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Cecile Arnold
Cecile Arnold (born Cecile Laval Arnoux; July 9, 1893 – June 18, 1931) was an American silent film actress. Early life Cecile Laval Arnoux was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 9, 1893, although some sources indicate 1891, 1897, and 1898. She had one sibling, a brother, Given Campbell Arnoux (1895–1966). Her father, Anthony Arnoux (1865–1932), was born in New York City and was a newspaper reporter. Her parents divorced, and Arnold's mother, Susan Campbell (1872–1930), remarried to Albert D. Evans in St. Louis, Missouri in 1902. After having 3 more children there, the family moved to Texas. Career Arnold, who was known for playing vamps contracted with Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in 1913. She appeared in at least fifty films with notable figures such as Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mack Swain and Chaplin's half brother Syd until 1917. Perhaps her most memorable role is as the vamp in '' The Face on the Bar Room Floor''. Arnold had multiple al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Those Love Pangs
''Those Love Pangs'', also known as ''The Rival Mashers'', is a 1914 American silent comedy film. It was produced by Keystone Studios and starred Charlie Chaplin and Chester Conklin. Plot The Tramp fights for the attention of the landlady with the Rival (played by Chester Conklin). The Rival makes his attempt first. While he is talking to the Landlady (played by Helen Carruthers), the Tramp pokes him with a fork from behind a curtain. The Rival gets upset and the landlady becomes annoyed. The Tramp goes on to talk to her. As the Tramp sweet talks the Landlady, the Rival does the same thing the Tramp did to him. The Landlady gets upset and walks away from the Tramp. Upset, the Tramp takes the Rival outside. They eventually go their separate ways when the Tramp stays outside a bar and the Rival keeps walking toward a park. Before the Tramp goes into the bar, he is distracted by an attractive girl ( Vivian Edwards) who walks past and glances at him. The Tramp follows her until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rounders (1914 Film)
''The Rounders'' is a 1914 comedy short starring Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle. The film involves two drunks who get into trouble with their wives, and was written and directed by Chaplin. Plot A drunk reveller, Mr. Full, returns home to a scolding from his wife. Then his equally inebriated neighbor, Mr. Fuller, comes home and starts a fight with his wife. When Mrs. Full hears the physical altercation across the hall (Mr. Fuller starts strangling his wife after she hits him), she sends her husband to investigate. The two wives begin arguing, while Mr. Full and Mr. Fuller seize the opportunity to steal their wives’ money and flee together to a cafe, where they also cause trouble. When their spouses find them, they escape to a leaky rowboat on a pond. Safely out of reach of their wives and the victims of the commotion they caused, they fall asleep, oblivious to the rising water into which they eventually disappear. Cast * Charlie Chaplin as Mr. Full * Roscoe Arbuckle as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Deaths
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 Births
Events January * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. * January 13 ** The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. * January 15 – The '' Telefon Hírmondó'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. * January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * January 21 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Silent Film Actresses
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Twixt Love And Fire
''Twixt Love and Fire'' is a 1914 short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle. Cast * Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle * Peggy Pearce * Cecile Arnold * Charles Avery * Harold Lloyd See also * List of American films of 1914 * Fatty Arbuckle filmography * Harold Lloyd filmography These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an American actor and filmmaker most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies. Most of these films are known to survive in Lloyd's personal archive collection ... External links * 1914 films 1914 comedy films 1914 short films American black-and-white films Films directed by George Nichols Silent American comedy short films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films English-language comedy short films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Prehistoric Past
''His Prehistoric Past'' is a 1914 American short silent comedy film, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, featuring Chaplin in a stone-age kingdom trying to usurp the crown of King Low-Brow to win the affections of the king's favorite wife. While this film was the final short that was released while Chaplin was at Keystone Studios, the film Getting Acquainted was the last film he made there, and stopped working with almost all of Keystone's regular roster of comedians subsequently. Co-star Mack Swain would not appear in another Chaplin film until 1923 when he had a prominent role in the Chaplin silent film '' Pay Day''. Plot The tramp sits on a park bench. He decides to have a nap and lies down and starts to dream. Back in the Stone Age, King Low-Brow, King of Wakiki Beach, sits surrounded by his six favorite wives as they watch a man dancing to entertain them. A guard stands in the background. All are dressed in animal skins. Charlie arrives in this land wearing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leading Lizzie Astray
''Leading Lizzie Astray'' is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Cast * Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as A Farm Boy * Minta Durfee as Lizzie, the Farm Boy's Fiancée * Ed Brady as A City Slicker * Mack Swain as In from the Mines * Edgar Kennedy as The Slicker's Chauffeur * Phyllis Allen as Amorous Cafe Patron * Charley Chase as Cafe Patron * Al St. John as Cafe Patron * Slim Summerville as Cafe Patron * Leo White as Cafe Patron * Jess Dandy as Cafe Patron (uncredited) * Frank Hayes as Monocled Cafe Patron (uncredited) * Steve Murphy as Sailor Cafe Patron (uncredited) See also * List of American films of 1914 * Fatty Arbuckle filmography External links * ''Leading Lizzie''on YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ... * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatty's Wine Party
''Fatty's Wine Party'' is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Cast * Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle * Syd Chaplin * Alice Davenport * Edward Dillon (as Eddie Dillon) * Minta Durfee * Mabel Normand * Mack Swain See also * List of American films of 1914 * Fatty Arbuckle filmography __NOTOC__ These are the films of the American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Films marked with a diamond (♦) were directed by and featured Arbuckle. He used the name William Goodrich on the fil ... References External links * 1914 films Films directed by Roscoe Arbuckle 1914 comedy films 1914 short films American black-and-white films Silent American comedy short films Mutual Film films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films English-language comedy short films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Musical Career
''His Musical Career'' (also known as ''Musical Tramp'') is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin. Synopsis Charlie and his partner Mike work at a piano store, whose manager orders them to deliver a piano to Mr. Rich at 666 Prospect Street and repossess one from Mr. Poor at 999 Prospect Street. Hilarity ensues when they do exactly the opposite after mixing up the addresses of their customers. Review A reviewer from ''Variety'' gave it a positive review in November 1914, writing: "One of the best comedies in a month. Funny piano moving skit." Cast * Charlie Chaplin as Charlie the piano mover * Mack Swain as Mike * Charley Chase (as Charles Parrott) as Piano store manager * Fritz Schade as Mr. Rich * Cecile Arnold as Mrs. Rich * Frank Hayes as Mr. Poor See also * List of American films of 1914 References External links * * ''His Musical Career''on YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentlemen Of Nerve
''Gentlemen of Nerve'' is a 1914 American comedy silent film directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and produced by Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios. Plot Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up. Cast * Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered o ... - Mr. Wow-Wow * Mabel Normand - Mabel * Chester Conklin - Mr. Walrus * Mack Swain - Ambrose * Phyllis Allen - Flirty woman * Alice Davenport - Patron Reception A reviewer from Bioscope wrote, "Charles Chaplin, as the very broke gentleman who is anxious to make love to all the pretty girls assembled to watch some daring moto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dough And Dynamite
''Dough and Dynamite'' is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin. Plot The story involves Chaplin and Chester Conklin working as waiters at a restaurant. Charlie is especially inept and his comic carelessness enrages the customers. The workers in the restaurant's bakery go on strike for more pay, but are fired by the unsympathetic proprietor. Charlie is put to work in the bakery where his lack of skills upsets his boss and co-worker Chester Conklin. Meanwhile, the vengeful strikers have arranged to smuggle a loaf of bread concealing a stick of dynamite into the bakery. During a free-for-all involving Charlie, Chester, and their boss, the dynamite dramatically explodes. At the end of the film, Charlie emerges groggily from a pile of sticky dough. Mack Sennett's recollections In Mack Sennett's 1954 autobiography, ''King of Comedy'', he recalled he was absent from Keystone Studios for most of the filming of ''Dough and Dynamite''. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
