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We Moderns
''We Moderns'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Colleen Moore. The film was produced by Moore's husband John McCormick and was released through First National Pictures. It was based on the play and novel by Israel Zangwill. The play ran for 22 performances in 1924 at the Gaiety Theatre in New York, produced and directed by Harrison Grey Fiske and starring Helen Hayes and Isabel Irving. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Mary Sundale is a young woman who spurns her childhood sweetheart to attach herself to a large group of riotous, semi-artistic young people and becomes infatuated with a superficial poet and critic. One night this poet becomes too bold in his advances and is thrashed by the man who has been rejected. On a later night, the group holds a party in a dirigible. The ship crashes and fear grips the revelers. Mary, now disgusted with the group and all it represents, mends her manner of living and plans a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Francis Dillon (director)
John Francis Dillon (July 13, 1884 – April 4, 1934) was an American film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 130 films between 1914 and 1934. He also appeared in 74 films between 1914 and 1931. He was born in New York, New York, was a brother of Robert A. Dillon, and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. He was married to the actress Edith Hallor. Partial filmography * ''Dough and Dynamite'' (1914) * '' Indiscreet Corinne'' (1917) * '' Suds'' (1920) * ''The Plaything of Broadway'' (1921) * ''The Cub Reporter'' (1922) * ''The Yellow Stain'' (1922) * ''Flaming Youth'' (1923) * '' Double Dealing'' (1923) (actor) * ''The Self-Made Wife'' (1923) * '' The Broken Violin'' (1923) * '' Lilies of the Field'' (1924) * ''Flirting with Love'' (1924) * '' The Perfect Flapper'' (1924) * '' The Half-Way Girl'' (1925) * '' We Moderns'' (1925) * '' The Test of Donald Norton'' (1926) (actor) * ''Don Juan's Three Nights'' (1926) * '' Midnight Lovers'' (1926) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Miller (actor)
Carl Miller (August 9, 1894 – January 20, 1979), was an American film actor. He appeared in 48 films between 1917 and 1942 and remains perhaps best known for his roles in two Charlie Chaplin films, ''The Kid'' (1921) and ''A Woman of Paris'' (1923). He was born in Wichita County, Texas, and died in Honolulu, Hawaii. Selected filmography * ''The Doctor and the Woman'' (1918) * ''The Kid'' (1921) * ''Cinderella of the Hills'' (1921) * '' Condemned'' (1923) * ''A Woman of Paris'' (1923) * '' Jealous Husbands'' (1923) * ''The Lover of Camille'' (1924) * ''The Redeeming Sin'' (1925) * '' The Red Kimona'' (1925) * ''The Wall Street Whiz'' (1925) * '' The Great K & A Train Robbery'' (1926) * ''Raggedy Rose'' (1926) * '' The Power of the Weak'' (1926) * ''Whispering Sage'' (1927) * '' Why Sailors Go Wrong'' (1928) * '' Making the Varsity'' (1928) * ''Traveling Husbands'' (1931) * '' Honor of the Family'' (1931) * '' Renegades of the West'' (1932) * ''No Ransom No Ransom is a 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Films Based On Plays
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American Silent Feature Films
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Silent American Comedy Films
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1925 Films
The following is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1925 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *June 26: Charlie Chaplin's ''The Gold Rush'' premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in The Film Daily annual poll *September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens. *November 5: MGM's war drama film ''The Big Parade'' is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States. *December 30: MGM's biblical epic '' Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $ million when adjusted for inflation) *Hong Shen publishes the film script ''Mrs. Shentu'' in the Shanghai magazine ''Eastern Miscellany''. It is never filmed, but is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lost Films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. Reasons for loss Films may go missing for a number of reasons. One major contributing factor is the common use of nitrate film until the early 1950s. This type of film is highly flammable, and there have been several devastating fires, such as the Universal Pictures fire in 1924, the 1937 Fox vault fire and the 1965 MGM vault fire. Black-and-white film prints judged to be otherwise worthless were sometimes incinerated to salvage the meager scrap value of the silver image particles in their emulsions. Films have disappeared when production companies went bankrupt. Occasionally, a studio would remake a film and destroy the earlier version. Silent films in particular were once seen as having no further commercial value and were simply junked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Film
A lost film is a feature Feature may refer to: Computing * Feature (CAD), could be a hole, pocket, or notch * Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob * Feature (software design) is an intentional distinguishing characteristic of a software item ... or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy of every American film to be deposited at the Library of Congress at the time of copyright registration, but the Librarian of Congress was not required to retain those copies: "Under the provisions of the act of March 4, 1909, authority is granted for the return to the claimant of copyright of such copyright deposits as are not required by the Library." A report created by Library of Congress film historian and archivist David Pierce claims: * List of lost films#Statistics on lost films, 75% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Payne
William Louis Payne (January 13, 1873 – August 14, 1953) was an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras, as well as legitimate theater. Biography Born in Pennsylvania, Payne's acting life began in the first decade of the 1900s, when he appeared in the Broadway play, ''Her Majesty, the Girl Queen of Nordenmark'', which ran at the Manhattan Theatre in 1900. In 1903 he played Nathaniel Winkle in ''Mr. Pickwick'' at the Herald Square Theatre and later the Grand Opera House. In 1906, he married famous stage actress Mrs. Leslie Carter, fifteen years her junior, and remained married to her until her death in 1937. He made his film debut in 1915's '' DuBarry'', a film created to highlight Carter, who was a protégé of the playwright David Belasco. Belasco wrote the stage play of the same name on which the film is based, and in which Carter starred on Broadway. Payne appeared in over 40 films during his 35-year career in Hollywood, as well as doing numerous pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Seastrom
Dorothy Seastrom (born Dorothy Susan Seastrunk Corby; March 17, 1903 – January 31, 1930) was an American silent film actress. Early life and career Born in Texas, Seastrom got into acting after winning a beauty competition. Her family later relocated to Chicago. Her film career began in 1923 with the role of Eleanor Harmon in ''The Call of the Canyon'', directed by Victor Fleming. Later she acted under the direction of Cecil B. Demille. She signed a five-year contract with First National Pictures in September 1925. Seastrom was called the "Candy Kid" at First National due to her taffy colored hair. She appeared in '' The Perfect Flapper'' with Colleen Moore and ''Classified'' with Corinne Griffith. Seastrom barely avoided a potentially disfiguring accident during the filming of ''We Moderns'' (1925). A shower of sparks from a short-circuited light fell upon her hair and shoulders at the United Studios. Seastrom escaped injury when assistant director James Dunne grabbed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom McGuire (actor)
Tom McGuire (1 September 1873 – 6 May 1954) was an English stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1919 and 1949. He was born in Lancashire, England and died in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography * '' The Woman Under Oath'' (1919) * '' The Road of Ambition'' (1920) * '' The Romance Promoters'' (1920) * ''The Girl in the Taxi'' (1921) * ''Cinderella of the Hills'' (1921) * ''See My Lawyer'' (1921) * ''A Front Page Story'' (1922) * ''The Ladder Jinx'' (1922) * '' Single Handed'' (1923) * ''The Self-Made Wife'' (1923) * ''Why Women Remarry'' (1923) * '' The Victor'' (1923) * '' Her Man'' (1924) * '' The Reckless Age'' (1924) * '' Dark Stairways'' (1924) * '' Red Hot Tires'' (1925) * ''Fighting Fate'' (1925) * ''Flaming Waters'' (1925) * '' The Little Giant'' (1926) * '' You'd Be Surprised'' (1926) * '' Pleasure Before Business'' (1927) * '' The Missing Link'' (1927) * ''Steamboat Bill, Jr.'' (1928) * ''Voice of the City'' (1929) * '' City Gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Payson
Blanche Payson (born Mary Elizabeth Bush, September 20, 1881 – July 4, 1964) was an American film actress. Biography Payson was born as Mary Elizabeth Bush to Thomas and Sarah Bush. She first attracted public notice when she served as policewoman in the Toyland exhibit at the Panama Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. She also performed in vaudeville. She was married to Eugene Payson in San Francisco prior to 1910, who died before 1915. Payson then moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and began her film career with the Mack Sennett studio, with her first film being ''Wife and Auto Trouble''. She appeared in short films in mostly uncredited roles. She appeared in nearly 160 films between 1916 and 1946. At , she towered over both men and women co-stars in the many slapstick comedies she appeared, as a foil for such comedians as The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy and similar popular acts of the time. She often played brutal and dominant women, such as Oliver Hardy's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
