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Carroll Nye
Robert Carroll Nye (October 4, 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1925 and 1944. His most memorable role was Frank Kennedy, Scarlett's second husband, in ''Gone with the Wind''. Biography Nye was born in Akron, Ohio. His mother, Myra Nye, was the club editor of the ''Los Angeles Times''; his father, W. P. Nye, was postmaster in Covina, California. Nye attended Covina, California, schools and the University of California at Los Angeles and later became a reporter and radio editor with the ''Times'' like his mother. Nye performed on stage at the Majestic Theater in Los Angeles from 1922 to 1925. He began working in films in June 1925. At the beginning of his career he had a score of leading man roles in Hollywood opposite such silent screen stars as Anita Page and Corinne Griffith. In his late career, he played usually small roles. His most memorable appearance was as Frank Kennedy, Scarlett's second husband and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Every Girl Should Know (film)
''What Every Girl Should Know'' is a 1927 American silent romance film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Ian Keith, Carroll Nye, Mickey McBan, Lillian Langdon, and Hazel Howell. Written by Lois Jackson, the film was released by Warner Bros. on March 20, 1927. Cast *Patsy Ruth Miller as Mary Sullivan *Ian Keith as Arthur Graham *Carroll Nye as Dave Sullivan *Mickey McBan as Bobby Sullivan *Lillian Langdon as Mrs. Randolph *Hazel Howell as Estelle Randolph * Carmelita Geraghty as Madame Le Fleur Preservation With no copies listed in any film archives, ''What Every Girl Should Know'' 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 least one copy o .... References External links * * 1927 films American romance films 1920s romance films Warner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Honor, The Governor
''Her Honor, the Governor'' is a 1926 American silent drama film starring Pauline Frederick, directed by Chester Withey and featuring Boris Karloff. Cast * Pauline Frederick as Adele Fenway * Carroll Nye as Bob Fenway * Greta von Rue as Marian Lee * Tom Santschi as Richard Palmer * Stanton Heck as Jim Dornton * Boris Karloff as Snipe Collins * Jack Richardson as Slade * Charles McHugh * Kathleen Kirkham * William Worthington Preservation Complete prints of ''Her Honor, the Governor'' survive. See also * Boris Karloff filmography Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ... References External links * * 1926 films 1926 drama films Silent American drama films Surviving American silent films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Perfect Crime (1928 Film)
''The Perfect Crime'' is a 1928 American part-talkie crime drama film directed by Bert Glennon and starring Clive Brook, Irene Rich and Ethel Wales.Wlaschin p.176 It is loosely based on the 1892 novel '' The Big Bow Mystery'' by Israel Zangwill. A criminologist sets out to prove there is such a thing as a perfect crime, and commits a murder without leaving any clues. However, when an innocent man is arrested for the crime he is presented with a moral dilemma. This was the first feature film not produced by either Warner Bros. or Fox Film to contain synchronized sound, also being the first non-Warner feature to contain any talking sequences. Cast * Clive Brook as Benson * Irene Rich as Stella * Ethel Wales as Mrs. Frisbie * Carroll Nye as Trevor * Gladys McConnell as Mrs. Trevor * Edmund Breese as Wilmot * James Farley as Jones * Phil Gastrock as Butler * Tully Marshall as Frisbie * Jane La Verne as Trevor Baby * Lynne Overman Lynne may refer to: *Lynne (surname) *Lyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig's Wife (1928 Film)
''Craig's Wife'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Irene Rich, Warner Baxter and Virginia Bradford. It was based on the 1925 play ''Craig's Wife'' by George Kelly. Subsequent film adaptations followed in 1936 as ''Craig's Wife'' and 1950 as ''Harriet Craig''.Goble p.255 It is now considered a lost film. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell. Cast * Irene Rich as Mrs. Craig * Warner Baxter as Walter Craig * Virginia Bradford as Ethel * Carroll Nye as John Fredericks * Lilyan Tashman Lilyan Tashman (October 23, 1896 – March 21, 1934) was an American actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses or playing the vindictive "other woman". She made 66 films over the course of her ... as Mrs. Passmore * George Irving (American actor), George Irving as Mr. Passmore * Jane Keckley as Miss Austen * Mabel Van Buren as Mrs. Frazer * Ethel Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rinty Of The Desert
''Rinty of the Desert'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman. The film was released with a Vitaphone soundtrack with a synchronised musical score and sound effects. This film is presumed to be lost. According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $164,000 domestically and $57,000 foreign. Cast * Rin Tin Tin as Rinty * Audrey Ferris as June * Carroll Nye as Pat * Paul Panzer as Mike Doyle * Otto Hoffman as Pop Marlow See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part talking/ all talking feature films made in the US and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926-1929. During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including most notably ... References External links * * 1928 films 1928 drama films Silent American drama films American silent feature films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films Films directed by D. Ross Lederman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powder My Back
''Powder My Back'' is a 1928 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Irene Rich. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. who released it with a Vitaphone music and sound effects track. Plot The actress of the comedy "powder My back", Fritzi Foy, was angry with Rex Hale, the mayor who closes the comedy. With the help of Fritzi's press agent, Claude, she succeeds to enter the mayor's home by performing a fake accident and tells him that she need to leave until her fully recovered. This action infuriated Hale, however, his son Jack falls in love with Fritzi. When Fritzi figures out that her action has brought misfortune to Jack, she persuade him to go back to his fiancé, Ruth Stevens. Cast *Irene Rich as Fritzi Foy * Audrey Ferris as Ruth Stevens *George Beranger as Claude *Anders Randolf as Rex Hale *Carroll Nye as Jack Hale Preservation status This is now a lost film. See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sporting Age
''The Sporting Age'' is a lost film, lost 1928 American silent film, silent Drama (genre), drama film, directed by Erle C. Kenton. The film depicts the life of an wife neglected by her husband. Plot Miriam Driscoll doesn't think her husband, James Driscoll really loves her. After a train accident temporarily blinds James, Miriam has an affair with Phillip Kingston, her husband's male secretary. James regains his vision earlier than expected, and he realizes that his wife has cheated on him. He then asks his niece Nancy to steal Phillip from Miriam. The plan works, causing Miriam and James to get back together again. Cast * Belle Bennett as Miriam Driscoll * Holmes Herbert as James Driscoll * Carroll Nye as Phillip Kingston * Josephine Borio as Nancy Driscoll * Edward Davis (actor), Edward Davis as The Doctor References External links * 1928 films American silent feature films American drama films 1928 drama films American black-and-white films 1920s American films Sile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Race For Life
''A Race for Life'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman. Originally, the film was presumed to be lost. However, according to the Library of Congress Database, the film was found in the Netherlands. The film was released with a Vitaphone soundtrack with a synchronised musical score and sound effects. Cast * Rin Tin Tin as Rinty, a dog * Virginia Brown Faire as Virginia Calhoun * Carroll Nye as Robert Hammond * Robert Gordon as Danny O'Shea (as Bobby Gordon) * Jim Mason as Bruce Morgan (as James Mason) * Pat Hartigan as Tramp Box office According to Warner Bros.' records the film earned $168,000 domestically and $75,000 foreign. Preservation status A print is preserved at Filmmuseum Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in t ... in the Netherla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl From Chicago (1927 Film)
''The Girl from Chicago'' is a lost 1927 American silent criminal romantic drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Myrna Loy and Conrad Nagel. It was produced and distributed by the Warner Bros. and is based upon a short story by Arthur Somers Roche that appeared in the June 1923 ''Redbook''. The film later had a Vitaphone soundtrack of sound effects and music added. The film is one of the earliest starring roles for Loy who at this time, 1927, did not usually star but was a supporting player. Warner Bros. took a chance casting her in a principal part. Retrieved March 22, 2015. Plot Southern girl Mary Carlton finds out that her brother, Bob Carlton, is goi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silver Slave
''The Silver Slave'' is a lost film, lost 1927 silent film, silent film drama directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Irene Rich. It was produced and distributed by the Warner Brothers and a Vitaphone track of sound and effects was added, however there is no spoken dialogue. Plot Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver. Lavishing the greater part of her fortune on her daughter, Janet, Bernice determines to give her the advantages she herself lacked. Despite her mother's disapproval, Janet scorns the affection of Larry Martin, a lifelong friend, after meeting Philip Caldwell, a wealthy sophisticate. Worried over Janet's growing attachment to Philip, Bernice determines to win Caldwell from her daughter, and in a confrontation involving the girl and Richards, now a millionaire, Janet is disillusioned in her mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rose Of Kildare
''The Rose of Kildare'' is a 1927 American silent film, silent romance film directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald and starring Helene Chadwick, Pat O'Malley (actor), Pat O'Malley and Henry B. Walthall. An Irish singer arrives at the gold mining town of Kimberley, Northern Cape, Kimberley in South Africa, where she encounters a former lover who left County Kildare, Kildare to seek his fortune. The film is believed to be lost, with no prints of the film existing in archives. Cast * Helene Chadwick as Eileen O'Moore * Pat O'Malley (actor), Pat O'Malley as Barry Nunan * Henry B. Walthall as Bob Avery * Lee Moran as 'The Kid' * Ed Brady (actor), Ed Brady as Ed Brady * Ena Gregory as Elsie Avery * Carroll Nye as Larry Nunan 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 * 1927 films 1920s romance films American silent feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Of Maryland (1927 Film)
''The Heart of Maryland'' (1927) is a silent film costume Vitaphone drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars Dolores Costello in the title character and features Jason Robards, Sr. It is based on David Belasco's 1895 play '' The Heart of Maryland'' performed on Broadway. The film is the last silent version of the often filmed Victorian story, with versions having been produced in 1915 and 1921. Cast *Dolores Costello as Maryland Calvert * Jason Robards, Sr. as Maj. Alan Kendrick *Warner Richmond as Captain Fulton Thorpe *Helene Costello as Nancy *Carroll Nye as Lloyd Calvert *Charles Edward Bull as Abraham Lincoln *Erville Alderson as Maj. Gen. Kendrick *Paul Kruger as Tom Boone *Walter Rodgers as Gen. U.S. Grant *Jim Welch as Gen. Robert E. Lee *Orpha Alba as Mammy *Myrna Loy as Mulatta *Harry Northrup as Gen. Joe Hooker *Nick Cogley as Eli Stanton *Lew Short as Allan Pinkerton *Leonard Mellon as Young Stewart *Madge Hunt as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |