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John S. Robertson
John Stuart Robertson (14 June 1878 – 5 November 1964) was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', starring John Barrymore. Biography Robertson was born in London, Ontario. He broke into filmmaking in 1915 with Vitagraph, then with Famous Players-Lasky, making 57 features in his career. Robertson left film in 1935, amid the increasing prevalence of sound pictures. He was married to screenwriter Josephine Lovett. He died in California, aged 86. The Byrds song "Old John Robertson" is about Robertson. ByrdWatcher. Retrieved 3 April 2008....Retrieved Wayback version 15 November 2017(Wayback Machine) Filmography *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London, Ontario
London (pronounced ) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River, approximately from both Toronto and Detroit; and about from Buffalo, New York. The city of London is politically separate from Middlesex County, though it remains the county seat. London and the Thames were named in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe, who proposed the site for the capital city of Upper Canada. The first European settlement was between 1801 and 1804 by Peter Hagerman. The village was founded in 1826 and incorporated in 1855. Since then, London has grown to be the largest southwestern Ontario municipality and Canada's 11th largest metropolitan area, having annexed many of the smaller communities that surround it. London is a regional centre of healthcare and education, being home to the University of Western Ontario (which brands it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Mine (1917 Film)
''Baby Mine'' is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by both John S. Robertson and Hugo Ballin and starring Madge Kennedy. The picture marked Kennedy's screen debut and was one of the first films produced by Samuel Goldwyn as an independent after founding his own studio. The film is based on a 1910 Broadway play '' Baby Mine'' by Margaret Mayo. The story was filmed once again as '' Baby Mine'' (1928) with Charlotte Greenwood at MGM, the successor to Goldwyn Pictures. This version, however, at one time thought lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography * Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland *Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ..., is held in the French archive Cinematheque Francais. Plot As described in a film magazine, Alfred (Morgan) catches his wife Zoie (Kennedy) in so many lies that he leaves home and establishes an office in Bost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
39 East
''39 East'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film produced by the Realart Picture Company (headed by Paramount Pictures's Adolph Zukor), and starring Constance Binney reprising her role from the Broadway play. The film was directed by John S. Robertson. The film is based on the play of the same name by Rachel Crothers, which was a hit on Broadway with Binney starring. Plot As described in a film magazine, Penelope Penn (Binney), to financially aid others of the poor minister's family to which she belongs, goes to New York City and becomes one of the boardinghouse colony at "39 East." The identity of her business she keeps a mystery, thereby arousing the unsympathetic speculations of her fellow female boarders. She finds a champion and lover in Napoleon Gibbs Jr. (Denny), a young wealthy aristocrat, who helps her over many a rough spot during her boardinghouse life. Her chance to shine histrionically comes when there is a sudden refusal of the theater star, to whom she underst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Away Goes Prudence
''Away Goes Prudence'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. This picture was directed by John S. Robertson and starred Billie Burke. Screenwriter Josephine Lovett provided a story direct for the screen. This is now considered a lost film. Wayback) Cast * as Prudence Thorne * as Hewitt Harland * |
A Dark Lantern
''A Dark Lantern'' is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced and released by Realart Pictures. It is based on a 1905 novel of the same name by Elizabeth Robins. John S. Robertson directed and Alice Brady and her then husband James Crane star. According to the AFI Catalog, the film was shot at the Essanay studios in Chicago as that was where Alice Brady was appearing in a play at the time. Plot As described in a film magazine, mistaking the intentions of Prince Anton (Denny) of Argovinia in seeking her hand, young English woman Katherine Dereham (Brady) suffers a great shock when his attentions culminate in a proposal that she be his morganatic wife, his country requiring an alliance with a royal princess. This, together with the blow of her father's death, shatters Katherine's nerves and causes a breakdown. She recovers under the rigid administrations of Dr. Garth Vincent (Crane). Her attitude of antagonistic exaggeration of his sternness that conceives it as sheer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erstwhile Susan
''Erstwhile Susan'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson, produced and distributed by Realart Pictures. It is based on a 1914 novel ''Barnabetta'' by Helen Reimensnyder Martin and later Broadway play ''Erstwhile Susan'' by Marian De Forest. Minnie Maddern Fiske starred in the Broadway play in 1916. This film version stars Mary Alden and Constance Binney, then an up-and-coming young actress. This film version, once thought to be lost, survives at the Museum of Modern Art. ''Erstwhile Susan'' was the first film by Realart Films, Adolph Zukor's offshoot affiliate of his Famous Players-Lasky enterprise. Plot As described in an adoption in the November 1919 issue of the film magazine ''Shadowland'', Barnabetta (Constance Binney) dreams of furthering her education, but her Mennonite father Jacob (Bradley Barker) disapproves. Jacob later marries Erstwhile Susan (Mary Alden), who has money and changes the family relationships, and sends Barnabetta to college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadie Love
''Sadie Love'' is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film distributed by Paramount Pictures (as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation) and directed by John S. Robertson. It is based on a 1915 stage play of the same name by Avery Hopwood and stars Billie Burke in the title role. In the play, Marjorie Rambeau played the Burke part. Anecdote Hedda Hopper reflecting back on the making of this film stated that Billie Burke always wanted a dressing room to herself and was reluctant to change clothing with the other female cast members. Hopper seemed to not understand (or perhaps was jealous) that Burke was the star of the film (as well as a star on Broadway) and was due the personal dressing room accorded a star. Cast *Billie Burke - Sadie Love * James Crane - Count Luigi Pallavichi *Helen Montrose - Princess de Marabole *Hedda Hopper - Mrs. James Wakeley *Jed Prouty - James Wakeley *Shaw Lovett - Mumford Crewe *Mrs. Margaret A. Wiggin - Mrs. Warrington *May Rogers - Celeste * Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Misleading Widow
''The Misleading Widow'' (1919) is a silent film comedy directed by John S. Robertson and starring Billie Burke. The film is based on the play '' Billeted'' by F. Tennyson Jesse and H. M. Harwood and was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. As it is not known whether the film currently survives, it is likely that it, similar to most of Burke's silent films, is a lost film. Plot As summarized in an adaptation published in the September 1919 issue of ''Shadowlands'', Betty Taradine, who lives in a British village near an army base, was abandoned by her husband for her spendthrift ways. She reports that he is dead to obtain insurance money. Later, British officer Captain Peter Rymill is assigned to be billeted at her house, but he turns out to be her husband living under an assumed name. There are various romantic triangles involving other villagers, and the identity of the missing husband and existence of the marriage is revealed after a dinn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Out Of The Kitchen
''Come Out of the Kitchen'' is a lost 1919 American silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by John S. Robertson and starred Marguerite Clark. The film is based on Alice Duer Miller's 1916 Broadway play of the same name that starred Ruth Chatterton. Parts of the film was shot at Pass Christian, Mississippi. Plot As described in a film magazine, Claudia Daingerfield (Clark) is the resourceful daughter of an old and invalid Southern aristocrat Mr. Daingerfield (Stevens). All that remains of his property is a fine old Virginian country house, barely maintained by Claudia, her sister Elizabeth (Kaye), her brothers Paul (Barker) and Charles (Hackett), and their African-American cook Mammy Jackson (Miller), who is still loyal to the household. When father goes North to consult a great physician, there is no money left when news comes that a costly operation must be performed. There is only one way this expense can be met, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Elope (1919 Film)
''Let's Elope'' is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film starring Marguerite Clark and directed by John S. Robertson. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures. The film is based on ''The Naughty Wife'' by Frederick J. Jackson. Plot As described in a film magazine, author Hilary Farrington (Mills) is pressed by his publishers and confines himself to his work so closely that his wife Eloise (Clark) feels herself neglected. Darrell McKnight (Glass), free verse devotee, breaks his engagement to Nora Gail (Greene) and implores Eloise to elope with him. She pretends to agree, meaning to thus bring her husband to the realization of his neglect. Hilary is incredulous but Nora guesses the plan and the two then conspire to bring their respective loved ones back into the fold by seeming to do everything in their power to aid them in eloping. The complications which ensue are many and varied, but Eloise finally grasps the significance of their plans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Test Of Honor
''The Test of Honor'' (1919) was an American silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount, directed by John S. Robertson, and starring John Barrymore. Considered the actor's first drama movie role after years of doing film comedies and farces. It is based on author E. Phillips Oppenheim 1906 novel ''The Malefactor''. The film was made at Famous Players' East Coast facility and released prior to Robertson and Barrymore's famous ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1920). Plot Martin Wingrave(Barrymore) is arrested and sent to prison for seven years for a crime he didn't commit. While incarcerated he learns that his girlfriend and her male accomplice framed him for the crime. When Wingrave is released he plots revenge against his former girl and her man(Manon, Schable). However he begins a romance with his neighbor, a young woman(Binney) who truly loves him and warms his heart. Cast *John Barrymore - Martin Wingrave * Constance Binney - Juliet Hollis *Marci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Comes The Bride (1919 Film)
''Here Comes the Bride'' is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. This film is based on the 1917 Broadway play ''Here Comes the Bride'' by Max Marcin and Roy Atwell. The film was directed by John S. Robertson and stars John Barrymore. Plot As described in a film magazine, poor young man Frederick Tile (Barrymore) is in love with the daughter of a rich man, and in order to obtain money agrees to marry a veiled woman from whom he will be divorced in one year and allow some schemers to use his name to obtain a vast property. After the ceremony, the just married groom by a set of logical circumstances comes to spend the night in the mansion of some friends who have just left town. The young woman he loves, Ethel Sinclair (Binney) that same night has left home, leaving a note that says she plans to elope with the man she loves, and by another set of logical circumstances sleeps in an adjacent room at the mansion. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
