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Womanpower
''Womanpower'' is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and written by Kenneth B. Clarke. The film stars Ralph Graves, Katherine Perry, Margaret Livingston, Ralph Sipperly, Will Walling and David Butler. The film was released on September 19, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation. The short story was remade as ''Right to the Heart'' (1942). Cast *Ralph Graves as Johnny White Bromley *Katherine Perry as Jenny Killian *Margaret Livingston as Dot *Ralph Sipperly as Gimp Conway *Will Walling as Jake Killian * David Butler as Mallory *Lou Tellegen as The Broker *Anders Randolf Anders Randolf (December 18, 1870 – July 2, 1930) was a Danish American actor in American films from 1913 to 1930. Biography Anders was born in Viborg, Denmark, where he became a professional soldier in the Danish army and a world-class swo ... as Bromley Sr. *Robert Ryan as Sands *Frankie Grandetta as Sheik References External links * 1926 films 1920s English-language film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Perry
Katherine Perry (January 5, 1897 – October 14, 1983), also known as Kathryn Perry, was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in 37 films between 1920 and 1936. Biography Katherine Perry was born on January 5, 1897. Although she spent a brief time in a private school, the bulk of Perry's education came in public schools. Before she became an actress, Perry worked as a model. She was in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1911, 1917, 1918, 1919, and the more risqué Midnight Frolic show in 1918. Apart from the Follies, she also acted on Broadway in ''(From) Broadway to Paris'', which ran from November 1912 to January 1913, ''The Passing Show of 1913'', ''Robinson Crusoe, Jr.'' (1916), ''The Century Girl'' (1916-1917), and ''Miss 1917''. Her final appearance on Broadway came in 1933, with Perry acting in ''Blackbirds of 1933'' which ran throughout the month of December. She made her film debut in ''Sooner or Later'' (1920). She next appeared in minor roles in ''The Chicken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Beaumont
Harry Beaumont (10 February 1888 – 22 December 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including 20th Century Fox, Fox, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn, Metro Pictures Corporation, Metro, Warner Brothers, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Career Beaumont's greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he directed films including John Barrymore's ''Beau Brummel (1924 film), Beau Brummel'' (1924) and the silent youth movie ''Our Dancing Daughters'' (1928), featuring Joan Crawford. He then directed MGM's first talkie musical, ''The Broadway Melody'' (1929). The latter film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture Academy Award that year, and Beaumont was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director. Personal life and death Beaumont was married to actress Hazel Daly. The couple had twin daughters Anne and Geraldine, born in 1922. On 22 December 1966, Beaumont died at Saint J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold MacGrath
Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 – October 30, 1932) was a bestselling and prolific American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He sometimes completed more than one novel per year for the mass market, covering romance, spies, mystery, and adventure. He was the first nationally known writer to be commissioned to write original screenplays for the new film industry. In addition, he had eighteen novels and three short stories adapted as films, in some cases more than once. Three of these novels were also adapted as plays that were produced on Broadway in New York City. MacGrath traveled extensively but was always based in Syracuse, New York, where he was born and raised. Biography Born Harold McGrath in Syracuse, New York, he was the son of Thomas H. and Lillian Jane McGrath.MAC GRATH, HAROLD in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Randolf
Anders Randolf (December 18, 1870 – July 2, 1930) was a Danish American actor in American films from 1913 to 1930. Biography Anders was born in Viborg, Denmark, where he became a professional soldier in the Danish army and a world-class swordsman. He emigrated to the United States in 1893 or 1895, quickly giving in to a lifelong passion for the theater. After briefly heading his own production company, Frontier Features, Inc., Randolf settled into a career as one of Hollywood's best screen villains. Often billed as Anders Randolph, he appeared in character roles opposite such stars as John Barrymore (''Sherlock Holmes'' 1922), Mary Pickford (''Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall'' 1924), Douglas Fairbanks (''The Black Pirate ''1926), and Greta Garbo ('' The Kiss'' 1929). He also appeared in several comedy short films for Hal Roach alongside Charley Chase and Laurel and Hardy. Randolf died on July 2, 1930, following a relapse after a kidney operation. He was later interred at Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Tellegen
Lou Tellegen (born Isidor Louis Bernard Edmon van Dommelen;"Lou Tellegen, Idol of Stage and Silent Screen, Stabs Himself Seven Times." Spartanburg (SC) Herald, October 30, 1934, pp. 1-2. November 26, 1881 or 1883 – October 29, 1934) was a Dutch-born stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter. Early life Tellegen was the illegitimate child of a separated, but not divorced, lieutenant of the West-Indian Army Isidore Louis Bernard Edmon Tellegen (1836–1902) and his partner Anna Maria van Dommelen (1844–1917), widow of Eduard Hendrik Jan Storm van 's Gravezande. He made his stage debut in Amsterdam in 1903, and over the next few years built a reputation to the point where he was invited to perform in Paris, eventually co-starring in several roles with Sarah Bernhardt, with whom he was involved romantically. In 1910, he made his motion picture debut alongside Bernhardt in ''The Lady of the Camellias, La dame aux camélias'', a silent film made in France based on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Right To The Heart
''Right to the Heart'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Eugene Forde and written by Walter Bullock.The film stars Brenda Joyce, Joseph Allen, Cobina Wright and Stanley Clements. It is based on a short story by Harold MacGrath, which had been filmed previously as ''Womanpower'' in 1926. The film was released on January 23, 1942, by 20th Century Fox. Plot John T. Bromley III is a young man from high society who is physically humiliated by a prizefighter before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian. He goes to a training camp to redeem his self-respect and ensure his success in a return engagement with the fighter. Cast * Brenda Joyce as Jenny Killian *Joseph Allen as John T. Bromley III *Cobina Wright as Barbara Paxton *Stanley Clements as Stash *Don DeFore as Tommy Sands *Hugh Beaumont as Willie Donovan *Charles D. Brown as Jim Killian *Ethel Griffies as Minerva Bromley * Frank Orth as Pete *Phil Tead as McAllister *William Haade as Morgan *Spencer Charters a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Walling
William Walling (June 2, 1872 – March 5, 1932) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 60 films between 1921 and 1932. He is known for his role as the railroad president in the 1926 film '' The Great K & A Train Robbery'', which starred Tom Mix. He died in California, aged 59. He was married to actress Effie (Bond) Walling and was the father of actor and photographer Richard Walling AKA William Walling Jr. Before he acted in films, Walling traveled the United States performing with stock theater companies. Partial filmography * '' The Killer'' (1921) * '' The Little Minister'' (1921) * '' North of the Rio Grande'' (1922) * ''The Village Blacksmith'' (1922) * ''While Satan Sleeps'' (1922) * '' His Back Against the Wall'' (1922) * ''The Ladder Jinx'' (1922) * ''Nobody's Money'' (1923) * '' North of Hudson Bay'' (1923) * '' Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model'' (1924) * '' The Iron Horse'' (1924) * ''In Love with Love'' (1924) * '' The Clash of the Wolves'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Livingston
Margaret Livingston (born Marguerite Livingston; November 25, 1895 – December 13, 1984), sometimes credited as Marguerite Livingstone or Margaret Livingstone, was an American film actress and businesswoman during the silent film era. She is remembered today as "the Woman from the City" in F.W. Murnau's 1927 film '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans''. Early life Livingston was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to John Livingston, a Scottish immigrant, and Eda Livingston (née Frome), who was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She was raised in Salt Lake City along with her older sister, Ivy, who also became a film actress. Career The young Livingston made her debut in films in 1916. She made over 50 films during the "silent era," most notably in F.W. Murnau's ''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'', and a further 20 films after she successfully made the transition to sound film in 1929, including '' Smart Money'' starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney. She occasionally dubbed voices for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Graves
Ralph Graves (born Ralph Horsburgh; January 23, 1900 – February 18, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director and actor who appeared in more than 90 films between 1918 and 1949. Biography Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Graves had already been cast in 46 films, half of them produced by Mack Sennett, before he wrote, directed, and starred in ''Swell Hogan'' in 1926. That film was produced by Howard Hughes, whose father had once supported the young actor in the early stages of his career by placing him on the payroll of the Hughes Tool Company between screen assignments, even though Graves never actually worked there. Graves and the younger Hughes met on the Wilshire Country Club golf course, and over lunch the actor pitched a film about a Bowery bum who adopts a baby. The plot intrigued Hughes, who had a strong interest in Hollywood, and he invested $40,000 in the project. During filming he sat on the sidelines in order to familiarize himself with the technical aspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Butler (director)
David Butler (December 17, 1894 – June 14, 1979) was an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director. Biography Butler was born in San Francisco, California. His mother was actress Adele Belgrade, and his father was actor and director Fred J. Butler. His first acting roles were playing extras in stage plays. He later appeared in two D.W. Griffith films: ''The Girl Who Stayed Home'' and ''The Greatest Thing in Life''. He also appeared in the 1927 Academy-Award winning film ''7th Heaven (1927 film), 7th Heaven''. The same year, Butler made his directorial debut with ''High School Hero'', a comedy for Fox Film Corporation#Fox Film Corporation, Fox. During Butler's nine-year tenure at Fox, he directed over 30 films, including four Shirley Temple vehicles. Butler's last film for Fox, ''Kentucky (film), Kentucky'', won Walter Brennan an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Butler worked with Bing Crosby in ''Road to Morocco'' and ''If I Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Film
The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film Company (founded 1913). The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, but in 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood, California to oversee the studio's new West Coast production facilities, where the climate was more hospitable for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. After the Wall Street crash of 1929, William Fox lost control of the company in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners began conversations of a fusion with Twentieth Century Pictures, under founders Joseph M. Schenck and his friend Darryl Zanuck. Schenck, Zanuck, and Spyros Skouras merged the Fox Studios with Twen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film and it is derived from the classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1930s, comedy films took another swing, as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. In '' The Screenwriters Taxonomy'' (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story. Therefore the labels "drama" and "comedy" are t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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