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The Lily And The Rose
''The Lily and the Rose''; sometimes Lily of the Rose is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Lillian Gish. Preserved at the Library of Congress. Cast * Lillian Gish as Mary Randolph * Wilfred Lucas as Jack Van Norman * Rosie Dolly as Rose (as Rozsika Dolly) * Loyola O'Connor as Letty Carrington * Cora Drew as Molly Carrington * Elmer Clifton as Allison Edwards * Mary Alden * William Hinckley * Alberta Lee (uncredited) * Frank Mills (uncredited) See also * Lillian Gish filmography __NOTOC__ These are the films of Lillian Gish. ---- Silent: 1912 – 1913 – 1914 – 1915 – 1916 – 1917 – 1918 – 1919 – 1920s Post Silent: 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – References ---- Silent 191 ... References External links * 1915 films Silent American drama films American silent feature films 1915 drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by Paul Powell (director) 1910s American fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Powell (director)
Paul Mahlon Powell (September 6, 1881 – July 2, 1944) was an American journalist, film director, director, film producer, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Powell was most active during the silent film era and is best known for directing Mary Pickford in ''Pollyanna (1920 film), Pollyanna'' (1920). Career Born in Peoria, Illinois, Powell was one of six children of Charles Henry and Anna Clara Powell (''née'' von Schoenheider). His father was a publisher who founded the ''Peoria Evening Star''. Powell was educated in Peoria and later attended Bradley University, Bradley Polytechnic Institute. After graduation, he worked at his father's newspaper as a typesetter and editor before becoming a reporter. In the early 1900s, Powell worked as a reporter for the ''Chicago Tribune'' and the ''Los Angeles Express (newspaper), Los Angeles Express''. In 1910, he quit his job as a reporter to work in the film industry. The following year, he became the assistant of director and scre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Dolly
Rosie Dolly (October 24, 1892 – February 1, 1970) and Jenny Dolly (October 24, 1892 – June 1, 1941), known professionally as The Dolly Sisters, were Hungarian-American identical twin dancers, singers and actresses, popular in vaudeville and theatre during the 1910s and 1920s. Both sisters also appeared in two silent films. Early lives and careers The sisters, Rózsika Deutsch (later known as Rose or Rosie) and Janka Deutsch (later known as Yancsi or Jenny), were born on October 24, 1892, in Balassagyarmat, Hungary. Their parents were Julius (born Gyula Deutsch, c. 1865) and Margaret Deutsch (born Margit Weisz, c. 1874). Julius and son Istvan (later known as Edward, born March 31, 1898) emigrated to the United States in October 1904; the twins and their mother arrived May 1905. As children, the sisters trained as dancers and began earning money in beer halls as early as 1907. Barred for being under age by the New York City stage, they toured the Orpheum Circuit until 1909 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Black-and-white Films
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1915 Drama Films
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American Silent Feature Films
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Silent American Drama Films
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1915 Films
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * February 1: Fox Film Corporation founded * February 8: D.W Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and film length records (running at a total length of over three hours). * February: Metro Pictures, a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is founded * February 22: The Allan Dwan directed film ''David Harum'' is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood. * March 15: Universal Studios Hollywood opens ( 1964). * June 18: The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California. * July: Triangle Film Corporation is founded in Culver City, California and attracts filmmakers D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince and Mack Sennett * September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Gish Filmography
__NOTOC__ These are the films of Lillian Gish. ---- Silent: 1912 – 1913 – 1914 – 1915 – 1916 – 1917 – 1918 – 1919 – 1920s Post Silent: 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – References ---- Silent 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920s Post Silent 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s References * Lilian Gish official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Gish, Lillian Actress filmographies Filmography A filmography is a list of films related by some criteria. For example, an actor's career filmography is the list of films they have appeared in; a director's comedy filmography is the list of comedy films directed by a particular director. The ... American filmographies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberta Lee
Alberta Lee (1860–1928) was an American stage and film actress of the silent era. In 1915, she appeared as Mary Todd Lincoln in ''The Birth of a Nation''.Reinhart p.56 Selected filmography * ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915) * ''Reggie Mixes In'' (1916) * '' A Sister of Six'' (1916) * ''The Children of the Feud'' (1916) * ''The Little Yank'' (1917) * ''The Fuel of Life'' (1917) * '' An Old-Fashioned Young Man'' (1917) * ''Alias Mary Brown'' (1918) * ''The Painted Lily'' (1918) * '' False Ambition'' (1918) * '' Limousine Life'' (1918) * '' The Man Who Woke Up'' (1918) * '' The Wishing Ring Man'' (1919) * '' The Red Viper'' (1919) * '' Prudence on Broadway'' (1919) * ''The Road to Divorce'' (1920) * ''Rouge and Riches'' (1920) * ''The Butterfly Man'' (1920) * '' The Cheater'' (1920) * '' Live Wires'' (1921) * '' Not Guilty'' (1921) * ''The Light in the Clearing'' (1921) * '' The Magnificent Brute'' (1921) * '' The Little Minister'' (1922) * ''The Fourteenth Lover'' (1922) * ''Nanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cora Drew
Cora Rankin Drew (born 1871 or 1872) was a silent film actress in the United States. Her performances included leading roles in ''The Burned Hand'' (1915), '' The Honor System'' (1917), and '' Southern Pride'' (1917). She expressed frustration with casting imbalances between men and women. In 1921, ''Canadian Moving Picture Digest'' included a favorable description of one of her performances. Filmography * ''The Opened Shutters'' (1914) *''The Lily and the Rose'' (1915) *''The Burned Hand'' (1915) *''It's No Laughing Matter'' (1915) *'' The Beachcomber'' (1915) *'' Fit for Burning'' (1916) *''Where Are My Children?'' (1916) *'' The Wood Nymph'' (1916) *''When a Man Sees Red'' (1917) *'' The Honor System'' (1917) *'' Southern Pride'' (1917) * ''The Love Hunger'' (1919) *''The Prince of Avenue A'' (1920) * ''The Kentucky Colonel'' (1920) *'' Live and Let Live'' (1921) *''What's a Wife Worth? ''What's a Wife Worth?'' is a 1921 silent American melodrama film directed by Christy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Library Of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains a conservation center in Culpeper, Virginia. The library's functions are overseen by the Librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the Architect of the Capitol. The Library of Congress is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 470 languages." Congress moved to Washington, D.C., in 1800 after holding sessions for eleven years in the temporary national capitals in New York City and Philadelphia. In both cities, members of the U.S. Congress had access to the sizable collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893February 27, 1993) was an American actress, director, and screenwriter. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called the "First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th greatest female movie star of classic Hollywood cinema. Gish was a prominent film star from 1912 into the 1920s, being particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith. This included her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915). Her other major films and performances from the silent era are: ''Intolerance'' (1916), '' Broken Blossoms'' (1919), ''Way Down East'' (1920), ''Orphans of the Storm'' (1921), ''La Bohème'' (1926), and '' The Wind'' (1928). At the dawn of the sound era, she returned to the stage and appeared in film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
