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Cleo Madison
Cleo Madison (born Lulu Bailey; March 26, 1883 – March 11, 1964) was a theatrical and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. Madison began her career on the stage. By 1910, she had begun performing as part of a theatre troupe known as the Santa Barbara Stock Company in California. In 1913, she was contracted by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company to begin appearing in feature films. Madison established a name for herself as an actress with performances in films such as ''The Trey o' Hearts'' (1914). She is also considered a pioneering female director with a number of shorts and two feature films, '' A Soul Enslaved'' (1916) and ''Her Bitter Cup'' (1916), to her credit. She made several efforts to set up a production company before leaving show business in 1924. She died from a heart attack in 1964 at the age of 80. Early life Madison was born Lulu Bailey in Bloomington, Illinois on March 26, 188 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infobox Person
An infobox is a digital or physical Table (information), table used to collect and present a subset of information about its subject, such as a document. It is a structured document containing a set of attribute–value pairs, and in Wikipedia represents a summary of information about the subject of an Article (publishing), article. In this way, they are comparable to data table (information), tables in some aspects. When presented within the larger document it summarizes, an infobox is often presented in a sidebar (publishing), sidebar format. An infobox may be implemented in another document by transclusion, transcluding it into that document and specifying some or all of the attribute–value pairs associated with that infobox, known as parameterization. Wikipedia An infobox may be used to summarize the information of an article on Wikipedia. They are used on similar articles to ensure consistency of presentation by using a common format. Originally, infoboxes (and templates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Cunard
Grace Cunard (born Harriet Mildred Jeffries; April 8, 1893 – January 19, 1967) was an American actress, screenwriter and film director. During the silent era, she starred in over 100 films, wrote or co-wrote at least 44 of those productions, and directed no fewer than eight of them.Bean, Jennifer M. "Cunard, Grace arriet Mildred Jeffries, entry in ''Encyclopedia of Early Cinema'' by Richard Abel (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2005, p. 161. In addition, she edited many of her films, including some of the shorts, serials, and features she developed in collaboration with Francis Ford. Her younger sister, Mina Cunard, was also a film actress. Early life and stage work Born in 1893, Harriet Jeffries was the elder of two daughters of Ohio natives Washington and Lola (née Longshore) Jeffries."Twelfth Census of the United States: 1900," digital image of original census page, June 11–12, 1900, household of Washington Jeffries, Montgomery Township ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trap (1913 Film)
''The Trap'' is a 1913 American silent film, silent short film, short drama film directed by Edwin August, produced by Pat Powers (businessman), Pat Powers, and starring Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush (actress), Pauline Bush and Lon Chaney. The film is now considered lost film, lost. Chaney would later appear in an unrelated film The Trap (1922 film), of the same name in 1922. Plot A jealous girl, Jane, puts paint on her fiance Lon’s overcoat and becomes excited when she finds traces of the paint on another girl’s waist. But it develops that Lon’s brother Chance had worn the coat in the meantime, and she is pacified after an explanation. But later, Chance's wife Cleo finds traces of the paint on Jane's dress and accuses Chance of being unfaithful to her. All is explained in the end. Cast * Lon Chaney as Lon * Murdock MacQuarrie as Chance (Lon's brother) * Pauline Bush (actress), Pauline Bush as Jane (Lon's fiance) * Cleo Madison as Cleo (Chance's wife) References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Of A Cracksman
''The Heart of a Cracksman'' is a 1913 silent film short directed by Wallace Reid and Willis Roberts and starring Reid and Cleo Madison. It was produced by Powers Pictures and distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.''Pictorial History of the Silent Screen'', p. 38 c.1953 by Daniel Blum Cast * Wallace Reid - Gentleman Crook * Cleo Madison - Marcia, Carlton's Niece * James Neill - Carlton * Ed Brady Ed John Brady (born June 17, 1962) is a former American football player. Brady was raised in Morris, Illinois, and attended Morris Community High School, where he led the Morris Redskins football team to a state championship. Brady played for ... - Carlton's son * Marcia Moore - Carlton's Daughter-in-Law References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heart of a Cracksman, The 1913 films 1913 drama films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films 1910s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Business Buccaneer
''A Business Buccaneer'' is a 1912 American short silent comedy film. It was the fifth time Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce had worked together that year. Cast * Tom Moore as Tom Hopewell * Alice Joyce as Agnes * Earle Foxe as Hastings * Cleo Madison * Stuart Holmes Stuart Holmes (born Joseph Liebchen; March 10, 1884 – December 29, 1971) was an American actor and sculptor whose career spanned seven decades. He appeared in almost 450 films between 1909 and 1964, sometimes credited as Stewart Holmes. Biog ... External links * 1912 films American silent short films 1910s romantic comedy films American black-and-white films American romantic comedy films Kalem Company films 1912 short films 1912 comedy films 1910s American films Silent romantic comedy films Silent American comedy films {{romantic-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and ''Baghdad by the Bay''. San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haynes Automobile Company
The Haynes Automobile Company was an American automobile manufacturing company that produced automobiles in Kokomo, Indiana, from 1905 to 1924. The company was formerly known as the Haynes-Apperson company, and produced automobiles under that name from 1896 to 1905. Co-founder Elwood Haynes changed the name of the company after fellow co-founders Elmer and Edgar Apperson left to form the Apperson Brothers Automobile Company in 1901. The company was declared bankrupt in 1924 and went out of business in 1925. History The company's history starts in 1895 with the Haynes-Apperson company, which was renamed when the Apperson brothers left in 1905. Beginning in 1914, Haynes offered a "Light Six" at $1485. Their ads boasted that it was, "The result of 22 years successful experience in building motor cars." Haynes also proclaimed it "Americas greatest light six", that it "will travel 22 to 25 miles on one gallon of gas" and "has more than 1 horsepower to every 55 pounds of weight." F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Radium Mystery
''The Great Radium Mystery'' is a 1919 American silent adventure film serial directed by Robert Broadwell and Robert F. Hill. This serial is now considered a lost film. Cast * Cleo Madison as Countess Nada * Bob Reeves as Jack Turner (credited as Robert Reeves) * Eileen Sedgwick as Gloria Marston * Bob Kortman as The Buzzard * Ed Brady as Frank Bird * Jefferson Osborne as John Marston (credited as Jeff Osborne) * Robert Gray as The Hawk * Gordon McGregor as The Rat * Fred Hamer Chapter titles # The Mystic Stone # The Death Trap # The Fatal Ride # The Swing for Life # The Torture Chamber # The Tunnel of Doom # A Flash in the Dark # In the Clutches of a Mad Man # The Roaring Volcano # Creeping Flames # Perils of Doom # Shackled # The Scalding Pit # Hemmed In # The Flaming Arrow # Over the Cataract # The Wheels of Death # Liquid Flames See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio This is a list of film serials by studio, separated into those released b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl From Nowhere (1919 Film)
''The Girl from Nowhere'' is a 1919 American action adventure drama silent black and white directed and written by Wilfred Lucas and Bess Meredyth and starring Cleo Madison and Frank Brownlee. Cast * Cleo Madison as Gal * Wilfred Lucas as Diamond Terry * Frank Brownlee as Klondike Jim * Val Paul Val Paul (April 10, 1886 – March 23, 1962) was an American actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in 99 films between 1913 and 1922. He also directed 10 films between 1920 and 1932. He was born in Denver, Colorado and died in ... as John Waterman * Mary Talbot as Lizzie Lou * John Cook as Dr. Ferguson References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Girl From Nowhere, The 1919 films 1910s action adventure films 1910s adventure drama films American action adventure films American adventure drama films American black-and-white films American silent films Films about amnesia 1910s American films Silent American drama films Silent adventure drama films ۪ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Romance Of Tarzan
''The Romance of Tarzan'' is a 1918 American silent action adventure film directed by Wilfred Lucas starring Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, Thomas Jefferson, and Cleo Madison. The movie was the second Tarzan movie ever made, and is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' original 1912 novel ''Tarzan of the Apes''. It adapts only the second part of the novel, the earlier portion having been the basis for the preceding film ''Tarzan of the Apes'' (1918). Less popular than its predecessor due to much of the action taking place in the wild west rather than Africa, the film has not been preserved, and no prints of it are known to survive today. Plot The film opens with flashbacks from ''Tarzan of the Apes'' to establish the back story. The African expedition led by Professor Porter (Thomas Jefferson) to find Tarzan (Elmo Lincoln), the ape-raised heir of Lord Greystoke, has been crowned with success, and Tarzan and Porter's daughter Jane (Enid Markey) are in love. The party now prepares to retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Orchids (film)
''Black Orchids'' is a 1917 American silent drama film written and directed by Rex Ingram. The film was released as ''The Fatal Orchids'' in the United Kingdom. The feature stars Cleo Madison, Francis McDonald and Dick La Reno. Ingram later remade the film as ''Trifling Women'' (1922). ''Black Orchids'' is considered a lost film. Plot The synopsis released by the studio as printed in ''Motography'' reads: Cast *Cleo Madison as Marie de Severac/Zoraida *Francis McDonald as George Renoir/Ivan *Dick La Reno as Emile de Severac *Wedgwood Nowell as Marquis de Chantal *Howard Crampton as Baron de Maupin * John George as Ali Bara *William J. Dyer as Proprietor of l'Hirbour Blanc Reviews and reception A write-up about the film in the ''Exhibitor's Trade Review'' notes that the story-telling device served to sidestep the censors: "Indeed, were it not for this method of picturing the adventures of the man-enslaving Zoraida, one can hardly imagine the film being offered as screen ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isadore Bernstein
Isadore Bernstein (November 26, 1876 – October 19, 1944) was an American screenwriter. He wrote screenplays for more than 60 films between 1914 and 1938. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack. Bernstein was the West Coast studio manager for Carl Laemmle. Although he acted as Laemmle's representative concerning many business issues, he was not a principal as was Pat Powers in the formation of Universal Film Manufacturing Company (Universal Pictures). Bernstein was Carl Laemmle's brother-in-law. Selected filmography * ''Nuts in May'' (1917) * ''Tarzan of the Apes'' (1918) * '' The Great Alone'' (1922) * ''The Miracle Baby'' (1923) * '' Pure Grit'' (1923) * ''The Red Warning'' (1923) * ''The Man from Wyoming'' (1924) * ''Fighting Fury'' (1924) * ''The Back Trail'' (1924) * '' Big Timber'' (1924) * ''Ridgeway of Montana'' (1924) *'' The Measure of a Man'' (1924) * '' The Sunset Trail'' (1924) * ''The Sign of the Cactus'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
