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Roland V. Lee
Rowland Vance Lee (September 6, 1891 – December 21, 1975) was an American film director, actor, writer, and producer. Biography Early life Born in Findlay, Ohio, Lee was the son of a suffragette who founded a newspaper. He studied at Columbia University and served in the infantry during World War I. Acting career Lee had early appearances in ''Wild Winship's Widow'' (1917), ''Time Locks and Diamonds'' (1917), ''The Mother Instinct'' (1917), ''Polly Ann'' (1917), ''The Stainless Barrier'' (1917), ''The Maternal Spark'' (1917) and ''They're Off'' (1918). He appeared in the films '' The Woman in the Suitcase'', ''Water, Water, Everywhere'', '' His Own Law'' (supporting Hobart Bosworth), and '' Her Husband's Friend'' (all 1920). Directing Change of profession Thomas H. Ince suggested Lee make a choice between acting and directing. Lee moved into directing starting with '' A Thousand to One'' (1920), '' Cupid's Brand'' (1921), and '' The Cup of Life'' (1921). He directed tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Findlay, Ohio
Findlay ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Ohio, United States. The second-largest city in Northwest Ohio, Findlay lies about 40 miles (64 km) south of Toledo, Ohio, Toledo. The population was 40,313 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is home to the University of Findlay and is the principal city of the Micropolitan statistical area, Findlay, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area. Findlay is the headquarters of Fortune 1000 companies Marathon Petroleum and Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, who rank 22 and 830 on the list respectively. History In the War of 1812, Colonel James Findlay (Cincinnati mayor), James Findlay of Cincinnati built a road and a stockade to transport and shelter troops in the Great Black Swamp region. This stockade was named Fort Findlay in his honor. At the conclusion of the war, the community of Findlay was born. The first town lots were laid out in 1821 by the future Ohio Governor Joseph Vance (Ohio politician), Joseph Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea Lion
''The Sea Lion'' is a 1921 American silent adventure film directed by Rowland V. Lee, and starring Hobart Bosworth, Bessie Love, and Emory Johnson. It was produced and distributed by Associated Producers Incorporated. The team who worked on this film had previously made Lee's '' Blind Hearts'' (1921). The film has preserved in the collections of the Library of Congress, the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Pacific Film Archive. It is also in the public domain. Plot Captain John Nelson (Hobart Bosworth) and his crew hunt whales on the high seas. The captain is an angry man, having never recovered from his wife's leaving him for another man 20 years prior. When the ship comes to port, Tom (Emory Johnson), a young man, joins the crew as a lookout. He is distraught as well, having been jilted by his fiancée. Back on the seas, the ship's inexperienced crew mistakes the water supply as a leak and pumps it overboard. The captain rations the remaining water, and stores it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentle Julia (1923 Film)
''Gentle Julia'' is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel '' Gentle Julia'' by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Rowland V. Lee, the film starred Bessie Love. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation, and is considered a lost film. Plot Julia Atwater (Love) is the most popular girl in her Midwestern small town. She has many suitors, but she chooses an older man, Mr. Crum (Elliott). When he takes her back to his home in Chicago, she finds out he is married. She leaves him, returning to neighbor Noble Dill (Goodwin). Cast Production Love was cast because she was "the last girl in Hollywood with long hair", although she was unaware of this and got an "Eton crop" haircut before filming commenced. Reception The film was well-received. Love's performance drew mixed reviews, with some giving her praise, and others deeming her as miscast. Arthur's performance as the young niece drew rave reviews. See also * 1937 Fox vault fire The 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desire (1923 Film)
''Desire'' is a 1923 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Marguerite De La Motte, John Bowers (actor), John Bowers, and Estelle Taylor. The film's sets were designed by art director John Hughes (art director), John Hughes. Cast Preserrvation With no prints of ''Desire'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film. References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * * 1923 films 1923 drama films Silent American drama films Films directed by Rowland V. Lee American silent feature films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films Metro Pictures films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Adams (novel)
''Alice Adams'' is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman (the eponymous Alice Adams) who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I. Plot The novel begins with Virgil Adams confined to bed with an unnamed illness. There is tension between Virgil and his wife over how he should go about recovering, and she pressures him not to return to work for J.A. Lamb once he is well. Alice, their daughter, attempts to keep peace in the family, with mixed results, and she walks to her friend Mildred Palmer's house to see what Mildred will wear to a dance that evening. After Alice's return, she spends the day preparing for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1918) and '' Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana. Booth Tarkington served one term in the Indiana House of Representatives, was critical of the advent of automobiles, and set many of his stories in the Midwest. He eventually removed to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he continued his life work even as he suffered a loss of vision. Biography Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Adams (1923 Film)
''Alice Adams'' is a 1923 silent film drama directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Florence Vidor. It was produced by King Vidor. It is based on the 1921 novel '' Alice Adams'' by Booth Tarkington, later made into a 1935 sound film. Cast *Florence Vidor as Alice Adams *Claude Gillingwater as Virgil Adams * Harold Goodwin as Walter Adorns *Margaret McWade as Mrs. Adams *Tom Ricketts as J. A. Lamb *Margaret Landis as Henrietta Lamb *Gertrude Astor as Mildred Palmer *Vernon Steele Vernon Steele (born Arturo Romeo Antonietti; 18 September 1882 – 23 July 1955) was a Chilean-born British actor known for his appearances on the Broadway stage and in American films. He often played patrician young men in silent films. Steele ... as Arthur Russell Preservation status A fragment is preserved in the BFI National Film & Television Archive. References External links Alice Adams at IMDb.com* 1923 films American silent feature films Films directed by Rowland V. Lee Lost Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Of The Circus
''Shirley of the Circus'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee, and starring Shirley Mason, George O'Hara, Crauford Kent, Alan Hale Sr., and Lule Warrenton. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on November 12, 1922. Cast * Shirley Mason as Nita * George O'Hara as Pierre *Crauford Kent as James Blackthorne *Alan Hale Sr. as Max *Lule Warrenton as Blanquette *Maude Wayne as Susan Van Der Pyle *Mathilde Brundage as Mrs. Van Der Pyle Preservation The film is now considered lost. See also *List of lost films *1937 Fox vault fire The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ... References External links * 1922 drama films Fox Film films Silent American drama films 1922 films American silent feature films American black-and-white film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixed Faces
''Mixed Faces'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring William Russell, Renée Adorée, DeWitt Jennings, Elizabeth Garrison, and Charles K. French. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on October 22, 1922. Cast * William Russell as Judge J. Woodworth Granger / Jimmy Gallop *Renée Adorée as Mary Allen Sayre *DeWitt Jennings as Murray McGuire *Elizabeth Garrison as Mrs. Sayre *Charles K. French as Mr. Sayre (as Charles French) *Aileen Manning as Mrs. Molly Crutcher * Harvey Clark as William Haskins (as Harvey Clarke) Preservation The film is now considered lost. See also *List of lost films *1937 Fox vault fire The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ... References External links * Silent American comedy films 1922 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dust Flower
Dust is made of fine particles of solid matter. On Earth, it generally consists of particles in the atmosphere that come from various sources such as soil lifted by wind (an aeolian process), volcanic eruptions, and pollution. Dust in homes is composed of about 20–50% dead skin cells. The rest, and in offices, and other human environments is composed of small amounts of plant pollen, human hairs, animal fur, textile fibers, paper fibers, minerals from outdoor soil, burnt meteorite particles, and many other materials which may be found in the local environment. Atmospheric Atmospheric or wind-borne fugitive dust, also known as ''aeolian dust'', comes from arid and dry regions where high velocity winds are able to remove mostly silt-sized material, deflating susceptible surfaces. This includes areas where grazing, ploughing, vehicle use, and other human behaviors have further destabilized the land, though not all source areas have been largely affected by anthropogenic i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Self-Made Man (film)
"Self-made man" is a classic phrase coined on February 2, 1842 by Henry Clay in the United States Senate, to describe individuals whose success lay within the individuals themselves, not with outside conditions. Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, has been described as the greatest exemplar of the self-made man. Inspired by Franklin's autobiography, Frederick Douglass developed the concept of the self-made man in a series of lectures that spanned decades starting in 1879. Originally, the term referred to an individual who arises from a poor or otherwise disadvantaged background to eminence in financial, political or other areas by nurturing qualities, such as perseverance and hard work, as opposed to achieving these goals through inherited fortune, family connections, or other privileges. By the mid-1950s, success in the United States generally implied "business success". In the intellectual and cultural history of the United States, the idea of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Back Against The Wall
''His Back Against the Wall'' is a 1922 American comedy film directed by Rowland V. Lee Rowland Vance Lee (September 6, 1891 – December 21, 1975) was an American film director, actor, writer, and producer. Biography Early life Born in Findlay, Ohio, Lee was the son of a suffragette who founded a newspaper. He studied at Columbi ... and written by Julien Josephson. The film stars Raymond Hatton, Virginia Valli, Will Walling, J. Gordon Russell, W.H. Bainbridge and Virginia Madison. The film was released on May 21, 1922, by Goldwyn Pictures. Cast * Raymond Hatton as Jeremy Dice * Virginia Valli as Mary Welling * Will Walling as Sheriff Lawrence *J. Gordon Russell as Bronc Lewis *W.H. Bainbridge as Henry Welling *Virginia Madison as Mrs. Welling * Fred Kohler as Arizona Pete * Jack Curtis as Lew Shaler *Dudley Hendricks as Dr. Farley * Shannon Day as Dorothy Petwell * Raymond Cannon as Jimmy Boyle *Louis Morrison as Foutch Preservation status *The film survives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
