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Laura Oakley
Laura Oakley (July 10, 1879 January 30, 1957) was an American silent film actress. Biography Born in Oakland, California, on July 10, 1879, Oakley was signed in 1912 by the Keystone Film Company and starred in about 50 films before her retirement from film in 1920. She starred with William Garwood in films such as ''Lord John in New York'' and ''The Grey Sisterhood''. In 1913, Oakley was elected police chief of Universal City, California, shortly after it was incorporated, when 8 of the 28 city's official positions were won by women. A little over a year later, she was sworn in as police officer number 99 of Los Angeles. In September 1915, Oakley married Universal Pictures cinematographer Milton Moore. Oakley died on January 30, 1957, in Altadena, California, survived by two children and six grandchildren. She was interred at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, mausoleum section MVMN, map 37, column AN, row 12, in Altadena. (as Laura Oakley Moore) Filmography Films * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay Area and the List of largest California cities by population, eighth most populated city in California. With a population of 440,646 in 2020, it serves as the Bay Area's trade center and economic engine: the Port of Oakland is the busiest port in Northern California, and the fifth busiest in the United States of America. An act to municipal corporation, incorporate the city was passed on May 4, 1852, and incorporation was later approved on March 25, 1854. Oakland is a charter city. Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal prairie, California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. In the late 18th century, it became part of a large ''rancho'' grant in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dumb Girl Of Portici
''The Dumb Girl of Portici'' is a 1916 American silent historical drama film directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber and starring Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian and Wadsworth Harris. It was adapted by Weber from the libretto by Germain Delavigne and Eugène Scribe for Daniel Auber's 1828 opera ''La muette de Portici'' (''The Mute of Portici''). The film marked Pavlova's only feature film performance. Overview The film was one of the most expensive film made at a cost at approximately $300,000. The film was the first major film directed by a woman director in the early 1910s. Plot Fenella (Anna Pavlova) is a poor Italian girl who falls in love with Duke d'Arcos (Wadsworth Harris), a Spanish nobleman. Cast * Anna Pavlova as Fenella * Rupert Julian as Masaniello * Wadsworth Harris as Duke d'Arcos * Douglas Gerrard as Alphonso * Jack Holt as Conde * Betty Schade as Isabella * Edna Maison as Elvira * Jack Hoxie as Perrone * William Wolbert as Pietro * Laura Oakle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses From Milwaukee
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for Hypocrisy, hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the Tragedy, tragic Greek chorus, chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Film Actresses
The following American film actresses are listed alphabetically. It contains both actresses born American and those who acquired American nationality later. Some actors who are well known for both film and TV work are also included in the list of American television actresses. Key to entries: : born in ''Nation'': this person was born abroad but was American by birth : ''Nationality''-born: this person acquired American citizenship later in life : a range is ''birth''–''death'' years : if year of death only is known, that is stated explicitly A * Beverly Aadland 1942–2010 *Mariann Aalda born *Caroline Aaron born * Diahnne Abbott born * Rose Abdoo born * Paula Abdul born * Donzaleigh Abernathy born *Whitney Able born *Candice Accola born * Amy Acker born *Jean Acker 1893–1978 * Bettye Ackerman 1924–2006 *Amy Adams born (born in Italy) * Brooke Adams born *Edie Adams 1927–2008 * Jane Adams born * Joey Lauren Adams born * Julie Adams 1926–2019 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Scraggs, Housemaid
''Sally Scraggs, Housemaid'' is a 1913 American silent short comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Leonard, Margarita Fischer and Laura Oakley.Massa p.479 In order to find material for her next work, a novelist pretends to be a housemaid and gains employment in a boarding house. Cast * Robert Z. Leonard as Frank Norcross * Margarita Fischer as Doris Lowrey / Sally Scraggs * Laura Oakley as Mrs. Shackleton * 'Snub' Pollard Harold Fraser (9 November 1889 – 19 January 1962), known professionally as Snub Pollard, was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s. Career Born in Melbourne, Australia, on 9 No ... as Butler References Bibliography * Massa, Steve. ''Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy''. BearManor Media, 2017. External links * 1913 short films 1913 comedy films American silent short films American drama films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures short films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Life's Story
''Her Life's Story'' (aka ''Her Life Story'' in some references) is a 1914 American silent supernatural drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. It was written by James Dayton, based on a poem called "The Cross" by Miriam Bade Rasmus.Blake, Michael F. (1998). "The Films of Lon Chaney". Vestal Press Inc. Page 27. . The film is now considered to be lost. Plot Carlotta, born into a poor family, is adopted by the wealthy nobleman Don Velasquez (Chaney). She grows up with her step-brother Don Manuel, and when they reach adulthood, they fall in love with each other. Don Velasquez doesn't approve of the union however. The son goes off to join the king's court for a time and when he returns six years later, he brings with him a wife and son. Carlotta develops an intense hatred for all of them, and later when she sees the young boy in a perilous situation, balancing on a window sill as he reaches out for a rose, she does nothing and allows the chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lights And Shadows (1914 Film)
''Lights and Shadows'' is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, starring Tom Forman, Pauline Bush and Lon Chaney. The screenplay was written by Ida May Park (De Grasse's wife). A still exists showing Lon Chaney as Bentley, just before he deserts his wife in the film. The picture is now considered to be a lost film. Plot Eve, a poor flower girl, learns that her mother, a singer, had married Bentley (Lon Chaney), the son of a rich man, but Bentley's father disinherited him for marrying a stage performer. So Bentley deserted his wife the night Eve was born, leaving the young mother penniless, and their nurse Matilde raised the girl after her mother died. When the old nurse falls ill, Eve gets a job in a cafe selling flowers to raise money to help the nurse. There she meets Victor Austin who makes advances towards her, but she manages to escape from him. When she returns home, she finds the nurse dead. Eve discovers some old letters that she thinks could aid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Escape (film)
''Her Escape'' is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. Lon Chaney not only acted in this film, he also wrote the screenplay. The Blake book on Chaney states the film was actually released earlier on December 13, 1914, but all other sources say December 27. The film is now considered to be lost. A creepy still exists of Chaney in the role of Pete, the blind man, showing him attacking his sister in the film (see plot synopsis). Chaney played the blind man in this film simply by rolling his eyes up into his head, similar to the method he used to play Pew, the blind pirate, in ''Treasure Island'' (1920). Plot Tom Walsh and his son Pete Walsh (Lon Chaney) are criminals, but his daughter Pauline is basically a good kid. One day, while they are forcing her to act as a lookout for them, a group of Salvation Army singers gives her a pamphlet on how to lead a good life. Pauline tells her father and brother that she wants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star Of The Sea (1915 Film)
''The Star of the Sea'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Phil K. Walsh, and starring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. The film is now considered to be lost. A still exists showing Lon Chaney in the role of Tomasco, the hunchbacked fisherman. Plot Mario Busoni is a young sculptor, whose uncle is Father Busoni, pastor of the Church of the Holy Name at Fiesole. Mario is hired to sculpt a life-sized statue of the Madonna for his uncle's church, and he is sent to Naples to do the work. There he meets Janice, a young model who invites him to live with her, but his uncle arrives and thwarts her plans. She tries to ensnare the young boy again later, but the uncle intervenes once more. Meanwhile, Mario tells his uncle that he must have a live model to work from; he hires Mary, a young widow who is raising a baby boy on her own, and he uses them both to model for his statue of the Virgin and Child. Tomasco, a hunchbacked fisherman (Lon Chaney), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Box (serial)
''The Black Box'' is a 1915 American drama film, drama film serial directed by Otis Turner. This serial is considered to be Lost film, lost. The film was written in part by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a very popular novelist at the time. The story was also published in 1915 as a novel and as a newspaper serial. Both published editions were illustrated by photographic stills taken from the movie serial. In the novel version, about 30 stills from the movie are preserved. These can be seen in the Gutenberg.org version. Cast * Herbert Rawlinson as Sanford Quest * Ann Little as Lenora MacDougal (credited as Anna Little) * William Worthington (actor), William Worthington as Prof. Ashleigh / Lord Ashleigh * Mark Fenton as Police officer * Laura Oakley as Laura, Quest's assistant * Frank MacQuarrie as Craig * Frank Lloyd as Ian MacDouglas * Helen Wright as Lady Ashleigh * Beatrice Van as Ashleigh's daughter * Hylda Hollis as Mrs. Bruce Reinholdt (credited as Hilda Sloman) * J. Edwin Brown * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Idyll Of The Hills
''An Idyll of the Hills'' is a 1915 American short silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney and Pauline Bush. The film is now presumed lost. Plot Kate Graham is the prettiest girl in Breathitt County in the backwoods mountains of Kentucky. Two men are in love with her: Lafe Jameson (Lon Chaney), the leader of a feared gang of moonshiners, and Dick Massey (Millard K. Wilson), a handsome young man who longs for the opportunity to better himself. Dick is secretly learning to read, but one day Kate ignorantly ridicules him for trying to read, causing him to hide his book under a log and abandon his studies. Kate meets Frank Collins, a city man who is on vacation in the mountains, and she saves him from being bitten by a snake. She strikes up a friendship with Frank, but Lafe becomes violently jealous. Not wishing to stir up any trouble, Frank Collins writes Lafe a letter stating that he has no interest whatsoever in the girl, and bluntly describes her as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vanishing Dagger
''The Vanishing Dagger'' is a 1920 American adventure film serial directed by Edward A. Kull, J. P. McGowan, and Eddie Polo. It is presumed to be a lost film. Portions of this serial were filmed in England. The film had the working title ''The Thirteenth Hour''. Cast * Eddie Polo as John Edward Grant * Thelma Percy as Elizabeth Latimer * C. Norman Hammond as Sir George Latimer * Laura Oakley as Lady Mary Latimer * Ray Ripley as Prince Narr * Karl Silvera as Prince Zan * Ruth Royce as Sonia, Narr's Favorite * Thomas G. Lingham as King Claypool * Peggy O'Day as Nell (credited as Peggy O'Dare) * Texas Watts as Len, Grant's Man * Arthur Jarvis as Sir Richard Upton * Leach Cross * Leslie T. Peacocke * J. P. McGowan Plot Chapter titles # The Scarlet Confession # The Night of Terror # In Death's Clutches # On the Trail of the Dagger # The End of the Rustlers # A Terrible Calamity # Plunged to His Doom # In Unmerciful Hands # The Lights of Liverpool (a.k.a. Ferocious Foes) # When Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
