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Joe De Grasse
Joseph Louis De Grasse (May 4, 1873 – May 25, 1940) was a Canadians, Canadian film director. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he was the elder brother of actor Sam De Grasse. Biography Joseph De Grasse had studied and was a first-class graduate of accounting and he began his career as a journalist, but soon became enamored with the theater and took work as a stage actor. In 1903, he quit his full-time job as the City of Boston's bookkeeper to pursue acting. In 1910, he acted in his first motion picture and although he would appear as an actor in 13 films, and write 2 screenplays, his real interest was in directing. While working in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood for Universal Studios, Universal Pictures, De Grasse met and married one of the few female directors working at the time, Ida May Park (1879–1954). In 1915, he became a founding member of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a forerunner to today's Directors Guild of America. During his career he directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst, New Brunswick
Bathurst ( 2021 population; UA 12,157 ) is the largest City in Northern New Brunswick, it overlooks the Nepisiguit Bay, part of Chaleur Bay and is at the estuary of the Nepisiguit River. As part of the New Brunswick local governance reform , effective Jan 1st, 2023 the following communities will be amalgamated with Bathurst. *87% of the local service district of North Tetagouche, *40% of the local service district of Big River, *68% of the local service district of Bathurst This will give Bathurst an estimated population 14,896 History Bathurst had been the location of the annual Mi'kmaq summer coastal community of Nepisiguit prior to European settlement. Europeans first reached the shores of the Baie des Chaleurs when in 1534 it was named by Jacques Cartier. Early settlers from France came to the area in the 17th century in what became part of the colony of Acadia. In 1607 Samuel de Champlain sailed into the Miramichi, and in 1636, Nicolas Denys was granted a seignory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Bounty
''Her Bounty'' is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and written by his wife Ida May Park, and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. This was the first film Chaney worked on with the filmmaking team of Joe De Grasse and Ida May Park, to be followed by many more. The film is now considered to be lost. Plot The horrific working conditions in her father's factory are brought to Ruth Braddon's attention by a letter she receives. Interested in social work, she asks her father to instruct his junior partner Fred Howard (Lon Chaney) to show Ruth around the facilities. Howard is Ruth's fiance. Ruth sees a young woman who has fainted from poor ventilation, and speaks to a young male employee (David Hale) who asks Fred Howard for better working conditions, but Howard simply orders the man to get back to work. Ruth tells Hale she will speak privately to her father about the situation. Unbeknownst to Ruth, Hale is trying to get himself a raise to enable him to marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Such Is Life (1915 Film)
''Such Is Life'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Olive Carey. The film is now considered to be lost. Plot Polly, the maid at a theatrical boarding house, falls in love with Will Deming, a handsome stage actor living at the house. Will is the only one in the place who pays any attention to Polly whatsoever. She often dreams of herself as Mrs. Will Deming. Meanwhile Olive Trent, an aspiring young actress, rents a room at the house while trying to break into show business. Will sees Olive at an agency and tries to help her start a career, but she rejects his advances, not realizing he's just trying to help her out. Will doesn't realize that he and Olive actually live in the same house. Tod Wilkes (Lon Chaney), a comic burlesque performer also living at the house, has his eye on Olive as well, and he offers her a degrading job in his seedy burlesque show. At first she refuses, but eventually accepts when her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Gods Played A Badger Game
''When the Gods Played a Badger Game'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and written by Ida May Park, and featuring Pauline Bush and Lon Chaney. The film's working title was ''The Girl Who Couldn't Go Wrong''. The film is today considered lost. Plot Nan DeVere is a chorus girl who is romanced by Mr. Lany, a married man of considerable wealth. She agrees to marry him, but Mrs. Lany meets her at the theatre and begs her to stay away from her husband. She tells her of their former life of poverty, how he made a lucky mining strike, and then left her behind as he entered high society. Nan is moved by the woman's plea, and plans to teach the husband a good lesson with the help of Joe, the property man (Lon Chaney). She sends word to Mr. Lany that she will see him after the show. The millionaire arrives at the theatre and takes her in his arms when suddenly Joe bursts in, pulling out a revolver and claiming to be Nan's husband. Mr. Lany, thinking he is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Threads Of Fate
''The Threads of Fate'' (aka ''Threads of Fate'') is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Tom Forman, and featuring Pauline Bush, William C. Dowlan and Lon Chaney. The film is now considered to be a lost film. A still exists showing Lon Chaney made up as "The Count" trying to persuade the heroine of the film to marry him. The film's subtitles were all extractions from the literary works of famous authors, such as Tennyson, Milton and Pope. The film is framed by both a beginning and an ending sequence showing the three Fates weaving the threads of Mankind, these sequences being hand-colored (the rest of the film was in black-and-white). Plot The story follows the lives of two children: a wealthy boy and a poor girl. The rich boy grows up to be a musician, while the girl develops into a charming young woman. The man tires of society life, and travels the countryside disguised as a street musician. The woman goes to the city and is adopted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Measure Of A Man (1915 Film)
''The Measure of a Man'' is a 1915 silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Tom Forman, and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. The film today is considered lost.(Note* - This film should not be confused with the 1916 Universal film of the same title which starred J. Warren Kerrigan). Plot Helen MacDermott has been brought up in a strict religious environment by her widowed father until she meets Bob Brandt, a dashing adventurer/ gambler who sweeps her off her feet. She elopes with him over her father's objections, and all is well until 6 months later when the local Vigilant Committee denounces Brandt as a cheat and a swindler, and orders him to leave town. Helen is too proud to return to her father, and loathes divorce, so she reluctantly leaves with Bob. A month later, Bob accidentally shoots himself in the shoulder; he is discovered by Jim Stuart, a lieutenant in the Northwest Mounted Police, who takes him and Helen to his cabin and nurses the injured man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star Of The Sea
''The Star of the Sea'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Phil K. Walsh, and starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. The film is now considered to be lost. A still exists showing Lon Chaney in the role of Tomasco, the hunchbacked fisherman. Plot Mario Busoni is a young sculptor, whose uncle is Father Busoni, pastor of the Church of the Holy Name at Fiesole. Mario is hired to sculpt a life-sized statue of the Madonna for his uncle's church, and he is sent to Naples to do the work. There he meets Janice, a young model who invites him to live with her, but his uncle arrives and thwarts her plans. She tries to ensnare the young boy again later, but the uncle intervenes once more. Meanwhile, Mario tells his uncle that he must have a live model to work from; he hires Mary, a young widow who is raising a baby boy on her own, and he uses them both to model for his statue of the Virgin and Child. Tomasco, a hunchbacked fisherman (Lon Chaney), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sin Of Olga Brandt
''The Sin of Olga Brandt'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. Jon Mirsalis claims the film was written by Ida May Park (De Grasse's wife) and that "some sources suggest that the film, which preaches about the high morality of moving pictures, was instigated by (producer) Carl Laemmle, who was involved in censorship fights of his own over some of his releases". The film is now considered to be lost. A still exists showing Lon Chaney as Stephen Leslie, trying to intimidate Olga Brandt (see plot). Plot Olga is a stenographer working in the office of an attorney, Stephen Leslie (Lon Chaney). She cares for her invalid sister who needs an expensive operation to save her life, so she appeals to her employer who agrees to give her the money only if she will give herself to him sexually. Having no choice, she reluctantly agrees to move in with him; however, three months later, her sister dies and she realizes her sac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Escape (film)
''Her Escape'' is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. Lon Chaney not only acted in this film, he also wrote the screenplay. The Blake book on Chaney states the film was actually released earlier on December 13, 1914, but all other sources say December 27. The film is now considered to be lost. A creepy still exists of Chaney in the role of Pete, the blind man, showing him attacking his sister in the film (see plot synopsis). Chaney played the blind man in this film simply by rolling his eyes up into his head, similar to the method he used to play Pew, the blind pirate, in ''Treasure Island'' (1920). Plot Tom Walsh and his son Pete Walsh (Lon Chaney) are criminals, but his daughter Pauline is basically a good kid. One day, while they are forcing her to act as a lookout for them, a group of Salvation Army singers gives her a pamphlet on how to lead a good life. Pauline tells her father and brother that she wants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Night Of Thrills
''A Night of Thrills'' is a 1914 American silent supernatural drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Ida May Park (uncredited) (who was De Grasse's wife) and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. The film is now considered to be lost. Some sources say this film may never have actually been released at all, since not a single review of the film has ever turned up anywhere, but the Blake book claims it was released theatrically on Dec. 13, 1914. Plot Howard Wild, a kindly old gentleman, bequeaths his old mansion to his young niece Hazel and her fiancé Jack as a wedding present. A few days before the wedding, Hazel hears some terrible gossip about Jack, and after a spat, she leaves him and flees to the mansion to be alone. That night some thieves arrive to rob the house and Hazel watches them, helpless and terrified. When the criminals go down into the wine cellar, she runs for the door, but just then Jack enters and, mistaking him for another burglar in the dark, she s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lion, The Lamb, The Man
''The Lion, the Lamb, the Man'' is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Tom Forman and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. Though once believed to be lost, a shortened version of the film was preserved by the Museum of Modern Art in 2008, and was re-premiered at the 2017 Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California. A nitrate print was discovered by film collector Bob Geoghegan and his Archive Film Agency in England in 2007. They loaned it to the Museum of Modern Art who made a dupe negative and a release print in 2008. The first public screening was at Cinecon in September, 2017. Though the film was originally released at 2 reels, the print that survives appears to be only 1 reel. Most of the opening footage is missing, so the film begins with Agnes already living in the Kentucky mountains. A still exists showing one of the actors in makeup as a cave man (see plot synopsis). Co-star Millard K. Wilson and Chaney became life-long f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lights And Shadows (1914 Film)
''Lights and Shadows'' is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, starring Tom Forman, Pauline Bush and Lon Chaney. The screenplay was written by Ida May Park (De Grasse's wife). A still exists showing Lon Chaney as Bentley, just before he deserts his wife in the film. The picture is now considered to be a lost film. Plot Eve, a poor flower girl, learns that her mother, a singer, had married Bentley (Lon Chaney), the son of a rich man, but Bentley's father disinherited him for marrying a stage performer. So Bentley deserted his wife the night Eve was born, leaving the young mother penniless, and their nurse Matilde raised the girl after her mother died. When the old nurse falls ill, Eve gets a job in a cafe selling flowers to raise money to help the nurse. There she meets Victor Austin who makes advances towards her, but she manages to escape from him. When she returns home, she finds the nurse dead. Eve discovers some old letters that she thinks could aid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
