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Brandon Hurst
Brandon Hurst (30 November 1866 – 15 July 1947) was an English stage and film actor. Early life Born in London, England, Hurst studied philology in his youth and began performing in theater in the 1880s. Before he began acting professionally, Hurst served seven years in the English army, including five years with the King's Dragoon Guards in India. Career He worked in Broadway shows from 1900 until his entry into motion pictures. His most notable stage appearance was ''Two Women'' in 1910, costarring Mrs. Leslie Carter and Robert Warwick.''Pictorial History of the American Theatre: 1860-1970'' p.118 c.1969 by Daniel Blum He was nearly fifty before his film debut in ''Via Wireless'' (1915) as Edward Pinckney. He appeared in 129 other films. He became well known in the 1920s for portraying the antagonist and anti-heroes. Those roles include Sir George Carewe in '' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1920), Jehan Frollo in '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1923), Alexei Karenin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dark Lantern
''A Dark Lantern'' is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced and released by Realart Pictures. It is based on a 1905 novel of the same name by Elizabeth Robins. John S. Robertson directed and Alice Brady and her then husband James Crane star. According to the AFI Catalog, the film was shot at the Essanay studios in Chicago as that was where Alice Brady was appearing in a play at the time. Plot As described in a film magazine, mistaking the intentions of Prince Anton (Denny) of Argovinia in seeking her hand, young English woman Katherine Dereham (Brady) suffers a great shock when his attentions culminate in a proposal that she be his morganatic wife, his country requiring an alliance with a royal princess. This, together with the blow of her father's death, shatters Katherine's nerves and causes a breakdown. She recovers under the rigid administrations of Dr. Garth Vincent (Crane). Her attitude of antagonistic exaggeration of his sternness that conceives it as sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grand Duchess And The Waiter
''The Grand Duchess and the Waiter'' is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Mal St. Clair Malcolm St. Clair (May 17, 1897 – June 1, 1952) was a Hollywood film director, writer, producer and actor. Biography A disciple of Mack Sennett, St. Clair was an actor in many films primarily comedies. At 6'7" he can be seen in such Sennet ... and starring Florence Vidor and Adolphe Menjou. The film is based on a 1925 Broadway play of the same name starring stage actress Elsie Ferguson, who had recently returned to Broadway after years in the film colony. A print of this film is preserved at the Library of Congress. Plot As described in a film magazine review, a Paris millionaire becomes infatuated with a grand duchess. Ignored in his efforts to meet her, he becomes a floor-waiter in the suite which the royal guests occupy. He fails miserably in this job and the grand duchess, to punish him, makes him a member of her cortege, and assigns him to very menial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Made For Love (film)
''Made for Love'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Paul Sloane, produced by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Leatrice Joy. Cast Production In the first reel, the introduction of Joan (Leatrice Joy) is accompanied by a closeup with her new hair style. Joy had impulsively cut her hair short in 1926, and DeMille, whom Joy had followed when he set up Producers Distributing Corporation, was publicly angry as it prevented her from portraying traditional feminine roles. The studio developed projects with roles suitable for her “Leatrice Joy bob”, and ''Made for Love'' was the first of five films before she regrew her hair. Despite this, a professional dispute would end the Joy / Demille partnership in 1928. Preservation A copy of ''Made for Love'' is preserved film at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. References External links * *Stillsat moviessilently.comat silentfilmstillarchive.comat silenthollywood.com * 1926 films American silent feature fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Enchanted Hill
''The Enchanted Hill'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and written by James Shelley Hamilton and Peter B. Kyne. The film stars Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, Noah Beery, Sr., Mary Brian, Richard Arlen, George Bancroft, and Ray Thompson. The film was released on January 18, 1926, by Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes .... Plot As described in a film magazine review, a young ranch owner on whose land is a fortune of which he is unaware, falls in love with his fair neighbor when she arrives to take charge of the property left her by an uncle. She secretly returns the man’s love, but is in doubt of him because he seems reckless and has many enemies. For a near killing the rancher’s cook is set on by a mob but is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightnin' (1925 Film)
''Lightnin is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by John Ford. It was based on a successful play of the same name. The original run of the play started in 1918 at the Gaiety Theatre (New York) and continued for 1,291 performances, breaking the record for longest running play at that time. The film was remade in 1930 by Henry King for Fox as an early talkie starring Will Rogers William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma ... with support from Louise Dresser and Joel McCrea. Plot As described in a film magazine reviews, war veteran Lightnin’ Bill Jones is a likeable old man who has a friend in every acquaintance, and loves his dog and his liquor. His wife and he operate a hotel. When some swindlers from the city seek to get possession of the property, Lightnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady (1925 Film)
''The Lady'' is a 1925 American silent drama film starring Norma Talmadge and directed by Frank Borzage.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Lady'' at silentera.com. Retrieved January 17, 2011. Talmadge's own production company produced the film with distribution by . Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Polly Pearl (Talmadge) English hall singer, marries Leonard St. Aubyns (MacDonald), scion of nobility. Leonard loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos. She comes to lose his love when his father (Hurst) casts him out. She ekes out a living in a dingy French ca ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lover Of Camille
''The Lover of Camille'' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont, and starring Monte Blue. The film was based on the French play '' Deburau'' by Sacha Guitry Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and follow ..., which was also adapted into a Broadway play by Harley Granville-Barker. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Jean Gaspard Deburau (Blue), the clown of a pantomime theatre in Paris, is the idol of the populace. In a box is an attractive woman who waits for him after the show. Immediately he falls in love with her. After a time he return to find his own wife has left him for his friend Robillard (Lewis). To the woman, Marie (Prevost), Deburau’s love has been but a passing thing, and returning to her he finds her in the arms of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Who Gets Slapped (film)
''He Who Gets Slapped'' is a 1924 American silent psychological thriller film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert, and directed by Victor Sjöström (credited as Victor Seastrom). The film was written by Victor Seastrom and Carey Wilson, based on the Russian play '' He Who Gets Slapped'' (''Тот, кто получает пощёчины''; ''Tot, kto polučájet poščóčiny'') by playwright Leonid Andreyev, which was completed by Andreyev in August 1915, two months before its world premiere at the Moscow Art Theatre on October 27, 1915. A critically successful Broadway production, using an English language translation of the original Russian by Gregory Zilboorg, was staged in 1922, premiering at the Garrick Theatre on January 9, 1922, with Richard Bennett (actor) playing the "HE" role on stage.Blake, Michael F. (1998). "The Films of Lon Chaney". Vestal Press Inc. Page 142. . The Russian original was made into a Russian movie in 1916. ''He Who Gets Slappe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Watcher
''The Silent Watcher'' is a lost 1924 American silent melodrama film directed by Frank Lloyd. It stars Glenn Hunter and Bessie Love. It was produced by Frank Lloyd Productions/ First National and distributed by First National Pictures First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theatre owners in the United States, and became the count .... It was based on the story "The Altar on the Hill" by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Plot A lawyer (Bosworth) running for Congress decides to end his relationship with a showgirl (Bennett), so that he will be more presentable candidate. When the showgirl commits suicide, the police arrest the lawyer for murder. The lawyer's young secretary (Hunter) decides to take the blame for his employer by saying that he was the one in a relationship with the showgirl. However, this upsets his new bride (Love), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Night In Rome
''One Night in Rome'' is a 1924 American silent drama film starring Laurette Taylor. The film was directed by Clarence G. Badger and written by J. Hartley Manners, Ms. Taylor's husband, based upon his play of the same name. Laurette Taylor was a great name of the American theatre, who made only three films in a triumph-studded career, all of them derived from plays by her husband. This was the last of those three films (the previous two had been done by Metro Pictures). Ms. Taylor seems to have enjoyed making ''One Night in Rome'' as she kept a personal print of the movie to always show guests at her home, re-running it over and over again. Plot Madame L'Enigme (Laurette Taylor) is a fortune-teller whose client Mario (Warner Oland) recognises her as a woman who disappeared in a cloud of scandal after her husband's suicide. Cast Preservation A print of ''One Night in Rome'' survives in the Gosfilmofond Gosfilmofond is a state film archive in Russia. It is the main film archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytherea (film)
''Cytherea'' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Alma Rubens, Lewis Stone, Constance Bennett, and Norman Kerry. Based on the novel ''Cytherea, Goddess of Love'', by Joseph Hergesheimer and was adapted for the screen by Frances Marion. ''Cytherea'' features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.Progressive Silent Film List: ''Cytherea'' at silentera.com The film is also known as ''The Forbidden Way''. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Lee Randon, forty years old and bored, sees his nephew Morris becoming infatuated with Mina Raff and reproaches him. Later, when Morris leaves his wife to go with Mina, contented housewife Fanny Randon, w ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
