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Sophie Wachner
Sophie Wachner (November 5, 1879 – September 13, 1960) was an American costumer who designed costumes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Fox, and Selznick International Pictures in the early 20th century. Her work appeared in films such as ''Just Imagine'', ''A Connecticut Yankee'', and ''Little Lord Fauntleroy''. Early life Wachner was born in 1879 in Akron, Ohio, to Jewish immigrant parents from Hungary. She first began a career in teaching in Akron Public Schools, but in 1909 moved to New York City to design costumes on Broadway. She and her aunt, Frederica De Wolfe, spent ten years there, and during this time Wachner worked as a costumer for Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. In 1919, she moved to Los Angeles to work for Goldwyn Studios. Career Wachner joined Goldwyn Studios in August 1919, as they set up a new headquarters for their costume department. Wachner was well-known among the Los Angeles clothiers who supplied Goldwyn Studios' productions. While employed there, Wachner's opinion was gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akron, Ohio
Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 Census, the city proper had a total population of 190,469, making it the 125th largest city in the United States. The Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area, Akron metropolitan area, covering Summit and Portage County, Ohio, Portage counties, had an estimated population of 703,505. The city was founded in 1825 by Simon Perkins and Paul Williams, along the Cuyahoga River, Little Cuyahoga River at the summit of the developing Ohio and Erie Canal. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek word ''ἄκρον : ákron'' signifying a summit or high point. It was briefly renamed South Akron after Eliakim Crosby founded nearby North Akron in 1833, until both merged into an incorporated village in 1836. In the 1910s, Akron doubled in population, makin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snob (1924 Film)
''The Snob'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Monta Bell. The film starred Norma Shearer and John Gilbert (prior to their stardom), together with Phyllis Haver, Conrad Nagel, and Hedda Hopper. The film was written by Monta Bell, and was based on the novel ''The Snob: The Story of a Marriage'' by Helen Reimensnyder Martin. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, just as Nancy Claxton (Shearer) finished at a convent school, her wealthy father Sherwood (Sackville) is killed in a roadhouse brawl. Stung by the disgrace, she disappears and her sweetheart, Herrick (Nagel), is unable to find her. Three years pass and Nancy is teaching school in the quaint Mennonite colony in Pennsylvania. She falls in love with an ambitious teacher, Eugene (Gilbert). They become engaged and Eugene gets a job as professor at an academy in a nearby town. He becomes popular and conceited, succeeds in winning favor of Dorothy (Haver), whose father owns the school. Eugene is made h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Faces
''Seven Faces'' is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on December 1, 1929. Based upon the piece of short fiction "A Friend of Napoleon" which was published in the June 30, 1923, issue of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' magazine by popular writer Richard Connell (whose best known work, ''The Most Dangerous Game'', was filmed three years later), it was directed by Berthold Viertel and stars Paul Muni in his second screen appearance. ''Seven Faces'' is a lost film, with no excerpts from its footage known to exist. Plot A common convention in the early decades of newspaper and magazine film reviews was to describe in the write-up the entire storyline including, in a substantial number of instances, the ending, thus unintentionally enabling subsequent generations of readers to reconstruct a lost film's contents. True to form, those who evaluated ''Seven Faces'', such as Mordaunt H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleasure Crazed
''Pleasure Crazed'' is a 1929 American drama film directed by Donald Gallaher and Charles Klein and written by Douglas Z. Doty and Clare Kummer. The film stars Marguerite Churchill, Kenneth MacKenna, Dorothy Burgess, Campbell Gullan, Douglas Gilmore, and Henry Kolker. The film was released on July 7, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast *Marguerite Churchill as Nora Westby * Kenneth MacKenna as Capt. Anthony Dean *Dorothy Burgess as Alma Dean * Campbell Gullan as Gilbert Ferguson *Douglas Gilmore as Nigel Blain *Henry Kolker as Col. Farquar *Frederick H. Graham as Holland *Rex Bell as Peters *Charlotte Merriam as Maid See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part talking/ all talking feature films made in the US and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926-1929. During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including most notably ... References External links * 1929 film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nix On Dames
Nix or NIX may refer to: Places * Nix, Alabama, an unincorporated community, United States * Nix, Texas, a ghost town in southwestern Lampasas County, Texas, United States * Nix (moon), a moon of Pluto People * Nix (surname), listing people with the surname In science and technology * Nix (gene), a pro-apoptotic gene * Norwegian Internet Exchange (NIX), an Internet exchange point in Oslo * Neutral Internet Exchange of the Czech Republic, the Internet exchange point in Prague * Nix package manager, a "purely functional" package and configuration manager for computer systems * Unix-like, abbreviated *nix or nix Codes * Nioro Airport, Mali (IATA airport code: NIX) * Hema language, (ISO 639-3 code: nix) Other uses * Nix Federal Building, a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Nix Professional Building, a hospital in San Antonio, Texas * Permethrin, branded as Nix in North America, an anti-lice drug * "Nix", a song by Golden Boy with Miss Kittin from ''Or (album), Or'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Married In Hollywood
''Married in Hollywood'' (1929) is an American musical film. The only footage known to survive is the final reel, filmed in Multicolor, held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film is based on two Oscar Straus operettas. Plot A showgirl, part of a troupe, tours Europe where she falls in love with a Balkan prince. The prince's parents disapprove and attempt to put a stop to the romance. A revolution occurs and the prince and the showgirl elope to Hollywood. Cast *J. Harold Murray as Prince Nicholai *Norma Terris as Mary Lou Hopkins / Mitzi Hofman *Walter Catlett as Joe Glitner *Irene Palasty as Annushka *Lennox Pawle as King Alexander *Tom Patricola as Mahai *Evelyn Hall as Queen Louise *John Garrick as Stage Prince *Douglas Gilmore as Adjutant Octvian * Gloria Grey as Charlotte *Jack Stambaugh as Captain Jacobi * Bert Sprotte as Herr von Herzen *Leila Karnelly as Frau von Herzen *Paul Ralli as Namari *Donald Gallaher as Movie Director * Carey Harrison as Detective *R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot For Paris
''Hot for Paris'' is a 1929 American pre-Code black-and-white romantic adventure musical film. This film is believed to be lost. The film is also known as ''Fifì dimmi di sì'' in Italy and ''Un marido afortunado'' in Spain. The film length (metres) is 1710.84 m in the silent version and 2002.54 m (7 reels) in the sound version. Cast *Victor McLaglen - John Patrick Duke *Fifi D'Orsay - Fifi Dupre *El Brendel - Axel Olson *Polly Moran - Polly *Lennox Pawle - Mr. Pratt *August Tollaire - Papa Gouset *George Fawcett - Chop Captain *Charles Judels - Charlott Gouset * Edward Dillon - Ship's Cook (as Eddie Dillon) *Rosita Marstini - Fifi's Mother *Agostino Borgato - Fifi's Father *Yola d'Avril - Yola Dupre Soundtrack * "Duke of Ka-ki-ak" :Music by Walter Donaldson :Lyrics by Edgar Leslie Edgar Leslie (December 31, 1885 – January 22, 1976) was an American songwriter. Biography Edgar Leslie was born in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1885. He studied at the Cooper Union in New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Movietone Follies Of 1929
''Fox Movietone Follies of 1929'', also known as ''Movietone Follies of 1929'' and ''The William Fox Movietone Follies of 1929'', is an American black-and-white and color film, color pre-Code musical film released by Fox Film Corporation. Plot George Shelby, a boy from the Southern United States, comes to the city to dissuade Lila, his sweetheart, from embarking on a stage career and finally buys out the controlling interest in the revue so that he can fire her. On the opening night, however, she goes onstage when the prima donna of the show becomes temperamental, and she proves to be a big hit. At this development, George is able to sell the show back to the producer, who had previously lacked confidence in his investment and planned to take advantage of the youth's inexperience. Cast * John Breeden as George Shelby * Lola Lane as Lila Beaumont * DeWitt Jennings as Jay Darrell * Sharon Lynn as Ann Foster * Arthur Stone (actor), Arthur Stone as Al Leaton * Stepin Fetchit as Swif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Time (1929 Film)
''Big Time'' is a 1929 American pre-Code film starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke as a show business couple who break up over his infidelity. This was Clarke's film debut. Director Kenneth Hawks was Howard Hawks' brother.McBride, Joseph, ''Hawks on Hawks'', University of Kentucky Press, 2013 Cast *Lee Tracy as Eddie Burns *Mae Clarke as Lily Clark *Daphne Pollard as Sybil *Josephine Dunn as Gloria *Stepin Fetchit as Eli Director John Ford had a cameo as himself. See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part talking/ all talking feature films made in the US and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926-1929. During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including most notably ... References External links * 1929 drama films American black-and-white films Films about entertainers Fox Film films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films {{1920s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love, Live And Laugh
''Love, Live and Laugh'' is a 1929 American drama film directed by William K. Howard and written by Edwin J. Burke, Dana Burnet, and George Jessel. It is based on the 1922 play ''The Hurdy-Gurdy Man'' by Leroy Clemens and John B. Hymer. The film stars George Jessel, Lila Lee, David Rollins, Henry Kolker, John Loder, and John Reinhardt. The film was released on November 3, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast * George Jessel as Luigi *Lila Lee as Margharita *David Rollins as Pasquale Gallupi *Henry Kolker as Enrico * John Loder as Dr. Price * John Reinhardt as Mario *Dick Winslow as Mike *Henry Armetta as Tony *Marcia Manon as Sylvia *Jerry Mandy Jerry Mandy (June 5, 1892 – May 1, 1945) was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1923 and 1945. He was born in Utica, New York and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack. Selected filmography * ''North Sta ... as Barber References External links * 1929 films 1920s English-langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Wine (1928 Film)
''Red Wine'' is a 1928 American comedy film directed by Raymond Cannon and written by Andrew Bennison, Charles R. Condon and Garrett Graham. The film stars June Collyer, Conrad Nagel, Arthur Stone, Sharon Lynn, E. Alyn Warren and Ernest Hilliard. The film was released on December 23, 1928, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast *June Collyer as Alice Cook *Conrad Nagel as Charles H. Cook * Arthur Stone as Jack Brown *Sharon Lynn as Miss Scott * E. Alyn Warren as Jack's first friend *Ernest Hilliard as Jack's second friend *Ernest Wood as Jack's third friend *Marshall Ruth as Jack's fourth friend *Dixie Gay as Stenographer *Margaret La Marr as Spanish cigarette girl * Bo Ling as Chinese dancer *Dolores Johnson as Mrs. Brown *Mike Tellegen as Head waiter *Betty Lorraine as Slinky *Lialani Deas as Hawaiian dancer See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part talking/ all talking feature films made in the US and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Divide (1925 Film)
''The Great Divide'' is a 1925 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Reginald Barker and produced and distributed by MGM. The film stars Alice Terry, Conway Tearle, and Wallace Beery. It is based on the William Vaughn Moody play, being the second of three film adaptations. The play had been made famous on the 1906 Broadway stage with Margaret Anglin, Henry Miller (actor), Henry Miller, Laura Hope Crews, and a pre-Griffith Henry B. Walthall in the principal parts. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, so anxious is finely reared Polly Jordan (Terry) to go on a visit in the west that Polly (Pitts) persuades her brother Philip (Gordon) to take her. Dr. Winthrop Newbury (Forrest) promises to stay and protect her, but is called away due to an accident. Three rough intoxicated strangers returning from a fiesta see Ruth and led by Dutch (Beery) break in to get her. In desperation, Ruth picks out one of the other strangers, Stephen Ghent (Tearle), and offers him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
