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Bradley King (screenwriter)
Bradley King ( – August 24, 1977) was the pen name of Josephine McLaughlin. She was a screenwriter who wrote 56 scripts for films between 1920 and 1947. All but one of her 40 silent films are lost, but most of her 20 or so sound films still exist. Biography King was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Albany, New York. King recalled that she entered the business after selling a few short stories to pulp magazines and arranged a meeting with Thomas Ince. "I've read some of your stuff and I think your literary style is absolutely lousy," she later recounted Ince saying. "But you've got a good sense of drama, and I'll give you $50 a week." Five years later, she was making $1,500 a week. She was married several times. One was a short marriage to silent film director John Griffith Wray, who died just nine months after their October 1928 wedding.John G. Wray Marries. ''New York Times'', October 8, 1928, p. 15 After a later husband, George Hiram Boyd, lost most of he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
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Christine Of The Hungry Heart
''Christine of the Hungry Heart'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Florence Vidor. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and released through First National Pictures. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Christine Madison (Vidor) marries Stuart Knight (Baxter). He is a heavy drinker and prefers the company of his companions to that of his wife’s more polite circle. She realizes a loss of love, and becomes interested in Dr. Monteagle (Brook), an orthopedic specialist. When she realizes his love and her reciprocation, she hurries from him. One her way home there is an automobile crash and her intoxicated husband, joy riding with one of his young charmers, is at the wheel. Monteagle wins her back and marries her. Christine finds devotion to science no more tolerable than the worship of Bacchus. She elopes with Ivan Vianney (Keith), but even before they reach their objective, Rio de Janeiro, she realizes that the man is wrappe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weary River
''Weary River'' is a 1929 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and William Holden (no relation to William Holden, star of such films as ''Sunset Boulevard''). Produced and distributed by First National Pictures, the film, like many made during the changeover from silent to sound movies, is mostly silent with a few sequences featuring synchronized dialogue and singing. Based on a story by Courtney Riley Cooper, the film is about a gangster who goes to prison and finds salvation through music while serving his time. After he is released and falls back into a life of temptation, he is saved by the love of a woman and the warden who befriended him. The film received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Director in 1930. ''Weary River'' was preserved at the Library of Congress and restored by the LoC, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and Warner Bros. It is available on DVD directly from the Warner Archive Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drag (film)
''Drag'' is a 1929 American Pre-Code drama film produced by Richard A. Rowland and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the 1925 novel ''Drag: A Comedy'' by William Dudley Pelley. It stars Richard Barthelmess and Lucien Littlefield. Plot Young David Carroll takes over the publication of a local newspaper in Vermont. Although he is attracted to Dot, "the most sophisticated girl in town," he marries Allie Parker, daughter of the couple who run the boardinghouse where he lives. Allie remains at home when David goes to New York City to sell a musical he has written. There, Dot, now a successful costume designer, uses her influence to get David's play produced. David and Dot fall in love, but she leaves for Paris when David indicates he will remain true to Allie. He sends for Allie, but when she arrives with her whole family, he decides to follow Dot to Paris. Cast * Richard Barthelmess as David Carroll * Lucien Littlefield as Pa Parker * Kathrin Clare Ward as Ma Parker * Alice Day as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarlet Seas
''Scarlet Seas'' is a surviving 1929 American silent romantic adventure film produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by First National Pictures. The picture was directed by John Francis Dillon. It starred Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and a teen-aged Loretta Young. This film was released with a Vitaphone soundtrack of music and effects which survive. Originally, the film was presumed lost. The story was written by W. Scott Darling. Cast *Richard Barthelmess as Steven Dunkin *Betty Compson as Rose *Loretta Young as Margaret Barbour *James Bradbury Sr. as Johnson * Jack Curtis as Toomey *Knute Erickson as Captain Barbour ''uncredited'' *Shorty English as Sailor Critical reception A review in ''Harrison's Reports'' found that the film contains "offenses to logic", including the nimbleness of the hero and heroine as they climb a rope ladder despite having survived days of hunger and thirst and the way the hero easily overcomes "a giant", lifts him, and throws him over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamond Handcuffs
''Diamond Handcuffs'' is a 1928 American drama silent film directed by John P. McCarthy and written by Joseph Farnham, Willis Goldbeck and Bradley King. The film stars Eleanor Boardman, Lawrence Gray, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee and Lena Malena. The film was released on May 5, 1928, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cast *Eleanor Boardman as Tillie *Lawrence Gray as Larry * Sam Hardy as Spike *Gwen Lee as Cecile *Lena Malena as Musa *Conrad Nagel John Conrad Nagel (March 16, 1897 – February 24, 1970) was an American film, stage, television and radio actor. He was considered a famous matinée idol and leading man of the 1920s and 1930s. He was given an Academy Honorary Award in 1940 and ... as John * John Roche as Jerry Fontaine * Charles Stevens as Niambo References External links * * Lobby card 1928 films 1920s English-language films Silent American drama films 1928 drama films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films American black-and-white films American silent feature films Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Black Eagle
''Under the Black Eagle'' is a 1928 American silent World War I drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, written by Norman Houston, Bradley King, and Madeleine Ruthven, and starring Ralph Forbes, Marceline Day, Bert Roach, William Fairbanks, and Marc McDermott. The film was released on March 24, 1928, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cast *Ralph Forbes as Karl von Zorn *Marceline Day as Margareta *Bert Roach as Hans Schmidt *William Fairbanks as Ulrich Muller *Marc McDermott as Col. Luden *Flash the Dog as Prinz Preservation A surviving late silent from 'Woody' Van Dyke, listed as being preserved at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in t ... (Filmmuseum). References External links * *at silentfilmstillarchive.com 1928 films 1920s E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lovelorn
''The Lovelorn'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by John P. McCarthy and written by Frederic Hatton and Bradley King. The film stars Sally O'Neil, Molly O'Day, Larry Kent, James Murray, and Charles Delaney. The film was released on December 17, 1927, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cast *Sally O'Neil as Georgie Hastings *Molly O'Day as Ann Hastings * Larry Kent as Bill Warren * James Murray as Charlie *Charles Delaney as Jimmy * George Cooper as Joe Sprotte * Allan Forrest as Ernest Brooks *Dorothy Cumming Dorothy Greville Cumming (12 April 1894 – 10 December 1983) was an actress of the silent film era. She appeared in 39 American, English, and Australian films between 1915 and 1929, notably appearing as the Virgin Mary in Cecil B. DeMille' ... as Beatrice Fairfax *Isabelle Noonan as Young girl (uncredited) References External links * *Stillsat silenthollywood.com 1927 films 1920s English-language films Silent American drama films 1927 drama fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return Of Peter Grimm (1926 Film)
''The Return of Peter Grimm'' is a 1926 American silent fantasy film directed by Victor Schertzinger based on the 1911 play by David Belasco. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. A print survives at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. A previous short film of this play appeared in 1913. A sound feature was made in 1935, also titled '' The Return of Peter Grimm''. Plot The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong. Cast * Alec B. Francis as Peter Grimm * John Roche as Frederick Grimm *Janet Gaynor as Catherine *Richard Walling as James Hartman *Lionel Belmore as Reverend Bartholomey * Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Bartholomey *John St. Polis as Andrew MacPherson (uncredited) (St. Polis played Frederick in the 1911 Broadway play) *Bodil Rosing as Marta (uncredited) *Mickey McBan as William (uncredited) *Florence Gilbert as Annamarie (uncredited) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hell's Four Hundred
''Hell's Four Hundred'', sometimes listed as ''Hell's 400'', is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Margaret Livingston, Harrison Ford, and Henry Kolker. An allegorical dream sequence towards the end of the film where the Vance character visualizes her sins as monsters was shot using two-strip Technicolor. Plot As described in a film magazine review, gold digging chorus girl Evelyn Vance seeks a rich daddy to take care of her. Evelyn marries the wealthy Marshall Langham thereby double-crossing her boss John Gilmore, who had schemed to use her to rope Marshall into a scandal because of the debts that he owed Gilmore. Gilmore is killed and district attorney John North, sworn enemy of Gilmore and his gambling empire, is held on circumstantial evidence. Evelyn could clear North of the crime, but in so doing she would expose her husband Marshall who is actually the guilty party. When Marshall is on his deathbed, he makes a final statement tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Palace Of Pleasure (film)
''The Palace of Pleasure'' is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and written by Benjamin Glazer and Bradley King. The film stars Betty Compson, Edmund Lowe, Henry Kolker, Harvey Clark, Nina Romano, and Francis McDonald. The film was released on January 10, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Don Sebastian, Portuguese Premier, sets a price on the head of royalist Ricardo Madons. Madons is in love with actress Lola Montez, whom Sebastian also adores. Madons abducts Lola and compels her to wed him, but then does not hold her to the compact. Lola, who is really in love with him, repents having sent for assistance when she was taken. When Sebastian's soldiers arrive, Lola is nearly slain when she stops a bullet meant for Madons. She plots successfully and escapes with Madons, and the couple find happiness across the border. Cast *Betty Compson as Lola Montez *Edmund Lowe as Ricardo Madons *Henry Kolker as Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gilded Butterfly
''The Gilded Butterfly'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Alma Rubens, Bert Lytell, and Huntley Gordon. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Linda Haverhill is left penniless after the death of her father, who was esteemed but lived by his wits and was a sponger par excellence. She is advanced money by John Converse, who desires her despite her social butterfly tendencies. Attempting to maintain her place in society, she travels abroad but soon goes broke. On the way, Linda falls in love with Captain Brian Anestry of the United States Army, who arouses John's suspicions. In an attempt to obtain the insurance money, Linda burns her gowns and is arrested. Enroute to prison and while accompanied by a detective, their taxi is wrecked when it collides with a patrol wagon. The detective, fatally injured, identifies a different dead woman as his prisoner, allowing Linda to escape. John turns out not to be so villainous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
