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William Holden (silent Film Actor)
William Holden (22 May 1862 – 3 March 1932) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 16 films from 1920 to 1931. Selected filmography References External links * * 1862 births 1932 deaths American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors Male actors from Rochester, New York American male film actors {{US-film-actor-1860s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Widow!
''What a Widow!'' was a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and produced by and starring Gloria Swanson. It was distributed through United Artists. The film was produced by Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. It received generally positive reviews and was noted for its animated title sequence created by William Dietz, but was met with lukewarm returns at the box office. Cast *Gloria Swanson as Tamarind Brook *Owen Moore as Gerry Morgan *Lew Cody as Victor *Margaret Livingston as Valli *William Holden as Mr. Lodge *Herbert Braggiotti as Jose Alvarado *Gregory Gaye as Baslikoff * Adrienne D'Ambricourt as Paulette *Nella Walker as Marquise *Daphne Pollard as Masseuse *Reginald Sharland (uncredited) Preservation status This film is now considered a lost film. The soundtrack is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the trailer is preserved at the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collections and The United Artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Came Back (1931 Film)
''The Man Who Came Back'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. The movie was adapted to screen by Edwin J. Burke from the play by Jules Eckert Goodman. A Fox property for many years, it had been filmed before in the silent era in 1924 with George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill in the leads. A Spanish-language version called '' Road of Hell'' was made in the same year. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics '' Seventh Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), and '' Lucky Star'' (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927). Cast *Janet Gaynor as Angie Randolph *Charles Farrell as Stephen Randolph *Kenneth MacKenna as Captain Trevelyan *William Holden as Thomas Randolph *Mary Forbes as Mrs. Gaynes *Ullrich Haupt as Charles Reisling * William Worthington as Captain Gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Silent Film Actors
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the United States, most widely spoken lan ..., the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Deaths
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1862 Births
Year 186 ( CLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Glabrio (or, less frequently, year 939 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 186 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Peasants in Gaul stage an anti-tax uprising under Maternus. * Roman governor Pertinax escapes an assassination attempt, by British usurpers. New Zealand * The Hatepe volcanic eruption extends Lake Taupō and makes skies red across the world. However, recent radiocarbon dating by R. Sparks has put the date at 233 AD ± 13 (95% confidence). Births * Ma Liang, Chinese official of the Shu Han state (d. 222) Deaths * April 21 – Apollonius the Apologist, Christian martyr * Bian Zhang, Chinese official and gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Chan Carries On (film)
''Charlie Chan Carries On'' is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Warner Oland, John Garrick and Marguerite Churchill. It is the first appearance of Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Part of the long-running Charlie Chan series, it was based on the 1930 novel of the same title by Earl Derr Biggers. It is now considered a lost film;Hanke, p. 6 however, Fox simultaneously filmed a Spanish-language version which was released under the title ''Eran Trece''—''There Were Thirteen''—and this version survives. Plot Charlie Chan tries to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel room. Settings include London, Nice, France, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Cast * Warner Oland as Charlie Chan * John Garrick as Mark Kenaway * Marguerite Churchill as Pamela Potter * Warren Hymer as Max Minchin * Marjorie White as Sadie * C. Henry Gordon as John Ross * William Holden as Patrick Tait * George Brent as Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance, Fools, Dance
''Dance, Fools, Dance'' is a 1931 pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama film starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Lester Vail in a story about a reporter investigating the murder of a colleague. Story and dialogue were created by Aurania Rouverol, and the film was directed by Harry Beaumont. ''Dance, Fools, Dance'' was the first of eight movies featuring Crawford and Gable. Plot Former socialite Bonnie Jordan (Joan Crawford) and her brother Rodney (William Bakewell) have their lives turned upside down one day when their father loses his entire fortune in the stock market crash, and subsequently dies of a heart attack. Due to their inheritance being wiped out overnight, the siblings are forced to fire their wait staff, sell their belongings, and work to earn a living. Bonnie decides to get a man's job and winds up as a cub reporter for a newspaper, while Rodney decides to get involved with a beer-running gang, but things begin to escalate for him quickly. On one caper, Rodne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Faces East (1930 Film)
''Three Faces East'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim. Produced by Daryl Zanuck and released by Warner Brothers it is based on a 1918 Broadway play about World War I spies, ''Three Faces East'', by Anthony Paul Kelly. It was filmed as a silent in 1926. A later remake in 1940 starred Boris Karloff and Margaret Lindsay was titled ''British Intelligence''. Plot During World War I, a soldier named Valdar (Erich von Stroheim) receives a medal for bravery from the King of Belgium. Elsewhere, behind German lines, a captured British nurse (Constance Bennett) is revealed to be a German spy. She is given an assignment to infiltrate the household of Sir Winston Chamberlain, the British First Lord of the Admiralty (William Holden—no relation to the younger American film star), and steal secrets for her superior, a German spy named Blecher. Under the name Frances Hawtree, the agent, using the code term "three f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochester, New York
Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, and Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in Western New York, the city of Rochester forms the core of a larger Rochester metropolitan area, New York, metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties. The city was one of the United States' first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing center, which spurred further rapid population growth. Rochester rose to prominence as the birthplace and home of some of America's most iconic companies, in particular Eastman Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb (along with Wegmans, Gannett, Paychex, Western Union, French's, Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not So Dumb
''Not So Dumb'' is a 1930 pre-Code comedy motion picture starring Marion Davies, directed by King Vidor, and produced for Cosmopolitan Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is based on the stage play ''Dulcy'' by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly that starred Lynn Fontanne. The film resulted in a financial loss for the studio of $39,000.Nasaw, David. ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'', Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. pg. 411. This is a re-make of the 1923 film ''Dulcy''. See also the 1940 film of the same name ( ''Dulcy''). Plot summary Dulcinea Parker (Marion Davies) goes to the train station to meet the Forbes: mother Eleanor (Julia Faye), father Charles (William Holden), and daughter Angela ( Sally Starr), whom she has invited to spend the weekend. We are also introduced to her new butler Perkins ( George Davis), who is an ex-convict on parole. Dulcinea, ever the "dumb blonde", has a habit of doing the wrong thing. She misquotes common expressions and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday (1930 Film)
''Holiday'' is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family. It stars Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames and Hedda Hopper. It was produced and released by Pathé Exchange. The film was adapted by Horace Jackson from the 1928 play by Philip Barry. It was directed by Edward H. Griffith. Cast Award nominations It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ann Harding) and Best Writing, Adaptation. Remake The film was remade in 1938. Directed by George Cukor, it starred Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor. He was known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing. He was one o ..., with Horton reprising his role as Profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
