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List Of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Films (1924–1929)
The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released between 1924 and 1929. See also * Lists of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films References {{DEFAULTSORT:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1924-1929) 1924-1929 American films by studio 1920s in American cinema Lists of 1920s films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by amazon (company), Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 and based in Beverly Hills, California. MGM was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions, Louis B. Mayer Pictures into one company. It hired a number of well known actors as contract players—its slogan was "more stars than there are in heaven"—and soon became Hollywood's most prestigious film studio, producing popular musical films and winning many Academy Awards. MGM also owned film studios, movie lots, movie theaters and technical production facilities. Its most prosperous era, from 1926 to 1959, was bracketed by two productions of ''Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben Hur''. After that, it divested itself of the Loews movie theater chain, and, in the 1960s, diversified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Hour
''His Hour'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor. This film was the follow-up to Samuel Goldwyn's '' Three Weeks'', written by Elinor Glyn, and starring Aileen Pringle, one of the biggest moneymakers at the time of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer amalgamation. Plot Gritzko (John Gilbert) is a Russian nobleman and Tamara (Aileen Pringle) is the object of his desire. Cast * Aileen Pringle as Tamara Loraine * John Gilbert as Gritzko * Emily Fitzroy as Princess Ardacheff * Lawrence Grant as Stephen Strong * Dale Fuller as Olga Gleboff *Mario Carillo as Count Valonne * Jacqueline Gadsden as Tatiane Shebanoff (credited as Jacquelin Gadsdon) * George Waggner as Sasha Basmanoff (credited as George Waggoner) * Carrie Clark Ward as Prinncess Murieska * Bertram Grassby as Boris Varishkine * Jill Reties as Sonia Zaieskine * Wilfred Gough as Lord Courtney * Frederick Vroom as English Minister * Mathilde Comont as Fat Harem Lady * E. Eliazaroff as Khedive * David Mir as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wife Of The Centaur
''The Wife of the Centaur'' is a 1924 American silent film, silent drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shortly after it formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer, Mayer Pictures in April 1924. Metro had acquired the movie rights to Cyril Hume's debut novel ''Wife of a Centaur'' (Doran, 1923) in November."Cub Reporter Gets $25,000 For Movie Rights To Novel". The Baltimore Sun, ''The Sun'' (Baltimore). November 23, 1923. Dateline "New York, Nov. 22 (Special)". "Movie Facts and Fancies". ''Boston Daily Globe''. December 1, 1923, page 2. A novelist imagines that he has been reincarnated as a Centaur, creature from Greek mythology and becomes entangled in a love triangle.Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 342 Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, author and poet Jeffrey Dwyer (Gilbert) has a conflicted nature, at times he has high ideals but he also feels strongly the appeal of the purely sensual. He is s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So This Is Marriage
''So This Is Marriage'' is a lost 1924 American silent drama film directed by Hobart Henley. The film was originally released with sequences filmed in the Technicolor 2-color process that depicted the story of David and Bathsheba from the Book of Samuel. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, after their engagement, where he dreams of wealth and power, a big house full of boys, and she of clothes, Peter Marsh (Nagel) marries Beth (Boardman) and their troubles begin. Beth is extravagant and Peter becomes irritated and they have frequent rows. Peter prospers in business yet has a hard time meeting their bills. Rankin (Cody), a connoisseur of women, sees Beth and frames-up an accident to her car so he can come to her assistance. Finally, he invites her to a dance and Peter, who has chided her regarding this acquaintance as he sees how Rankin is endeavoring to win his wife, orders her not to go. She goes anyway and they have a terrible row. Beth leaves and goes to Rankin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Accuser
''The Silent Accuser'' is a 1924 American silent crime drama film directed by Chester M. Franklin. The film stars dog star Peter the Great, Eleanor Boardman, and Raymond McKee. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, while waiting for Jack (McKee), with whom she intends to elope, Barbara (Boardman) is accosted in her bedroom by Phil (Metcalfe), a boarder in her home, who is maddened with jealousy. Her screams attract her aged stepfather. She faints and Phil leaves the room in time to be met by the stepfather (Weigel), whom he kills. Peter, Jack's dog, witnesses the murder through the window. Phil escapes and Jack arrives just in time to be in a compromising position. He is convicted of the murder. Peter gains the confidence of the warden and carries messages between Jack and Barbara. When Jack escapes, Peter holds off the guards. Barbara and Jack and Peter cross the border. In a Mexican town they recognize Phil. Barbara lures Phil to their place of hiding, when Peter br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snob (1924 Film)
''The Snob'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Monta Bell. The film starred Norma Shearer and John Gilbert (prior to their stardom), together with Phyllis Haver, Conrad Nagel, and Hedda Hopper. The film was written by Monta Bell, and was based on the novel ''The Snob: The Story of a Marriage'' by Helen Reimensnyder Martin. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, just as Nancy Claxton (Shearer) finished at a convent school, her wealthy father Sherwood (Sackville) is killed in a roadhouse brawl. Stung by the disgrace, she disappears and her sweetheart, Herrick (Nagel), is unable to find her. Three years pass and Nancy is teaching school in the quaint Mennonite colony in Pennsylvania. She falls in love with an ambitious teacher, Eugene (Gilbert). They become engaged and Eugene gets a job as professor at an academy in a nearby town. He becomes popular and conceited, succeeds in winning favor of Dorothy (Haver), whose father owns the school. Eugene is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldwyn Pictures
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company that operated from 1916 to 1924 when it was merged with two other production companies to form the major studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was founded on November 19, 1916, by Samuel Goldwyn, an executive at Lasky's Feature Play Company (later Paramount Pictures), and Broadway producer brothers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using an amalgamation of both last names to name the company. The studio proved moderately successful, but became most famous due to its iconic Leo the Lion trademark. Although Metro was the nominal survivor, the merged studio inherited Goldwyn's old facility in Culver City, California where it would remain until 1986. The merged studio also retained Goldwyn's Leo the Lion logo. Lee Shubert of The Shubert Organization was an investor in the company. History Goldfish, which was Goldwyn's original last name, had left Lasky's Feature Play Company, of which he was a co-founder, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Who Gets Slapped (film)
''He Who Gets Slapped'' is a 1924 American silent psychological thriller film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert, and directed by Victor Sjöström (credited as Victor Seastrom). The film was written by Victor Seastrom and Carey Wilson, based on the Russian play ''He Who Gets Slapped'' (''Тот, кто получает пощёчины''; ''Tot, kto polučájet poščóčiny'') by playwright Leonid Andreyev, which was completed by Andreyev in August 1915, two months before its world premiere at the Moscow Art Theatre on October 27, 1915. A critically successful Broadway production, using an English language translation of the original Russian by Gregory Zilboorg, was staged in 1922, premiering at the Garrick Theatre on January 9, 1922, with Richard Bennett (actor) playing the "HE" role on stage.Blake, Michael F. (1998). "The Films of Lon Chaney". Vestal Press Inc. Page 142. . The Russian original was made into a Russian movie in 1916. ''He Who Gets Slapped'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Along Came Ruth
''Along Came Ruth'' is a 1924 American comedy film starring Viola Dana. The film was directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Winifred Dunn, based on Holman Francis Day Holman Francis Day (November 6, 1865 – February 19, 1935) was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Maine. The Holman Day House, his home Auburn, Maine, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His book ''The Rider of the King Lo ...'s play of the same name, itself based on the play '' La Demoiselle de magasin'' by Belgians Frantz Fonson and Fernand Wicheler. Viola Dana was one of the top stars of the newly amalgamated MGM, a lively comedian who enjoyed a long career that faded with the emergence of the talkies. Synopsis Ruth (Viola Dana) is a small-town live-wire who takes over a furniture shop and its owner's nephew. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Along Came Ruth'' located in any film archives, it is lost film. References External links * * 1924 films American black-an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Married Flirts
''Married Flirts'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Robert Vignola and starring Pauline Frederick, Mae Busch, and Conrad Nagel. The screenplay, written by Julia Ivers, is based on Louis Joseph Vance's 1923 best seller ''Mrs. Paramor''. The drama was considered quite daring at the time as the story centered on husbands being lured away from their wives. One scene has well known Hollywood stars playing themselves at a party. Plot Nellie Wayne (Pauline Frederick) is a novelist who loses her husband to a vamp, who thereupon rejects him to marry another man, who subsequently is enticed away by the novelist. Cast Preservation With no prints of the film located in any film archives, ''Married Flirts'' is classified as a lost film. The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. See also *List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bandolero
''The Bandolero'' is a lost 1924 American drama film starring Pedro de Cordoba, Gustav von Seyffertitz, and Renée Adorée and directed by Tom Terriss. The screenplay is by Tom Terriss based on a novel by Paul Gwynne.''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30'' by The American Film Institute, c.1971 Synopsis Manuel Granado rediscovers a son he thought had died years before to see him engaged to the daughter of the bandit who had kidnapped the son and turned him into a matador. Cast * Pedro de Cordoba as Dorando (The Bandolero) * Gustav von Seyffertitz as Marques de Bazan * Renée Adorée as Petra * Gordon Begg Gordon Begg (14 January 1868 – February 1954) was a Scottish stage and film actor. During the silent film era he made several films in Hollywood, before returning to Britain. He appeared as William Shakespeare in the 1930 British revue film ' ... as Padre Domingo * Paul Ellis as Ramon * Arthur Donaldson as Juan * José de Rueda as El Tuerte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Navigator (1924 Film)
''The Navigator'' is a 1924 American comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. The film was written by Clyde Bruckman and co-directed by Donald Crisp. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Plot Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Buster Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O'Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer, however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the ''Navigator'', which Betsy's rich father (Frederick Vroom) has just sold to a small country at war. Agents for the other small nation in the conflict decide to set the ship adrift that same night. When Betsy's father checks up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
