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Vadim Uraneff
Vadim Uraneff (6 February 1895 – 5 April 1952) was a Russian actor and librettist who helped John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn when it was hoped they would appear in '' The Song of Solomon''. He was also a mime who played Lucianus in ''Hamlet'' in the Ballet Russe. As theater critic, he explained in 1923: :The audevilleactor works with the idea of an immediate response from the audience: and with regard to its demands. By cutting out everything -every line, gesture, movement- to which the audience does not react and by improvising new thins, he establishes unusual unity between the audience and himself... Stylization in gesture, pose, misen-scène and make-up follows as a result of long experiment before the primitive spectator whose power as judge is absolute. He translated the lyric drama ''Star (The) Woman'' from Russian alongside P. Colum. He directed the theatre drama ''Anathema'' by L. N. Andreev at the Apollo Theater, New York. He is buried at the Hollywood For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, religious, and economic diversity. From the 10th–17th centuries, the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Believed In You
''I Believed in You'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Irving Cummings and written by William M. Conselman. The film stars Rosemary Ames, John Boles, Victor Jory, Gertrude Michael, George Meeker and Leslie Fenton. The film was released on February 23, 1934, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot Cast * Rosemary Ames as True Merrill * John Boles as Michael Harrison *Victor Jory as Jim Crowl * Gertrude Michael as Pamela Banks *George Meeker as Saracen Jones *Leslie Fenton as Russell Storm *Joyzelle Joyner as Vavara *Jed Prouty as Joe Long *Morgan Wallace as Oliver Lang *Luis Alberni as Giacomo * Frederik Vogeding as Reno * Walter Walker as Lacy * Arthur Housman as Jerry Hartman * Louise Beavers as Prisoner * Robert Walker as Detective * Ferdinand Gottschalk as Musician * Wini Shaw as Crowl's Girlfriend * Kay Hammond as Poetess * Gilbert Emery as Pamela's Friend * Lenita Lane as Novelist * Vadim Uraneff as Candy Vendor * Niles Welch as Painter * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Power
''The Silent Power'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Ralph Lewis, Ethel Shannon and Charles Delaney.Connelly p.255 It was produced by the independent company Gotham Pictures. Synopsis The manager of a hydro-electric plant manages to secure his reckless college graduate son a job working on the construction of a new dam. He falls in love with a woman, but when her crazed brother kills his boss he is arrested and convicted for murder. Sentenced to the electric chair it seems that it will be the unfortunate duty of his father to supply the electricity that will execute his son. Cast * Ralph Lewis as John Rollins * Ethel Shannon as Olive Spencer * Charles Delaney as Rob Rollins * Vadim Uraneff as Jerry Spencer * Robert Homans Robert Edward Homans (November 8, 1877 – July 28, 1947) was an American actor who entered films in 1923 after a lengthy stage career. Life and career Robert Homans was born November 8, 1877, in Malden, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blonde Saint
''The Blonde Saint'' is a 1926 American silent romantic adventure film directed by Svend Gade. It was produced by Sam E. Rork and released through First National Pictures. Lewis Stone and Doris Kenyon star and young newcomer Gilbert Roland is featured. Plot The plot of the film bears a striking resemblance to the plot of the Warner Brothers talkie, ''One Way Passage'' (1932). This silent appears to have been more exotic. Cast Production Producer Rork's 19-year-old daughter, Ann Rork, has a major role in the film as she has in her father's later produced '' The Notorious Lady'' (1927). Lewis Stone also returned in ''The Notorious Lady''. This was the final film of screenwriter Marion Fairfax. She and producer Rork had formed a partnership to make films in 1925, but, following the completion ''The Blonde Saint'' and a severe illness, she left film making and then wrote only for periodicals. Preservation An abridged and or incomplete version of survives in the British Film In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siberia (1926 Film)
''Siberia'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, and Tom Santschi. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. Made on a relatively high budget of around $250,000, it was considered a disappointment and barely made back its costs. Plot The Imperial Russian Army officer Leonid Petroff and the pro-revolutionary schoolteacher Sonia Vronsky fall in love. She is exiled to Siberia with her brother Kyrill, but Petroff is posted there and they continue their romance. After the October Revolution Vronsky and Petroff escape the country while being pursued by the Bolshevik leader Egor Kaplan. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Siberia'' in any film archives, it is a lost film. See also *1937 Fox vault fire The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flame Of The Yukon (1926 Film)
''The Flame of the Yukon'' is a 1926 American silent Northwoods adventure drama film starring Seena Owen and directed by George Melford. The film is based on a story by Monte Katterjohn and was distributed by Cecil DeMille's Producers Distributing Corporation. The film is a remake of a 1917 film that had starred Dorothy Dalton, which survives at the Library of Congress. Cast *Seena Owen as The Flame *Arnold Gray as George Fowler *Matthew Betz as Black Jack Hovey * Jack McDonald as Sour Dough Joe *Vadim Uraneff as Solo Jim *Winifred Greenwood as Dolly Preservation ''The Flame of the Yukon'', once thought to be lost, is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magic Flame
''The Magic Flame'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Henry King, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the 1900 play ''Konig Harlekin'' by Rudolph Lothar. George Barnes was nominated at the 1st Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for his work in ''The Magic Flame'', '' The Devil Dancer'', and '' Sadie Thompson''. The film promoted itself as the '' Romeo and Juliet'' of the circus upon its release. This is now considered to be a lost film. The first five reels are rumored to exist at the George Eastman House, though this is disputed. Cast * Ronald Colman as Tito the Clown * Vilma Bánky as Bianca, the acrobat * Agostino Borgato as The Ringmaster * Gustav von Seyffertitz as The Chancellor * Harvey Clark as The Aide * Shirley Palmer as The Wife * Cosmo Kyrle Bellew as The Husband * George Davis as The Utility Man * André Cheron as The Manager * Vadim Uraneff as The Visitor * Meurnier-Surcouf as Sword Swallower * Raoul Paoli as Weight Thrower * Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Mickey Grogan
''Little Mickey Grogan'' is a 1927 American comedy-drama film directed by James Leo Meehan and written by Dwight Cummins, Dorothy Yost and Charles Kerr. The film stars Frankie Darro, Lassie Lou Ahern, Jobyna Ralston, Carroll Nye, Eugene Jackson, William Scott and Vadim Uraneff. The film was released on December 27, 1927, by Film Booking Offices of America. Plot Mickey Grogan (Frankie Darro), a nine-year old vagabond of the streets, assumes the responsibility for the well-being of a fellow homeless waif (Susan Dale, played by Lassie Lou Ahern), a sensitive architect named Jeffrey Shore (Carroll Nye) who is out of work for being too poor to pay for an operation necessary to save his remaining vision, and a kind-hearted office worker (Winnie, played by Jobyna Ralston) who is being stalked by a belligent Al Nevers (Billy Scott) as his overbearing attentions increasingly turn violent. On top of this, he also helps an industrialist (Crauford Kent) who is looking for a new factory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once And Forever
''Once and Forever'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Phil Goldstone and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, John Harron and Burr McIntosh.Munden p.567 The film's sets were designed by the art director George Sawley. Cast * Patsy Ruth Miller as Antoinette * John Harron as Georges * Burr McIntosh as Governor * Emily Fitzroy as Katherine * Adele Watson as Henriette * Vadim Uraneff Vadim Uraneff (6 February 1895 – 5 April 1952) was a Russian actor and librettist who helped John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn when it was hoped they would appear in '' The Song of Solomon''. He was also a mime who played Lucianus in ''Haml ... as Axel References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1927 films 1927 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Press Of Kentucky
The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press. The university had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. In 1949, the press was established as a separate academic agency under the university president, and the following year Bruce F. Denbo, then of Louisiana State University Press, was appointed as the first full-time professional director. Denbo served as director of UPK until his retirement in 1978, building a small but distinguished list of scholarly books with emphasis on American history and literary criticism. Since its reorganization, the Press has represented a consortium that now includes all of Kentucky's state universities, seven of its private colleges, and two historical societies. UPK joined the Association of University Presses in 1947. The press is supported by the Thomas D. Clark Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazil (film)
''Fazil'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Philip Klein and Seton I. Miller. The film stars Charles Farrell, Greta Nissen, John Boles, Mae Busch, Tyler Brooke and John T. Murray. The film was released on June 4, 1928, by Fox Film Corporation. Plot A Middle Eastern prince has an affair with a Parisienne showgirl. Cast *Charles Farrell as Prince Fazil *Greta Nissen as Fabienne * John Boles as John Clavering * Mae Busch as Helen Dubreuze * Tyler Brooke as Jacques Dubreuze * John T. Murray as Gondolier * Vadim Uraneff as Ahmed. *Josephine Borio as Aicha *Eddie Sturgis as Rice *Erville Alderson as Iman Idris * Dale Fuller as Zouroya *Hank Mann Hank Mann (born David William Lieberman, May 28, 1887 – November 25, 1971) was a Russian Empire-born and American comedian and silent screen star who was a member of the Keystone Cops. According to fellow actor and original member of the ... as Ali References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Madness (1928 Film)
''Midnight Madness'' is a 1928 silent film drama directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Jacqueline Logan. It was produced by Cecil B. DeMille's DeMille Pictures Corporation and released through Pathé Exchange. Prints are preserved at the Museum of Modern Art, Library of Congress and New Zealand Film Archive. videoof the preserved film is available for viewing at the website of the National Film Preservation Foundation. Cast *Jacqueline Logan - Norma Forbes *Clive Brook - Richard Bream *Walter McGrail - Arthur Childers *James Bradbury - John Forbes * Oscar Smith - Manubo *Vadim Uraneff - Joe *Louis Natheaux - Masher *Clarence Burton - A sailor *Virginia Sale - The Gargoyle *Frank Hagney - Harris *Emmett King - Robert Strong *Sidney Bracey Sidney Bracey (born Sidney Bracy; 18 December 1877 – 5 August 1942) was an Australian-born American actor. After a stage career in Australia, on Broadway and in Britain, he performed in more than 320 films between 1909 and 1942. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
