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Blackbirds (1915 Film)
''Blackbirds'' is an extant 1915 American silent film drama produced by Jesse Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film marks an early starring screen appearance by actress Laura Hope Crews in this her second motion picture. The film is based on a 1913 Broadway play, ''Blackbirds'', by Harry James Smith which also starred Crews. This is a surviving film at the Library of Congress. It was remade in a 1920 film of the same name starring Justine Johnstone. Plot Cast *Laura Hope Crews - Leonie Sobatsky *Thomas Meighan - Jack Doggins/Honorable Nevil Trask *George Gebhardt - Bechel *Raymond Hatton - Hawke, Jr. *Jane Wolfe - Countess Maroff (* as Jane Wolf) *Florence Dagmar Florence Dagmar Oberg (October 22, 1895 – May 7, 1986) was an American silent film actress. She had several leading roles and worked for the Famous Players-Lasky film company, appearing at least twice with Thomas Meighan and Victor Moore whil ... - Miss Crocker *Evelyn Desmond - Mrs. Croc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Lasky
Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer Film producer, motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Early life Born in to a American Jewish, Jewish family in San Francisco, California, Lasky worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer, playing the cornet in a duo act with his sister Blanche. Career In 1911, Lasky was the producer of two Broadway musicals: ''Hello, Paris'' and ''A La Broadway''. Beatrice deMille was also producing plays on Broadway and she introduced him to her son Cecil B. DeMille. Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company In 1913 Lasky and his sister Blanche's husband, Samuel Goldwyn, teamed with DeMille and Oscar Apfel to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, with Lasky as president. With limited funds, they rented a barn near Los Angeles where they made Hollywood's first feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gebhardt
George Gebhardt (September 21, 1879 – May 2, 1919) was an American silent film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1908 and 1922. He was born in Basel, Switzerland and died in Edendale, Los Angeles from tuberculosis. Selected filmography * '' Balked at the Altar'' (1908) * '' After Many Years'' (1908) * ''The Fight for Freedom'' (1908) * ''Romance of a Jewess'' (1908) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1908) * '' Money Mad'' (1908) * '' A Calamitous Elopement'' (1908) * ''The Greaser's Gauntlet'' (1908) * '' The Man and the Woman'' (1908) * '' The Fatal Hour'' (1908) * '' For Love of Gold'' (1908) * ''The Call of the Wild'' (1908) * ''For a Wife's Honor'' (1908) * '' Betrayed by a Handprint'' (1908) * ''Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court'' (1908) * ''The Girl and the Outlaw'' (1908) * ''Behind the Scenes'' (1908) * ''The Red Girl'' (1908) * '' The Heart of O'Yama'' (1908) * ''Where the Breakers Roar'' (1908) * ''A Smoked Husband'' (1908) * '' The Stole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Drama Films
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Silent American Drama Films
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Paramount Pictures Films
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American Films Based On Plays
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Films Directed By J
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 sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Silent Feature Films
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1915 Films
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * February 1: Fox Film Corporation founded * February 8: D.W Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and film length records (running at a total length of over three hours). * February: Metro Pictures, a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is founded * February 22: The Allan Dwan directed film ''David Harum'' is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood. * March 15: Universal Studios Hollywood opens ( 1964). * June 18: The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California. * July: Triangle Film Corporation is founded in Culver City, California and attracts filmmakers D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince and Mack Sennett * September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Harley
Edwin Harley (born July 17, 1849) was an actor in minstrel shows and later in silent films. He worked for the Reliance Majestic Company, Lasky Film Company, Albuquerque Film Company, Crown City Film Company, and Fine Arts Film Company. Filmography *''Treasure Island ''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure no ...'' (1918) *'' The Stain of Chuckawalla'' (Short) *'' Susan Rocks the Boat '' (1916) *'' Martha's Vindication'' (1916) *'' Blackbirds'' (1915) *'' The Wayward Son (1915 film)'' *'' The Girl of the Golden West'' (1915) *'' The Friends of the Sea'' (1915), short *'' Jack Chanty'' (1915 film) *'' The Law of Duty'' (1915), (Short) *'' As in the Days of Old'' (1915), short *'' The Fatal Hour'' (1915), short *'' The Right to Live'' (1915), short *'' A Night's Adventure'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Dagmar
Florence Dagmar Oberg (October 22, 1895 – May 7, 1986) was an American silent film actress. She had several leading roles and worked for the Famous Players-Lasky film company, appearing at least twice with Thomas Meighan and Victor Moore while being directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Born to Swedish parents in Oregon, Dagmar was a stage actress in the Pacific Northwest before relocating with her family to Los Angeles and pursuing a film career. She began her film career in 1914, appearing in several features including DeMille's '' The Man from Home''. She subsequently appeared in DeMille's ''Kindling'' (1915). Other credits include the drama '' Blackbirds'', the Western ''Chimmie Fadden Out West'', and '' The Clown''. Biography Dagmar was born in Portland, Oregon in 1895. Both her parents were immigrants from Sweden. She was active in stock theater in San Francisco, Seattle and Spokane, Washington, prior to becoming a film actress, often appearing in ingenue roles. As a child, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Wolfe
Sarah Jane Wolfe (March 21, 1875 – March 29, 1958) was an American silent film character actress who is considered an important female figure in magick. She was a friend and a colleague of Aleister Crowley and a founding member of Agape Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis in Southern California. Early life Wolfe was born in the tiny Pennsylvania borough of St. Petersburg in Clarion County. She came from Pennsylvania Dutch stock. Her name at birth was Sarah Jane Wolfe but when she later went on the stage, she adopted the single name of Jane. She was the middle child, her older brother John was born in the previous year and her sister, Mary K., was born a year and a day later, the same year that their father died. John spent many years in Montana but Wolfe and Mary K. were closely associated through much of their lives. Wolfe loved her grandfather Bill and snuggled him whenever she could. He was a very busy man as he raised nearly all the family. Her grandmother worked hard in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
