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Hale Hamilton
Hale Rice Hamilton (February 28, 1880 – May 19, 1942) was an American actor, writer and producer. Biography Hamilton was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1880. (His birth year is sometimes listed as either 1879 or 1883.) Hamilton's Broadway debut was in ''Don Caesar's Return'' (1901). He was married to three actresses, Jane Oaker, Myrtle Tannehill, and Grace La Rue. Tannehill sued Hamilton, accusing him of being lured away from her by La Rue.''Silent Film Necrology'' 2nd edition p. 223 c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1942 in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography *''Her Painted Hero'' (1915, Short) - A Matinee Idol *'' The Winning of Beatrice'' (1918) - Robert Howard *''Opportunity'' (1918) - Anthony Fry *''Five Thousand an Hour'' (1918) - Johnny Gamble *''The Return of Mary'' (1918, Writer) *'' Johnny-on-the-Spot'' (1919) - Johnny Rutledge *'' That's Good'' (1919) (with Grace La Rue) - Marcellus Starr *''After His Own Heart'' (1919) - Thoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka ( ; Kansa language, Kansa: ; iow, Dópikˀe, script=Latn or ) is the Capital (political), capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the County seat, seat of Shawnee County, Kansas, Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587. The Topeka Topeka, Kansas metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area, which includes Shawnee, Jackson County, Kansas, Jackson, Jefferson County, Kansas, Jefferson, Osage County, Kansas, Osage, and Wabaunsee County, Kansas, Wabaunsee Counties, had a population of 233,870 in the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dig potatoes", or "a good place to dig potatoes". As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greater Glory
''The Greater Glory'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Curt Rehfeld. The film starred Conway Tearle and Boris Karloff. ''The Greater Glory'' is sometimes listed as ''The Viennese Medley'', the title of Edith O'Shaughnessy's novel of which the film is based. Cast * Conway Tearle as Count Maxim von Hurtig * Anna Q. Nilsson as Fanny * May Allison as Corinne * Ian Keith as Pauli Birbach * Lucy Beaumont as Tante Ilde * Jean Hersholt as Gustav Schmidt * Nigel De Brulier as Dr. Hermann von Berg * Bridgetta Clark as Mitzi, his wife * John St. Polis as Professor Leopold Eberhardt (as John Sainpolis) * Marcia Manon as Kaethe, his wife * Edward Earle as Otto Steiner * Virginia Southern as Liesel, his wife * Isabelle Keith as Anna, Pauli's wife * Kathleen Chambers as Irma von Berg, the stepmother * Hale Hamilton as Leon Krum * Cora Macey as Marie * Carrie Daumery as Countess von Hurtig * Thur Fairfax as Theodore von Hurtig * Boris Karloff as Scissors Grinder * George A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never The Twain Shall Meet (1931 Film)
''Never the Twain Shall Meet'' is a 1931 American drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro. It is based on the novel of the same title by Peter B. Kyne. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and was filmed in Tahiti like Van Dyke's two previous south sea adventures ''The Pagan'' and ''White Shadows in the South Seas''. The film is a remake of a 1925 silent film of the same name. Plot Dan Pritchard is a partner along with his father in a San Francisco-based shipping company. His socialite fiancée Maisie Morrison avoids setting a wedding date, much to his frustration. Dan is called to the ship of his father's friend, Captain Larrieau, who informs him he has contracted leprosy. He wants the Pritchards to act as guardians for his daughter Tamea, whose mother was a Polynesian queen. Tamea is a barefoot native girl, skimpily dressed, her hair wild and her aspect wilder. Once Pritchard agrees to take care of Tamea a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strangers May Kiss
''Strangers May Kiss'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and noncredit-directed by George Fitzmaurice. The movie stars Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery and Neil Hamilton. The movie was an adaptation of the book ''Strangers May Kiss'', which was written by Ursula Parrott. Plot Lisbeth is a proud, glamorous, sexy woman whose core beliefs about love and marriage revolve around the idea of freedom. She falls in love with a newspaper reporter named Alan, who agrees that their relationship should remain friendly and physical. Steve, her childhood friend who is very much in love with her, watches from afar as Lisbeth is with other men, but wants her to be happy. Her relationship with Alan soon becomes difficult. Lisbeth's aunt Celia firmly believes that love and marriage are intertwined, saying that "marriage and love are not enemies. A woman doesn't know how to be in love until she's been married ten years." Unfortunately for her, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Tailor Made Man
''A Tailor Made Man'' is a 1931 American MGM pre-Code comedy film directed by Sam Wood. Adapted from the 1908 Hungarian play ''A Szerencse Fia'' by Gábor Drégely (staged in English in New York in 1917), the film stars William Haines and Dorothy Jordan. On Broadway, Grant Mitchell starred in the 1917 production and a revival in 1929. The play was the basis for a 1922 American silent film, '' A Tailor-Made Man''. Cast *William Haines - John Paul Bart * Dorothy Jordan - Tanya *Joseph Cawthorn - Huber *Marjorie Rambeau - Kitty Dupuy * William Austin - Theodore Jellicott *Ian Keith - Doctor Gustav von Sonntag *Hedda Hopper - Mrs. Stanlaw * Henry Armetta - Peter * Walter Walker - Abraham Nathan * Forrester Harvey - Arthur Pomeroy *Joan Marsh - Bessie *Martha Sleeper Martha Sleeper (June 24, 1910 – March 25, 1983) was a film actress of the 1920s–1930s and, later, a Broadway stage actress. She studied dancing for five years with Russian ballet master, Louis H. Chalif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Drums Of Jeopardy (1931 Film)
''The Drums of Jeopardy'' is a 1931 American pre-Code horror film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Warner Oland, June Collyer and Lloyd Hughes. It is the second film adaptation of Harold McGrath's novel of the same name, and stars Oland as Dr. Boris Karlov. The name of the villain in the novel was originally called Boris Karlov, but when the actor Boris Karloff rose to prominence circa 1923, the character's name was changed to Gregor Karlov in the 1923 silent film adaptation to avoid confusion. It was changed back to Boris again in this 1931 remake of the film. The film's was produced by Tiffany Pictures, one of the leading independent studios in Hollywood. The sets were designed by the art director Fay Babcock. Plot In the Russian Empire, the nobleman Prince Gregor Petroff seduces chemist Boris Karlov's daughter Anya, who then commits suicide after becoming pregnant. After discovering Anya's body with the Drums of Jeopardy, a necklace owned by the Petroff family, Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance, Fools, Dance
''Dance, Fools, Dance'' is a 1931 pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama film starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Lester Vail in a story about a reporter investigating the murder of a colleague. Story and dialogue were created by Aurania Rouverol, and the film was directed by Harry Beaumont. ''Dance, Fools, Dance'' was the first of eight movies featuring Crawford and Gable. Plot Former socialite Bonnie Jordan (Joan Crawford) and her brother Rodney (William Bakewell) have their lives turned upside down one day when their father loses his entire fortune in the stock market crash, and subsequently dies of a heart attack. Due to their inheritance being wiped out overnight, the siblings are forced to fire their wait staff, sell their belongings, and work to earn a living. Bonnie decides to get a man's job and winds up as a cub reporter for a newspaper, while Rodney decides to get involved with a beer-running gang, but things begin to escalate for him quickly. On one caper, Rodne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Ideal
''Beau Ideal'' is a 1931 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was based on the 1927 adventure novel ''Beau Ideal'' by P. C. Wren, the third novel in a series of five novels based around the same characters. Brenon had directed the first in the series, ''Beau Geste'', which was a very successful silent film in 1926. The screenplay was adapted from Wren's novel by Paul Schofield, who had also written the screenplay for the 1926 ''Beau Geste'', with contributions from Elizabeth Meehan and Marie Halvey. The film starred Ralph Forbes (reprising his role as John Geste from the 1926 ''Beau Geste''), Loretta Young, and Irene Rich. The other lead, Lester Vail, was making his film debut, after he replaced Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who had originally been selected for a principal role in the film. Exteriors were filmed on locations in Arizona and Mexico, while the interiors were filmed on the RKO lot in Hollywood, and produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paid (1930 Film)
''Paid'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code drama film''Variety Film Reviews, Variety'' film review; January 7, 1931, page22.''Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews, Harrison's Reports'' film review; January 10, 1931, page 7 starring Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong (actor), Robert Armstrong, and Douglass Montgomery, Kent Douglass in a story about a wrongly accused ex-convict who seeks revenge on those who sent her to prison using a scam called the "Heart Balm Racket". The film was adapted by Lucien Hubbard and Charles MacArthur from the Play (theatre), play, ''Within the Law (play), Within the Law'' by Bayard Veiller (1912) and was the fourth film version of the play. The film was directed and produced by Sam Wood. Cast * Joan Crawford as Mary Turner * Robert Armstrong (actor), Robert Armstrong as Joe Garson * Marie Prevost as Agnes Lynch * Douglass Montgomery, Kent Douglass as Bob Gilder * John Miljan as Inspector Burke * Purnell Pratt as Edward Gilder * Hale Hamilto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Clay (1930 Film)
''Common Clay'' is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Constance Bennett and Lew Ayres, based on the 1915 play of the same name by Cleves Kinkead which starred Jane Cowl. The film is about a young servant who is seduced by the master of the house who will having nothing else to do with her besides sex because she is of an inferior class. She becomes pregnant and seeks to have the child recognized but his family treats her as if she were a blackmailer. Cast *Constance Bennett as Ellen Neal *Lew Ayres as Hugh Fullerton *Tully Marshall as W.H. Yates * Matty Kemp as Arthur Coakley *Purnell Pratt as Richard Fullerton *Beryl Mercer as Mrs. Neal *Charles McNaughton as Edwards *Hale Hamilton as Judge Samuel Filson *Genevieve Blinn as Mrs. Fullerton Trivia ''Common Clay'' was one of the top ten highest-grossing films of 1930, and that financial success made Constance Bennett into a Hollywood star. A previous version of the play had been filmed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Intentions (1930 Film)
''Good Intentions'' is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film directed by William K. Howard and written by George Manker Watters. The film stars Edmund Lowe, Marguerite Churchill, Regis Toomey, Earle Foxe, Eddie Gribbon and Robert McWade. The film was released on June 29, 1930, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast *Edmund Lowe as David Cressonn *Marguerite Churchill as Helen Rankin *Regis Toomey as Richard Holt *Earle Foxe as 'Flash' Norton *Eddie Gribbon as Liberty Red *Robert McWade as Cyrus Holt *Georgia Caine as Miss Huntington *Owen Davis Jr. as Bud Finney *Pat Somerset as Babe Gray *J. Carrol Naish as Charlie Hattrick *Henry Kolker Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874 ome sources 1870– July 15, 1947) was an American stage and film actor and director. Early years Kolker was born in Quincy, Illinois. Career Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Wa ... as Butler References External links * 1930 films Fox Film films American crime f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Telephone Girl (1927 Film)
''The Telephone Girl'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play ''The Woman'' (1911) by William C. deMille. This film starred Madge Bellamy, Holbrook Blinn, and Warner Baxter. Cast *Madge Bellamy as Kitty O'Brien *Holbrook Blinn as Jim Blake *Warner Baxter as Matthew Standish *May Allison as Grace Robinson *Lawrence Gray as Tom Blake *Hale Hamilton as Mark *Hamilton Revelle as Van Dyke *William E. Shay as Detective *Karen Hansen as Mrs. Standish Preservation status This film is preserved at EYE Institut aka Filmmuseum 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 located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in t .... (update: the film survives at EYE Filmmuseum, Netherlands Retrieved June 29, 2016) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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