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Marie Ault
Marie Ault (2 September 1870 – 9 May 1951) was a British character actress of stage and film. Biography Born as Mary Cragg, in Wigan, Lancashire, (now Greater Manchester. England. Ault was a star in many British films of the silent era but is most remembered for her role as Daisy Bunting's mother in '' The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'' (1927) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Other notable film work includes the role of Rummy Mitchens in the film of Bernard Shaw's ''Major Barbara'' (1941). She also had bit parts in films such as ''Jamaica Inn'' (1939) and '' Caesar and Cleopatra'' (1945). On stage from 1891, her theatre work included the original production of ''Love on the Dole'' in 1935, as well as the 1941 film version. She died in London, England on 9 May 1951. Selected filmography * '' Class and No Class'' (1921) - Liza Ann * '' Wee MacGregor's Sweetheart'' (1922) - Miss Todd * ''A Prince of Lovers'' (1922) - Nannie * '' If Four Walls Told'' (1922) - Minor Role * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wigan
Wigan ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, Lancashire, River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. Bolton lies to the north-east and Warrington to the south. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town has a population of 107,732 and the wider borough of 330,713. Wigan was formerly within the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire. Wigan was in the territory of the Brigantes, an ancient Celtic tribe that ruled much of what is now northern England. The Brigantes were subjugated in the Roman conquest of Britain and the Roman settlement of ''Coccium'' was established where Wigan lies. Wigan was incorporated as a Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in 1246, following the issue of a charter by Henry III of England, King Henry III of England. At the end of the Middle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monkey's Paw (1923 Film)
''The Monkey's Paw'' is a 1923 British silent horror film directed by Manning Haynes and starring Moore Marriott, Marie Ault, and Charles Ashton. It is an adaptation of W. W. Jacobs's 1902 short story "The Monkey's Paw". The short story was made into a 1907 one-act play by Louis N. Parker, elements of which were also incorporated into this 1923 British film by screenwriter Lydia Hayward. Plot As described in a film magazine review for an American audience, a traveler tells a family, John White, his wife, and son, weird tales of a magical talisman, a monkey's paw, which has the power of granting its possessor three wishes. The father falls asleep. In his dreams he acquires the paw and requests two thousand dollars. He gets the money but this results in the death of his son Herbert. His wife compels him to wish that her boy was alive again. This is accomplished, but when he appears as a soulless zombie, in his fright Mr. White makes his third and final wish that his son be dead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silver Lining (1927 Film)
''The Silver Lining'' is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Marie Ault, Patrick Aherne and Moore Marriott. The screenplay concerns two brothers who fight over a girl, leading one to frame the other for robbery. Later, guilt-ridden, he confesses and arranges his own death. Cast * Marie Ault - Mrs. Hurst * Patrick Aherne - Thomas 'Tom' Hurst * John Hamilton (British actor) - John Hurst * Eve Gray - Lettie Deans * Sydney Fairbrother - Mrs. Akers * Moore Marriott George Thomas Moore Marriott (14 September 1885 – 11 December 1949) was an English character actor best remembered for the series of films he made with Will Hay. His first appearance with Hay was in the film '' Dandy Dick'' (1935), but he w ... - Gypsy * Cameron Carr - Constable * Hazel Wiles - Mrs. Deans * Bernard Vaughan - Vicar References External links * 1927 films British silent feature films Films shot at British International Pictures Studios 1920s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rolling Road
''The Rolling Road'' is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Flora le Breton, Clifford Heatherley and A.V. Bramble. The screenplay concerns a young woman in a Cornish fishing village who has to choose between various suitors. It was made at Islington Studios and on location at Porthleven in Cornwall and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. It premiered in May 1927 and went on general release in September of the same year. Its critical reception was unenthusiastic, with reviewers feeling it was below the standard of Cutts' other work during the era.Chapman p.170 Cast * Carlyle Blackwell as Tom Forty * Flora le Breton as Nell * Clifford Heatherley as John Ogilvie * A.V. Bramble Albert Victor Bramble (1884–1963) was an English actor and film director. He began his acting career on the stage. He started acting in films in 1913 and subsequently turned to directing and producing films. He died on 17 May 1963. Filmogr .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindle Wakes (1927 Film)
''Hindle Wakes'' is a 1927 British silent film drama, directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Estelle Brody and John Stuart. The film is adapted from Stanley Houghton's 1912 stage play of the same name, and reunites Brody and Stuart following their hugely popular pairing in the previous year's '' Mademoiselle from Armentieres''. The film was also released under the title ''Fanny Hawthorne''. In its time, Houghton's play was considered extremely controversial and provocative in its message. It is seen as proto-feminist in tone, with its assumption that women as well as men could enjoy a brief sexual fling for what it was, without any sense of obligation on either side, and further that a woman was capable of making her own decisions, ignoring familial and societal strictures if necessary. ''Hindle Wakes'' was filmed four times, twice as a silent (the first version, also directed by Elvey, made in 1918) and twice in sound (in 1931 and 1952). The 1927 production was well-budgeted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Pompadour (1927 Film)
''Madame Pompadour'' is a 1927 British silent historical drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Dorothy Gish, Antonio Moreno and Nelson Keys. The film depicts the life of Madame Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV of France. It was the first film to be shot at the newly christened Elstree Studios. Plot In 18th-century France, the King's mistress Madame Pompadour (Dorothy Gish), frees her jailed lover, political prisoner Rene Laval (Antonio Moreno), to make him her bodyguard. Cast * Dorothy Gish as Madame Pompadour * Antonio Moreno as Rene Laval * Nelson Keys as Duc de Courcelette * Henri Bosc as Louis XV * Gibb McLaughlin as Comte Maurepas * Cyril McLaglen as Gogo * Marsa Beauplan as Madame Poisson * Marie Ault as Belotte Production Gish and Wilcox had just enjoyed a big hit with ''Nell Gwyn''. British National Pictures and Paramount signed them to make three more movies of which this was the first. Gish was paid £1500 a week for six weeks. Filming was dela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roses Of Picardy (film)
''Roses of Picardy'' is a 1927 British silent war film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, John Stuart and Humberston Wright. The title is a reference to the popular First World War song Roses of Picardy. It was based on the novels ''The Spanish Farm'' (1924) ''Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four'' (1925) by R.H. Mottram. It was made at the Cricklewood Studios in London. Cast * Lillian Hall-Davis - Madame Vanderlynden * John Stuart - Lieutenant Skene * Humberston Wright - Jerome Vanderlynden * Jameson Thomas - Georges d'Archeville * Marie Ault - Baroness d'Archeville * A. Bromley Davenport - Baron d'Archeville * Clifford Heatherley Clifford Heatherley Lamb (8 October 1888 in Preston, Lancashire – 15 September 1937 in London) was an English stage and film actor. Filmography * ''Henry VIII'' (1911) * ''Bleak House'' (1920) * '' The Tavern Knight'' (1920) * '' The Mys ... - Uncle References Bibliography * Low, Rachel. ''The History of British Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mademoiselle From Armentieres (film)
''Mademoiselle from Armentieres'' is a 1926 British World War I silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Estelle Brody, John Stuart and Alf Goddard. The film was Elvey's first collaboration with screenwriter Victor Saville. It was followed by a 1928 sequel ''Mademoiselle Parley Voo''. Plot The unnamed Mademoiselle (Brody) helps her aunt to run a restaurant in Armentières. British soldier Johnny (Stuart) has fallen in love with her, and she shows signs of reciprocation. The local liaison officer asks Mademoiselle whether she can find out anything about a customer named Branz, who has aroused suspicion. By working her charms on him to gain his confidence, she discovers that he is a German spy. Mademoiselle has to keep her mission secret to avoid giving away her real motives. However Johnny misinterprets the attention she pays to Brandt, assuming her to be fickle. Johnny is summoned to the fighting line before Mademoiselle can explain herself. Once she has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Daughter In Revolt
''A Daughter in Revolt'' is a 1927 British silent comedy film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Mabel Poulton, Edward O'Neill and Lilian Oldland.Goble p.730 Cast * Mabel Poulton as Aimee Scroope * Edward O'Neill as Lord Scroope * Patrick Susands as Billy Spencer * Lilian Oldland as Georgina Berners * Patrick Aherne as Jackie the Climber * Hermione Baddeley as Calamity Kate * Ena Grossmith as Snooks * Marie Ault as Mrs. Dale * Daisy Campbell as Lady Scroope * Neil Curtis as Alexandre Lambe * Gertrude Sterroll Gertrude Sterroll was a British stage and film actress. Selected filmography * '' Bars of Iron'' (1920) * '' The Shadow Between'' (1920) * ''Dicky Monteith'' (1922) * '' Potter's Clay'' (1922) * '' The Glorious Adventure'' (1922) * '' The Wine of ... as Lady Erythea Lambe References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1927 films British comedy films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Triumph Of The Rat
''The Triumph of the Rat'' is a 1926 British silent film drama, directed by Graham Cutts for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans and Nina Vanna. Background The film is the second in a trilogy featuring Novello as Pierre Boucheron (The Rat), following the popular success of the previous year's '' The Rat.'' Both films were based on plays cowrittened by Ivor Novello, Graham Cutts, Constance Collier and Reginald Fogwell. Jeans also returned to reprise her role from the first film, as did Marie Ault and Julie Suedo. A notable absence is the character of Odile, a central figure in ''The Rat'' as played by Mae Marsh. At the end of the previous film Pierre had seemingly rejected the lure of life in high society as represented by the Jeans character of Zélie, and he and Odile had finally realised the depth of their love for each other. However ''The Triumph of the Rat'' finds him back with Zélie, and not only does Odile not appear in the film, but not even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prude's Fall
''The Prude's Fall'' is a 1925 British silent film, silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Jane Novak, Julanne Johnston and Warwick Ward. The film was shot at Islington Studios, produced by a company that would soon develop into Gainsborough Pictures. It was an adaptation of a play by Rudolph Besier and May Edington with the screenplay written by Alfred Hitchcock. Its German title is ''Seine zweite Frau''. It was also known by the alternative title of ''Dangerous Virtue''. It was not very well regarded. Iris Barry's review in the ''Daily Mail'' ran as follows: "An English picture, not of first-rate quality, but with an interesting cast."''Daily Mail'', 23 November 1925, p. 6. Cast * Jane Novak as Beatrice Audley * Julanne Johnston as Sonia Roubetsky * Warwick Ward as Andre le Briquet * Hugh Miller (actor), Hugh Miller as Marquis de Rocqueville * Gladys Jennings as Laura Westonry * Miles Mander as Sir Neville Moreton * Henry Vibart as Dean Carey * Marie A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rat (1925 Film)
''The Rat'' is a 1925 British silent film drama, directed by Graham Cutts and starring Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans. The film is based on the 1924 play of the same title written by Novello and Constance Collier, set in the Parisian criminal underworld. The film's louche settings and melodramatic storyline proved popular with audiences, and its success spawned two sequels, ''The Triumph of the Rat'' (1926) and ''The Return of the Rat'' (1929). Plot Zélie de Chaumet (Jeans) is a bored, sensation-seeking demimondaine, living with her older lover and keeper Herman Stetz (Robert Scholz) in a lavish apartment in a wealthy area of Paris. By contrast career criminal Pierre Boucheron (Novello), known as The Rat, lives with his casual girlfriend Odile (Marsh) in a run-down room in a squalid part of the city. One evening Zélie has an arrangement to attend a performance at the Folies Bergère with friends. Fearing that this will be a dreary evening out, she asks Herman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
