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Clean Sweep (1918 Film)
''Clean Sweep'' is a 1918 silent film, silent film comedy short. It was produced by the L-KO Kompany and starred actress Merta Sterling. It was distributed through Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Cast *Eddie Barry (actor), Eddie Barry *Chai Hong - Charlie, the Chinese Laundry Man *Merta Sterling - The Lady Barber *Bartine Burkett - The Lady Barber's daughter *Russ Powell - The Butcher (*as Rusell Powell) *Billy Armstrong (actor), Billy Armstrong - Billy References External linksA Clean Sweep at IMDb.com 1918 short films American black-and-white films American silent short films Silent American comedy films 1918 comedy films 1918 films 1910s American films {{silent-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lehrman
Henry Lehrman (March 30, 1881 – November 7, 1946) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Lehrman was a very prominent figure of Hollywood's silent film era, working with such cinematic pioneers as D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett. He directed, as well as co-starred in, Charlie Chaplin's very first film, ''Making a Living''. Lehrman was notoriously careless of the safety of the actors who worked for him. He was the lover of the actress Virginia Rappe, for whose death Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (whom Lehrman had directed in about a dozen films in the early 1920s), in a highly publicized series of trials, was accused, and later acquitted, of manslaughter. Life and career Born in Sambir, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) or Vienna, Lehrman emigrated to the United States in 1908 or December 1906 and although he is best remembered as a film director, he began his career as an actor in a 1909 Biograph Studios production directed by D. W. Griffith. He gained the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merta Sterling
Merta Sterling (June 13, 1883 – March 14, 1944) was an American film actress of the silent era who predominantly appeared in comedic roles. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1914 and 1927. She was born Manitowoc, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood, California Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Picture .... Selected filmography References External links * 1883 births 1944 deaths American film actresses American silent film actresses Actresses from Wisconsin People from Manitowoc, Wisconsin 20th-century American actresses {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States; the world's fifth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, and Nordisk Film; and the oldest member of Hollywood's "Big Five" studios in terms of the overall film market. Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. In 1962, the studio was acquired by MCA, which was re-launched as NBCUniversal in 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of intertitle, title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a piano, pianist, theatre organ, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or musical improvisation, improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L-KO Kompany
The L-KO Kompany, or L-KO Komedies, was an American motion picture company founded by Henry Lehrman that produced silent one-, two- and very occasionally three-reel comedy shorts between 1914 and 1919. The initials L-KO stand for "Lehrman KnockOut". History By the spring of 1914, Henry "Pathé" Lehrman had directed several important Keystone Kops comedies including ''The Bangville Police'' (1913) and ''Kid Auto Races at Venice'' (1914), Charlie Chaplin's debut. Wooed away from Mack Sennett by producer Fred J. Balshofer, Lehrman left Keystone, along with star performer Ford Sterling, to found ''Sterling Comedies'' under the umbrella of the Universal Film and Manufacturing Co., later Universal Pictures. After a relatively short time, Lehrman was fired from Sterling Comedies as well and founded L-KO as a separate unit within Universal. L-KO's first comedy star was veteran English comic Billie Ritchie, who had played the role of the drunk in Fred Karno's stage production ''A Nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Barry (actor)
Eddie Barry (October 25, 1887 – August 28, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1912 and 1930. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Newquay, England. He was the older brother of fellow actor Neal Burns. Selected filmography * '' Clean Sweep'' (1918) * '' Business Before Honesty'' (1918) * '' A Roman Scandal'' (1919) * '' Her Bridal Nightmare'' (1920) * '' A Bashful Bigamist'' (1920) * '' Crack o' Dawn'' (1925) * '' The Sagebrush Lady'' (1925) * '' Reckless Courage'' (1925) * ''Fighting Luck'' (1925) * ''Red Blood'' (1925) * ''Nifty Numbers Nifty Numbers is a 1928 2-reel short film subject from Al Christie Studios. It is part a series called ''Confessions of a Chorus Girl''. ''Nifty Numbers'' is the fourth installment in this series. The 5th and 6th installments were called ''Footlig ...'' (1928) References External links * 1887 births 1966 deaths 20th-century American male actors American male film act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartine Burkett
Bartine Burkett Zane (February 9, 1898 – May 20, 1994) was an American film actress. Burkett was born in Robeline, Louisiana to John Norvel Burkett and Bana G. (Howe) Burkett. She had a brother, Arthur. She gained acting experience in productions of the Shreveport Dramatic Club. Burkett was engaged to be married, but her fiance, an American Expeditionary Forces officer, was killed in France in 1918. As early as 1914, Burkett worked as an extra in Famous Players-Lasky films. She progressed to feature roles by the end of that decade. She is best recalled for her silent comedies and her late-in-life appearances in sitcoms and TV commercials. She appeared in nearly sixty silent films before retiring upon her 1928 marriage to Ralph Leland Zane. Among her earliest co-stars and friends were Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Al St. John and Stan Laurel. In 1973, five years after her husband's death, she returned to acting, appearing in three films and a number of televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Powell
Russ Powell (September 16, 1875 – November 28, 1950) was an American film actor. He appeared in 186 films between 1915 and 1943. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''The Fashion Shop'' (1915, Short) - Fat Customer * ''The Tale of the Night Before'' (1915) - Henry's friend * ''Fat and Furious'' (1917) - Merta's Father * '' Clean Sweep'' (1918) - The Butcher * ''Smoldering Embers'' (1920) - Tramp * ''Dangerous Days'' (1920) - Bartender (uncredited) * ''The Slim Princess'' (1920) - The Governor General * '' The Soul of Youth'' (1920) - Patrolman Jones * '' One Stolen Night'' (1923) * '' Kindled Courage'' (1923) - Marshal * ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (uncredited) (1923) * ''A Boy of Flanders'' - Baas Kronstadt (1924) * '' Open All Night'' (1924) (uncredited) * ''Dynamite Smith'' (1924) * '' The Wheel'' (1925) * ''The Red Mill'' (1927) * '' Tillie the Toiler'' (1927) (uncredited) * ''Soft Cushions'' (1927) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Armstrong (actor)
William Armstrong (14 January 1891 – 1 March 1924) was a British-American actor and comedian. Biography Armstrong was born on 14 January 1891 in Bristol, England. Armstrong started his career in the British music hall tradition and appeared in roles for Fred Karno from 1910 until 1914 in his native Bristol, before heading to the US and working in films for Keystone Studios, mainly in comedy roles, where he was a regular player in the films of Charlie Chaplin among others. Armstrong died from tuberculosis on 1 March 1924 in Sunland, California. Partial filmography *''His New Job'' (1915) *'' The Champion'' (1915) *'' In the Park'' (1915) *''The Tramp'' (1915) *'' By the Sea'' (1915) *''Work'' (1915) *'' A Woman'' (1915) *'' The Bank'' (1915) *''Shanghaied'' (1915) *''Police'' (1916) *''Watch Your Neighbor'' (1918) *'' Clean Sweep'' (1918) *'' Triple Trouble'' (1918) *'' Hop, the Bellhop'' (1919) * ''Love, Honor and Behave'' (1920) *'' Skirts'' (1921) *''When Knights Were Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 Short Films
This year is noted for the end of the World War I, First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 9 – Battle of Bear Valley: U.S. troops engage Yaqui people, Yaqui Native American warriors in a minor skirmish in Arizona, and one of the last battles of the American Indian Wars between the United States and Native Americans. * January 15 ** The keel of is laid in Britain, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be laid down. ** The Red Army (The Workers and Peasants Red Army) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Black-and-white Films
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American Silent Short Films
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