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Irene Miller (artist)
Irene Miller (1880–1964) was a British screenwriter active during the silent era. She began her career as a journalist before getting work as a screenwriter, and she eventually became chief of the department at Will Barker's studio; later on, she became a studio publicist. Selected filmography * ''The Children of Gibeon'' (1920) * '' The Night Riders'' (1920) * ''Edge O' Beyond'' (1919) * ''The Lamp of Destiny'' (1919) * ''The Life of a London Actress'' (1919) * ''Her Lonely Soldier'' (1919) * '' Jo the Crossing Sweeper'' (1918) * '' On Leave'' (1918) * '' Meg o' the Woods'' (1918) * ''Mrs. Cassell's Profession Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard English pronunciation: ) is a commonly used English honorific for women, usually for those who are married and who do not instead use another title or rank, such as ''Doctor'', ''Profess ...'' (1915) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Irene British women screenwriters 1880 births 1964 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Barker (director)
William George Barker (18 January 1868, in Cheshunt – 6 November 1951, in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon) was a British film producer, director, cinematographer, and entrepreneur who took film-making in Britain from a low budget form of novel entertainment to the heights of lavishly-produced epics that were matched only by Hollywood for quality and style . Biography Early career His early career was that of a commercial traveller. He was evidently successful enough at this that he was able to indulge his interest in photography. In 1901 he started a business at 50 Gray's Inn Road, Holborn for the purposes of making moving pictures on a hand cranked Auguste and Louis Lumière, Lumiere camera, which had bought a few years before and then showing the resulting films to the public -for a fee. This was the Autoscope Company. Like the early Mitchell and Kenyon films, the genre was mainly 'topicals'; for they require the least amount of preparation and expense. On 1 January 1906 it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Children Of Gibeon
''The Children of Gibeon'' is a 1920 British silent drama film based on a novel by Sir Walter Besant, directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Joan Morgan, Langhorn Burton and Eileen Magrath. An aristocrat adopts a criminal's daughter and brings her up with her own daughter. She never reveals to them which way round they were. Cast * Joan Morgan as Violet * Langhorn Burton as Clive * Eileen Magrath as Valentine * Sydney Fairbrother as Mrs. Gibeon * Alice De Winton as Lady Eldridge * Arthur Lennard as Mr. Gibeon * Charles Cullum Charles Cullum (8 March 189926 May 1979) was a British stage actor, stage and film actor. On 29 December 1930 Mary Ellen Chaddock, a popular British magazine model, reportedly committed suicide after learning Cullum had married in New York. At ... as Jack Conyers * Barbara McFarlane as Violet References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''The History of the British Film 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Riders (1920 Film)
''The Night Riders'' is a 1920 British silent Western film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Maudie Dunham, Albert Ray and Alexander Butler. It was one of several films made by the British producer G. B. Samuelson at Universal City in California.Low, p. 139. Plot A Cornish emigrant to Canada battles against cattle rustlers in Alberta. Cast * Maudie Dunham as Diana Marbolt * Albert Ray as John Tresler * "Andre Beaulieu" (Alexander Butler) as Jack Marbolt * Russell Gordon as Jake Harnach * C. McCarthy as Doctor Ostler * Joe De La Cruz Joe De La Cruz may refer to: * Joe DeLaCruz, Native American leader in Washington, U.S. * Joe De La Cruz (actor) Joe De La Cruz was a Mexican-American character actor who worked in Hollywood from the late 1910s through the early 1940s. He often p ... as Undetermined Role * Goober Glenn * William Ryno References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918–1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edge O' Beyond
''Edge O' Beyond'' is a 1919 British silent film, silent drama film directed by Fred W. Durrant and starring Ruby Miller (actress), Ruby Miller, Owen Nares and Isobel Elsom. It is an adaptation of the 1908 novel ''The Edge O' Beyond'' by Gertrude Page, one of her bestsellers set in Rhodesia. It was shot at the Isleworth Studios in West London. Ruby Miller had previously appeared in a West End theatre, West End stage version of the novel.Bamford p.35 Cast * Ruby Miller (actress), Ruby Miller as Dinah Webberley * Owen Nares as Dr. Cecil Lawson * Isobel Elsom as Joyce Grey * C. M. Hallard as Captain Burnett * Minna Grey as Dulcie Maitland * Fred Raynham as Oswald Grant * James Lindsay (actor), James Lindsay as Major Egerton References Bibliography * Bamford, Kenton. ''Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s''. I.B. Tauris, 1999. * Free, Melissa. ''Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel''. SUNY Press, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lamp Of Destiny
''The Lamp of Destiny'' is a 1919 British silent drama film, directed by Alexander Butler and starring Judd Green, Daphne Glenne and Florence Nelson.Robert B. Connelly, ''Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36'', Volume 40, Issue 2 (December Press, 1998), p. 371 Cast * Judd Green * Leal Douglas Leal Douglas (born Lilly Elizabeth Annie Lamb; 25 March 1881 – 3 February 1970) was a British-Australian actress, mainly of the silent film era. Of Scottish and English parents, Douglas emigrated to Australia as a child and began her stag ... * Daphne Glenne * Florence Nelson References External links * 1919 films 1919 drama films British silent feature films Films directed by Alexander Butler Films set in England British black-and-white films 1910s English-language films 1910s British films Silent British drama films English-language drama films {{1910s-UK-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life Of A London Actress
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Lonely Soldier
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Jo The Crossing Sweeper
Jo, jo, JO, or J.O. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Jo'' (film), a 1972 French comedy * ''Jo'' (TV series), a French TV series *"Jo", a song by Goldfrapp from ''Tales of Us'' *"Jo", a song by Mr. Oizo from '' Lambs Anger'' * Jo a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise People * Jo (given name) * Jô, Brazilian footballer João Alves de Assis Silva (born 1987) * Josiel Alves de Oliveira (born 1988), Brazilian footballer also known as Jô * Jō (surname), a Japanese surname * Cho (Korean name), a common Korean surname which can be romanized as Jo Codes * JO, ISO 3166 country code for Jordan * .jo, the Internet country code top-level domain for Jordan * JO, IATA code for JALways, a subsidiary of Japan Airlines Other uses * ''jō'' (), a wooden staff used in some Japanese martial arts * ''jō'' (), a Japanese unit of length equivalent to the Chinese zhang * ''jō'' (), a Japanese unit of area corresponding to the area of a standard tatami mat (1×½ ken or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Leave (1918 Film)
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Meg O' The Woods
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British Women Screenwriters
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1880 Births
Events January *January 27 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the incandescent light bulb. Edison filed for a US patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires." granted 27 January 1880 Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament ,including using "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways," Edison and his team later discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could last more than 1200 hours. * January **The international White slave trade affair scandal in Brussels is exposed and attracts international infamy. **The Gokstad ship is found in Norway, the first Viking ship burial to be excavated. February * February 2 ** The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana. ** The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London, aboard the SS ''Strathleven''. * February 4 – The Black Donnelly Massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
