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Arch Heath
Arch Heath (July 15, 1890 – January 7, 1945), also known as A. B. Heath and Arch B. Heath, was an American film director and screenwriter whose career spanned from the era of silent films to the 1940s. He helped pioneer the introduction of the sound film. Many of his early films are now considered lost. Heath was born in Brooklyn. Before starting as a director, Heath played semi-pro baseball. He learned drawing as an office boy for a newspaper, and became a cartoonist for the sports page, finally succeeding Herbert Johnson at the Associated Newspapers Syndicate, signing his cartoons "Fields". He started in movies by creating campaign films for the presidential campaign of Woodrow Wilson in 1914. From cartooning he also moved on to movie animation. He became general manager of production at Eastern Film Corporation, based in New York City. At Eastern he produced his first serial ''A Daughter of Uncle Sam'', directed by James C. Morton, in 1918. He moved to Pathé Studios i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arch Heath 1927
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The Masked Menace
''The Masked Menace'' is a 1927 American drama film, drama film serial directed by Arch Heath and mostly filmed in Berlin, New Hampshire. It was Film adaptation, adapted from the story "Still Face" by Pulp magazine, pulp writer Clarence Budington Kelland and was released in ten chapters. It is now considered to be lost film, lost. Plot The mill of an old woman and her ward, Faith Newton (Jean Arthur), is being terrorized by the masked menace of the title known as "Still Face". The women are helped by a man named Keats Dodd (Larry Kent (actor), Larry Kent). The masked villain's identity is revealed in the final chapter. Cast * Larry Kent (actor), Larry Kent as Keats Dodd * Jean Arthur as Faith Newton * Thomas Holding as Carl Phillips * Laura Alberta as Grandma Newton * John F. Hamilton as The Half-Wit named Job * William Bailey (actor), William Norton Bailey * Edward Roseman See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Love (1929 Film)
''Modern Love'' is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Arch Heath and written by Albert DeMond and Beatrice Van. The film stars Charley Chase, Kathryn Crawford, Jean Hersholt, Edward Martindel, Anita Garvin and Betty Montgomery. The film was released on July 21, 1929, by Universal Pictures. Plot In order to keep her job, a young dress designer must keep her recent marriage a secret from her boss. An important client arrives from Paris and her boss decides to hold a dinner party for the man at the girl's house. When her husband finds out that the client wants to take her back to Paris so she can "study", he comes up with a plan to stop it, and it begins with his being the "server" at the dinner party. Cast *Charley Chase as John Jones *Kathryn Crawford as Patricia Brown *Jean Hersholt as François Renault *Edward Martindel as Andre Weston *Anita Garvin as Mrs. Weston *Betty Montgomery as The Blonde *Dorothy Coburn as Half and Half See also * List of early sound fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States; the world's fifth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, and Nordisk Film; and the oldest member of Hollywood's "Big Five" studios in terms of the overall film market. Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. In 1962, the studio was acquired by MCA, which was re-launched as NBCUniversal in 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Of Love (1928 Film)
''Melody of Love'' is a 1928 American romantic drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, directed by Arch Heath, which starred Walter Pidgeon and Mildred Harris, each their first sound film. Historically significant as Universal's first 100% all-talkie, the production suffered from having a tight shooting schedule. Carl Laemmle was only able to rent the Movietone sound system, Fox Movietone sound-on-film recording system for one week, having to be filmed at night while the Fox Studio was closed down for the evenings. Plot When World War I breaks out, Jack Clark (Walter Pidgeon), a Tin Pan Alley songwriter in love with chorus girl Flo Thompson (Jane Winton), enlists in the Army with his pal Lefty (Tom Dugan (actor, born 1889), Tom Dugan) and is sent to France, where they spend their time plunking out tunes while enemy shells whiz past their head. There, Jack meets Madelon (Mildred Harris), a little French singer who falls madly in love with him. Eventually, a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Night (1928 Film)
''That Night'' (originally titled ''One Hot Summer'') is a 1992 American coming-of-age romantic drama film written and directed by Craig Bolotin and starring C. Thomas Howell and Juliette Lewis. It is based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Alice McDermott. This film marks the film debut of both Eliza Dushku and Katherine Heigl. Plot In 1961 Long Island, Alice Bloom is a ten-year-old girl who is trying to understand how love works. She is infatuated with the girl across the street, 17-year-old Sheryl O' Connor. She often looks at her from her bedroom window. Alice starts to copy every detail about Sheryl, including her perfume and even the record she listens to. She admires the affection that Sheryl's father gives her, as she doesn't receive the same from her own father. She then tells her mother about how amazing Sheryl is but Alice's mother pays little attention. One day she goes bowling with some of her friends and is ridiculed by them. Reeling from comments made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Of The Frog
''Mark of the Frog'' is a 1928 American drama 10-chapter film serial directed by Arch Heath and written by Edgar Wallace. The film is now considered to be lost. Plot In search of missing treasure, a crime ring headed by the hooded "Frog" terrorizes New York. Cast * Donald Reed * Margaret Morris * George Harcourt * Gus De Weil * Frank Lackteen * Charles Anthony Hughes (as Tony Hughes) * Frank B. Miller * Helen Greene * Ed Roseman * Sidney Paxton * Morgan Jones Chapter titles # ''The Gas Attack'' # ''Decoyed'' # ''The Jail Delivery'' # ''Triple Vengeance'' # ''The Enemy Within'' # ''Cross Fire'' # ''Framed'' # ''A Life At Stake'' # ''A Race With Death'' # ''Paying The Penalty'' See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio * ''The Frog'' (1937) * ''The Return of the Frog'' (1938) * ''Der Frosch mit der Maske ''Der Frosch mit der Maske'' (translation: ''The Frog with the Mask''), aka ''Face of the Frog'', is a 1959 West German-Danish black-and-white crim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo McCarey
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was involved in nearly 200 films, the most well known today being ''Duck Soup (1933 film), Duck Soup'', ''Make Way for Tomorrow'', ''The Awful Truth'', ''Going My Way'', ''The Bells of St. Mary's'', ''My Son John'' and ''An Affair To Remember''. While focusing mainly on screwball comedies during the 1930s, McCarey turned towards producing more socially conscious and overtly religious films during the 1940s, ultimately finding success and acclaim in both genres. McCarey was one of the most popular and established comedy directors of the pre-World War II era. Life and career Born in Los Angeles, California, McCarey attended St. Joseph's Catholic School and Los Angeles High School. His father was Thomas J. McCarey, whom the Los Angeles Times called "the greatest fight promoter in the world." Leo McCarey would later make a boxing comedy with Harold Lloyd called ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Roach Studios
Hal Roach Studios was an American motion picture and television production studio. Known as ''The Laugh Factory to the World'', it was founded by producer Hal Roach and business partners Dan Linthicum and I.H. Nance as the Rolin Film Company on July 23, 1914. The studio lot, at 8822 Washington Boulevard in Culver City, California, United States, was built in 1920, at which time Rolin was renamed to ''Hal E. Roach Studios''. History Roach saw significant success in the 1920s with series of short comedy films featuring stars such as Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, and the ''Our Gang'' kids. The studio produced both short films and features for distribution through Pathé Exchange until 1927, when it signed a new distribution deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. By the early 1930s, the studio had entered a golden age, with a line-up of many of film's most popular comedians, including Laurel and Hardy, Charley Chase, ''Our Gang'', Thelma Todd, and Zasu Pitts. As movie theaters began to favor d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crimson Flash
''The Crimson Flash'' is a 1927 American action film serial directed by Arch Heath. The film is now considered to be lost. Cast * Cullen Landis * Eugenia Gilbert * Thomas Holding (as Tom Holding) * J. Barney Sherry * Walter P. Lewis * Ivan Linow * Mary Gardner * Charles Anthony Hughes as Dale (as Tony Hughes) * Gus De Weil * Ed Roseman * Howard Carey See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio This is a list of film serials by studio, separated into those released by each of the five major studios, and the remaining minor studios. The five major studios produced the greater number of serials. Of these the main studios are consider ... References External links * 1927 films 1927 lost films 1920s action films American action films American silent serial films American black-and-white films Pathé Exchange film serials Lost American films Lost action films Films directed by Arch Heath 1920s American films {{action-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Writers Guild
The Screen Writers Guild was an organization of Hollywood screenplay authors, formed as a union in 1933. In 1954, it became two different organizations: Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East. Founding Screenwriters' earliest attempts at organizing date back to the 1910s, when film scenarists participated in The Authors League of America (now the Authors Guild). However, screenwriters soon identified a need to form their own organization, since they had different work products and challenges than literary writers. Another attempt at representation was the Photoplay Authors’ League, founded in 1914 in Los Angeles, but it disbanded after two years. In Summer 1920, twelve writers announced the formation of the Screen Writers Guild. They published an open letter in ''Variety'', defining six objectives of the organization, and inviting all industry writers to apply for membership. Members had to derive income from some form of film writing, and to rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Office Of War Information
The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II. The OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, the OWI was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities. The office also established several overseas branches, which launched a large-scale information and propaganda campaign abroad. From 1942 to 1945, the OWI revised or discarded any film scripts reviewed by them that portrayed the United States in a negative light, including anti-war material. History Origins President Franklin D. Roosevelt promulgated the OWI on June 13, 1942, by Executive Order 9182. The Executive Order consolidated the functions of the Office of Facts and Figures (OFF, OWI's direct predecessor), the Office of Government Reports, and the Division of Information of the Office for Emergency Management. The Foreign Information Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
