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The Breath Of Scandal (novel)
''The Breath of Scandal'' is a 1922 novel by the American writer Edwin Balmer. In 1924 it was adapted into a silent film of the same title directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Betty Blythe Betty Blythe (born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter; September 1, 1893 – April 7, 1972) was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as ''The Queen of Sheba'' (1921). She appeared in 63 silent films and 56 t ....Goble p.22 References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Smith, Geoffrey D. ''American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography''. Cambridge University Press, 1997. See also 1922 American novels Novels by Edwin Balmer American novels adapted into films {{1920s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Balmer
Edwin Balmer (July 26, 1883 – March 21, 1959) was an American science fiction and Mystery fiction, mystery writer. Biography Balmer was born in Chicago to Helen Clark (Pratt) and Thomas Balmer. In 1909, he married Katharine MacHarg, sister of the writer William MacHarg. After her death, he married Grace A. Kee in 1927. He began as a reporter for the ''Chicago Tribune'' in 1903 before writing for books and magazines. He was editor of ''Redbook'' (1927–1949) and later became associate publisher. He would then commission young writers to write up these ideas for inclusion in Redbook. He died on March 21, 1959 at age 75. Novels Together with author Philip Wylie, he wrote the catastrophe science fiction novels ''When Worlds Collide'' (1933) and ''After Worlds Collide'' (1934). The former was made into an award-winning 1951 When Worlds Collide (1951 film), movie by George Pal. Balmer also wrote several detective novels and collaborated with William MacHarg on ''The Achiev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little, Brown And Company
Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emily Dickinson's poetry and ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations''. Since 2006 Little, Brown and Company is a division of the Hachette Book Group. 19th century Little, Brown and Company had its roots in the book selling trade. It was founded in 1837 in Boston by Charles Little and James Brown. They formed the partnership "for the purpose of Publishing, Importing, and Selling Books". It can trace its roots before that to 1784 to a bookshop owned by Ebenezer Battelle on Marlborough Street. They published works of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and they were specialized in legal publishing and importing titles. For many years, it was the most extensive law publisher in the United States, and also the largest importer of standard English law a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Breath Of Scandal
''The Breath of Scandal'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Betty Blythe, Patsy Ruth Miller, and Jack Mulhall. It is based on the 1922 novel of the same title by Edwin Balmer. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''The Breath of Scandal'' located in any film archives, it is 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 * * 1924 films 1924 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films directed by Louis J. Gasnier American black-and-white films Preferred Pictures films 1920s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis J
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Betty Blythe
Betty Blythe (born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter; September 1, 1893 – April 7, 1972) was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as ''The Queen of Sheba'' (1921). She appeared in 63 silent films and 56 talkies over the course of her career. Early life She was born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter in Los Angeles, where she attended Westlake School for Girls, and the University of Southern California. Betty had already shortened her name to Betty Blythe when she and three other women posed for a photo shoot of the newest swim fashion for women, a bathing suit. Prior to then, women were expected to wear stockings with full dresses or skirts into the water. Career Blythe began her stage work in such theatrical pieces as ''So Long Letty'' and ''The Peacock Princess''. She worked in vaudeville as the "California Nightingale" singing songs such as "Love Tales from Hoffman". In 1915, she had an unbilled part in '' Bella Donna'' for Famous Players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 American Novels
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Novels By Edwin Balmer
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
