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Billy Gilbert (silent Film Actor)
Billy Gilbert (born William V. Campbell in Hollywood, California; September 15, 1891—April 29, 1961) was involved in more 150 American films between 1913 and 1936, working as either an actor, extra, or director. This Billy Gilbert should not be confused with the later film actor Billy Gilbert (born William Gilbert Barron), who became well known working for Hal Roach Studios in the 1930s. That "later" Gilbert's acting career in both short subjects and feature films continued into the early 1960s. The Billy Gilbert relevant to this page spent his entire career working almost exclusively in shorts, often uncredited. His last film appearance, again uncredited, was in ''F-Man'', a comedy released by Paramount Pictures in May 1936. released on May 2, 1936 by Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles California. IMDb. Retrieved September 11, 2017. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, California
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'', and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area. Daeida Wilcox, who donated land to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caught In A Cabaret
''Caught in a Cabaret'' is a 1914 short comedy film written and directed by Mabel Normand and starring Normand and Charles Chaplin. Plot Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being the Prime Minister of Greenland to impress a girl. He then is invited to a garden party where he gets in trouble with the girl's jealous boyfriend. Mabel Normand wrote and directed comedies before Chaplin and mentored her young co-star. Cast * Mabel Normand - Mabel * Charles Chaplin - Waiter * Harry McCoy - Lover * Chester Conklin - Waiter * Edgar Kennedy - Cafe proprietor * Minta Durfee - Dancer * Phyllis Allen - Dancer * Josef Swickard - Father * Alice Davenport - Mother * Gordon Griffith - Boy * Alice Howell - Party Guest * Hank Mann - Cabaret Patron * Mack Swain - Big Tough Man * Billy Gilbert - Cabaret Patron * Wallace MacDonald - Party guest Reviews The Moving Picture World's review said, "This is another two-reel comedy manufactured in Mack Sennett's comical factory out in Californy State ic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Directors From Los Angeles
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Silent Film Actors
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1961 Deaths
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Finnair, Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the Captain (civil aviation), captain and First officer (civil aviation), first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. * January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 **The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. **A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. ** Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. **A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 6 – Encounters continue, between strikers and the authorities at Glasgow. * January 7 ** General Miles' force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tip
''The Tip'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Distributed by the Pathé Exchange, the film was released in US cinemas on January 6. The film was shown in France on March 7, 1919 under the title "Lui et la voyante". In the United States a re-edition was made to the film in 1921. Copies of the film are preserved in the archives of the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House and in private collections. Cast * Harold Lloyd * Snub Pollard * Bebe Daniels * W.L. Adams * William Blaisdell * Sammy Brooks * Harry Frick * Marie Gilbert * William Gillespie * Max Hamburger * Oscar Larson * Gus Leonard * Chris Lynton * M.J. McCarthy * Belle Mitchell * Marie Mosquini * Fred C. Newmeyer * Lottie Novello * Evelyn Page * Hazel Powell * Dorothy Saulter * Nina Speight * Charles Stevenson * William Strohbach - (as William Strawback) * Robert Van Meter * Dorothea Wolbert See also * Harold Lloyd filmography These are the known films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Island (1917 Film)
''Rainbow Island'' is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Plot While fishing in a rowboat, Harold and Snub find a message in a bottle. The paper contains a map of Rainbow Island with an X indicating buried treasure. When they row to the island in search of the treasure, they are quickly captured by a tribe of cannibals. Cast * Harold Lloyd * Snub Pollard * Bebe Daniels * Frank Alexander * Carl Barbesgaard * William Blaisdell * Sammy Brooks * Walter Crompton * Billy Evans * Billy Fay (as William Fay) * Max Hamburger * Oscar Larson * Gus Leonard * Belle Mitchell * Fred C. Newmeyer * Hazel Powell * Hazel Redmond * Gertrude Smith * Nina Speight See also * Harold Lloyd filmography These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an American actor and filmmaker most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies. Most of these films are known to survive in Lloyd's personal archive collection ... References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flirt (1917 Film)
''The Flirt'' is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Copies of the film survive in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art and the British Film Institute. Plot Harold Lloyd plays an incorrigible skirt-chaser who follows a pretty girl from a park to her place of employment as a cashier in a restaurant. He orders a huge meal and then proceeds to get the waiter fired so he can take his place. In a short time Lloyd creates mayhem that annoys both the restaurant's customers and its kitchen staff. Lloyd eventually learns that the cashier is married to the proprietor of the restaurant. He then quickly leaves, sees another pretty girl, and follows her down the street. Cast Reception Like many American films of the time, ''The Flirt'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut the scene of the waiter wiping a tray and his feet on the cook's posterior. See also * List of American films of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.Obituary ''Variety'', March 10, 1971, page 55. One of the most influential film comedians of the silent film era, Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. His bespectacled "Glass" character was a resourceful, ambitious go-getter who matched the zeitgeist of the 1920s-era United States. His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street (dangerous, but risk exaggerated by camera angles) in ''Safety Last!'' (1923) is considered one of the most enduring images in cinema. Lloyd performed lesser stunts himself, despite having injured himself in August 1919 while doing publicity pictures for the Roach studio. An accident with a bomb mistaken as a prop resulted in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Move On (1917 Film)
''Move On'' is a 1917 American short film, short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A print survives in the Museum of Modern Art film archive. Plot Harold plays a policeman who gets into a series of misadventures while patrolling a park. He runs afoul of his superior while attempting to woo the man's nanny while on duty. Cast * Harold Lloyd as Chester Fields * Snub Pollard * Bebe Daniels * W.L. Adams * William Blaisdell * Sammy Brooks * Marie Gilbert * William Gillespie * Max Hamburger * Bud Jamison * Oscar Larson * Maynard Laswell (as M.A. Laswell) * Gus Leonard * Chris Lynton * M.J. McCarthy * Susan Miller * Belle Mitchell * Fred C. Newmeyer * Charles Stevenson (actor), Charles Stevenson See also * Harold Lloyd filmography References External links * ''Move On'' on YouTube 1917 films 1917 short films American silent short films 1917 comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Gilbert Pratt Silent American comedy films American comedy short films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give Us This Night
''Give Us This Night'' is one of five movies produced by Paramount Pictures featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies. ''''. January 25, 1937. Plot 
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