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The Forgotten Woman (1921 Film)
''The Forgotten Woman'' is a 1921 silent American melodrama film directed by Park Frame and starring Pauline Stark. Plot A "water waif" named Dixie is adopted by a hateful woman and tricked into marrying the woman's son. After her new husband is arrested on their wedding night, she ends up falling for another man. Cast * Pauline Starke as Dixie LaRose * J. Frank Glendon J. Frank Glendon (October 25, 1886 – March 17, 1937) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1915 and 1936. He was born in Choteau, Montana, and died in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography * '' Canni ... as Julian LaRose * Allan Forrest as Keith Demming * Laura Winston as 'Sis' Maloney * Roy Coulson as Joe Maloney Production Reportedly, Catherine Carr was visiting the Carolinas when she happened upon a group of Southerners who lived a colorful, bohemian lifestyle along a river. Her trip inspired her to write the script for ''The Forgotten Woman''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Frame
Park Frame (1889–1943) was an American actor and film director of the silent era.Golden p.37 Selected filmography Director * ''The Pagan God'' (1919) * ''The Gray Wolf's Ghost'' (1919) * ''The Man Who Turned White'' (1919) * ''For a Woman's Honor'' (1919) * ''The Forgotten Woman'' (1921) * '' Looped for Life'' (1924) * ''The Drug Store Cowboy'' (1925) Assistant director * '' 7th Heaven'' (1927) * '' High School Hero'' (1927) * '' Road House'' (1928) Actor * ''Flashing Spurs ''Flashing Spurs'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Bob Custer, Edward Coxen, and Marguerite Clayton, who has a dual role of twin sisters. A Texas Ranger investigates a woman he believes is mixed ...'' (1924) * '' The Train Wreckers'' (1927) References Bibliography * Golden, Eve. ''John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars''. University Press of Kentucky, 2013. External links * 1889 births 1943 deaths American film directors People from Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Campbell
Evelyn Campbell (sometimes known as Evelyn Murray Campbell) was an American screenwriter, writer, and actress active during Hollywood's silent era. Biography Campbell was born in Kansas to J.C. Murray (a lawyer) and Maggie Parker; early on, she recalled preferring to read books over playing with dolls while growing up in Missouri. After high school, she began working as a stenographer in St. Louis while working on her writing. She began selling her stories to East Coast magazines around 1918, and soon studios were looking to turn her stories into film scenarios. She also wrote for newspapers, including the ''Chicago Examiner'', ''The Denver Post'', the ''Dramatic Mirror'' in New York, and the ''San Francisco Dramatic and Musical Review''. A few years later, she moved to California to study scenario-writing, and she had soon sold over 18 scripts to various studios, including Universal. She also wrote a number of Western novels over the course of her career. As an actress, Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Carr (screenwriter)
Catherine Carr (January 1, 1880 – January 18, 1941) was a silent film era screenwriter with at least 28 films to her credit. Biography Catherine, daughter of Absalom and Ida Woodridge, was born in Austin, Texas. She was educated in Washington, D.C., where she met her husband, John Gillis Carr, and began her career as a writer of short stories. Her husband died soon after she gave birth to their two sons. She began her career writing scenarios before rising to the rank of head of the scenario department at Kinetophone. She wrote a number of films for Vitagraph over the course of her years in the industry. Filmography * '' The Temple of Venus'' (1923) * ''Nobody's Kid'' (1921) * ''The Forgotten Woman'' (1921) * ''The Corsican Brothers'' (1920) * ''Toton'' (1919) * '' The Game's Up'' (1919) * '' Prudence on Broadway'' (1919) * '' The Usurper'' ( UK title ''Her Buckskin Knight'') (1919) * ''Shifting Sands'' (1918) * ''The Atom'' (1918) * ''The Ghost Flower'' (1918) * ''High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Starke
Pauline Starke (January 10, 1901Some sources say she was born in 1900. – February 3, 1977) was an American silent-film actress. Early years Pauline Starke was born on January 10, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri, the daughter of George W. Starke and Edythe Edna Starke (née Bruce). Starke left school after completing the 5th grade. She accompanied her mother to Los Angeles and caught the attention of D. W. Griffith while her mother was working as an extra. Career Selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922, Starke starred in a number of films from 1916 to 1935. She made her acting debut as an extra in ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915) and appeared as a dance extra in ''Intolerance'' (1916). She continued to play bit parts until director Frank Borzage started casting her in leading roles, beginning in 1917. She scored several lead roles in films, establishing her as a prominent silent-film actress during the 1920s. On Broadway, Starke portrayed Sylvia Clayton in ''Zombie'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |