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Nina Romano
Nina Romano (born Isabel Craven Dilworth) was an American actress in films and on stage. Early years Romano was the daughter of glass manufacturer J. Dale Dilworth of Salem, New Jersey, and his wife. Her interest in acting developed while she was in high school at Ward–Belmont College in Nashville, and she went on to attend a dramatic school in New York. Career Romano's initial professional acting experience came in a stage production of ''Don Juan''. She initially focused on dramatic roles, but in 1924 she had her first comedic role in the farce ''The Whole Town's Talking''. Her Broadway credits included ''The Love Call'' (1927) and ''The Warrior's Husband'' (1932). After being a leading woman on stage for years, Romano made her screen debut in the film ''Titans'' for Universal Pictures. That work led to her signing a long-term contract with Universal in 1925. Her other films included '' The Palace of Pleasure'' (1926), '' What Happened to Jones'' (1926), and ''Lost at the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Tellegen
Lou Tellegen (born Isidor Louis Bernard Edmon van Dommelen;"Lou Tellegen, Idol of Stage and Silent Screen, Stabs Himself Seven Times." Spartanburg (SC) Herald, October 30, 1934, pp. 1-2. November 26, 1881 or 1883 – October 29, 1934) was a Dutch-born stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter. Early life Tellegen was the illegitimate child of a separated, but not divorced, lieutenant of the West-Indian Army Isidore Louis Bernard Edmon Tellegen (1836–1902) and his partner Anna Maria van Dommelen (1844–1917), widow of Eduard Hendrik Jan Storm van 's Gravezande. He made his stage debut in Amsterdam in 1903, and over the next few years built a reputation to the point where he was invited to perform in Paris, eventually co-starring in several roles with Sarah Bernhardt, with whom he was involved romantically. In 1910, he made his motion picture debut alongside Bernhardt in ''The Lady of the Camellias, La dame aux camélias'', a silent film made in France based on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danneskiold-Samsøe
The House of Danneskiold-Samsøe is a Danish family of high nobility associated with the Danish Royal Family, and who formerly held the island of Samsø as a fief. By royal statutory regulation, the Counts Danneskiold-Samsøe and their male-line descendants are ranked as the second-highest nobles in Denmark, second only to the Counts of Rosenborg, who also descend from the Danish Kings. With a place in the 1st Class No. 13, they are entitled to the style " His/Her Excellency". The family uses a traditional spelling of the name; a modern spelling would be ''Danneskjold-Samsø''. History The name was created for several descendants of Danish monarchs of the House of Oldenburg, born of their liaisons with royal mistresses. The first grantees were children from the 1677 marriage between Countess Antoinette von Aldenburg and Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig, a celebrated (Norwegian) general and the son of Frederick III of Denmark by his mistress Margrethe Pape. Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward–Belmont College
Ward–Belmont College was a women's college, also known at the time as a "ladies' seminary," located in Nashville, Tennessee, on the grounds of the antebellum estate of Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham. The school used the grounds of the former Acklen estate and mansion, with a quadrangle of academic and residential buildings being erected over time on the front lawn. It was regarded as a very prestigious "finishing school" by the more aristocratic families of Middle Tennessee, although some students were from considerably farther away. History In 1865, William E. Ward and his wife, Eliza Hudson Ward, opened Ward Seminary for Young Ladies in Nashville, Tennessee, to offer "a full and thorough course of instruction, embracing academic and collegiate work." In 1870, the Educational Bureau in Washington, DC, ranked Ward Seminary among the top three educational institutions for women in the nation. The school also placed emphasis on athletics, organizing the first girls' v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States; the world's fifth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, and Nordisk Film; and the oldest member of Hollywood's "Big Five" studios in terms of the overall film market. Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. In 1962, the studio was acquired by MCA, which was re-launched as NBCUniversal in 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Palace Of Pleasure (film)
''The Palace of Pleasure'' is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and written by Benjamin Glazer and Bradley King. The film stars Betty Compson, Edmund Lowe, Henry Kolker, Harvey Clark, Nina Romano, and Francis McDonald. The film was released on January 10, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Don Sebastian, Portuguese Premier, sets a price on the head of royalist Ricardo Madons. Madons is in love with actress Lola Montez, whom Sebastian also adores. Madons abducts Lola and compels her to wed him, but then does not hold her to the compact. Lola, who is really in love with him, repents having sent for assistance when she was taken. When Sebastian's soldiers arrive, Lola is nearly slain when she stops a bullet meant for Madons. She plots successfully and escapes with Madons, and the couple find happiness across the border. Cast *Betty Compson as Lola Montez *Edmund Lowe as Ricardo Madons *Henry Kolker as Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Happened To Jones (1926 Film)
''What Happened to Jones'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the 1897 Broadway play '' What Happened to Jones'' by George Broadhurst. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Tom Jones (Denny), who is to be married the next day to Lucille Bigbee (Nixon), goes home but is inveigled into a poker game. The place is raided and Tom and a fat elderly friend, Ebenezer Goodly (Harlan), escaping down a fire escape land in a ladies' Turkish bath establishment, where they naturally create a hullabaloo and finally make a getaway in women's clothes, reaching Goodly's home in a milk wagon the next morning. When Tom dons the clothes of Goodly's brother, a bishop, who is expected that morning, he is seen by Mrs. Goodly (Fitzroy) and has to pose as the bishop. Complications follow thick and fast including the jealousy of a chap because Tom kisses his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost At The Front
''Lost at the Front'' is a 1927 American comedy film directed by Del Lord and written by Hampton Del Ruth, Frank Griffin and Ralph Spence. The film stars George Sidney, Charles Murray, Natalie Kingston, John Kolb, Max Asher and Brooks Benedict. The film was released on May 29, 1927, by First National Pictures. There are no known archival holdings of the film, so it is presumably a lost film. Cast *George Sidney as August Krause *Charles Murray as Patrick Muldoon *Natalie Kingston as Olga Pietroff *John Kolb as Von Herfiz *Max Asher as Adolph Meyerburg * Brooks Benedict as The Inventor *Ed Brady as Captain Kashluff *Harry Lipman as Captain Levinsky *Nita Martan Nita Martan (1898–1986) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who was active in the silent and early sound eras. Martan was active in musical comedy productions in New York and in vaudeville. On Broadway, she portrayed Ro See in ''China ... as Russian girl * Nina Romano as Russian girl References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Storm Breaker
''The Storm Breaker'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Edward Sloman and written by Edward T. Lowe Jr. It is based on the 1922 novel ''Titans'' by Charles Guernon. The film stars House Peters Sr., Ruth Clifford, Nina Romano, Ray Hallor, Jere Austin, and Lionel Belmore. The film was released on October 25, 1925, by Universal Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine review, John Strong, a dominatingly strong willed fisherman who is loved by a young woman who lives in his mother’s home meets and marries the daughter of a bookseller, but then loses her love to his brother Neil. One night a storm wrecks his brother’s boat. He refuses to go to the rescue until he is told that he is the only man on the coast who can save the one who is in peril. Following the successful rescue of his brother, he realizes he has no right to the love of the woman he has wed. He leaves the village, but not before he learns that the young woman who adored him before he was marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Midnight Sun (1926 Film)
''The Midnight Sun'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Laura La Plante, Pat O'Malley (actor), Pat O'Malley, and Michael Vavitch. It is based on a novel by the French writer Pierre Benoît (novelist), Pierre Benoît.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Midnight Sun'' at silentera.com The film is set in pre-Revolutionary Russian Empire, Tsarist Russia. The film includes a brief scene shot in Technicolor. Cast Production Some on-location scenes were filmed in Truckee, California.Preservation A complete print of ''The Midnight Sun'' is located in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. It has not been released to the public on dvd or other forma ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Money To Burn (1926 Film)
''Money to Burn'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Walter Lang. The film survives in the archives of the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art. Cast * Malcolm McGregor as Dan Stone * Dorothy Devore as Dolores Valdez * Eric Mayne as Don Diego Valdez * Nina Romano as Maria González * George Chesebro as Manuel Ortego * Orfa Casanova as Señora Sanguinetti * Jules Cowles Jules Cowles (October 18, 1877 – May 22, 1943) was an American film actor.Munden p.193 He was also billed as J. D. Cowles and Julius D. Cowles. Born in Farmington, Connecticut, Cowles attended Yale and was a writer in addition to being an actor ... as The Giant * John T. Prince as Bascom * Arnold Melvin as The Mysterious Native References External links * 1926 films 1926 drama films Silent American drama films American silent feature films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films Films directed by Walter Lang Gotham Pictures films 1920s American f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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