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The Primitive Call
''The Primitive Call'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Bertram Bracken and starring Gladys Coburn, Fritz Leiber, and John Webb Dillion John Webb Dillion (6 February 1877 – 20 December 1949) was an English actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1911 and 1947. He was born in London and died in Hollywood, California, USA. He was married to Catherine Urlau. Selected fi ....Solomon p. 237 Cast References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011. External links * * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by Bertram Bracken Fox Film films 1910s American films English-language drama films {{1910s-drama-film-stub ...
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Bertram Bracken
Bertram Bracken (August 10, 1879 – November 1, 1952) was an American silent screen actor, scenarist, and director who worked on at least sixty-five films between 1910 and 1932. Biography Bertram “Bert” Bracken was born in San Antonio, Texas on August 10, 1879, and was raised in Lampasas, Texas, where his parents, Charles and Betty Bracken, operated a grocery store. According to his studio biography Bracken as a young man attended Yale University, worked in banking and served for a year and a half with the 15th U.S. Cavalry. His acting career began in the late 1890s at Chicago’s Haymarket theatre and continued on the road with his own stock company performing the play ''College Life'' which he wrote and produced. Bracken entered film in 1910 with the Star Film Company often playing heavies under the direction of Gaston Méliès. Bracken later worked as Méliès’ managing producer while filming in Australia, Asia and the South Pacific. Soon after his return to America ...
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Kittens Reichert
Kittens Reichert (March 3, 1910 – January 11, 1990) was an American child actress in silent films. Biography The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Reichert, she was born Catherine Alma Reichert in Yonkers, New York, but was nicknamed "Kittens", which she adopted as her stage name. When she was 2 years old, Reichert was a stand-in for a film that was being made in Yonkers. Beginning in 1914, she played supporting juvenile roles to many of filmdom's biggest stars, including Theda Bara, Pauline Frederick and William Farnum. Her career effectively ended when she was 9 in 1919 because her family did not want to move out to California, where the film industry had shifted, though she did make a further appearance in ''So's Your Old Man'' (1926), starring W. C. Fields. In 1927, Reichert portrayed Hope Toombs in a Fiske O'Hara Players production of ''The Circus Girl'' at the New Warburton Theatre in Yonkers. Reichert died in Louisville, Kentucky on January 11, 1990, at the age of 79 ...
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Fox Film Films
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Films Directed By Bertram Bracken
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American Black-and-white Films
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Silent American Drama Films
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American Silent Feature Films
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1910s English-language Films
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1917 Drama Films
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1917 Films
1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood". __TOC__ Events *January – ''Panthea'' is released, the first film from the company that Joseph Schenck formed with his wife, Norma Talmadge, after leaving Loew's Consolidated Enterprises. *February – Buster Keaton first meets Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in New York and is hired as a co-star and gag man. *April 9 – Supreme Court of the United States rule in Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Manufacturing Co. which ends the Motion Picture Patents Company appeal and results in the end of the company. *April 23 ...
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Lewis Sealy
William Armiger Sealy Lewis (1851 – March 19, 1931), known professionally as Lewis Sealy, was an Irish actor and a film exhibitor. Career Sealy was a character actor. A native of Ireland, he worked on the London stage for years. He co-wrote and performed in the play ''A Heathen Goddess'' at the West London Theatre in 1894. In the 1890s, he was a film exhibitor, known for the "Royal Cinematoscope", which was the name under which he exhibited Birt Acres' Kineopticon. He first came to New York in 1908, working as a stage manager and occasional actor as he had in London. His first play in New York was ''Captain Brassbound's Conversion''. He had been a stage director for Lily Langtry and Olga Nethersole.. Having left family in Ireland and England, he apparently returned to work as a stage actor in London, before travelling once more to New York around 1915 to begin a career in film. His film career included appearances in a number of silent features, in '' The Witching Hour'' (19 ...
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Gladys Coburn
Gladys Coburn was an actress in theater and films. She had starring roles during the silent film era including in the 1917 film ''The Primitive Call'' and the 1920 film '' Heart Strings''. She also performed in theatrical productions. Her appearance was described as being similar to June Caprice. Gladys was born on August 22, 1893, in Arkansas. She lived most of her life in New Castle, Indiana. She died in January 1969 at the age of 75. Filmography *''Madame X'' (1916) as Helene *''The Primitive Call'' (1917) as Betty Malcolm *''The Firing Line'' (1919) as Jessie Bradley *''The Fatal Hour (1920 film)'' as Dorothy Gore *''Voices'' (1920) as Marion Lord * ''Out of the Snows'' (1920) *'' Heart Strings'' (1920) as Kathleen Noyes *'' God's Crucible'' as Marjorie Menzies *''The Battle of Life'' References External linksGladys Coburnat Internet Broadway Database The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. It was ...
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