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Sarah Y. Mason
Sarah Y. Mason (March 31, 1896 – November 28, 1980) was an American screenwriter and script supervisor.Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). ''Silent Film Necrology.'' McFarland, Biography Mason was born Sarah Yeiser Mason in Pima, Arizona. She and her husband Victor Heerman won the Academy Award for best screenplay adaptation for their adaptation for the 1933 film '' Little Women'', based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. After that success, she and Heerman were the first screenwriters involved in early, never-produced scripts commissioned for what would become MGM's ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1940 film). Mason's career is also notable as she was the very first script supervisor in Hollywood, having invented the craft of film continuity when the industry switched from silent film to talkies.Schallert, Edwin (February 4, 1929)Wow of a sound film on screen.''Los Angeles Times''Staff report (April 7, 1929). Rivoli To Have 'Fancy Baggage.' '' Baltimore Sun'' She and Heerman marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pima, Arizona
Pima is a town in Graham County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 2,387, up from 1,989 in 2000. The estimated population in 2018 was 2,512. Pima is part of the Safford Micropolitan Statistical Area. Despite its name, it is not located in nearby Pima County. This is a similar situation to the town of Maricopa, Arizona, which is not located in Maricopa County but rather in Pinal County. History Pima was settled by Mormon settlers in 1879. It was originally named "Smithville". The first settlers had been living in Forrest Dale, but then were told they had to leave because the location was on Indian land. Unlike other Mormon settlements of the era, Smithville was not planned by the leaders of the church. Joseph K. Rogers was the first branch president at Pima, being appointed to this office before any of the settlers arrived. The branch was organized into a ward in 1880. In 1930 the ward had 666 members. Pima had a population of 980, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Koenig
Lester Koenig (December 3, 1917 – November 20, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film producer, and founder of the jazz record label Contemporary Records. Biography Koenig was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Minna (Harlib) and Morris Koenig. His father was a judge; his brother was advertising executive Julian Koenig. As a child, he collected records and was introduced to the record producing business by John H. Hammond who served as his mentor. He attended Dartmouth College where he was friends with Budd Schulberg, son of B.P. Schulberg, the head of production at Paramount film studios. After Dartmouth, he attended Yale Law School but was forced to drop out after his father's death. In 1936, he then went to work for Martin Block on the ''Make Believe Ballroom'' radio show at Milton H. Biow's WNEW in New York City. In 1937, B.P. Schulberg offered him a job as a writer at Paramount Studios and he moved to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, leveraging his exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age Of Innocence (1934 Film)
''The Age of Innocence'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by Philip Moeller and starring Irene Dunne, John Boles and Lionel Atwill. The film is an adaptation of the 1920 novel ''The Age of Innocence'' by Edith Wharton, set in the fashionable New York society of the 1870s. Prolific on Broadway, Philip Moeller directed only two films: this, and the 1935 '' Break of Hearts'' with Katharine Hepburn. The novel was also adapted in a 1924 silent film version starring Beverly Bayne and a 1993 film version that starred Michelle Pfeiffer. A 1928 Broadway stage adaptation starred Katharine Cornell. Premise At his 1875 engagement party, the wealthy Newland Archer ( John Boles) is surprised to meet his childhood friend Ellen (Irene Dunne), beautiful and grown up and now Countess Olenska. Olenska is the cousin of his fiancee May (Julie Haydon) and is considered scandalous by the strait-laced society of the time. Newland, however, treats her well and sends her two dozen yellow r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928 Film)
''Alias Jimmy Valentine'' is a 1928 American crime drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring William Haines, Leila Hyams, Lionel Barrymore, and Karl Dane. The film is based on the 1903 O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation", which was turned into the 1910 play ''Alias Jimmy Valentine'' by Paul Armstrong. The play toured in travelling production companies making it extremely popular. It was revived on Broadway in 1921. Two previous film adaptations had been produced at the old Metro Studios. A 1915 film version was directed by Maurice Tourneur and a 1920 version starring Bert Lytell was directed by Edmund Mortimer and Arthur Ripley. Released on November 15, 1928, the film was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first partially talking film. It was completed as a silent film before Irving Thalberg sent back Lionel Barrymore and William Haines to repeat their performances for the last two reels with sound. The film was shot in the middle of the night to avoid ambient noise infiltrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broadway Melody
''The Broadway Melody'', also known as ''The Broadway Melody of 1929'', is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today, the Technicolor sequence survives only in black and white. The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical. ''The Broadway Melody'' was written by Norman Houston and James Gleason from a story by Edmund Goulding, and directed by Harry Beaumont. Original music was written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, including the popular hit " You Were Meant for Me". The George M. Cohan classic "Give My Regards to Broadway" is used under the opening establishing shots of New York City, its film debut. Bessie Love was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cradle Snatchers
''Cradle Snatchers'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Howard Hawks. The picture is based on the 1925 Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell stage play of the same name that starred Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Raymond Hackett, Gene Raymond and Humphrey Bogart. An incomplete copy, missing part of reel 3 and all of reel 4, exists in the Library of Congress. The film was later remade as '' Why Leave Home?'' (1929). Plot Three unhappy, middle-aged housewives teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged young men during the jazz age. Cast *Louise Fazenda as Susan Martin * Ethel Wales as Ethel Drake *Dorothy Phillips as Kitty Ladd *J. Farrell MacDonald as George Martin *Franklin Pangborn as Howard Drake * William B. Davidson as Roy Ladd *Joseph Striker as Joe Valley * Nick Stuart as Henry Winton * Arthur Lake as Oscar * Diane Ellis as Ann Hall (billed Dione Ellis) * Sammy Cohen as Ike Ginsberg *Tyler Brooke Tyler Brooke (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backstage (1927 Film)
''Backstage'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Phil Goldstone and starring William Collier Jr., Barbara Bedford and Alberta Vaughn.Munden p.34 It was produced and distributed by the independent studio Tiffany Pictures. Synopsis Four chorus girls find themselves out of work when their show goes bust while still in rehearsals. One of them goes to live at the apartment of the manager, leading her boyfriend to mistakenly believe that she is now a kept woman. Cast * William Collier Jr. as Owen Mackay * Barbara Bedford as Julia Joyce * Alberta Vaughn as Myrtle McGinnis * Eileen Percy as Fanny * Shirley O'Hara as Jane * Gayne Whitman as Frank Carroll * Jocelyn Lee as Flo * Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Mike Donovan * James Harrison as Charlie * Brooks Benedict as Harry * Lincoln Plumer as Mr. Durkin * Marcia Harris as Landlady * Louise Carver Louise Carver (June 9, 1869 - June 19, 1956) was an American actress who performed in grand opera, stage, nickelod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Matrimony
''Modern Matrimony'' is a 1923 American silent comedy drama film directed by Victor Heerman and starring Owen Moore, Alice Lake, and Mayme Kelso. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Modern Matrimony'' having been found in any film archives, it is considered 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 Bibliography * Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. External links * * 1923 films 1923 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Victor Heerman Selznick Pictures films 1920s American films {{1920s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl From Nowhere (1921 Film)
''The Girl from Nowhere'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Elaine Hammerstein, William B. Davidson and Huntley Gordon.Munden p.290 Cast * Elaine Hammerstein as Mavis Cole * William B. Davidson as Jimmy Ryder * Huntley Gordon as Herbert Whitman * Louise Prussing as Dorothy Grosscup * Colin Campbell as Samuel Grosscup * Al Stewart as Steve La Marche * Warren Cook Warren Cook (May 23, 1878 – May 2, 1939) was an American film actor of the silent era. Cook was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1901, he appeared in '' The Shaughraun'' at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston. He was part of the stock ... as Judge Cole * Vera Conroy as Grace Parker 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 Calif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Divorce Of Convenience
''A Divorce of Convenience'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Robert Ellis and starring Owen Moore, Katherine Perry and Nita Naldi.Munden p.191 Cast * Owen Moore as Jim Blake * Katherine Perry as Helen Wakefield * George Lessey as Sen. Wakefield * Nita Naldi Nita Naldi (born Mary Nonna Dooley; In this reference Naldi's birth name Nonna is mistakenly cited “Donna”. Naldi's birthname in this reference is also incorrectly cited as “Donna”. November 13, 1894 – February 17, 1961) was an Ameri ... as Tula Moliana * Frank Wunderlee as Blinkwell Jones * Dan Duffy as Mr. Hart * Charles Craig as Mr. Holmes 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 * 1921 films 1921 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films American black-and- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chicken In The Case
''The Chicken in the Case'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Victor Heerman and starring Owen Moore, Vivia Ogden and Teddy Sampson. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Steve Perkins decides to borrow Winnie, the newly acquired wife of his room mate Fercival, in order to meet his Aunt Sarah's wishes and get his inheritance sooner. The aunt is so impressed with Winifred that she leaves the money in the name of the framed-up wife. Aunty, however, runs into Winifred and her real husband Percy together and it looks suspicious to her. Of course, after that she stumbles across all kinds of suspicious circumstantial evidence and, after many kinds of humorous complications during which Steve really gets married to someone else, the whole plot is unraveled, Steve confesses to the hoax, and it all comes out right. Cast * Owen Moore as Steve Perkins * Vivia Ogden as Aunt Sarah * Teddy Sampson as Winnie Jones * Edgar Nelson as Percival Jones * Katherine Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Held In Trust
''Held In Trust'' is a lost 1920 American silent romance film directed by John Ince and produced and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film stars May Allison. Plot As described in a film magazine, struck by her resemblance to Adelaide Rutherford, dissolute husband Hasbrouck Rutherford (Long) and attorney Jasper Haig (Elliott) inveigle shop girl Mary Manchester (Allison) into impersonating the wealthy woman. Hasbrouck and Jasper have been misusing the funds of the wife and her pending death threatens their exposure. Because Adelaide's husband's evil dissipations have driven her insane and separated them, the conspirators believe the duplicity can be easily effected and the funds and knowledge of her death kept from her heir, her nephew Stanford Gorgas (Foss). An associate of Stanford convinces him that there is something mysterious about the situation, and he proceeds to investigate. He visits Mary in the Rutherford home, and she learns that he is the heir. Appealing to him, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
