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Producers Distributing Corporation
Producers Distributing Corporation was a short-lived Hollywood film distribution company, organized in 1924 and dissolved in March 1927. In its brief heyday, film director Cecil B. DeMille was its primary shareholder and major talent. Corporate history PDC's beginnings lay with film pioneer William Wadsworth Hodkinson, founder of Paramount Pictures in 1912. In late 1924 Hodkinson sold one of his struggling distribution companies to Jeremiah Millbank, a "wealthy, extremely religious, and politically conservative financier."Empire of dreams: the epic life of Cecil B. DeMille, Scott Eyman, page 212 Millbank partnered with DeMille and renamed the company Producers Distributing Corporation. Part of Millbank's investment went to purchase the former Thomas H. Ince Culver Studios, the property whose main building is a replica of Mount Vernon. In March 1927, Pathe Exchange and Producers Distributing Corporation merged under the control of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum chain of theater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Film Industry
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known as Hollywood) along with some independent film, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of American cinema is classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1913 to 1969 and is still typical of most films made there to this day. While Frenchmen Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, American cinema soon came to be a dominant force in the emerging industry. , it produced the third-largest number of films of any national cinema, after India and China, with more than 600 English-language films released on average every year. While the national cinemas of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand also produce films in the same language, they are not part of the Hollywood system. That said, Hollywood has also been considered a transnational cinema, and has produced multiple langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Try And Get It
''Try and Get It'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Cullen Tate and starring Bryant Washburn, Billie Dove, and Edward Everett Horton. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Larry Donovan, owner of a printing business, tells his credit manager Joe Merrill that if he cannot collect a seven-year-old bill for $25.11 against Tim Perrin in a week, he is through. Donovan also tells Glenn Collins that if he does not get Perrin's account within a week, he is through, too. Both young men are thrown out of Perrin's cement yard. Joe goes to a modiste shop owned by Perrin, ready to park there until he receives payment. He makes various attempts to see Perrin, who finally beats him up and wrecks the shop. When Merrill wins the love of Perrin's daughter and, with her connivance, finally secures the payment of the bill, Perrin capitulates and offers him a job. Cast Preservation A print of ''Try and Get It'' is held in the Library of Congress The Library of Cong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roaring Rails
''Roaring Rails'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Tom Forman and featuring Harry Carey. Cast * Harry Carey as Big Bill Benson * Frankie Darro as Little Bill * Edith Roberts as Nora Burke * Wallace MacDonald as Malcolm Gregory * Frank Hagney as Red Burley * Duke R. Lee as John McFarlane Preservation A complete print of ''Roaring Rails'' held by George Eastman House had its restoration funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation in 2010. On December 14, 2011, Turner Classic Movies aired this restored film. See also * Harry Carey filmography This is a list of films featuring Harry Carey. 1910 * ''Bill Sharkey's Last Game'' * ''Gentleman Joe'' 1912 * ''An Unseen Enemy'' as The Thief * ''Two Daughters of Eve'' as In Audience * ''Friends'' as Bob Kyne - the Prospector * '' So Near ... References External links * * 1924 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films 1920s action films Films directed by Tom Forman Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flaming Forties
''The Flaming Forties'' is a 1924 American silent Western film, the sixth of seven features which short-lived motion picture company Stellar Productions released in 1924–1925 as Producers Distributing Corporation vehicles for Harry Carey. Carey was primarily known as a star of Westerns and only one of the seven films did not fit into that genre. Assigned as director was 31-year-old Tom Forman, who less than two years later, in November 1926, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The film was based upon the 1869 Bret Harte story " Tennessee’s Pardner," which has also been filmed as ''Tennessee's Pardner'' (1916), '' The Golden Princess'' (1925), and ''Tennessee's Partner'' (1955). Cast * Harry Carey as Bill Jones * William Norton Bailey as Desparde * Jacqueline Gadsden as Sally * James Mason as Jay Bird Charley * Frank Norcross as Colonel Starbottle * Wilbur Higby as the Sheriff Preservation With no prints of ''The Flaming Forties'' located in any film archives, it i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chorus Lady (1924 Film)
''The Chorus Lady'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Margaret Livingston, Alan Roscoe, and Virginia Lee Corbin. It is based on the play of the same name by James Forbes, which was previously filmed in 1915 as ''The Chorus Lady''. Plot Entertainer Patricia O'Brien (Livingston) is engaged to Dan Mallory (Roscoe), who races horses. When his prize horse "Lady Belle" is blinded in a fire, the wedding is postponed. Patricia returns to New York City with her younger sister Nora (Corbin) to work in the Follies. Dan enters his blind horse in a $20,000 race and wins, so he goes to New York City to finish the wedding. Things go awry when he finds Patricia in the apartment of Dick Crawford (McCullough). However, it turns out that she went there to rescue her younger sister Nora. Cast Preservation ''The Chorus Lady'' is considered to be a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reckless Romance
''Reckless Romance'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Scott Sidney and starring T. Roy Barnes, Harry Myers, and Wanda Hawley. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Jerry Warner (Barnes) and Edith Somers (Breamer) are in love but Judge Somers (Marshall) will not allow them to marry because Jerry shows no signs of being a business man. Jerry’s uncle sends him ten thousand dollars to set him up in business and Judge Somers tells him if he has that money at the end of six months he can marry Edith. Jerry invests half of it in oil stock which Judge Somers says is worthless. Chris (Myers) and Beatrice Skinner (Hawley), just married, receive word from Chris’ grandfather that he will stop the allowance because he does not like the girl. They decide to get a divorce and remarry after Chris has Grandpa’s money. For ten thousand dollars Jerry poses as the co-respondent and they frame a scene for Grandpa to see. But their plans go awry. Chester becomes jeal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of Youth
''The House of Youth'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Jacqueline Logan, Malcolm McGregor and Gloria Grey.Munden p.366 Cast * Jacqueline Logan as Corinna Endicott * Malcolm McGregor as Spike Blaine * Vernon Steele as Rhodes Winston * Gloria Grey as Amy Marsden * Richard Travers as Mitch Hardy * Rosa Castro as Linda Richards * Edwin B. Tilton as Cornelius Endicott * Aileen Manning as Aunt Maggie Endicott * Hugh Metcalfe as Butler * Barbara Tennant as Mrs. Mitch Hardy * Nola Luxford Nola Luxford (born Adelaide Minola Pratt; 23 December 1895 – 10 October 1994) was a New Zealand-born American film actress, spanning from the silent film era to the 1930s. During the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she was also a writer ... as Society Girl References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trouping With Ellen
''Trouping with Ellen'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film starring Basil Rathbone, Gaston Glass, Helene Chadwick, and Mary Thurman. Based on a short story by Earl Derr Biggers that appeared in ''The Saturday Evening Post'', this was Rathbone's first American production. Cast Preservation With no copies of ''Trouping with Ellen'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o .... References External links * * 1924 films 1924 drama films American silent feature films American drama films American black-and-white films Lost American films Producers Distributing Corporation films Films with screenplays by Gerald Duffy 1924 lost films Lost drama films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films Silent Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another Man's Wife (film)
''Another Man's Wife'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Bruce Mitchell and starring James Kirkwood, Lila Lee and Wallace Beery.Munden p.21 The story takes part in a ship off Mazatlán in Mexico. Cast * James Kirkwood as John Brand * Lila Lee as Helen Brand * Wallace Beery as Captain Wolf * Matt Moore as Phillip Cochran * Zena Keefe as Dancer * Chester Conklin as Rumrunner * Kate Price * Ralph Yearsley Ralph Yearsley (October 6, 1896 – December 4, 1928) was a British-born character actor who worked in Hollywood films. Early life and education Born in London, England, he was trained in a medical school, but left for the United States to pursu ... * Donald MacDonald References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome Stranger (1924 Film)
''Welcome Stranger'' is a 1924 American silent comedy-drama film directed by James Young, starring Florence Vidor and featuring Noah Beery. Cast *Dore Davidson as Isadore Solomon *Florence Vidor as Mary Clark *Virginia Brown Faire as Essie Solomon *Noah Beery as Icahod Whitson * Lloyd Hughes as Ned Tyler *Robert Edeson as Eb Hooker *William V. Mong as Clem Beemis *Otis Harlan as Seth Trimble *Fred J. Butler as Gideon Tyler *Pat Hartigan as Detective *Evelyn Sherman as Dowager (uncredited) Preervation With no copies of ''Welcome Stranger'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o .... References External links * *Stillsat silenthollywood.com 1924 films Lost American films American films based on plays Films directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wise Virgin
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legend Of Hollywood
''The Legend of Hollywood'' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman and starring Percy Marmont, Zasu Pitts, and Alice Davenport.Munden p. 428 Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, a boarding house in Hollywood shelters a variety of persons who are seeking success in the movies. Among them is John Smith (Marmont) who is writing what he hopes will be the screen's greatest story. Filled with enthusiasm, he visits the studios but without result. The landlady tells him his rent is overdue, but allows him to stay in the room for seven more days if he does not take meals. He determines to end it all by taking poison, but notices the room has seven glasses, so he gambles with death by filling the glasses with wine and one with poison, and drinking one each days. The first six days of despair is nothing to the seventh day when, with the final glass remaining, there is no longer any element of chance. He drinks the last glass just as a friend w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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