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Little Red Decides
''Little Red Decides'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Frederick Vroom, Jean Hersholt and Alice Davenport.Parish & Pitts p.76 Cast * Barbara Connolly as Little Red * Goro Kino as Duck Sing * Frederick Vroom as Col. Ferdinand Aliso * Jack Curtis as Tom Gilroy * Walter Perry as Two Pair Smith * Jean Hersholt as Sour Milk * Frank MacQuarrie as Parson Jones * Nellie Anderson as Mrs. Jones * Margaret Cullington as Miss Hanly * Alice Davenport as Widow Bolton * Maude Handforth as Eliza Squires * Percy Challenger as Little Doc * George Pearce Sir George Foster Pearce KCVO (14 January 1870 – 24 June 1952) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1901 to 1938. He began his career in the Labor Party but later joined the National Labor Party, t ... as Dr. Kirk * Curley Baldwin as Foreman * Betty Pearce as Miss Wattles References Bibliography * James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. ''Film directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Conway (filmmaker)
Hugh Ryan "Jack" Conway (July 17, 1887 – October 11, 1952) was an American film director and film producer, as well as an actor of many films in the first half of the 20th century. Biography He was born as Hugh Ryan Conway, on July 17, 1887, in Graceville, Minnesota, USA. Conway started out as an actor, joining a repertory theater group straight out of high school. He then moved into films, and in 1911, became a member of D.W. Griffith's stock company, appearing primarily in Westerns. Four years later, he made his mark as a director and gained valuable experience at Universal (1916–17 and 1921–23), before moving on to MGM in 1925. He remained there until 1948, often helming prestige assignments featuring the studio's top male star, Clark Gable: ''Boom Town'' (1940), ''Honky Tonk'' (1941), and ''The Hucksters'' (1947) – all solid box-office hits. Conway was one of a team of MGM contract directors, who forsook any pretense to a specific individual style in favor of work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |