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Jazz Mad
''Jazz Mad'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Jean Hersholt, Marian Nixon, and George J. Lewis. It was produced and released by Universal Pictures. Cast *Jean Hersholt as Franz Hausmann *Marian Nixon as Elsa Hausmann *George J. Lewis as Leopold Ostberg *Roscoe Karns as Sol Levy *Torben Meyer as Kline *Andrew Arbuckle (actor), Andrew Arbuckle as Schmidt *Charles Clary as Mr. Ostberg *Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Ostberg *Patricia Caron as Miss Ostberg *Alfred Hertz as Symphony Conductor *Virginia Grey (uncredited) Preservation status A copy of ''Jazz Mad'' is preserved by the Library of Congress Packard Campus and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collections and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', (<-book title) p.92 c.1978 by The American Film Institute


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Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle (; born Karl Lämmle; January 17, 1867 – September 24, 1939) was a film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. He produced or worked on over 400 films. Regarded as one of the most important of the early film pioneers, Laemmle was born in what is now Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and worked in Chicago for 20 years before he began buying nickelodeons, eventually expanding into a film distribution service, the Laemmle Film Service, then into production as Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), later renamed Universal Film Manufacturing Company, and later still renamed Universal Pictures Company. Early life and education Karl Lämmle was born in 1867 to Julius Baruch Lämmle and Rebekka Lämmle, a Jewish couple in the Radstrasse, a street in the Jewish quarter of Laupheim, in the Kingdom of Württemberg. His father was a cattle merchant, also involved in land transactions. The family struggled financial ...
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Andrew Arbuckle (actor)
Andrew Arbuckle (September 5, 1887 – September 21, 1938) was an American theatre, stage and film actor. He was the brother of Macklyn Arbuckle and cousin of Roscoe Arbuckle, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Early life Arbuckle was born in Galveston, Texas, to a family of Scottish Americans, Scottish descent. His brother Macklyn was 20 years old at the time of Andrew's birth. Career Arbuckle first made his film debut in ''Little Mary Sunshine'' (1916), playing Bob's father. In 1935, he made his last appearance in film ''The Dark Angel (1935 film), The Dark Angel'' in an uncredited role as Mr. Gallop. He appeared in a total 44 films, uncredited in ten of them. He is known for his appearances in ''Peggy Leads the Way'', ''The Family Skeleton'' and ''Little Mary Sunshine''. Personal life Arbuckle married Blanche Duquesne, daughter of French Americans, French immigrants, in October 1915. They had no children. Death Andrew Arbuckle died on September 21, 1938, in Los Angeles, aged 51 ...
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1928 Drama Films
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Silent American Drama Films
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American Black-and-white Films
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Universal Pictures Films
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American Silent Feature Films
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1928 Films
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UCLA Film And Television Archive
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the archive screens over 400 films and videos a year, primarily at the Billy Wilder Theater, located inside the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California. (Formerly, it screened films at the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus). The archive is funded by UCLA, public and private interests, and the entertainment industry. It is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives. The Archive is a division of the UCLA Library. As of January 2021, its collection hosted more than 500,000 items, including approximately 159,000 motion picture titles and 132,000 television titles, more than 27 million feet of newsreels, more than 222,000 broadcast recordings and more than 9,000 radio transcription discs. History The Archive hosted virtual screenin ...
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Library Of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains a conservation center in Culpeper, Virginia. The library's functions are overseen by the Librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the Architect of the Capitol. The Library of Congress is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 470 languages." Congress moved to Washington, D.C., in 1800 after holding sessions for eleven years in the temporary national capitals in New York City and Philadelphia. In both cities, members of the U.S. Congress had access to the sizable collection ...
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Virginia Grey
Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004) was an American actress who appeared in over 100 films and a number of radio and television shows from the 1930s to the early 1980s. Biography Grey was born on March 22, 1917, in Edendale, California, the youngest of three daughters of Florence Anna Grey (née Pauly; 1890—1930) and director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was movie star Gloria Swanson. Grey debuted at the age of 10 in the silent film ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1927) as Little Eva. She continued acting for a few more years, but then left movies for three years to finish her education. Grey gave up on training to be a nurse and returned to films in the 1930s with bit parts and work as an extra. She eventually signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and appeared in several films, including ''The Hardys Ride High'' (1939) with Mickey Rooney, '' Another Thin Man'' (1939) with William Powell, ''Hullabaloo'' (1940), and '' The Big Store'' (1941) with t ...
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Alfred Hertz
Alfred Hertz (15 July 1872 – 17 April 1942) was a Prussian-born conductor. Early life He was born in Frankfurt, Province of Hesse-Nassau, Prussia (in present-day Germany). As a child, he contracted infantile paralysis and walked with a cane after that. In 1898, Hertz met the British composer Frederick Delius, who was then living in Paris, and on 30 May 1899, at the age of 26, Hertz conducted the first concert of Delius's music, in St James's Hall in London. Career Hertz first came to prominence conducting Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Some of the performances he conducted were experimentally recorded by the Met's librarian Lionel Mapleson on what are now known as the Mapleson Cylinders and later issued on LP. He first came to San Francisco as a conductor of the Metropolitan Opera during its 1906 tour and was present when the city was devastated by earthquake and fire. In 1913 he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic's first recording session, in excerpts ...
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