jim Stewart
Release Date:15/09/1929
Scandal
Character:Maurice
Release Date:27/04/1929
The Desert Song
Character:The Red Shadow
Release Date:08/04/1929
The Last Warning
Character:Richard Quayle
Release Date:25/12/1928
Romance of the Underworld
Character:Stephen Ransome
Release Date:10/11/1928
Man-Made Women
Character:John Payson
Release Date:09/09/1928
The Water Hole
Character:Bert Durland
Release Date:25/08/1928
Virgin Lips
Character:Barry Blake
Release Date:25/07/1928
Fazil
Character:John Clavering
Release Date:04/06/1928
We Americans
Character:Hugh Bradleigh
Release Date:06/05/1928
The Shepherd of the Hills
Character:Young Matt
Release Date:01/01/1928
The Love of Sunya
Character:Paul Judson
Release Date:11/03/1927
Excuse Me
Character:Lt. Shaw
Release Date:19/01/1925
So This Is Marriage?
Character:Uriah
Release Date:26/11/1924
The Sixth Commandment
Character:John Brant
Release Date:01/06/1924
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