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May Allison
May Allison (June 14, 1890 – March 27, 1989) was an American actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in silent films, although she also appeared on stage. Life and career Allison was born in Rising Fawn, Georgia, the youngest of five children born to Dr. John Simon "Sam" Allison and Nannie Virginia (née Wise) Allison. She made her Broadway stage debut in the 1914 production of ''Apartment 12-K'' before settling in Hollywood, California in the early days of motion pictures. Allison's screen debut was as an ingenue in the 1915 star-making Theda Bara vehicle '' A Fool There Was''. When Allison was cast that same year opposite actor Harold Lockwood in the Allan Dwan directed romantic film ''David Harum'', audiences quickly became enamored of the onscreen duo. The pair starred in approximately twenty-five highly successful features together during the World War I era and became one of the first celebrated on-screen romantic duos. Al ...
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Rising Fawn, Georgia
Rising Fawn is a small unincorporated community in the southern part of Dade County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also the location of Cloudland Canyon State Park. Rising Fawn was named after the child of a Cherokee Indian chieftain. The custom was to name the child after the first thing seen. On the following dawn, the chief saw a fawn rise from its bed and thought that he hadn't seen anything more beautiful. He then named his child Rising Fawn. Geography Rising Fawn is located in the northwestern part of Georgia, very close to the Alabama state line. Interstate 59 runs from southwest to northeast to the west of the community, leading northeast to Chattanooga, Tennessee (via I-59 to I-24), and southwest to Birmingham, Alabama. U.S. Route 11 also runs through the community, leading north to Trenton, the county seat of Dade County, and southwest to Hammondville, Alabama. Notable people *Desmo ...
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Warner Baxter
Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film ''In Old Arizona'', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards. He frequently played womanizing, charismatic Latin bandit types in Westerns, and played the Cisco Kid or a similar character throughout the 1930s, but had a range of other roles throughout his career. Baxter began his movie career in silent films with his most notable roles being in ''The Great Gatsby'' (1926) and ''The Awful Truth'' (1925). Baxter's most notable talkies are In Old Arizona (1929), '' 42nd Street'' (1933), ''Slave Ship'' (1937) with Wallace Beery, '' Kidnapped'' (1938) with Freddie Bartholomew, and the 1931 ensemble short film, ''The Stolen Jools''. In the 1940s, he was well known for his recurring role as Dr. Robert Ordway in the '' Crime Doctor'' series of 10 films. For his contributions to the m ...
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The Secret Wire
''The Secret Wire'' is a 1916 American silent short romantic drama written and directed by Thomas Ricketts. The film stars Harold Lockwood and May Allison and centers on a melodramatic rescue. Cast * Harold Lockwood * May Allison * William Stowell * Harry von Meter Harry von Meter (March 20, 1871 – June 2, 1956; sometimes credited Harry van Meter) was an American silent film actor. He starred in about 200 films in the period from 1912 through 1929. He retired from acting just as sound films were beginni ... External links * 1916 films 1916 romantic drama films American romantic drama films American silent short films American black-and-white films 1916 short films Films directed by Tom Ricketts 1910s American films Silent romantic drama films Silent American drama films {{romantic-drama-film-stub ...
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The Other Side Of The Door
''The Other Side of the Door'' is a 1916 American silent romantic drama film directed by Tom Ricketts. Based on the novel of the same name by Lucia Chamberlain, it stars Harold Lockwood and May Allison. Plot Sets in the 19th century, the plot centered on a man (Harold Lockwood) who is falsely accused of murder. ''The Other Side of the Door'' was shot in Monterrey, Mexico. Cast * Harold Lockwood as Johnny Montgomery * May Allison * Josephine Humphreys as Carlotta Valencia * William Stowell * Harry von Meter * Dick La Reno * Roy Stewart Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television. In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran t ... * Walter Spencer References External links * 1916 films 1916 romantic drama films American romantic drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films ba ...
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The Buzzard's Shadow
''The Buzzard's Shadow'' is a 1915 American silent military drama film directed by Thomas Ricketts starring Harold Lockwood and May Allison. U.S. troops appear in the film, which was shot in San Diego at the San Diego Military Reservation. The film was produced by the American Film Company and released as a Mutual Film Masterpiece. In 1918 the film was re-edited and re-released by the Arrow Film Corporation under the title, The Shadow of Fear. Plot Cast The cast of ''The Buzzard's Shadow'' is documented by the American Film Institute. *Harold Lockwood as Sergeant Barnes *May Allison as Alice Corbett *William Stowell as Dr. Deschamps *Harry von Meter as Unitah, the half-breed * Alice Ann Rooney as Areep, the squaw *Dick La Reno as Colonel Sears * Betty Hart as Mrs. Sears *Virginia Fordyce Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian ...
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The Great Question
''The Great Question'' is a 1915 American silent short romantic drama film written and directed by Thomas Ricketts. The film stars Harold Lockwood, May Allison, Harry von Meter, William Stowell, Eugenie Forde Eugenie Forde (June 22, 1879 – September 5, 1940) was an American silent film actress. She starred in 73 films between 1912 and 1927 in films such as ''The Diamond from the Sky'' (1915) and '' Wives and Other Wives'' with actors such ..., and Charles Bartlett. References External links * 1915 films 1915 romantic drama films American romantic drama films American silent short films American black-and-white films 1915 short films Films directed by Tom Ricketts 1910s American films Silent romantic drama films Silent American drama films {{romantic-drama-film-stub ...
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The Governor's Lady (1915 Film)
''The Governor's Lady'' is a surviving 1915 American drama silent film directed by George Melford and written by William C. deMille based on the 1912 play '' The Governor's Lady'' by Alice Bradley. The film stars May Allison, Edith Wynne Matthison, James Neill, Theodore Roberts and Tom Forman. The film was released on March 14, 1915, by Paramount Pictures. Plot A simple miner named Daniel Slade and his wife Mary live in the mountains. Mary has a miscarriage and shortly after that Daniel discovers gold. The new wealth divides them; Daniel wants to join high society but Mary wants to continue living the simple life. Daniel gets frustrated and considers marrying Katherine Strickland, but in the end he realizes he loves Mary and follows her back to the cabin. By this time he has entered politics as a governor and he persuades her to return to be the governor's lady. Cast *May Allison as Katherine Strickland *Edith Wynne Matthison * James Neill as Daniel Slade *Theodore Roberts ...
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Big Tremaine 1916
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May Allison And Helen Taft
May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the third of seven months to have a length of 31 days. May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, May in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of November in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa. Late May typically marks the start of the summer vacation season in the United States (Memorial Day) and Canada (Victoria Day) that ends on Labor Day, the first Monday of September. May (in Latin, '' Maius'') was named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May. Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the ''maiores,'' Latin for "elders," and that the following month (June) is named for the ''iuniores,'' or "young people" (''Fasti VI.88''). Eta Aquariids meteor shower ...
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Gates Mills, Ohio
Gates Mills is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,270 at the 2010 census. Gates Mills is a suburb of Cleveland and was originally part of Mayfield Township. The village was named for Halsey Gates, the proprietor of a local mill. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,270 people, 919 households, and 698 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 992 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 93.0% White, 1.3% African American, 0.1% Native American, 4.0% Asian, 0.4% from other races, and 1.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.9% of the population. There were 919 households, of which 23.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 68.8% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female ho ...
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Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the " Big Five". Founded in 1918 by the pianist and impresario Adella Prentiss Hughes, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall. As of 2021, the incumbent music director is Franz Welser-Möst. In October 2020 ''The New York Times'' called it "America's finest rchestra still", and in 2012 ''Gramophone Magazine'' ranked the Cleveland Orchestra number 7 on its list of the world's greatest orchestras. History Founding and early history (1918–1945) The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by music-aficionado Adella Prentiss Hughes, businessman John L. Severance, Father John Powers, music critic Archie Bell, and Russian-American violinist and conductor Nikolai Sokoloff, who would become the Orchestra’s first music director. A former pianist, Hughes served as a local music promoter and sponsored a series of “Symphony Orchestra Concerts” designe ...
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Tucker's Town, Bermuda
Tucker's Town is a small community in St. George's Parish, Bermuda at the mouth of Castle Harbour. It is the only part of the parish on the Main Island, and includes the Tucker's Town Peninsula that today is the site of many homes belonging to wealthy non-Bermudians. The most densely populated part of Tucker's Town was historically situated west of Tucker's Town Bay (not on the peninsula), and was almost entirely cleared to make way for golf links. History Forgotten community Tucker's Town was founded by the recently arrived Governor of Bermuda Daniel Tucker in 1616, but the land was found "verie meene", while the harbour itself was unprotected from the weather and isolated from the rest of the island.Jarvis, Michael, ''Bermuda's Architectural Heritage: St. George's'' (Bermuda National Trust 1998), p. 14 Tucker ignored these issues and began to lay out a street grid plan – featuring a road—and had a small chapel built,Jarvis (1998), p. 149 but was unable to attract any ...
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