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Mildred Davis
Mildred Hillary Davis (February 22, 1901The reference book ''Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory'' gives Davis's birth date as January 1, 1900.August 18, 1969) was an American actress who appeared in fifteen of Harold Lloyd's classic silent comedies and eventually married him. Early life and career The daughter of Howard Beckett Davis, she was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and educated at the Friends School in Philadelphia. After several years spent studying, she traveled to Los Angeles in the hopes of securing a role in a film. After appearing in several small roles, she caught the attention of Hal Roach, who pointed her out to comedian Lloyd. He was looking for a leading lady to replace Bebe Daniels, and cast Davis in his comedy short '' From Hand to Mouth'' in 1919. It would be the first of fifteen films they would star in together. On February 10, 1923, she married Lloyd. After their marriage, Lloyd announced that Davis would not appear in any more mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, largest city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the List of United States cities by population, sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Act of Consolidation, 1854, Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, the List of counties in Pennsylvania, most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the Metropolitan statistical area, nation's seventh-largest and one of List of largest cities, world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleen Moore
Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison; August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable (and highly-paid) stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut. Although Moore was a huge star in her day, approximately half of her films are now considered lost, including her first talking picture from 1929. What was perhaps her most celebrated film, ''Flaming Youth'' (1923), is now mostly lost as well, with only one reel surviving. Moore took a hiatus from acting between 1929 and 1933, just as sound was being added to motion pictures. After she returned, her four sound pictures released in 1933 and 1934 were not financial successes. She then retired permanently from screen acting. After her film career, Moore maintained her wealth through astute investments, becoming a partner of Merrill Lynch. She later wrote a "how-to" book about investing in the stock market. Moo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humor Risk
''Humor Risk'', also known as ''Humorisk'', is a lost unreleased 1921 silent comedy short film that was the first film to star the Marx Brothers (Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx and Zeppo Marx). Production ''Humor Risk'' was directed by comedy film director Dick Smith (1886–1937), and was the first film written by Jo Swerling, who later co-wrote ''It's a Wonderful Life'', ''Gone with the Wind'' and many other films. It was filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The film's title was a spoof of the Fannie Hurst drama '' Humoresque'', one of the biggest film hits of 1920. The print may have been accidentally thrown away when left in the screening box overnight.Simon Louvish. (2000) ''Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers'', Thomas Dunne Books; 1st U.S. edition. Another version of the story says that Groucho Marx, unhappy with the film's quality, intentionally burned the negative after a particularly bad premiere screening. Synopsis Information about the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number, Please? (1920 Film)
''Number, Please?'' is a 1920 American short comedy film directed by Hal Roach and Fred C. Newmeyer featuring Harold Lloyd. Plot While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man (Lloyd) sees the girl (Mildred Davis) with her new boyfriend (Roy Brooks). When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. The girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent. The girl's new boyfriend races to her house to get the mother's permission, while the young man tries to telephone her. The young man faces crowded phone booths, gossiping operators, a crying baby and other obstacles in his effort to reach the mother first. Racing back to the girl, the two suitors bump into one another and a pickpocket who has just robbed the girl of her purse. The boy is mistaken for the pickpocket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get Out And Get Under
''Get Out and Get Under'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Hal Roach and starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. The car in the movie, to which Lloyd was alternately devoted or frustrated, appears to be a 1920 Ford Model T. The film's title may be a reference to the 1913 song, " He'd Have to Get Under – Get Out and Get Under (to lyrics) which was used in the movie. Cast * Harold Lloyd as The Boy * Mildred Davis as The Girl * Fred McPherson as The Rival * Roy Brooks (uncredited) * William Gillespie as Dope Fiend (uncredited) * Wallace Howe as Wedding Guest (uncredited) * Gaylord Lloyd (uncredited) * Ernie Morrison Ernest Fredric Morrison (December 20, 1912 – July 24, 1989) was an American child actor, comedian, vaudevillian and dancer who also performed under the stage name Sunshine Sammy Morrison and was the only black member of the '' East Side K ... as Small Boy (uncredited) * Charles Stevenson (uncredited) * Frank Terry (uncredited) Synop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High And Dizzy
''High and Dizzy'' is a 1920 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. Plot The film revolves around a young woman who sleepwalks and the doctor who is attempting to treat her. The climactic scene involves the young woman sleepwalking precariously on the outside ledge of a tall building, anticipating Lloyd's more famous skyscraper-scaling scenes in ''Safety Last!'' (1923). A subplot has Lloyd and his friend getting inebriated on homemade liquor and then trying to avoid a prohibition-era policeman who pursues them for being drunk. Cast * Harold Lloyd as the boy * Mildred Davis as the girl * Roy Brooks as his friend * Wallace Howe as her father * William Gillespie (uncredited) * Mark Jones as hotel bellboy number 2 (uncredited) * Gaylord Lloyd (uncredited) * Charles Stevenson as Police officer (uncredited) * Noah Young as man who breaks hotel room door (uncredited) See also * Harold Lloyd filmography These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Eastern Westerner
''An Eastern Westerner'' is a 1920 American silent Western comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A copy of the film exists. Plot The Boy is the hedonistic son of wealthy eastern parents. One night when he returns home at 2 a.m. from a night of carousing at a dance hall, The Boy's strait-laced father sends him packing to his uncle's ranch in a small western community called Piute Pass. Upon arriving there, The Boy becomes smitten with a local girl. She and her father are seeking work from the villainous Tiger Lip Tompkins who owns half the town and terrorizes its people. He has lecherous plans for The Girl. When she rejects Tompkins' advances, Tompkins holds The Girl's father hostage in an upstairs room in a local saloon. The Boy frees The Girl's father and is hotly pursued by a large posse of Tompkins' white-hood clad hirelings who intend to run him out of the state. Using a number of evasive ploys, The Boy eludes the posse and escapes with The Girl. The film ends with The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haunted Spooks
''Haunted Spooks'' is a 1920 American silent Southern Gothic comedy film produced and co-directed by Hal Roach, starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. Plot The action in ''Haunted Spooks'' centres around Harold's romantic problems. It is set in the South (" odown the Mississippi and turn to the right"). The opening sequence has an uncle reading a telegram regarding a will. It tells him that his niece Mildred will inherit the house and plantation provided she lives there for a year with her husband. He tells his wife that they must scare them out of the house. A lawyer visits the niece to tell her of the will. She tells him she isn't married and he says he can resolve the problem. We then jump to Harold who is disappointed in love and vying for the attention of the Other Girl in rivalry with her other potential suitor. They compete to be first to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Harold wins but when he returns to the girl she is in the arms of yet a third man, so he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Royal Slyness
''His Royal Slyness'' is a 1920 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It marked the final collaboration with frequent co-star Snub Pollard, who moved on to star in his own series of films following this release. This film was remade in 1927 as ''Long Fliv the King'' which featured Oliver Hardy. Plot The Prince of Razzamatazz is in America being educated. He receives a telegram telling him to travel to the Kingdom of Thermosa to vie with a drunken rival, the Prince of Roquefort, to marry "the fairest bud of the kingdom": Princess Florelle. The Prince of Razzamatazz is unhappy about this development because he would prefer to marry his female tutor, Verona Vermuth. When the tutor sees that an "American boy", a book agent, bears a striking resemblance to the prince, she convinces the American boy to take the prince's place. His bodyguard accepts a large bribe to go along with the plan. Immediately after the American boy leaves, the prince informs his tutor tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Wrong (1919 Film)
''All Wrong'' is an American comedy silent film released 1 June 1919. The film was directed by Raymond B. West and William Worthington, to a script by Mildred Considine and Jack Cunningham. The film starred Bryant Washburn, but was the breakthrough role for Mildred Davis.Annette M. D'Agostino ''Harold Lloyd: A Bio-bibliography'' 1994 p. 26 film entitled All Wrong (1919). Mildred was aware of her naivete — thus, she adorned herself in an exaggeratedly sophisticated fashion for her first meeting with Lloyd and Roach. They were less than impressed. Cast * Bryant Washburn as Warren Kent *Mildred Davis as Betty Thompson * Charles Bennett as Donald Thompson * Helen Dunbar as Mrs. Donald Thompson *Fred Montague as Randolph Graham *Margaret Livingston Margaret Livingston (born Marguerite Livingston; November 25, 1895 – December 13, 1984), sometimes credited as Marguerite Livingstone or Margaret Livingstone, was an American film actress and businesswoman during the silent fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Weaver Of Dreams
''A Weaver of Dreams'' is a lost silent film directed by Edison's John H. Collins and released under Metro Films February 18, 1918, at the height of Mr. Collins' career. It was the 36th of 41 films credited to his direction. The young director succumbed to Spanish Influenza and died later that year; October 23, 1918, at the age of 28. The film stars his actress wife Virginia Flugrath, who is best known by her screen name Viola Dana. The screenplay, written by John H. Collins and William Parker, is an adaptation of Myrtle Reed's (1874-1911) posthumously published novel ''A Weaver of Dreams'' (1911); the author took her own life earlier that year on August 17, 1911. Plot The plot concerns Viola Dana's character; Judith Sylvester, who is niece to a wealthy invalid. Confident in her relationship, Judith introduces her beau to the niece of another invalid. Over time he transfers his affection to the other girl; possibly with ulterior motives. Judith does little to intervene, saying, "Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud's Recruit
''Bud's Recruit'' is a 1918 American short comedy film directed by King Vidor. A print survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career. Cast * Wallace Brennan as Bud Gilbert * Robert Gordon as Reggie Gilbert * Ruth Hampton as Edith * Mildred Davis as Edith's sister Production ''Bud’s Recruit'' is one of ten short films written and produced by Judge Willis Brown that were directed by King Vidor. These were filmed at Boy City Film Company in Culver City, California and released by General Film Company between January and May 1918. Bud’s Recruit is unique in that it is the only film from the Judge Willis Brown series that survives. This film is the only one of the series in which Judge Willis Brown did not appear. Theme Brown was a Salt Lake City juvenile court judge who specialized in “rehabilitating juvenile offenders.” He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
