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Woman (1918 Film)
''Woman'', also known by its french title ''L'Éternelle Tentatrice'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur, an allegorical film showcasing the story of women through points in time. Popular in its day, the film was distributed in the State's Rights plan as opposed to a major distributor, like Paramount Pictures or Universal Pictures.Progressive Silent Film List: ''Woman'' at silentera.com Some scenes were shot at . It was here that one of Tourneur's cameramen, , lost his life while film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Tourneur
Maurice may refer to: People *Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr *Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor *Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England *Maurice of Carnoet (1117–1191), Breton abbot and saint * Maurice, Count of Oldenburg (fl. 1169–1211) *Maurice of Inchaffray (14th century), Scottish cleric who became a bishop *Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521–1553), German Saxon nobleman *Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1551–1612) *Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), stadtholder of the Netherlands *Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel or Maurice the Learned (1572–1632) *Maurice of Savoy (1593–1657), prince of Savoy and a cardinal *Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (1619–1681) *Maurice of the Palatinate (1620–1652), Count Palatine of the Rhine *Maurice of the Netherlands (1843–1850), prince of Orange-Nassau * Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972), F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messalina
Valeria Messalina (; ) was the third wife of Roman emperor Claudius. She was a paternal cousin of Emperor Nero, a second cousin of Emperor Caligula, and a great-grandniece of Emperor Augustus. A powerful and influential woman with a reputation for promiscuity, she allegedly conspired against her husband and was executed on the discovery of the plot. Her notorious reputation probably resulted from political bias, but works of art and literature have perpetuated it into modern times. Early life Messalina was the daughter of Domitia Lepida and her first cousin Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus. Her mother was the youngest child of the consul Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major. Her mother's brother, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, had been the first husband of the future Empress Agrippina the Younger and the biological father of the future Emperor Nero, making Nero Messalina's first cousin despite a seventeen-year age difference. Messalina's grandmothers Claudia Marcella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Richmond
Warner Richmond (born Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann; January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a stock theatre actor and appeared in films in both the silent film and sound eras. His career spanned four decades. He is possibly best recalled for appearances in Westerns in his later career in sound films. Between 1912 and 1946, he appeared in more than 140 films. Early life Warner Richmond was born in Racine, Wisconsin as Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann, one of seven children born to Wilhelm ("William") Raetzmann and Emilie ("Amelia") Licht. Richmond's father was a German immigrant from Hanover who worked as a printer in Reedsburg. His mother was Wisconsin-born and raised, and of German immigrant parents. Growing up in rural Wisconsin, he became an expert horseman, and this skill would later earn him roles in western movies. As a young man, he moved to Chicago and lived with his brother Ewald and worked as traveling salesman of mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faire Binney
Frederica "Faire" Binney (August 24, 1900 – August 28, 1957) her name pronounced like the country ''Zaire'', was an American stage and film actress.Soister, Nicolella & Joyce p.732 Biography Born Frederica Binney in Morristown, New Jersey, she was the daughter of Horace Binney, a lawyer, and Gertrude Miles Binney. Her education came in private schools in Concord, Massachusetts. She starred in a number of films during the silent era after making her debut in the 1918 film '' Sporting Life'' alongside her sister Constance Binney. During the early 1950s she appeared in several small, uncredited parts. Binney married David Carleton Sloane in October 1922 in her mother's house in New York. Selected filmography * '' Sporting Life'' (1918) * ''Woman'' (1918) * '' Here Comes the Bride'' (1919) * '' Open Your Eyes'' (1919) * '' The Wonder Man'' (1920) * '' The Blue Pearl'' (1920) * '' Madonnas and Men'' (1920) * ''The Girl from Porcupine'' (1921) * ''A Man's Home'' (1921) * '' Frontier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Allen
Diana Allen (1898 – June 12, 1949) was a Swedish-American actress and Ziegfeld girl who starred in silent films such as 1921's ''Miss 139'',Wollstein, Henry JStrangers in Hollywood: the History of Scandinavian Actors in American Films from 1910 to World War II(1994) which is now lost. Biography Allen was born in Gotland, Sweden, in 1898 and came to the United States at the age of 5. While a high school student in New Haven, Connecticut, she began to perform with Eddie Wittstein.(20 June 1924)He's a Star Maker ''Danville Bee'' Her stage debut was in a vaudeville act called "Girls' Gamble" with Ned Wayburn. She later appeared in '' Miss 1917'', the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' (1917–18), and ''Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic''.''Motion Pictures Studio Directory and Trade Annual'' (1921), p. 209 ("b. Gotland, Sweden; educ. New Haven, Conn.; stage career, "Follies," 1917–18; "The Frolic," 1919, "Miss 1917"; screen career ...... Hght., 5, 3; wght., 115; blond hair, blue eyes.") Allen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flore Revalles
Flore (or Flora) Revalles (January 25, 1889 – August 29, 1966) was a Swiss entertainer active over the early decades of the twentieth century. Revalles began as a singer in Switzerland, danced with the Ballets Russes in Europe and America and appeared in Broadway and Hollywood productions before resuming her singing career in Europe. She is also remembered for being an aunt of the French film star Guy Tréjan (1921–2001). Life and career Emily Flora Treichler was born in Rolle, Switzerland, a small town nestled along the northwestern banks of Lake Geneva. By her mid-twenties Revalles was a singer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève until the set and costume designer Léon Bakst enticed her to join the European tour of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in productions such as ''Cleopatra'', ''Thamar'' and ''Scheherazade ''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Cook
Warren Cook (May 23, 1878 – May 2, 1939) was an American film actor of the silent era. Cook was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1901, he appeared in ''The Shaughraun'' at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston. He was part of the stock company based at Castle Square Theatre. On Broadway, Cook appeared in ''The Conspiracy'' 1912). He had minor roles and appeared in more than 60 films between 1914 and 1927. The beginning of sound films brought an end to Cook's career. When he died on May 2, 1939, he was living at an actor's home in East Islip, New York. Selected filmography 300px, Cook (left) in ''The Immigrant'' (1917) * '' The Man Who Disappeared'' (1914) * ''Children of Eve'' (1915) * ''Slander'' (1916) * ''The Snowbird'' (1916) * ''Infidelity'' (1917) * '' The Whip'' (1917) * ''The Undying Flame'' (1917) * '' Seven Keys to Baldpate'' (1917) * ''The Avenging Trail'' (1917) * ''The Streets of Illusion'' (1917) * ''The Interloper'' (1918) * ''Suspicion'' (1918) * ''A Dol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Billings
Florence Billings (born 1895) was an American film actress of the silent era.Goble p. 131 Selected filmography * ''The Spreading Dawn'' (1917) * ''By Right of Purchase'' (1918) * ''The Fair Pretender'' (1918) * ''Woman'' (1918) * '' A Romance of the Air'' (1918) * ''The Great Victory'' (1919) * ''Her Game'' (1919) * ''The Probation Wife'' (1919) * ''Her Game'' (1919) * '' The Woman Game'' (1920) * '' The Blue Pearl'' (1920) * ''The Road of Ambition'' (1920) * '' The Wonder Man'' (1920) * ''The Wakefield Case'' (1921) * '' Handcuffs or Kisses'' (1921) * ''Nobody'' (1921) * '' Worlds Apart'' (1921) * '' Why Announce Your Marriage?'' (1922) * '' Love's Masquerade'' (1922) * '' Who Are My Parents?'' (1922) * ''Destiny's Isle'' (1922) * ''What Fools Men Are'' (1922) * ''Marriage Morals ''Marriage Morals'' is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Tom Moore, Ann Forrest and Harry T. Morey.Munden p.494 Cast * Tom Moore as Young Harry Rya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Cavell
Edith Louisa Cavell ( ; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War, for which she was arrested under martial law. She was accused of treason, found guilty by a court-martial and sentenced to death. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad. Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage. The night before her execution, she said, "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." These words were later inscribed on a memorial to her near Trafalgar Square. Her strong Anglican beliefs propelled her to help all those who needed it, both German and Allied soldiers. She was quoted as saying, "I can't stop while there are lives to be saved." The Church of England commemorates her in its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Red Cross And Red Crescent Movement
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering. Within it there are three distinct organisations that are legally independent from each other, but are united within the movement through common basic principles, objectives, symbols, statutes and governing organisations. History Foundation Until the middle of the nineteenth century, there were no organized or well-established army nursing systems for casualties, nor safe or protected institutions, to accommodate and treat those who were wounded on the battlefield. A devout Calvinist, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant traveled to Italy to meet then-French emperor Napoleon III in June 1859 with the intention of discussing difficulties in conducting business in Algeria, which at that time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states that had seceded. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west. An initial seven southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding from the United States and, in 1861, forming the Confederacy. The Confederacy seized U.S. forts and other federal assets within their borders. Led by Confederate President Jefferson Davis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
