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The River Of Romance (1916 Film)
''The River of Romance'' is a 1916 silent film drama directed by Henry Otto and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film starred Harold Lockwood and May Allison. Cast *Harold Lockwood - William Kissam Kellogg, aka Sam *May Allison - Rosalind Chalmers * Lester Cuneo - Reginald Williams *A. H. Busby - Henry Davidson (*as Bert Busby) *Lee Walker - Stephen Witherbee *Mathilde Brundage Mathilde Brundage (September 22, 1859 – May 6, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in 87 films between 1914 and 1928. Also known as Bertha Brundage, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky. For much of her life, her family thwarted her de ... - Mrs. Stephen Witherbee (*as Mrs. Mathilde Brundage) *Lilliam Halperin - Polly Witherbee *Philip W. Masi - Tom Witherbee (*as Phil Masi) *Dan Hanlon - Butler Preservation status *A copy is held in the foreign archive, Archives du Film du CNC Bois d'Arcy. References External links The River of Romance at IMDb.com* 1916 films American silent featur ...
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Henry Otto
Henry Otto (August 8, 1877 – August 3, 1952) was an American silent film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Otto contributed to over 150 films throughout his career working as an actor and a director throughout. He directed many films in 1914, in films such as ''When a Woman Waits'', ''In Tune (film), In Tune'', ''The Archeologist'', and ''The Redemption of a Pal'' working with actors such as Edward Coxen, Charlotte Burton and George Field (actor), George Field. He retired from film in 1942. Otto was found dead on August 4, 1952, in Los Angeles. Selected filmography Actor * ''Harbor Island'' (1912, Short) - General Arieno - Owner of Harbor Island * ''The Lipton Cup: Introducing Sir Thomas Lipton'' (1913) * ''Margarita and the Mission Funds'' (1913, Short) - Padre Sandez of the Mission * ''Through the Centuries'' (1914, Short) - Amos Willing * ''Elizabeth's Prayer'' (1914) - Richard Lee, A Sporty Acquaintance * ''The Zaca Lake Mystery'' (1915, Short) - The Hunter ...
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Yorke Film Corporation
Yorke Film Corporation was a film company. The company's films were distributed by Metro Pictures. Fred J. Balshofer and Joseph Engel were involved with the company. Balshofer formed the company to produce films pairing the popular Harold Lockwood and May Allison. Lockwood died of influenza in 1918. The company relocated to Los Angeles and took over a studio from Nevada Film Company. A photograph of Lockwood with two child actors was taken during production of ''Big Tremaine''. On December 2, 1916, May Allison was featured on the cover of ''Motography'' while she was part of Yorke Film Company. Many of the films were shot on location. Filmography *''The Masked Rider'' (1916), *''Pidgin Island'' (1916), *''Big Tremaine'' (1916) *''Mister 44'' (1916) *''The River of Romance (1916 film)'' *''Paradise Garden'' (1917) *''The Hidden Spring'' (1917) *''The Avenging Trail'' (1917) *'' The Promise'' (1917) *'' The Winding Trail (1918 film)'' *''The Landloper'' (1918) *'' Lend Me Your ...
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Harold Lockwood
Harold A. Lockwood (April 12, 1887 – October 19, 1918) was an American silent film actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most popular matinee idols of the early film period during the 1910s. Early life and career Born in Brooklyn, Lockwood was raised and educated in Newark, New Jersey. Upon graduating, he began working in exporting. Lockwood quickly discovered that he did not enjoy exporting and quit to become an actor. He initially began his acting career in vaudeville. In 1908, Lockwood joined the Selig Company. In 1910, Lockwood signed on with a stock company for David Horsley and appeared in Western shorts. He later worked for the New York Motion Picture Company, Selig Polyscope Company and Famous Players Film Company. While at Famous Players, Lockwood was cast opposite actress May Allison in Allan Dwan's romantic film ''David Harum''. The two would appear in over twenty-three films together during the World War I era, and became one of the first celebrate ...
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May Allison
May Allison (June 14, 1890 – March 27, 1989) was an American actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in silent films, although she also appeared on stage. Life and career Allison was born in Rising Fawn, Georgia, the youngest of five children born to Dr. John Simon "Sam" Allison and Nannie Virginia (née Wise) Allison. She made her Broadway stage debut in the 1914 production of ''Apartment 12-K'' before settling in Hollywood, California in the early days of motion pictures. Allison's screen debut was as an ingenue in the 1915 star-making Theda Bara vehicle '' A Fool There Was''. When Allison was cast that same year opposite actor Harold Lockwood in the Allan Dwan directed romantic film ''David Harum'', audiences quickly became enamored of the onscreen duo. The pair starred in approximately twenty-five highly successful features together during the World War I era and became one of the first celebrated on-screen romantic duos. Al ...
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Tony Gaudio
Tony Gaudio, A.S.C. (20 November 1883 – 10 August 1951) was an Italian-American cinematographer and sometimes is cited as the first to have created a montage sequence for a film. Biography Born Gaetano Antonio Gaudio in Cosenza, Italy, he began his career shooting short subjects for Italian film companies. He moved to New York City in 1906 and worked in Vitagraph's film laboratory until 1909, when he began shooting shorts for the company. His credits include '' Hell's Angels'' (1930), '' Little Caesar'' (1931), ''The Lady Who Dared'' (1931), ''Tiger Shark'' (1932), ''Anthony Adverse'' (1936), ''The Story of Louis Pasteur'' (1936), ''The Life of Emile Zola'' (1937), ''God's Country and the Woman'' (Warner Brothers' first Three-strip Technicolor film, (1937), ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1938), '' Juarez'' (1939), '' The Letter'' (1940), '' High Sierra'' (1941), ''Corvette K-225'' (1943), '' Days of Glory'' (1944), '' A Song to Remember'' (1945), and ''The Red Pony'' (1 ...
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Metro Pictures
Metro Pictures Corporation was a Film, motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leased facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Fort Lee, New Jersey. It was purchased in 1919. History Metro Pictures was founded as a film distribution company in February 1915 by a number of "exchange men" with Richard A. Rowland as president, George Grombacher as vice-president and Louis B. Mayer as secretary. Grombacher owned exchanges in Portland and Seattle. Rowland and Metro's 2nd vice president James B. Clark were from the Roland & Clark company based in Pittsburgh. Metro was capitalized with $300,000 in cash and founded for the purpose of controlling movie productions for the exchanges. Rowland had been an investor in Alco Films which was a distribution company for a coalition of production companies. Mayer convinced Rowland to set up ...
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Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema pri ...
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Lester Cuneo
Lester H. Cuneo (October 25, 1888 – November 1, 1925) was an American stage and silent film actor. He began acting in live theatre while still in his teens. Early years Born in Chicago, Illinois, Cuneo attended Culver Military Academy and was a law student at Northwestern University when he turned to acting. Career Cuneo's stage career included work with stock theater companies in Brooklyn, Chicago, and Winnepeg. Cuneo began a film career in 1912 with the Chicago-based Selig Polyscope Company then joined Essanay Studios in 1914. Working in early Hollywood, his popularity increased after he switched from comedic roles to the increasingly popular western film genre. However, his career was temporarily interrupted when he served with the United States Army during World War I. He served in France in 1917-1919 with the 33rd Division from Illinois. At war's end, Lester Cuneo returned to film and in the early 1920s set up his own production company making primarily western films. ...
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Mathilde Brundage
Mathilde Brundage (September 22, 1859 – May 6, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in 87 films between 1914 and 1928. Also known as Bertha Brundage, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky. For much of her life, her family thwarted her desire to act on stage. Brundage's film debut came in ''The Crucible'' (1914); her last film was ''That's My Daddy'' (1928). On May 6, 1939, Brundage died in St. Mary's Hospital in Long Beach, California. Selected filmography *''A Woman's Resurrection'' (1915) * ''A Royal Family'' (1915) *''Emmy of Stork's Nest'' (1915) *'' The Beloved Vagabond'' (1915) *'' The River of Romance'' (1916) * ''Her Debt of Honor'' (1916) * ''The Great Problem'' (1916) *'' Enlighten Thy Daughter'' (1917) *''Bridges Burned'' (1917) * '' The Waiting Soul'' (1917) *'' The Soul of a Magdalen'' (1917) *''Wife Number Two'' (1917) * ''Thou Shalt Not Steal'' (1917) * ''The Little Terror'' (1917) *''The Slacker'' (1917) *''Reputation'' (1917) *'' Raffles, the Amateur ...
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1916 Films
The year 1916 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * Charlie Chaplin signs for Mutual Film for a salary of $10,000 a week and a signing on fee of $150,000, making him one of the highest-paid people in the United States. * June 24 – Mary Pickford signs a contract for $10,000 a week plus profit participation, guaranteeing her over $1 million per year. * July 19 – Famous Players-Lasky is formed through a merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company and Jesse L. Lasky's Feature Play Company. Later in the year, they acquire distributor Paramount Pictures. * August 10 – The official British documentary propaganda film ''The Battle of the Somme'' is premièred in London. In the first six weeks of general release (from 20 August) 20 million people view it. * September 5 – Release of D. W. Griffith's epic film '' Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages'', starring Lillian Gish (as "The Eternal Motherhood") and Constance Talmadge (in two ro ...
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American Silent Feature Films
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Metro Pictures Films
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