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Claude King (English Actor)
Claude Ewart King (15 January 1875 – 18 September 1941) was an English-born character actor and unionist, who appeared in American silent film. With his distinctive wavy hair, King appeared on both stage and screen. He served his country, Great Britain, in World War I in Field Artillery, reaching the rank of Major and surviving the war. He began his stage career in his native country, before emigrating to the US. In 1919, he appeared on Broadway in support of Ethel Barrymore in the play ''Declassee''. Film After gravitating to silent films, King had a key role in Tod Browning's lost silent masterpiece '' London After Midnight'' (1927), starring alongside Lon Chaney. Claude King was later an original member of the first Board of Directors of the Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) in 1933. He is the great-uncle of singer/songwriter Claude King and great-great-uncle of singer/songwriter Chris Aable, both also SAG members. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Star Is Born (1937 Film)
''A Star Is Born'' is a 1937 American Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor (in her only Technicolor film) as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March (in his Technicolor debut) as a fading movie star who helps launch her career. The supporting cast features Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander, and Owen Moore. The film has been remade three times: in 1954 (directed by George Cukor and starring Judy Garland and James Mason), in 1976 (directed by Frank Pierson and starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), and in 2018 (starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, who also directed). Plot North Dakota farm girl Esther Victoria Blodgett yearns to become a Hollywood actress. Although her aunt and father discourage such thoughts, Esther's grandmother gives Esther her savings to follow her dre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idols Of Clay (1920 Film)
''Idols of Clay'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Mae Murray and David Powell. A copy of the film survives in the Gosfilmofond Archive in Moscow. Cast * Mae Murray - Faith Merrill * David Powell - Dion Holme * Dorothy Cumming - Lady Cray * George Fawcett - Jim Merrill * Leslie King - Blinky * Richard Wangermann - Old Master * Claude King Claude King (February 5, 1923 – March 7, 2013) was an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for his million selling 1962 hit, "Wolverton Mountain". Biography King was born in Keithville in southern Caddo Parish south ... - Dr. Herbert References External links * * ''Idols of Clay'' at silenthollywood.com 1920 films 1920 drama films Silent American drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Famous Players-Lasky films Films directed by George Fitzmaurice Paramount Pictures films Films with screenplays by Ouida Bergèr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Learn (1928 Film)
''Love and Learn'' is a lost 1928 silent film comedy directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Esther Ralston. Famous Players-Lasky produced the picture with released through Paramount Pictures. Plot summary Cast * Esther Ralston - Nancy Blair * Lane Chandler - Anthony Cowles * Hedda Hopper - Mrs. Ann Blair * Claude King - Robert Blair * Jack J. Clark - Hansen (*as John J. Clark) * Jack Trent - Jim Riley * Hal Craig - Sgt. Flynn * Helen Lynch - Rosie * Catherine Parrish - Jail Matron * Martha Franklin - Martha * Jerry Mandy - Gardener * Dorothea Wolbert - Maid * Johnnie Morris - Bum (*as Johnny Morris) * Guy Oliver George Guy Oliver (September 25, 1878 – September 1, 1932) was an American actor. He appeared in at least 189 silent film era motion pictures and 32 talkies in character roles between 1911 and 1931. His obituary gives him credit for at l ... - Detective References External links Love and Learn at IMDb.com* * * 1928 films American silent feature fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Becky (1927 Film)
''Becky'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by John P. McCarthy starring Sally O'Neil and Owen Moore. at silentera.com Synopsis Rebecca (Sally O'Neil) is a salesgirl who gets a chance at a Broadway show; there, she attracts and is ultimately rejected by a society playboy.Cast * as Rebecca O'Brien McCloskey * as Dan Scarlett * Harry Crocker as John Carroll Estabrook *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singed
''Singed'' is a 1927 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. The film was directed by John Griffith Wray and stars Blanche Sweet. ''Singed'' is based on Adela Rogers St. Johns's story "Love o' Women". A print is preserved at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With Czech intertitles. Cast *Blanche Sweet as Dolly Wall *Warner Baxter as Royce Wingate *James Wang as Wong * Alfred Allen as Jim *Clark Comstock as Wes Adams *Howard Truesdale as Indian Agent *Claude King as Ben Grimes *Ida Darling as Mrs. Eleanor Cardigan *Mary McAllister as Amy Cardigan *Edwards Davis as Howard Halliday *Edgar Norton as Ernie Whitehead See also *Blanche Sweet filmography __NOTOC__ This is the filmography for Blanche Sweet. According to the Internet Movie Database, Sweet appeared in 161 films between 1909 and 1959. ---- 1909 - 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1919 - Later films ... References External links * * Lobby po ... [...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] |
Paradise (1926 Film)
''Paradise'' is a lost film, lost 1926 American silent escapist-romance film directed by Irvin Willat and released by First National Pictures. The film stars Milton Sills, Betty Bronson and Noah Beery. Based on the popular 1925 novel ''Paradise'' by Cosmo Hamilton and John Russell, it was one of Sills' most successful films. at silentera.com Story A stunt pilot, Tony, marries Chrissie and the two are given a tropical island wedding, which is a lot of fun at first. They are considered the King and Queen of their island by the natives. The fun turns into island turmoil at the machinations of island despot Quex.Cast *Milton Sills as Tony *Betty Bronson as Chrissie *Noah Beery, Sr., Noah Beery as Quex *Lloyd Whitlock as Teddy *Kate ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Luck (1925 Film)
''Irish Luck'' is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Victor Heerman, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Tom Donahue (Meighan), a Fifth Avenue traffic policeman from New York City, wins a trip to Ireland in a newspaper contest. He looks like Lord Fitzhugh, nephew of a nobleman who has cut him out of his will in favor of his cousine. On his deathbed, the Earl (Lawford) longs to make up with Fitzhugh. Fitzhugh's sister Gwendolyn (Wilson) meets Tom and takes him back to Killarney with her and, when Fitzhugh fails to appear, persuades Tom to impersonate him and gains the fortune. Eventually, Tom frees Fitzhugh, who had been lured to Killarney, and wins the love of the young woman. Cast Preservation A print of ''Irish Luck'' is located in the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection The George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York comprises ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unguarded Hour (1925 Film)
''The Unguarded Hour'' is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, and Claude King. The film's sets were designed by the art director Milton Menasco. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Bryce Gilbert (King), business man, shows his daughter Virginia (Kenyon) the folly of an intended elopement with a youth. She goes to Italy and meets Duke Andrea d'Arona (Sills), a young and handsome man, who is puzzled by her jazzy American ways and doubts her character. Virginia is found with a certain male flirt in her room and misunderstood until it develops that the duke's sister (Cassinelli) has been misled by the male flirt and is listening in another room. The sister kills herself and the tragedy brings the duke and the young American woman to an understanding of their love. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''The Unguarded Hour'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Knockout (1925 Film)
''The Knockout'' is a 1925 silent film drama directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills. It was based on the novel ''The Come-Back'' by Morris DeCamp Crawford. It was produced by and released by First National Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine reviews, Sandy Donlin, world’s light heavyweight boxing champion, hurts his right arm and is told by his doctor that, if he uses the arm in the fight, he will never use it again. Because he thinks the arm useless, he accepts the offer of the lumberman Parker to become his manager in a Canadian lumber camp. Donlin accepts because he has just met and fallen in love with Jean Farot, daughter of Parker’s rival. Parker wants Donlin at the camp because he can whip Jack Ducane, the foreman for Farot, who has blocked the efforts of Parker’s men to jam Farot’s logs. Ducane accuses Donlin of getting the Farot loggers drunk to cause them to jam the logs. Donlin learns in the ensuing fight that the right arm has healed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Making Of O'Malley
''The Making of O'Malley'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Eugene Clifford. The film stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Helen Rowland, Warner Richmond, Thomas Carrigan and Julia Hurley. The film was released on June 28, 1925, by First National Pictures. The Gerald Beaumont short story was also the basis of the 1937 Warner Bros. film '' The Great O'Malley'', directed by William Dieterle and starring Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Lucille tires of her time as a young society woman and takes a position in the public schools. She requests aid in capturing a band of bootleggers Bootleg or bootlegging most often refers to: * Bootleg recording, an audio or video recording released unofficially * Rum-running, the illegal business of transporting and trading in alcoholic beverages, hence: ** Moonshine, or illicitly made .... Policeman O'Malley is sent with orders to obey Lucille. O' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Days (1923 Film)
''Six Days'' is a 1923 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Corinne Griffith, Frank Mayo (actor), Frank Mayo and Myrtle Stedman.Munden p.728 It is based on a novel of the same title by Elinor Glyn. Cast * Corinne Griffith as Laline Kingston * Frank Mayo (actor), Frank Mayo as Dion Leslie * Myrtle Stedman as Olive Kingston * Claude King (English actor), Claude King as Lord Charles Chetwyn * Maude George as Clara Leslie * Spottiswoode Aitken as Pere Jerome * Charles Clary as Richard Kingston * Evelyn Walsh Hall as Hon. Emily Tarrant-Chetwyn * Paul Cazeneuve (actor), Paul Cazeneuve as Chef * Jack Herbert (actor), Jack Herbert as Guide * Robert DeVilbiss as Dion Leslie, age six 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 * 1923 films 1923 drama films 1920s English-language films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
