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Norris Johnson
''For the publisher and activist see Buzz Johnson'' Norris Johnson (1898 - 1971) was an actress in silent films in the U.S. She had supporting roles in various films and also had lead roles in Thomas H. Ince and Samuel Goldwyn productions. Filmography *''What's Your Husband Doing?'' (1920) *'' Paris Green'' (1920) *'' An Amateur Devil'' (1920) *'' Let's Be Fashionable'' (1920), as Betty Turner *''What's Your Husband Doing?'' (1920), as Helen Widgast *'' The Speed Girl'' (1921) *'' The New Disciple'' (1921) *''Lorna Doone'' (1922) as Ruth *''Dusk to Dawn'' (1922) as Babette *'' The Scarlet Car'' (1923) as Violet Gaynor *''The White Sin ''The White Sin'' is a 1924 silent romantic drama film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Madge Bellamy and John Bowers. It was distributed by Film Booking Offices of America (FBO). Plot As described in a review of the film in a film ...'' (1924) as Grace's Aunt References External linksIMDb page {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Norris 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buzz Johnson
Norris Chrisleventon "Buzz" Johnson (2 November 1951 – 11 February 2014), generally known as Buzz Johnson, was a Tobago-born publisher and activist who in the 1970s relocated to England, UK. There he set up a small publishing company called Karia Press, based in east London, producing books relevant to community and race relations, and making available and better known the work of many key writers, including Claudia Jones, whom he is credited with having "rediscovered". Johnson was involved with such organisations as Caribbean Labour Solidarity (CLS), Liberation and the Institute of Race Relations, and helped set up community support centres, such as the Claudia Jones Organisation, and supplementary schools. His other campaigning work included support for the anti-apartheid movement and for progressive politics in Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Vincent.Godfrey J. Martin"Eulogy: Remembering "Norris Buzz Johnson" 1 March 2014. Early years and move to England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Disciple
''The New Disciple'' is a 1921 American silent film directed by Ollie Sellers and produced by labor organization the Federal Film Corporation in Seattle, Washington. It was the most widely viewed labor film of this period, with over one million viewers in the year of its release. The film featured Alfred Allen, Norris Johnson, and Pell Trenton. The silent film included titles from Woodrow Wilson's 1913 '' New Freedom'' and told the story of a war veteran and a corrupt capitalist war profiteer. Ollie Sellers directed the anti-open shop film which was an indictment of the American plan. Promotions for the film called for union members to "wait" on their film exchanges to show the film. Film production was supervised by John Arthur Nelson who wrote the story which was published at the same time. William Piggott wrote the screenplay. The film was made in Los Angeles. Cast *Pell Trenton *Margaret Mann * Alfred Allen *Norris Johnson *Walt Whitman Walter Whitman (; May 31, 181 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Deaths
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom ''All in the Family'', starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. * January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Sin
''The White Sin'' is a 1924 silent romantic drama film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Madge Bellamy and John Bowers. It was distributed by Film Booking Offices of America (FBO). Plot As described in a review of the film in a film magazine, Hattie Lou Harkness’ (Bellamy) life with her aunt becomes unbearable and she runs away from the country home, finding employment as a maid with the wealthy Van Gores. Spencer Van Gore (Cooley) stages a mock wedding on board his yacht with the ship’s captain officiating. Learning of the trick, Hattie Lou leaves. Two years later she is out of work. Reading that the yacht has been wrecked and the party of Van Gores lost, she goes with her baby to the elder Van Gore’s home and poses as Spencer’s wife. Grant Van Gore (Bowers), a war invalid there, falls in love with her. Spencer turns up and Hattie Lou learns that the marriage was legal and binding, as the captain deliberately performed it outside the three-mile limit. Spencer d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarlet Car (1923 Film)
''The Scarlet Car'' is a lost 1923 American silent drama film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Claire Adams, and Edward Cecil.Palmer p. 654 It is based on a novel by Richard Harding Davis, which had previously been turned into a 1917 Lon Chaney film of the same title. Plot As described in a film magazine, Billy (Rawlinson) is fired after being arrested for speeding thirty times in thirty days, and is shipped home to his father Jim Winthrop (Tom McGuire). His father has backed Ernest Peabody (Cecil) for mayor. Ernest has betrayed Violet Gaynor (Johnson), Jim's secretary. Beatrice Forbes (Adams), whom Billy likes and would like Billy if she only knew it, has fallen for Ernest's grandiloquent line of bunk and promised to marry him. Violet has learned that Ernest has double-crossed Jim in politics about the time her father Jerry Gaynor (Robbins) has discovered her condition (pregnancy) and, believing Billy guilty of being the father, attempts to blackmail him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dusk To Dawn
''Dusk to Dawn'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor. It is unknown whether any recording of the film survives; it may be a lost film. Plot An Indian maid and American girl (both played by Florence Vidor) share a single soul which shifts between them each day when they are awake. Cast * Florence Vidor as Marjorie Latham / Aziza * Jack Mulhall as Philip Randall * Truman Van Dyke as Ralph Latham * James Neill as John Latham * Lydia Knott as Mrs. Latham * Herbert Fortier as Mark Randall * Norris Johnson as Babette * Nellie Anderson as Marua * Sidney Franklin as Nadar Gungi * Peter Burke as Itjah Nyhal Singh Production ''Dusk to Dawn'' would mark the final professional collaboration between King Vidor and Florence Vidor. By the early 1920s, Florence Vidor had emerged as a major film star in her own right and wished to pursue her career independently of her spouse. The couple divorced in 1926, and shortly thereafter Florence married violinist Jascha Heife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Doone (1922 Film)
''Lorna Doone'' is a 1922 American silent drama film based upon Richard Doddridge Blackmore's 1869 novel of the same name. Directed by French director Maurice Tourneur in the United States, the film starred Madge Bellamy and John Bowers. This is one of many film adaptations of the novel. It was filmed twice before in 1912 in England for Clarendon, and in 1915 for the American Biograph Company. Other later adaptations include 1934 and 1951 films, and 1990 and 2001 television movies. Cast *Madge Bellamy as Lorna Doone *Mae Giraci as Lorna as a Child (credited as Mae Giracci) * John Bowers as John Ridd *Charles Hatton as John as a Child *Frank Keenan as Sir Ensor Doone * Jack McDonald as Counsellor Doone (credited as Jack MacDonald) * Donald McDonald as Carver Doone *Norris Johnson as Ruth, John's Cousin *Gertrude Astor as Countess of Brandir (uncredited) *James Robert Chandler as Frye (uncredited) *Irene De Voss as Lorna's Mother (uncredited) *Joan Standing as Gwenny Carfax (un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Speed Girl
''The Speed Girl'' is a lost 1921 American silent comedy film produced by Realart Pictures and released through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Maurice Campbell, a Broadway director and producer, and starred Bebe Daniels, then a popular 20-year-old veteran film actress. The film was supposedly expanded into a screenplay from Bebe Daniels's real life jail sentence of 10 days for speeding. Plot As described in a film magazine, screen star Betty Lee is in love with naval officer Tom Manley. Tom is due back on his ship at a certain hour and Betty, not realizing the importance of this, sets his watch back. When she is told that he will be court-martialed if he is not on deck on time, Betty endeavors to get him back in town. She is arrested for speeding and put in a jail cell. Hundreds of fans visit, and Judge Ketcham (Courtright), who had sentenced her, brings a bouquet and apologizes. Betty befriends a fellow prisoner and is instrumental in helping her, too. Cast *Bebe Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Be Fashionable
''Let's Be Fashionable'' is a lost 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and written by Mildred Considine and Luther Reed. The film stars Douglas MacLean, Doris May, Wade Boteler, Grace Morse, George Webb, and Wilbur Higby. The film was released on June 13, 1920, by Paramount Pictures. Cast *Douglas MacLean as Henry Langdon *Doris May as Evelyn Langdon *Wade Boteler as John Hammond *Grace Morse as Elsie Hammond *George Webb as Bruce Grey *Wilbur Higby as George Barrymore *Mollie McConnell as Mrs. Trude *Norris Johnson ''For the publisher and activist see Buzz Johnson'' Norris Johnson (1898 - 1971) was an actress in silent films in the U.S. She had supporting roles in various films and also had lead roles in Thomas H. Ince and Samuel Goldwyn productions. Filmog ... as Betty Turner References External links * * 1920 films 1920s English-language films Silent American comedy films 1920 comedy films Paramount Pictures films Films directed by Ll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Amateur Devil
''An Amateur Devil'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Maurice Campbell and written by Douglas Bronston based upon the short story "Wanted: A Blemish" by Henry J. Buxton and Jessie Henderson. The film stars Bryant Washburn, Charles Wingate, Ann May, Sidney Bracey, Graham Pettie, and Anna Dodge. The film was released on December 19, 1920, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives. Plot As described in a film magazine, Carver Endicott (Washburn), born into wealth, has a sweetheart Margaret (May) who has become boresome to him. To stimulate his interest, his father (Wingate), a dashing old beau, pretends an affection for the young woman. She, in exasperation, accepts his proposal. The plan works and rouses Carver to come up with a scheme of besmirching the family name to prevent the wedding. He poses as a hired farmhand, a dishwasher, and then a hotel bus boy. In the latter capacity he invites the attention of a young musical queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
