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List Of LGBT-related Films Of The 1920s
1920s {, class="wikitable sortable" ! width="16%" , Title ! width="3%" , Year ! width="15%" , Director ! width="17%" , Country ! width="13%" , Genre ! width="23%" , Cast ! width="46%" , Notes , - valign="top" , - , ''An Adventuress'', , 1920 , , , , United States , , Drama , , , , , - , ''Manslaughter'', , 1922 , , , , United States , , Drama , , Leatrice Joy, Thomas Meighan, Lois Wilson, John Miltern, George Fawcett, Julia Faye, Edythe Chapman, Jack Mower, Dorothy Cumming, Casson Ferguson, Mickey Moore, James Neill, Sylvia Ashton, Raymond Hatton, Mabel Van Buren, Ethel Wales, Dale Fuller, Edward Martindel , , Based on the novel of the same name by Alice Duer Miller; first film to show an erotic kiss between two members of the same sex , - , '' Salomé'', , 1923 , , , , United States , , Biography, drama , , Alla Nazimova, Michael Lewis, Rose Dione, Earl Schenck, Arthur Jasmine, Nigel De Brulier, Frederick Peters, Louis Dumar , , Base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Isle Of Love
''The Isle of Love'' is a 1922 recut of a 1920 American silent drama film ''Over the Rhine'' aka ''An Adventuress'' starring female impersonator Julian Eltinge. The film also contained two actors unknown during filming: Virginia Rappe and Rudolph Valentino. The film went through various recuts and re-releases during the 1920s and is generally known for its cast. at silentera.com Plot An island ("The Isle of Love"), run by a power-mad duke, is in turmoil. The peasants plan a revolt, with two buddies, including Cliff (Julian Eltinge), planning to overthrow the corrupt Duke. Cliff invites his friend Jacques (Rudolph Valentino) to help, though Jacques spends most of his time with his love Vanette (Virginia Rappe). Meanwhile, Cliff dresse ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Fuller (actress)
Dale Fuller (born Marie Dale Phillipps; June 17, 1885 – October 14, 1948) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1915 and 1935. She is best known for her role as the maid in ''Foolish Wives''. Early life Marie Dale Phillipps was born in Santa Ana, California on June 17, 1885. She attended convent schools in Los Angeles and Chicago. Fan magazines from the time claimed that she attended and graduated from Mills College, and Myrtle Gebhardt reported that Fuller lost her family at 19. Fuller said family illness brought her to California, where she decided to act. Career In 1908, she performed as a soubrette in the comedy ''The Trouper''. She then joined the cast of Harry Bulgur’s ''The Flirting Princess'', a musical revue, in 1910 and toured with it off and on throughout San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, and Rhode Island. The same year, she performed in the chorus of Florenz Ziegfeld’s ''The Girl in the Kimona'' in Chicago. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Literae Humaniores#Greats, Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional Classics, classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salome (play)
''Salome'' (French: ''Salomé'', ) is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French; an English translation was published three years later. The play depicts the attempted seduction of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) by Salome, step-daughter of Herod Antipas; her dance of the seven veils; the execution of Jokanaan at Salome's instigation; and her death on Herod's orders. The first production was in Paris in 1896. Because the play depicted biblical characters it was banned in Britain and was not performed publicly there until 1931. The play became popular in Germany, and Wilde's text was taken by the composer Richard Strauss as the basis of his 1905 opera ''Salome (opera), Salome'', the international success of which has tended to overshadow Wilde's original play. Film and other adaptations have been made of the play. Background and first production When Wilde began writing ''Salome'' in late 1891 he was known as an author and critic, but was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Dumar
Louis Dumar (3 April 1896–15 December 1955) was an American actor who had a brief career during the silent era. He is probably best remembered today for playing Tigellinus in '' Salomé'' (1922). Dumar was born as Luigi Liserani in Boston, Massachusetts in 1896, the son of recently arrived Italian immigrant parents Carlo Liserani and Caterina née Tessitori.Gino Liserani My Heritage website His two brothers were also actors: his older brother was (real name Gino Corrado Liserani), while another brother, Lawrence Liserani, worked mostly as an extra. Louis Dumar's film roles included: Prince Eiderstrom in '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Peters (actor)
Frederick Peters (born Frederick P. Tuite; June 30, 1884 – April 23, 1963), was an American film actor. He appeared in 17 films between the years 1918 and 1936. Biography He was born in Waltham, Massachusetts and died in Hollywood, California. His remains are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills. Selected filmography * ''Tarzan and the Golden Lion'' (1922) * '' Salomé'' ( 1923) * '' The Oregon Trail'' (1923) * ''The Millionaire Cowboy ''The Millionaire Cowboy'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Harry Garson and starring Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn, Gloria Grey and Charles Crockett.Langman, p. 290 Cast * Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn as Charles Christopher Meredyth Jr., a ...'' (1924) * '' White Zombie'' (1932) * '' I Conquer the Sea!'' (1936) References External links * 1884 births 1963 deaths American male film actors American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel De Brulier
Nigel De Brulier (born Francis George Packer; 8 August 1877 – 30 January 1948) was an English stage and film actor who began his career in the United Kingdom before relocating to the United States. Biography De Brulier was born in Frenchay, a suburb of Bristol on August 8, 1877 as Francis George Packer, the son of James Packer, a Gloucestershire coachman, and his wife Louisa Packer (née Field). De Brulier launched his career as an actor and singer on the stage in his native country and transferred to the American stage after moving to Canada and then to the United States in 1898. In the 1900 U.S. census he was recorded as Francis G. Packer, butler, in a private household in Denver, Colorado. His first film role was a poet in ''The Pursuit of the Phantom'' in 1914. In 1915 he acted in the film ''Ghosts'' based on a play by Henrik Ibsen. He portrayed Cardinal Richelieu in the following four films, ''The Three Musketeers'' (1921), ''The Iron Mask'' (1929), ''The Three Musketeer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Jasmine
Arthur Jasmine (April 4, 1899 in St. Paul, Minnesota – August 19, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) was an American film actor. Biography Jasmine began his career as a child actor at Essanay Studios in Niles, California. He appeared in 22 films between years 1915 in film, 1915 and 1925 in film, 1925 most notably in Alla Nazimova's ''Salomé (1923 film), Salomé'' (1923). Selected filmography Features: *''The Man in the Moonlight (1919 film), The Man in the Moonlight'' (1919 in film, 1919) * ''Common Property'' (1919) * ''Lasca (film), Lasca'' (1919) *''A Tokyo Siren'' (1920 in film, 1920) *''The Fire Cat'' (1921 in film, 1921) * ''Thunder Island (1921 film), Thunder Island'' (1921) *''The Son of the Wolf'' (1922 in film, 1922) *''The Ninety and Nine (1922 film), The Ninety and Nine'' (1922) *''Salomé (1923 film), Salomé'' (1923 in film, 1923) *''Scaramouche (1923 film), Scaramouche'' (1923) *''Lure of the Yukon'' (1924 in film, 1924) * ''Justice of the Far North'' (1925) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Schenck
Earl O. Schenck (13 May 1889 – 1962) was an American film actor. He appeared in 41 films between 1916 and 1946. Career After playing leading roles on Broadway and in Hollywood during the Silent era opposite such stars as Mae Murray, Mae Marsh, Norma Talmadge, Alia Nazimova and Marion Davies, Schenck developed "Klieg light eyes". Threatened with total blindness, he interrupted a distinguished stage career and went to Hawaii to rest. In the South Seas he found a new career as an explorer and ethnologist. He secured a roving commission from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, the leading museum in the world in Polynesian research, to make miniatures and gather artifacts of various Polynesian Islands and spent fourteen years traveling from island to island. During this time, Schenck also contributed to the National Geographic and other magazines. Returning to his homeland after twenty years of wandering, Schenck won success in still another field as a lecturer on the South Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Dione
Claudine Rosalie Gras (1 January 1877 – 1 January 1936), professionally known as Rose Dione, was a French-American actress who appeared in numerous silent era and pre-code films. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1910 and 1932. She was born in Dardilly, Rhône in France, and died in Los Angeles, California. She was probably best known for her final role as Madame Tetrallini in the film ''Freaks'' (1932). Partial filmography * ''The Corsican Brothers'' (1917) * ''The World and Its Woman'' (1919) * '' It Happened in Paris'' (1919) * '' Suds'' (1920) * '' The Woman and the Puppet'' (1920) * '' Silk Hosiery'' (1920) * ''The Land of Jazz'' (1920) * '' The Great Lover'' (1920) * '' The Luck of the Irish'' (1920) * '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'' (1921) * ''Cheated Love'' (1921) * ''Silent Years'' (1921) * ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (1921) * ''Be My Wife'' (1921) * ''A Parisian Scandal'' (1921) * '' Under Two Flags'' (1922) * '' Omar the Tentmaker'' (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lewis
Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) Gale Biography In Context. is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to '' Vanity Fair'' since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance. Lewis was born in New Orleans and attended Princeton University, from which he graduated with a degree in art history. After attending the London School of Economics, he began a career on Wall Street during the 1980s as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers. The experience prompted him to write his first book, ''Liar's Poker'' (1989). Fourteen years later, Lewis wrote '' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game'' (2003), in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics. His 2006 book '' The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game'' was his first to be adapted into a film, '' The Blind Side'' (2009). In 2010, he r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova (Russian: Алла Назимова; born Marem-Ides Leventon, Russian: Марем-Идес Левентон; June 3 Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._May_22.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>O.S._May_22">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._May_22_1879_–_July_13,_1945)_was_a_Russian-American_actress,_director,_producer_and_screenwriter. On_ O.S._May_22">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._May_22_1879_–_July_13,_1945)_was_a_Russian-American_actress,_director,_producer_and_screenwriter. On_Broadway_theatre">Broadway,_she_was_noted_for_her_work_in_the_classic_plays_of_O.S._May_22">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._May_22_1879_–_July_13,_1945)_was_a_Russian-American_actress,_director,_producer_and_screenwriter. On_Broadway_theatre">Broadway,_she_was_noted_for_her_wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
