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Secrets (1922 Play)
''Secrets'' is a 1922 play by Rudolf Besier and May Edginton. The play first opened in London at the Comedy Theatre on September 7, 1922, starring Fay Compton and Leon Quartermaine.(13 August 1922)The London Stage ''The New York Times''(8 October 1922)London Notes ''The New York Times'' ''Secrets'' opened in New York at the Fulton Theatre on December 25, 1922, and ran through May 1923, for 168 performances.Corbin, John (26 December 1922)The Play ''The New York Times''Bordman, GeraldAmerican Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930 p. 198 (1995)("The play's five-month run silenced pundits who sneered that Broadway would never accept so gentle, undramatic an evening.") The play was also adapted for films released in 1924 and 1933. London cast (partial) Produced by John Eugene Vedrenne *Fay Compton as Lady Carlton *Doris Mansell as Lady Lessington *Margaret Scudamore as Mrs. Marlowe *Hubert Harben as William Marlowe *Bobbie Andrews as John Carlton Broadway cast (partia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Besier
Rudolf Wilhelm Besier (2 July 1878 – 16 June 1942) was a Dutch/English dramatist and translator best known for his play ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1930). He worked with H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole and May Edginton on dramatisations. Early life and career Besier was born in Blitar, East Java (Dutch East Indies), in 1878 as the son of an English mother, Margaret Ann Collinson, and the Dutch soldier Rudolf Wilhelm Besier, who died six months before he was born and after whom he was named. He had some limited success early in his career in England, which began with ''The Virgin Goddess'' (1906) produced by Otho Stuart and with music by Christopher Wilson. Then followed a series of plays, mainly dramas, but including some satires and comedies. In 1912 he collaborated with H. G. Wells on dramatising Wells's ''Kipps''; he also worked with Hugh Walpole on ''Robin's Father'' (1918). ''Secrets'' (1922) was written with May Edginton (1883–1957). Major success Besier's major succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eugene Vedrenne , and later still at the Kingsway Theatre ...
John Eugene Vedrenne (July 13, 1867-February 12, 1930), often known as J. E. Vedrenne, was a West End theatre producer who co-managed the Savoy Theatre with Harley Granville-Barker, and then (from 1904 to 1907, also with Granville-Barker) the Royal Court Theatre. During their time at the latter, they premiered several of George Bernard Shaw's plays, including ''John Bull's Other Island'' and ''Major Barbara''. His partnership with Granville-Barker ending in 1907, Vedrenne then became associated with Lewis Waller at the Lyric Theatre, and in 1911 with Dennis Eadie at the Royalty Theatre The Royalty Theatre was a small London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho. Established by the actress Frances Maria Kelly in 1840, it opened as Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School and finally closed to the public in 1938. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Plays
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Beatrice Kay
Beatrice Kay (April 21, 1907– November 8, 1986) was an American singer, vaudevillian, music hall performer, and stage and film actress. Background Born in New York City as Hannah Beatrice Kuper, Kay performed as Honey Kuper and Honey Day for part of her career in vaudeville, radio, motion pictures, sound recordings, night clubs, and television. Her career began at the age of six as "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in stock theater in Louisville, Kentucky. She went on to become a headliner at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub in New York. She was on ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' (directed by Orson Welles), and eventually hosted a radio show, ''The Beatrice Kay Show'', in 1946. Also on radio, she sang regularly on ''Gaslight Gaieties'' and ''Gay Nineties Revue''. On Broadway, Kay appeared in ''Tell Me Pretty Maiden'' (1937), ''Provincetown Follies'' (1935), ''Jarnegan'' (1928), and ''Secrets'' (1922). She appeared at top nightclubs, including San Francisco's Fairmont Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Lawrence (actress)
Margaret Whittaker Lawrence (August 2, 1889 – June 9, 1929) was an American stage actress known for her performances on Broadway and other venues. Born in Philadelphia to Mr and Mrs. George Lawrence, Margaret Lawrence began her career in Chicago in 1910, appeared in New York in 1911 and starred in such Broadway plays as '' Wedding Bells'' (1919), '' Lawful Larceny'' (1922) and ''Secrets'' (1922), the latter of which she was also costume designer. She was socially prominent, serving on the advisory boards of several charitable organizations. She collected old plays, reportedly one of the most complete collections of its kind in New York City. In 1911 she married Orson D. Munn, publisher of ''Scientific American'', with whom she had two daughters. They divorced in 1922, and in 1924 she married actor Wallace Eddinger Wallace Eddinger (July 14, 1881/1883 – January 8, 1929) was an American stage actor. He started as a child actor, known as Wally Eddinger. As a child he pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam H
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Hubert Harben
Leonard Hubert S Harben (12 July 1878 – 24 August 1941) was an English stage and film actor. He was married to the actress Mary Jerrold and father of celebrity chef Philip Harben. Selected filmography * ''Mr. Pim Passes By'' (1921) * ''Every Mother's Son'' (1926) * '' Tell England'' (1931) * '' The Shadow Between'' (1931) * ''Uneasy Virtue'' (1931) * '' Fires of Fate'' (1932) * ''Timbuctoo'' (1933) * ''The House of Trent'' (1933) * '' Lilies of the Field'' (1934) * '' City of Beautiful Nonsense'' (1935) * '' Scrooge'' (1935) * ''Fighting Stock'' (1935) * '' Whom the Gods Love'' (1936) * ''Living Dangerously'' (1936) * ''Dishonour Bright'' (1936) * ''Sunset in Vienna'' (1937) * '' For Valour'' (1937) * ''Victoria the Great'' (1937) * '' A Royal Divorce'' (1938) * ''The Man at the Gate ''The Man at the Gate'' is a 1941 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Wilfrid Lawson. It was released in the U.S. as ''Men of the Sea''. Cast * William Freshman as George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Scudamore
Margaret Scudamore (13 November 1881 – 5 October 1958) was an English theatre and film actress who began in '' ingenue'' roles before achieving a prolonged career in stage and screen support roles. She and her first husband, Roy Redgrave (1873-1922), are considered to be the first members of the now renowned Redgrave acting dynasty. Life and career Margaret was born Daisy Bertha Mary Scudamore in Portsmouth, she was the youngest of five children of William George, a shipwright at HM Portsmouth, and Clara (''née'' Linington), all residing at 7 Melbourne Place, Southsea. She left home at the age of 18 and found her way to the London offices of theatrical agent, Sir John Denton. Mistaking her for Mary Scudamore, the young daughter of a well-known actor-playwright-manager Fortunatus Augustine Davis who had added "Scudmore" to his surname many years before, Sir John gave Daisy the unrelated Scudamore's address at Castelnau Mansions, Barnes. Fortunatus, a "most cheerful" man, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secrets (1933 Film)
''Secrets'' is a 1933 American pre-Code Western film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Mary Pickford in her last film role. The film is a remake of ''Secrets'' (1924), a silent film starring Norma Talmadge, which was based on a 1922 play of the same name. In 1930, Pickford had begun a remake of the Norma Talmadge ''Secrets'' titled ''Forever Yours'' with director Marshall Neilan and actors Kenneth MacKenna and Don Alvarado. After spending $300,000, Pickford stopped production and destroyed all the negatives p93 because she was unhappy with the results. Plot Wealthy banker and shipowner William Marlowe and his wife Martha have their hearts set on marrying their daughter Mary to English aristocrat Lord Hurley. However, Mary has other ideas. She has fallen in love with John Carlton, one of her father's clerks. When Mr. Marlowe finds out, he fires John. John decides to go west to make his fortune, then return for Mary, but she insists on going with him. They elope. The coup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Edginton
May Edginton (originally Helen Marion Edginton, 20 December 1883 – 17 June 1957) was an English writer who had over 50 popular novels published in London. She also wrote plays, collaborating with Rudolf Besier on two of them.Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: ''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present Day'' (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 329. Some of her fiction works were filmed. Her work was translated into several languages, including Hungarian and Chinese.OCLC Worldcat IdentitieRetrieved 4 May 2018./ref> Biography Edginton was born on 20 December 1883 in England. She wrote for ''The Royal Magazine'', where she met the editorial staff and also novelist Francis Evans Bailey (died 1962), whom she married in 1912.Oxford ReferencRetrieved 4 May 2018./ref> They had one son, and separated in 1930. She died at 73 in Rondebosch, South Africa, on 17 June 1957. Fiction, plays and films Edginton started to write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secrets (1924 Film)
''Secrets'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Frank Borzage. The film is based upon a 1922 play of the same name, and was remade in 1933 with Mary Pickford Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress and producer with a career that spanned five decades. A pioneer in the US film industry, she co-founde ... in the leading role. on silentera.com Although the film was never released on video or DVD, copies still exist. Plot The films opens in present. 75-year-old Mary Carlton is depressed over her husband John's illness. She feels her life has no use if he dies. She starts reading her diary, after which the film jumps to 1865 in the tim ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulton Theatre
The Fulton Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 210 West 46th Street in Manhattan, New York City, that was opened in 1911. It was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre in 1955. The theatre was demolished in 1982. Since the former Little Theatre became the current Helen Hayes Theatre, the Fulton Theatre is now sometimes referred to as the First Helen Hayes Theatre. History Built by the architects Herts & Tallant for Henry B. Harris and Jesse Lasky, it was originally opened on April 27, 1911, under the name Folies-Bergere as a dinner theatre with vaudeville. The building featured three murals and a color scheme by leading American muralist William de Leftwich Dodge. Eighteen-year-old Mae West was discovered here by ''The New York Times'' at her Broadway debut on September 22, 1911. Closing after that, the theatre reopened on October 20, 1911, as the Fulton Theatre, a conventional playhouse. The theatre was managed by Abraham L. Erlanger from 1921, until his death in 1930. In 1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
