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Alice Howell
Alice Howell (born Alice Florence Clark; May 20, 1886 – April 12, 1961) was a silent film comedy actress from New York City. She was the mother of actress Yvonne Howell. Biography Early reviews of her movies describe her as ''"the scream of the screen".'' One reviewer likened her to a "sort of Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Max Linder." All this was compressed into "one more or less diminutive package of femininity". Sometimes called "the girl Charlie Chaplin", she worked for Mack Sennett and later L-KO Kompany. Her early comedies were often produced by Universal Pictures. Career At Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Company, Howell quickly worked her way up from crowd scenes to featured parts in shorts such as Charlie Chaplin's Laughing Gas (1914 film), and starred in at least one, ''Shot in the Excitement'' (1914). Hired away by Sennett's former second-in-command, Henry Lehrman, when he set up the L-KO Kompany, Howell was cast to support Billie Ritchie and beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star. In 1914, she was in the first full-length film comedy. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931. Leaving home at the age of 14, Dressler built a career on stage in traveling theatre troupes, where she learned to appreciate her talent in making people laugh. In 1892, she started a career on Broadway that lasted into the 1920s, performing comedic roles that allowed her to improvise to get laughs. From one of her successful Broadway roles, she played the titular role in the first full-length screen comedy, '' Tillie's Punctured Romance'' (1914), opposite Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. She made several shorts, but mostly worked in New York City on stage. During World War I, along with other celebrities, she helped sell Liberty bonds. In 1919, she helped organize the first union for sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Rhodes
Billie Rhodes (born Levita Axelrod) was an American actress who appeared in nearly 200 films during her career. Biography Born in San Francisco, Rhodes starting her acting career with the Morrison Stock Company, a local theatre troupe. She was originally discovered by Kalem Company, who gave her a one-year contract in 1913. She primarily acted in comedic shorts, but also acted in the drama ''Perils at Sea''. After her contract ended, she began singing in nightclubs, and was approached by Al Christie, then working for the Nestor Film Company. She was signed and made weekly "polite" comedic shorts through the next year. In September 1916, Christie began his own production studio, the Christie Film Company, and recruited Rhodes. She starred in ''A Seminary Scandal'', Christie's first independent production, then went on to act opposite Jay Belasco in a series of clean comedies. In 1918, moved from shorts to feature-length films after being convinced by William "Smiling Bill" Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Devore
Dorothy Devore (born Alma Inez Williams; June 22, 1899 – September 10, 1976) was an American silent film actress and comedian. Early life Born as Alma Inez Williams in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 22, 1899, her family soon moved to Los Angeles when she was still a young girl and completed her education there. Career Before she began working in films, Devore sang at a cafe in Los Angeles. Devore joined a musical comedy company, with which she appeared for one year. She then went to Lyons and Moran comedies at Universal Pictures. At Universal she was "discovered" by director and producer Al Christie She began playing in small parts in films for Christie, but soon received leads and moved from one-reelers to two-reelers, which would make her a star. Devore specialized in comedic roles, such as in ''Know Thy Wife'' (1918), directed by Christie. Devore was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1923. During a good deal of her career, she achieved stardom in the comedic two-ree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such as saws and ladders. The term arises from a device developed for use in the broad, physical comedy style known as ''commedia dell'arte'' in 16th-century Italy. The "Clapper (musical instrument), slap stick" consists of two thin slats of wood, which make a "slap" when striking another actor, with little force needed to make a loud—and comical—sound. The physical slap stick remains a key component of the plot in the traditional and popular Punch and Judy puppet show. Other examples of slapstick humor include ''The Naked Gun'' and Mr. Bean (character), Mr. Bean. Origins The name "slapstick" originates from the Italian ''Batacchio'' or ''Bataccio'' – called the "Clapper (musical instrument), slap stick" in English – a club-like objec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Bareback Career
Her is the objective and possessive form of the English-language feminine pronoun she. Her, HER or H.E.R. may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Music * H.E.R. (born 1997), American singer ** ''H.E.R.'' (album), 2017 * HIM (Finnish band), once known as HER in the United States Songs * "Her" (Megan Thee Stallion song) * "Her", a song by Stan Getz from the album ''Focus'', 1961 * "Her", a song by Guy from the album '' The Future'', 1990 * "Her", a song by Swans from the album ''Omniscience'', 1992 * "Her", a song by Pigeonhed from the album ''Pigeonhed'', 1993 * "Her", a song by Tindersticks from the album ''Tindersticks'', 1993 * "Her", a song by Aaron Tippin from the album ''What This Country Needs'', 1999 * "Her", a song by Musiq from the album '' Soulstar'', 2003 * "Her", a song by Eels from the album ''B-Sides & Rarities 1996–2003'', 2005 * "Her", a song by Tyler, the Creator from the album ''Goblin'', 2011 * "Her", a song by Poppy from the album ''Flux'', 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Dynamite
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Green Trees
Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. By far the largest contributor to green in nature is chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert sunlight into chemical energy. Many creatures have adapted to their green environments by taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage. Several minerals have a green color, including the emerald, which is colored green by its chromium content. During post-classical and early modern Europe, green was the color commonly associated with wealth, merchants, bankers, and the gentry, while red was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neptune's Naughty Daughter
Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the farthest known planet in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times the mass of Earth, and slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus. Neptune is denser and physically smaller than Uranus because its greater mass causes more gravitational compression of its atmosphere. It is referred to as one of the solar system's two ice giant planets (the other one being Uranus). Being composed primarily of gases and liquids, it has no well-defined "solid surface". The planet orbits the Sun once every 164.8 years at an average distance of . It is named after the Roman god of the sea and has the astronomical symbol , representing Neptune's trident. Neptune is not visible to the unaided eye and is the only planet in the Solar System found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Unexpec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel And Fatty's Married Life
''Mabel and Fatty's Married Life'' is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Plot While Fatty's out on business Mabel stays alone at home. She hears noises and thinks there is a burglar. She calls the Keystone Cops for help, but it turns out it was a small monkey belonging to an organ grinder. Fatty comes home and they laugh about what has happened. Cast * Mabel Normand as Mabel * Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Fatty, her husband * Al St. John as Cop * Joe Bordeaux as Second Italian / Cop * Josef Swickard * Mae Busch (uncredited) * Alice Davenport as Woman (uncredited) * Alice Howell as Woman (uncredited) * Charles Lakin as Fatty's Business Associate (uncredited) See also * Fatty Arbuckle filmography __NOTOC__ These are the films of the American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Roscoe Arbuckle. Films marked with a diamond (♦) were directed by and featured Arbuckle. He used the name William Goodrich on the films he di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caught In A Cabaret
''Caught in a Cabaret'' is a 1914 short comedy film written and directed by Mabel Normand and starring Normand and Charles Chaplin. Plot Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being the Prime Minister of Greenland to impress a girl. He then is invited to a garden party where he gets in trouble with the girl's jealous boyfriend. Mabel Normand wrote and directed comedies before Chaplin and mentored her young co-star. Cast * Mabel Normand - Mabel * Charles Chaplin - Waiter * Harry McCoy - Lover * Chester Conklin - Waiter * Edgar Kennedy - Cafe proprietor * Minta Durfee - Dancer * Phyllis Allen - Dancer * Josef Swickard - Father * Alice Davenport - Mother * Gordon Griffith - Boy * Alice Howell - Party Guest * Hank Mann - Cabaret Patron * Mack Swain - Big Tough Man * Billy Gilbert - Cabaret Patron * Wallace MacDonald - Party guest Reviews The Moving Picture World's review said, "This is another two-reel comedy manufactured in Mack Sennett's comical factory out in Californy State ic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Lucky Day (1920) - Ad 1
Her is the objective and possessive form of the English-language feminine pronoun she. Her, HER or H.E.R. may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Music * H.E.R. (born 1997), American singer ** ''H.E.R.'' (album), 2017 * HIM (Finnish band), once known as HER in the United States Songs * "Her" (Megan Thee Stallion song) * "Her", a song by Stan Getz from the album ''Focus'', 1961 * "Her", a song by Guy from the album '' The Future'', 1990 * "Her", a song by Swans from the album ''Omniscience'', 1992 * "Her", a song by Pigeonhed from the album ''Pigeonhed'', 1993 * "Her", a song by Tindersticks from the album ''Tindersticks Tindersticks are an English alternative rock band formed in Nottingham in 1991. They released six albums before singer Stuart A. Staples embarked on a solo career. The band reunited briefly in 2006 and more permanently the following year. Th ...'', 1993 * "Her", a song by Aaron Tippin from the album ''What This Country Needs'', 1999 * "Her", a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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