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Ethel Wales
Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 – February 15, 1952) was an American actress who appeared in more than 130 films during her 30-year career. Biography Born in 1878 in Passaic, New Jersey, Wales graduated from "Wisconsin university". Wales had a multifaceted professional relationship with Cecil DeMille and William deMille, beginning with her acting in their plays in the eastern United States. When the brothers moved to Hollywood and began working with films, Wales was their secretary and casting director. In 1927, Cecil De Mille signed her to a long-term contract to act in films. Her first film for Cecil DeMille was ''The Whispering Chorus'' (1918). She was the first wife of Wellington E. Wales, Mary Pickford's business manager during the height of her popularity. The couple had one son, Wellington Charles Wales, an editorial writer for ''The New York Times'', who died of a heart attack shortly after his 19-year-old son Samuel was killed in a train mishap. Ethel's second husb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobby Card
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature printed likenesses of the main actors. Prior to the 1980s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, and other pertinent details to inform prospective viewers about the film. Film posters are often displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitor's pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD (and historically VHS) packaging, flyers, advertisements in new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice People (film)
''Nice People'' is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels. The movie is based on the 1921 Broadway play of the same name by Rachel Crothers that had starred Tallulah Bankhead, Francine Larrimore, and Katharine Cornell. Vincent Coleman played Reid's part of the Captain. Wayback) Cast * as Captain Billy Wade * as Theodora Gloucester (played by |
Shattered Lives
''Shattered Lives'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Henry McCarty and starring Edith Roberts, Robert Gordon, and Ethel Wales Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 – February 15, 1952) was an American actress who appeared in more than 130 films during her 30-year career. Biography Born in 1878 in Passaic, New Jersey, Wales graduated from "Wisconsin university". Wales had .... Plot As described in a film magazine review, Mumsie is living on a farm with Donald, not knowing that he is her real son, having adopted him following a train wreck several years before. Her real son had been taken away by her husband when the boy was an infant. Red Myers is put in her home, posing as her son, by a shyster lawyer. The father, who has made a fortune in Alaska, is returning home to Mumsie when the plotters attempt to waylay him. Donald assists in the rescue of his father and it becomes evident that he is the rightful heir, while Red is apprehended. Donald marries Sally. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let Women Alone
''Let Women Alone'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Paul Powell and starring Pat O'Malley, Wanda Hawley and Wallace Beery.Munden p.430 Plot After her husband is reportedly drowned at sea, his wife supports herself and their child by setting up a small interior decorating shop. She falls in love with Tom Benham, an insurance agent but her uncle a Commodore opposes the match and tries to thwart her business. Things take a dramatic shift when her husband reappears alive and involved with a racket smuggling Chinese illegal immigrants into America. He kidnaps her and the commodore and Tom give chase and rescue her. Cast * Pat O'Malley as Tom Benham * Wanda Hawley as Beth Wylie * Wallace Beery as Cap Bullwinkle * Ethel Wales as Ma Benham * J. Farrell MacDonald as Commodore John Gordon * Harris Gordon as Jim Wylie * Betty Jane Snowdon as Jean Wylie * Lee Willard as Alec Morrison * Marjorie Morton Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rag Man
''The Rag Man'' is a 1925 American comedy-drama film starring Jackie Coogan. The film was directed by Edward F. Cline, and written by Willard Mack. This was the first Jackie Coogan movie made entirely under the MGM banner. Plot Tim Kelly (Jackie Coogan) is a kid who runs away from an orphanage on the Lower East Side in New York after a fire breaks out. He ends up taking refuge with Max (Max Davidson), a lonely junk man who is down on his luck after being cheated out of a patent fortune by some unscrupulous lawyers. Little Kelly and Max form a partnership in the bottle and rag business, and eventually become close companions. Cast * Jackie Coogan as Tim Kelly * Max Davidson as Max Ginsberg * Lydia Yeamans Titus as Mrs. Malloy * Robert Edeson as Mr. Bernard * Ethel Wales as Mrs. Bernard * William Conklin William Conklin (December 25, 1872 – March 21, 1935) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 80 silent films between 1913 and 1929. He was born in Brooklyn, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monster (1925 Film)
''The Monster'' is a 1925 American silent horror comedy film directed by Roland West, based on the stage play of the same name by Crane Wilbur, and starring Lon Chaney and comedian Johnny Arthur. The screenplay was written by Willard Mack and Albert Kenyon. It is remembered as an early prototype "old dark house" movie, as well as a precedent to a number of horror film subgenres such as mad scientists with imbecilic assistants, among others. A great shot of the mad doctor and his monstrous cronies can be seen on the Internet. Some sources list the film's release date as March 1925 while others say February. The film has been shown on the TCM network with an alternative and uncredited musical score. West later went on to direct '' The Bat'' (1926) and its later sound remake ''The Bat Whispers'' (1930).Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). ''Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era''. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 289. . Although the film only earned $55,600 for the we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't (1925 Film)
''Don't'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred J. Goulding, starring Sally O'Neil, John Patrick, Bert Roach, and Ethel Wales, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is one of the B pictures the studio produced to keep the Loews circuit and other cinemas supplied. The screenplay by Agnes Christine Johnston is based on the story "Don't You Care!" by Rupert Hughes. This film is considered to be a lost film. at silentera.com Synopsis Tracey Moffat (Sally O'Neil) is a parent-defying .Cast See also * |
The Wedding Song (1925 Film)
''The Wedding Song'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Alan Hale and starring Leatrice Joy, Robert Ames, and Charles K. Gerrard. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Ethel Watts Mumford. Plot As described in a film magazine review, a young pearl fisher leaves his native island for the first time to go to San Francisco and dispose of the fortune in South Sea pearls he has gathered. On the steamer bound to San Francisco he meets and falls in love with a woman who is a member of a band of crooks who pose as her relatives. The pearler marries her, but she and her confederates are after the pearls. Following a series of adventures in which the woman is wounded with a gun, she learns that she really loves her husband. She warns him of a plot against his life in time to save him and they are reunited. Cast Preservation A complete print of ''The Wedding Song'' is held in the UCLA Film and Television Archive The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Which Shall It Be?
''Which Shall It Be?'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman and starring Willis Marks, Ethel Wales Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 – February 15, 1952) was an American actress who appeared in more than 130 films during her 30-year career. Biography Born in 1878 in Passaic, New Jersey, Wales graduated from "Wisconsin university". Wales had ..., and David Torrence.Munden p. 553 Plot As described in a film magazine review, John Moore and his wife are hard-working parents of six, struggling from morn till night in a valiant effort to give their children all the necessities of life. It is a herculean task, and when they receive an offer from a wealthy relative, of ease and physical comfort for the rest of their lives in exchange for one of the children, they decide to accept. However, they are stopped by the thought of which child to give up to their relative. After much speculation and conflicting thought, they decide on the oldest girl. She no soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Sin
''The White Sin'' is a 1924 silent romantic drama film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Madge Bellamy and John Bowers. It was distributed by Film Booking Offices of America (FBO). Plot As described in a review of the film in a film magazine, Hattie Lou Harkness’ (Bellamy) life with her aunt becomes unbearable and she runs away from the country home, finding employment as a maid with the wealthy Van Gores. Spencer Van Gore (Cooley) stages a mock wedding on board his yacht with the ship’s captain officiating. Learning of the trick, Hattie Lou leaves. Two years later she is out of work. Reading that the yacht has been wrecked and the party of Van Gores lost, she goes with her baby to the elder Van Gore’s home and poses as Spencer’s wife. Grant Van Gore (Bowers), a war invalid there, falls in love with her. Spencer turns up and Hattie Lou learns that the marriage was legal and binding, as the captain deliberately performed it outside the three-mile limit The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loving Lies
''Loving Lies'' is a 1924 silent American silent drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Evelyn Brent and Monte Blue. Plot As described in a film magazine review, just after Ellen Craig has married Dan Stover, captain of a tug boat, she discovers that his new boss, Tom Hayden, is a former sweetheart of hers that she had discarded. Tom cleverly uses his position to arouse jealousy and marital misunderstandings between Dan and Ellen, and succeeds in this by exposing the white lies which Dan has told his wife to keep her from worrying about him while he is at sea. The climax of these complications is reached when Dan is called upon to brave a severe storm, taking his tug to rescue a steamship on which his wife is fleeing with Tom, who has finally falsely persuaded her that her husband is infatuated with another woman. By a superhuman effort, Dan reaches the steamer just in time to save his wife using a breeches buoy from the swaying rigging of the wreck while Tom peris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepping Fast
''Stepping Fast'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Joseph Franz and starring Tom Mix, Claire Adams and Donald MacDonald.Munden, p. 765 Cast * Tom Mix as Grant Malvern * Claire Adams as Helen Durant * Donald MacDonald as Fabian * Hector V. Sarno as Martinez * Edward Peil Sr. as Sun Yat * George Siegmann as 'Red' Pollock * Tom Guise as Quentin Durant * Edward Jobson as Commodore Simpson * Ethel Wales Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 – February 15, 1952) was an American actress who appeared in more than 130 films during her 30-year career. Biography Born in 1878 in Passaic, New Jersey, Wales graduated from "Wisconsin university". Wales had ... as Miss Higgins * Minna Redman as Mrs. Malvern 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. External links * 1923 films 1923 Western (genre) films Films dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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