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Helen Ware
Helen Ware ( Remer; October 15, 1877 – January 25, 1939) was an American stage and film actress. Early years Born to John August Remer and Elinor Maria (née Ware), Ware adopted her mother's maiden name as her professional name. She had three siblings, Ada, Richard, and John Remer. Before becoming an actress, she worked as a governess and a swimming instructor. Career Ware debuted on stage in 1899 when she was a student at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Along with other students, she was an extra in a production of ''The Little Minister''. She had a successful Broadway stage career making her first appearance in 1899 with Maude Adams, and by her 30s, she was playing the character parts for which she became famous. She began playing character parts in silent films in 1914 and continued into the sound era. Like Louise Closser Hale, Ware was a raven-haired woman for most of her stage career, but adopted an all-blond coif toward the late 1920s at the end of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and ''Baghdad by the Bay''. San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Year's Eve (1929 Film)
''New Year's Eve'' is a lost 1929 film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring Mary Astor and Charles Morton. Veteran Henry Lehrman, who had worked with Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin, was the director. Samuel L. Rothafel wrote the music for film. The Western Electric Sound System was used but a silent version was also made. Max Gold was an assistant director. This was not a talking film despite it being made in 1929. It was a silent with music and effects soundtrack. Plot Saddled with the care of a younger brother and unable to find work, Marjorie Ware puts aside her scruples and goes to see a gambler who has long cast a lustful eye on her. A pickpocket kills the gambler, and the police find Marjorie at the scene of the crime, charging her with the murder. The pickpocket later falls to his death, however, and evidence is uncovered that sets Mary free, cleared of all suspicion of guilt in the gambler's death. Mary is then reunited with Edward War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Of June 13
''The Night of June 13'' is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Stephen Roberts. The film stars Clive Brook, Frances Dee, Charlie Ruggles, Gene Raymond, Lila Lee, Mary Boland and Adrianne Allen. The film was released on September 23, 1932, by Paramount Pictures. Cast *Clive Brook as John Curry *Lila Lee as Trudie Morrow *Charlie Ruggles as Philo Strawn *Frances Dee as Ginger Blake *Gene Raymond as Herbert Morrow *Mary Boland as Mazie Strawn *Adrianne Allen as Elna Curry *Charley Grapewin as "Grandpop" Jeptha Strawn *Helen Ware as Mrs. Lizzie Morrow *Helen Jerome Eddy as Martha Blake *Arthur Hohl as Prosecuting Attorney *Billy Butts as Junior Strawn *Richard Carle as Otto ;Other uncredited cast members (alphabetically) *Bobby Barber as Jury Foreman * Frederick Burton as Judge *Wallis Clark as Defense Attorney * John Elliott as Real Estate Agent *Paul Fix as Reporter *Billy Franey as Jimmy - Trash Collector *Otto Fries as Bailiff *Edward LeSaint as Mr. Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reckless Hour
''The Reckless Hour'' is a 1931 pre-Code film directed by John Francis Dillon and produced and distributed by First National Pictures. Cast *Dorothy Mackaill as Margaret Nichols *Conrad Nagel as Edward Adams * H. B. Warner as Walter Nichols *Joan Blondell as Myrtle Nichols *Walter Byron as Allen Crane *Joe Donahue as Harry Gleason *Dorothy Peterson as Miss Susie Jennison *Helen Ware as Harriett Nichols *Billy House as Seymour Jennison *Claude King as Howard Crane *Ivan F. Simpson Ivan F. Simpson (8 February 1875 – 12 October 1951) was a Scottish film and stage actor. Life and career Simpson was born on 8 February 1875 in Glasgow, Scotland, and went as a young man to New York City, where he worked for four dec ... as Stevens, Adam's butler Preservation status The film is preserved at the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' (<-book title) p.150 by The Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Take This Woman (1931 Film)
''I Take This Woman'' is a 1931 American pre-Code romance film directed by Marion Gering and starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard. Based on the novel ''Lost Ecstasy'' (1927) by Mary Roberts Rinehart, the film is about a wealthy New York socialite who falls in love and marries a cowboy while staying at her father's ranch out West. After her father disinherits her, and after a year of living as a cowboy's wife, she leaves her husband and returns to her family in the East. The film was released by Paramount Pictures. The film has no connection to the 1940 film '' I Take This Woman'' starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr, which is based on the Charles MacArthur story "A New York Cinderella". Plot After causing yet another scandal, Kay Dowling ( Carole Lombard), the spoiled daughter of wealthy New Yorkers, is given a stark choice by her fed-up father (Charles Trowbridge): go to his ranch in Ursula, Wyoming, (to avoid being named a co-respondent in a divorce case) or be disinher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Husband
''Party Husband'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film produced by First National Pictures and released through their parent company Warner Bros. It was directed by Clarence G. Badger and stars Dorothy Mackaill. It is preserved at the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', (<-book title) p.137 by The American Film Institute, c. 1978. Cast * as Laura * James Rennie as Jay Hogarth * as Kate *Joe Donahue as Pat *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Command Performance (1931 Film)
''Command Performance'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Walter Lang. Cast * Neil Hamilton as Peter Fedor/Prince Alexis * Una Merkel as Princess Katerina * Helen Ware as Queen Elinor * Albert Gran as King Nicholas * Lawrence Grant as Count Vellenburg * Thelma Todd as Lydia * Vera Lewis as Queen Elizabeth * Mischa Auer as Duke Charles * Burr McIntosh as Masoch * Wilhelm von Brincken Wilhelm von Brincken (May 27, 1881 – January 18, 1946), also known as Wilhelm L. von Brincken, William Vaughn, William von Brinken, and William Vaughan, was a German diplomat and spy during World War I, who went on to become an American charac ... as Capt. Boyer * Murdock MacQuarrie as Blondel References External links * 1931 films 1931 drama films American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by Walter Lang Films set in Europe Tiffany Pictures films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tol'able David (1930 Film)
''Tol'able David'' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of the 1921 silent film ''Tol'able David'', which starred Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. The Columbia film stars Richard Cromwell in the Barthelmess part after he won an audition over thousands of hopefuls and Harry Cohn gave him his screen name and a $75/week contract. It is preserved in the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' published by The American Film Institute, c. 1978 Cast *Richard Cromwell as David Kinemon *Noah Beery as Luke Hatburn * Joan Peers as Esther Hatburn *Henry B. Walthall as Amos Hatburn * Tom Keene as Alan Kinemon *Edmund Breese as Hunter Kinemon * Barbara Bedford as Rose Kinemon *Helen Ware as Mrs. Kinemon * Harlan Knight as Iska Hatburn *John Carradine John Carradine ( ; born Richmond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Night At Susie's
''One Night at Susie's'' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film released by First National Pictures and directed by John Francis Dillon. The movie stars Billie Dove and features Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Ware and Tully Marshall. Plot Susie (Helen Ware), who runs a house for gangsters, is raising Dick Rollins, the son ( Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) of a dead convict. Susie has raised Dick well, making sure that he was not influenced by her gangster friends. She even gets him a job as press agent. Dick falls in love with Mary, a chorus girl, (Billie Dove). When he announces his engagement, Susie becomes infuriated, because she believes that a girl of her type will urge him on to a life of crime. Her premonitions come to fruition. Hayes ( John Loder), who is producing Mary's show, gives her an engagement party. Dick is called to work, however, and Mary attends the party alone. Hayes attempts to rape her, and she shoots him in self-defense. Despite Mary's protests, Dick confesses to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Lincoln (1930 Film)
''Abraham Lincoln'', also released under the title ''D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln"'', is a 1930 pre-Code American biographical film about Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge. The script was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benét, author of the Civil War prose poem ''John Brown's Body'' (1928), and Gerrit Lloyd. This was the first of only two sound films made by Griffith. The film entered the public domain in 1958 when the initial copyright expired. The copyright holders did not elect to extend it for a second 28-year term. Plot summary The first act of the film covers Lincoln's early life as a storekeeper and rail-splitter in New Salem and his early romance with Ann Rutledge, and his early years as a lawyer and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois. The majority of the film deals with Lincoln's presidency during the American Civil War and culm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She's My Weakness
''She's My Weakness'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Melville W. Brown (assisted by Dewey Starkey) and starring Sue Carol and Arthur Lake. The screenplay was written by J. Walter Ruben, based on the Broadway play ''Tommy'' by Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson. Plot Tommy Mills wants to marry his girlfriend, Marie Thurber, but cannot afford it. When he inherits a piece of property, he plans on selling it in order to facilitate the marriage. However, Marie is also being pursued by Bernard Norton, who is not as seemingly dull as Tommy. Marie's parents would prefer their daughter to marry Tommy, but things get complicated when Marie's father, Warren, needs to sell a piece of property he owns in order to get himself out of financial difficulty. The town is interested in both pieces, but will only purchase one of them. To further complicate matters, Tommy's uncle, David Tuttle is attempting to broker the deal for the purchase of the land. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slightly Scarlet (1930 Film)
''Slightly Scarlet'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Edwin H. Knopf and starring Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook. The film was shot in several different language versions, with different casts. The French version was titled '' L'énigmatique Mr. Parkes'', and stars Claudette Colbert as Lucy and Adolphe Menjou as Parkes. Cast * Evelyn Brent as Lucy Stavrin * Clive Brook as Hon. Courtenay Parkes * Paul Lukas as Malatroff * Eugene Pallette as Sylvester Corbett * Helen Ware as Corbett's Wife * Virginia Bruce as Enid Corbett * Henry Wadsworth as Sandy Weyman * Claud Allister as Albert Hawkins * Morgan Farley as Malatroff's Victim * André Cheron as Butler (uncredited) * Georges Renavent as Inspector (uncredited) * Rolfe Sedan Rolfe Sedan (born Edward Sedan; January 20, 1896 – September 15, 1982) was an American character actor, best known for appearing in bit parts, often uncredited, usually portraying clerks, train conductors, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
