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Eddie Polo
Eddie Polo (1 February 1875 – 14 June 1961) was an Austrian-American actor of the silent era. He was of Jewish descent.Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 Biography He was born Edward W. Wyman or Weimer in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on 1 February 1875. With his brother Sam he was the trapeze act ''The Flying Cordovas''. Beginning in 1913, he appeared in serials and films in the United States and became an action star in Germany in the late 1920s. After his acting career ended in the mid-1940s he worked as a makeup artist. He was the father of actress Malvina Polo (1903–2000), best remembered as the mentally handicapped girl preyed upon for rape in Erich von Stroheim's ''Foolish Wives'' (1922). His brother was the acrobat, actor and makeup artist Sam Polo (1872–1966). Polo died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Polo
Edward Polo (born 10 October 1989, in Delta State) is a footballer, who plays for Bayelsa United Bayelsa United FC is a football club based in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, Nigeria. They play in the second division of Nigerian football, the Nigeria National League. Their home games are played at the Samson Siasia Stadium, Ovom, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. .... References 1989 births Living people Nigerian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Sportspeople from Delta State Bayelsa United F.C. players {{Nigeria-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a metonymy, shorthand reference for the Cinema of the United States, U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was Merger (politics), consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis (publisher), Harrison Gray Otis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vanishing Dagger
''The Vanishing Dagger'' is a 1920 American adventure film serial directed by Edward A. Kull, J. P. McGowan, and Eddie Polo. It is presumed to be a lost film. Portions of this serial were filmed in England. The film had the working title ''The Thirteenth Hour''. Cast * Eddie Polo as John Edward Grant * Thelma Percy as Elizabeth Latimer * C. Norman Hammond as Sir George Latimer * Laura Oakley as Lady Mary Latimer * Ray Ripley as Prince Narr * Karl Silvera as Prince Zan * Ruth Royce as Sonia, Narr's Favorite * Thomas G. Lingham as King Claypool * Peggy O'Day as Nell (credited as Peggy O'Dare) * Texas Watts as Len, Grant's Man * Arthur Jarvis as Sir Richard Upton * Leach Cross * Leslie T. Peacocke * J. P. McGowan Plot Chapter titles # The Scarlet Confession # The Night of Terror # In Death's Clutches # On the Trail of the Dagger # The End of the Rustlers # A Terrible Calamity # Plunged to His Doom # In Unmerciful Hands # The Lights of Liverpool (a.k.a. Ferocious Foes) # When L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lure Of The Circus
''The Lure of the Circus'' is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan for Universal. Cast * Eddie Polo as Eddie Somers * Eileen Sedgwick as Alicia Page * Molly Malone as Nan Harden - Chapters 1 thru 5 * Harry Carter as Edward Lawrence * Noble Johnson as Silent Andy * Fred Starr as Steve Harden (as Frederick Starr) * Duke R. Lee as Richard Van Norman * Charles Hill Mailes as Malcolm Somers * James Gordon as Guy Brock * Andrew Waldron as Dynamite Dan * Fred Montague as Howard Mason * Sydney Deane as Reynolds (as Sidney Deane) * Josie Sedgwick Chapter Titles # ''The Big Tent'' # ''The Giant's Leap'' # ''Beaten Back'' # ''The Message On The Cuff'' # ''The Lip Reader'' # ''The Aerial Disaster'' # ''The Charge of The Elephant'' # ''The Human Ladder'' # ''The Flying Loop'' # ''A Shot For Life'' # ''The Dagger'' # ''A Strange Escape'' # ''A Plunge For Life'' # ''Flames'' # ''The Stolen Record'' # ''The Knockout'' # ''A Race With Time'' # ''The Last Trick'' Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bull's Eye (serial)
''The Bull's Eye'' is a 1917 American film serial directed by James W. Horne. It is now considered to be a lost film. Cast Chapter titles # ''First Blood'' # ''The Fearless One'' # ''Desperate Odds'' # ''Still In The Ring'' # ''The Swing of Death'' # ''On The Brink'' # ''Riding Wild'' # ''Dynamite'' # ''The Flaming Crisis'' # ''Coyotes of The Desert'' # ''Fired'' # ''Burning Sands'' # ''Sold At Auction'' # ''The Firing Squad'' # ''The Stained Face'' # ''Running Wild'' # ''In Irons'' # ''The Runaway'' Reception Like many American films of the time, ''The Bull's Eye'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required the following cuts by chapter: *Chapter 1, Reel 1, of the shooting of man from horse, Reel 2, all holdup scenes, flagging train and attack on crew and passengers, all scenes in fight between sheepmen and Cody where guns are drawn, two scenes of sheepmen shooting at crowd on rear platform of train, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Plow Woman
''The Plow Woman'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Charles Swickard and starring Mary MacLaren, Harry De More and Marie Hazelton.Connelly p.215 Cast * Mary MacLaren as Mary MacTavish * Harry De More as Andy MacTavish * Marie Hazelton as Ruth MacTavish * Lee Shumway as Lieutenant Jack Fraser * Kingsley Benedict as Surgeon Fraser * Hector V. Sarno as Buck Matthews * Clara Horton as Mary, as a child * Eddie Polo Eddie Polo (1 February 1875 – 14 June 1961) was an Austrian-American actor of the silent era. He was of Jewish descent.Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn B ... as Bill Matthews * George Hupp as Jack, as a child * Tommy Burns as Trooper References Bibliography * Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gray Ghost (serial)
''The Gray Ghost'' is a 1917 American crime-drama film serial directed by Stuart Paton. It is presumed to be lost. Cast * Harry Carter as The Gray Ghost * Priscilla Dean as Morn Light * Emory Johnson as Wade Hildreth * Eddie Polo as Jean Marco * Gypsy Hart as Cecilia * Wilton Taylor as Ashby * Gertrude Astor as Lady Gwendolyn * Lew Short as Jerry Tyron (credited as Lou Short) * Richard La Reno as Mr. Olmstead * John Cook as John Reis * T. D. Crittenden as Brenner Carlow * J. Morris Foster as Fred Olmstead * Francis McDonald as Williams * Howard Crampton as William Arabin * Sydney Deane as The Commissioner * Charles Dorian as Jimmie Pelham of ''The Star'' * Nigel De Brulier as Jacques *Frank Tokunaga as Mora * Burton Law as Bludso * Dan Leighton as Brant Episodes # ''The Bank Mystery'' # ''The Mysterious Message'' # ''The Warning'' # ''The Fight'' # ''Plunder'' # ''The House of Mystery'' # ''Caught In The Web'' # ''The Double Floor'' # ''The Pearl Necklace'' # ''Shadows'' # '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Kentucky Cinderella
A Kentucky Cinderella is a 1917 American silent drama directed by Rupert Julian and featured Rupert Julian and Ruth Clifford, and a cast including child actress Zoe Rae.Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 p. 543 (1997) It was released June 25, 1917 by Bluebird Photoplays, a subsidiary of .Snyopsis '' |
Money Madness (1917 Film)
''Money Madness'' is a 1917 American silent crime drama film directed by Henry MacRae and starring Charles Hill Mailes, Gayne Whitman and Mary MacLaren.Connelly p.388 Cast * Charles Hill Mailes as Whispering Smith * Don Bailey as George Fuller * Gayne Whitman as Tom Williams * Mary MacLaren as Ethel Fuller * Rex De Rosselli as Dr. Mercer * Eddie Polo Eddie Polo (1 February 1875 – 14 June 1961) was an Austrian-American actor of the silent era. He was of Jewish descent.Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn B ... as 'Harford' Red * M. Everett as Monroe Simmons References Bibliography * Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bronze Bride
''The Bronze Bride'' is a 1917 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Henry MacRae and starring Claire McDowell, Frank Mayo (actor), Frank Mayo, and Edward Clark (actor), Edward Clark.Ingraham p. 248 Cast * Claire McDowell as A-Che-Chee * Frank Mayo (actor), Frank Mayo as Harvey Ogden * Edward Clark (actor), Edward Clark as William Ogden * Charles Hill Mailes as Joe Dubois * Eddie Polo as White Feather * Harry Archer as Black Lynx * Winter Hall as Mr. Carter * Betty Schade as His Daughter * Frankie Lee as A-Che-Chee's Child References Bibliography * Ingraham, Chrys. ''White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture''. Routledge, 2009. External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Henry MacRae 1910s American films {{1910s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty (serial)
''Liberty'' (also known as ''Liberty, A Daughter of the USA'') is a 1916 American Western film serial directed by Jacques Jaccard and Henry MacRae, and was the first purely Western serial ever made. The film is now presumed to be lost. It is one of the most popular serials of all time. Plot Liberty Horton, an American heiress, is kidnapped by a Mexican rebel and ransomed to fund his rebellion. Cast * Marie Walcamp as Liberty Horton * Jack Holt as Captain Rutledge * Eddie Polo as Pedro * G. Raymond Nye as Pancho Lopez * Neal Hart as Captain Winston * Bertram Grassby as Manuel Leon * Maude Emory as Theresa * L. M. Wells as Jose Leon * Charles Brinley as Alvarez * Tom London as (as Leonard Clapham) * Roy Stewart * Hazel Buckham Production ''Liberty, a Daughter of the USA'' was the first purely Western serial, although Western elements were included in earlier serials such as '' The Perils of Pauline'' (1914). A print of ''Liberty'' was one of the primary footage sources use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Peg O' The Ring
''The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring'' is a 1916 American drama film serial directed by Francis Ford and Jacques Jaccard. It is now considered to be lost. Cast * Grace Cunard as Peg * Francis Ford as Dr. Lund, Junior * Mark Fenton as Dr. Lund, Senior (credited as Marc Fenton) * G. Raymond Nye * Peter Gerald as Flip the Clown (credited as Pete Gerald) * Jean Hathaway as Mrs. Lund * Charles Munn * Irving Lippner as Marcus, the Hindoo * Jack Duffy * John Ford as Lund's Accomplice (credited as Jack Ford) * Lionel Bradshaw * Eddie Polo (scenes deleted) * Ruth Stonehouse (scenes deleted; but stills of her in the film survive) Chapter titles # ''The Leopard's Mark'' # ''A Strange Inheritance'' # ''In The Lion's Den'' # ''The Circus Mongrels'' # ''The House of Mystery'' # ''The Cry For Help or Cry of The Ring'' # ''The Wreck'' # ''Outwitted'' # ''The Leap'' # ''In the Hands of The Enemy'' # ''The Stampede'' # ''On The High Seas'' # ''The Clown Act'' # ''The Will'' # ''Retribution'' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
