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Edith Wakeling
Edith Madeleine Wakeling (née Gilmour; June 9, 1879 – March 21, 1962) was a Canadian-born American film editor who worked in Hollywood in the 1920s. Biography Family and origins Edith was born in Montreal, Quebec, to James Gilmour and Mary Sullivan. She married Otty Wakeling in 1900, and the pair had three children together before Otty died of pneumonia in 1918 in Arizona. Their daughter Gwen would become an Oscar-winning costume designer who also worked in television, creating many of Lucille Ball's gowns on ''I Love Lucy'', and another son, Don S. Wakeling, became a costumer as well. Hollywood career She started her career off as a stenographer in the studio system in Los Angeles, learning about continuity and the filmmaking process on the job. She worked her way into an editing role by 1924. She'd tell reporters that on every film she edited, she was on set to ensure that there weren't any continuity errors. She edited a string of films during the 1920s, including 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cheer Leader
''The Cheer Leader'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Alan James and starring Ralph Graves, Gertrude Olmstead, and Shirley Palmer. Plot Cast * Ralph Graves as Jimmy Grant * Gertrude Olmstead as Jean Howard * Shirley Palmer as Elizabeth Summers * Ralph Emerson as Alfred Crandall * Harold Goodwin as Richard Crosby * Donald Stuart as Percival Spivins * Duke Martin as Chuck Casey * Harry Northrup as John Crandall * Ruth Cherrington as Mrs. Crandall * James Leonard as James Grant Sr * Lillian Langdon as Mrs. Grant * Bobby Nelson as Chester Grant * Charles North as Dean Sherwood Preservation A print of ''The Cheer Leader'' is held by the 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 o .... References Bibliography * Wiley Lee U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Media People From Montreal
Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementary particles, theoretically with the same amount of matter, have nonetheless different masses. Mass in modern physics has multiple definitions which are conceptually distinct, but physically equivalent. Mass can be experimentally defined as a measure of the body's inertia, meaning the resistance to acceleration (change of velocity) when a net force is applied. The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies. The SI base unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). In physics, mass is not the same as weight, even though mass is often determined by measuring the object's weight using a spring scale, rather than balance scale comparing it directly with known masses. An object on the Moon would weigh less than it d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Film Editors
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Deaths
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Netherlands, Dutch rail disaster. * January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact. * January 12 – The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian. * January 13 – People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China. * January 15 ** Portugal abandons the United Nations General Assembly due to the debate over Angola. ** French designer Yves Saint Laurent (designer), Yves Saint Laurent launches Yves Saint Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. ** Brahms' Violin Concerto is premiered in Leipzig with Joseph Joachim as soloist and the composer conducting. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * January 22 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Isandlwana: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors. * January 23 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Rorke's Drift: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus. February * February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan. * February 8 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes the global ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Final Extra
''The Final Extra'' is a 1927 American silent film, silent crime film directed by James P. Hogan (director), James P. Hogan and starring Marguerite De La Motte, Grant Withers, and John Miljan. Plot As described in Copyright law of the United States, copyright records, Pat Riley, a young college graduate is breaking in on a big newspaper, but is assigned to the "Society" column. He longs to be given "scoop" assignments like star reporter Tom Collins, who is working on a Rum-running, bootlegging ring story. Pat is sent to get a story on a new musical comedy being produced by Mervin Le Roy, who has a questionable reputation. There he runs into Tom's daughter Ruth, who is starting a stage career while taking care of her father and younger brother Buddy. She invites him to a birthday party. At the party, Ruth waits for her father but is met by Pat, who sadly tells her that Tom was killed by bootleggers after they found out about his investigation. Pat vows to get the man responsible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quarantined Rivals
''Quarantined Rivals'' is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Robert Agnew, Kathleen Collins and John Miljan.Munden p.624 It was produced by the independent studio Gotham Pictures. It was based on a 1906 short story of the same title by George Randolph Chester. Synopsis The plot revolves around Bruce Farney (a football player) and his attempts to woo Elsie Peyton in the face of competition from a rival, as well as becoming mixed up with an attractive manicurist Minette. Complications ensue when both Bruce and his rival are forced to quarantine together due to smallpox. Cast * Robert Agnew as Bruce Farney * Kathleen Collins as Elsie Peyton * John Miljan as Ed, the barber * Ray Hallor as Robert Howard * Viora Daniel as Minette, the manicurist * Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Joe, the plumber * Clarissa Selwynne Clarissa Selwynne (26 February 1886 – 13 June 1948) was a British stage and film actress.Kear & King p. 143 She settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinews Of Steel
''Sinews of Steel'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Alberta Vaughn, Gaston Glass and Anders Randolf. Cast * Alberta Vaughn as Helen Blake * Gaston Glass as Robert McNeil Jr. * Anders Randolf as Robert McNeil Sr. * Paul Weigel as Jan Van Der Vetter * Greta von Rue as Elsie Graham * Nora Hayden as Martha Jenkins * Charles Wellesley Charles Wellesley (November 17, 1873 – July 24, 1946) was an Irish-born American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1913 and 1928. He was born in Dublin and died in Amityville, New York. Partial filmograph ... as Douglas Graham * John H. Gardener as Elmer Price * Robert Gordon as The Office Boy References Bibliography * 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 * 1927 films 1927 drama films 1920s English-language films A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountains Of Manhattan
''Mountains of Manhattan'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Dorothy Devore, Charles Delaney, and Kate Price.Munden p. 528 Cast * Dorothy Devore as Marion Wright * Charles Delaney as Jerry Nolan * Kate Price as 'Ma' Nolan * Robert Gordon as Isadore Ginsberg * George Chesebro as Hoyt Norcross * James P. Hogan as 'Bull' Kerry * Clarence Wilson as Jim Tully * Robert Homans Robert Edward Homans (November 8, 1877 – July 28, 1947) was an American actor who entered films in 1923 after a lengthy stage career. Life and career Robert Homans was born November 8, 1877, in Malden, Massachusetts. Although he studied ... as 'Big Bill' Wright References Bibliography * 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 * 1927 films 1927 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondes By Choice
''Blondes by Choice'' is an American silent comedy film directed by Hampton Del Ruth and starring Claire Windsor. The script was written by Josephine Quirk and Paul Perez. Plot When a man named Cliff's car breaks down, he is towed into the nearest town by a female motorist. It turns out the woman is named Bonnie, and she is the owner of a soon-to-be-opening beauty parlor that has riled up the town. When she bleaches her hair to stimulate business, a local women's group comes to protest, but she orders them out. But then Cliff's wealthy mother brings Bonnie to a yacht party as her guest of honor, and the local women change their tune and decide to patronize her business; soon she pays off her mortgage and is proposed to by Cliff. Starring * Claire Windsor as Bonnie Clinton * Allan Simpson as Cliff Bennett * Walter Hiers as Horace Rush * Bodil Rosing as Caroline Bennett * Bess Flowers as Olga Flint * Lee Willard as Benjamin Flint * Mai Wells as Miss Terwilliger Release T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road To Ruin (1928 Film)
''The Road to Ruin'' is a 1928 American silent film, silent black-and-white exploitation film directed by Norton S. Parker and starring Helen Foster (actress), Helen Foster. Due to its popularity, a sound version of the film was released late in 1928. While the sound version of the film has no audible dialog, it featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film is about a teenage girl, Sally Canfield, whose life is led astray by sex, smoking, and drinking, and ruined by an abortion. The film was The Road to Ruin (1934 film), remade as a Sound film, talkie in 1934. Plot Cast * Helen Foster (actress), Helen Foster as Sally Canfield * Grant Withers as Don Hughes * Florence Turner as Mrs. Canfield * Charles Miller (director), Charles Miller as Mr. Canfield * Virginia Roye as Eve Terrell * Thomas Carr (director), Thomas Carr as Jimmy Canfield * Don Rader as Al * Eddie Dunn (actor), Eddie Dunn as Strip Poker Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
