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Charles Wellesley
Charles Wellesley (November 17, 1873 – July 24, 1946) was an Irish-born American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1913 and 1928. He was born in Dublin and died in Amityville, New York. Partial filmography * ''My Official Wife'' (1914) * '' The Battle of Frenchman's Run'' (1915) * ''Hearts and the Highway'' (1915) * ''The Hero of Submarine D-2'' (1916) * '' The Enemy'' (1916) * ''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' (1917) * '' Redemption'' (1917) * ''Her Better Self'' (1917) * ''Richard the Brazen'' (1917) * ''Wrath'' (1917) * ''By Right of Purchase'' (1918) * ''Madame Jealousy'' (1918) * '' The Heart of a Girl'' (1918) * '' The Song of Songs'' (1918) * ''The Purple Lily'' (1918) * ''Nobody'' (1921) * '' His Greatest Sacrifice'' (1921) * ''It Isn't Being Done This Season'' (1921) * '' Outcast'' (1922) * '' The Rapids'' (1922) * ''Legally Dead'' (1923) * ''Alias the Night Wind'' (1923) * '' Don't Marry for Money'' (1923) * '' The Acquittal'' (1923 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Acquittal
''The Acquittal'' is a 1923 American silent mystery film based on the play of the same name by Rita Weiman. The film was directed by Clarence Brown, who would later start a long career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Norman Kerry, Claire Windsor, Richard Travers, and Barbara Bedford. The film was released by Universal Pictures. Synopsis As described in a trade magazine: : Who killed Andrew Prentice? Kenneth Winthrop is tried for the murder of his foster-father, Andrew Prentice. His foster-brother, Robert Armstrong is his accuser. Both love Madeline, who has chosen Winthrop. Armstrong alleges that Edith Craig, secretly engaged to the dead man, and Winthrop were in love, but it is not believed. Circumstantial evidence is introduced offering the time as given by a certain clock. Madeline discovers that what they took for a clock in a butcher's store window was a circular meat scale, the hand of which stays at twelve, the top of the scale, when not in use. This discovery clea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Song Of Songs (1918 Film)
''The Song of Songs'' is a 1918 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and based on a 1914 stage play version by Edward Sheldon of the 1908 novel by Hermann Sudermann, '' The Song of Songs''. This picture was directed by Joseph Kaufman and stars Elsie Ferguson. This was Kaufman's last film before his death on February 1, 1918, very early on during the 1918 flu pandemic. This film is now considered a lost film. The story was remade as '' Lily of the Dust'' (1924) with Pola Negri and Ben Lyon. Marlene Dietrich starred in the first sound version '' The Song of Songs'' (1933). Plot summary Lily, an innocent young girl, is convinced to pose nude for a young sculptor. They fall in love, but the sculptor fears the effect of marriage on his work and neglects Lily. Ultimately, in despair, she marries a wealthy older man but does not find happiness there. Only near-tragedy and scandal are able, ironically, to bring her that happiness. Cast *Elsie Ferguson as Lily K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traffic In Hearts
''Traffic in Hearts'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Robert Frazer, Mildred Harris, and Marion Feducha.Munden p. 825 Synopsis A man plans to build modern tenement buildings, but is opposed by his girlfriend's father who has a vested interest in preventing change. Cast * Robert Frazer as Lawrence Hallor * Mildred Harris as Alice Hamilton * Marion Feducha as Shrimp * Charles Wellesley as John Hamilton * John Herdman as Dad Clark * Betty Morrissey Betty Morrissey (September 14, 1907 – April 20, 1944) was an American film actress. She appeared in 12 films between 1923 and 1931. She was born and died in New York City. Morrissey's mother was Anna Morrissey. Morrissey was discovered b ... as Jerry 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 * 1924 films 1924 dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytherea (1924 Film)
''Cytherea'' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Alma Rubens, Lewis Stone, Constance Bennett, and Norman Kerry. Based on the novel ''Cytherea, Goddess of Love'', by Joseph Hergesheimer and was adapted for the screen by Frances Marion. ''Cytherea'' features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.Progressive Silent Film List: ''Cytherea'' at silentera.com The film is also known as ''The Forbidden Way''. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Lee Randon, forty years old and bored, sees his nephew Morris becoming infatuated with Mina Raff and reproaches him. Later, when Morris leaves his wife to go with Mina, contented housewife Fanny Randon, who has n ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolf Man (1924 Film)
''The Wolf Man'' is a 1924 American silent drama film that starred John Gilbert and Norma Shearer, before they signed with the newly formed MGM. Directed by Edmund Mortimer, the film's story was written by Reed Heustis, and written by Fanny and Frederic Hatton. ''The Wolf Man'' is now considered lost. Plot Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). Stanley's personality changes whenever he drinks, and his brother (who also loves Beatrice) uses this to his advantage. After Stanley's latest blackout, his brother informs him that Stanley killed Beatrice's brother. The horrified Stanley flees from England and goes to live in Quebec. Once sober, Stanley stays away from liquor until he receives word that Beatrice has married his brother. The news sends him on a drinking spree and once again he turns beastly. In a saloon he gets in a fight and kidnaps Elizabeth Gordon (Norma Shearer), a respectable young girl who has wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enemies Of Children
''Enemies of Children'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lillian Ducey anJohn M. Voshellthat was based upon the novel ''Youth Triumphant'' by George Gibbs. It is the only screen director credit for Ducey and one of two for Voshell. Both were in the film industry in other fields. This was an independent production released by independent distributor Mammoth Pictures. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Enemies of Children'' 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 .... References External links * *Lantern slide 1923 films American silent feature films Lost American films Films based on American novels 1923 drama films American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1923 lost films Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Marry For Money
''Don't Marry for Money'' is a 1923 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring House Peters, Rubye De Remer, and Aileen Pringle. at silentera.com Synopsis A woman marries a millionaire, but finds her new life does not satisfy her romantic ambitions. She begins a flirtation with another man, not realising that he specialises in compromising wealthy woman and then blackmailing them. Her husband eventually rescues her in time.Cast References Bibliography * McCaffrey, Donald W. & Jacobs, Christopher P. ''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema''. Greenwood Publishing, 1999. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alias The Night Wind
''Alias the Night Wind'' is a 1923 American silent mystery film directed by Joseph Franz and starring William Russell, Maude Wayne and Charles K. French.Solomon p.283 Cast * William Russell as Bing Howard * Maude Wayne as Katherine Maxwell * Charles K. French as Amos Chester * Wade Boteler as Thomas Clancy * Donald MacDonald as Clifford Rushton * Milton Ross as R.J. Brown * Charles Wellesley as Police Commissioner * Mark Fenton as The Nurse * Otto Matieson as Detective * Robert Klein as Detective * Bert Lindley as Detective * Jack Miller Jack Miller may refer to: Military * Jack Miller (USMC officer) (1920–1942), American marine soldier * Jack Duppa-Miller (1903–1994), British recipient of the George Cross in World War II, originally called Jack Miller * USS ''Jack Miller'', ... as Stuart Clancy References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011. External links * * 1923 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legally Dead
''Legally Dead'' is a 1923 American drama film directed by William Parke and written by Harvey Gates. The film stars Milton Sills, Margaret Campbell, Claire Adams, Eddie Sturgis, Faye O'Neill, and Charles A. Stevenson. The film was released on July 30, 1923, by Universal Pictures. Plot A reporter Will Campbell gets himself arrested to get material for a story. He later gets a job as a bank teller but is hounded by a detective who knows Campbell is an ex-con. The detective is found murdered and Campbell is sentenced to death for the crime. He is hung just before he found innocent but a doctor revives him by giving him a shot of adrenaline. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Legally Dead'' located in any film archives. it is a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rapids
''The Rapids'' is a 1922 American-Canadian silent drama film directed by David Hartford and starring Mary Astor, Harry T. Morey and Walter Miller.Munden p.449 Location shooting took place at the St Mary's Rapids in Northern Ontario. Cast * Mary Astor as Elsie Worden * Harry T. Morey as Robert Fisher Clarke * Walter Miller as Jim Belding * Harlan Knight as John Minton * Charles Slattery as Henry Marsham * Charles Wellesley as Bishop Sullivan * John Webb Dillion John Webb Dillion (6 February 1877 – 20 December 1949) was an English actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1911 and 1947. He was born in London and died in Hollywood, California, USA. He was married to Catherine Urlau. Selected fi ... as Louis Beaudette 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 drama films 1920s English-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outcast (1922 Film)
''Outcast'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey. The film starred Elsie Ferguson (in her next to last silent) and David Powell. William Powell has a small supporting part in this which was his third film. The film is based on the play of the same name by Hubert Henry Davies and had been performed on Broadway in 1914 with Ferguson in the lead. The story was filmed in 1916 as ''The World and the Woman'' with Jeanne Eagels, afterwards as '' Outcast'' with Ann Murdock. After Ferguson's version it was filmed as '' Outcast'' with Corinne Griffith and Edmund Lowe in a Vitaphone version in 1928, and finally was the basis of ''The Girl From 10th Avenue'' (1935) starring Bette Davis and released by Warner Brothers. Plot As described in a contemporary film publication, Valentine Moreland (MacLaren) has married her husband for money and jilted Geoffrey Sherwood (Powell). He feels her rejection keenly, and his friend Tony Hewlitt (David) finds Geoffrey alone i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Isn't Being Done This Season
''It Isn't Being Done This Season is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by George L. Sargent and starring Corinne Griffith, Sally Crute and Webster Campbell.Connelly p.367 Synopsis Following her mother's advice to marry for money, Marcia turns down Oliver the man she loves to marry the wealthy George Hunt and accompanies him to Turkey on a business trip. Cast * Corinne Griffith as Marcia Ventnor * Sally Crute as Isabelle Ventnor * Webster Campbell as Oliver Lawton * John Charles as Afeif Bey * Charles Wellesley Charles Wellesley (November 17, 1873 – July 24, 1946) was an Irish-born American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1913 and 1928. He was born in Dublin and died in Amityville, New York. Partial filmograph ... as George Hunt References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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