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LeRoy Stone
LeRoy Stone (January 5, 1894 – September 15, 1949) was an American film editor and a screenwriter. He worked on over 60 films, being nominated at the 17th Academy Awards in the category of Best Film Editing for his work on the film ''Going My Way''. Filmography ;Film *Civilization'' (1915) *'' The Toll Gate (as Le Roy Stone)'' (1920) *'' Sand!'' (1920) *'' The Testing Block'' (1920) * Skin Deep (1922) *'' Eyes of the Forest'' (1923) * '' Flowing Gold'' (1924) *''The Woman on the Jury'' (1924) *'' Flirting with Love'' (1924) *'' If I Marry Again'' (1925) *''The Talker'' (1925) *'' The Lady Who Lied'' (1925) *'' Sailors' Wives'' (1928) *''Harold Teen'' (1928) *''The Butter and Egg Man'' (1928) *'' Show Girl'' (1928) *'' Naughty Baby'' (1928) *''Children of the Ritz'' (1929) * Prisoners'' (1929) *'' Twin Beds'' (1929) *'' Sally (uncredited)'' (1929) *'' Bride of the Regiment'' (1930) *'' Sunny (edited by)'' (1930) *''The Finger Points'' (1931) *''The Lady Who Dared'' (1931) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and ''Baghdad by the Bay''. San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailors' Wives
''Sailor's Wives'' is a lost 1928 silent film romantic-comedy directed by Joseph Henabery and starring Mary Astor. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures. Cast *Mary Astor as Carol Trent * Lloyd Hughes as Don Manning * Earle Foxe as Max Slater *Burr McIntosh as Dr. Bobs * Ruth Dwyer as Pat Scott *Jack Mower as Carey Scott *Olive Tell as Careth Lindsey *Robert Schable Robert Schable (August 31, 1873 – July 7, 1947) was an American stage and screen actor as well as a stage manager from Hamilton, Ohio. Biography A longtime stage player from the Charles Frohman company since the 1890s, Schable began in silent ... as Tom Lindsey * Gayne Whitman as Warren Graves *Bess True as "Deuces Wild" References External linksSailor's Wives @IMDb.com*period advertisement 1928 films American silent feature films Films directed by Joseph Henabery Lost American films First National Pictures films American black-and-white films 1928 romantic comedy films America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penrod And Sam (1931 Film)
''Penrod and Sam'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Leon Janney and Frank Coghlan Jr. It is an adaptation of the novel '' Penrod and Sam'' by Booth Tarkington. Beaudine had previously directed a 1923 silent version, and was invited to remake his earlier success. Plot Penrod Schofield and Sam Williams are good friends and founding members of the In-Or-In boy's club. Penrod is perpetually in trouble at school and in the neighborhood because of the pranks he plays. Georgie Bassett and Rodney Bitts, two other boys at school, are always complaining to adults about Penrod and Sam, so the boys will not allow them into their club. When Georgie's father, Mr. Bassett, tells this to Penrod's father, Henry Schofield, Mr. Schofield insists that the boys invite Georgie to join their club. Having been forced into accepting Georgie, they decide to make his initiation especially unpleasant. Rodney, who also dislikes the boys, then pretends that Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Who Dared
''The Lady Who Dared'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Beaudine and starring Billie Dove, Sidney Blackmer and Conway Tearle. Print survival, Library of Congress and Turner.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' p.99 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Plot Blackmail prompts a smuggler into obtaining incriminating photos of a diplomat's wife, but he falls in love with her instead. Cast * Billie Dove as Margaret Townsend * Sidney Blackmer as Charles Townsend * Conway Tearle as Jack Norton * Judith Vosselli as Julianne Boone-Fleming * Cosmo Kyrle Bellew as Seton Boone-Fleming * Ivan F. Simpson as Butler * Mathilde Comont as Chambermaid * Lloyd Ingraham Lloyd Chauncey Ingraham (November 30, 1874 – April 4, 1956) was an American film actor and director. Biography Born in Rochelle, Illinois, Ingraham appeared in more than 280 films between 1912 and 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Finger Points
''The Finger Points'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by John Monk Saunders, W.R. Burnett and Robert Lord. The film stars Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Robert Elliott, Clark Gable, Oscar Apfel and Robert Gleckler. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 11, 1931. Clark Gable was chosen to be Louis J. Blanco, the chief enforcer of the mob. Contracted with MGM, Gable filmed scenes for ''The Finger Points'', '' Night Nurse'', and ''The Easiest Way'' simultaneously. Plot Breckenridge "Breck" Lee (Richard Barthelmess) is a young, naïve kid from the South who comes to New York to get a job as a newspaperman. After getting hired by The Press, his first assignment is to expose the existence of a newly opened gambling parlor. Gangster Louis J. Blanco (Clark Gable) attempts to bribe Lee to keep quiet. Lee refuses to accept the bribe, and publishes an article about the casino which subsequently gets raided by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunny (1930 Film)
''Sunny'' is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Lawrence Gray, O. P. Heggie, and Inez Courtney. It was produced and released by First National Pictures. The film was based on the Broadway stage hit, '' Sunny'', produced by Charles Dillingham, which played from September 22, 1925, to December 11, 1926. Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by Warner Brothers to reprise the role that made her the highest-paid star on Broadway. Plot Marylin Miller plays the part of an American circus performer, doing her act in a British circus, who is engaged to a man she does not love. A former boyfriend, played by Lawrence Gray, stops by to see her before taking a boat back to the United States. Miller realizing that she loves Gray, decides to run away. She embarks on the same boat that Lawrence takes. Her father, who realizes what his daughter has done, reaches the boat just as it is about to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bride Of The Regiment
''Bride of the Regiment'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical film directed by John Francis Dillon and filmed entirely in Technicolor. The screenplay by Ray Harris and Humphrey Pearson is based on the book of the 1922 stage musical ''The Lady in Ermine'' by Frederick Lonsdale and Cyrus Wood, which had been adapted from the 1919 operetta ''Die Frau im Hermelin'' by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch. The story is a remake of a 1927 First National silent film, ''The Lady in Ermine'', that starred Corinne Griffith. It was later remade by 20th Century-Fox as ''That Lady in Ermine'' (1948) starring Betty Grable and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Plot The film takes place during a period in which Austria controlled Italy during the Austro-Italian War of 1830. Colonel Vultow, played by Walter Pidgeon, leader of Austrian cavalry regiment, is sent to Italy to put down a revolt led by the Lombardian aristocracy. Vultow decides to go to the castle of Count Adrian Beltrami, played by Allan Prior, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally (1929 Film)
''Sally'' is a 1929 Hollywood film. It is the fourth all-sound, all-color feature film made, and it was photographed in the Technicolor process. It was the sixth feature film to contain color that had been released by Warner Bros., the first five were ''The Desert Song (1929 film), The Desert Song'' (1929), ''On with the Show! (1929 film), On with the Show!'' (1929), ''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' (1929), ''Paris (1929 film), Paris'' (1929), and ''The Show of Shows'' (1929). (''Song of the West'' was completed by June 1929, but had its release delayed until March 1930). Although exhibited in a few select theaters in December 1929, ''Sally'' went into general release on January 12, 1930. It was based on the Broadway stage hit ''Sally (musical), Sally'', produced by Florenz Ziegfeld (which played at The New Amsterdam Theatre, from December 21, 1920 to April 22, 1922), and retains three of the stage production's Jerome Kern songs ("Look for the Silver Lining", "Sally", and "Wild Rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Beds (1929 Film)
''Twin Beds'' is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Alfred Santell and written by F. McGrew Willis. It is based on the 1914 play '' Twin Beds'' by Edward Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo. The film stars Jack Mulhall, Patsy Ruth Miller, Edythe Chapman, Knute Erickson, Jocelyn Lee and Nita Martan. The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 14, 1929. Plot Elsie Dolan (Patsy Ruth Miller), accidentally finding herself in the office of songwriter Danny Brown (Jack Mulhall), achieves Broadway success with Danny's help. Marrying Danny out of gratitude, she is temporarily enchanted by her egotistical leading man Monty Solari (Armand Kaliz), leading to an evening of misunderstandings, door-slammings and hasty retreats under the bed when the very-married Solari wanders drunkenly into Danny and Elsie's apartment. Previously filmed in 1920, Twin Beds was memorably remade in 1942 with George Brent, Joan Bennett and Mischa Auer. Cast *Jack Mulhall as Danny Brown *Patsy Ruth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisoners (1929 Film)
''Prisoners'' is a 1929 American film produced by Walter Morosco and directed by William Seiter for First National Pictures. The screenplay was written by Forrest Halsey, based on the novel by Ferenc Molnar. Lee Garmes was the cinematographer. It was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature with Corinne Griffith, James Ford, Bela Lugosi, Ian Keith, and Otto Matiesen. Lugosi, in his first talkie, played Brottos, the owner of a Vienna nightclub. Lugosi was very happy that his first sound film was set in Hungary (where he was born) and that the story was based on a Ferenc Molnar Hungarian novel. While Lugosi was off filming "Prisoners", he was temporarily replaced in the San Francisco "Dracula" stage play by one Frederick Pymm (who normally played Butterworth, the attendant). The relatively short sound segment (most of the film is subtitled) picks up with the climactic trial sequence. Critics stated "Bela Lugosi makes a very European villain", but were disappointed that Grif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Of The Ritz
''Children of the Ritz'' is a 1929 drama film from First National Pictures. Starring Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. The movie was silent with its own Vitaphone soundtrack and sound effects recorded on Vitaphone phonographic records, and may have been released in dual silent and sound versions. The plot is based on a Cornell Woolrich story. Plot A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur. Their situations are changed when her family loses all their money and he wins $50,000 at a racetrack. They get married, but it's not long before she starts spending their money the way she used to spend hers. Cast *Dorothy Mackaill - Angela Pennington *Jack Mulhall - Dewey Haines * James Ford - Gil Pennington *Richard Carlyle - Mr. Pennington *Evelyn Hall - Mrs. Pennington *Kathryn McGuire - Lyle Pennington *Frank Hall Crane - Butler (*Frank Crayne) *Edmund Burns - Jerry Wilder (*Eddie Burns) * Doris Dawson - Margie Haines *Aggie Herring - Mrs. Haines *Lee Moran Lee Moran (June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naughty Baby (film)
''Naughty Baby'' is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Alice White and Jack Mulhall. It was released on December 16, 1928, by First National Pictures. Plot Rosalind McGill (White) is a cloak room girl. She falls for a rich boy (Mulhall), who may not actually be rich. Cast *Alice White as Rosalind McGill *Jack Mulhall as Terry Vandeveer *Thelma Todd as Bonnie Le Vonne * Doris Dawson as Polly * James Ford as Terry's pal *Natalie Joyce as Goldie Torres *Frances Hamilton as Bonnie's pal *Fred Kelsey as Dugan *Rose Dione as Madame Fleurette *Fanny Midgley as Mary Ellen Toolen *Larry Banthim as Toolen *Georgie Stone as Tony Caponi *Benny Rubin as Benny Cohen *Andy Devine as Joe Cassidy *Raymond Turner as Terry's valet Preservation The film was considered a lost film, with only the Vitaphone soundtrack still in existence. However, a print of ''Naughty Baby'' was discovered at the Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
