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Fair Lady (film)
''Fair Lady'' is a 1922 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Kenneth Webb (director), Kenneth Webb. The film stars Betty Blythe, Thurston Hall and Robert Elliott (actor), Robert Elliott. The film was based on the novel ''The Net'' by Rex Beach. It is not known whether the film currently lost film, survives. Plot In Sicily, Count Martinello is assassinated by Cardi and his mafia group on what would have been his wedding day. His bride to be, Countess Margherita, gets word of this from American Norvin Blake, who fails to protect her from Cardi, who wants her for his own. Later, Margherita and Norvin meet in New Orleans, where he declares his love for her. Recognizing Gian Norcone as the group leader that killed the count, Norvin has him arrested after getting into a fight with him. Caesar Maruffi, a supposed friend and admirer who suits Margherita, is discovered to be Cardi. In the middle of a fight between Cardi and Norvin, Cardi is stabbed by Lucrezia, Margherita' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Webb (director)
Kenneth Seymour Webb (16 October 1885 New York City – 6 March 1966 Hollywood, California) was an American film director, screenwriter, and composer noted for directing a number of films in the early age of the American film industry. He helped write the ''Gay Divorce'' along with Samuel Hoffenstein. Selected songs * "You and Me and You" (1919) : Kenneth Webb (words) : Roy Webb (music) Career Webb, beginning around 1910, became a sketch writer and director for vaudeville stage. In 1913, he began writing scenarios for the Vitagraph Company. From 1918 to 1919, he was a writer and director for Vitagraph. From 1919 to 1938, Webb was a writer and director, first with the Famous Players Film Company, then with Whitman Bennett (a production company) and Associated First National Theatres, Inc. (Bennett's distributor), then Fox Film Corporation, then Whitman Bennett (production company) and United Artists (Bennett's distributor), then Burr & Company, then Pathe, then Lee de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair Lady Fair Weather
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1922 Crime Drama Films
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Films Based On Works By Rex Beach
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Crime Drama Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Shot In New Orleans
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Silent Feature Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Black-and-white Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On American Novels
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Films
The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top nine films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events * June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film. * November 26 – '' The Toll of the Sea'', starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (''The Gulf Between'' was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed). Notable films released in 1922 United States unless stated A *''At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern'' (lost), directed by Lloyd Ingraham, based on the 1905 novel by Myrtle Reed B *''The Bachelor Daddy'' (lost), directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan *''The Beautiful and Damned'' (lost), directed by William A. Seiter, starring Marie Prevost * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Lucy
Arnold Lucy (born Walter George Campbell, 8 August 1865 – 15 December 1945) was a British theatre and film actor, best known as Professor Kantorek in ''All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film), All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1930). Life and career Lucy was the youngest of the six sons of architect and surveyor Donald Campbell and his wife Lucy Elizabeth (née Speak) of Church Lane, Hornfield Lodge, Tottenham. His parents married in 1853. Their youngest child and only daughter, Rose Lucy, was born in 1871. Arnold Lucy started his acting career in the late 19th century at the theatre. He said that he performed on the West End theatre, London West End stage over 1,200 times before making his film debut in the silent film ''The Devil's Toy'' (1916). Lucy played in over 40 British and United States, American movies between 1916 and 1938, mostly in small roles. He often portrayed authoritarian and dignified roles, most notable as Professor Kantorek, the nationalistic school tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter James (actor)
Walter James (June 3, 1882 – June 27, 1946) was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1915 and 1942. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and died in Gardena, California from a heart attack. Partial filmography * ''The Unbroken Road'' (1915) * ''A Daughter of the Gods'' (1916) - Chief Eunuch * ''Souls Adrift'' (1917) - A Swede Sailor * ''The Idol Dancer'' (1920) - Chief Wando * '' Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (1920) - José * ''Fair Lady'' (1922) - Gian Norcone * ''The Secrets of Paris'' (1922) - The Strangler * ''Two Shall Be Born'' (1924) - Hund * '' The Monster'' (1925) - Caliban * ''The Everlasting Whisper'' (1925) - Aswin Brody * ''Little Annie Rooney'' (1925) - Officer Rooney * ''The Seventh Bandit'' (1926) - Ben Goring * ''Glenister of the Mounted'' (1926) - Thorald * ''Battling Butler'' (1926) - The Mountain Girl's Father * ''The Kid Brother'' (1927) - Jim Hickory * ''Rich Men's Sons'' (1927) - Clerk (uncredited) * ''The Blood Ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
