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Julanne Johnston
Julanne Johnston (May 1, 1900 – December 26, 1988) was an American silent film actress. Biography Johnston was born and educated in Indianapolis, Indiana, then her family moved to Hollywood. There she took dancing lessons at the Denishawn School and acted with the Hollywood Community Theatre for two years. She also attended the Hollywood School for Girls. Johnston began her career as a solo dancer and toured with Ruth St. Denis during summer vacations from school. In 1924, she was selected to be a WAMPAS Baby Star. Douglas Fairbanks saw Johnston dance in a theater before the premiere of his film ''Robin Hood'', and this exposure resulted in his signing her to be the leading lady in '' The Thief of Bagdad'', with Anna May Wong in 1924. The same year, she was on William Randolph Hearst's yacht the ''Oneida'' during the weekend in November 1924 when film director and producer Thomas Ince later died of apparent heart failure (many conspiracy theories exist about Ince's death). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indianapolis
Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion County was 977,203 in 2020. The "balance" population, which excludes semi-autonomous municipalities in Marion County, was 887,642. It is the 15th most populous city in the U.S., the third-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, and the fourth-most populous state capital after Phoenix, Arizona, Austin, Texas, and Columbus. The Indianapolis metropolitan area is the 33rd most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with 2,111,040 residents. Its combined statistical area ranks 28th, with a population of 2,431,361. Indianapolis covers , making it the 18th largest city by land area in the U.S. Indigenous peoples inhabited the area dating to as early as 10,000 BC. In 1818, the Lenape relinquished their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Rajah
''The Young Rajah'' is a 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino. The film was based on the book ''Amos Judd'' by John Ames Mitchell. Plot After fifteen years, Joshua Judd ( Charles Ogle) tells his adopted son, Amos (Valentino), that his real father was an Indian maharajah overthrown by Ali Khan (Bertram Grassby). Amos, then a young boy (played by an uncredited Pat Moore), was rescued by General Devi Das Gadi ( George Periolat) and taken to America for his safety. (Joshua's merchant brother had been a trusted friend of the late maharajah.) Amos attends Harvard University. There he incurs the hatred of Austin Slade, Jr. (Jack Giddings), whom he beats out for a spot on the rowing team. At a party celebrating a rowing victory over arch-rival Yale, a jealous Slade calls Amos "yellow" and pours a drink on him, causing Amos to punch him. Slade grabs a chair as a weapon, but Amos ducks, and Slade falls through an open window to his death. Amos is cleared of all wrongdoing, but th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Time Charley
''Good Time Charley'' is a 1927 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz. The film apparently had a Vitaphone soundtrack of music and effects. It was considered to be a lost film. However, as of January 2021, the film is listed as extant at the Library of Congress. Cast * Helene Costello as Rosita Keene * Warner Oland as Good Time Charley * Clyde Cook as Bill Collins * Montagu Love as John Hartwell * Hugh Allan as John Hartwell Jr. * Julanne Johnston as Elaine Keene * Robert Dudley as Optometrist (uncredited) * Gus Leonard as Card Player (uncredited) * Johnnie Walker Johnnie Walker is a brand of Scotch whisky now owned by Diageo that originated in the Scottish burgh of Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire. The brand was first established by grocer John Walker. It is the most widely distributed brand of blended ... as Charles Garrick (uncredited) References External links * * * 1927 films American silent fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus Of Venice
''Venus of Venice'' is a 1927 silent film romantic comedy directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Constance Talmadge and Antonio Moreno. Talmadge's own production unit produced with distribution through First National Pictures. Cast *Constance Talmadge - Carlotta *Antonio Moreno - Kenneth *Julanne Johnston - Jean *Edward Martindel - Journalist *Michael Vavitch - Marco *Arthur Thalasso - Ludvico * Andre Lanoy - Giuseppe *Carmelita Geraghty - Bride *Mario Carillo - Bridegroom *Tom Ricketts - Bride's father *Hedda Hopper - Jean's mother Preservation status *With the exception of one lost reel, the film survives. Prints held at UCLA Film and Television Archive and George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection The George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York comprises about 28,000 titles, including features, shorts, documentaries, newsreels, and experimental moving images. The collection is renowned for its holdings of silent f .... References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twinkletoes
''Twinkletoes'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent romantic drama film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Colleen Moore. The film, as with most of Moore's vehicles at this time, was produced by her husband John McCormick (producer), John McCormick with the couple distributing through Moore's resident studio First National Pictures, First National. This film is one of Moore's surviving films from the late silent era and is available on DVD. Plot Monica "Twinkletoes" Minasi, a motherless child of the London Limehouse district, is a brilliant young dancer who lives in poverty. She saves a crowd from abuse by the police through an impromptu performance, during which she meets Chuck Lightfoot, a champion fighter and older married man whose wife, Cissie, was the cause of the ruckus. Twinks finds herself slowly falling in love with Chuck but resists, because he is married and much older (he is in his late twenties, she might be as young as 15), but when he saves her from an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame Chance
''Dame Chance'' is a surviving 1926 American silent romantic drama film produced and released by independent companies David Hartford Productions and American Cinema Associates respectively. The stars are Julanne Johnston, Robert Frazer, Gertrude Astor, and Mary Carr. Copies of the film are held at the Library of Congress and the BFI British Film Institute. Cast *Julanne Johnston as Gail Vernon *Gertrude Astor as Nina Carrington *Robert Frazer as Lloyd Mason *David Hartford as Craig Stafford *Lincoln Stedman as Bunny Dean *Mary Carr Mary Carr (née Kenevan; March 14, 1874 – June 24, 1973), was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr. She appeared in more than 140 films between 1915 and 1956. She was given some of filmdoms plum mother roles in ... as Mrs. Vernon * John T. Prince as Sims References External links * * 1926 films American silent feature films Films based on short fiction 1926 romantic drama films American romantic drama f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloma Of The South Seas (1926 Film)
''Aloma of the South Seas'' is a 1926 American silent comedy drama film starring Gilda Gray as an erotic dancer, filmed in Puerto Rico and Bermuda, and based on a 1925 play of the same title by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens. The film was spoofed by a 1926 ''Mutt and Jeff'' animated cartoon, ''Aroma of the South Seas''. Plot Bob Holden (Percy Marmont), an embittered World War I veteran, has gone to the South Seas to drown in drink the memory of his old girlfriend, Sylvia (Julanne Johnston) who has married his best friend, Van Templeton (William Powell) in his absence. This happened only because Templeton withheld word from Sylvia that Holden had survived the war. In the South Seas, Holden becomes the object of Aloma’s (Gilda Gray) loving and ministering attentions and eventually promises to marry her. Naturally, Nuitane (Warner Baxter), Aloma’s abandoned Polynesian boyfriend is jealous. The plot gets thicker when Templeton and Sylvia arrive on the island rather inexplic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleasures Of The Rich
''Pleasures of the Rich'' is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and produced by Tiffany Pictures with a general distribution through Renown Pictures. The film featured several well known performers of the time, such as Helene Chadwick, Jack Mulhall, Hedda Hopper and Mary Carr. The film is now considered lost. Its trailer still exists and is housed at the Library of Congress. Cast * Helene Chadwick - Mary Wilson * Jack Mulhall - Frank Clayton * Hedda Hopper - Mona Vincent * Mary Carr - Kate Wilson * Marcin Asher - Henry 'Pushcart' Wilson * Lillian Langdon - Mrs. Clayton * Dorothea Wolbert - Maggie the Maid * Julanne Johnston Julanne Johnston (May 1, 1900 – December 26, 1988) was an American silent film actress. Biography Johnston was born and educated in Indianapolis, Indiana, then her family moved to Hollywood. There she took dancing lessons at the Denishawn Sch ... - Phylliss Worthing * Katherine Scott - Mrs. Worthing References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prude's Fall
''The Prude's Fall'' is a 1925 British silent film, silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Jane Novak, Julanne Johnston and Warwick Ward. The film was shot at Islington Studios, produced by a company that would soon develop into Gainsborough Pictures. It was an adaptation of a play by Rudolph Besier and May Edington with the screenplay written by Alfred Hitchcock. Its German title is ''Seine zweite Frau''. It was also known by the alternative title of ''Dangerous Virtue''. It was not very well regarded. Iris Barry's review in the ''Daily Mail'' ran as follows: "An English picture, not of first-rate quality, but with an interesting cast."''Daily Mail'', 23 November 1925, p. 6. Cast * Jane Novak as Beatrice Audley * Julanne Johnston as Sonia Roubetsky * Warwick Ward as Andre le Briquet * Hugh Miller (actor), Hugh Miller as Marquis de Rocqueville * Gladys Jennings as Laura Westonry * Miles Mander as Sir Neville Moreton * Henry Vibart as Dean Carey * Marie A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Parade
''The Big Parade'' is a 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Tom O'Brien, and Karl Dane. Written by World War I veteran, Laurence Stallings, the film is about an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes a friend of two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl. The film has been praised for its realistic depiction of warfare, and it heavily influenced a great many subsequent war films, especially '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1930). ''The Big Parade'' is regarded as one of the greatest films made about World War I, and in 1992 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Plot In the United States in 1917, James "Jim" Apperson's ( John Gilbert) idleness (in contrast to his hardworking brother) incurs the great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Pal
''Big Pal'' is a 1925 American silent sports drama film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring William Russell, Julanne Johnston and Mary Carr. A newly restored copy exists at the Library of Congress. It was released in Britain in 1926, distributed by Wardour Films. Synopsis A judge's daughter spurns his wealthy lifestyle and goes to do social work in poorer neighborhoods. There she meets a boxer contending for a championship. Cast * William Russell as Dan Williams * Julanne Johnston as Helen Truscott * Mary Carr as Mary Williams * Mickey Bennett as Johnny Williams * Hayden Stevenson as Tim Williams * Henry A. Barrows as Judge Truscott * Frank Hagney as Bill Hogan * Alison Skipworth Alison Skipworth (born Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Groom; 25 July 18635 July 1952) was an English stage and screen actress. Early years Skipworth was born in London. She was the daughter of Dr. Richard Ebenezer Groom and Elizabeth Rodgers, an ... as Agatha Briggs, truant officer (*u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City Of Temptation
''The City of Temptation'' (German: ''Die Stadt der Versuchung'') is a 1925 German silent drama film directed by Walter Niebuhr and starring Olga Tschechowa, Julanne Johnston and Adolf Klein.Grange p.196 Cast * Olga Tschechowa * Julanne Johnston as Wanda Menkoff * Adolf Klein * Hugh Miller * Adolf E. Licho * Hermann Picha * Malcolm Tod as Harry Stephenson * Andja Zimowa Andja is a village in Rakvere Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across ... References Bibliography * Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. External links * 1925 films 1925 drama films German drama films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films German black-and-white films Films based on British novels Silent drama films 1920s German films {{Germany-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
