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James Young (director)
James Young (January 1, 1872 – June 9, 1948) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter of the silent era. Before films Young had a successful career as a stage actor appearing on Broadway and throughout the country, and was the author of a notable 1905 book on theatrical makeup. Young directed more than 90 films between 1912 and 1928. He also appeared as an actor in 60 films between 1909 and 1917. His first wife was librettist Rida Johnson Young who often composed with Victor Herbert. His second wife was film actress Clara Kimball Young, 18 years his junior, who kept his surname after they divorced. James Young died in New York City on June 9, 1948. Selected filmography * ''Twelfth Night'' (1910) * ''Lady Godiva'' (1911) * ''Mockery'' (1912) * ''As You Like It'' (1912) * '' Beau Brummel'' (1913) * '' Jerry's Mother-In-Law'' (1913) * ''Beauty Unadorned'' (1913) * ''My Official Wife'' (1914) (director) * '' The Violin of Monsieur'' (1914) * '' The Heart of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2021, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be 2,838,327, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about north northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest CSA in the nation, with a 2021 estimated population of 9,946,526. Prior to European colonization, the Baltimore region was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannock Native Americans, who were primarily settled further northwest than where the city was later built. Colonis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Official Wife (1914 Film)
''My Official Wife'' is a 1914 American silent film directed by James Young and starring Clara Kimball Young, Harry T. Morey and Rose E. Tapley. The novel was first adapted to film in 1914 by Vitagraph Studios, starring Clara Kimball Young and Earle Williams, and directed by Young's husband James Young. The movie opened on July 13, 1914.(14 July 1914)Two new film plays are shown ''The New York Times''(11 April 1914)Live News of the Week ''Motion Picture News'', p. 33, col. 2.Andrews, William Ressman (8 August 1914)."My Official Wife" Review ''Motion Picture News'', p. 68(August 1914)My Official Wife (story based on movie, with film stills) ''Motion Picture Magazine'', pp. 67-75.(25 July 1914)New Bill At Vitagraph Theatre ''The Moving Picture World'', p. 552. Sime Silverman's review for ''Variety'' was mixed on the film, concluding that five-reels was too long, though he admitted that the scene of a boat being torpedoed at the end might go over well with audiences. Though the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Masquerader (1922 Film)
''The Masquerader'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by James Young and starring Guy Bates Post, Ruth Cummings, and Edward Kimball.Goble p.861 A jaded British politician arranges for his place to be taken by his doppelganger cousin. The film was based on the 1904 novel '' The Masquerader'' by Katherine Cecil Thurston. It was remade in 1933 with Ronald Colman in the lead roles. This film is now considered lost Cast * Guy Bates Post as John Chilcote M.P. / John Loder * Ruth Cummings as Eve Chilcote * Edward Kimball as Brock * Herbert Standing as Herbert Fraide * Lawson Butt as Mr. Lakely * Marcia Manon as Lady Lillian Astrupp * Barbara Tennant Barbara Tennant (19 May 1892 – 18 March 1982) was an English actress. She appeared in over a hundred silent films between 1912 and 1928. Early life Barbara Tennant was born in London, and began performing there. She moved to North America a ... as Bobby Blessington References Bibliography * Goble, Ala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without Benefit Of Clergy
''Without Benefit of Clergy'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Virginia Brown Faire, Thomas Holding and Boris Karloff. It is based on the story by Rudyard Kipling. A print of the film still exists at the UCLA Film and Television Archives and at Archives Du Film Du CNC (Bois D'Arcy/Paris). Plot Holden, a young English engineer in India, falls in love with the native girl Ameera, so he buys her from her mother. Their marital union violates the strict social structure they live in. They live together very happily until their baby son dies. Later, Ameera dies during a cholera epidemic. The film's tagline was "The deathless drama of Ameera, the Hindu girl, and the British engineer, whose "love need no caste." (Print Ad in the Sunday Chronicle, ((Paterson, NJ)) 4 September 1921) Cast * Virginia Brown Faire as Ameera * Thomas Holding as Holden, an American engineer in India * Evelyn Selbie as Ameera's mother * Boris Karloff as Ahmed Khan * Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil (1921 Film)
''The Devil'' is a surviving 1921 silent drama film directed by James Young and starring stage actor George Arliss in a film version of his 1908 Broadway success of Ferenc Molnár's play, ''The Devil'' (aka ''Az ordog'') Long thought to be a lost film, a print was discovered in the 1990s and restored by the Library of Congress. This was George Arliss' first film following a successful career on Broadway. Arliss' wife Florence Arliss co-starred with him in the film, and continued to do so until he died in 1946. Director Young was silent screen star Clara Kimball Young's ex-husband. Future Oscar-winner Fredric March had an uncredited bit part in the film. Plot The Devil, in the guise of a human named Dr. Muller (Arliss), meets a young couple (Marie and her fiance Georges) who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good. The Devil, taking this as a challenge, decides to bring about the couple's downfall. In the end, Marie re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtain (1920 Film)
''Curtain'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by James Young and starring Katherine MacDonald, Edwin B. Tilton and Earl Whitlock.Goble p.493 Cast * Katherine MacDonald as Nancy Bradshaw * Edwin B. Tilton as Jerry Coghlan * Earl Whitlock as Ted Dorn * Charles Richman as Dick Cunningham * Florence Deshon Florence Deshon (born Florence Danks; July 19, 1893February 4, 1922) was an American motion picture actress in silent films. Born in Tacoma, Washington, Deshon began her film career in 1915, appearing in '' The Beloved Vagabond'', and would la ... as Lila Grant References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1920 films 1920 drama films Silent American drama films Films directed by James Young American silent feature films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films First National Pictures films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Notorious Miss Lisle
''The Notorious Miss Lisle'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by James Young and starring Katherine MacDonald, Nigel Barrie, and Margaret Campbell.Monaco p.290 The film's sets were designed by the art director Milton Menasco. Cast * Katherine MacDonald as Gaenor Lisle * Nigel Barrie as Peter Garstin * Margaret Campbell as Mrs. Lisle * Ernest Joy as Major Lisle * William Clifford as Craven * Dorothy Cumming Dorothy Greville Cumming (12 April 1894 – 10 December 1983) was an actress of the silent film era. She appeared in 39 American, English, and Australian films between 1915 and 1929, notably appearing as the Virgin Mary in Cecil B. DeMille' ... as Mrs. Lyons References Bibliography * Monaco, James. ''The Encyclopedia of Film''. Perigee Books, 1991. External links * * 1920 films 1920 drama films Silent American drama films Films directed by James Young American silent feature films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Daughter Of Two Worlds
''A Daughter of Two Worlds'' is a surviving 1920 silent film adventure drama directed by James Young and starring Norma Talmadge, Jack Crosby, and Virginia Lee. Plot As described in a film magazine, Jennie Malone (Talmadge), daughter of prominent underworld figure Black Jerry Malone (Sheridan), is arrested for forgery. A friend of her father's pays her bail, and she is sent to boarding school, jumping the bail. There she is educated and becomes a lady. At the home of her friend Sue Harrison (Lee), a daughter of wealth, she meets and falls in love with Kenneth Harrison (Cosby), and they become engaged. Then Harry Edwards (Rooney), an acquaintance and would be sweetheart of her former world, appears and urges her to return to his element. Slim Jackson (Shea), a dancer, to shield whom Jennie had shouldered the charge of forgery, seeks to collect money from her on threat of exposure. Her father thrashes the young man and bids him to leave her alone. A detective is murdered and Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey (1918 Film)
''Mickey'' is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mabel Normand, directed by F. Richard Jones and James Young, and written by J.G. Hawks. The movie was produced by the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. Plot Mickey is an adult orphan who has been raised since girlhood in poverty near Feather River, California, by an unsuccessful miner, Joe Meadows, and his housekeeper, Minnie. Mickey is the free-spirited, uncultured daughter of the miner's deceased partner. Meadows took charge of Mickey at his dying partner's request. Mickey is sent to live in Great Neck, Long Island—part of suburban New York City—with her aunt and her family. Mrs. Drake is under the impression that Mickey is wealthy and well refined. When Mickey arrives at her aunt's luxurious home, the aunt is disappointed that she is not well-to-do and puts her to work as a servant. Mickey's presence there sparks an awkward love triangle involving her, her cousin, and young mining executive Herbert Thornhill, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose O' Paradise
''Rose o' Paradise'' is a 1918 silent film directed by James Young and starring Bessie Barriscale. It was produced by Paralta Plays and distributed through W. W. Hodkinson Corporation, General Film Company and Pathe-Freres. Cast * Bessie Barriscale - Virginia Singleton *Howard C. Hickman - Lafe Grandoken *David Hartford - Jordon Morse *Norman Kerry - Theodore King *Edythe Chapman - Peg Grandoken *William Delmar - Maudlin Bates *Lucille Young Lucille May Young (March 6, 1883 – August 2, 1934) was an American actress of the early silent film era. Early life Lucille May Young was born on March 6, 1883, in Lansing, Michigan, the daughter of Glendower Young (1858–1927) and K ... - Molly Merriweather * Arthur Allardt - Thomas Singleton Plot Singleton has a nervous break down when his wife dies during child birth giving birth his daughter who survives the ordeal. He recovers but his half-brother refuses to allow him to leave the asylum. Singleton escapes seventeen y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Trial (1917 Film)
''On Trial'' is a 1917 silent American drama film directed by James Young and starring Barbara Castleton. It was produced by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company and distributed through First National Exhibitors (later First National Pictures) as its first feature film. Cast * Barbara Castleton as Mrs. Robert Strickland *Sidney Ainsworth as Robert Strickland *Mary McAllister as Doris Strickland * James Young as Gerald Trask *Corene Uzzell as Mrs. Gerald Trask *Patrick Calhoun as Glover *John Cossar * Richard Foster Baker as The Judge *Harry Dunkinson as Attorney for the Defense *Marian Skinner as Strickland Family Housekeeper *Robert Bolder as Mr. Burke *Thomas Commerford as Hotel Owner *Frank Hamilton as Court Clerk *Doris Kenyon (uncredited) Preservation status A print of ''On Trial'' is preserved in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection The George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York comprises about 28,000 titles, including features, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Twist (1916 Film)
''Oliver Twist'' is a lost 1916 silent film drama produced by Jesse Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by James Young. It is based on the famous 1838 novel, ''Oliver Twist'', by Charles Dickens and the 1912 Broadway stage version of the novel. Marie Doro had played ''Oliver'' on Broadway in 1912 to much acclaim and was brought in by Lasky to reprise her role in this film. In fact, the main reason this film was made was to showcase Doro rather than Dickens. In the play, the parts of Nancy, Fagin and Bill Sykes were played by Constance Collier, Nat C. Goodwin and Lyn Harding respectively. Elsie Jane Wilson who had a supporting part in the play is Nancy in the film. Wilson and Doro are the only players from the play to appear in this film. Four film versions had been made prior to this film: in 1907, 1909 and two in 1912, the year of Doro's stage success. A later 1922 silent version starred Lon Chaney and Jackie Coogan. Plot summary Cast * Marie Doro - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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