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Alyce Mills
Alyce Mills (16 February 1899 – 27 April 1990) was an American actress. She appeared in silent films including as a lead. She starred in the 1924 film '' Daughters of the Night''. and the 1926 film '' Say It Again''. She also starred in two B. P. Schulberg films with William Powell: '' My Lady's Lips'' and '' Faint Perfume''. Biography Mills was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she attended Allegheny High School and won a beauty contest before beginning a career in film. She arrived in Los Angeles in 1925, having signed a long-term contract with Schulberg to appear in his films. In a review of ''With This Ring,'' the ''Lansing State Journal'' wrote that Mills was "rapidly becoming established as one of the leading actresses of the younger players." Mills married businessman William Davey in 1928. He bought her a house and they honeymooned in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mills retired from acting at the time of her marriage. The couple divorced in 1937, and Davey went on to marry ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daughters Of The Night (SAYRE 14050)
''Daughters of the Night'' is a 1924 American silent melodrama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Elmer Clifton with Alyce Mills as the lead actress. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Betty Blair (Mills) finishes a training course at the school for telephone operators in New York and returns to her home town Midvale where her scheming aunt (Chapin) makes her promise to marry a scheming wealthy lawyer, Kilmaster (Richmond). Brothers Jimmy (Sands) and Billy Roberts (Caldwell) cap the climax to a wild career by getting arrested in a street brawl and are turned out by their irate father. Jimmy joins his crook pals while Billy determines to make good. He wanders into Midvale and gets a job as lineman with the telephone company where he meets Betty and falls in love with her. Jimmy's gang pick out the Midvale bank for a haul. In making a getaway, Jimmy rushes into the telephone building. A fire starts and he is trapped but mana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Swanson
Gloria May Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899April 4, 1983) was an American actress and producer. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 return in Billy Wilder's ''Sunset Boulevard (film), Sunset Boulevard'', which also earned her a Golden Globe Award. Swanson was born in Chicago and raised in a military family that moved from base to base. Her infatuation with Essanay Studios actor Francis X. Bushman led to her aunt taking her to tour the actor's Chicago studio. The 15-year-old Swanson was offered a brief walk-on for one film, beginning her life's career in front of the cameras. Swanson was soon hired to work in California for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios comedy shorts opposite Bobby Vernon. She was eventually recruited by Famous Players-Lasky/Paramount Pictures, where she was put under contract for seven years. With the company she became a glob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 Births
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – ** Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Girls Wanted
''Two Girls Wanted'', also known as ''2 Girls Wanted'', is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Janet Gaynor, Glenn Tryon and Ben Bard. Cast * Janet Gaynor as Marianna Wright * Glenn Tryon as Dexter Wright * Ben Bard as Jack Terry * Joseph Cawthorn as Philip Hancock * Billy Bletcher as Johnny * Doris Lloyd as Miss Timoney * Pauline Neff as Mrs. Delafield * C.L. Sherwood as Michael * Alyce Mills as Edna Delafield * Marie Mosquini as Sarah Miller * William H. Tooker as William Moody See also *1937 Fox vault fire Preservation status *This film is now 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 Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Whirlwind Of Youth
''The Whirlwind of Youth'' is a 1927 American silent romance film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Lois Moran, Vera Voronina, Donald Keith and Alyce Mills.Anderson p.162 Cast * Lois Moran as Nancy Hawthorne * Vera Voronina as Heloise * Donald Keith as Bob Whittaker * Alyce Mills as Cornelia Evans * Larry Kent as Lloyd Evans * Gareth Hughes Gareth Hughes (23 August 1894 – 1 October 1965) was a Welsh stage and silent screen actor. Usually cast as a callow, sensitive hero in Hollywood silent films, Hughes got his start on stage during childhood and continued to play youthful lead ... as Curley * Charles Lane as Jim Hawthorne References Bibliography * Gillian B. Anderson. ''Music for silent films, 1894-1929: a guide''. Library of Congress, 1988. External links * 1927 films 1920s romance films American romance films Films directed by Rowland V. Lee American silent feature films Paramount Pictures films American black-and-white films 1920s Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Romance Of A Million Dollars
'' The Romance of a Million Dollars'' is a 1926 American drama film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Glenn Hunter, Alyce Mills and Gaston Glass.Langman p.177 Cast * Glenn Hunter as Breck Dunbarton * Alyce Mills as Marie Moore * Gaston Glass as West MacDonald * Jane Jennings as Mrs. Dunbarton * Bobby Watson as The Detective * Lea Penman as Mrs. Olwin * Thomas Brooks Thomas, Thom, Tom, or Tommy Brooks may refer to: Politics and religion * Thomas Brooks (Puritan) (1608–1680), Puritan minister and author * Thomas Brooks, American minister after whom Brookfield, Connecticut, was named * Thomas Brooks, 1st Ba ... as Ezra Dunbarton References Bibliography * Langman, Larry. ''American Film Cycles: The Silent Era''. Greenwood Publishing, 1998. External links * 1926 films 1926 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films directed by Tom Terriss American black-and-white films Preferred Pictur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prince Of Broadway
''The Prince of Broadway'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by John Gorman and starring George Walsh, Alyce Mills, and Freeman Wood. Plot As described in a film magazine review, middleweight boxing champion George Burke leads a convivial life and his careless living results in him being knocked out in a match. Actress Nancy Lee, who was his boyhood sweetheart, persuades her wealthy lover Wade Turner to let George use his California ranch to rehabilitate and train. Turner does so but notifies his foreman to hinder George from getting into fighting shape. George, however, rounds back into shape under the care of and training by James J. Jeffries James Jackson "Jim" Jeffries (April 15, 1875 – March 3, 1953) was an American professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion. He was known for his enormous strength and stamina. Using a technique taught to him by his trainer, former Welte .... Wade and Nancy arrive, the former having told her that George is not mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Many Kisses
''Too Many Kisses'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Paul Sloane that is based on the John Monk Saunders story "A Maker of Gestures."Progressive Silent Film List: ''Too Many Kisses'' at silentera.com Plot Richard Gaylord Jr. is a modern who has so many sweethearts that his father does not know what to do with him. Tired of paying to get his son out of one romantic entanglement after another, Richard Gaylord Sr. sends his son to the region of France, believing that the women ther ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School For Wives (film)
''School for Wives'' is a 1925 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It provided an early role for the future star Brian Donlevy. Based on Leonard Merrick's 1907 melodramatic novel ''The House of Lynch'', it was not well-received by critics. Plot As described in a film magazine review, a rich young woman marries a poor English artist who refuses to accept her father's tainted money. The artist lives up to his ideals, which precipitates a conflict. He is forced to accept a sum which permits their son to have an operation. After the wife gives up on her father's money through learning that it has no place in the scheme of happiness, she is reconciled to her husband. They live happily. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''School for Wives'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film. References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
With This Ring (1925 Film)
''With This Ring'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Fred Windemere and starring Alyce Mills, Forrest Stanley, and Lou Tellegen.Connelly p. 435 In America it was distributed by the independent outfit Preferred Pictures while its British release was originally to be handled by Vitagraph, before that company was acquired by Warner Bros. who distributed it on the British market in 1926. Synopsis While marooned on a desert island, Cecilie Vaughn and Donald Van Buren live as man and wife and she falls pregnant. Donald is attacked and believed dead and Cecilie is rescued. She visits his wealthy family, but they refuse to recognize her or her son and Donald's brother Rufus offers to make her his mistress Mistress is the feminine form of the English word "master" (''master'' + ''-ess'') and may refer to: Romance and relationships * Mistress (lover), a term for a woman who is in a sexual and romantic relationship with a man who is married to a .... She agrees inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisian Love
''Parisian Love'' is a black and white 1925 American silent romantic crime drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Clara Bow Clara Gordon Bow (; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the .... The film was produced by B.P. Schulberg Productions. A copy of this film still survives. Plot Street gangsters Armand and Marie are madly in love, and she persuades Armand and other gang members to rob the home of Pierre Marcel, a wealthy scientist. The police break up the robbery but Pierre hides Armand from them because he kept a gang member from stabbing him, but Armand is wounded in doing so. As Armand regains his health, Pierre sets him up with the beautiful Jean D'Arcy, and Armand has no objections. Marie – jealous of Jean – swears revenge on Pierre. They meet and he falls in love wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morals For Men
Morality () is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong). Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it can derive from a standard that a person believes should be universal. Morality may also be specifically synonymous with "goodness" or "rightness". Moral philosophy includes meta-ethics, which studies abstract issues such as moral ontology and moral epistemology, and normative ethics, which studies more concrete systems of moral decision-making such as deontological ethics and consequentialism. An example of normative ethical philosophy is the Golden Rule, which states: "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself." Immorality is the active opposition to morality (i.e. opposition to that which is good or right), while amorality is variously defined as an u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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