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Curlytop
''Curlytop'' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Shirley Mason, Wallace MacDonald, and Warner Oland. It is based on one of the short stories collected in ''Limehouse Nights'' by Thomas Burke. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, big Bill Branigan (MacDonald) leaves his sweetheart Bessie (Miller) for Curlytop (Mason), whose unconscious beauty naiveté enthrall him. Shanghai Dan (Oland), who dominates a gang of Chinese crooks in the Chinatown centered on Limehouse in the East End of London, also desires her. Determined to reform, Bill sets out in search of a job, so Bessie revenges herself by getting Curlytop drunk and cutting off her golden curls. Bill returns but cannot find Curlytop, and is persuaded to rekindle his relationship with Bessie. After he finds the golden curls among her belongings, Bill forces Bessie to reveal the whereabouts of Curlytop. Curlytop has been working for Shanghai Dan as a waitress on a fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limehouse Nights
''Limehouse Nights'' is a 1916 short story collection by the British writer Thomas Burke. The stories are set in and around the Chinatown that was then centred on Limehouse in the East End of London. The book was a popular success and features several of Burke's best-known stories such as "The Chink and the Child" and " Beryl and the Croucher". Film adaptations Four films have been based upon stories collected in ''Limehouse Nights''. The story "The Chink and the Child" was turned into the 1919 film '' Broken Blossoms'' directed by D.W. Griffith and its 1936 remake. The story "Twelve Golden Curls" became the film '' Curlytop'' in 1924. "Beryl and the Croucher" was filmed in 1949 as '' No Way Back'' and set in the contemporary East End as part of the Spiv cycle of films made in the years following the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Elvey
Maurice Elvey (11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was one of the most prolific film directors in British history. He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year. He also produced more than fifty films - his own as well as films directed by others.Rachael Low:''The History of British Film (Volume 3): The History of the British Film 1914 - 1918'' Linked 2015-03-18 Biography Born William Seward Folkard in Stockton-on-Tees, he ran away from home at the age of nine, seeking his fortune i ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Oland
Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund; October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor. His career included time on Broadway and numerous film appearances. He is most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: Dr. Fu Manchu, Henry Chang in '' Shanghai Express'', and, most notably, Honolulu Police detective Lieutenant Charlie Chan in 16 films. Early years Oland was born in the village of Nyby, Bjurholm Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden. He claimed that his vaguely Asian appearance was due to possessing some Mongolian ancestry,Hanke, Ken. Charlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism'. McFarland & Company: Jefferson, North Carolina, 1989.LoBianco, Lorraine.Daughter of the Dragon Turner Classic Movies. though his known ancestry contains no indication that this was so.Swedish genealogist Sven-Erik Johansson has traced Ölund's ancestry back 5 generations/ref> When he was 13, Oland's family emigrated to the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Miller
Diana Miller (March 18, 1902 – December 18, 1927) was an American actress in silent motion pictures. She had red hair and excelled in playing roles which required delineation of character. She was briefly married director and producer George Melford. Career Born in Seattle, Washington, Miller entered movies with assistance from actor Wallace Reid. She worked for five years for Famous Players-Lasky before she lost her job and rebounded with the Fox Film Company. She was almost penniless and took work as an extra. By 1925 Miller had worked in nine Fox films. Miller's first performance was in ''Honor Among Men'' (1924). She played the role of ''Celeste'' in ''She Wolves'' (1925) before making ''The Kiss Barrier'' (1925), which featured Edmund Lowe. Her final film roles came in the mid-1920s in ''The Fighting Heart'' (1925), ''When The Door Opened'' (1925), and ''The Cowboy and the Countess'' (1926). Personal life Miller was married to actor William Boyd and to actor a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Lynn
Sharon Lynn (born D'Auvergne Sharon Lindsay, April 9, 1901 – May 26, 1963) was an American actress and singer. She began playing in silent films but enjoyed her biggest success in the early sound years of motion pictures before fading away in the mid-1930s. She is perhaps best known for portraying Lola Marcel, the villainess in the Laurel and Hardy comedy feature, '' Way Out West''. Early years Lynn was born in Weatherford, Texas. She moved to Fullerton, California, at a young age and was educated in Fullerton's public schools. Later she was a student at the Paramount Motion Picture School. Career After appearing in several silent films, Lynn debuted in talking pictures in ''Speakeasy'' (1929). After her best known film role opposite Laurel and Hardy in ''Way Out West'', she made only one more film, a musical made in Britain, '' Thistledown'', and then retired from the screen. Personal life On January 16, 1932, in Yuma, Arizona, Lynn married film executive Benjamin Glazer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Adams (actor)
Ernie Adams (born Ernest Stephen Dumarais; June 18, 1885 – November 26, 1947) was an American vaudevillian performer, stage and screen actor and writer. Biography Born in San Francisco, California to Leon D. Adams and Laurence G. Girard, he was also billed as Ernest S. Adams and Ernie S. Adams. He appeared in vaudeville, theater, and film. He started his career in musical comedy on Broadway. Along with his wife Berdonna Gilbert, he formed the vaudeville team "Gilbert and Adams". He appeared in more than 400 films starting from the silent era between 1919 and 1948, and was particularly known for playing shady characters. On Broadway, Adams appeared in ''Toot-Toot!'' (1918). On November 26, 1947, Adams died of an acute pulmonary edema at the West Olympic Sanitarium in Los Angeles, California, aged 62. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood.Resting Places: The Burial Sites of 14000 Famous Persons, by Scott Wilson Selected filmography * ''A Regular Girl' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kuwa
George Kuwa (born Keichii Kuwahara) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1916 and 1931. He was the first actor to portray Charlie Chan on-screen in the 1926 film serial ''The House Without a Key''.Hanke (1989), xii. Biography According to contemporaneous reports, Kuwa was born in Hiroshima, Japan. His father was a judge and wanted George to follow suit. Kuwa moved to the U.S. around 1916 or 1917 and began a career in Hollywood. Like many Japanese actors of the era, he often played Chinese characters. He made several films in Japan as well before returning to the U.S.; he died in Los Angeles in 1931 at the age of 46. Partial filmography * '' The Soul of Kura San'' (1916) * ''The Yellow Pawn'' (1916) * ''The Bottle Imp'' (1917) * '' The Countess Charming'' (1917) * ''Rimrock Jones'' (1918) * '' The Woman in the Web'' (1918) * ''Toby's Bow'' (1919) * '' The Willow Tree'' (1920) * '' Sick A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace MacDonald
Wallace Archibald MacDonald (5 May 1891 – 30 October 1978) was a Canadian silent film actor and film producer. Biography MacDonald was born in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada, and attended school in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He started as a messenger boy with the Dominion Steel Company in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He later worked up to teller with the Royal Bank branch in Sydney before the bank transferred him to Vancouver, British Columbia. From there, he moved to California, where he acted on the stage before making inroads into Hollywood. MacDonald started as an actor in films in 1914 and starred in almost 120 motion pictures between then and 1932. He had notable roles in such films as ''Youth's Endearing Charm'' in 1916 working with Mary Miles Minter and Harry von Meter. Late in World War I, he returned briefly to Nova Scotia to enlist in the 10th Canadian Siege Battery where he assisted in recruiting for the Canadian Army. With the advent of sound, MacDonald's acting career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Mason (actress)
Shirley Mason (born Leonie Flugrath, June 6, 1901 – July 27, 1979) was an American actress of the silent era. Biography Mason was born in 1901 in Brooklyn, New York, to Emil and Mary (née Dubois) Flugrath. She and her two sisters Edna and Virginia became actresses at the insistence of their mother, who had first enrolled them in dance classes at a very young age. The sisters spent much of their childhood touring with companies at Coney Island, Elks Clubs and other venues. Mason, and her sister Virginia (changed professionally to Viola Dana), made their film debuts at the ages of 10 and 13, respectively, in the film ''A Christmas Carol'' (1910). Mason's next film was 1911's ''The Threshold of Life'' (1911). As a child actress, Mason was not in high demand. It was not until 1915 that she played her role in '' Vanity Fair''. She acted for Edison studios in 1916, starring in ''The Littlest Magdalene''. In 1917, her career saw a major advance as she was cast in 13 film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Burke (author)
Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British author. He was born in Clapham Junction, London. His first successful publication was ''Limehouse Nights'' (1916), a collection of stories centred on life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. Many of Burke's books feature the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator. "The Lamplit Hour", an incidental poem from ''Limehouse Nights'', was set to music in the United States by Arthur Penn in 1919. That same year, American film director D. W. Griffith used another tale from the collection, "The Chink and the Child" as the basis of his screenplay for the movie ''Broken Blossoms''. Griffith based his film ''Dream Street'' (1921) on Burke's "Gina of Chinatown" and "Song of the Lamp". Life Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on 29 November 1886 in Clapham Junction. Burke's father died when he was barely a few months old and he was eventually sent to live with his uncle in Poplar. At the age of ten he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Hatton
Fanny Hatton (1875 – November 27, 1939) was an American playwright and screenwriter known for the works she wrote with her husband/writing partner, Frederic Hatton. The couple, who had many of their works presented on Broadway—were known foremost for their comedies. Biography She began writing after her first husband, John Kenneth Mackenzie, was killed in Mexico in an incident that was widely covered. It was through her writing that she met Frederic Hatton, the drama critic who became her writing partner and second husband. Together they wrote dozens of plays and screenplays between 1912 and the early 1930s. Some of their Broadway productions include ''Years of Discretion'' (1912), ''The Great Lover'' (1915), ''Upstairs and Down'' (1916), ''Lombardi, Ltd.'' (1917), ''The Indestructible Wife'' (1918), ''The Squab Farm'' (1918), ''The Checkerboard'' (1920), ''We Girls '' (1921), ''Treat 'em Rough '' (1926), ''Synthetic Sin '' (1927), ''Love, Honor and Betray '' (1930), ''His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Hatton
Fanny Hatton (1875 – November 27, 1939) was an American playwright and screenwriter known for the works she wrote with her husband/writing partner, Frederic Hatton. The couple, who had many of their works presented on Broadway—were known foremost for their comedies. Biography She began writing after her first husband, John Kenneth Mackenzie, was killed in Mexico in an incident that was widely covered. It was through her writing that she met Frederic Hatton, the drama critic who became her writing partner and second husband. Together they wrote dozens of plays and screenplays between 1912 and the early 1930s. Some of their Broadway productions include ''Years of Discretion'' (1912), ''The Great Lover'' (1915), ''Upstairs and Down'' (1916), ''Lombardi, Ltd.'' (1917), ''The Indestructible Wife'' (1918), ''The Squab Farm'' (1918), ''The Checkerboard'' (1920), ''We Girls '' (1921), ''Treat 'em Rough '' (1926), ''Synthetic Sin '' (1927), ''Love, Honor and Betray '' (1930), ''His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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