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Enid Markey
Enid Markey (February 22, 1894 – November 15, 1981) was an American theatre, film, radio, and television actress, whose career spanned over 50 years, extending from the early 1900s to the late 1960s. In movies, she was the first performer to portray the fictional character Jane, Tarzan's "jungle" companion and later his wife. Markey performed as Jane twice in 1918, costarring with Elmo Lincoln in the films ''Tarzan of The Apes'' and '' The Romance of Tarzan''."Enid Markey dies; played Jane in original 'Tarzan'", obituary, ''Chicago Tribune'', November 16, 1981, p. D15. Retrieved via ProQuest Historical Newspapers (Ann Arbor, Michigan), June 29, 2022. Early years Markey was born in Dillon, Colorado. Her education came in boarding school in Denver. Career Markey acted on stage and in vaudeville before turning to movies. Her first film role was in ''The Fortunes of War'' (1911). During the production of '' The Wrath of the Gods'' (1914), Markey, a "leading lady with the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillon, Colorado
The Town of Dillon is a home rule municipality located in Summit County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 1,064 at the 2020 United States Census, a +17.70% increase since the 2010 United States Census. Dillon is a part of the Breckenridge, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. History The original town of Dillon was built as a stage stop and trading post on the northeast side of the Snake River. The town was named for Tom Dillon, a prospector, and was incorporated in 1883. By 1892 the town had been relocated twice, both times in order to be closer to railroad lines that were extended into the area. All three of these historic townsites were situated very close to the Blue River Valley confluence where the Snake River and Tenmile Creek flowed in, and this area is now referred to collectively as "Old Dillon". During the Great Depression, Denver Water began acquiring land around Dillon. In 1956, residents and business owners in Dillon were notified that they would nee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boston Strangler (film)
''The Boston Strangler'' is a 1968 American biographical crime film loosely based on the true story of the Boston Strangler and the 1966 book by Gerold Frank. It was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo, the strangler, and Henry Fonda as John S. Bottomly, the chief detective who came to fame for obtaining DeSalvo's confession. Curtis was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance. The cast also featured George Kennedy, Murray Hamilton and Sally Kellerman. Plot After three murders of elderly women, the victims being strangled and penetrated with foreign objects, the Boston police conclude that they have a serial killer to catch. As the murders stretch over several police jurisdictions, Massachusetts Attorney General Edward W. Brooke appoints John S. Bottomly as head of a "Strangler Bureau" to coordinate the investigation. Several suspects are interrogated and released. As the body count grows, Bottomly, in desperation, calls in a psy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take One False Step
''Take One False Step'' is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Chester Erskine and starring William Powell and Shelley Winters. Plot Married college professor Andrew Gentling reluctantly agrees to have a drink with Catherine Sykes, a wartime girlfriend. He is careful to avoid scandal as a founding professor of a new university. However, the next day Catherine is reported missing and is feared to have been murdered after a bloody scarf was found at her ransacked home. Catherine's friend Martha Wier, whom Andrew had also known previously, informs him that Catherine had been romantically involved with Freddie Blair, a crime partner of Catherine's husband. Andrew tries to retrieve Catherine's diary containing evidence of the affair from her bedroom, but he is attacked by a dog and suffers a deep cut on his hand. Andrew flees but soon hears a news report that the dog who had attacked him was found to be rabid. As doctors in the area have been advised to immediately report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Naked City
''The Naked City'' (aka ''Naked City'') is a 1948 American film noir directed by Jules Dassin, starring Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart and Don Taylor. The film, shot almost entirely on location in New York City, depicts the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. ''Naked City'' received two Academy Awards, one for cinematography for William H. Daniels and another for film editing to Paul Weatherwax. In 2007, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot In the late hours of a hot New York summer night, a pair of men subdue and kill Jean Dexter, an ex-model, by knocking her out with chloroform and drowning her in her bathtub. When one of the murderers gets conscience-stricken while drunk, the other kills him and throws his body into the East River. Homicide Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon and his young associate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snafu (film)
''Snafu'' is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Jack Moss and written by Louis Solomon and Harold Buchman. It is based on the 1944 play ''Snafu'' by Louis Solomon and Harold Buchman. The film stars Robert Benchley, Barbara Jo Allen, Conrad Janis, Nanette Parks, Janis Wilson, Jimmy Lloyd and Enid Markey. The film was released on November 22, 1945, by Columbia Pictures. Plot Cast *Robert Benchley as Ben Stevens *Barbara Jo Allen as Madge Stevens *Conrad Janis as Ronald Stevens *Nanette Parks as Laura Jessup *Janis Wilson as Kate Hereford * Jimmy Lloyd as Danny Baker *Enid Markey as Aunt Emily Andrews *Eva Puig as Josephina *Ray Mayer as Detective *Marcia Mae Jones as Martha *Winfield Smith as Col. West *John Souther as Taylor *Byron Foulger as Phil Ford *Kathleen Howard Kathleen Howard (July 27, 1884 – April 15, 1956) was a Canadian-born American opera singer, magazine editor, and character actress from the mid-1930s through the 1940s. Biography Howard was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheating The Public
''Cheating the Public'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Richard Stanton and starring Enid Markey, Ralph Lewis and Bertram Grassby.Solomon p.245 Cast * Enid Markey as Mary Garvin * Ralph Lewis as John Dowling * Bertram Grassby as Chester Dowling * Tom Wilson as 'Bull' Thompson * Edward Peil Sr. as Mary's Attorney * Charles Edler as Martin * Wanda Hawley as Grace Martin * Carrie Clark Ward as Mrs. O'Toole * Fanny Midgley as Mary's Mother * Frankie Lee Frankie Lee (December 31, 1911 – July 29, 1970), was an American child actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1916 and 1925. Best remembered in the 1919 film '' The Miracle Man'', he was the little boy on crutches healed by the phony fait ... as Frankie Garvin * Barbara Conley as Bobby * James Titus as The Judge * Henry Peal as The District Attorney * Joseph Hartley as The Twelfth Juror * James Morgan as Warden * Arthur Glynn as The Governor * James P. McNeill as Dowling's Butler * Arthur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curse Of Eve
''The Curse of Eve'' is a lost film, lost 1917 silent film drama directed by Frank Beal and starring Enid Markey and Edward Coxen. It is also known under its alternate title ''Mother, I Need You''. Production As with its proclamation in press material, the film was considered daring from the start because of its theme. The Garden of Eve sequence was shot in the Santa Cruz Islands southern California. Released on State Rights basis it was heavily re-edited or censored in some jurisdictions because Markey's character has an abortion. Cast *Enid Markey - Eva Stanley *Edward Coxen - John Gilbert *Jack Standing - Leo Spencer *Eugenie Besserer - The Mother *William Quinn (actor), William Quinn - Dr. Burton *G. Raymond Nye - Attorney *Clarissa Selwynne - Marie *Elsie Greeson - *Marion Warner - *Arthur Allardt - *Grace Thompson - References External links The Curse of Eve at IMDb.com* lantern slide 1917 films Lost American films American silent feature films American black-and-wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yankee Way
''The Yankee Way'' is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Richard Stanton and starring George Walsh, Enid Markey and Joseph J. Dowling.Solomon p.242 Cast * George Walsh as Dick Mason * Enid Markey as Princess Alexia * Joseph J. Dowling as Colonel Mason * Charles Edler as 'Coyote' Jones * James O'Shea as James O'Malley * Edward Sedgwick as Robert Gillette * Fritz von Hardenberg as Baron Maravitch * Edward Cecil Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon (29 February 1572 – 16 November 1638) was an English military commander and a politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1624. Life Cecil was ... as Count Vortsky * Tom Wilson as George Washington Brown References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011. External links * 1917 films 1917 comedy-drama films American silent feature films American black-and-whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Will Tell (1917 Film)
''Blood Will Tell'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Charles Miller and starring William Desmond, Enid Markey and David Hartford.Connelly p.324 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Brunton. Cast * William Desmond as Samson Oakley III * Enid Markey as Nora North * David Hartford as Samson Oakley II * Howard Hickman as James Black * Margaret Thompson as Dixie Du Fresne * Charles Gunn as Otis Slade * J. Frank Burke as Aaron Howlett * J. Barney Sherry as Dr. Galbraith * Fanny Midgley Fanny Midgley (born Fanny B. Frier; November 26, 1879 – January 4, 1932) was an American film actress of Hollywood's early years, mostly in silent films. Biography Midgley was born Fanny B. Frier on November 26, 1879, in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... as Mrs. Oakley 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 E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Double (1916 Film)
''The Devil's Double'' is a lost 1916 silent film western directed by and starring William S. Hart. It was produced by the New York Motion Picture Company and released through Triangle Film Corporation. Cast * William S. Hart - Bowie Blake * Enid Markey - Naomi Tarleton * Robert McKim - Van Dyke Tarleton * Kisaburo Kurihara was a Japanese actor and film director. Life Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara (栗原喜三郎), was born in Hadano, Kanagawa. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States an ... - Jose Ramirez (* as Thomas Kurihara) References External links * * lobby poster 1916 films 1916 Western (genre) films 1916 lost films American black-and-white films Films directed by William S. Hart English-language Western (genre) films Lost American Western (genre) films Silent American Western (genre) films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films {{silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shell 43
''Shell 43'' is a 1916 American war film written by C. Gardner Sullivan, from a story by Edward Sloman, and starring H.B. Warner, Enid Markey, and John Gilbert. Plot An English spy (played by H.B. Warner) works behind German lines during World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin .... He saves the life of a German officer and is killed in a German trench by an Allied shell. References External links * * 1916 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films American war drama films 1910s war drama films 1916 drama films Films directed by Reginald Barker 1910s American films Silent American drama films Silent war drama films 1910s English-language films {{1910s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civilization (1916 Film)
''Civilization'' is a 1916 American pacifist drama film produced by Thomas H. Ince, written by C. Gardner Sullivan and Edward Sloman, and directed by Ince, Reginald Barker and Raymond B. West. The story involves a submarine commander who refuses to fire at a civilian ocean liner supposedly carrying ammunition for his country's enemies. The film was a big-budget spectacle that was compared to both ''The Birth of a Nation'' and the paintings of Jean-François Millet. The film was a popular success and was credited by the Democratic National Committee with helping to re-elect Woodrow Wilson as the U.S. president in 1916. The film was one of the early movies to depict Jesus Christ as a character, leading some to criticize the depiction as in "poor taste." ''Civilization'' is sometimes viewed as one of the first anti-war films. In 1999, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
