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Charles Giblyn
Charles Giblyn (September 6, 1871 – March 14, 1934) was an American film director and actor of the silent era. He directed nearly 100 films between 1912 and 1927. He also appeared in 23 films between 1914 and 1934. He was one of the founders of the Motion Picture Directors Association. Beginning in 1914, Giblyn worked with the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company. He founded Albion Productions, a film production company, in 1922. Giblyn was also the screenwriter for ''Scandal'' (1917). On Broadway, Giblyn acted in ''The Song of the Sword'' (1899), ''Wheels Within Wheels'' (1899), and ''The Ambassador'' (1900). Giblyn was born in Watertown, New York and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''The Battle of Gettysburg'' (1913) * '' By the Sun's Rays'' (1914) * '' The Oubliette'' (1914) * '' The Higher Law'' (1914) * '' Peggy'' (1916) * '' Not My Sister'' (1916) * ''The Vagabond Prince'' (1916) * ''The Price She Paid'' (1917) * ''The Lesson'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Film
The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film Company (founded 1913). The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, but in 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood, California to oversee the studio's new West Coast production facilities, where the climate was more hospitable for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. After the Wall Street crash of 1929, William Fox lost control of the company in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners began conversations of a fusion with Twentieth Century Pictures, under founders Joseph M. Schenck and his friend Darryl Zanuck. Schenck, Zanuck, and Spyros Skouras merged the Fox Studios wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honeymoon
''The Honeymoon'' is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Giblyn and starring Constance Talmadge, Earle Foxe, and Maude Turner Gordon Maude Turner Gordon (November 10, 1868 – January 12, 1940) was an American actress who appeared in 81 films between 1914 and 1938. Biography Born in Franklin, Indiana, Gordon was the daughter of Alexander and Nancy Wright Turner. She w ....''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema'', p. 262 Cast References Bibliography * Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. ''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema''. Greenwood Publishing, 1999. External links * 1917 films 1917 comedy films Silent American comedy films Films directed by Charles Giblyn American silent feature films 1910s English-language films American black-and-white films Selznick Pictures films 1910s American films {{1910s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hypocrites (1923 Film)
''The Hypocrites'' ( nl, Farizeëers) is a 1923 British-Dutch silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn, p. 806. . based on ''The Hypocrites'', a 1906 play by . The plot concerns the hypocrisy of a squire who tries to make his son deny he fathered a village girl's child, and instead marry an heiress. Jones' play which had already been filmed as (1916) directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Leavenworth Case (1923 Film)
''The Leavenworth Case'' is a 1923 American silent mystery film directed by Charles Giblyn and starring Seena Owen, Martha Mansfield, and Wilfred Lytell. It is based on the 1878 novel ''The Leavenworth Case ''The Leavenworth Case'' (1878), subtitled ''A Lawyer's Story'', is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in his New York ...'' by Anna Katharine Green, which was later also adapted into a 1936 sound film of the same title.Goble p. 191 Cast References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mountain Woman
''The Mountain Woman'' is a 1921 American drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and written by Ashley T. Locke. It is based on the 1919 novel ''A Pagan of the Hills'' by Charles Neville Buck Charles Neville Buck (April 15, 1879 - August 10, 1957) was an American writer who had many of his novels staged in theater productions and adapted into films during the silent film era. He was born in Woodford County, Kentucky. His father Charle .... The film stars Pearl White, Corliss Giles, Richard Travers, George Barnum, Warner Richmond and John Webb Dillion. The film was released on January 23, 1921, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast * Pearl White as Alexander McGiverns * Corliss Giles as Jerry O'Keefe * Richard Travers as Jack Halloway *George Barnum as Aaron McGiverns * Warner Richmond as Bud Sellers *John Webb Dillion as Will Brent *Jack Baston as Jase Mallows * Charles E. Graham as Lute Brown References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mountain Woman 1921 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman's Woman
''A Woman's Woman'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and starring Mary Alden, Dorothy Mackaill and Holmes Herbert.Goble p.1022 Cast * Mary Alden as Densie Plummer * Louise Lee as Harriet Plummer * Dorothy Mackaill as Sally Plummer * Holmes Herbert as John Plummer * Albert Hackett as Kenneth Plummer * Rod La Rocque as Dean Laddbarry * Horace James as Sam Hippler * Cleo Madison as Iris Starr * Donald Hall Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and includin ... as Rex Humberstone * J. Barney Sherry as Senator James Gleason References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1922 films 1922 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Singing River'' is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by Charles Giblyn and starring William Russell, Vola Vale and Clark Comstock.Solomon, p. 272. Cast * William Russell as Long Rush * Vola Vale as Alice Thornton * Clark Comstock as John Thornton * Jack Roseleigh as Lew Bransom * Arthur Morrison as Sam Hemp * Jack McDonald as Bert Condon * Jack Hull as Freud * Louis King Louis King (June 28, 1898 – September 7, 1962) was an American actor and film director of westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Know Your Men
''Know Your Men'' is a 1921 American silent melodrama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Charles Giblyn, and starring Pearl White. It is now considered to be a lost film. Plot As described in a film publication summary, Ellen (White) is in love with Roy Phelps (Lytell), but marries Warren Schuyler (Clarke), who is a good man, to protect her father's honor. Roy later returns and rekindles her love, and Ellen goes with him. However, she soon discovers his villainy, and, penitent, returns and is taken back by her husband, whom she now realizes she loves. Cast *Pearl White as Ellen Schuyler * Wilfred Lytell as Roy Phelps *Downing Clarke as Warren Schuyler * Harry C. Browne as John Barrett *Estar Banks as Mrs. Barrett *Byron Douglas as Van Horn *William Eville as Watson See also *1937 Fox vault fire The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Mirror (1920 Film)
''The Dark Mirror'' is a 1920 American silent drama film and horror film directed by Charles Giblyn and written by E. Magnus Ingleton, based upon the story of the same name by Louis Joseph Vance. The film stars Dorothy Dalton in a dual role, Huntley Gordon, Walter D. Nealand, Jessie Arnold, Lucille Carney, Pedro de Cordoba, and Donald MacPherson. The film was released on May 9, 1920, by Paramount Pictures. It is listed as ''Jericho'' in some film reference guides. The film survives. Plot As described in a film magazine, New York society member Priscilla Maine (Dalton) is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees members of the underworld involved in a murder. She confides this to her admirer, Dr. Philip Fosdick (Gordon), who undertakes to solve the mystery. As if to make her dreams come true, a gang of thugs mistakes her for Nora, a belle of the Bowery, and kidnaps her. Nora (Dalton) is known to be gangster Red Carnahan's (Nealand) girl, but is loved by the Spaniar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upstairs And Down
''Upstairs and Down'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Giblyn, and starring Olive Thomas, Rosemary Theby, David Butler, and Robert Ellis. It is based on the 1916 play of the same name by Frederick and Fanny Hatton. ''Upstairs and Down'' is now presumed lost. Synopsis Alice Chesterton (Thomas) and her fiancé Tom Carey (Butler) are members of a Long Island "millionaire smart set". Alice is considered to be a "baby vamp" by her friends and soon grows bored of her practical and unromantic fiancé Tom Carey (Butler). To amuse herself, she begins flirting with men who she finds exciting. During a house party at the Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United Sta ... home of the couple's friends The Ives, Alice meets Terence O'Keefe (Ellis), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spite Bride
''The Spite Bride'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and starring Olive Thomas, Robert Ellis and Jack Mulhall.Connelly p.414 Cast * Olive Thomas as Tessa Doyle * Robert Ellis as Billy Swayne * Jack Mulhall as Rodney Dolson * Claire Du Brey as Trixie Dennis * Irene Rich as Eileen Moore * Dorothy Wallace as Millicent Lee * Lamar Johnstone as Arthur Derford * Katherine Griffith as Countess di Raspoli * Molly Malone "Molly Malone" (also known as "Cockles and Mussels" or "In Dublin's Fair City") is a traditional song set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become its unofficial anthem. A statue representing Molly Malone was unveiled on Grafton Street by then Lo ... as Vaudevillian References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Perfect 36
''A Perfect 36'' is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Giblyn, written by Tex Charwate, and starring Mabel Normand and Rod La Rocque. The plot involves Normand's clothes being stolen in a mixup while she was swimming, necessitating her spending most of the film running around naked trying to straighten everything out. Cast * Mabel Normand as Mabel * Rod La Rocque as O.P. Dildock * Flora Zabelle as Lena * Leila Romer as Landlady * Louis R. Grisel as The Constable * Edward Bernard as Sol Manheimer Reception Like many American films of the time, ''A Perfect 36'' was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 4, of four closeups of the young woman on the diving board. References External links * * *''A Perfect 36''in Fandango *''A Perfect 36''in Turner Classic Movies Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
