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Matthew Betz
Matthew Betz (September 13, 1881 – January 26, 1938) was an American film actor. Betz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1881. Following an extended career in the U.S. Cavalry, Betz spent eight years in Vaudeville. His first stage play was ''Ellis Island''. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1914 and 1937. He died in 1938. Partial filmography * ''Putting One Over'' (1919) * ''Good References'' (1920) * '' Pirate Gold'' (1920) * '' Salvation Nell'' (1921) * ''The Single Track'' (1921) * ''Burn 'Em Up Barnes'' (1921) * ''Boomerang Bill'' (1922) * ''My Old Kentucky Home'' (1922) * ''Sawdust'' (1923) * ''The Self-Made Wife'' (1923) * ''Anna Christie'' (1923) * '' Let's Go'' (1923) * '' Love's Whirlpool'' (1924) * ''The Siren of Seville'' (1924) * '' The Family Secret'' (1924) * ''The Lighthouse by the Sea'' (1924) * '' The Heart Bandit'' (1924) * ''The Way of a Girl'' (1925) *''White Fang'' (1925) * ''The White Desert'' (1925) * ''The Unholy Three'' (1925) * '' Oh! W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawtelle, California
Sawtelle is a district in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California, partially within the West Los Angeles subregion. It was established in 1899 and named after a manager of the Pacific Land Company who was initially responsible for its development and promotion. Sawtelle is noted for its thriving Japanese American community, busy restaurants and arthouse movie theaters. It has strong roots in Japanese-American history. In recognition of its historical heritage, the area was designated Sawtelle Japantown in 2015.Naomi HiraharaThinking L.A.: How West L.A. became a haven for Japanese-Americans UCLA Newsroom, April 15, 2015 History Early history In 1896, the Pacific Land Company purchased a tract, which lay just south of the veterans home, and hired S. H. Taft to develop a new town named Barrett, after Andrew W. Barrett, local manager of the veterans home. When the Pacific Land Company attempted to secure a post office for the new town, the postal authorities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Family Secret (1924 Film)
''The Family Secret'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by William A. Seiter and featuring child star Baby Peggy.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Family Secret'' at silentera.com It is based on ''Editha's Burglar'', a story by first published in 1881 by '' St. Nicholas Magazine'' and adapted for the stage by Augustus E. Thomas. Plot Margaret Selfridge (Hulette) lives with her affl ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shepherd Of The Hills (1928 Film)
''The Shepherd of the Hills'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Alec B. Francis, Molly O'Day and John Boles.Munden p.707 Cast * Alec B. Francis as David Howitt, The Shepherd * Molly O'Day as Sammy Lane * John Boles as Young Matt * Matthew Betz as Wash Gibbs * Romaine Fielding as Old Matt * Otis Harlan as By Thunder * Joseph Bennett as Ollie * Maurice Murphy as Little Pete * Edythe Chapman as Aunt Mollie * Carl Stockdale as Jim Lane * Ena Gregory Ena Jessie Gregory (18 April 1907 – 13 June 1993), also known as Marian Douglas, was an Australian-American actress who achieved fame in Hollywood in the 1920s. Childhood Ena Gregory was born Ena Jessie Gregory to Arthur and Jessie Gregory in ... as Maggie * John Westwood as The Artist References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Patent Leather Kid
''The Patent Leather Kid'' is a 1927 American silent drama film about a self-centered boxer who performs a heroic act in World War I that severely wounds him. It was directed by Alfred Santell and stars Richard Barthelmess, Molly O'Day, Lawford Davidson, Matthew Betz and Arthur Stone. The film was adapted by Gerald C. Duffy (titles), Winifred Dunn, Casey Robinson (uncredited) and Adela Rogers St. Johns from the story by Rupert Hughes. Barthelmess was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. A copy of the film is held by the Library of Congress and a 16mm print exists at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Cast * Richard Barthelmess as the Patent Leather Kid * Molly O'Day as Curley Boyle * Lawford Davidson as Lt. Hugo Breen * Matthew Betz as Jake Stuke * Arthur Stone as Jimmy Kinch * Ray Turner as Mabile Molasses * Hank Mann as Sergeant * Walter James as Officer Riley * Lucien Prival as the German Officer * Nigel De Brulier as the French Docto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway After Midnight
''Broadway After Midnight'', also known as ''Gangsters on Broadway'', is a 1927 American silent crime melodrama film directed by Fred Windemere and written by Frederic Bartel and Adele Buffington. The film stars Matthew Betz, Priscilla Bonner, Cullen Landis, Gareth Hughes, and Ernest Hilliard. The film was released on October 29, 1927 by Krelbar Pictures. Cast *Matthew Betz as Quill Burke *Priscilla Bonner as Queenie Morgan / Gloria Livingston *Cullen Landis as Jimmy Crestmore *Gareth Hughes as Billy Morgan *Ernest Hilliard as Bodo Lambert *Barbara Tennant *William H. Turner (actor), William H. Turner *Hank Mann *Paul Weigel Preservation The film is now considered lost film, lost. References External links * * 1927 crime films 1927 films Melodrama films American crime films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Lost American films Films directed by Fred Windemere 1927 lost films Lost crime films 1920s American films Silent American drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flame Of The Yukon (1926 Film)
''The Flame of the Yukon'' is a 1926 American silent Northwoods adventure drama film starring Seena Owen and directed by George Melford. The film is based on a story by Monte Katterjohn and was distributed by Cecil DeMille's Producers Distributing Corporation. The film is a remake of a 1917 film that had starred Dorothy Dalton, which survives at the Library of Congress. Cast *Seena Owen as The Flame *Arnold Gray as George Fowler *Matthew Betz as Black Jack Hovey * Jack McDonald as Sour Dough Joe *Vadim Uraneff as Solo Jim *Winifred Greenwood as Dolly Preservation ''The Flame of the Yukon'', once thought to be lost, is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipwrecked (1926 Film)
''Shipwrecked'' is a 1926 American silent romantic adventure film directed by Joseph Henabery and starring Seena Owen and Joseph Schildkraut. It is based on the play ''Shipwrecked'' by Langdon McCormick and was released through Producers Distributing Corporation. Cast Preservation A print of ''Shipwrecked'' is preserved at the Library of Congress at its Packard Campus. See also *''Beyond'' (1921) *''Cast Away ''Cast Away'' is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in ...'' (2000) References External links * *Lantern slide 1926 films American silent feature films Films directed by Joseph Henabery American films based on plays 1926 romantic drama films American romantic drama films American black-and-white films Producers Distributing Corporation films American adventure fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Exquisite Sinner
''The Exquisite Sinner'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent drama (film and television), drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and adapted by Alice Duer Miller from the novel ''Escape'' by Alden Brooks. Starring Conrad Nagel and Renée Adorée, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) never given a general release. No known print of the film has been recovered to date. Later that same year a second feature film ''Heaven on Earth (1927 American film), Heaven on Earth'', directed by Phil Rosen was released with the same cast and same sets, but a different screenplay. Rosen's version performed poorly at the box office. Sternberg reported, "the result was two ineffective films instead of one.” The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute.Sarris, 1966. P. 12 Plot The film concerns a young bourgeois Frenchman, Dominique Prad, who spurns his family's lucrative silk business for the bohemian life of an artist. Fleeing his estate to join a ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh! What A Nurse!
''Oh! What a Nurse!'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Ruth Miller, Gayne Whitman, Matthew Betz, Edith Yorke, and David Torrence. The film was released by Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. D ... on March 7, 1926. Cast Box office According to Warner Bros records the film earned $370,000 domestically and $69,000 foreign. References External links * 1926 films 1920s English-language films Silent American comedy films Warner Bros. films Films directed by Charles Reisner American silent feature films American black-and-white films 1926 comedy films 1920s American films {{1920s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unholy Three (1925 Film)
''The Unholy Three'' is a 1925 American silent crime melodrama film involving a trio of circus conmen, directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. The supporting cast features Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, and Harry Earles. ''The Unholy Three'' marks the establishment of the notable artistic alliance between director Browning and actor Chaney that would deliver eight outstanding films to M-G-M studios during the late silent film era. Principal photography went from December 1924 through January 20, 1925. The film had a premiere on May 30, 1925 in San Francisco. It went into release in New York at the Capitol Theatre on August 16, 1925. The film's budget was $114,000, and the worldwide box office gross was $704,000. Stills exist showing Chaney's two makeups in the film, his ventiloquist act, as well as a group shot of the Unholy Three plotting together. The film was remade in 1930 as a talkie directed by Jack Conway. Chaney and Earles repeated their performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Desert
''The White Desert'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Reginald Barker. The film stars Claire Windsor and Pat O'Malley, with Robert Frazer, Frank Currier, and Sōjin Kamiyama. It is written by Monte M. Katterjohn and Gordon Rigby and adopted from Denver author Courtney Ryley Cooper's novel ''The White Desert'' (1922). This B movie was produced to keep the Loew circuit and other cinemas supplied. The title refers to the snow covered Colorado landscape during winter. Plot As described in a film magazine and newspaper reviews, Barry, the engineer for a construction company, criticizes the foreman for the method he is pursuing for tunneling for railroad construction. The snow ledges have been weakened by the constant dynamiting. With the next explosion of dynamite, an avalanche results which destroys the ledges and nearly wipes out the camp. The surviving workers are isolated, desperate and shattered by the disaster, and unable to obtain food. Foster and his wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Fang (1925 Film)
''White Fang'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Laurence Trimble and featuring Theodore von Eltz, Ruth Dwyer, and Matthew Betz. It was produced by FBO Pictures as a starring vehicle for Strongheart, an Alsatian who appeared in a number of films during the decade. It is based on the 1906 novel ''White Fang'' by Jack London. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Joe Holland, superintendent of the Lucky 13 mine, saves his sick friend Weadon Scott from a pack of wolves. He discovers that someone is stealing gold ore from the mine. Frank Wilde, one of the foremen, buys White Fang, a man killing dog. He enters him into a dog fight A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft conducted at close range. Dogfighting first occurred in Mexico in 1913, shortly after the invention of the airplane. Until at least 1992, it was a component in every maj ... match against Cherokee, a bull dog. White Fang is rescued when Weadon enters. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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