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Edward Elkas
Edward Elkas (February 8, 1862 – December 17, 1933) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1911 and 1926. He was born in New York City. On Broadway, Elkas portrayed a headwaiter in ''A Tale of the Wolf'' (1925) and was assistant stage manager for ''The Wedding Day'' (1897). Selected filmography * ''The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray'' (1914) * '' The Foolish Virgin'' (1916) * '' The Suspect'' (1916) * '' The Enemy'' (1916) * '' Aladdin's Other Lamp'' (1917) * '' The Beloved Adventuress'' (1917) * '' The Awakening of Ruth'' (1917) * ''The Money Mill'' (1917) * ''Moral Courage'' (1917) * ''Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation'' (1917) * '' The Blue Bird'' (1918) * ''Joan of Plattsburg'' (1918) * ''The Yellow Ticket'' (1918) * '' Stolen Orders'' (1918) * '' The Venus Model'' (1918) * ''The Birth of a Race'' (1918) * ''Hitting the Trail'' (1918) * '' When Men Desire'' (1919) * ''The Tower of Jewels'' (1919) * ''The Woman Under Oath'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystery Mind
''The Mystery Mind'' is a 1920 American crime drama silent black and white film serial directed by Will S. Davis and written by John W. Grey and Arthur B. Reeve. An homonym novel is based on this film, also written by Grey. In the story a variety of weird assassins controlled by "the Mystery Mind," a disembodied voice who can command living people to do his bidding, threaten Violet Bronson, the daughter of an explorer, who they believe may know the location of the treasure of Atlantis. She is defended by her fiance Robert Dupont, a hypnotist, and her adoptive father who she calls "Doctor Daddy." The assassins include a hunchback, a faceless man called Phantom Face, Carl "the Wolf" Canfield, Vera "the Snake" Collins, "The Fox" and a strangler. A new weird menace appears in almost every episode, making this serial the one that likely included more villains in the cast than any other. The trail to the treasure leads to the Orinoco in Florida and there a weird civilization dominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Venus Model
''The Venus Model'' is a 1918 American silent film, silent romantic comedy film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Clarence G. Badger. The film was made at the beginning of the 20th century when Goldwyn Pictures and many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It is not known whether the film currently survives, and it may be a lost film. Plot As described in a film magazine, Kitty O'Brien (Normand), a seamstress in the factory of Braddock & Co., in an effort to escape punishment from the foreman she had mimicked, flees into the manager's office. While explaining her presence she shows a bathing suit she has designed, John Braddock (Francis) embraces the idea and the display of the suit brings orders galore. When Braddock is compelled to take a rest, Kitty takes charge of the plant. She gives a young male applicant a job as office boy, but discovers he is the son of her employer, Paul Braddock (La Rocque), expelled from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Deaths
Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** National Socialist German Workers Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1862 Births
Year 186 ( CLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Glabrio (or, less frequently, year 939 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 186 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Peasants in Gaul stage an anti-tax uprising under Maternus. * Roman governor Pertinax escapes an assassination attempt, by British usurpers. New Zealand * The Hatepe volcanic eruption extends Lake Taupō and makes skies red across the world. However, recent radiocarbon dating by R. Sparks has put the date at 233 AD ± 13 (95% confidence). Births * Ma Liang, Chinese official of the Shu Han state (d. 222) Deaths * April 21 – Apollonius the Apologist, Christian martyr * Bian Zhang, Chinese official and gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Much Money (film)
''Too Much Money'' is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Lewis Stone and Anna Q. Nilsson. Plot As described in a film magazine review, after watching his wife Annabel host a pajama breakfast party, Robert Broadley decides to curb his wife's social activities and takes his friend Dana Stuart's advice. He deeds his property to Stuart and tells his wife that they are broke. They move to a small apartment and Robert goes to work as a clerk in a store. While the husband is working, Stuart persuades the wife to elope with him. However, she tips off Robert and he catches up with them, and a fight ensues on the yacht. Meanwhile, the wife abstracts securities from Stuarts bag and then throws the bag overboard, having substituted papers for the valuables. Stuart jumps into the water after the bag. Husband and wife begin a new honeymoon with their regained fortune. Cast *Lewis Stone as Robert Broadley *Anna Q. Nilsson as Annabel Broadl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sainted Devil
''A Sainted Devil'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Henabery and starring Rudolph Valentino. The film was produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, in accordance with custom, Castro arranges the marriage of his son, Don Alonzo (Valentino), with Julietta (Helena D'Algy), the daughter of a proud Spanish family, and she comes to the South American state for the wedding. Carlotta (Naldi), daughter of the major domo, is jealous and with her father arranges with a bandit, El Tigre (Siegmann), who loots the estate on the Don's wedding night and kidnaps Julietta. The Don goes to her rescue, but believes she is unfaithful when he sees El Tigre embracing Carlotta, who is wearing Julietta's mantilla. The Don becomes disgusted with women and seeks to become revenged on El Tigre. Julietta and Carmelita (Lagrange), a dancer, escape and Julietta goes to a convent. Finally the Don meets El Tigre and his friend, Don Luis ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of The Water Tower
''West of the Water Tower'' is a 1923 American silent comedy drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and is based on the novel of the same name by Homer Croy. Glenn Hunter and May McAvoy are the stars of this film. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Guy Plummer, the son of the small town's orthodox, narrow minded clergyman, becomes involved in a love affair with Bee Chew, the daughter of a wealthy atheist. They wed in secret through the aid of Cod Dugan, a poolroom operator. When Bee is about to become a mother, the two are unable to provide proof of the marriage. She goes away and later returns with the baby. Guy tells his father, who then admits that he, too, similarly sinned in his youth and decides to give up his pulpit. In the end, Guy wins back the favorable opinion of his neighbors, the existence of the marriage is proven, and the young couple find happiness. Cast Preservation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way Women Love
''The Way Women Love'' is a 1920 American silent mystery film directed by Marcel Perez and starring Rubye De Remer, Walter Miller and Tom Magrane.Wlaschin p.257 Cast * Rubye De Remer as Judith Reytnard * Walter Miller as Ralph Barr * Tom Magrane as Schedd * Henry W. Pemberton as Trent * Edward Elkas as The Butler * Walter Greene Walter Greene (January 23, 1910 – December 23, 1983) was a film and television composer who worked on numerous productions for over 30 years. Career Born and raised in Tarkio, Missouri, Greene attended Tarkio College and the Horner Institute ... as A Detective 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. *Wlaschin, Ken. ''Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography''. McFarland, 2009. External links * 1920 films 1920 mystery films 1920s English-language films American silen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velvet Fingers
''Velvet Fingers'' is a 1920 American adventure film serial directed by George B. Seitz. Although the film is listed as lost by some sources, a copy is available in the archives of the Cinémathèque Française. Cast * George B. Seitz as Velvet Fingers * Marguerite Courtot as Lorna George * Harry Semels as Professor Robin * Lucille Lennox as Clara * Frank Redman as Pinky * Thomas Carr as Mickey (credited as Tommy Carr) * Joe Cuny as Needless Smith * Al Franklin Thomas * Edward Elkas Chapter titles #To Catch a Thief #The Face Behind the Curtain #The Hand from Behind the Door #The Man in the Blue Spectacles #The Deserted Pavilion #Unmasked #The House of a Thousand Veils #Aiming Straight #The Broken Necklace #Shots in the Dark #The Other Woman #Into Ambush #The Hidden Room #The Trap #Out of the Web 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 by each of the five major studios, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of The Tolling Bell
''The House of the Tolling Bell'' is a 1920 American silent mystery film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring May McAvoy, Bruce Gordon, and Morgan Thorpe.Goble p. 467 It is based on a novel written by Edith Sessions Tupper. Cast * May McAvoy as Lucy Atheron * Bruce Gordon as Richard Steele * Morgan Thorpe as Anthony Cole * Edward Elkas as Innkeeper Ducros * Eulalie Jensen Eulalie Jensen (December 24, 1884 – October 7, 1952) was an American actress on the New York stage and in silent films. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she was selected as one of six extra girls from the 200 applicants responding to a ... as Lola * William R. Dunn as Jules La Rocque * Edna Young as Aunt Stella * William Jenkins as Old George References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1920 films 1920 mystery films Silent American mystery films Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman Under Oath
''The Woman Under Oath'' is a 1919 American silent mystery film directed by John M. Stahl and starring stage star Florence Reed. As with the previous Stahl and Reed film, ''Her Code of Honor'', it was produced by Tribune Productions and released by United Picture Theatres of America Incorporated. Plot As described in a film magazine, Edith Norton (McAvoy), hearing of the pending marriage of her betrayer Edward Knox (Powell), urges him to right the wrong he has done her. He refuses, so her sister Grace (Reed) shoots and kills him. Jim O'Neil (Hughes), who has come gunning for the man for a similar reason involving his fiancé Helen (Cheshire), is accused of the crime when he is discovered standing over the body. The police use a particularly disgusting third degree interrogation to drag a confession from the innocent man. He is brought to trial and Grace is drawn on the jury. At trial the six shooter is brandished per custom before the accused and jury with the usual effect. The ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tower Of Jewels
''The Tower of Jewels'' is a 1919 American silent crime film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Corinne Griffith, Maurice Costello and Estelle Taylor.Connelly p.423 Cast * Corinne Griffith as Emily Cottrell * Webster Campbell as Wayne Parrish * Henry Stephenson as David Parrish * Maurice Costello as Fraser Grimstead * Charles Halton as Jimmy the Rat * Estelle Taylor as Adele Warren * Edward Elkas Edward Elkas (February 8, 1862 – December 17, 1933) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1911 and 1926. He was born in New York City. On Broadway, Elkas portrayed a headwaiter in ''A Tale o ... as Bornheim * Charles Craig as Drew References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. External links * 1919 films 1919 drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Tom Terriss Vitagraph St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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