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Annette Benson
Annette Benson (1895–1965) was a British film actress. She was a leading lady of British silent films of the 1920s, appearing in ''Confetti (1927 film), Confetti'' with Jack Buchanan and ''Downhill (1927 film), Downhill'' with Ivor Novello. She also featured in several French and German productions in the mid-1920s. Her career tailed-off with the arrival of sound film and she made her last screen appearance in 1931. Perhaps her best-known role is that of the film star Mae Feather in Anthony Asquith's ''Shooting Stars (1927 film), Shooting Stars''.Ryall p.33 Filmography References Bibliography * Ryall, Tom. ''Anthony Asquith''. Oxford University Press, 2013. External links

* 1895 births 1965 deaths Actresses from London English stage actresses English film actresses English silent film actresses 20th-century English actresses British emigrants to the United States {{UK-film-actor-stub ...
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London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ...
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The Man From Home (1922 Film)
''The Man From Home'' is a 1922 British drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice, adapted from a play of the same name by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. The story had been filmed before in 1914 by Cecil B. DeMille as '' The Man From Home''. Alfred Hitchcock was credited as a title designer on the 1922 production. The film survives in Netherlands Filmmuseum Amsterdam (EYE Institut). It was shown publicly in September 2015, possibly for the first time since the 1920s, during the British Silent Film Festival at Leicester. Plot As described in a film magazine, Genevieve Granger-Simpson (Nilsson), belle and heiress of her town of Kokomo, Indiana, is given a farewell party on the eve of her departure with her brother Horace (Kerr) to Italy. Her guardian Daniel Forbes Pike (Kirkwood) is downcast until he learns that Genevieve loves him, and then the farewell is less hard to bear. In Italy Genevieve is dazzled by the attentions of Prince Kinsillo (Kerry), a member of one ...
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Sir Or Madam
''Sir or Madam'' (German: ''Ossi hat die Hosen an'') is a 1928 British-German silent comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Margot Armand, Percy Marmont and Ossi Oswalda. It was based on the 1923 novel '' Sir or Madame'' by Berta Ruck and shot at Elstree Studios near London. The film was a co-production between Germany and Britain, with separate versions released in the countries. In Britain it was not released until February 1930. Plot A woman disguises herself as a man, and poses as a gentleman's valet. She then has to resist the advances of his vampish fiancee. Cast *Margot Armand as Patricia Lloyd *Percy Marmont Sir Ralph Wellalone *Ossi Oswalda as Geulda Rhos * Annette Benson as Lady Day *Hannelore Benzinger *Olga Engl *Cara Guyl *Fritz Kampers *Fred Leslie *Hilde Maroff *Sophie Pagay *Karl Platen *Anna Stranz-Führing *Wolfgang Zilzer *Charles Ashton *Harold Huth Harold Huth (20 January 1892 – 26 October 1967) was a British actor, film director and producer ...
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Change Of Heart (1928 Film)
''Change of Heart'' (French: ''Mon coeur au ralenti'') is a 1928 French silent film directed by Marco de Gastyne and starring Philippe Hériat, Annette Benson and Olaf Fjord.Goble p.121 It is based on the novel ''Mon coeur au ralenti'' by the French writer Maurice Dekobra. Cast In alphabetical order * Annette Benson as Griselda Turner * Juliette Compton as Lady Diana Wynham * Olaf Fjord as Prince Seliman * Philippe Hériat as Comte Alfierini * Choura Milena as Evelyn Turner * Gaston Modot as Chapinsky * Georges Paulais as Yarichkine * Varvara Yanova as Billie Swanson See also * '' Madonna of the Sleeping Cars'' (1928), with Claude France as Lady Diana Wynham and Olaf Fjord as Prince Seliman * ''The Phantom Gondola'' (1936), with Marcelle Chantal as Lady Diana Wyndham * '' Madonna of the Sleeping Cars'' (1955), with Gisèle Pascal Gisèle Pascal (17 September 1921 – 2 February 2007) was a French actress and a former lover of Rainier III, Prince of M ...
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A South Sea Bubble
''A South Sea Bubble'' is a 1928 British silent comedy adventure film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Ivor Novello, Benita Hume and Alma Taylor. The screenplay concerns a group of adventurers who head to the Pacific Ocean to hunt for buried treasure. It was made at Islington Studios.Wood p.66 Cast * Ivor Novello as Vernon Winslow * Benita Hume as Averil Rochester * Alma Taylor as Mary Ottery * Annette Benson as Lydia la Rue * Sydney Seaward as William Carpenter * S. J. Warmington as Frank Sullivan * Ben Field as Isinglass * Harold Huth Harold Huth (20 January 1892 – 26 October 1967) was a British actor, film director and producer. Biography Early life He was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1892. He was a nephew of Eva Moore and a cousin of the actor Roland Pertwee. F ... as Pirate * John F. Hamilton as Tony Gates * Mary Dibley as Olive Barbary References Bibliography * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. E ...
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Madonna Of The Sleeping Cars (1928 Film)
''Madonna of the Sleeping Cars'' (French: ''La madone des sleepings'') is a 1928 French silent film directed by Marco de Gastyne and Maurice Gleize and starring Claude France, Olaf Fjord and Maurice Dekobra. It is an adaptation of Maurice Dekobra's 1925 novel of the same title, which was later turned into a 1955 sound film.Goble p.121 Cast * Claude France as Lady Diana Wynham * Olaf Fjord as Prince Seliman * Henri Valbel * Maurice Dekobra as Jail Warden * Boris de Fast as Varichkine * Mary Serta as Madame Mouravieff * Annette Benson * Nat Carr * Michèle Verly * Sergey Efron as Prisoner See also * '' Change of Heart'' (1928), with Juliette Compton as Lady Winham and Olaf Fjord as Prince Seliman * ''The Phantom Gondola'' (1936), with Marcelle Chantal Marcelle Chantal (1901–1960) was a French stage and film actress. Chantal appeared in a number of leading roles in films such as Maurice Tourneur's '' In the Name of the Law'' (1932). Early in her career sh ...
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The Cradle Of God
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things 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 pr ...
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Before The Battle
Before is the opposite of after, and may refer to: * ''Before'' (Gold Panda EP), 2009 * ''Before'' (James Blake EP), 2020 * "Before" (song), a 1996 song by the Pet Shop Boys * "Before", a song by the Empire of the Sun from ''Two Vines'' * "Before", a song by Anastacia from ''Evolution'' * "Before" (short story) by Gael Baudino * The Before film trilogy by Richard Linklater ** ''Before Sunrise'', 1995 ** ''Before Sunset'', 2004 ** ''Before Midnight'' (2013 film) See also *Before Christ (BC), an epoch used in dating years prior to the estimated birth of Jesus *Before Common Era (BCE), an alternative naming of the traditional calendar era primarily used in academic circles *Before Present Before Present (BP) years, or "years before present", is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative to the origin of practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s. Becaus ...
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Cock Of The Roost
''Cock of the Roost'' (german: Der Hahn im Korb) is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Reinhold Schünzel, Elga Brink and Maly Delschaft. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Reimann. Cast References Bibliography *Dyer, Richard & Vincendeau, Ginette. ''Popular European Cinema''. Routledge Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, ..., 2013. External links * Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Georg Jacoby German black-and-white films German comedy films 1925 comedy films Silent comedy films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films {{1920s-Germany-film-stub ...
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A Daughter Of Israel
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ...
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The Money Habit
''The Money Habit'' is a 1924 British silent crime film directed by Walter Niebuhr and starring Clive Brook, Annette Benson and Nina Vanna.Low p.411 It was based on a novel by Paul M. Potter. The screenplay concerns a man whose mistress helps him con a financier into buying a worthless oil well. Cast * Clive Brook as Noel Jason * Annette Benson as Diana Hastings * Nina Vanna as Cecile d'Arcy * Warwick Ward as Varian * Fred Rains as Marley * Eva Westlake as Duchess * Philip Hewland Philip Hewland (12 December 1876, Gravesend, Kent, England – 1953, Ealing, London) was a British actor. He had one son Ivor and a granddaughter Domini. Selected filmography * '' The Christian'' (1915) * ''His Daughter's Dilemma'' (1916) * '' Ar ... as Mr. Hastings * Muriel Gregory as Typist * Kate Gurney as Mrs. Hastings References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * 1924 films 1924 crime ...
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Lovers In Araby
''Lovers in Araby'' is a 1924 British silent adventure film An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, an ... directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Annette Benson, Miles Mander and Norman Penrose. Much of the film was shot on location in North Africa.Low p.148-149 Cast * Annette Benson as Nadine Melville * Miles Mander as Derek Fare * Norman Penrose as Paul Melville * Adrian Brunel as Martin Carme References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * 1924 films 1924 adventure films British adventure films Films directed by Adrian Brunel British silent feature films British black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent adventure films {{a ...
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