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Carey Wilson (writer)
Carey Wilson (May 19, 1889 – February 1, 1962) was an American screenwriter, voice actor, and producer. Life and career Born in 1889 in Philadelphia, Wilson's screenplays include '' Ben-Hur'' (1925), ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1935), and ''The Great Heart'' (1938). His credits as producer include '' Green Dolphin Street'' (1947). He also narrated many nuclear test films, produced by the Atomic Energy Commission – now the United States Department of Energy – and by the United States Department of Defense, including ones on Operation Sandstone (1948) and Operation Greenhouse (1951). Wilson was one of the thirty-six Hollywood pioneers who founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. He also collaborated with Jean Harlow on her novel ''Today is Tonight''. Legacy For his contribution in films, Wilson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located on 6301 Hollywood Blvd. In a 2011 episode of the reality TV series ''Pawn Stars'', Wilson's grandda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard is a major east–west street in Los Angeles, California. It begins in the east at Sunset Boulevard in the Los Feliz district and proceeds to the west as a major thoroughfare through Little Armenia and Thai Town, Hollywood. After crossing Fairfax Avenue, Hollywood Boulevard ends at a stop sign, at Laurel Canyon Drive, and continues northbound, as a winding residential street, going up in the hills and canyons in the Hollywood Hills West district. Parts of the boulevard are popular tourist destinations, primarily the fifteen blocks between Gower Street west to La Brea Avenue where the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located. The heart of Hollywood Boulevard is the crossing of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland avenue. "Hollywood and Highland" is the exit to Hollywood via the 101 freeway, and the station when exiting the bus or metro red lines. History 1890s to 1910 Part of today's Hollywood Boulevard was called Prospect Avenue, a dusty road that ran through H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Lover
''The Silent Lover'' is a 1926 American silent adventure film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Milton Sills, Natalie Kingston and Viola Dana.Munden p.717 Cast * Milton Sills as Count Pierre Tornal * Natalie Kingston as Vera Sherman * William Humphrey as Cornelius Sherman * Arthur Edmund Carewe as Captain Herault * William V. Mong as Kobol * Viola Dana as Scadsza * Claude King as Contarini * Charles Murray as O'Reilly * Arthur Stone as Greenbaum * Alma Bennett as Haldee * Montagu Love Montagu Love (15 March 1877 – 17 May 1943) was an English screen, stage and vaudeville actor. Early years Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, Love was the son of Harry Love and Fanny Louisa Love, née Poad; his father was listed as accountant ... as Ben Achmed 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 * 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Mates (film)
''Soul Mates'' is a surviving 1925 American silent drama film directed by Jack Conway, based on the 1911 novel ''The Reason Why'' by Elinor Glyn. The movie was the second successful collaboration between Glyn and Conway. The film's sets were designed by the art director James Basevi. Plot Velma is a good little rich girl whose indomitable uncle orders her to wed Lord Tancred, a man she has never met. The same day, she becomes infatuated by a man she meets on the street, not knowing that it is Lord Tancred. When she finds out about his true identity, she becomes convinced he wants to marry her for monetary reasons. She feels betrayed and refuses to speak to him, until she makes an unusual discovery. Cast * Aileen Pringle as Velma * Edmund Lowe as Lord Tancred * Phillips Smalley as Markrute * Tony D'Algy as Velma's brother * Edythe Chapman as Tancred's mother * Mary Hawes as Velma's maid * Catherine Bennett as Dolly * Lucien Littlefield as Stevens * Ned Sparks as Tancred's chau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Masked Bride
''The Masked Bride'' is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Mae Murray, Francis X. Bushman, and Basil Rathbone. It is currently a lost film. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Gaby (Murray) is an Apache dancer at a cabaret in the Montmartre section of Paris whose dancing partner Antoine (Rathbone) and friends are thieves. She meets Grover (Bushman), an American millionaire who is a reformer and making a study of crime. She kids him along, even falling in with her partners' scheme to rob him of a valuable necklace. She plays the game to the extent of preparing for the ceremony, but her better self comes to the fore when she realizes the depth of the American's love and the duplicity of her sweetheart who choses the necklace in preference to her. She finds happiness as the American's wife. Cast Production Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg (; born Jonas Sternberg; May 29, 1894 – December 22, 1969) was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Midshipman
''The Midshipman '' is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne. The film stars Ramon Novarro and Harriet Hammond. Joan Crawford had an early uncredited role as an extra. Plot James Randall (Novarro), a second year upperclassman at the Naval Academy, befriends plebe Ted Lawrence (Barry). At an Academy dance, James meets and falls in love with Ted's sister Patricia (Hammond). She is engaged to Basil Courtney (Kent), a wealthy reprobate who arranges with Rita (Key) to discredit James. On the night of the big dance, Rita goes to the guardhouse where James is scheduled to be on duty and arranges to be found with him. However, Ted has taken his place on duty, however, and James sees Ted with Rita in the guardhouse. Honorbound to report Ted for violation of Academy rules, James decides instead to resign. Courtney abducts Patricia on his yacht, and James rescues her. James discovers Rita's complicity in Courtney's schemes and decides to stay at the Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empty Hands
''Empty Hands'' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Jack Holt and Norma Shearer. The film was produced by the Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Empty Hands'' 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 * *Stillat silentfilmstillarchive.comStillsat normashearer.com 1924 films 1924 romantic drama films American romantic drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Victor Fleming Paramount Pictures films Lost American films 1924 lost films Lost romantic drama films 1920s American films Silent romantic drama films Sile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wine Of Youth
''Wine of Youth'' is a 1924 American silent comedy drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shortly after the merger which created MGM in April 1924. Vidor did not consider it important enough to mention in his autobiography, although it did advance the careers of three young stars-to-be: Ben Lyon, Eleanor Boardman, and William Haines. An early “flapper” romance of the Roaring Twenties, Vidor tested the limits of presenting unconventional social behavior among American youth in the Jazz Age which ends with a paean to parental authority. Plot Mary (Eleanor Boardman) is a girl wooed by two suitors but made afraid of marriage by the quarreling of her parents. Eventually she accepts Lynn, the more refined and poised of the two suitors. Cast Production Vidor's arrival at the newly amalgamated Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would mark the beginning of a 20-year association with the studio. ''Wine of Youth'' is his first film appear under M-G-M.Durghat and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Weeks (film)
''Three Weeks'' is a 1924 American drama film directed by Alan Crosland. The movie is based on the 1907 novel of the same name by Elinor Glyn, and the title refers to the length of an affair by the Queen of Sardalia. Formerly a lost film, the FIAF database indicates a print is preserved by Russia's Gosfilmofond. The novel had previously been made into the American film , directed by Perry N. Vekroff and starring Madlaine Traverse and George C. Pearce, Overview of the 1914 version and in a 1917 Hungarian film titled ''Három hét'' that was directed by . The 1924 production was the first to be authorized and supervised by Glyn, which was noted in advertising for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Lights (1923 Film)
''Red Lights'' is a 1923 American silent mystery film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Marie Prevost, Raymond Griffith and Johnnie Walker. The plot concerns a railroad tycoon who is about to be reunited with his daughter who was kidnapped many years ago. Plot Most of the film takes place on a moving train. A psychic named Sheridan Scott professes to have the ability to foresee and prevent criminal acts. He agrees to help Ruth Carson, the daughter of a wealthy railroad magnate, solve a mystery regarding why flashing red lights over her head portend death for various people around her. Ruth had been kidnapped years earlier, and was later found and reunited with her father. The young heroine comes to believe her long-deceased uncle is menacing her from the beyond, but Scott solves the mystery of the flashing red lights, and learns the true identity of the man behind a plot to murder the young heiress and steal her inheritance...a scientist who uses telepathy to frighten t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cup Of Life (film)
''The Cup of Life'' is a 1921 American crime drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Niles Welch, Madge Bellamy and Hobart Bosworth.Rainey p.104 Plot Cast * Niles Welch as Roy Bradley or Warren Bradford * Madge Bellamy as Pain * Hobart Bosworth as 'Bully' Brand * Tully Marshall as Chan Chang * Monte Collins as Larry Donovan * May Wallace May Wallace (August 23, 1877 – December 11, 1938) was an American film actress. Biography Wallace was born in 1877 in Russiaville, Indiana. As a film actress, she often played supporting roles for producer Hal Roach in his Laurel and ... as Mollie References Bibliography * Rainey, Buck. ''Sweethearts of the Sage: Biographies and Filmographies of 258 actresses appearing in Western movies''. McFarland & Company, 1992. External links * 1921 films 1921 crime drama films American crime drama films Films directed by Rowland V. Lee American silent feature films American black-and-white films 1921 drama fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman's Business
''A Woman's Business'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by B.A. Rolfe and starring Olive Tell, Edmund Lowe and Donald Hall.Goble p.1021 Cast * Olive Tell as Barbara * Edmund Lowe as Johnny Lister * Donald Hall as Ellis * Lucille Lee Stewart as Mrs. Ellis * Warner Richmond Warner Richmond (born Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann; January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a stock theatre actor and appeared in films in both the silent film and sound eras. His career spa ... as Brookes * Annette Bade as Mrs. Brookes * Stanley Walpole as David References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1920 films 1920 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films American mystery films American black-and-white films Films directed by B. A. Rolfe Films produced by B. A. Rolfe Silent mystery films 1920s Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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