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Eddie Gribbon
Eddie Gribbon (January 3, 1890 – September 29, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films from the 1910s to the 1950s. Gribbon began working in Mack Sennett films in 1916 and continued through the 1920s. He usually had significant roles in two-reel films, but his roles in feature films were lesser ones. Gribbon was the brother of actor Harry Gribbon. Selected filmography * ''Salome vs. Shenandoah'' (1919) - Audience Spectator/ Soldier * '' Down on the Farm'' (1920) (with Louise Fazenda and Harry Gribbon) - Banker's Henchman * ''Love, Honor and Behave'' (1920) - The Lawyer's Left-Hand Man * '' A Small Town Idol'' (1921) - Bandit Chief * ''Home Talent'' (1921) - Stranded Actor * '' Molly O''' (1921) (with Mabel Normand) - Danny Smith * '' Playing with Fire'' (1921) - Danny Smith * '' The Crossroads of New York'' (1922) - Star Boarder * ''Alias Julius Caesar'' (1922) - 'Nervy' Norton * '' A Tailor-Made Man'' (1922) - Russell * ''The Village Blacksmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor McLaglen
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British boxer-turned-Hollywood actor.Obituary ''Variety'', 11 November 1959, page 79. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made seven films with John Ford and John Wayne. McLaglen won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in '' The Informer''. Early life McLaglen claimed to have been born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, although his birth certificate records 505 Commercial Road, Stepney in the East End of London as his true birthplace. His father, Andrew Charles Albert Mclaglen, was a missionary in the Free Protestant Church in South Africa, and was later a bishop of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England. The McLaglen family is ultimately of Scottish origin, descended from a MacLachlan who settled in South Africa in the 19th century. The name was rendered into McLaglen from Dutch pronunciation. A.C.A. McLaglen was christened Andries Carel Albertu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossed Wires (film)
''Crossed Wires'' is a 1923 American comedy film directed by King Baggot and written by Hugh Hoffman. The film stars Gladys Walton, George Stewart, Tom Guise, Lillian Langdon, William Robert Daly, and Kate Price. The film was released on May 14, 1923, by Universal Pictures. Cast *Gladys Walton as Marcel Murphy *George Stewart as Ralph Benson *Tom Guise as Bellamy Benson *Lillian Langdon as Mrs. Margaret Benson *William Robert Daly as Pat Murphy * Kate Price as Nora Murphy *Eddie Gribbon as Tim Flanagan * Marie Crisp as Madalyn Van Ralston Kemp * Eloise Nesbit as Annie *Helen Broneau Helen Broneau (born Helen Ingram) was an American actress and screenwriter who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. After a brief union with Charles Bronaugh (the source of her stage name, albeit with an altered spelling), she married A ... as Fannie *Lewis Mason as Cyril Gordon References External links * * {{King Baggot 1923 films 1920s English-language films Silent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Limited Mail
''The Limited Mail'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by George Hill and written by Charles Logue and Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Monte Blue, Vera Reynolds, Willard Louis, Tom Gallery, Jack Huff, and Eddie Gribbon. The film was released by Warner Bros. on September 5, 1925. Plot As described in a film magazine reviews, Bob Wilson becomes a tramp after his fiancée jilts him, but is influenced for good by Jim Fowler, a railway mail clerk. Bob gets employment with the railroad that employs Jim and works his way up to the post of engine driver. Both men fall in love with Caroline Dale, a waitress at the railroad hotel, but the young woman loves only Bob. Bob’s former fiancée accidentally finds him and leaves her husband to be with him. Caroline misunderstands the situation and Bob nearly loses hope of winning her love. Bob is elevated to the engine cab of the Limited Mail train, and on his first run the train is wrecked. Jim, who is in the mail coach, is kill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Days (1925 Film)
''Seven Days'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Scott Sidney and starring Lillian Rich, Creighton Hale, and Lilyan Tashman. It is an adaptation of the 1909 play '' Seven Days'', which was based upon a story by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Plot As described in a film magazine reviews, Jim Wilson’s guests arrive to celebrate with him his first anniversary of his divorce. Bella Wilson, his former wife, is present. Jim is infatuated with Kit Eclair. The butler is stricken with a malady. Fearing its contagion, the servants flee. Aunt Selina, Jim’s moneyed relative, arrives. Jim persuades Kit to pose as his wife because he does not wish Aunt Selina to know that he is divorced. Police announce that the house is quarantine A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just A Woman (1925 Film)
''Just a Woman'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Claire Windsor. It is based on the 1916 Broadway play by Eugene Walter and is a remake of a 1918 silent version starring Walter's wife, Charlotte Walker. The film and play was remade in the pre-Code sound era in 1933 as ''No Other Woman''. Plot As described in a film magazine review, June Holton, the wife of steelworker Robert Holton, has an agreement with their boarder, George Rand, that in return for room and board, and the use of a shop in the back yard to experiment in, that he will share 50–50 with her the proceeds of any invention he may perfect, looking for a new process for making steel. He succeeds. Robert strikes a bargain with the company's board of directors that is satisfactory to him and George, but not to June. She compels the board to meet her terms: $1 million in cash, a royalty of $5 per ton to be paid to George, and the elevation of her husband to be president. Plun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mansion Of Aching Hearts
''The Mansion of Aching Hearts'' is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Ethel Clayton, Barbara Bedford, and Priscilla Bonner. Plot As described in a film magazine review, believing his wife is unfaithful, Martin Craig sends his with Pauline and their child away. The mother looses the child while on a boat, after which the father locates it and rears it as a stranger without a last name, to be called Bill Smith. The mother, believing the child has drowned, goes to a home for friendless pregnant young women and becomes its matron. Later, she returns to the home of her son only to find that he has been taught to promise vengeance upon her for bringing him into the world nameless. A mob forms intending to chase her from the town. However, she meets Martin and forces him to publicly admit the truth that she is innocent, whereupon she and the son are admitted to respectability. A reunion between the three follows. Cast Preservation The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forty Winks (1925 Film)
''Forty Winks'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Paul Iribe and Frank Urson and written by Bertram Millhauser. The film stars Raymond Griffith, Theodore Roberts, Cyril Chadwick, William Boyd, and Anna May Wong Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese-American actress to gain interna .... The film was released on February 2, 1925, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Gasper Le Sage (Chadwick) is attorney to the Butterworths and suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth (Dana). He persuades Annabelle Wu (Wong), a Eurasian adventuress, to vamp Lt. Gerald Hugh Butterworth (Boyd) and with his keys obtain the plans for a coast defence movement. Suspicion falls upon Lord Chumley of the British secret service, who is also engaged to Eleanor. Le Sage offers t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Code Of The West (1925 Film)
''Code of the West'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by William K. Howard and written by Zane Grey and Lucien Hubbard. The film stars Owen Moore, Constance Bennett, Mabel Ballin, Charles Stanton Ogle, David Butler, George Bancroft and Gertrude Short. The film was released on April 6, 1925, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Cal Thurman, a timid fellow, thinking that the woman he is to meet at the train station is an old maid, avoids her when he finds that she is a pretty young woman who flirts with the cowboys. He finally uses rough methods to win her love and, after through flames in a forest fire, succeeds in winning her. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Code of the West'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Of Broadway
''East of Broadway'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by William K. Howard and starring Owen Moore, Marguerite De La Motte, and Mary Carr Mary Carr (née Kenevan; March 14, 1874 – June 24, 1973), was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr. She appeared in more than 140 films between 1915 and 1956. She was given some of filmdoms plum mother roles in .... Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Peter Mullaney (Moore), a typical boy of the poor section of New York’s East Side, longs to become a policeman. He goes to the training school but is turned down because he is not up to the standard of height, until he demonstrates his prowess by knocking down a big bully. The Commissioner (Lewis) who has high ideas of the necessary mental equipment to improve the force, gives him a chance if he rates high in the written examination. The question that stumps him is “Where is the Tropic of Capricorn.” He answers, in the Bronx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Border Legion (1924 Film)
''The Border Legion'' is a lost 1924 American silent Western film directed by William K. Howard and starring Antonio Moreno and Helene Chadwick. Written by George C. Hull and based on the 1916 novel '' The Border Legion'' by Zane Grey, the film is about a cowboy who is wrongly accused of murder and is rescued by the leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. When the outlaws kidnap a young woman, the cowboy knows that he must help the woman escape. The film premiered on October 19, 1924 in New York City and was released in the United States on November 24, 1924 by Paramount Pictures.Hulse, p. 90. Plot After Joan Randle ( Helene Chadwick) accuses her fiancé Jim Cleve ( Antonio Moreno) of being worthless, Jim travels to Idaho where he is wrongly accused of murder. He is rescued by Kells (Rockliffe Fellowes), the leader of a band of outlaws known as the Border Legion. Jim decides to join the outlaw band. Meanwhile, Joan regrets how she treated her former sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack O'Clubs
''Jack O'Clubs'' is a 1924 American silent crime drama film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Esther Ralston, and Eddie Gribbon. Plot As described in a film magazine, the dogged determination and big heart of an Irish patrolman prove victorious in his lone battle for love and honor. John Francis Foley (Rawlinson), known as "Jack 0' Clubs," has managed by daring and fistic prowess to gain the respect of the hardened characters of his beat on the East Side of New York. Tillie Miller (Dwyer), a little café singer, attracts him. She is the sweetheart of Spike Kennedy (Gribbon), supreme gang leader, who bears "Jack O' Clubs" a deep, unsatisfied grudge for his successful reform measures to clean up the neighborhood. Spike and Jack are prevented by Captain Dennis Malloy (Girard) of the police district from using their fists to settle their difference of opinion regarding Tillie. The police officer hears Tillie singing one night and is a captive at once. He tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After The Ball (1924 Film)
''After the Ball'' is a 1924 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald and starring Gaston Glass, Miriam Cooper, and Edna Murphy. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Arthur Trevelyan, the dissolute son of Mark Trevelyan, is put out of his home when he marries a young woman of whom his father disapproves. Through the press of circumstances, Arthur is forced to exchange clothes with a crook, who is later shot. The newspapers report that it is Arthur who was killed, and the real Arthur is jailed for the crime. After some time he escapes and finds that he is the father of a five year old child. The real culprit confesses to the crime, and Arthur is exonerated. Cast References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1924 films 1924 drama films 1920s English-language films American si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
