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Fontaine La Rue
Matilda Fernández, stage name Fontaine La Rue (July 18, 1890 in Hermosillo, Mexico – September 13, 1964) was an American silent film actress appearing in films from 1918 to 1929. Her career ended with the advent of talkies. She was one of seven children born to Diego and Carlotta Monreal Fernandez. After immigrating to the United States in 1907, Matilda married Victor Garcia Rojas. The couple had three children, Victor Paul, Matilda Garcia, and Victoria Grace. After the couple divorced, Matilda entered show business. She got her start on stage as a toe dancer and in musical comedy. She toured with the Trimble Musical Comedy Company in 1914 before breaking into films the following year in comedy shorts for Keystone. She first used the name Dora Rodgers, but reinvented herself with the name Fontaine La Rue, tiring of playing vamps. On occasions she would switch between the names. Notably she appeared in the lost film, ''A Blind Bargain'' with Lon Chaney. After a lengthy lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermosillo, Mexico
Hermosillo (), formerly called Pitic (as in ''Santísima Trinidad del Pitic'' and ''Presidio del Pitic''), is a city located in the center of the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the municipal seat of the Hermosillo municipality, the state's capital and largest city, as well as the primary economic center for the state and the region. As of 2020, the city has a population of 936,263, making it the 18th largest city in Mexico.INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020. The recent increase in the city's population is due to expanded industrialization, especially within the automotive industry. Hermosillo was ranked as one of the five best cities to live in, in Mexico, as published in the study "The Most Livable Cities of Mexico 2013" by the Strategic Communications Cabinet of the Mexican Federal Government. Hermosillo was also ranked in 2016 as the seventh most competitive city in the country according to the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), based on factor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Romance
''The Lost Romance'' is a surviving 1921 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Jack Holt and Lois Wilson. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. A copy is held by The Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' p. 107 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Cast * Jack Holt as Mark Sheridan * Lois Wilson as Sylvia Hayes *Fontaine La Rue as Elizabeth Erskine *Conrad Nagel as Allen Erskine, M.D. * Michael D. Moore as Allen Erskine Jr. *Mayme Kelso as Librarian *Robert Brower as Butler *Barbara Gurney as Nurse *Clarence Geldart as Police Lieutenant *Clarence Burton as Detective *Lillian Leighton Lillianne Brown Leighton (May 17, 1874 – March 19, 1956), known professionally as Lillian Leighton, was an American silent film actress. Leighton started her career in Chicago. Leighton was born in Auror ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold From Weepah
''Gold from Weepah'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by William Bertram and starring Bill Cody, Doris Dawson and Dick La Reno. Cast * Bill Cody as Bill Carson * Doris Dawson as Elsie Blaine * Dick La Reno * Joseph Harrington * Fontaine La Rue Matilda Fernández, stage name Fontaine La Rue (July 18, 1890 in Hermosillo, Mexico – September 13, 1964) was an American silent film actress appearing in films from 1918 to 1929. Her career ended with the advent of talkies. She was one of s ... * David Dunbar References External links * 1927 films 1927 Western (genre) films Films directed by William Bertram American black-and-white films Pathé Exchange films Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films {{silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His New York Wife
''His New York Wife'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Albert H. Kelley and starring Alice Day, Theodore von Eltz and Ethel Clayton.Munden p.354 Cast * Alice Day as Lila Lake * Theodore von Eltz as Philip Thorne * Ethel Clayton as Alicia Duval * Fontaine La Rue as Julia Hewitt * Charles Cruz as Jimmy Duval * Edith Yorke Edith Yorke (born Edith Murgatroyd; 23 December 1867 – 28 July 1934) was an English actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1919 and 1933. Biography Yorke was born in Derby; her family later moved to Croydon, Surrey. Edith re ... as Lila's aunt 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 * 1926 films 1926 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films directed by Albert H. Kelley American black-and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Torrent (1924 Film)
''The Torrent'' is a lost 1924 American silent melodrama film directed by A. P. Younger and William Doner, from a screenplay by A. P. Younger. The film stars William Fairbanks, Ora Carew Ora Carew (born Ora Whytock; April 19, 1891 – October 26, 1955), was an American silent film actress. She starred in several films between 1915 and 1925. She was known as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties. Early life Ora Whytock was born i ..., and Frank Elliott. at silentera.com Plot summary Cast References External links * * * * American black-a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trigger Fingers (1924 Film)
''Trigger Fingers'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Bob Custer, George Field, and Margaret Landis. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, in order to better be able to run down a notorious bandit, “The Black Hawk,” Sgt. Steele (Custer) of the Rangers, who has captured another bandit, “Lightning” Brady, impersonates him and joins the gang of unsavory characters led by Murtison (Bennett). Soon he finds The Black Hawk has attacked an official of the mining company and paralyzed his sense of speech. He sends for Dr. Deering (Field), who arrives with his daughter, Ruth (Landis), but returns for instruments and fails to come back. Instead, Murtison’s gang attacks Steele and, in the rumpus, Murtison is killed by The Black Hawk. The gang captures Ruth and a young Indian woman, Wetona (La Rue), and takes them away. Steele rescues them and returns to the shack to find The Black Hawk bending over the patient, who has rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unseen Hands
''Unseen Hands'' is a 1924 American silent film, silent horror film directed by Jacques Jaccard and starring Wallace Beery, Joseph J. Dowling and Fontaine La Rue. This was apparently the only horror film Jaccard directed, although he made over 80 (mostly action and Western) films from 1914 to 1936. It was also producer Walker Coleman Graves Jr.'s only screenwriting credit. Plot Jean Scholast (Beery) makes a favorable impression on a wealthy businessman's wife (La Rue), and she gets her husband George Le Quintrec to hire him. Scholast works his way into the millionaire's life, stealing his wife and his fortune, and eventually murdering the old man. He later begins to experience hallucinations involving the ghost of the murdered man, and in the end, he is frightened to death by the apparition out in the desert. Cast * Wallace Beery as Jean Scholast * Joseph J. Dowling as George Le Quintrec * Fontaine La Rue as Madame Le Quintrec * Jack Rollens as Armand Le Quintrec * Cleo Madis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daughters Of Today (1924 Film)
''Daughters of Today'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Ralph Graves, and Edna Murphy Edna Murphy (November 17, 1899 – August 3, 1974) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 80 films between 1918 and 1933. Murphy was voted "Most Photographed Movie Star of 1925" by '' ScreenLand Magazine''. For part of ....Stumpf p. 119 Plot As described in a film magazine review, Lois Whittall's father Leigh is interested in a young blonde charmer. Lois and her college friends are out for a good time and en route pick up Mabel Vandegrift, a young country woman who was very strictly reared by her parents. Their gay roadside party is wound up by a moonlight bathing frolic. The young people are then scattered by outraged villagers and they are in an automobile accident. Lois and Mabel then become mixed up in a murder mystery. In the end, it all comes out alright and the two young women find happiness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Radio King
''The Radio King'' is a 1922 American adventure film, adventure film serial directed by Robert F. Hill and released by the Universal Film Manufacturing Co. The ten chapters began with "A Cry for Help" released October 22, 1922. The film is now considered to be a lost film. Cast * Roy Stewart (silent film actor), Roy Stewart as Bradley Lane * Louise Lorraine as Ruth Leyden * Sidney Bracey as Marnee * Albert J. Smith (actor), Albert J. Smith as Renally (credited as Al Smith) * Clark Comstock as John Leyden * Ernest Butterworth Jr. as Jim Lawton * Fontaine La Rue as Doria * Slim Whitaker as The Mystery Man * Lew Meehan * Marion Feducha (credited as Marion Faducha) * Helen Broneau * Joseph North * D. Mitsoras (credited as D.J. Mitsoras) * Laddie Earle * Charles Force See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio References External links * 1922 films 1922 adventure films American silent serial films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bearcat
''The Bearcat'' is a 1922 American silent Western film, now considered lost. It is directed by Edward Sedgwick and features Hoot Gibson. Plot As described in a film magazine, The Singin' Kid (Gibson) rides into town after a brief sojourn south of the border where he had been hiding because of an unjust charge. While employed as a "runner" on a ranch where he discovers a plot to mulct his employer. He frustrates the plan, exposes a trick that attempted to railroad him into jail, and discloses the worthlessness of Archer Aitken (Buckley), lover of the ranch owner's daughter Alys May (Rich). Cast * Hoot Gibson as The Singin' Kid * Lillian Rich as Alys May * Charles K. French as Sheriff Bill Garfield (credited as Charles French) * Joe Harris as Doc Henderson * Alfred Hollingsworth as John P. May * Harold Goodwin as Peter May * William Buckley as Archer Aitken * Fontaine La Rue as Mary Lang * James Alamo as Henry * J.J. Allen as Jake Hensen * Stanley Fitz as Cut Face * Joe De La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dangerous Little Demon
''The Dangerous Little Demon'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and written by Doris Schroeder. The film stars Marie Prevost, Jack Perrin, Robert Ellis, Bertram Anderson-Smith, Fontaine La Rue, and Edward Martindel. The film was released on March 27, 1922, by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Cast *Marie Prevost as Teddy Harmon *Jack Perrin as Kenneth Graham * Robert Ellis as Gary McVeigh *Bertram Anderson-Smith as Demy Baker * Fontaine La Rue as Helene Westley *Edward Martindel as Harmon *Lydia Knott as Aunt Sophia *Herbert Prior Herbert Prior (2 July 1867 – 3 October 1954) was an English silent film actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1908 and 1934. He was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, and died in Los Angeles, California. Prior was married to actress ... as Jay Howard References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dangerous Little Demon 1922 films 1920s English-language films Silent American c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh, Mabel Behave
''Oh, Mabel Behave'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand, Owen Moore, Mack Sennett, and Ford Sterling. Sennett and Sterling also directed the film. at silentera.com This film was likely filmed in 1915 or 1916 as it is listed as produced by , which was defunct by 1922. Cast * as Innkeeper's Daughter * |
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