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South Sea Love (1927 Film)
''South Sea Love'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Lee Shumway, and Alan Brooks.Quinlan p. 152 Cast * Patsy Ruth Miller as Charlotte Guest * Lee Shumway as Fred Stewart * Alan Brooks as Tom Malloy * Harry Crocker as Bob Bernard * Barney Gilmore as George Billways * Gertrude Howard as Moana * Albert Conti as Max Weber * Everett Brown as Nahalo * Harry Wallace Harry Wright Wallace (11 September 1885 – 30 April 1973) was a British Labour Party politician. He was Assistant Secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers. At the 1924 general election, he was unsuccessful Labour candidate at Bury in ... as Jake Streeter References Bibliography * Quinlan, David. ''The Illustrated Guide to Film Directors''. Batsford, 1983. External links *SouthSeasCinema; a website devoted to Pacific Island themed films 1927 films Films directed by Ralph Ince American silent feature films 1920s English-languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Ince
Ralph Waldo Ince (January 16, 1887 – April 10, 1937) was an American pioneer film actor, director and screenwriter whose career began near the dawn of the silent film era. Ralph Ince was the brother of John E. Ince and Thomas H. Ince. Biography Ralph Ince was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the younger of three sons and a daughter raised by English immigrants, John and Emma Ince. Sometime after his birth Ince moved to Manhattan where his entire family was engaged in theater work; his father as a musical agent and mother, sister Bertha and brothers, John and Thomas as actors. Ralph Ince studied art with cartoonist Dan McCarthy and for a while worked as a newspaper cartoonist for the New York World and later magazine illustrator for the New York Mirror and The Evening Telegram. At times over his acting and directing career Ince would continue to contribute cartoons to popular magazines of the day. Early on in his career Ince, who had done some stage acting as a child, was a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Crocker
Henry Joseph Crocker II (July 2, 1893 – May 23, 1958) was an American journalist and occasional film actor. Life and career Although Crocker was for most of his career a ''Los Angeles Examiner'' newsman, he also appeared as Rex in Charlie Chaplin's '' The Circus'' in 1928. He was Chaplin's personal assistant until he was fired during the making of Chaplin's '' City Lights'' in 1930. Crocker later reconciled with Chaplin and maintained a friendship until the comedian left America in 1952. Overall, Crocker appeared in 20 films between 1925 and 1952, mostly in small roles or cameo appearances. His other films besides ''The Circus'' include ''The Big Parade'' (1925), ''Tillie the Toiler'' (1927), '' Sally in Our Alley'' (1927), ''A Warm Corner'' (1930), '' The Great John L.'' (1945), ''A Song for Miss Julie'' (1945) and '' Limelight'' (1952). His grand uncle was Charles Crocker (1822–1888) who had been a builder of the Central Pacific Railroad and his distant cousins were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Drama Films
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Silent American Drama Films
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American Black-and-white Films
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1920s English-language Films
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American Silent Feature Films
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Films Directed By Ralph Ince
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Films
The following is an overview of 1927 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1927 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 10 – Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy ''Metropolis'' premieres in Germany. The film receives its American premiere in New York City on March 6. *March 11 – World's largest movie theatre, the Roxy Theatre, opens in New York City. *April 7 – Abel Gance's ''Napoleon'' often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premieres (in a shortened version) at the Paris Opéra and demonstrates techniques and equipment that will not be revived for years to come, such as hand-held cameras, and what is often considered the first widescreen projection format Polyvision. It will be more than three decades before films with a widescreen format would again be attempted. *May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Wallace (actor)
Harry Wright Wallace (11 September 1885 – 30 April 1973) was a British Labour Party politician. He was Assistant Secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers. At the 1924 general election, he was unsuccessful Labour candidate at Bury in Lancashire. At the 1929 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Walthamstow East. He lost the seat two years later, as Labour's vote collapsed in the 1931 election when party split over its leader Ramsay MacDonald's formation of a National Government. Wallace regained his seat in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1955 general election by the Conservative John Harvey. Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth Lambeth was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in south London, England. It was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey. The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and became part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everett Brown
Everett G. Brown (January 1, 1902 – October 14, 1953) was an American actor. Biography Born in Texas, Brown appeared in about 40 Hollywood films between 1927 and 1953. His roles were small most of the time and most of his film appearances were uncredited. He often portrayed natives or slaves, including "Big Sam", the kind-hearted field foreman of Tara, in ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939). He also played a supporting role in ''Congo Maisie'' (1940) with Ann Sothern and the Native in an Ape costume in ''King Kong'' (1933). Brown retired from film business in 1940, only to return in 1949 to make four films before he died in 1953. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles. Selected filmography * '' South Sea Love'' (1927) - Nahalo * '' Danger Island'' (1931) - Cebu * '' West of Broadway'' (1931) - Joe Williams (uncredited) * ''Hell's Headquarters'' (1932) - Kuba * ''Jungle Mystery'' (1932) - Native with Machete (uncredited) * ''Kongo'' (1932) - Native Reporting to Gregg (uncre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Conti
Albert De Conti Cadassamare (29 January 1887 – 18 January 1967), professionally billed as Albert Conti, was an Austrian-Hungarian-born Italian-American film actor. Life Born in the village of Gorizia (now, part of Italy), Conti achieved moderate fame as an actor in American films, but first he specialized in law (high school and law college in Graz) and natural science, and married Patricia Cross. When World War I began, he became an officer. He was the son of Albert, Ritter Conti von Cedassamare and his wife, Countess Marie Bernhardine Anna Kaboga, a member of an old Ragusan/Dubrovnik noble family (''see'': House of Caboga). After his discharge from the Austrian army at the close of World War I, he came to America like many other now-impoverished postwar Europeans from both sides of the conflict. Emigration to U.S.A. Conti emigrated to the United States via the Port of Philadelphia in 1919. After settling in the new country, Conti was obliged to take a series of manual la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
