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Don't Write Letters
''Don't Write Letters'' is a 1922 American silent comedy-drama film directed by George D. Baker and starring Gareth Hughes, Bartine Burkett, and Herbert Heyes.Berman p. 150 Plot As described in a film magazine, the film begins with a well-drawn cartoon of an early man carving his love letters on stone and the effect of getting slapped on the head with one, and of a medieval scene where Romeo brings the wrath of Juliet's father when he writes love letters to her and slips them over the balcony. Robert "Babby" Jenks (Hughes) is a department store clerk who pictures himself a hero in love with a beautiful girl. When he enlists to fight in World War I he is handicapped by his small size and consigned to the mess tent. He orders a blouse from the supply room and, as a joke by his friends, is given one a size 44 instead of his size 34. While kicking about in disgust, he finds a letter in its pocket written by a young woman in the shirt factory who asks the "big guy" who gets it to wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George D
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Harry Lorraine (American Actor)
Harry Loraine (aka Lorraine) (September 14, 1873 – 1935) was an American silent film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1913 and 1930. Selected filmography * ''Who's Boss?'' (1914) * '' She Married for Love'' (1914) * '' Kidnapping the Kid'' (1914) * ''The Daddy of Them All'' (1914) * '' Weary Willie's Rags'' (1914) * ''They Looked Alike'' (1915) * '' Spaghetti a la Mode'' (1915) * '' Cupid's Target'' (1915) * '' Shoddy the Tailor'' (1915) * '' Who Stole the Doggies?'' (1915) * '' Cannibal King'' (1915) * '' Just Jim'' (1915) * ''It Happened in Pikesville'' (1916) * ''The Hawk's Trail'' (1919) * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1920) * ''The Lure of Egypt'' (1921) * ''A Certain Rich Man'' (1921) * ''The Hunch'' (1921) * ''The Man of the Forest'' (1921) * ''Garments of Truth'' (1921) * ''The Lavender Bath Lady'' (1922) * ''Don't Write Letters'' (1922) * ''Little Eva Ascends'' (1922) * ''Heart's Haven'' (1922) * ''Slave of Desire'' (1923) *''Siege'' (1925) * ''Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920s English-language Films
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Metro Pictures Films
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American Black-and-white Films
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American Silent Feature Films
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Films Directed By George D
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Comedy-drama Films
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1922 Films
The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top nine films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events * June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film. * November 26 – '' The Toll of the Sea'', starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (''The Gulf Between'' was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed). Notable films released in 1922 United States unless stated A *''At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern'' (lost), directed by Lloyd Ingraham, based on the 1905 novel by Myrtle Reed B *''The Bachelor Daddy'' (lost), directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan *''The Beautiful and Damned'' (lost), directed by William A. Seiter, starring Marie Prevost * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Lafayette, Indiana in 1889, and his acting career goes back almost to the beginning of the commercial film industry in the United States. He made his first silent film in 1910, a comedy short filmed in Chicago by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company called ''A Dog on Business''. Potel continued to make films for Essanay, appearing in dozens of films every year, including most of the Broncho Billy series, and played a character called "Slippery Slim" in 80 movies. He also appeared in Universal Pictures' "Snakeville" series.Erickson, HaBiography (Allmovie)/ref> Potel's first talking picture was ''Melody of Love'', starring Walter Pidgeon, made for Universal in 1928, and in the sound era he continued to work continuously and constantly, playing small parts and sometimes uncre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Lee (actress)
Lois Lee is the founder of Children of the Night, a non-profit organization that works to support youth who were involved in prostitution, based in Van Nuys, California. The organization was depicted in a movie by the same name. She received the President's Volunteer Action Award from President Ronald Reagan in 1984. On November 18, 2010, Lee presented Playboy founder, Hugh M. Hefner Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of ''Playboy'' magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obsc ..., with Children of the Night's first "Founder's Hero of the Hearts Award" for his support of her organization. References Further reading * * * * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Lois Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American nonprofit executives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Mann
Margaret Mann (4 April 1868, in Aberdeen, Scotland – 4 February 1941, in Los Angeles, California), was a Scottish-American actress. Biography Margaret Mann starred in a number of major silent films such as ''Black Beauty'' in 1921 and played the lead role in John Ford's 1928 drama ''Four Sons'', one of John Wayne's first films. She often played kind-hearted or suffering motherly roles. With the advent of sound films her roles got notably smaller and she was often uncredited. She portrayed the kindly grandmother Mrs. Mack in two ''Our Gang'' comedies in 1931. She also played bit parts in movies like ''Frankenstein'', '' You Can't Take It With You'', ''Gone with the Wind'' and '' Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' (1939). Her last of over 80 movies was ''The Remarkable Andrew'' (1942), released one year after her death. Personal life Mann died of cancer in 1941, aged 72. Not much about her private life is known, although a press release of 1928 said that Mann lived through many tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
