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Wild Heather
''Wild Heather'' is a 1921 British drama film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Chrissie White, Gerald Ames, James Carew and George Dewhurst. It was based on the 1917 play ''Wild Heather'' by Dorothy Brandon. Cast *Chrissie White as "Wild Heather" Boyd *G. H. Mulcaster as John O'Rourke *Gwynne Herbert as Mrs. Boyd *James Carew as Senator O'Rourke *Gerald Ames as Bevan Hutchinson * George Dewhurst as George O'Rourke *Hugh Clifton as Edward O'Rourke *James Annand as Professor Boyd *Eileen Dennes Eileen Dennes (1 February 1898 – 22 January 1991) was an Irish-born actress of the silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and em ... as Dolly *Marion Dyer as Trixie References 1921 films British silent feature films Films directed by Cecil Hepworth British black-and-white films Hepworth Pictures films {{1920s-UK-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Hepworth
Cecil Milton Hepworth (19 March 1874 – 9 February 1953) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Hepworth Studios. In 1923 his company Hepworth Picture Plays went into receivership. His works include '' Alice in Wonderland'' (1903), the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's book ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. History Hepworth was born in Lambeth, in present-day South London. His father, Thomas Cradock Hepworth, was a famous magic lantern showman and author. Cecil Hepworth became involved in the early stages of British filmmaking, working for both Birt Acres and Charles Urban, and wrote the first British book on the subject in 1897. With his cousin Monty Wicks he set up the production company Hepworth and Co. (also known as "Hepwix" after the word mark in its trade logo), which was later renamed the Hepworth Manufacturing Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dewhurst (director)
George Dewhurst (1889 in Preston, Lancashire, England - 8 November 1968 in Tooting, London, England) was a British actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed several film versions of the play '' A Sister to Assist 'Er''. Partial filmography Screenwriter * ''The Lunatic at Large'' (1921) * ''The Narrow Valley'' (1921) * ''Dollars in Surrey'' (1921) * ''No Lady'' (1931) * ''The Price of Wisdom'' (1935) * '' Adventure Ltd.'' (1935) * '' King of the Castle'' (1936) Director * '' The Live Wire'' (1917) * ''A Great Coup'' (1919) *''The Homemaker'' (1919) * '' The Uninvited Guest'' (1923) * ''The Little Door Into the World'' (1923) * '' What the Butler Saw'' (1924) * ''Sweeney Todd'' (1926) * ''Irish Destiny'' (1926) * ''The Rising Generation'' (1928) Actor * '' The Woman Wins'' (1918) * '' The Toilers'' (1919) * ''The Tinted Venus'' (1921) * ''Never Trouble Trouble'' (1931) * '' Men Without Honour'' (1939) * ''Deadlock In concurrent computing, deadlock is any situatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Heather (play)
Wild Heather is a 1917 play by the British writer Dorothy Brandon. A woman looking to marry has to choose between two very different men. After debuting at the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester in August 1917, it transferred for a West End run at the Strand Theatre lasting 79 performances between October 1917 and January 1918. The cast included Lyn Harding and Helen Haye. Noël Coward had one of his earliest roles in the production. Film adaptation In 1921, it was turned into a silent film ''Wild Heather'' directed by Cecil Hepworth Cecil Milton Hepworth (19 March 1874 – 9 February 1953) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Hepworth Studios. In ....Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999, p.1017 References 1917 plays Plays by Dorothy Brandon British plays adapted into films West End plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Brandon
Dorothy Brandon was a British playwright active in the interwar years. Her greatest West End success was the 1923 medical drama '' The Outsider'' which was revived several times, and adapted into films on three occasions. An earlier hit was 1917's ''Wild Heather'' which ran at the Strand Theatre for 79 performances. It was also made into a film. A 1926 play ''Blind Alley'' was less successful, running for thirteen performances.Gale p.206 Selected plays * ''Wild Heather'' (1917) * '' Araminta Arrives'' (1921) * '' The Outsider'' (1923) * ''Blind Alley "Blind Alley" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1945 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction'', and later included in the collection ''The Early Asimov'' (1972). Although the sto ...'' (1926) References Bibliography * Gale, Maggie. ''West End Women: Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962''. Routledge, 2008. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrissie White
Chrissie White (23 May 1895 – 18 August 1989) was a British film actress of the silent film, silent era. She appeared in more than 180 films between 1908 and 1933. White married actor and film director Henry Edwards (actor), Henry Edwards in 1922, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most newsworthy celebrity couples. Edwards directed more than 20 of his wife's films. The couple had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Henryetta Edwards. White starred in the 1920 film ''The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss'', which as of August 2010 is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "BFI 75 Most Wanted, 75 Most Wanted" lost films. Selected filmography * ''The Vicar of Wakefield (1913 film), The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * ''The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915 film), The Man Who Stayed at Home'' (1915) * ''The Nightbirds of London'' (1915) * ''Sweet Lavender (film), Sweet Lavender'' (1915) * ''Her Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Ames
Gerald Ames (12 September 1880 – 2 July 1933) was a British actor, film director and Olympic fencer. Ames was born in Blackheath, London in 1880 and first took up acting in 1905. He was a popular leading man in the post-First World War cinema, appearing in more than sixty films between his debut in 1914 and his retirement from the screen in 1928 in a career entirely encompassing the silent era. He was also a regular stage actor who took on many leading roles in the theatre. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He died in 1933 after falling down the steps of Knightsbridge tube station and suffering a heart attack. He was married to the actress Mary Dibley. Partial filmography * ''She Stoops to Conquer'' (1914) * '' The Black Spot'' (1914) * ''The Difficult Way'' (1914) * '' The Christian'' (1915) * ''Love in a Wood'' (1915) * '' The Shulamite'' (1915) * ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1915) * ''Rupert of Hentzau'' (1915) * ''Arsène Lupin'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Carew
James Usselman (February 5, 1876 – April 4, 1938), known professionally as James Carew, was an American actor who appeared in many films, mainly in Britain. He was born in Goshen, Indiana in 1876 and began work as a clerk in a publishing firm. He began acting on stage in Chicago in 1897 in ''Damon and Pythias''. In 1905, Carew moved to England, where he continued his stage career starting with the Lyric Theatre, London, later working in two plays with Shakespearean actress Ellen Terry, one of the best-known and noted British actresses of the day. In 1907, he married Terry, who was thirty years his senior. The couple separated in 1910 but there is no record of divorce. In fact he is listed as living with Ellen at Smallhythe in the 1911 Census Carew made his screen debut by 1917, when he appeared in the film ''Profit and the Loss''. He continued to take leading roles in films until his death in 1938. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hepworth Picture Plays
Hepworth Picture Plays was a British film production company active during the silent era. Founded in 1897 by the cinema pioneer Cecil Hepworth, it was based at Walton Studios west of London. In February 1909 the company took part in the Paris Film Congress, a failed attempt by leading European producers to form an organisation similar to the MPPC cartel recently established in the United States. Around the time of the First World War, the company gradually switched from traditional short films to the feature films that increasingly dominated the world market. It also developed many early stars of British cinema, including Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome, Violet Hopson, Chrissie White, Henry Edwards and Gerald Ames. The company attempted to expand after the war, as part of a wider boom in the British industry. Many of the company's most popular works were directed by Edwards, who starred in many of them. In 1923 the company went bankrupt and Hepworth retired from filmmaking. The stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwynne Herbert
Gwynne Herbert (11 September 1859 – 17 February 1946) was a British stage and film actress. Partial filmography * ''Liberty Hall'' (1914) * '' The Christian'' (1915) * ''The Firm of Girdlestone'' (1915) * '' The Folly of Desire'' (1915) * '' The Shulamite'' (1915) * ''Annie Laurie'' (1916) * '' His Daughter's Dilemma'' (1916) * ''Everybody's Business'' (1917) * ''The Manxman'' (1917) * ''A Fortune at Stake'' (1918) * ''Boundary House'' (1918) * '' The Nature of the Beast'' (1919) * '' The Toilers'' (1919) * ''The Kinsman'' (1919) *''The Homemaker'' (1919) * ''Possession'' (1919) * ''The Forest on the Hill'' (1919) * '' Alf's Button'' (1920) * '' Mrs. Erricker's Reputation'' (1920) * ''Once Aboard the Lugger'' (1920) * ''John Forrest Finds Himself'' (1920) * ''The Lunatic at Large'' (1921) * ''The Narrow Valley'' (1921) * ''Tit for Tat'' (1921) * ''Mr. Justice Raffles'' (1921) * ''The Tinted Venus'' (1921) * ''Dollars in Surrey'' (1921) (1921) * ''Mist in the Valley'' (1923) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Clifton
Hugh Clifton was an English actor of the silent era born in London. Selected filmography * ''John Forrest Finds Himself'' (1920) * ''Mr. Justice Raffles'' (1921) * ''Tansy'' (1921) * ''The Narrow Valley'' (1921) * ''Dollars in Surrey'' (1921) * ''The Lunatic at Large'' (1921) * ''The Tinted Venus ''The Tinted Venus'' is a 1921 British silent fantasy film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, George Dewhurst and Maud Cressall.Palmer p.92 ''The Tinted Venus'' was based on the 1885 novella by F. Anstey (pseudonym of Thom ...'' (1921) * '' Simple Simon'' (1922) References External links * Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown English male silent film actors 20th-century English male actors English male film actors Male actors from London 20th-century British male actors {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Dennes
Eileen Dennes (1 February 1898 – 22 January 1991) was an Irish-born actress of the silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh .... Early life Eileen Dennes, born Eileen Amhurst Cowen was an Irish silent film actress who was born in 1898 in Dublin, Ireland. She began on the stage in the early 1910s. She travelled to America in 1917. She found work at the Empire Al Star Film Co. and was offered the role of Ethel Fielding in her first film ‘The Unforeseen’. She made more than one film in Hollywood that year with Olive Tell. She then decided to find work in England, it was there that Cecile Hepworth offered her a contract and she made her first English film as Rhoda Meredith in ’Sheba’ starring Alma Taylor in 1919. After this Dennes was given the chance at st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
