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Gertrude Messinger
Gertrude Dolores Messinger (April 28, 1911 – November 8, 1995) was an American film actress known for her B-movie roles from the 1930s through the 1950s. She began as a child actor in silent films, but found her greatest fame in talkies of the 1930s. During her career she appeared in more than 50 motion pictures, with particular success in westerns. Biography Born in Spokane, Washington, she began acting early, playing child roles in silent films as early as 1917, when she had a role in the film ''Babes in the Woods''. Fellow child actor Buddy Messinger was her brother. Her name was sometimes spelled Gertrude Messenger and she was also known as Gertie Messinger. During the 1930s her career took off, with significant roles in more than 30 films. Her earliest starring roles were in 1932 when she starred opposite Bob Steele in ''Riders of the Desert'', and opposite Lane Chandler in ''Lawless Valley''. For the remainder of the 1930s, she was fairly active in films. In 19 ...
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Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canada–United States border, Canadian border, west of the Washington–Idaho border, and east of Seattle, along Interstate 90 in Washington, I-90. Spokane is the economic and cultural center of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father's Day (United States), Father's Day, and locally by the nickname of "Lilac City". Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of ''Hooptown USA'', due to Spokane annually hosting Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest basketball tournament. The city and the wider Inland Northwest area are served by Spokane International Airport, west of Downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 United States census, 2010 ce ...
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Harry Carey (actor)
Henry DeWitt Carey II (January 16, 1878 – September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars, usually cast as a Western hero. One of his best known performances is as the president of the United States Senate in the drama film '' Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' (1939), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was the father of Harry Carey Jr., who was also a prominent actor. Early life Carey was born in the Bronx, New York, a son of Henry DeWitt Carey (a newspaper source gives the actor's name as "Harry DeWitt Carey II"). a prominent lawyer and judge of the New York Supreme Court, and his wife Ella J. (Ludlum). He grew up on City Island, Bronx. Carey was a cowboy, railway superintendent, author, lawyer and playwright. He attended Hamilton Military Academy, then studied law at New York University. Stage When a boating accident led to pneumonia, he wrote a play, ''Montana'', while recuperating and ...
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The Barefoot Boy (film)
''The Barefoot Boy'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by David Kirkland and starring John Bowers, Marjorie Daw, and Sylvia Breamer. The film is based upon a poem of the same name by John Greenleaf Whittier. Cast Preservation Partial prints of ''The Barefoot Boy'' are maintained by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection The George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York comprises about 28,000 titles, including features, shorts, documentaries, newsreels, and experimental moving images. The collection is renowned for its holdings of silent f .... References Bibliography * Bernard F. Dick. ''Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio''. University Press of Kentucky, 2015. External links

* * 1923 films 1923 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by David Kirkland Columbia Pictures ...
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Penrod And Sam (1923 Film)
''Penrod and Sam'' is a 1923 American silent comedy-drama film directed by William Beaudine and starring Ben Alexander, Joe Butterworth, and Buddy Messinger. Wendy L. Marshall stated that "Beaudine had the Midas touch when it came to directing children" in films like this and ''Boy of Mine''. In 1931, Beaudine directed a sound adaptation of the novel. Cast * Ben Alexander as Penrod Schofield *Joe Butterworth as Sam Williams *Buddy Messinger as Rodney Bitts * Newton Hall as Georgie Bassett *Gertrude Messinger as Marjorie Jones * Joe McGray as Herman *Eugene Jackson as Verman *Rockliffe Fellowes as Mr. Schofield *Gladys Brockwell as Mrs. Schofield *Mary Philbin as Margaret Schofield Preservation status Prints exist in the Library of Congress collection and EYE Film Institute Netherlands Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is l ...
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Rip Van Winkle (1921 Film)
''Rip Van Winkle'' is a 1921 American silent fantasy film, directed by Edward Ludwig. Starring Thomas Jefferson (actor), Thomas Jefferson and Milla Davenport in the oft-filmed 1819 Washington Irving short story about Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep and wakes up 20 years later. It was made famous in the 19th century as a play by Thomas Jefferson's father, Joseph Jefferson, and Dion Boucicault. T. Jefferson had starred in a 1914 feature-length version of the story, which was re-released in 1921 just as this film was premiering. However, the two should not be confused as the same film, they are two different films starring the same actor. Plot As described in a film magazine, after swearing off drinking time and time again and familiarly discounting the next drink after each resolution, Rip Van Winkle (Jefferson) is finally driven out of the house by his wife Gretchen (Davenport). On his journey into the hills, he meets a little man from the Catskill Mountains who is carrying a ...
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The Luck Of The Irish (1920 Film)
''The Luck of the Irish'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan. It is based on the 1917 novel ''The Luck of the Irish'' by Harold MacGrath. The film stars James Kirkwood Sr., Anna Q. Nilsson, Harry Northrup, Ward Crane, Ernest Butterworth Jr., and Gertrude Messinger. The film was released on January 5, 1920, by Realart Pictures Corporation. Cast *James Kirkwood Sr. as William Grogan *Anna Q. Nilsson as Ruth Warren *Harry Northrup as Richard Camden *Ward Crane as Norton Colburton *Ernest Butterworth Jr. as The Kid *Gertrude Messinger as The Kid's Romance *Rose Dione as The Malay Street Woman *Louise Lester as The Landlady *Buddy Messinger (uncredited) *Claire Windsor Claire Windsor (born Clara Viola Cronk; April 14, 1892 – October 24, 1972) was an American film actress of the silent screen era. Early life Windsor was born Clara Viola Cronk (nicknamed "Ola") in 1892 in Marvin, Phillips County, Kansas to ... as Extra (uncredited) Referen ...
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Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves (1918 Film)
''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' is a 1918 American silent adventure film directed by Chester M. Franklin and Sidney Franklin and starring Georgie Stone, Gertrude Messinger and Lewis Sargent.Solomon p.251 Cast * Georgie Stone as Ali Baba * Gertrude Messinger as Morgiianna * Lewis Sargent as Khaujeh Houssain * Buddy Messinger as Kasim Bara * G. Raymond Nye as Abdullah * Raymond Lee as Also Talib * Charles Hincus as Aasif Azaar * Marie Messinger as Kasim's Servant * Jack Hull Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA People and fictional characters * Jack (given name), a male given name, ... as Jameel References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011. External links * 1918 films 1918 adventure films 1910s English-language films American silent feat ...
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The Babes In The Woods
''The Babes in the Woods'' is a 1917 American silent fantasy film directed by Chester M. Franklin and Sidney Franklin and starring Francis Carpenter, Virginia Lee Corbin and Violet Radcliffe.Solomon p.243-44 Cast * Francis Carpenter as Roland / Hansel * Virginia Lee Corbin as Rose / Gretel * Violet Radcliffe as The Robber Prince * Carmen De Rue The Good Fair * Herschel Mayall as John Hamilton * Rosita Marstini as Mrs. Hamilton * Robert Lawler as Mason Hamilton * Scott McKee as The Butler * Ted Billings as The Witch * Buddy Messinger * Charles Gorman * Jack R. Hall * Gertrude Messinger Gertrude Dolores Messinger (April 28, 1911 – November 8, 1995) was an American film actress known for her B-movie roles from the 1930s through the 1950s. She began as a child actor in silent films, but found her greatest fame in talkies of ... * Marie Messinger * Raymond Lee References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Film ...
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Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp (1917 Film)
''Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp'' is a 1917 silent film fantasy directed by Chester and Sidney Franklin and produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. It is preserved in the George Eastman House, Cinemateca Do Museu De Arte Moderna and the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' (<-book title) p.3 c.1978 by The American Film Institute


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* Francis Carpenter - Aladdin * F. A. Turner - Mustapha, A Tailor (*as Fred Turner) * - The Princess Badr al-Budur *
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Western Film
The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West" and depicted in Western media as a hostile, sparsely populated frontier in a state of near-total lawlessness patrolled by outlaws, sheriffs, and numerous other stock "gunslinger" characters. Western narratives often concern the gradual attempts to tame the crime-ridden American West using wider themes of justice, freedom, rugged individualism, Manifest Destiny, and the national history and identity of the United States. History The first films that belong to the Western genre are a series of short single reel silents made in 1894 by Edison Studios at their Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. These featured veterans of ''Buffalo Bill's Wild West'' show exhibiting skills acquired by living ...
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The Greatest Show On Earth (film)
''The Greatest Show on Earth'' is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor and released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring and Charlton Heston as the circus manager. James Stewart also stars as a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup, and Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame also play supporting roles. In addition to the actors, the real Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus' 1951 troupe appears in the film with its complement of 1,400 people, hundreds of animals and 60 railroad cars of equipment and tents. The actors learned their circus roles and participated in the acts. The film's storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts and documentary-style views into the complex logistics behind big-top circuses. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Picture and ...
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Around The World In 80 Days (1956 Film)
''Around the World in 80 Days'' (sometimes spelled as ''Around the World in Eighty Days'') is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. The epic picture was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Mike Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The screenplay, based on the classic 1873 novel of the same name by Jules Verne, was written by James Poe, John Farrow, and S.J. Perelman. The music score was composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography (shot in Technicolor) was by Lionel Lindon. The film's six-minute-long animated title sequence, shown at the end of the film, was created by award-winning designer Saul Bass. The film won 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Plot Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from ''A Trip ...
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