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Beatrice Van
Beatrice Van (born Beatrice Abbott; August 8, 1890 – July 4, 1983) was an American silent film actress. She was also a screenwriter for both silent and sound films. Biography Beatrice was born to Joseph and Beatrice Abbott in Omaha, Nebraska; she had an older sister, Genevieve. She grew up in Nebraska and Oklahoma, where she was educated in a convent. Beatrice's first marriage was to Cornelius Vander-Pluym; they had one child together, Kreigh Vander-Pluym, in 1912. The pair eventually divorced in 1915. She was a leading woman at Universal for a time in the 1910s, and later worked as a scenarist for FBO. Beatrice married writer-actor James Gruen in 1927, and later, an Australian national, Charles Collman. Filmography Actress * ''The Saint and the Singer'' (1914) * ''One of the Finest'' (1914) * ''Such a Villain'' (1914) * ''The Hills of Silence'' (1914) * ''The Awakening'' (1914/I) * ''Lost by a Hair'' (1914) * ''The Barnstormers'' (1914) * ''This Is the Life'' (1914/I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omaha
Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest city, Omaha's 2020 census population was 486,051. Omaha is the anchor of the eight-county, bi-state Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. The Omaha Metropolitan Area is the 58th-largest in the United States, with a population of 967,604. The Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, NE-IA Combined Statistical Area (CSA) totaled 1,004,771, according to 2020 estimates. Approximately 1.5 million people reside within the Greater Omaha area, within a radius of Downtown Omaha. It is ranked as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, which in 2020 gave it "sufficiency" status. Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painted Lips
''Painted Lips'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Louise Lovely, Alfred Allen and Lew Cody.Connelly p.393 Cast * Louise Lovely as Lou McTavish * Alfred Allen as Capt. McTavish * Lew Cody as Jim Douglass * Hector Dion as Andrew Solman * Beatrice Van as Mrs. Silver * Betty Schade as Rose * Mattie Witting Mattie may refer to: * Mattie (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname * Mattie, Piedmont, Italy, a municipality * Mattie, West Virginia, United States, a ghost town * ''Grace Bailey'' (schooner), known ... as Mrs. Callahan References Bibliography * Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. External links * 1918 films 1918 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Edward LeSaint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silk Stockings (1927 Film)
''Silk Stockings'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Beatrice Van and Albert DeMond. It is based on the 1914 play ''A Pair of Silk Stockings'' by Cyril Harcourt. The film stars Laura La Plante, John Harron, Otis Harlan, William Austin, Marcella Daly, and Heinie Conklin. The film was released on October 2, 1927, by Universal Pictures. Plot Happily married, Sam and Molly Thornhill are still a very much in love couple but one of their favorite pastimes is fighting. On the eve of their wedding anniversary, Sam is forced to stop over at the office to discuss business with some clients. Pressed by his haste to get home as soon as possible, he does not notice that a lady has slipped a silk stocking into his suit pocket which, upon his return, is immediately discovered by Molly. She and George Bagnall, a friend of the family, learn that in another similar case, it ended in divorce. Judge Moore, their mutual friend, thinks it well to teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beware Of Widows
''Beware of Widows'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Beatrice Van. It is based on the 1925 play ''Beware of Widows'' by Owen Moore. The film stars Laura La Plante, Bryant Washburn, Paulette Duval, Walter Hiers, Tully Marshall, and Kathryn Carver. The film was released on May 23, 1927, by Universal Pictures. Cast *Laura La Plante as Joyce Bragdon * Bryant Washburn as Dr. John Waller *Paulette Duval as Mrs. Paul Warren *Walter Hiers as William Bradford *Tully Marshall as Peter Chadwick * Kathryn Carver as Ruth Chadwick *Heinie Conklin as Captain *Otto Hoffman as Mr. Warren Preservation With no prints of ''Beware of Widows'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature Feature may refer to: Computing * Feature (CAD), could be a hole, pocket, or notch * Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob * Feature (software design) is an intentional distinguishing char .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raggedy Rose
''Raggedy Rose'' is a 1926 film American silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand. The film was co-written by Stan Laurel, and directed by Richard Wallace. Cast * Mabel Normand as Raggedy Rose * Carl Miller as Ted Tudor * Max Davidson as Moe Ginsberg * James Finlayson as Simpson Sniffle * Anita Garvin as Janice * Laura La Varnie as her mother * Jerry Mandy as the chauffeur Plot Rose (Normand), who works for a junk dealer (Davidson), dreams of romance with bachelor Ted Tudor (Miller). Production notes *Oliver Hardy had been injured in a cooking accident at home where he burned his arm after a frying pan of scalding grease spilled onto it, and was still recovering when filming for ''Raggedy Rose'' began. This accident also forced Hardy to be replaced by Stan Laurel in the Hal Roach comedy ''Get 'Em Young''.Simon Louvish, ''Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy'' (2001) p. 185 See also * Stan Laurel filmography This is a list of films of Stan Laurel, as an actor without Oliver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Along Came Auntie
''Along Came Auntie'' is a 1926 American silent film featuring Glenn Tryon and Oliver Hardy. Plot Mrs Remington Chow is concealing her second marriage from her aunt in order to receive a large inheritance. She is in financial difficulties and is thinking of taking in lodgers again much to the dismay of the maid. A man comes to the door with a bulldog and demands she pays her debt. As the maid goes out the man slips in. Mr Chow comes back from holiday as her first husband is entertaining her with a violin. The debt collector is hiding in the piano. As he emerges he gets tangled in the fight between husbands. Aunt Alvira arrives. Mrs Chow says she is still married to Vincent. Mrs Chow says they are friends playing a rough game "Duck the Knob". Mrs Chow tells her husband to pretend to be the lodger. Auntie likes Vincent and sits on his knee. She spies Mrs Chow kissing who she thinks is the lodger and gets Vincent to interject. Mr Chow gets his gun. History and preservation stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Trip To Chinatown (film)
''A Trip to Chinatown'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and starring Margaret Livingston. The supporting cast includes Anna May Wong and Charles Farrell. The movie was scripted by Beatrice Van from Charles Hale Hoyt's hit 1891 Broadway musical of the same name and directed by Robert P. Kerr. Livingston played the "Woman from the City" the following year in F. W. Murnau's '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'', the rival to Farrell's future screen partner Janet Gaynor. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''A Trip to Chinatown'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film. See also * |
California Straight Ahead (1925 Film)
''California Straight Ahead'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Reginald Denny, Gertrude Olmstead, and Tom Wilson. Plot As described in a film magazine, on the eve of his wedding, Tom Hayden (Denny) entertains the boys in "The Honeymoon Trailer," an elaborate transcontinental bus he has rigged up for the bridal tour. The bus gets out of control and goes down a gulley. Tom is taken to the hospital, where he regains consciousness and remembers that his bride Betty (Olmstead) is waiting. With the help of his faithful black Sambo (Wilson), he escapes through the window to an ambulance in which an insane woman has just been delivered to the hospital. He dresses while Sambo drives. The insane woman jumps from beneath the bedclothes, embraces him and calls him her long lost lover, making a scene in front of the house of the bride, who scorns him. Betty’s father orders him out and Tom’s own dad disowns him until he has cut out the mad ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crashin' Thru
''Crashin' Thru'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Val Paul and starring Harry Carey. With no copies of ''Crashin' Thru'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film. Cast * Harry Carey as Blake * Cullen Landis as Cons Saunders * Myrtle Stedman as Celia * Vola Vale as Diane * Charles Le Moyne as Saunders * Winifred Bryson as Gracia * Joe Harris as Holmes (as Joseph Harris) * Donald MacDonald as Allison * Charles Hill Mailes as Benedict See also * Harry Carey filmography This is a list of films featuring Harry Carey. 1910 * ''Bill Sharkey's Last Game'' * ''Gentleman Joe'' 1912 * ''An Unseen Enemy'' as The Thief * ''Two Daughters of Eve'' as In Audience * ''Friends'' as Bob Kyne - the Prospector * '' So Near ... References External links * * * 1923 films 1923 Western (genre) films 1923 lost films American black-and-white films Film Booking Offices of America films Films directed by Val Paul Lost American Western (genre) films Sile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Understudy (1922 Film)
''The Understudy'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Doris May, Wallace MacDonald and Christine Mayo.Munden p.423 Cast * Doris May as Mary Neil * Wallace MacDonald as Tom Manning * Christine Mayo as Grace Lorimer * Otis Harlan as Mr. Manning * Arthur Hoyt Arthur Hoyt (March 19, 1874 – January 4, 1953) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films. Career Born in Georgetown, Colorado, in 1874, Hoyt ma ... as Cathbert Vane References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1922 films 1922 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by William A. Seiter Film Booking Offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eden And Return
''Eden and Return'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Doris May, Emmett King and Margaret Livingston.Munden p.212 Cast * Doris May as Betty Baylock * Emmett King as Robert Baylock * Margaret Livingston as Connie Demarest * Earl Metcalfe as John Grey * Margaret Campbell as Aunt Sarah * Charles A. Post as Sam Padgett * Frank Kingsley Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Curr ... as Dempsey Chubbs References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1921 films 1921 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Of Top Hill Trail
''Penny of Top Hill Trail'' is a 1921 American silent Western comedy film based on the 1919 novel by Belle Kanaris Maniates. It was directed by Arthur Berthelet and stars Bessie Love. The film was produced by Andrew J. Callaghan Productions and distributed by Federated Film Exchanges of America. The film is presumed lost. Plot When Penny (Love) goes to a ranch, she is mistaken for a thief. She encounters the ranch foreman (Oakman), who tries to reform her. When another girl is revealed to be the real thief, Penny's reputation is cleared, and she reveals her true identity: a film actress on vacation. She and the foreman realize their love for each other, and Penny decides to stay on the ranch with him. Cast * Bessie Love as Penny * Wheeler Oakman as Kurt Walters * Raymond Cannon as Jo Gary * Harry De Vere as Louis Kingdon * Lizette Thorne as Mrs. Kingdon * Gloria Holt as Betty Kingdon * George Stone as Francis Kingdon * Herbert Hertier as Hebier Production Exteriors we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
