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John Davidson (actor, Born 1886)
John Davidson (December 25, 1886 – January 16, 1968) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films from 1915 to 1963. He was born in New York City, and he died in Los Angeles, California.''Silent Film Necrology'', p.121 2nd Edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana .. Selected filmography * ''The Wonderful Adventure'' (1915) - M. Cheivasse * '' The Green Cloak'' (1915) - Paul Duncan * '' The Sentimental Lady'' (1915) - Norman Van Aulsten * '' The Danger Signal'' (1915) - Rodman Cadbury * '' Man and His Soul'' (1916) - Stephen Might Jr. * ''The Red Mouse'' (1916) * '' The Pawn of Fate'' (1916) - André Lesar * ''The Wall Between'' (1916) - Capt. Burkett * '' A Million A Minute'' (1916) - Duke de Reves * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1916) - Paris * '' The Brand of Cowardice'' (1916) - Navarete *''The Power of Decision'' (1917) - Wood Harding * '' The Beautiful Lie'' (1917) - Howard Hayes * '' Souls Adrift'' (1917) - Maberly Todd * '' The Wild Girl'' (1917) - Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance (1920 Film)
''Romance'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and released through United Artists. The film is based on the 1913 play ''Romance'' by Edward Sheldon and stars Doris Keane, the actress who created the role in the play. This was Miss Keane's only motion picture. D. W. Griffith allowed the use of his Mamaroneck Studios for the production. The nephew of Griffith's favorite cameraman, Billy Bitzer, was the cinematographer. The story was later remade as ''Romance'' in 1930, an early talking vehicle for Greta Garbo. No copies of ''Romance'' are known to survive making it a lost film A lost film is a feature film, feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a number of reasons. .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rescue (1929 Film)
''The Rescue'' is a 1929 American sound pre-Code romantic adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The screenplay was written by Elizabeth Meehan, based on the 1920 novel by Joseph Conrad. The music score is by Hugo Riesenfeld. The film stars Ronald Colman and Lili Damita.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Rescue'' at silentera.com Cast * as Tom Lingard * Lil ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramshackle House
''Ramshackle House'' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Betty Compson. It is based on the novel ''Ramshackle House'' by Hulbert Footner. It was released by Producers Distributing Corporation (PDC). Cast *Betty Compson as Pen Broome *Robert Lowing as Don Counsell * John Davidson as Ernest Riever *Henry James as Pendleton Broome *William Black as Keesing *Duke Pelzer as Spike Talley *Josephine Norman as Blanche Paglar *Joey Joey as Alligator Wrestler Preservation With no copies of ''Ramshackle House'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature film, feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a number of reasons. .... References External links *Lobby posterWayback) *Footner, Hulbert (1922), Ramshackle House', New York: A. L. Burt Company, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Beaucaire (1924 Film)
''Monsieur Beaucaire'' is a 1924 American silent romantic historical drama film starring Rudolph Valentino in the title role, Bebe Daniels, and Lois Wilson. Produced and directed by Sidney Olcott, the film is based on Booth Tarkington's 1900 novel of the same name and the 1904 play of the same name by Tarkington and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland. Plot The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Children's Children
''His Children's Children'' is a lost 1923 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring the winsome Bebe Daniels. It is based on a novel, ''His Children's Children'' by Arthur Train. Famous Players–Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures distributed the film. Wayback) Cast * as Diane * James Rennie as Lloyd Maitland *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under Two Flags (1922 Film)
''Under Two Flags'' is a 1922 American drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Priscilla Dean. The picture was one of several films based upon the 1867 novel '' Under Two Flags'' by Ouida and subsequent stage play version by Arthur Shirley. Plot Cast * Priscilla Dean as Cigarette * James Kirkwood as Cpl. Victor * John Davidson as Sheik Ben Ali Hammed * Stuart Holmes as Marquis de Chateauroy (Holmes also appeared in an earlier version of '' Under Two Flags'' with Theda Bara) * Ethel Grey Terry as Princess Corona * Bobby Mack as Rake (as Robert Mack) * Burton Law as Sheik's aide * Albert Pollet as Capt. Tollaire * W.H. Bainbridge as The Colonel * Wilberta Almyra Babbidge as Dancer (uncredited) * Rose Dione as Barmaid (uncredited) Production The film was delayed for a few days when, on the last day of shooting in 1922, a fire at Universal City destroyed 110,000 feet of the positive Positive is a property of positivity and may refer to: Mathematics and science * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman Who Walked Alone
''The Woman Who Walked Alone'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and written by John Colton and Will M. Ritchey. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Milton Sills, E. J. Ratcliffe, Wanda Hawley, Frederick Vroom, Mayme Kelso, and John Davidson. The film was released on June 11, 1922, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine, Lady Iris Champneys is forced into an unwelcome marriage to the old and cranky but wealthy Earl of Lemister (Ratcliffe) by her penniless parents and almost immediately he divorces her when he discovers her in the room of one of his guests, where she had gone to recover some letters of her sister Muriel (Hawley). Iris has casually met Clement Gaunt (Sills), a former American ace who is now employed as a chauffeur by a neighbor. Clement loses his job and goes to South Africa where he is employed by Schriemann, a Boer farmer. He becomes involved in an unsought and compromising situation with the farmer's wife Hanna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night (1922 Film)
''Saturday Night'' is a 1922 American silent film, silent romantic comedy film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel, and Edith Roberts (actress), Edith Roberts. It was Leatrice Joy's first film with DeMille. Plot Shamrock O'Day, a poor laundress dreams of a marrying a rich man. Her neighbour Tom McGuire, the chauffeur of socialite Iris van Suydam, is secretly in love with his mistress. On the other side of the city, Iris is not happy with her pampered life and she dreams of living in a vine-covered cottage. Her rich young fiancé Richard Prentiss is just as tired of women of her class as she is bored with men of his. When Shamrock comes to deliver laundry at Richard's house, she meets him by chance and he falls in love with her. He proposes to drive her home and tells Iris to wait for him. She decides to go for a picnic with her chauffeur Tom and, after letting her car being crushed by a train, falls into Tom's arms. In the evening, Richard provo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Idle Rich (1921 Film)
''The Idle Rich'' is a 1921 American Silent film, silent comedy film directed by Maxwell Karger. The film stars Bert Lytell, Virginia Valli, and John Davidson (actor, born 1886), John Davidson. It was released on December 26, 1921, by Metro Pictures. It is not known whether this film survives. Plot As described in a film magazine, Samuel Weatherbee (Lytell), a wealthy young man, is told by his sweetheart Mattie Walling (Valli) that his money is a liability instead of an asset. She favors Dillingham Coolidge, a poorer but industrious young man. However, when Sam's fortune is swept away by the suicide of his executor, he is cut off by his society friends and leaves San Francisco for a small property in San Diego that was left to him by an aunt. He finds the place filled with old and useless things, but conceives the idea of transferring them into cash by advertising a barter and exchange emporium. Soon he needs larger quarters and leases a valuable property in town from a former f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fool's Paradise (1921 Film)
''Fool's Paradise'' is a 1921 American Silent film, silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film stars Dorothy Dalton and Conrad Nagel. The film was based on the short story "Laurels and the Lady" by Leonard Merrick published in his 1908 collection ''The Man Who Understood Women''. It was adapted for the screen by Sada Cowan and Beulah Marie Dix. Plot As described in a film magazine, Arthur Phelps (Nagel) was injured during World War I and while in a French hospital had become dazzled by the beauty of French dancer Rosa Duchene (Harris). Back in the United States in an oil town along the Mexican border, Arthur meets American dancer Poll Patchouli (Dalton) in a Mexican cantina, and she falls in love with him. Rosa and her troupe are billed for a show in the local theater and while Arthur is waiting at the stage door to see his charmer, he lights a cigar that had been given to him by Poll. The cigar is of the Exploding cigar, trick kind, and the explosion that follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Woman Knows
''No Woman Knows'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Tod Browning. It was adopted from the Edna Ferber story ''Fanny Herself'' (1917). A complete print of the film survives at the Filmoteca Española in Madrid. Plot As described in a film magazine, the Brandeis operate a little dry goods store in Winnebago, Wisconsin. Ferdinand (Davidson) and Molly (Marvin) are the parents and Fanny (Radom / Scott) and Theodore (Lee / Davidson) are the daughter and son, with Aloysius (Hoy) an adopted Irish youth. Theodore shows talent for the violin and under Herr Bauer (Edwards) he practices several hours each day. Schabelitz, a famous violinist, during a concert tour hears Theodore play and suggests to the Brandeis that he be sent to Europe to study. Times are poor, but Molly with the assistance of Rabbi Thalman (Warren) persuades "Papa" Brandeis that it should be done, and the Boy is sent. Molly works the store, does the housework, and looks after the children, happy in the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
