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Arvid E. Gillstrom
Arvid E. Gillstrom (13 August 1889 – 21 May 1935) was a film director and screenwriter from Sweden. He was born Arvid Evald Gyllström in Annedal, Gothenburg, Sweden. He married Ethel Burton in 1917. Gillstrom died in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography * ''Their Social Splash'' (1915) * ''Back Stage'' (1917) * ''The Hero'' (1917) * '' Dough Nuts'' (1917) * '' The Villain'' (1917) * '' The Millionaire'' (1917) * '' The Goat'' (1917) * '' The Fly Cop'' (1917) * ''The Chief Cook'' (1917) * '' The Candy Kid'' (1917) * ''The Hobo'' (1917) * '' The Pest'' (1917) * '' The Band Master'' (1917) * '' The Slave'' (1917) * '' The Stranger'' (1918) * ''The Rogue'' (1918) * ''His Day Out'' (1918) * ''The Orderly'' (1918) * '' The Scholar'' (1918) * '' The Messenger'' (1918) * '' Swat the Spy'' (1918) * '' Tell It to the Marines'' (1918) * '' Smiles'' (1919) * ''Leave It to Gerry'' (1924) * ''Legionnaires in Paris'' (1927) * ''Melancholy Dame'' (1929) * ''The Framing of the Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 590,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area. Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony, by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. In addition to the generous privileges (e.g. tax relaxation) given to his Dutch allies from the ongoing Thirty Years' War, the king also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the Göta älv, where Scandinavia's largest drainage basin enters the sea, the Port of Gothenburg is now the largest port in the Nordic countries. Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hobo
''The Hobo'' is a 1917 American silent comedy film featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy. It is a shameless copy of Charlie Chaplin's 1915 film The Tramp with West copying Chaplin's tramp outfit down to the last detail. Plot Harold sits in a diner eating a huge stack of pancakes. Outside a hobo hides on a platform under a railway freight car. He sits by the track and has a picnic as an astonished brakeman looks on. The hobo spies some pies and vaults a fence. A dog chases him and he bumps into Dolly. She drops her handkerchief and he follows her to the ticket office of the station to return it. She goes into the office and surprises her father. The hobo knocks on the hatch and the girl appears. He hooks her neck with his walking stick and pulls her head through the hole. Back in the diner Harold has finished the pancakes and starts work on eating a whole sponge cake. He spots the hobo trying to kiss Dolly, who is his girlfriend. He throws the cake but misses the hobo. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leave It To Gerry
''Leave It to Gerry'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom and starring Billie Rhodes, William Collier Jr., and Claire McDowell. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Geraldine Brent, known as Gerry, goes to Chicago to be educated at her rich aunt's expense. The land on which her mother's house stands is mortgaged but has oil on it, and Colonel Pettijohn conspires to obtain possession of it. The mortgage is foreclosed and Mrs. Brent is taken to the workhouse. Gerry meets former boy acquaintance Dan Forbes and becomes his sweetheart. They ride to the workhouse and rescue Mrs. Brent. Colonel Pettijohn's schemes are defeated and Mrs. Brent regains her property. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Leave It to Gerry'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smiles (film)
''Smiles'' is a 1919 American silent war comedy film directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom and starring Jane Lee, Katherine Lee, Ethel Fleming, Val Paul, and Carmen Phillips. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on February 23, 1919. Plot Cast * Jane Lee as Jane * Katherine Lee as Katherine * Ethel Fleming as Lucille Forrest *Val Paul as Tom Hayes * Carmen Phillips as Madame Yelba * Charles Arling as Wagner * Katherine Griffith as Housekeeper * Barbara Maier as Little Girl Preservation The film is now considered lost. See also *List of lost films *1937 Fox vault fire The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ... References External links * 1910s war comedy films American war comedy films 1919 films American silent feature films American black-and-white f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tell It To The Marines (1918 Film)
''Tell It to the Marines'' is a 1918 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom and starring Jane and Katherine Lee, Charles Slattery, and Edward Bagley. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on October 13, 1918. Plot Cast * Jane Lee as Jane Williams * Katherine Lee as Katherine Williams *Charles Slattery as Harry Williams *Edward Bagley as the Butler Preservation The film is now considered lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography *Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee .... References External links * 1918 comedy-drama films 1910s English-language films 1918 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Fox Film films Lost American comedy-drama films 1918 lost films English-language comedy-drama films 1910s American films Silent American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swat The Spy
''Swat the Spy'' is a 1918 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom and starring Jane Lee, Katherine Lee, Charles Slattery, Pat Hartigan, and Florence Ashbrooke. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on September 29, 1918. Plot Cast * Jane Lee as Jane Sheldon *Katherine Lee as Katherine Sheldon *Charles Slattery as Andrew Sheldon *Pat Hartigan as Karl Schmidt (as P.C. Hartigan) *Florence Ashbrooke as Lena Muller Preservation Incomplete prints survived at the Library of Congress and Academy Film Archive The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of m .... References External links * 1918 comedy-drama films 1910s English-language films 1918 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Fox Film films 1910s American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Messenger (1918 Film)
''The Messenger'' is a 1918 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. Cast * Billy West as Billy, the messenger boy * Oliver Hardy (credited as Babe Hardy) * Ethel Marie Burton * Leatrice Joy * Leo White * Joe Bordeaux Reception Like many American films of the time, ''The Messenger'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 1, four scenes of Billy looking at young woman with skirt raised exposing posterior and scene of Billy dropping trousers and standing in underwear. See also * List of American films of 1918 * Oliver Hardy filmography __NOTOC__ These are the films of Oliver Hardy as an actor. For the filmography of Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy were a British-American Double act, comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood cinema, Classical Hollywood era of Am ... References External links * 1918 films 1918 short films American silent short films American black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scholar (film)
''The Scholar'' is a 1918 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. Cast * Billy West as A Student * Oliver Hardy (credited as Babe Hardy) * ·Ethel Marie Burton as The Teacher (credited as Ethel Burton) * Leatrice Joy * Leo White * Joe Bordeaux Reception Like many American films of the time, ''The Scholar'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 1, of the man pulling pincushion from his posterior, silhouette of girl undressing, Reel 2, schoolroom scene were boy kicks girl, man pulling tack from posterior, West striking boy with slingshot in posterior as he bends over, the intertitle "Teacher, can I go out?" and West's vulgar actions of smelling after the intertitle "Teacher, please let him out", school superintendent thumbing nose, scene of man's underwear showing through his torn trousers, two scenes of jabbing man with pin cushion to include West pulling man's coat apart expo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Orderly
''The Orderly'' is a 1918 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. Cast * Billy West as Sanitarium orderly * Oliver Hardy (as Babe Hardy) * Leatrice Joy * Ethel Marie Burton * Leo White * Joe Bordeaux * Bud Ross See also * Oliver Hardy filmography __NOTOC__ These are the films of Oliver Hardy as an actor. For the filmography of Laurel and Hardy as a team, see: Laurel and Hardy films :''This list contains only the films that Laurel and Hardy made together. For their solo films see Stan Laur ... References External links * 1918 films American silent short films American black-and-white films 1918 comedy films 1918 short films Films directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom Silent American comedy films American comedy short films 1910s American films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Day Out
''His Day Out'' is a surviving 1918 American silent comedy short film featuring Oliver Hardy. Cast * Billy West as Billy * Leatrice Joy as Joy * Oliver Hardy as Oliver * Leo White * Joe Bordeaux * Ethel Marie Burton * Bud Ross as The Father (as Budd Ross) * Slim Cole * Don Likes as A Customer * Billy Quirk Release ''His Day Out'' was released on January 15, 1918, in the United States. See also * List of American films of 1918 * Oliver Hardy filmography __NOTOC__ These are the films of Oliver Hardy as an actor. For the filmography of Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy were a British-American Double act, comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood cinema, Classical Hollywood era of Am ... References External links * 1918 films 1918 short films 1918 comedy films American silent short films Silent American comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom American comedy short films 1910s American films {{1910s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rogue
''The Rogue'' is a 1918 American short film, short silent comedy film (26 minute) featuring Billy West (silent film actor), Billy West and Oliver Hardy produced by King Bee Comedies. The main character is a carbon copy of Charlie Chaplin's Tramp down even to the details of the bent shoes, thin cane and matching hat. Moreover, the cafe owner played by Hardy is clearly modelled on Eric Campbell (actor), Eric Campbell. Plot A tramp figure dries dishes in a kitchen wearing a woman's apron. He drops a plate and it smashes. He makes more noise trying to brush up his mess. The mistress of the house and her maid hear the commotion and go to investigate. The lady gets a faceful of dust when she opens the door. He takes off his apron and goes to the lounge to help himself to her tea as he is hungry. She catches him and sends him back to the kitchen. He leaves and goes to a cafe where the manager (Hardy) is trying to balance the till. A customer close to the till goes to the washroom. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stranger (1918 Film)
''The Stranger'' is a 1918 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. Prints of this film survive in private collections and it has been released on DVD. Cast * Billy West as The Prospector * Leatrice Joy as Susie * Bud Ross as Susie's Father (credited as Budd Ross) * Oliver Hardy as Oliver, the saloonkeeper * Leo White as The Greaser Reception Like many American films of the time, ''The Stranger'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 2, the intertitle "The Hall of Joy where wine, women and song hold forth temptations to strangers". See also * List of American films of 1918 * Oliver Hardy filmography __NOTOC__ These are the films of Oliver Hardy as an actor. For the filmography of Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy were a British-American Double act, comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood cinema, Classical Hollywood era of Am ... References External links * 1918 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
