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Gloria Hope
Gloria Hope (born Olive Frances, November 9, 1901 – October 29, 1976) was an American silent film actress. Life and career She was born as Olive Frances in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1901. Following her education at a Newark, New Jersey, school, she entered upon her career as a screen player and played successively with Ince, Triangle, Artcraft, Ince Paramount, Paralta, Universal and Goldwyn. ''Naughty, Naughty'', ''The Gay Lord Quex'', ''Burglar by Proxy'', ''The Hushed Hour'', ''The Great Love'', and ''Outcasts of Poker Flat'' were a few of the many screen plays she appeared in. In 1920, ''Who's Who on the Screen'' reported that Hope was high, weighed and had a light complexion, auburn hair and blue eyes. She was signed in 1917 and starred in about 30 films before her retirement in 1926 at age 25 to have children. She starred with William Garwood in films such as ''The Guilty Man'' in 1918, and with Mary Pickford and Lloyd Hughes in '' Tess of the Storm Country'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, and the List of United States cities by population, 68th-largest city in the U.S. with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city anchors the Pittsburgh metropolitan area of Western Pennsylvania; its population of 2.37 million is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the Pennsylvania metropolitan areas, second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 27th-largest in the U.S. It is the principal city of the greater Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistical area that extends into Ohio and West Virginia. Pitts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California. It is the original and current flagship location of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries, a chain of six cemeteries and four additional mortuaries in Southern California. History Forest Lawn Memorial Park was founded in 1906 as a not-for-profit cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Dr. Hubert Eaton and C.B. Sims entered into a sales contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over its management in 1917. Although Eaton did not start Forest Lawn, he is credited as its "Founder" for his innovations of establishing the "memorial-park plan". He eliminated upright grave markers and brought in works by established artists. He was the first to open a funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds. He was a firm believer in a joyous life after death. Convinced that most cemeteries were "unsightly, depressing stoneyards," he pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outcasts Of Poker Flat (1919 Film)
''The Outcasts of Poker Flat'' is a 1919 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey (actor born 1878), Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost film, lost. The screenplay is based upon the The Outcasts of Poker Flat, 1869 story of the same name by Bret Harte. Harte's story has been brought to film at least five times, including in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937 film), 1937 with Preston Foster and in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952 film), 1952 with Dale Robertson. Plot As described in a film magazine, Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon (Carey), proprietor of a gambling hall in Arizona, is in love with his ward Ruth Watson (Hope). However, he believes that she is in love with his pal Billy Lanyon (Landis), and intends to let the youth have the girl. While in this uncertain mind about his own love affair, Harry begins to read Bret Harte's story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and begins to liken himself to John Oakhurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gay Lord Quex (1919 Film)
''The Gay Lord Quex'' is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Tom Moore, Gloria Hope, and Naomi ChildersGoble p. 774 It is based on the 1899 play '' The Gay Lord Quex'' by the British writer Arthur Wing Pinero. Cast * Tom Moore as The Marquis of Quex * Gloria Hope as Muriel Eden * Naomi Childers as The Duchess of Strood * Hazel Daly as Sophie Fullgarney * Sidney Ainsworth as Sir Chichester Frayne * Philo McCullough as Captain Bastling * Arthur Housman as Valma * Kate Lester as Lady Owbridge * Rube Miller as Jack Eden * Kathleen Kirkham Kathleen Kirkham Woodruff (April 15, 1895 – November 7, 1961) was an American actress on stage and in silent films. Career Kathleen Kirkham was born on April 15, 1895 to Mrs. L.B. Kirkham, who was a stage actress prior to her marriage. Kirkh ... as Mrs. Jack Eden References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Much Johnson (1919 Film)
''Too Much Johnson'' is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Donald Crisp during his phase as an important film director. This film stars in the leads Bryant Washburn and Lois Wilson. This film is based on William Gillette's 1894 play ''Too Much Johnson'' and is the second film attempt at the play, the first having been a short in 1900. Famously, Orson Welles made a short and unfinished amateur version of the play and he may have not known of this feature silent from 1919. Plot As described in a film magazine, Augustus Billings (Washburn), who lives in deadly fear of his mother-in-law Mrs. Batterson (Farrington), risks fate by taking a yacht trip with his friend Billy Lounsberry (Blue), who owns some oil wells in Mexico. Augustus' alibi to his wife (Wilson) is that he has purchased an interest in the oil wells and has been called there to look after them. The yacht is owned by a roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Desperate Hero
''The Desperate Hero'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Owen Moore, Gloria Hope, Emmett King.Connelly p.339 Cast * Owen Moore as Henry Baird * Gloria Hope as Mabel Darrow * Emmett King as Philip Darrow * Rube Miller as Alan Moss * Arthur Hoyt as Whitty * Charles Arling as Joseph Plant * Nell Craig asEvelyn Plant * Virginia Caldwell as Dorothy Kind * Tom Ricketts Thomas B. Ricketts (15 January 1853 – 19 January 1939) was an English-born American stage and film actor and director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the first American film adaptation of ''A Christm ... as Butler References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeds Of Vengeance
''Seeds of Vengeance'' is an American film released in 1920. It was directed by Ollie Sellers. It was an adaptation of Margaret Prescott's ''The Sowing of Alderson Cree''. The film starred Bernard Durning. It was a C. R. Macauley Photoplay. It was a 5-reel film was produced by Select Pictures. Sada Cowan wrote the scenario. The film is one of at least three Sellers directed with Durning as an actor. Cast *Bernard Durning *Pauline Starke as Ellen Dawe *Gloria Hope *Eugenie Besserer *Charles Elder (actor) * Jack Curtis *Evelyn Selbie *George Hernandez *Jack Levering *Burwell Hamrick *George Stone Reception Marion Russell in ''The Billboard The Billboard () is a massive granite monolith in the Sarnoff Mountains of the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, standing just west of Mount Rea between Arthur Glacier and Boyd Glacier. It was discovered in November 1934 by a Secon ...'' wrote, "Amazingly beautiful photography marks the high lights of this picture, second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Texan (1920 Film)
''The Texan'' is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix. It was produced and released by the Fox Film Company. The story was filmed again in 1930 by Paramount as '' The Texan'' with Gary Cooper. Cast * Tom Mix as Tex Benton * Gloria Hope as Alice Marcum * Robert Walker as Winthrop Endicott * Charles K. French as Wolf River Mayor * Sid Jordan as Jack Purdy * Pat Chrisman as Bat, a Half-Breed Preservation status Copies of ''The Texan'' are held at Filmmuseum Netherlands aka EYE Institut and The Danish Film Institute. See also * List of Fox Film films * Tom Mix filmography Tom Mix (1880–1940) was an American motion picture actor, director, and writer whose career spanned from 1910 to 1935. During this time he appeared in 270 films and established himself as the screen's most popular cowboy star. Mix's flair ... References External links * * 1920 films 1920 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prairie Trails
''Prairie Trails'' is a lost 1920 American silent comedy Western film directed by George Marshall and starring Tom Mix. Cast * Tom Mix as Tex Benton * Charles K. French as Stephen McWhorter * Kathleen O'Connor as Janet McWhorter * Robert Walker as Winthrop Adams Endicott * Gloria Hope as Alice Endicott * Sid Jordan as Jack Purdy * Harry Dunkinson as Ike Stork * William Elmer William Elmer (April 25, 1869 – February 24, 1945) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1913 and 1942. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and died in Hollywood, California. Elmer acted in ... as Rod Blake References External links * * 1920 films Lost Western (genre) comedy films 1920s Western (genre) comedy films Films directed by George Marshall Fox Film films Lost American films 1920 lost films 1920 comedy films Silent American Western (genre) comedy films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films {{silent-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colorado (1921 Film)
''Colorado'' is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Frank Mayo, Charles Newton and Gloria Hope.Munden, p. 139. Cast * Frank Mayo as Frank Austin * Charles Newton as Tom Doyle * Gloria Hope as Kitty Doyle * Lillian West as Mrs Doyle * Charles Le Moyne as James Kincaid * Tom London as David Collins * Dan Crimmins as Lem Morgan * Rosa Gore Rosa Gore (born Minnie Lyons; September 15, 1866 - February 4, 1941) was an American film actress active in Hollywood primarily during the silent era. She appeared in at least 70 films over the course of her career. She got her start in vaudevill ... as Salla Morgan References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * 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 * 1921 films 1921 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courage (1921 Film)
''Courage'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Naomi Childers, Sam De Grasse and Adolphe Menjou.Munden p.148 It was distributed by First National Pictures. Synopsis In Scotland, a young inventor goes to visit a man who owes him some money only to find him murdered. He is arrested and imprisoned for the crime, while his wife faithfully continues to support him and perfect his invention. Eventually the real culprit is exposed and he is freed to return to her. Cast *Naomi Childers as Jean Blackmoore * Sam De Grasse as Stephan Blackmoore * Lionel Belmore as Angus Ferguson * Adolphe Menjou as Bruce Ferguson * Lloyd Whitlock as 'Speedy' Chester * Alec B. Francis as McIntyre * Ray Howard as Stephan Blackmoore Jr * Gloria Hope as Eve Hamish * Charles Hill Mailes Charles Hill Mailes (25 May 1870 – 17 February 1937) was a Canadian actor of the silent era. Biography Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1870, Mailes appeared in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grim Comedian
''The Grim Comedian'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Phoebe Hunt, Jack Holt, and Gloria Hope.Munden p. 316 Plot As described in a film magazine, an automobile passenger tells an old man a tale, while speeding across the country, of the actress Marie Lamonte (Hunt) who gives up luxury, a beautiful car, and a cozy apartment furnished by Harvey "Million Dollar" Martin (Holt). She does all this so that her daughter Dorothy (Hope), who was reared in a convent, might not be contaminated by the presence of the roue. However, Harvey meets the young woman and a genuine affection springs up for her. On the day that they are to elope, Marie goes to Harvey's apartment, finds her daughter waiting in an adjoining room, and in desperation shoots Harvey, wounding him in the hand. "I did not think that you would do it," he says. "You've won." He forthright tells Dorothy that he did not intend to marry her. "The grim comedian" known as life has turned th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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