Mid-Channel
''Mid-Channel'' is a 1920 American silent drama film based on the 1909 play of the same name written by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. The film was produced and directed by Harry Garson and stars Clara Kimball Young. On Broadway the play starred Ethel Barrymore.Progressive Silent Film List: ''Mid-Channel'' at silentera.com Plot As described in a , Zoe (Young) and Theodore Blundell (Glendon) have reached that period of married life when parties become monotonous to each other and find petty fault, forgetting the love of former years. Zoe yearns for children, and earlier in their married life they agreed to not have children until th ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 185523 November 1934) was an English playwright and, early in his career, actor. Pinero was drawn to the theatre from an early age, and became a professional actor at the age of 19. He gained experience as a supporting actor in British provincial theatres, and from 1876 to 1881 was a member of Henry Irving's company, based at the Lyceum Theatre, London, Lyceum Theatre, London. Pinero wrote his first play in 1877. Seven years later, having written 15 more, three of them highly successful, he abandoned acting and became a full-time playwright. He first became known for a series of farces, of which ''The Magistrate (play), The Magistrate'' (1885) was the longest-running. During the 1890s he turned to serious subjects. ''The Second Mrs Tanqueray'' (1893), dealing with a woman with a scandalous past, was regarded as shocking, but ran well and made a large profit. His other successes included ''Trelawny of the 'Wells', Trelawny of the "Wells"'' (1898), ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Harry Garson
Harry Garson (1882 – September 21, 1938) was an American film director and producer. He directed 29 films between 1920 and 1934, and produced 11 films before that. He was born in Rochester, New York and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''The Unpardonable Sin'' (1919) co-producer * '' The Forbidden Woman'' (1920) * '' For the Soul of Rafael'' (1920) * '' Mid-Channel'' (1920) * ''Whispering Devils'' (1920) * ''Charge It'' (1921) * '' Straight from Paris'' (1921) * ''Hush'' (1921) * ''The Sign of the Rose'' (1922) director * ''The Hands of Nara'' (1922) director * ''The Woman of Bronze'' (1923) producer * ''An Old Sweetheart of Mine'' (1923) director * ''Thundering Dawn'' (1923) director * ''The College Boob'' (1923) director * ''The No-Gun Man'' (1924) director * ''The Millionaire Cowboy'' (1924) director * '' Breed of the Border'' (1924) director * ''High and Handsome'' (1925) * '' Smilin' at Trouble'' (1925) * '' Heads Up'' (1925) * '' Speed Wild ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Frank Coghlan Jr
Frank Coghlan Jr. (March 15, 1916 – September 7, 2009) also known as Junior Coghlan, was an American actor who later became a career officer in the United States Navy and a naval aviator. He appeared in approximately 129 films and television programs between 1920 and 1974. During the 1920s and 1930s, he became a popular child and juvenile actor, appearing in films with Pola Negri, Jack Dempsey, William Haines, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, William Boyd and Bette Davis. He appeared in early " Our Gang" comedies, but he is best known for the role of Billy Batson in the 1941 motion picture serial, and first comic book superhero film, '' Adventures of Captain Marvel''. Coghlan later served 23 years as an aviator and officer in the U.S. Navy, from 1942 to 1965. After retiring from the Navy, he returned to acting and appeared in television, films, and commercials. He published an autobiography in 1992 and died in 2009 at age 93. Early life Coghlan was born in New Haven, Conn ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Katherine Griffith
Katherine Kiernan Griffith (September 30, 1876Katherine Kiernan Griffith's birthdate varies in sources; September 30, 1876 is the date on her gravestone in Colma, California, via Ancestry, IMDB, and Find a Grave. – October 17, 1921), also seen as Catherine Kiernan, was an American character actress on stage and in silent films. Early life Catherine Kiernan was born in San Francisco, the daughter of Irish immigrants Peter Kiernan and Catherine Kiernan. Career Griffith had a career in vaudeville and the musical theatre before moving into film work. Described as a "large, commanding woman", she appeared in dozens of silent films, including '' Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' (1913), ''The Gray Nun of Belgium'' (1915), ''The Greater Power'' (1916), ''Murdered by Mistake'' (1916), ''A Little Princess'' (1917) with Mary Pickford, '' In Judgment Of'' (1918), ''A Yankee Princess'' (1919) with Bessie Love, ''The Woman Thou Gavest Me'' (1919), ''The Spite Bride'' (1919) with Olive Thom ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bertram Grassby
Bertram Grassby (23 December 1880 – 7 December 1953) was an English actor. He appeared in more than 90 silent era films between 1914 and 1927. Grassby was married to American actress Gerard Alexander. He was born in Lincolnshire, England and died in Scottsdale, Arizona. Selected filmography *''His Father's Rifle'' (1914) *''Liberty'' (1916) as Manuel Leon *''Langdon's Legacy'' (1916) * ''It Happened in Honolulu'' (1916) *'' The Mysterious Mrs. M'' (1917) * ''Even As You and I'' (1917) *''Rasputin, The Black Monk'' (1917) * ''The Soul of Satan'' (1917) * ''Cheating the Public'' (1918) *'' Salomé'' (1918) as Prince David *''The Hope Chest'' (1918) as Stoughton Lounsbury *''A Romance of Happy Valley'' (1919) as Judas *''The Delicious Little Devil'' (1919) as Duke de Sauterne *''Fools and Their Money'' (1919) as Cholly Van Dusen *''The Gray Horizon'' (1919) as John Furthman *''The Lone Wolf's Daughter'' (1919) as Michael Lanyard, the Lone Wolf *'' What Every Woman Wants'' (19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edward Kimball
Edward Marshall Kimball (June 26, 1859 – January 4, 1938) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1912 and 1936. Like many older actors of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, he enjoyed a varied stage career on and off Broadway before entering the silent films. Kimball was born in Keokuk, Iowa and died in Hollywood, California. He was the father of actress Clara Kimball Young in whose films he sometimes appeared. Partial filmography * ''Martha's Rebellion'' (1912, Short) - Dr. Goodwill * ''The Awakening of Jones'' (1912, Short) - (as Edward M. Kimball) * ''A Vitagraph Romance'' (1912, Short) - Senator Carter of Montana * ''The Delayed Letter'' (1913) - Mabel's Father * ''The Little Minister'' (1913, Short) - Elder of the Church (as Edward M. Kimball) * ''The Only Way'' (1913, Short) * ''The Cure'' (1913, Short) - Dr. Phillips * '' The Christian'' (1914) - Lord Storm * ''Memories That Haunt'' (1914, Short) - Isobel's Father (as Edward ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arthur Edeson
Arthur Edeson, A.S.C. (October 24, 1891 – February 14, 1970) was a film cinematographer, born in New York City. His career ran from the formative years of the film industry in New York, through the silent era in Hollywood, and the sound era there in the 1930s and 1940s. His work included many landmarks in film history, including ''The Thief of Bagdad'' (1924), ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1930), ''Frankenstein'' (1931), ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1941), and ''Casablanca'' (1942). He was one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers, and was nominated for three Academy Awards in his career in cinema. Career Edeson began his career as a still photographer, but turned to movies in 1911 as a camera operator at the American Éclair Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century. When the Éclair Studio was reorganized as the World F ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Clara Kimball Young
Clara Kimball Young (born Edith Matilda Clara Kimball; September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960) was an American film actress who was popular in the early silent film era. Early life Edith Matilda Clara Kimball was born in Chicago on September 6, 1890, the only child to Edward Kimball and Pauline Madeline Kimball (née Garrette, 1860–1919), both of whom were traveling stock actors. She made her stage debut at the age of three, and throughout her early childhood traveled with her parents and acted with their theater company. She attended St. Francis Xavier Academy in Chicago. Afterward, she was hired into a stock company and resumed her stage career, traveling extensively through the United States and playing in various small town theaters. Early in her career, she met and married a fellow stock company and known Broadway actor named James Young. Young's previous wife had been the songwriter/lyricist Rida Johnson Young. After sending a photograph to Vitagraph Studios, Clara ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Intertitle
In films, an intertitle, also known as a title card, is a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of (i.e., ''inter-'') the photographed action at various points. Intertitles used to convey character dialogue are referred to as "dialogue intertitles", and those used to provide related descriptive/narrative material are referred to as "expository intertitles". In modern usage, the terms refer to similar text and logo material inserted at or near the start or end of films and television shows. Silent film era In this era intertitles were mostly called "subtitles" and often had Art Deco motifs. They were a mainstay of silent films once the films became of sufficient length and detail to necessitate dialogue or narration to make sense of the enacted or documented events. ''The British Film Catalogue'' credits the 1898 film ''Our New General Servant'' by Robert W. Paul as the first British film to use intertitles. Film scholar Kamilla Elliott identifies another early use of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre". She received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning for '' None but the Lonely Heart'' (1944). Early life Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore (whose real name was Herbert Blythe) and Georgiana Drew. She was named for her father's favorite character—Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray's ''The Newcomes.'' She was the sister of actors John and Lionel Barrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore and grand-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore. She was also a granddaughter of actress and theater-manager Louisa Lane Drew (Mrs. John Drew), and niece of Broadway matinée idol John Drew Jr and ea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Film Magazine
Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines which principally serve as a consumer guide to movies. Magazines and trade publications })'', , , , Tehran University of Art, , Persian, , Iran, , Irregular, , 2017–, , Current, , Digital magazine , - , ''Panoráma'', , , , Ceskoslovenský filmový ústav, , Czech, , Czechoslovakia, , Quarterly, , 1974?–1981, , Ceased, , Magazine , - , ''Polish Film'', , , , Film Polski, , English, , Poland, , Quarterly, , 1969–1992, , Ceased, , Magazine , - , ''Popular Movies'' (大众电影), , , , Popular Movies Publishing (大众电影杂志社), , Simplified Chinese, , China, , Monthly, , 1950–, , Current, , Magazine , - , '' Positif'', , , , Editions SCOPE, , French, , France, , Monthly, , 1952–, , Current, , Magazine , - , ''POV - A Dan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |