''Ex-Flame'' is a 1930 American
pre-Code
Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known ...
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 ...
directed by
Victor Halperin
Victor Hugo Halperin (August 24, 1895 in Chicago, Illinois – May 17, 1983 in Bentonville, Arkansas) was an American stage actor, stage director, film director, producer, and writer. The majority of his works involved romance and horror. His ...
and starring
Neil Hamilton,
Marian Nixon
Marian Nixon (born Marja Nissinen; October 20, 1904 – February 13, 1983) was an American film actress. Sometimes credited as Marion Nixon, she appeared in more than 70 films.
Career
Born in Superior, Wisconsin, to parents of Finnish descent, ...
, and
Norman Kerry
Norman Kerry (born Norman Hussey Kaiser,"United States World War II Draft Registration Cards,registration for Norman Hussey Kaiser, Los Angeles, California, April 27, 1942 This document lists his full name as Norman Hussey Kaiser, noting the na ...
. The film is an adaptation of the 1861
Victorian novel
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''
East Lynne
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'', but is set in contemporary England. This was the first production of the
Poverty Row
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company
Liberty Pictures.
[Pitts p.216] The following year, a more celebrated film version of the novel was released by
Fox Film. Some sources state this is a
lost film
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.
Cast
*
Neil Hamilton as Sir Carlisle Austin
*
Marian Nixon
Marian Nixon (born Marja Nissinen; October 20, 1904 – February 13, 1983) was an American film actress. Sometimes credited as Marion Nixon, she appeared in more than 70 films.
Career
Born in Superior, Wisconsin, to parents of Finnish descent, ...
as Lady Catherine
*
Judith Barrie
Judith Barrie (born Catherine Brown; March 1907January 9, 1991) was an American actress and model who appeared in four films from 1930 to 1932, retiring after her brief marriage to producer Edward Halperin.
Biography
Born Catherine Brown and rai ...
as Barbara Lacey
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Norman Kerry
Norman Kerry (born Norman Hussey Kaiser,"United States World War II Draft Registration Cards,registration for Norman Hussey Kaiser, Los Angeles, California, April 27, 1942 This document lists his full name as Norman Hussey Kaiser, noting the na ...
as Beaumont Winthrop
*
'Snub' Pollard
Harold Fraser (9 November 1889 – 19 January 1962), known professionally as Snub Pollard, was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s.
Career
Born in Melbourne, Australia, on 9 No ...
as Boggins
*
Roland Drew
Roland Drew (born Walter Goss; August 4, 1900 – March 17, 1988) was an American actor.
Biography
Born in 1900 in New York City, Drew made his first film in 1926 and continued to work until the 1940s. Noted primarily as Dolores del Río' ...
as Umberto
*
José Bohr
José Bohr (3 September 1901 – 29 May 1994) was a German-born Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He directed 35 films between 1919 and 1969.
Selected filmography Actor
* '' Así es la vida'' (1930)
* ''Rogue of th ...
as Argentinean
*
Joan Standing
Joan Standing (21 June 1903 – 3 February 1979) was an English actress best known for playing Nurse Briggs in the 1931 horror film ''Dracula''. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1919 and 1940.
Partial filmography
* ''The Loves of ...
as Kilmer
*
Cornelius Keefe
Cornelius Keefe (July 13, 1900 – December 11, 1972) was an American film actor.Pitts p.297
Selected filmography
* '' A Society Scandal'' (1924)
* ''Those Who Judge'' (1924)
* '' Lend Me Your Husband'' (1924)
*'' The Law and the Lady'' (1924)
* ...
as Keith
*
May Beatty
May Beatty (4 June 1880–1 April 1945) was a New Zealand singer and stage and screen actress. She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 4 June 1880.
Biography
Beatty began her performing career at age seven, touring with Pollard's Lill ...
as Lady Harriett
*
Lorimer Johnston
Lorimer Johnston (November 2, 1858 in Maysville, Kentucky – February 20, 1941 in Hollywood, California) was an American silent film actor and director.
He was involved in the production of over 60 films in acting and directing and he also wr ...
as Colonel Lacey
*
Joseph North as Wilkins
*
Charles Crockett as Parson
*
Billy Haggerty as Master Stuart Austin
*
Louis Armstrong as Louis Armstrong
References
Bibliography
* Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & Company, 2005.
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1930 drama films
1930s English-language films
American drama films
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Films set in England
Films based on British novels
American black-and-white films
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