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Walt Whitman (actor)
Walter K. Whitman (April 25, 1859 – March 27, 1928) was an American character actor of the stage and screen who was active during Hollywood's silent era. He is not to be confused with the influential poet of the same name. Biography Whitman had a long career on the stage in cities like New York, Boston, and Chicago before he began appearing in Triangle films in the 1910s, at which point he was already an older man. He died on March 27, 1928, in Santa Monica, California. "I was only a country lad, but I had seen so many real good shows at our local opera house that I made up my mind I would be an actor," he'd later tell reporters of his beginnings. He also recounted that in 1896, he leapt from the fifth floor of the Hotel Richelieu in Montreal when it caught on fire. Selected filmography * '' Missing Daughters'' (1924) * '' Long Live the King'' (1923) * ''The Grub-Stake'' (1923) * '' The Love Letter'' (1923) * ''Wasted Lives'' (1923) * '' Hearts Aflame'' (1923) * '' A Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ora Carew
Ora Carew (born Ora Whytock; April 19, 1891 – October 26, 1955), was an American silent film actress. She starred in several films between 1915 and 1925. She was known as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties. Early life Ora Whytock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to James Whytock and Evelyn Carn Whytock (1865–1942). She had an older sister, Evelyn Whytock Lehners (1887–1961), who became a music composer, and a younger brother, Grant Whytock (1894–1981), who became a film editor. Ora's birth year has been listed as 1893, on her death certificate and is also what her grave says, but Utah birth index and the 1900 census indicate 1891. She was educated by private tutors and at Roland Hall Seminary. After her father died on June 19, 1896, her mother moved with her three children to California. Career Carew acted on stage, including work in stock companies and in musical comedies, and she was a vaudeville performer. She acted on film with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM and Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasted Lives
''Wasted Lives'' is a 1925 American silent film, silent drama film directed by John Gorman (director), John Gorman and starring Elliott Dexter, Cullen Landis and Edith Roberts (actress), Edith Roberts.Munden p.867 Cast * Elliott Dexter as Clayton Gray * Cullen Landis as John Grayson * Edith Roberts (actress), Edith Roberts as Mary 'Tommy' Townsend * Betty Francisco as Grace Gardner * Henry Hull * Hayford Hobbs * Phillips Smalley 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 * 1925 films 1925 drama films American black-and-white films Silent American drama films American silent feature films 1920s English-language films Films directed by John Gorman 1920s American films {{silent-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Petticoats
''John Petticoats'' is a 1919 American silent action film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by C. Gardner Sullivan. The film stars William S. Hart, Walt Whitman, George Webb, Winifred Westover, Ethel Shannon, and Andrew Arbuckle. The film was released on November 2, 1919, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine, John Haynes (Hart), a lumberman known as "Hardwood," receives a letter informing him that he has inherited a business establishment in New Orleans. Surprised, although pleasantly so, he goes to that city to look over his heritage and finds that the business consists of a shop merchandising ladies' ware. In charge of the shop is Rosalie Andre (Shannon), whom he lets continue with the management of the store, with Hardwood John boarding with Judge Clay Emerson Meredith (Whitman) and keeping his identity secret. Caroline (Westover), the Judge's granddaughter, soon attracts John's attention, and mutual love ripens. Rosalie comes to grief at the hand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Hours
''Dangerous Hours'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo. Prints of the film survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. It premiered in February 1920. The film was based on a short story "A Prodigal in Utopia" published in the '' Saturday Evening Post''. The film's working title was ''Americanism (Versus Bolshevism)'', which was the title of a pamphlet published by Ole Hanson, the mayor of Seattle who claimed to have broken the Seattle General Strike in 1919. Plot The film tells the story of an attempted Russian infiltration of American industry, and includes a depiction of the "nationalization of women" under Bolshevism, including "extras on horseback, rounding up women, throwing them into dungeons and beating them." College graduate John King (Hughes) is sympathetic to the left in a general way. Then he is seduced, both romantically and politically, by Sophia Guerni (Du Brey), a female agitator. Her superior is the Bolshevik Boris Blotchi (Richar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passion's Playground
''Passion's Playground'' is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by and starring Katherine MacDonald. Rudolph Valentino has a featured part in the film billed as Rudolph Valentine. The film is based on the novel ''The Guests of Hercules'' by Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson. This film is presumed lost. Plot As described in a film magazine, Mary Grant (MacDonald), an orphan, leaves an Italian convent and goes to Monte Carlo where, with beginner's luck, she breaks the bank. When her unsophisticated ways lead men to make unseemly advances, she is protected by Prince Angelo Della Robbia (Valentino), whom she later promises to marry. His brother's wife comes to visit her and she learns that she is Marie Grant (Craig), a former student of the same convent who several years earlier had eloped with a man who then deserted her. When a former sweetheart of her husband accuses her of the deed, she places the blame on Mary. Mary goes to a chateau in the mountains. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darling Mine
''Darling Mine'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Olive Thomas, Walter McGrail and Walt Whitman.Connelly p.59 Cast * Olive Thomas as Kitty McCarthy * Walter McGrail as Roger Davis * Walt Whitman as James McCarthy * J. Barney Sherry as Gordon Davis * Margaret McWade as Agnes McCarthy * Betty Schade as Vera Maxwell * Richard Tucker Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor and cantor. Long associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Tucker's career was primarily centered in the United States. Early life Tucker was born Rivn (Rubin) Ticke ... as Jay Savoy References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * 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 * 1920 films 1920 drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mark Of Zorro (1920 Film)
''The Mark of Zorro'' is a 1920 American silent Western romance film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery Sr. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of ''The Mark of Zorro''. Based on the 1919 story ''The Curse of Capistrano'' by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the masked hero, Zorro, the screenplay was adapted by Fairbanks (as "Elton Thomas") and Eugene Miller. The film was produced by Fairbanks for his own production company, Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, and was the first film released through United Artists, the company formed by Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith. Noah Beery Jr. makes his first of many dozens of screen appearance spanning six decades. He portrayed a young child; his father began sporadically billing himself as Noah Beery Sr. as a result. The film has been remade twice, once in 1940 (starring Tyrone Power) and again in 1974 (starring Frank Langella). In 2015, the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Home Stretch
''The Home Stretch'' is a surviving 1921 American silent drama film directed by Jack Nelson and written by Louis Stevens. The film stars Douglas MacLean, Beatrice Burnham, Walt Whitman, Margaret Livingston, Wade Boteler, Mary Jane Irving, and Charles Hill Mailes. Its screenplay was written by Louis Stevens and is based upon the short story "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" by Charles Belmont Davis, which appeared in the October 1914 issue of '' Metropolitan Magazine''. The film was released on April 24, 1921, by Paramount Pictures. Cast *Douglas MacLean as Johnny Hardwick *Beatrice Burnham as Margaret Warren *Walt Whitman as Mr. Warren *Margaret Livingston as Molly *Wade Boteler as Mr. Duffy *Mary Jane Irving as Gwen Duffy *Charles Hill Mailes as Mr. Wilson *Mollie McConnell as Mrs. Wilson (*posthumous release for Mollie who died in 1920) *Jack Singleton as Tommy Wilson * Joseph Bennett as Hi Simpkins *George Holmes as Skeeter Preservation status Prints held at the UCLA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Musketeers (1921 Film)
''The Three Musketeers'' is a 1921 American silent film based on the 1844 novel ''The Three Musketeers'' by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was directed by Fred Niblo and stars Douglas Fairbanks as d'Artagnan. The film originally had scenes filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "Wyckoff-DeMille Process"). The film had a sequel, ''The Iron Mask'' (1929), also starring Fairbanks as d'Artagnan and DeBrulier as Cardinal Richelieu. Plot summary Cast :''In opening credits order:'' * Adolphe Menjou as Louis XIII * Mary MacLaren as Anne of Austria * Nigel De Brulier as Cardinal Richelieu * Thomas Holding as Duke of Buckingham * Marguerite De La Motte as Constance Bonacieux * Willis Robards as Captain de Treville * Boyd Irwin as Comte de Rochefort * Barbara La Marr as Milady de Winter * Lon Poff as Father Joseph * Walt Whitman as d'Artagnan's Father * Sidney Franklin as Bonacieux * Charles Belcher as Bernajoux * Charles Stevens as Planchet * Léon Bary as Athos * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Nibs (film)
''His Nibs'' is a 1921 American comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Chic Sale and Colleen Moore. Plot The Slippery Elm Picture Palace screens the film ''He Fooled ’Em All'' as various rural characters watch. The owner, operator, and projectionist is "His Nibs". He tells the audience that he has cut the titles from the film but will explain the action. "The Boy" (Sale) leaves a small town in the film-within-the-film to get rich in the city, but he is swindled out of his money, his clothes are stolen, and he is forced to become a dishwasher to pay his rent. "The Girl" (Moore) and The Girl's father (Dowling) are talked into visiting the city by a swindler, but luckily they end up at the hotel where "The Boy" is working, and he disrupts the plot. All this is explained by "His Nibs" as the film shows, "His Nibs" offering his own commentary on the action as the story advances. Having eliminated the customary happy ending, "His Nibs" tells the audience that The Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mysterious Rider (1921 Film)
''The Mysterious Rider'' is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by Benjamin B. Hampton and starring Robert McKim, Claire Adams and Carl Gantvoort.Munden, p. 535. Cast * Robert McKim as 'Hell-Bent' Wade * Claire Adams as Columbine * Carl Gantvoort as Wilson Moore * Jim Mason a Jack Bellounds * Walt Whitman as Bellounds * Fred Starr as Ed Smith * Maude Wayne as Madge Smith * Frank Hayes as 'Smokey Joe' Lem Billings * Aggie Herring Agnes Herring (February 4, 1876 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1939. She was born in San Francisco and died in Santa Monica, California. [Baidu] |
The Girl From Rocky Point
''The Girl from Rocky Point'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Fred Becker and starring Milton Ross, Ora Carew and Gloria Joy.Munden p.291 Synopsis A young woman falls in love with man shipwrecked on the Maine coastline, but has to contend with her stern father and a local mischief-maker determined to break up the romance. Cast * Milton Ross as Samuel Hayden * Ora Carew as Betty * Gloria Joy as Corrine * Charles Spere as Daniel Williams * E.G. Davidson as Timothy Smith * Theodore von Eltz as Robert Giffing * Verna Brooks as Mignon * Walt Whitman Walter Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among t ... as The Devil References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kennet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
