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Pat O'Malley (actor Born 1890)
Pat O'Malley (September 3, 1890 – May 21, 1966) was an American vaudeville and stage performer prior to starting a prolific film career at the age of sixteen. He later had a career in television. Career O'Malley was born as Patrick Henry O'Malley Jr. in Forest City, Pennsylvania. He had circus experience by the time he discovered an interest in motion pictures. His screen career dates from the days of Kalem and Edison Studios. From 1918 to 1927 he appeared in scores of silent films as both a leading man and a character actor i.e.: '' The Heart of Humanity'', '' My Wild Irish Rose'', '' The Virginian'' and in the adaptation of bestseller '' Brothers Under the Skin''. O'Malley saw his career decline with the advent of sound. He was quickly relegated to supporting parts, and appeared in some four-hundred films in bit parts and supporting roles. He guest starred in the early musical series ''Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town'' on CBS. O'Malley remained on call into the early 1960s f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest City, Pennsylvania
Forest City is a borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, situated at the corner of Susquehanna, Lackawanna and Wayne counties and is designated by a marker which is located in the Forest City Industrial Park. Forest City is four avenues by 10 blocks as the 'main city', with a small surrounding suburb housing 1,748 in the 2020 census, with 87% of the population living 'in town'. At its height in the early twentieth century, between the timber, silk, lumber and coal industries, the population was close to 6,000—a booming town with a busy Main Street. Pre-history The land that is Forest City and the surrounding area was originally part of the Delaware-Munsee Indian Tribe. By the time it became Forest City, it had been unoccupied, virgin land. History The land that would become Forest City had been known as "Forest Mills" since the 1850s. From 1879 to 1886, the post office was called "Pentecost". It was named after one of the first local settlers, Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go And Get It
''Go and Get It'' is a 1920 American silent comedy-drama mystery film directed by Marshall Neilan and Henry Roberts Symonds and written by Marion Fairfax. The film stars Pat O'Malley, Wesley Barry, Noah Beery Sr. and Agnes Ayres. The cinematographer was David Kesson. The film was released on July 18, 1920 by First National Exhibitors' Circuit. Actor Bull Montana (a former professional wrestler) played Ferry, the Ape Creature, in the film. He later went on to play the ape-man in the 1925 Willis H. O'Brien classic '' The Lost World'', which was also written by Marion Fairfax and starred Noah Beery's actor brother Wallace Beery. The film has a plot about brain transplants. A scientist transplanted the brain of a criminal into the body of a gorilla. The gorilla went on a killing spree against the criminal's enemies. A female newspaper owner decides to investigate the case. Plot Helen Allen (Agnes Ayres) inherits her deceased father's newspaper, but someone is trying to sabotage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Teaser
''The Teaser'' is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy drama film written by Lewis Milestone, Edward T. Lowe Jr., and Jack Wagner based upon the play of the same name by Adelaide Matthews and Martha M. Stanley. The film was directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, and stars Laura La Plante, Pat O'Malley, Hedda Hopper, and Walter McGrail. Plot Ann Barton (Laura La Plante), a girl from a once-wealthy family, must make a living by clerking in a cigar store. There she meets and falls in love with James McDonald ( Pat O'Malley), a cigar salesman. She is then adopted by Margaret Wyndham (Hedda Hopper), her rich and aristocratic aunt, who disapproves of James due to his crude manners. Wishing to break up the two, Aunt Margaret sends Ann away to finishing school. In response, Ann acts out publicly and embarrasses her aunt. In the meantime, James learns how to be a proper gentleman and wins her back through having learned good manners and a more dignified bearing. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Desert (1925 Film)
''The White Desert'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Reginald Barker. The film stars Claire Windsor and Pat O'Malley, with Robert Frazer, Frank Currier, and Sōjin Kamiyama. It is written by Monte M. Katterjohn and Gordon Rigby and adopted from Denver author Courtney Ryley Cooper's novel ''The White Desert'' (1922). This B movie was produced to keep the Loew circuit and other cinemas supplied. The title refers to the snow covered Colorado landscape during winter. Plot As described in a film magazine and newspaper reviews, Barry, the engineer for a construction company, criticizes the foreman for the method he is pursuing for tunneling for railroad construction. The snow ledges have been weakened by the constant dynamiting. With the next explosion of dynamite, an avalanche results which destroys the ledges and nearly wipes out the camp. The surviving workers are isolated, desperate and shattered by the disaster, and unable to obtain food. Foster and his wif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proud Flesh (film)
''Proud Flesh'' is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Eleanor Boardman, Pat O'Malley, and Harrison Ford in a romantic triangle. Plot A San Francisco earthquake orphan, Fernanda (Boardman) is adopted and raised as a gentlewoman by relatives in Spain. As a girl she is courted by Don Jaime (Ford), but spurns him and returns to her gauche relatives in California. There she falls in love with a young bathtub manufacturer, Pat (O’Malley). Cast Reception Mordaunt Hall, critic for ''The New York Times'', called the film "a bright entertainment in which there are a slight touch of heart interest and plenty of amusement." Theme Vidor made this film, the last of a cycle of four films, in the years just following World War I. The isolationist outlook of many Americans with regard to war-ravaged Europe prompted Vidor to locate the sources of “sexual experimentation and marital triangles” and other social infidelities of the Jazz Age in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fighting American
''The Fighting American'' (also known as ''The Fighting Adventurer'') is a surviving 1924 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and directed by Tom Forman. The young Mary Astor plays a young college student who is the object of desire in the eyes of the hero. Plot Bill Pendleton (Pat O'Malley), son of a wealthy shipowner, goes to fight in the war as a pilot. He has trouble concentrating on his studies and as a happy-go-lucky college student adept at both flying and football, he accepts a wager from his fraternity pals that he will propose to any female student they choose. Mary O'Malley (Mary Astor) is chosen by his pals and, unaware of the wager, accepts Bill's fraternity pin. She is an old-fashioned young woman who is secretly in love with him. Bill having proposed to her in earnest, is also in love. Mary, however, hears about the wager and thoroughly disgusted with Bill, leaves college and goes to China to join her missionary fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bread (1924 Film)
''Bread'' is a 1924 American drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Charles G. Norris, the film stars Mae Busch. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Bread'' 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 * Stillat silenthollywood.com 1924 films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films 1924 drama films American black-and-white films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films directed by Victor Schertzinger Lost American drama films 1924 lost films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films English-language drama films Lost silent American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happiness (1924 Film)
''Happiness'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by King Vidor and starring stage actress Laurette Taylor in one of her rare film appearances. The film is based on the 1914 Broadway play of the same name written by Taylor's husband J. Hartley Manners. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Jenny Wray, the sole support of her mother, obtains work in a modiste's shop. She is called on to deliver several gowns to Mrs. Chrystal Pole. Mrs. Pole, who is bored with life, becomes interested in Jenny's philosophy of happiness, and induces her to make her home at the Pole mansion. However, Jenny soon tires of it and returns to Brooklyn. She continues to cultivate the friendship of Mrs. Pole, who aids her in her efforts to have her own modiste's shop. Fermoy MacDonough, an electrician, falls in love with Jenny and they marry. In several years Jenny has a shop of her own and continues to spread happiness. Cast Production ''Happiness'' marked the second and final ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beauty Prize (film)
''The Beauty Prize'' is a lost 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Viola Dana. at silentera.com Synopsis A manicurist wins a beauty contest while posing as a debutante, and reveals her deception via a new craze, the radio.Cast * as Connie Du Bois * Pat O'Malley as George Brady * Eddie Phillips as Eddie Schwartz * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mine With The Iron Door (1924 Film)
''The Mine with the Iron Door'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Sam Wood and produced by Sol Lesser. The film is based on the novel of the same name by American author Harold Bell Wright that was published in 1923. In 1936 it was remade as the sound film '' The Mine with the Iron Door''. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Bob Hill (Murray) and Thad Grave (Woodruff), two aged prospectors, find a little girl in the hut of bandit Sonora Jack (Lewis) and take her away, but are unable to locate her parents. When Marta (Mackaill) grows to womanhood, Hugh Edwards (O'Malley) appears on the scene, and they fall in love. Natachee, an educated Indian who hates the white race, learns that Edwards is an escaped convict who was convicted for embezzling funds. Edwards saves his life and in return Natachee shows him the location of the lost mine with the iron door, formerly worked by the Dominican priests and filled with gold. Just then Sonora Jack returns and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brass (film)
''Brass'' is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It was directed by Sidney A. Franklin. This movie stars Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, and Irene Rich. The well-regarded film survives in 16mm format. Plot As described in a film magazine review, a young man born in the country leaves his family farm to engage in business in the city. He marries for the first time when he is still very young, finds the match a failure, gets a divorce, and starts life again. The hopelessness of life as far as a happy marriage is concerned forces itself on the young man, whose only brief period of happiness was enjoyed when he was living with a woman who really loves him and sacrifices for him. Cast Box office According to Warner Bros records the film earned $451,000 domestically and $28,000 in foreign markets. Preservation status ''Brass'' survives complete. It was transferred onto 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions Associated Artists Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Game Chicken
''A Game Chicken'' is a lost 1922 American silent romantic comedy film produced by Realart and distributed by Famous Players–Lasky. This film starred Bebe Daniels and was directed by Chester Franklin. Retrieved November 19, 2022. Plot Cast * as Inez Hastings * Pat O'Malley as ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |