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A Kiss In A Taxi
''A Kiss In A Taxi'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film starring Bebe Daniels and directed by Clarence Badger. It is based on a French play, ''A Kiss in a Taxi'', produced on Broadway in 1925. Famous Players–Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures distributed the film. Cast *Bebe Daniels as Ginette *Chester Conklin as Maraval *Douglas Gilmore as Lucien Cambolle *Henry Kolker as Leon Lambert *Richard Tucker as Henri Le Sage *Agostino Borgato as Pierre *Eulalie Jensen as Valentine Lambert *Rose Burdick as Gay Lady * Jocelyn Lee as Secretary Plot Bebe Daniels plays Ginette A waitress at Pierre's Café. She is in love with a poor artist named Lucien despite Lucien’s father's disapproval of their relationship, and rejects the affection of all other men. Whenever another man tries to kiss her she begins angrily breaking glassware. Patrons of the café find this behavior very amusing. A patron of the café named Leon Lambert decides to make an attempt to kiss Ginette. Later in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Badger
Clarence G. Badger (June 9, 1880 – June 17, 1964) was an American film director of feature films in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. His films include ''It (1927 film), It'' and ''Red Hair (film), Red Hair'', more than a dozen features and shorts starring Will Rogers, and two features starring Raymond Griffith, ''Paths to Paradise'' and ''Hands Up! (1926 film), Hands Up!'' He moved to Australia to direct ''Rangle River'' (1936) and decided to retire there, only making one more feature, ''That Certain Something'' (1941). Selected filmography * ''The Nick of Time Baby'' (1916) * ''Hearts and Sparks'' (1916) * ''A Social Cub'' (1916) * ''The Danger Girl (1916 film), The Danger Girl'' (1916) * ''Haystacks and Steeples'' (1916) * ''Teddy at the Throttle'' (1917) * ''Dangers of a Bride'' (1917) * ''Whose Baby?'' (1917) * ''The Sultan's Wife'' (1917) * ''The Pullman Bride'' (1917) * ''Friend Husband'' (1918) * ''The Kingdom of Youth'' (1918) * ''Day Dreams (1919 film), Day Dreams'' (1919) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kolker
Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874 – July 15, 1947) was an American stage and film actor and film director, director. Early years Kolker was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1874. (Some sources say 1870.) He came to America at age five and was educated by Franciscan Monks at Quincy, Illinois. Career Kolker had a substantial stage career before entering silent films. He began acting professionally in stock theater in 1895. On stage he appeared opposite actresses such as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker began acting in films in 1915. He is best remembered for his movie roles, including one in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film ''Baby Face (film), Baby Face'' (1933) as an elderly CEO. Another well-remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film ''Holiday (1938 film), Holiday'' directed by George Cukor. Kolker also directed. His best-known effort is ''Disraeli (1921 film), Disraeli'' (1921), starring G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Early films were not thought to have value beyond their theatrical run, so many were discarded afterward. Nitrate film used in early pictures was highly flammable and susceptible to degradation. The Library of Congress began acquiring copies of American films in 1909, but not all were kept. Due to improvements in film technology and recordkeeping, few films produced in the 1950s or beyond have been lost. Rarely, but occasionally, films classified as lost are found in an uncataloged or miscataloged archive or private collection, becoming "rediscovered films". Conditions During most of the 20th century, American copyright law required at least one copy of every American film to be deposited at the Library of Congress at the time of copyri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Library Of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law of the United States, copyright law through the United States Copyright Office, and it houses the Congressional Research Service. Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the oldest Cultural policy of the United States, federal cultural institution in the United States. It is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill, adjacent to the United States Capitol, along with the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, and additional storage facilities at Fort Meade, Fort George G. Meade and Cabin Branch in Hyattsville, Maryland. The library's functions are overseen by the librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the architect of the Capitol. The LOC is one of the List of largest libraries, largest libra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene Power. ProQuest is known for its applications and information services for libraries, providing access to dissertations, theses, ebooks, newspapers, periodicals, historical collections, governmental archives, cultural archives,"Jisc and ProQuest Enable Access to Essential Digital Content" , retrieved May 21, 2014 and other aggregated databases. This content was estimated to be around 125 billion digital pages. The company began operations as a producer of microfilm products, subsequently shifting to electronic publishing, and later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Amsterdam News
The ''Amsterdam News'' (also known as ''New York Amsterdam News'') is a weekly Black-owned newspaper serving New York City. It is one of the oldest newspapers geared toward African Americans in the United States and has published columns by such figures as W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and was the first to recognize and publish Malcolm X. It operated from the New York Amsterdam News Building on Seventh Avenue in Harlem from 1916-1938. The building is a National Landmark. Foundation The ''Amsterdam News'' was founded on December 4, 1909, and is headquartered in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. The newspaper takes its name from its original location one block east of Amsterdam Avenue, at West 65th Street and Broadway. An investment of US$10 in 1909 () turned the ''Amsterdam News'' into one of New York's largest and most influential Black-owned-and-operated business institutions, and one of the nation's most prominent ethnic publicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Kiss In A Taxi (SAYRE 14437)
''A Kiss In A Taxi'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film starring Bebe Daniels and directed by Clarence Badger. It is based on a French play, ''A Kiss in a Taxi'', produced on Broadway in 1925. Famous Players–Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures distributed the film. Cast * Bebe Daniels as Ginette * Chester Conklin as Maraval * Douglas Gilmore as Lucien Cambolle * Henry Kolker as Leon Lambert * Richard Tucker as Henri Le Sage * Agostino Borgato as Pierre * Eulalie Jensen as Valentine Lambert * Rose Burdick as Gay Lady * Jocelyn Lee as Secretary Plot Bebe Daniels plays Ginette A waitress at Pierre's Café. She is in love with a poor artist named Lucien despite Lucien's father's disapproval of their relationship, and rejects the affection of all other men. Whenever another man tries to kiss her she begins angrily breaking glassware. Patrons of the café find this behavior very amusing. A patron of the café named Leon Lambert decides to make an attempt to kiss Ginette. Later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown Atlanta, Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of Golden age (metaphor), classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co. film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. Unlike its sister networks TBS (American TV channel), TBS, TNT (American TV network), TNT, and TruTV, TCM does not carry any sports cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Digital Newspaper Collection
The California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) is a freely-available, archive of digitized California newspapers; it is accessible through the project's website. The collection contains over six million pages from over forty-two million articles. The project is part of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California Riverside. History The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research was one of six initial participants in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a newspaper digitization project established from a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Between 2005 and 2011, the CBSR received three two-year grants, and contributed around 300,000 pages to Chronicling America, the public face of the NDNP. Published newspaper titles submitted include the ''San Francisco Call'', ''Los Angeles Daily Herald'', ''Amador Ledger'', and the '' Imperial Valley Press''. In 2015, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Healdsburg Tribune
''The Healdsburg Tribune'' is a weekly newspaper covering the community of Healdsburg, California and the surrounding areas. History The newspaper began publication March 21, 1888 as the ''Sonoma County Tribune'', with Isidore Abraham listed as Editor and Louis Meyer as Associate Editor. It has changed titles several times since. The nonprofit Sonoma County Local News Initiative announced the Tribune's shutdown on April 28, 2022, and it was subsequently rescued by the owners of the North Bay Bohemian The ''North Bay Bohemian'' is a weekly newspaper published in the North Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The newspaper is distributed in Sonoma and Napa counties. The newspaper began publication in 1 ..., the Weeklys publishing group. It continued publication on schedule on May 5, 2022. “We are surprised, gratified and a little astonished,” said Nancy Dobbs, president of the board of directors of Sonoma County Local News Initiat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyn Lee (actress)
Jocelyn Lee (born Mary Alice Simpson; June 21, 1902 – June 15, 1980) was an American actress. She was also known as Jocelyn Leigh. Biography Jocelyn Lee was born on June 21, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois as Mary Alice Simpson. She died on June 15, 1980, in New York City. She performed in the ''Ziegfeld Follies''. Personal life On April 27, 1922, Lee married film producer Henry Lehrman in Los Angeles. They were divorced on December 16, 1924. She later married director and writer Luther Reed; they were divorced on April 3, 1931. In January 1935, Lee married associate producer James Seymour. Partial filmography * '' The Dressmaker from Paris'' (1925) * ''Paris at Midnight'' (1926) * '' Sunny Side Up'' (1926) * '' The Campus Flirt'' (1926) * ''Everybody's Acting'' (1926) * '' A Kiss in a Taxi'' (1927) * ''Afraid to Love'' (1927) * '' The Love Thrill'' (1927) * '' Say It with Diamonds'' (1927) * ''Ten Modern Commandments'' (1927) * '' Shanghai Bound'' (1927) * ''Backstage'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
