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Julien Josephson
Julien Josephson (October 24, 1881 – April 14, 1959) was an American motion picture screenwriter. His career spanned between 1914 and 1943. He was a native of Roseburg, Oregon. Career Josephson was well known for his early silent movie adaptions of theatrical works such as Oscar Wilde's ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1925) and Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood's '' The Bat'' (1926). He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on George Arliss' ''Disraeli'' (1929). He later wrote or co-wrote many popular films, including the Shirley Temple vehicles ''Heidi'' and ''Wee Willie Winkie'' (both 1937), ''Suez'' (1938) and '' Stanley and Livingstone'' (1939). Partial filmography *'' Mountain Dew'' (1917) *'' Playing the Game'' (1918) *''The Biggest Show on Earth'' (1918) *''Fuss and Feathers'' (1918) *'' String Beans'' (1918) *''Greased Lightning'' (1919) *''Hay Foot, Straw Foot'' (1919) *'' Bill Henry'' (1919) *'' The Egg Crate Wallop'' (1919) *'' Crooked Strai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Julien may refer to: People * Julien (given name) * Julien (surname) Music * ''Julien'' (opera), a 1913 poème lyrique by Gustave Charpentier * ''Julien'' (album), by Dalida, 1973 * "Julien" (song), by Carly Rae Jepsen, 2019 Places United States * Julien's Auctions, an auction house in Los Angeles, California * Julien's Restorator (ca.1793-1823), a restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts * Julien Hall (Boston), a building built in 1825 in Boston, Massachusetts * Brasserie Julien, an American restaurant in New York City Elsewhere * Julien Day School, a co-educational primary, secondary and senior secondary school in Kolkata, West Bengal, India * Julien Inc., a Canadian stainless steel fabrication company * Camp Julien, the main base for the Canadian contingent of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, Afghanistan * Fort Julien, a fort in Egypt originally built by the Ottoman Empire and occupied by the French * Pont Julien, a Roman stone arch bridge over th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playing The Game
''Playing the Game'' is a 1918 American silent comedy drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by Julien Josephson and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Charles Ray, Doris May, Harry L. Rattenberry, Robert McKim, William Elmer, and Leota Lorraine. The film was released on May 5, 1918, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives, and it may be a lost film. Plot As described in a film magazine, believing that killed a professional dancer in a cafe brawl, Larry Prentiss (Ray) along with his valet Hodges (Elmer) flee to the west to where he owns a ranch. The two are waylaid, robbed of their clothes, and set adrift. In this condition they are picked up by the foreman of Larry's ranch, Flash Purdy (McKim). Larry, wanting to make good on his merits, refuses to make known his identity. Hardships follow in which Larry incurs the enmity of Flash Purdy. Larry later saves the ranch payroll during a running gun fight and in the midst of a hand-to-ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Curve Ahead
''Dangerous Curve Ahead'' is a 1921 American silent comedy starring Helene Chadwick and Richard Dix. The film is considered to be lost. Plot As described in a film magazine, Phoebe Mabee (Chadwick) is a much sought after small town belle who quarrels with her fiancé Harley Jones (Dix) after a flirtation with city youth Anson Newton (Flynn). After a period of weepy repentance the engagement is renewed and they are wed. After the children come, there is a hiatus in the domesticity of the couple. Jones is sent aboard by his job and she her children spend the summer at a watering place, where Phoebe meets her city charmer and the romance interrupted by her marriage is renewed. Phoebe develops social ambitions and these are helped along by Newton's aunt Mrs. Nixon (Lester), who is prominent in society and can help Phoebe get her social whirl. Jones the absent husband returns unexpectedly and finds one of the children ill and Phoebe about to keep an appointment to attend a function a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jailbird
''The Jailbird'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and written by Julien Josephson. The film stars Douglas MacLean, Doris May, Louis Morrison, William Courtright, Wilbur Higby, and Otto Hoffman. The film was released on October 10, 1920, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine, Shakespeare Clancy (MacLean), adroit in the art of opening safes, escapes from prison when his term still has six months to run and returns with 'Skeeter' Burns (Morrison), a friend who has just finished his sentence, to Dodson, Kansas, where Shakespeare has inherited a run-down newspaper and some worthless real estate. His first issue of the newspaper antagonizes the people of the town, and he promotes an oil stock scheme to get their money, setting up a well on his property. After he has collected money from practically all of the town residents, he prepares for his getaway only to find that Alice Whitney (May), a young woman he has come to love, owns t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homespun Folks
''Homespun Folks'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Lloyd Hughes, Gladys George and George Webb. It was produced on a budget of $137,000, and grossed $241,000 at the box offices.Taves p.167-68 Plot A young lawyer is appointed district attorney, but then finds himself accused of murder. Cast * Lloyd Hughes as Joel Webster * Gladys George as Beulah Rogers * George Webb as Tracy Holt * Al W. Filson as Pliny Rogers * Fred Gamble as Gabe Howard * Charles Hill Mailes as Caleb Webster * Lydia Knott as Sarah Webster * Gordon Sackville as Watt Tanner * Willis Marks Willis Marks (August 20, 1865, Rochester, Minnesota, United States – December 6, 1952, Los Angeles, California) was an American silent film actor. Biography In 1888, Marks debuted on stage professionally. He acted in Oliver Morosco's stock c ... as Joseph Hargan * James Gordon as Hilary Rose * Edith Murgatroyd as Widow Stinson * Jefferson Osborne as Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Green (film)
''Paris Green'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Jerome Storm and written by Julien Josephson. The film stars Charles Ray, Ann May, Bert Woodruff, Gertrude Claire, Donald MacDonald, and Gordon Mullen. The film was released in June 1920, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine, Corporal Luther Green (Ray), famously known as Paris Green, has one hour to see Paris before sailing home. At lunch he meets Ninon (May), a French girl who is planning to visit her uncle in America. Luther gives her his address. Luther finds upon his return to Quigley Corners, New Jersey, that his former sweetheart has transferred her affections to another, so he decides to go to New York City and forget her. On the road to the railroad station he meets Ninon, who having missed her uncle at the pier was going to the only address in the United States that she knows. Luther takes her back to his family's farm and advertises in the papers. Ninon's uncle arrives in respon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Hot Dollars
''Red Hot Dollars'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Jerome Storm and written by Julien Josephson. The film stars Charles Ray, Gladys George, Charles Hill Mailes, William Conklin, and Mollie McConnell. The film was released on December 28, 1919, by Paramount Pictures. A copy of the film is in the Godfilmofond archive in Moscow. Plot As described in a film magazine, Tod Burke (Ray), a laborer in Peter Garton's (Conklin) steel mill, is severely injured while saving the life of his employer. Because he is without a family, Tod is taken to the Garton mansion to recuperate. The steel magnate becomes very attached to Tod and adopts him. As soon as he has regained his health, he rushes to the home of his sweetheart Janet Muir (George) to tell her of his good luck. He is ejected from the home by Angus Muir (Mailes), Janet's grandfather, who is a bitter enemy of Garton. The feud between Muir and Garton has existed for many years, and had its origin in the unscrupulous dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crooked Straight
''Crooked Straight'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Jerome Storm and written by Julien Josephson. The film stars Charles Ray, Wade Boteler, Margery Wilson, Gordon Mullen, and Otto Hoffman. The film was released on November 9, 1919, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives. Plot “A youth comes to the city and is the victim of crooks. He is left by them penniless and discouraged. Driven to desperation, he becomes a safe-cracker himself, but in the end, of course, returns to honest living and marries the heroine.” The New York Times, October 20, 1919. p. 13 Cast * Charles Ray as Ben Trimble *Wade Boteler as Spark Nelson *Margery Wilson as Vera Owen *Gordon Mullen as Chick Larrabee *Otto Hoffman Otto F. Hoffman (May 2, 1879 – June 23, 1944) was an American film actor. He appeared in almost 200 films between 1915 and 1944. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California, from lung cancer. Hoffman's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Egg Crate Wallop
''The Egg Crate Wallop'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film starring Charles Ray (actor), Charles Ray and featuring actress Colleen Moore. The film was directed by Jerome Storm and Thomas H. Ince was its producer. Plot Jim Kelly (Charles Ray) works for a railroad express company in a small Midwest town. After years of heavy lifting, he has developed quite a punch. He is infatuated with Kitty Haskell (Colleen Moore), the daughter of his boss (J.P. Lockner), whom he has worked with for years. Jim has a rival for Kitty's attentions, a city boy who one day watches Mr. Haskell deposit money in the railroad safe. He memorized the combination and later steals the deposit from the safe. Suspicion for the theft falls on both Mr. Haskell and Jim, and Jim decides to go on the run, thinking that Mr. Haskell is guilty and hoping to divert attention from him. He goes to the city, develops his boxing skills, moves to the top of the roster and on the night of the big fight he refuses to throw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Henry (film)
''Bill Henry'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Jerome Storm, and written by Julien Josephson and Lois Zellner. The film stars Charles Ray, Edith Roberts, William A. Carroll, Bert Woodruff, Jennie Lee, and Walter Perkins. The film was released on August 17, 1919, by Paramount Pictures. A print of the film is in the Russian Gosfilmofond film archive. Plot As described in a film magazine, Bill Henry Jenkins (Ray) leaves the family farm with a patent vibrator under his arm and speeds across the nation on his bicycle in search of fortune. He is assaulted by an irate farmer and takes refuge in a small town hotel run by his uncle, where he gets a position as a clerk. Lela Mason (Roberts) comes to the hotel, having spent her last cent to arrive there. She has inherited a piece of farm land only to be told by the local lawyer that it is worthless, which raised Bill Henry's sympathy. He plays poker with the traveling men to win enough money to buy the property, keeping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hay Foot, Straw Foot
''Hay Foot, Straw Foot'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Jerome Storm and written by Julien Josephson. The film stars Charles Ray, Doris May, William Conklin, Spottiswoode Aitken and J. P. Lockney. The film was released on June 22, 1919, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives. Plot As described in a film magazine, enlistee Ulysses S. Grant Briggs (Ray) is bound by his father Thaddeus Briggs (Aitken), a veteran of the Civil War, to emulate his illustrious namesake in all things. He is charged in a court-martial for entering a notorious roadhouse against orders and rescuing Betty Martin (May), a young woman who aspires to the stage and had just taken part in a military camp entertainment, from the wiles of a man posing as a vaudeville agent. His father appears at the camp hearing and insists that his boy must have had a good reason for his action, but his son refuses to speak. Betty considers the disgrace she caused to the yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greased Lightning (1919 Film)
''Greased Lightning'' is a surviving 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Jerome Storm and written by Julien Josephson. The film stars Charles Ray, Wanda Hawley, Robert McKim, Willis Marks, Bert Woodruff, and J. P. Lockney. The film was released on April 27, 1919, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine, village blacksmith Andy Fletcher (Ray) is about to purchase a new car when Laban Flint (Marks), the town banker, warns him to stay clear of his daughter Alice (Hawley) with the vehicle. Since Alice was the cause of Andy's desire in making the purchase, he is dissuaded. But a lucky trade brings a motored relic into his possession and Flint is pacified. During a drive into the country with Alice and her father, the car breaks down and an estrangement ensues when Alice departs in the elegant machine of Alden J. Armitage (McKim), a wealthy investor recently come to Piperville. Some time later Armitage arranges an automobile race and Andy enters his chas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
