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Broken Blossoms (1936 Film)
''Broken Blossoms'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford and Edith Sharpe. Director Bernard Vorhaus was technical supervisor. The film is based on the short story "The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke from his collection '' Limehouse Nights'' (1916), and was produced at Twickenham Studios in London. The story had previously been adapted by D. W. Griffith for his film '' Broken Blossoms'' (1919) starring Lillian Gish. Plot A Chinese missionary comes to London where he works in the slums and helps a young girl being ill-treated by her abusive father. Cast * Dolly Haas as Lucy Burrows * Emlyn Williams as Chen * Arthur Margetson as Battling Burrows * C. V. France as High Priest * Basil Radford as Mr. Reed * Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Reed * Ernest Jay as Alf * Bertha Belmore as Daisy * Gibb McLaughlin as Evil Eye * Ernest Sefton as Manager * Donald Calthrop as Old Chinaman * Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brahm
John Brahm (August 17, 1893 – October 12, 1982) was a German film and television director. His films include ''The Undying Monster'' (1942), '' The Lodger'' (1944), ''Hangover Square'' (1945), ''The Locket'' (1946), ''The Brasher Doubloon'' (1947), and the 3D horror film, ''The Mad Magician'' (1954). Early life Brahm was born Hans Brahm in Hamburg, the son of actor Ludwig Brahm and his wife. His family was involved in theater; his paternal uncle was theatrical impresario Otto Brahm. Career Brahm started his career in the theatre as an actor. After World War I, he traveled and worked among the cities of Vienna, Berlin and Paris, which had the most artistic cultures of the time. He eventually became a director, and was appointed as resident director for acting troupes at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, both in Berlin. With the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s, Brahm left the country, first moving to England. After working as a mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Vorhaus
Bernard Vorhaus (December 25, 1904 – November 23, 2000) was an American film director of Austrian descent, born in New York City. His father was born in Krakow, then part of Austria-Hungary. Vorhaus spent many decades living in the UK. Eearly in his career, he worked as a screenwriter, and co-produced the film ''The Singing City''. He was Hollywood blacklist, blacklisted in Hollywood for his communism, communist sympathies, and returned to England, where he resumed his career. Known, alongside Michael Powell, for his quota quickies, Vorhaus also worked in Europe. Career The Harvard University graduate, in addition to directing thirty-two films, was also the mentor to future film director David Lean, some of whose work as a film editor early in his career was on Vorhaus pictures. He worked steadily as a screenwriter in Hollywood while in his 20s for such studios as Columbia Pictures and Fox Film, Fox Studios but wanted to direct movies. He eventually decided to move to Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Minto
Dorothy Minto ('' née'' Scott) ( – 6 December 1957) was a prominent actress on the London stage between 1905 and the mid-1930s, notably appearing in the first runs of several plays written by George Bernard Shaw. She also featured in a small number of films between 1916 and 1936. While her early stage career concentrated on classical plays and serious new work, from 1912 onwards she devoted herself more to musicals and comedies. Early life Many references to Dorothy Minto state or imply that she was born in 1891 (for instance, her entry in ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 1925, gives her date of birth as 21 Feb 1891). This is based on the assumption that she was just 14 years old when playing Juliet in a 1905 production of Romeo and Juliet. However, she was (almost certainly) born in 1886 and raised as Dorothy Scott. She was very probably the daughter of Harriett Chambers of Edinburgh, a member of the publishing family that produced the Chambers Dictionary. Dorothy Scot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Villiers
Kenneth Villiers (1912–1992) was a British film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ....Marshall p.318 He also directed three documentary films. Selected filmography * '' Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk'' (1935) * '' They Didn't Know'' (1936) * '' Broken Blossoms'' (1936) * '' Things to Come'' (1936) References Bibliography * Marshall, Wendy L. ''William Beaudine: From Silents to Television''. Scarecrow Press, 2005. * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-kenneth-villiers-1580529.html External links * 1912 births 1992 deaths British film directors British male film actors Actors from Colombo British expatriates in British Ceylon {{UK-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison (23 February 1892 – 7 December 1995) was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs. Huggett (opposite Jack Warner and Petula Clark) in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working-class family's misadventures, The Huggetts. She later played the charwoman Mrs. Dilber opposite Alastair Sim in the 1951 film '' Scrooge'' (US: ''A Christmas Carol'', 1951) and a Cockney charwoman who inherits a fortune in the television series ''Mrs Thursday'' (1966–67). Life and career Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Harrison was brought up in London, her father having become borough engineer for Southwark. She was educated at Clapham High School before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1914–15). She spent some years living in Argentina and Madeira before making her professional acting debut in the UK in the 1920s. Harrison made her stage debut as Mrs. Judd in ''The Constant Flirt'' at the Pier Theatre, Eastbourne in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Calthrop
Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor. Born in London, Calthrop was educated at St Paul's School and made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age at the Comedy Theatre, London. His first film was '' The Gay Lord Quex'' released in 1917. He starred as the title character in the successful musical '' The Boy'' in the same year. He then appeared in more than 60 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He died in Eton, Berkshire from a heart attack while he was filming ''Major Barbara'' (1941). According to Ronald Neame in his autobiography, some shots in the final film had a stand-in playing Calthrop's role (from the back) and a piece of dialogue was recorded using an unnamed person who impersonated Calthrop's voice. He was the nephew of dramatist Dion Boucicault. Selected filmography * ''Altar Chains'' (1916) * ''Masks and Faces'' (1917) - Lovell * '' The Gay Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Sefton
Ernest Sefton (born as Ernest Henry Tipton; 13 January 1883 in Hackney, London – 5 December 1954) was a British film actor. He was the brother of Violet Loraine. Selected filmography * ''The Sign of Four'' (1932) * ''The Innocents of Chicago'' (1932) * ''The Bermondsey Kid'' (1933) * ''Radio Parade'' (1933) * ''Enemy of the Police'' (1933) * '' Strike It Rich'' (1933) * '' Little Miss Nobody'' (1933) * '' Britannia of Billingsgate'' (1933) * ''Great Stuff'' (1933) * ''Double Wedding'' (1933) * ''I'll Stick to You'' (1933) * ''Murder at Monte Carlo'' (1934) * ''The Third Clue'' (1934) * '' What's in a Name?'' (1934) * ''Big Business'' (1934) * ''No Limit'' (1935) * ''Hello, Sweetheart'' (1935) * '' Say It with Diamonds'' (1935) * ''Look Up and Laugh'' (1935) * '' Strictly Illegal'' (1935) * '' It's in the Bag'' (1936) * '' Cheer Up'' (1936) * '' Wolf's Clothing'' (1936) * '' Double Alibi'' (1937) * '' Millions'' (1937) * '' The Great Barrier'' (1937) * ''The Fatal Hour'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibb McLaughlin
George McLoughlin (19 July 1879 – 30 June 1961), known professionally as Gibb McLaughlin, was an English film and stage actor. Early days McLaughlin was born in Sunderland, County Durham, England in 1879. For about 10 years he was a salesman in Kingston-upon-Hull where he sang in the Holy Trinity Church choir. He joined the Hull Amateur Operatic Society and played the part of Koko in The Mikado. After that he appeared with Anne Croft in concerts and they had a turn to themselves on the stage of the Palace Theatre. He performed as a comedian and monologist in music halls. In 1915, McLaughlin married Eleanor Morton, youngest daughter of William Morton, formerly manager of the Egyptian Hall, London and the Greenwich Theatre. Film work He appeared in 118 films between 1921 and 1959. He was known for The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Oliver Twist (1948) and Hobson's Choice (1954). He had a rare leading role as the sleuth J.G. Reeder in Edgar Wallace's '' Mr Reeder in Room 13'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertha Belmore
Bertha Belmore (22 December 1882 – 14 December 1953) was an English stage and film actress. Part of the Belmore family of British actors through her marriage to actor Herbert Belmore, she began her career as a child actress in British pantomimes and music hall variety acts. As a young adult she was one of the Belmore Sisters in variety entertainment before beginning a more serious acting career performing in classic plays by William Shakespeare with Ben Greet's Pastoral Players in a 1911 tour of the United States. She made her Broadway debut as Portia in Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' in 1912. She returned to Broadway numerous times in mainly comedic character roles over the next 40 years, notably creating parts in the original Broadway productions of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers's ''By Jupiter'' (1942) and Anita Loos's '' Gigi'' (1951). She worked in several productions mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., including appearing in the '' Ziegfeld Follies of 1925'' with W.C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Jay
Ernest Jay (18 September 1893 – 8 February 1957) was a British actor. Selected filmography * '' My Lucky Star'' (1933) - Press Agent * ''Tiger Bay'' (1934) - Alf * '' The Iron Duke'' (1934) - First Orderly * '' The Phantom Light'' (1935) - Railway Worker (uncredited) * '' Checkmate'' (1935) - Huntly * '' Rhodes of Africa'' (1936) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Broken Blossoms'' (1936) - Alf * '' Men of Yesterday'' (1936) * ''The House of the Spaniard'' (1936) * '' O.H.M.S.'' (1937) - (uncredited) * ''The Song of the Road'' (1937) - Tinker * '' I See Ice'' (1938) - Theater Manager * ''Don't Take It to Heart'' (1944) - Tripp, Reporter * ''School for Secrets'' (1946) - Dr. Dainty * ''Vice Versa'' (1948) - Bowler * ''Death in the Hand'' (1948) - MacRae * ''Blanche Fury'' (1948) - Calamy * ''So Evil My Love'' (1948) - Smathers * '' The History of Mr. Polly'' (1949) - Mr. Hinks * ''Edward, My Son'' (1949) - Walter Prothin * '' Golden Arrow'' (1949) - Mr. Felton * '' The Reluctant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slums
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people.What are slums and why do they exist? UN-Habitat, Kenya (April 2007) Although slums are usually located in s, in some countries they can be located in s where housing quality is low and living conditions are poor. While slums differ in size and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Thomas Hale 'On Being a Missionary' 2003, William Carey Library Pub, . In the Bible translations into Latin, Latin translation of the Bible, Jesus, Jesus Christ says the word when he sends the disciples into areas and commands them to preach the gospel in his name. The term is most commonly used in reference to Christian missions, but it can also be used in reference to any creed or ideology. The word ''mission'' originated in 1598 when Jesuits, the members of the Society of Jesus sent members abroad, derived from the Latin (nominative case, nom. ), meaning 'act of sending' or , meaning 'to send'. By religion Buddhist missions The first Buddhist missionaries were called "Dharma Bhanaks", and some see a missionary charge in the symbolis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
