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Carrie Clark Ward
Carrie Clark Ward (January 9, 1862 – February 6, 1926) was an American actress of the silent era. Biography Ward was born in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1862. In 1885 Clark acted in a company at the San Francisco Bush Street Theatre. Ward appeared in more than 60 films between 1911 and 1925. Ward appeared in numerous silent films in the company of many stars, including her comic turn in the Rudolph Valentino-Clarence Brown directed classic ''The Eagle'' 1925. Ward was married to J. Sedley Browne, the first husband of Henrietta Crosman. In 1879, she married comedian and actor James M. Ward. Ward died on February 6, 1926, in Hollywood, California. Partial filmography * '' How Spriggins Took Lodgers'' (1911) * '' The Bank'' (1915) * '' The Conqueror'' (1917) * '' One Touch of Sin'' (1917) * '' Under the Yoke'' (1918) * '' Cheating the Public'' (1918) * '' The Siren's Song'' (1919) * '' Daddy-Long-Legs'' (1919) * ''Why Smith Left Home'' (1919) * ''Wolves of the Night'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley Barry
Wesley Barry (August 10, 1907 – April 11, 1994) was an American actor, director, and producer. Barry began his career as a child actor in silent motion pictures and later became a producer and director of both film and television. As a director, he was sometimes billed as Wesley E. Barry. Early life and career Born in Los Angeles, Barry was seven years old when a young director -- attracted by his facial features -- noticed Barry and put him to work at the old Kalem Studios. He was not noted for his freckles until Marshall Neilan cast him in ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'', with his freckles uncovered (earlier producers had insisted that all subjects cover facial blemishes with grease paint). Soon, Barry became a star in his own right, and 1920's '' Dinty'' put him over with great success. Later screen productions which served him as starring vehicles are '' School Days'', ''Rags to Riches'', ''Heroes of the Street'', and Warner specials. He was eleven years old when he app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolves Of The Night
''Wolves of the Night'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring William Farnum, Louise Lovely, and Lamar Johnstone. Cast * William Farnum as Bruce Andrews * Louise Lovely as Isabel Hollins * Lamar Johnstone as Burton Mortimer * Charles Clary as Edmund Rawn * Al Fremont as Garson * G. Raymond Nye as Slade * Carrie Clark Ward as Mrs. Benson * Irene Rich as Juanita Preservation The film is now lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography * Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland *Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee .... References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011. External links *allmovie 1919 films 1919 drama films Silent American drama films Films directed by J. Gordon Edwards American silent feature films 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can A Woman Love Twice?
''Can a Woman Love Twice?'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by James W. Horne and starring Ethel Clayton, Muriel Frances Dana and Kate Lester.Munden p.108 Synopsis Mary Grant, a war widow, supports herself and her child by working in a cabaret. She receives an offer from Abner Grant to live at his ranch, and he mistakenly believes her to be the wife of his own son who died in World War I. Unexpectedly this son does return home alive and eventually the two become a genuine couple. Cast * Ethel Clayton as Mary Grant * Muriel Frances Dana as Thomas Jefferson Grant Jr * Kate Lester as Mrs. Grant * Fred Esmelton as Coleman Grant * Victory Bateman as Mary's Landlady * Wilfred Lucas as Franklyn Chase * Bertram Anderson-Smith as Detective Means * Al Hart as Abner Grant * Malcolm McGregor as Abner's Son * Theodore von Eltz as Thomas Jefferson Grant * Carrie Clark Ward as Housekeeper * Madge Hunt Madge may refer to: Places * Madge, Wisconsin, United States, a town * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Of The Beast
''Soul of the Beast'' is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Madge Bellamy, Cullen Landis, and Noah Beery Noah Nicholas Beery (January 17, 1882 – April 1, 1946) was an American actor who appeared in films from 1913 until his death in 1946. He was the older brother of Academy Award-winning actor Wallace Beery as well as the father of prominen .... at silentera.com Cast 
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Ashes (1922 Film)
''Ashes'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Gilbert M. Anderson and starring William Courtleigh, Leona Anderson and Margaret Landis.Munden p.28 Cast * William Courtleigh as Mr. DeCourcey * Leona Anderson as Mrs. DeCourcey * Margaret Landis as Madeline DeCourcey * Myrtle Stedman as Mrs. Crafton * Wedgwood Nowell as Mr. Crafton * George Howard as Arthur Spencer * Carrie Clark Ward as Mrs. Van Stuyhl * Stanton Heck Stanton Heck (January 8, 1877 – December 16, 1929), was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 50 films between 1918 and 1928. Earlier in his career, he appeared on stage in musicals such as 1906's ''A Parisian Model''.(Decem ... as Hotel Detective 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 Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of Califo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Top Of New York
''The Top of New York'' is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and written by George James Hopkins, Julia Crawford Ivers and Sonya Levien. The film stars May McAvoy, Walter McGrail, Pat Moore, Edward Cecil, Charles Bennett, and Mary Jane Irving. The film was released on June 18, 1922, by Paramount Pictures, four months after director Taylor's murder, and was the last one he completed. Cast *May McAvoy as Hilda O'Shaunnessey *Walter McGrail as Emery Gray *Pat Moore as Micky O'Shaunnessey *Edward Cecil as Gregory Stearns * Charles Bennett as Mr. Isaacson *Mary Jane Irving as Susan Gray * Carrie Clark Ward as Mrs. Brady *Arthur Hoyt Arthur Hoyt (March 19, 1874 – January 4, 1953) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films. Career Born in Georgetown, Colorado, in 1874, Hoyt mad ... as Mr. Brady References External links * * Progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Lulu Bett (film)
''Miss Lulu Bett'' is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film based on a 1920 play and bestselling novel of the same name by Zona Gale. The screenplay was written by Clara Beranger, and the film was directed by William C. deMille. The play won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 2001, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Plot As described in a film magazine, Lulu Bett (Wilson) is a slave in the home of her married half-sister Ina Deacon (Van Buren). Her life of drudgery is interrupted when Ninian Deacon (Burton), the scapegoat brother of the head of the house Dwight Deacon (Roberts), "accidentally" marries her. After he confesses that he has another wife, LuLu leaves him and Dwight allows her to return. Her persecution is redoubled upon her return, but she received courage after telling her story to the town schoolmaster Neil Corn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Winning Way
''Her Winning Way'' is a silent comedy film directed by Joseph Henabery and starring Mary Miles Minter. The screenplay was written by Douglas Z. Doty, based upon the novel ''Ann Annington'' by Edgar Jepson and the play ''Ann'' by Lechmere Worrall. As with many of Minter's features, it is thought to be a lost film. Plot As described in various film magazine reviews, Ann Annington (Minter) is a book reviewer working for a magazine publishing firm, who send her to interview author Harold Hargrave (Glass). Hargrave is notoriously reticent and refuses the interview, so Ann decides to obtain the necessary information by other means. Dressing up as a maid, Ann obtains a position in Hargrave's apartment and sets about seducing him, even suggesting that he kiss her in order to be able to write about romance more convincingly. She begins to find out the details that her publishing company wants to know, but she also finds out that she is falling in love with Hargrave. Ann discovers th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hampton Of Placer
''Bob Hampton of Placer'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Marshall Neilan and written by Marion Fairfax. It is based on the 1910 novel ''Bob Hampton of Placer'' by Randall Parrish. The film stars James Kirkwood Sr., Wesley Barry, Marjorie Daw, Pat O'Malley, Noah Beery Sr., and Frank Leigh. The film was released on May 1, 1921, by Associated First National Pictures. Cast * James Kirkwood Sr. as Bob Hampton * Wesley Barry as Dick * Marjorie Daw as The Kid * Pat O'Malley as Lt. Brant * Noah Beery Sr. as Red Slavin *Frank Leigh as Silent Murphy * T. D. Crittenden as Gen. Custer *Tom Gallery as Rev. Wyncoop *Priscilla Bonner as Schoolteacher * Charles West as Maj. Brant *Bert Sprotte as Sheriff *Carrie Clark Ward as Housekeeper *Victor Potel Victor Potel (October 12, 1889 – March 8, 1947) was an American film character actor who began in the silent era and appeared in more than 430 films in his 38-year career. Career Victor Potel was born in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Wild Week
''One Wild Week'' is a lost 1921 American silent comedy romance film directed by Maurice Campbell and starring Bebe Daniels. Adolph Zukor produced the film through his Realart Pictures Corporation. Plot As described in a film magazine, Pauline Hathaway (Daniels) attains her eighteenth birthday was the ward of a spinster aunt and learns that she is heir to a small fortune provided she keeps her name out of the newspapers for a period of six months. She goes to visit an old friend of her mother and is falsely arrested for theft. After giving a fictitious name, she is sent to the woman's reformatory. She escapes with three other inmates and makes her way to the home of her hostess followed by her aunt and others who have become involved in the search for her. The film ends with satisfactory explanations being made. Cast *Bebe Daniels as Pauline Hathaway *Frank Kingsley as Bruce Reynolds *Mayme Kelso as Emma Jessop *Frances Raymond as Mrs. Brewster * Herbert Standing as Judge Bancrof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Roses (1921 Film)
''Black Roses'' is a 1921 American crime drama film directed by Colin Campbell. Sessue Hayakawa, Myrtle Stedman, Tsuru Aoki, Andrew Robson, and Toyo Fujita appeared in the film. Plot As described in a film magazine, when Benson Burleigh (Robson) is found murdered with his gardener Yoda (Hayakawa) beside him with a knife in his hand, the police conclude that Yoda is guilty. While in prison Yoda learns that 'Monocle' Harry (Herbert), Blanche De Vore (Stedman), and Wong Fu (Fujita) framed him of the crime. When the opportunity arrives, with the assistance of his fellow convicts he steals a locomotive while its crew is eating lunch and uses it to burst through the prison yard gates. He drives the locomotive at full speed until they outrun an automobile full of prison guards. With money provided by a fellow cellmate, he poses as a wealthy Japanese nobleman. He outwits the trio of criminals and frees his wife Blossom (Aoki), whom they had kidnapped, and turns them over to the police. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sham (1921 Film)
''Sham'' is a lost 1921 American silent romantic drama directed by Thomas N. Heffron and starring Ethel Clayton and Theodore Roberts. The film is based on the 1905 play of the same name written by Elmer Harris and Geraldine Bonner, and was adapted for the screen by Douglas Z. Doty. Plot Based upon a description in a film publication, Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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