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Clarence Geldart
Clarence Geldart (June 9, 1867 – May 13, 1935) was an American film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1915 and 1936. He was sometimes credited as C.H. Geldart or Charles H. Geldart. He was born in New Brunswick, Canada, and died in Calabasas, California. Geldart's Broadway credits include ''King Henry V'' (1900) and ''Beaucaire'' (1901). Partial filmography * ''The Hidden Pearls'' (1918) * ''Believe Me, Xantippe'' - William (1918) * ''Till I Come Back to You'' (1918) * '' The Goat'' (1918) * '' The Squaw Man'' (1918) * ''The Way of a Man with a Maid'' (1918) * ''The Dub'' (1919) * '' The Poor Boob'' (1919) * ''Captain Kidd, Jr.'' (1919) * '' Putting It Over'' (1919) (as C.H. Geldert) * ''Love Insurance'' (1919) * ''Too Much Johnson'' (1919) (as Charles H. Geldart) * '' Everywoman'' (1919) * ''Don't Change Your Husband'' (1919) * '' The Tree of Knowledge'' (1920) * ''Why Change Your Wife?'' (1920) * '' Thou Art the Man'' (1920) (as Charles H. Geldart) * ''A Lady i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Held By The Enemy (film)
''Held by the Enemy'' is a lost 1920 American silent Civil War melodrama film directed by Donald Crisp and based on the 1886 play by William Gillette. The film starred Agnes Ayres, Lewis Stone, and Jack Holt. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine, Rachel Hayne (Ayres), whose husband, a Southern soldier, is believed to have died in battle, renews a former love affair with Union fighter Colonel Charles Prescott (Holt). She also cultivates the friendship of another Northerner, Brigade Surgeon Fielding (Cain), for the purpose of obtaining quinine from him to pass on to Southern soldiers. Prescott is about to avow his love when the husband Captain Gordon Haine (Stone) returns. When Hayne is recaptured as a spy, Fielding accuses Prescott of trumping up the charge to dispose of the husband. Hayne escapes from his imprisonment, but is then recaptured, and after several incidents commits suicide. This leaves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Change Your Husband
''Don't Change Your Husband'' is a 1919 American Silent film, silent comedy film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson. The film was the third of six "marriage films" directed by DeMille and the first DeMille film starring Gloria Swanson. A print of the film is stored at the George Eastman House. The film was released on DVD by Image Entertainment with The Golden Chance. Plot Based upon a description in a film magazine, Leila Porter (Swanson) has grown tired of her husband James Denby Porter (Dexter), the glue king, as she is romantic but he is prosaic. Moreover, he is careless of his personal appearance, gets cigar ash in the carpet, and eats green onions before he tries to kiss her. She obtains a divorce and then marries James' friend Schuyler Van Sutphen (Cody), but discovers that Van Sutphen is a real beast. When she later discovers that her ex-husband has changed as a result of the divorce, still loves her, and would be happy to have her back, Leila divor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rent Free
''Rent Free'' is a 1922 American silent comedy feature film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film starred Wallace Reid and his current regular co-star Lila Lee. It was directed by Howard Higgin and adapted by Elmer Rice from a story written directly for the screen by Izola Forrester and Mann Page. Currently this film is lost. Reid plays the part of a young painter who moves into an abandoned house but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner. In real life Reid was a talented painter. This was Higgin's first film as a director. Plot As described in a film magazine, Buell Arnister Jr. (Reid) is a New York City artist cast off by his father Buell Arnister Sr. (Barrows) who had planned a legal career for him. Facing poverty and dispossessed by an irate landlady (Leighton), he moves his belongings including his dog to the roof of a 68th Street apartment building, and then becomes a squatter in a mansion that had a door to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hell Diggers
''The Hell Diggers'' is a 1921 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Frank Urson from a short story, ''The Hell Diggers'', by Byron Morgan. Wallace Reid and Lois Wilson star. Like most silent films of that time, it is in the public domain and is lost. Cast *Wallace Reid as Teddy Darman * Lois Wilson as Dora Wade *Alexander Brown as John Wade *Frank Geldert as Calthorpe Masters *Lucien Littlefield as Silas Hoskins *Clarence Geldart as Silverby Rennie *Buddy Post as The Fat Farmer See also *Wallace Reid filmography This is a comprehensive listing of Wallace Reid's (1891–1923) silent film, silent film output. Reid often played a clean-cut, well-groomed American go-getter on screen, which is how he is best remembered, but he could alternate with character rol ... References External links * *truck advertising ''The Hell Diggers'' 1921 films American silent feature films Lost Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Moment (1921 Film)
''The Great Moment'' is a 1921 American Silent film, silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, and Milton Sills. The film is now considered Lost film, lost though a fragment exists and is preserved at the BFI National Archive. Plot As described in a film magazine, Sir Edward Pelham (Francis), who has married a Russian people, Russian Romani people, Gypsy named Nada (Swanson), fears that his daughter Nadine (Swanson) will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin Eustace (Butler), whom she does not love. Her father takes her and Eustace on a trip to America to look over some mines in Nevada. During the journey she meets Bayard Delaval (Sills), a young engineer in her father's employ, and a warm friendship grows between them. While returning with Bayard to the hotel from the mine she is bitten on her breast by a rattlesnake. Bayard uses his pocketknife to open the wound and sucks out the poison. He takes he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Romance
''The Lost Romance'' is a surviving 1921 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Jack Holt and Lois Wilson. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. A copy is held by The Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' p. 107 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Cast * Jack Holt as Mark Sheridan * Lois Wilson as Sylvia Hayes *Fontaine La Rue as Elizabeth Erskine *Conrad Nagel as Allen Erskine, M.D. * Michael D. Moore as Allen Erskine Jr. *Mayme Kelso as Librarian *Robert Brower as Butler *Barbara Gurney as Nurse *Clarence Geldart as Police Lieutenant *Clarence Burton as Detective *Lillian Leighton Lillianne Brown Leighton (May 17, 1874 – March 19, 1956), known professionally as Lillian Leighton, was an American silent film actress. Leighton started her career in Chicago. Leighton was born in Auror ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Soul's Eve
''All Souls' Eve'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Chester M. Franklin and starring Mary Miles Minter. The film is based on the mystical 1920 Broadway play of the same name by Anne Crawford Flexner, with a story by Elmer Blaney Harris. Much was made of the film's use of double, triple and quadruple exposures to enable Minter to play two parts within the same scenes. As with many of Minter's features, it is thought to be a lost film. Plot As described in various film magazine reviews, Nora O'Hallahan (Minter) is a young girl living in Ireland, who firmly believes that, on All Souls' Eve, the spirits of the dead return to visit those whom they loved in life. Her mother is living in America, and Nora sails to join her. When she arrives, she finds that her mother has died, and she takes up a position as a nursemaid with the Heath family. Roger Heath is a sculptor, and he and his wife Alice (also Minter) have one young son, Peter (Moore). Olivia Larkin (Phillips) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sins Of Rosanne
''The Sins of Rosanne'' is a surviving 1920 American silent drama film starring Ethel Clayton and directed by actor/director Tom Forman. The Famous Players-Lasky studio produced the film with release by Paramount Pictures. The film is preserved in the Library of Congress, but is incomplete and missing reels 1 and 3. Plot As described in a film magazine, when physicians despair of the life of little Rosanne Ozanne, infant daughter of the Kimberly widow Mrs. Ozanne (Van Buren), Rachel Bangat (La Rue), a Malay servant credited with mystic powers, offers to save the child's life on the condition that the child is sold to her for two years for a farthing. The distracted mother, living in the Kimberly mining country of South Africa, agrees. At the end of the two years the child is returned with the information that two gifts have been given her by the Malay servant, one a passion for bright stones, especially diamonds, and the other the art of hating intensely. Grown to young womanhoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fourteenth Man
''The Fourteenth Man'' is a lost 1920 American silent comedy film starring Robert Warwick and Bebe Daniels. It was directed by Joseph Henabery and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. This film is an adaption of F. Anstey's play, ''The Man from Blankley's''. It was remade a decade later as a talkie, ''The Man from Blankley's'', at Warner's with John Barrymore. This film had several alternate titles ie: ''The Romantic Meddler'', ''The Trouble Hunter'', ''Hunting Trouble''. Cast *Robert Warwick as Captain Douglas Gordon *Bebe Daniels as Marjory Seaton *Walter Hiers as Harry Brooks *Robert Milasch as Jenks(*as Robert Milash) *Norman Selby as Dwight Sylvester * Jim Farley as Monk Brady *Clarence Geldart as Major McDowell *Viora Daniel as Mrs. McDowell *Robert Dudley as Tidmarsh *Lucien Littlefield Lucien Littlefield (August 16, 1895 – June 4, 1960) was an American actor who achieved a long career from silent films to the television era. He was noted for his versat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crooked Streets
''Crooked Streets'' is a 1920 American silent drama spy film directed by Paul Powell and produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is one of star Ethel Clayton's rare surviving silent films with a copy at the Library of Congress. The film is based on a short story, "Dinner at Eight", by Samuel Merwin. Plot As described in a film magazine, Gail Ellis (Clayton) is employed as a secretary by Professor Lawrence Griswold (Fillmore) prior to his departure from San Francisco for Shanghai, ostensibly in that city to purchase some rare vases. In the city she meets with adventures while trying to find the headquarters of the pottery merchants and is saved from molestation by Englishman Rupert O'Dare (Holt), who has to battle a drunken sailor in a boxing ring before the latter will leave her alone. As the Griswolds are about to depart for America, having purchased several cases of vases that contain opium, Rupert causes them to be arrested. They overpowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sick Abed
''Sick Abed'' is a 1920 silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures/Artcraft, an affiliate of Paramount. It was directed by Sam Wood and stars matinee idol Wallace Reid. It is based on a 1918 Broadway stage play ''Sick-a-bed'' by Ethel Watts Mumford starring Mary Boland. ''The spelling of the movie varies from the spelling of the play''. This film survives at the Library of Congress. Plot As described in a film magazine, at the Forest of Arden Inn are domiciled John Weems (Steppling), his wife Constance (Greenwood), and Reginald Jay (Reid). At the request of Reginald, John takes a lady customer (Lazzarini) out to look at the boy's ranch property. John and the woman are held up on the road when their machine breaks down. Meanwhile, Constance, who sees herself as a misunderstood wife, has been devoting her time to writing scenarios for motion pictures. She meets Reginald and insists that he play the part of the lover Orlando in her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lady In Love
''A Lady in Love'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Walter Edwards and written by Alice Eyton based upon a play of the same name by Harriet Ford and Caroline Duer. The film stars Ethel Clayton, Harrison Ford, Boyd Irwin, Clarence Geldart, Elsa Lorimer, and Ernest Joy. The film was released on May 30, 1920, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives. Plot As described in a film magazine, Barbara (Clayton) elopes from covenant school with Barton Sedgewick (Irwin), the rascally younger brother of her guardian George Sedgewick (Geldart). She soon discovers that Barton has another wife and child living. He also fears arrest for some frauds in which he was involved and flees the country. Barbara goes to live with George and his wife Clara (Lorimer). The latter has a secret admirer in Gilbert Rhodes (Joy), who is also a secret partner in Barton's crooked schemes. Barbara finds herself in love with a fine upstanding lawyer named Brent ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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