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Antrim Short
Antrim Short (July 11, 1900 – November 24, 1972) was an American stage and film actor, casting director and talent agent. As a juvenile he enjoyed some success on the Broadway stage notably appearing as a boy with Mrs. Fiske and Holbrook Blinn in ''Salvation Nell'' in 1908. While in his teens he appeared in silent films playing the kind of roles that were made popular by Jack Pickford. Short was born to two actors, Lew and Estella Short, and his sister was silent actresses Gertrude Short. They were cousins of Blanche Sweet. Short was married to Frances Morris, who is best remembered by tv fans as George Reeves's Earth mother Sarah Kent in '' The Adventures of Superman''. Short died in Los Angeles November 24, 1972.''Who Was Who on Screen'', p.423 c.1977 by Evelyn Mack Truitt Selected filmography *''Bobby's Baby'' (1913)*short *''Why Rags Left Home'' (1913) *short *''The Fallen Angel'' (1913) *short *''The Village Blacksmith'' (1913) *short *''His Brand'' (1913)*short *''Chival ...
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. With an estimated population of 2,256,884, it is Ohio's largest metropolitan area and the nation's 30th-largest, and with a city population of 309,317, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and 64th in the United States. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was among the top 10 U.S. cities by population, surpassed only by New Orleans and the older, established settlements of the United States eastern seaboard, as well as being the sixth-most populous city from 1840 until 1860. As a rivertown crossroads at the junction of the North, South, East, and West, Cincinnati developed with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than Ea ...
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Huck And Tom
''Huck and Tom'' is a surviving American comedy drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and released in 1918. The scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers is derived from Mark Twain's novels ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876) and ''The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884). Robert Gordon and Jack Pickford reprise the title roles from the 1917 version of ''Tom Sawyer (1917 film), Tom Sawyer'', a successful adaptation that was also directed by Taylor. Plot As described in a film magazine, while in a graveyard trying an old remedy to get rid of their warts, Tom (Pickford) and Huck (Gordon) witness a murder. At the trial their repetition of the story clears Muff Potter (Bates), an innocent suspect and victim of Injun Joe's (Lanning) plot. Injun Joe escapes to the Painted Cave, where the next day Tom and Becky (Horton) become lost. After a four-day search the missing ones come home and the entrance to the Painted Cave is sealed. Tom tells Judge Thatcher (Burton) that Injun Joe is ...
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O'Malley Of The Mounted (1921 Film)
''O'Malley of the Mounted'' is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Hillyer and William S. Hart. The film stars William S. Hart, Eva Novak, Leo Willis, Alfred Allen, Bert Sprotte, and Antrim Short. The film was released on February 6, 1921, by Paramount Pictures. Plot In 1921, the ''Motion Picture World'' summarized,"O'Malley of the Mounted" is a sergeant who has won his stripes by getting any criminal he is sent out to arrest, this in wild Northwestern territory amid men who dare follow their own impulses rather than obey the law. O'Malley is assigned to arrest La Grange, a man who murdered a saloon keeper. O'Malley believes La Grange went south to escape over the border into America. He encounters outlaws at a saloon in Forker City. He joins their gang by robbing a bank of $5,000. He soon develops a crush on Rose Lanier and a friendship with her brother, Bud, a fugitive of the law. Later, O'Malley fights a character named Red ...
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Rich Girl, Poor Girl
''Rich Girl, Poor Girl'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Harry B. Harris and written by J.G. Hawks and A.P. Younger. The film stars Gladys Walton, Gordon McGregor, Harold Austin, Antrim Short, Joe Neary, Wadsworth Harris, and Charles Herzinger. It was released on January 24, 1921, by Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Cast *Gladys Walton as Nora McShane/Beatrice Vanderfleet *Gordon McGregor as Terry McShane *Harold Austin as Reginald *Antrim Short as Muggsy *Joe Neary as Spider *Wadsworth Harris as Vanderfleet *Charles Herzinger as Boggs 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 * * 1921 drama films 1921 films Silent American drama films American silent feature films ...
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The Son Of Wallingford
''The Son of Wallingford'' is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film directed by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Josephine Chester and starring Wilfrid North, Tom Gallery and Antrim Short.Connelly p.413 It is based on George Chester's novel ''The Son of Wallingford'' about a confidence trickster, itself inspired by his ''Cosmopolitan'' articles and an earlier hit play '' Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford''. It was shot at Vitagraph's Flatbush Studios in Brooklyn. It was released by Vitagraph a couple of months before a Paramount Pictures version of '' Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford''. Cast * Wilfrid North as J. Rufus Wallingford * Tom Gallery as Jimmy Wallkingford * George Webb as Blackie Daw * Antrim Short as 'Toad' Edward Jessup * Van Dyke Brooke as Henry Beegoode * Sidney D'Albrook as Bertram Beegoode * Andrew Arbuckle as Talbot Curtis * Bobbie Mack as O.O. Jones * Walter Rodgers as 'Petrograd' Pete * Priscilla Bonner as Mary Curtis * Florence Hart as Mrs. Fannie Wallingford * ...
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Old Lady 31
''Old Lady 31'' is a 1920 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures and directed by John Ince. It is based on a novel by Louise Forsslund that was turned into a play by Rachel Crothers. The film starred actress Emma Dunn reprising her 1916 stage success for the screen. The film was remade in 1940 as '' The Captain Is a Lady''. Plot Based upon a summary of the plot in a review in a film publication, Angie (Dunn) and Abe (Harmon) have been married for many years when bad investments force them to sell their homestead. Angie is to go to the old ladies' home while Abe is to go to live on the poor farm. When the twenty-nine inmates of the old ladies' home see how hard it is for the couple to part, they agree to take Abe in, and he is listed on their roster as "Old Lady 31." There are several comic situations as Abe wins his way into the hearts of his female companions. When some apparently worthless mining stock is found to have some value, the cou ...
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Fighting Cressy
''Fighting Cressy'' is a lost 1919 silent film western directed by Robert Thornby and starring Blanche Sweet. It was produced by Jesse D. Hampton and distributed through Pathé Exchange. Cast * Blanche Sweet - Cressy * Russell Simpson - Hiram McKinstry * Edward Peil, Sr. - John Ford (* as Edward Peil) * Pell Trenton - Joe Masters * Antrim Short - Seth Davis * Frank Lanning - Old Man Harrison * Billie Bennett - Mrs. Dabney * Georgie Stone - Georgie * Walter Perry - Uncle Ben Dabney * Eunice Murdock Moore - Ma McKinstry (* as Eunice Moore) See also * Blanche Sweet filmography __NOTOC__ This is the filmography for Blanche Sweet. According to the Internet Movie Database, Sweet appeared in 161 films between 1909 and 1959. ---- 1909 - 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1919 - Later films ... References External links * * lantern slidearchived) 1919 films 1919 Western (genre) films Lost American films Films directed by Robert Thornb ...
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The Right Of Way (1920 Film)
Starring Bert Lytell, ''The Right of Way'' is a lost 1920 American remade silent film directed by John Francis Dillon and distributed by Metro Pictures Metro Pictures Corporation was a Film, motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leas .... The film was previously filmed in 1915 and released on February 29, 1920 in the United States. Cast References External links * * 1920 films American silent feature films Lost American films Films directed by John Francis Dillon Films based on Canadian novels Films based on works by Gilbert Parker Remakes of American films American black-and-white films Metro Pictures films 1920 lost films 1920s American films {{silent-film-stub ...
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Please Get Married
''Please Get Married'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by John Ince and starring Viola Dana, Antrim Short and Margaret Campbell. It was based on the Broadway play of the same title by Lewis Allen Browne and James F. Cullen.Goble p.911 Cast * Viola Dana as Muriel Ashley * Antrim Short as Ferdinand Oliver Walton * Margaret Campbell as Mrs. John Harper Ashley * Harry Todd as Mr. John Harper Ashley * Emmett King as Robert Walton * Ralph W. Bell as Rev. Barton * Tom Ricketts as Doctor Jenkins * Hugh Fay as Soapy Higgins * Joseph Hazelton as Constable * W.K. Mesick as Detective * William F. Moran as Hotel Clerk * Daisy Jefferson as Hotel Maid * Thomas Hadley Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ... as Bellboy References Bibliography * Leonhard Gmür. ''R ...
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The Thunderbolt (1919 Film)
''The Thunderbolt'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell and starring Katherine MacDonald, Spottiswoode Aitken and Thomas Meighan. Cast * Katherine MacDonald as Ruth Pomeroy * Spottiswoode Aitken as Allan Pomeroy * Thomas Meighan as Bruce Corbin * Forrest Stanley as Spencer Vail * Adda Gleason as Bruce Corbin's Mother * Pomeroy Cannon as Tom Pomeroy's Son * Mrs. L.C. Harris as Mammy Cleo * Jim Blackwell as The Butler * Robert Laidlaw as The Lawyer ''unbilled'' * B. Reeves Eason Jr. - son of Ruth and Bruce * James Gordon - *Antrim Short - Preservation status *The 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 * Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. ''Guide to the Silent Years of American C ...
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Romance And Arabella
''Romance and Arabella'' is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and starring Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, and Monte Blue Gerard Montgomery Blue (January 11, 1887 – February 18, 1963) was an American film actor who began his career as a romantic lead in the silent era; and for decades after the advent of sound, he continued to perform as a supporting player .... Plot As described in a film magazine review, Arabella Cadenhouse is a very young widow and seeks thrills in her next match. She is loved by Bill, a long-time sweetheart, but decides that life with him would be too placid. Each man she meets attracts her anew. She finally decides on a noted doctor, but when he appears one-half hour late she becomes infuriated and refuses to marry him, and continues the wedding with Bill instead. Cast References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * ...
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Hugon, The Mighty
''Hugon, The Mighty'' is a lost 1918 silent film Northwoods drama directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and starring Monroe Salisbury. It was produced by Bluebird Photoplays and released through Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Cast *Monroe Salisbury - Hugon *Margery Bennett - Marie *Antrim Short - Gabriel *Thomas H. Pearse - Priest * George Holt - Roque *Sarah Kernan - Gabriel's Mother (*as Mrs. Kernan) *Tote Du Crow Tote Du Crow (also known as George Skyrock or Shyroch) was a film actor and circus performer who acted in many silent films during the early days of Hollywood. Biography Tote was born in Watsonville, California, to parents of Castilian and Fren ... - ? *Roy Watkins - ? References External links Hugon, The Mighty at IMDb.com*Wayback Machine) 1918 films American silent feature films Lost American drama films Universal Pictures films Silent American drama films 1918 drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon 1918 lost ...
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