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Malcolm McGregor
Malcolm McGregor (October 13, 1892 – April 29, 1945) was an American actor of the silent era. McGregor appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1936. He was born in Newark, New Jersey and died in Hollywood, California. A cross between Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and the earlier Harrison Ford, McGregor, with slicked-back hair, starred as the young whaling captain in a film version of Ben Ames Williams' '' All the Brothers Were Valiant'' (1923), perhaps the highlight of a busy career that mostly found the handsome, clean-cut actor supporting such glamorous female stars as Corinne Griffith, Florence Vidor, and Evelyn Brent. Like so many of his contemporaries, McGregor's career quickly waned after the changeover to sound and he was reduced to playing second fiddle to Bela Lugosi in the Mascot serial ''The Whispering Shadow'' (1932). McGregor retired after playing a gangster in a low-budget screen version of radio's '' Special Agent K-7'' (1937). McGregor reporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Of The Night (1925 Film)
''Lady of the Night '' is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Monta Bell. The film stars Norma Shearer in a dual role. Plot Chris Helmer is sentenced to 20 years in prison by Judge Banning, and has to leave his wife and baby girl. By coincidence, the judge has a daughter about the same age. Eighteen years later, the two now motherless young women graduate, Florence Banning from an exclusive private school, Molly Helmer from reform school. Molly and her two friends become taxi dancer A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a partner dance. Taxi dancers are hired to dance with their customers on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during the early 20th century in the United States, mal ...s. One day, Molly rejects the advances of a stranger at the dance hall where she works. When her boyfriend, "Chunky" Dunn, tries to defend her, he gets knocked down. She is rescued by Chunky's friend, inventor David Page, and falls i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can A Woman Love Twice?
''Can a Woman Love Twice?'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by James W. Horne and starring Ethel Clayton, Muriel Frances Dana and Kate Lester.Munden p.108 Synopsis Mary Grant, a war widow, supports herself and her child by working in a cabaret. She receives an offer from Abner Grant to live at his ranch, and he mistakenly believes her to be the wife of his own son who died in World War I. Unexpectedly this son does return home alive and eventually the two become a genuine couple. Cast * Ethel Clayton as Mary Grant * Muriel Frances Dana as Thomas Jefferson Grant Jr * Kate Lester as Mrs. Grant * Fred Esmelton as Coleman Grant * Victory Bateman as Mary's Landlady * Wilfred Lucas as Franklyn Chase * Bertram Anderson-Smith as Detective Means * Al Hart as Abner Grant * Malcolm McGregor as Abner's Son * Theodore von Eltz as Thomas Jefferson Grant * Carrie Clark Ward as Housekeeper * Madge Hunt Madge may refer to: Places * Madge, Wisconsin, United States, a town * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Overland Limited (1925 Film)
''The Overland Limited'' is a 1925 American silent film, directed by Frank O'Neill and produced by Sam Sax with cinematography by Jack MacKenzie. The story was written by James J. Tynan. The film was released July 14, 1925 in New York. Plot The film starred Malcolm McGregor as an idealistic young railroad engineer who designs and builds a new railroad bridge, and Olive Borden as his love interest. The conflicting male lead is played by Ralph Lewis as the railway engineer who ultimately saves a trainload of passengers from the dangerous bridge. The picture concludes with a model set of a steam locomotive breaking through the steel girders and plunging into the river. Cast * Malcolm McGregor as David Barton (male lead) * Olive Borden as Ruth Dent (female lead) * Charles Hill Mailes as Schuyler Dent * Evelyn Jennings as Agnes Jennings * Alice Lake as Violet Colton * Ralph Lewis as Ed Barton * Charles Post as "One Round" Farrell * Ethel Wales as Mrs. Barton * Charles West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Happy Warrior (1925 Film)
''The Happy Warrior'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Malcolm McGregor, Alice Calhoun, and Mary Alden Mary Maguire Alden (June 18, 1883 – July 2, 1946) was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood. Life Alden was born in New York City on June 18, 1883. She performed on Br .... The story had previously been turned into a 1917 British film of the same title. Plot As described in a film magazine review, the father of Ralph has secretly married, cutting the boy out of his inheritance. His Aunt Maggie grooms the boy to take possession of his title of nobleman and to evict the usurpers from the estate. To develop strength, he joins the circus and roughs it. A boyhood enemy is overwhelmed by him when he becomes friends with the son of the usurpers. Later, the friendship with the son brings him to renounce all claims to the estate. He marries Dora, the daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alias Mary Flynn
''Alias Mary Flynn'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Evelyn Brent. The film is considered to be lost. Plot As described in a film magazine review, John Reagan, Sr. adopts Mary Flynn after rescuing her from the police who wanted her in connection with a robbery. Jason Forbes, a jewel collector, attempts to use Reagan in a plot to steal a valuable gem. When he refuses, Forbes threatens to expose an incident in Reagan's past life, and then Forbes is killed. Reagan is rescued from the electric chair by Mary, who helps to capture the culprit of the murder. Mary goes on to marry Reagan's son Tim, a young district attorney. Cast * Evelyn Brent as Mary Flynn * Malcolm McGregor as Tim Reagan * William V. Mong as John Reagan * Gladden James as Picadilly Charlie * Louis Payne as Jason Forbes * Wilson Benge George Frederick "Wilson" Benge (1 March 1875 – 1 July 1955) was an English actor who mostly featured in American films from the si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Of Gold
''The Girl of Gold'' is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by John Ince and starring Florence Vidor. It was released by Producers Distributing Corporation. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Helen Marrimore, daughter of a wealthy mine owner, is dubbed “The girl of gold” by society, and snubbed by them. She attends a house party under an assumed name, and she meets Schuyler Livingstone, and sister Ada, shorn of their wealth in Wall Street Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs between Broadway in the west to South Street and the East River in the east. The term "Wall Street" has become a metonym for t .... Her father meets Schuyler through a motor accident and he decides his daughter shall marry Schuyler. He consents for his sister’s sake. At a spectacular ball she gives in the mine, Schuyler and Helen are caught in a cave-in. She learns the truth about her father’s b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smouldering Fires (film)
''Smouldering Fires'' is a 1925 Universal silent drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante. The movie's plot is similar to the 1933 talking picture ''Female'', starring Ruth Chatterton. Copies of this film are archived by UCLA and George Eastman House. In 1953, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. It is available on video, and numerous prints exist in private collections. Plot As described in a film magazine, Jane Vale (Frederick), a forty year old business woman who ran a great industrial plant left to her by her father, awoke to the realization that she was in love with Robert Elliott (McGregor), a youth scarcely more than half her age. This lad first attracted her attention by opposing her policy in a matter of production. She was passing at the time and heard him refer to her executive staff as "yes" men. Her ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idle Tongues
''Idle Tongues'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and produced by Thomas H. Ince, one of his last efforts before his death that year. It starred Percy Marmont and Doris Kenyon and was distributed by First National Pictures. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Dr. Nye (Marmont) returns to Ostable after spending five years in prison for the theft of church funds. Daniel Copeland (Gillingwater), brother of the doctor’s dead wife Fanny (Clayton), wants to install a municipal water system, but he is opposed by Cyrenus Stone (Torrence), his arch enemy. The townspeople, with their propensity for gossip, turn against Dr. Nye with the exception of Katherine Minot (Kenyon), who loves him. Typhoid fever breaks out and Dr. Nye believes that pond water which is piped by Copeland's water system is responsible for it. He accuses Copeland and is mobbed by the townspeople. He calls on Copeland and discloses how he went to prison to save his dead wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Can't Get Away With It
''You Can't Get Away with It'' is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Percy Marmont, Malcolm McGregor, and Betty Bouton. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Jill, Jane, and May Mackie are left penniless when their father dies. They obtain employment but department store work breaks down Jill's health. Charles Hemingway, cursed with a selfish, unsympathetic wife, grows fond of Jill and she goes to live with him. Later, he dies and she has an opportunity to marry Henry Adams. Facing exposure, she confesses her past. He discards her and she returns to work as a store clerk, convinced that there is no escape from the penalties of doing wrong. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''You Can't Get Away with It'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature Feature may refer to: Computing * Feature (CAD), could be a hole, pocket, or notch * Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of Youth
''The House of Youth'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Jacqueline Logan, Malcolm McGregor and Gloria Grey.Munden p.366 Cast * Jacqueline Logan as Corinna Endicott * Malcolm McGregor as Spike Blaine * Vernon Steele as Rhodes Winston * Gloria Grey as Amy Marsden * Richard Travers as Mitch Hardy * Rosa Castro as Linda Richards * Edwin B. Tilton as Cornelius Endicott * Aileen Manning as Aunt Maggie Endicott * Hugh Metcalfe as Butler * Barbara Tennant as Mrs. Mitch Hardy * Nola Luxford Nola Luxford (born Adelaide Minola Pratt; 23 December 1895 – 10 October 1994) was a New Zealand-born American film actress, spanning from the silent film era to the 1930s. During the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she was also a writer ... as Society Girl References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bedroom Window (1924 Film)
''The Bedroom Window'' is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by William C. deMille and starring May McAvoy. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Cast Preservation The film still exists and preserved at the Library of Congress and the UCLA Film and Television Archive The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the archiv .... References External links * *at silentfilmstillarchive.com 1924 films American silent feature films Paramount Pictures films Films directed by William C. deMille 1924 mystery films American mystery films American black-and-white films 1920s American films Silent mystery films 1920s English-language films {{mystery-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Noise In Newboro
''A Noise in Newboro'' is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Viola Dana, David Butler and Eva Novak.MacKinnon p.188 Cast * Viola Dana as Martha Mason * David Butler as Ben Colwell * Eva Novak as Anne Paisley * Allan Forrest as Buddy Wayne * Betty Francisco as Leila Wayne * Alfred Allen as Eben Paisley * Malcolm McGregor as Harry Dixon * Joan Standing as Dorothy Mason * Bert Woodruff William Herbert "Bert" Woodruff (April 29, 1856 – June 14, 1934) was an American actor of the silent era. Woodruff was born in Peoria, Illinois, and was the son of Mrs. Hannah Woodruff. He performed on stage before he began acting on fi ... as 'Dad' Mason References Bibliography * Kenneth MacKinnon. ''Hollywood's small towns: an introduction to the American small-town movie''. Scarecrow Press, 1984. External links * 1923 films 1923 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |