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The Extra Girl
''The Extra Girl'' is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by F. Richard Jones and starring Mabel Normand.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Extra Girl'' at silentera.com Produced by , ''The Extra Girl'' followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about , such as 's '' |
Bernard McConville
Bernard McConville (October 16, 1887 – December 27, 1961) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for more than 90 films between 1915 and 1946. He was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles County, California. Partial filmography * '' Gretchen the Greenhorn'' (1916) * '' The Little School Ma'am'' (1916) * '' The Rose of Blood'' (1917) * ''The Babes in the Woods'' (1917) * ''The Deciding Kiss'' (1918) * '' Rosemary Climbs the Heights'' (1918) * '' That Devil, Bateese'' (1918) * '' Bare Fists'' (1919) * '' The Sleeping Lion'' (1919) * ''What Women Love'' (1920) * ''45 Minutes from Broadway'' (1920) * ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1921) * ''Shame'' (1921) * ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (1921) * '' Without Compromise'' (1922) * '' Stepping Fast'' (1923) * '' Crinoline and Romance'' (1923) * '' Wings of Youth'' (1925) * ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (1925) * '' Volcano!'' (1926) * '' Cannonball Express'' (1932) * '' King of the Pecos'' (1936) * '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Test
A screen test is a method of determining the suitability of an actor or actress for performing on film or in a particular role. The performer is generally given a scene, or selected lines and actions, and instructed to perform in front of a camera to see if they are suitable. The developed film is later evaluated by the relevant production personnel such as the casting director and the director. The actor may be asked to bring a prepared monologue or alternatively, the actor may be given a script to read at sight ("cold reading"). In some cases, the actor may be asked to read a scene, in which another performer reads the lines of another character. Types Screen tests can also be used to judge the suitability of costume, make-up and other details, but these are generally called costume or make-up tests. Different types of actors can have different tasks for each individual test. For example, a lead for a musical theater-type movie could be requested to sing a popular song or lear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dudley (actor)
Robert Dudley (September 13, 1869 – September 15, 1955) was a dentist turned film character actor who, in his 35-year career, appeared in more than 115 films. Career Dudley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and was educated at Lake Forest College in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, where he majored in oral surgery. In 1917 he appeared in his first film, '' Seven Keys to Baldpate'', and then made three other silent films through 1921. After 1922 he worked consistently, appearing in three or four films a year, and making the transition to sound films in 1929 with '' The Bellamy Trial''. Dudley often played characters with a quick temper, including jurors, shopkeepers, ticket agents, court clerks and justices of the peace, as well as an occasional farmer, hobo, or laborer. His performances in these small parts were frequently uncredited. In the 1940s, Dudley was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in six films written and directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Armstrong (actor)
William Armstrong (14 January 1891 – 1 March 1924) was a British-American actor and comedian. Biography Armstrong was born on 14 January 1891 in Bristol, England. Armstrong started his career in the British music hall tradition and appeared in roles for Fred Karno from 1910 until 1914 in his native Bristol, before heading to the US and working in films for Keystone Studios, mainly in comedy roles, where he was a regular player in the films of Charlie Chaplin among others. Armstrong died from tuberculosis on 1 March 1924 in Sunland, California. Partial filmography *'' His New Job'' (1915) *'' The Champion'' (1915) *''In the Park'' (1915) *''The Tramp'' (1915) *'' By the Sea'' (1915) *''Work'' (1915) *'' A Woman'' (1915) *'' The Bank'' (1915) *''Shanghaied'' (1915) *''Police'' (1916) *''Watch Your Neighbor'' (1918) *'' Clean Sweep'' (1918) *'' Triple Trouble'' (1918) *''Hop, the Bellhop'' (1919) * ''Love, Honor and Behave'' (1920) *''Skirts'' (1921) *''When Knights Were Cold' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy (dog)
Teddy the Dog or Keystone Teddy (1910/11 – May 17, 1925) was the most famous dog actor, animal actor associated with the Mack Sennett studios. The Great Dane was one of only three (with Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle) of the studio's stars whose name appeared in the title of a film (''Teddy at the Throttle''). He performed chiefly in Sennett comedies, but he also appeared in dramatic films including ''Stella Maris (1918 film), Stella Maris'' (1918), ''The Strangers' Banquet'' (1922) and ''A Boy of Flanders'' (1924). According to film crews and fellow cast members, Teddy behaved on set as professionally as any human actor. He is credited with appearing in at least 60 films, nearly all Short film, shorts, between 1915 and 1924."Teddy the Dog" filmography, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), a subsidiary of Amazon (company), Amazon, Seattle, Washingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Beranger
George Beranger (27 March 1893 – 8 March 1973), also known as André Beranger, was an Australian silent film actor and director in Hollywood.Naturalization Records of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division (Los Angeles), 1887–1940; Microfilm Serial: M1524; Microfilm Roll: 2. He is also sometimes credited under the pseudonym George André de Beranger. Early life Beranger was born George Augustus Beringer in Enmore, New South Wales, Australia, the youngest of five sons of Caroline Mondientz and Adam Beringer, a German engine fitter. His mother committed suicide when he was three years old and he left home at the age of 14. He studied acting at the College of Elocution and Dramatic Art founded by Scottish actor Walter Bentley. Career Beranger began playing Shakespearean roles at the age of sixteen with the Walter Bentley Players. He then emigrated from Australia to California, United States in 1912 and worked in the silent film i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gribbon
Harry Peter Gribbon (June 9, 1885 – July 28, 1961) was an American film actor, comedian and director known for ''The Cameraman'' (1928), ''Show People'' (1928) and ''Art Trouble'' (1934). He appeared in more than 140 films between 1915 and 1938. Many of his films from this era have been lost. Early life Harry Peter Gribbon was born on June 9, 1885 in New York City. He was the brother of actor Eddie Gribbon. Career Gribbon started in vaudeville, performing on the Keith, Orpheum, and Pantages circuits, and in 1913 he became the leading man in the ''Ziegfeld Follies.'' He performed on stage in approximately 200 productions, including ''Buster Brown'', ''The Man Who Owned Broadway'', and ''The Red Widow'', after which Mack Sennett signed him to make films. Gribbon's Broadway credits included ''Meet a Body'' (1944), ''Mr. Big'' (1941), ''Arsenic and Old Lace'' (1944), ''Delicate Story'' (1940), and ''Alley Cat'' (1934). Gribbon worked for the L-KO Kompany. From 1915, Gribbon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Stockdale
Carl Stockdale also known as Carlton Stockdale (February 19, 1874 – March 15, 1953) was one of the longest-working Hollywood veteran actors, with a career dating from the early 1910s. He also made the difficult transition from silent films to talkies. Stockdale was born in Worthington, Minnesota, graduated from Minneapolis Central High School, and attended the University of North Dakota. Before he began working with films, Stockdale was a property man with a repertory theatrical company headed by his brother. He went on to act on stage in repertory theater and in vaudeville. Stockdale was in Hollywood as early as 1913 with a small role in Gilbert M. Anderson's ''Broncho Billy's Last Deed''. He worked with that film franchise for two years before joining D. W. Griffith's film company. He remained busy into the 1940s. His last film was released in 1943. Connection to the Murder of William Desmond Taylor Stockdale told reporters in an interview at his home in 1937 that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Carver
Louise Carver (June 9, 1869 - June 19, 1956) was an American actress who performed in grand opera, stage, nickelodeon, and motion pictures. Early years and career Born Mary Louise Steiger in Davenport, Iowa, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Stieger. Carver made her first appearance on stage as a teenager, and her grand opera debut came at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois in 1892. In 1908, she made her screen debut in ''Macbeth''. She came to national prominence as a comedian in Mack Sennett silent films such as '' The Hollywood Kid'' (1924). One of her bigger roles on stage was as the leading lady of Lew Fields in ''Mrs. Henpecks'', which played on Broadway for months in 1912–1913. Her final screen credits are from 1941. This year, she made ''Love at First Fright'' and had uncredited roles in ''Tight Shoes'' and ''Some More of Samoa''. Personal life and death She married Tom Murray in 1935 becoming (Mary) Louise Steiger Murray. On January 19, 1956, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Davidson
Max Davidson (May 23, 1875 – September 4, 1950) was a German-American film actor known for his comedic Jewish persona during the silent film era. With a career spanning over thirty years, Davidson appeared in over 180 films. Career Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, Davidson emigrated to the United States in the 1890s where he began working in stock theater and vaudeville. He entered silent movies in 1912. He made a series of films featuring the character Izzy for Reliance Pictures Company in 1914. The films included ''Izzy Gets the Wrong Bottle'', ''Izzy and His Rival'', ''Izzy and the Diamond'', ''How Izzy Stuck to His Post'', ''How Izzy Was Saved'', ''Izzy, the Detective'', ''Izzy's Night Out'', ''Izzy, the Operator'', and ''Izzy and the Bandit''. By the mid-teens, Davidson had appeared in his first feature film, Edward Dillon's ''Don Quixote'' (1915), followed by D.W. Griffith's ''Intolerance'', and Tod Browning's ''Puppets'' (both 1916). In the 1920s, he began worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Mineau
Charlotte Mineau (March 24, 1886 – October 12, 1979) was a tall and thin American film actress of the silent era appearing in 65 to 80 films. Biography Mineau appeared in 65 films between 1913 and 1931. She supported Charlie Chaplin on numerous occasions, and also appeared in several very early Laurel and Hardy comedies. One of her last screen appearances was with the Marx Brothers and Thelma Todd in '' Monkey Business'' (1931) where she appears as "Emily", a woman overheard by Groucho having an illicit affair on the veranda during the party scene. Her last known film appearance was in the Hal Roach two-reeler, ''Strictly Unreliable'' (1932), again with Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts, in which Mineau, credited as "Charlotte Meno", plays Todd's landlady, Mrs. Hawkins. Mineau was born in Michigan and died in Los Angeles, California. Partial filmography * '' Two Hearts That Beat as Ten'' (1915, Short) - The Nurse * '' His New Job'' (1915, Short) - Film Star (uncredited) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramsey Wallace
Ramsey Wallace was an actor in silent films. His work included leading roles. He starred in ''A Voice in the Dark (film)''. He received a favorable review for his leading role in ''The Call of Home''. He worked as a promoter after his film career and died of a brain tumor in 1933. Selected filmography *''Her Only Way'' (1918) *'' The Grain of Dust'' (1918) *''Her Beloved Villain'' (1920) *'' The Woman in His House'' (1920) *''The Rage of Paris'' (1921) *''A Voice in the Dark (film)'' (1921) *''The Call of Home'' (1921) * ''Luring Lips'' (1921) *''Little Wildcat'' (1922) *''Human Hearts'' (1922) * ''The Call of Home'' (1922) *''The Girl I Loved'' (1923) *''The Drivin' Fool'' (1923) * ''Gossip'' (1923) *'' The Little Wildcat'' (1923) *''The Extra Girl'' (1923) *''Broken Laws'' (1924) *''Empty Hands'' (1924) *''Chalk Marks ''Chalk Marks'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Marguerite Snow and June Elvidge. It was distributed by Producer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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