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Gerald Duffy
Gerald Duffy Gerald C. Duffy (April 13, 1896 – June 25, 1928) was a screenwriter of the silent film era, journalist, short story writer, and copyeditor. He is known for his contributions to and editorship of Redbook magazine and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Title Writing at the 1929 for the film '' The Private Life of Helen of Troy''. His fiction career led to him being hired as a writer by First National Pictures. Death Gerald died in 1928 while dictating a script in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography *'' A Fighting Colleen'' (1919) *''Jinx'' (1919) * '' Dollars and Sense'' (1920) *'' The Slim Princess'' (1920) *''Officer 666'' (1920) *'' What Happened to Rosa'' (1920) * '' Hold Your Horses'' (1921) *''Trust Your Wife'' (1921) *'' Through the Back Door'' (1921) *''Her Social Value'' (1921) *'' Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?'' (1922) *'' Head Over Heels'' (1922) *'' Mr. Barnes of New York'' (1922) *'' Sure Fire Flint'' (1922) *'' The Spider an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold Your Horses (film)
''Hold Your Horses'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring Tom Moore, Sylvia Ashton and Naomi Childers.Munden p.357 Plot Cast * Tom Moore as Daniel Canavan * Sylvia Ashton as Hoonora Canavan * Naomi Childers as Beatrice Newness * Bertram Grassby as Rodman Cadbury * Mortimer E. Stinson as Jim James * Sidney Ainsworth Charles Sydney Ainsworth (often credited as Sydney Ainsworth; December 21, 1872 – May 21, 1922) was a screen and stage actor who appeared in his first movie in 1909. He was born in Manchester, England and died in Madison, Wisconsin, United State ... as Horace Slayton 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 * 1921 films 1921 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films American black-and-whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trouping With Ellen
''Trouping with Ellen'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film starring Basil Rathbone, Gaston Glass, Helene Chadwick, and Mary Thurman. Based on a short story by Earl Derr Biggers that appeared in ''The Saturday Evening Post'', this was Rathbone's first American production. Cast Preservation With no copies of ''Trouping with Ellen'' located in any film archives, it is a 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. .... References External links * 1924 films 1924 comedy-drama films 1924 lost films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films American silent feature films English-language comedy-drama films Films directed by T. Hayes Hunter Films with screenplays by Gerald Duffy Lost American comedy-drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youth For Sale
''Youth for Sale'' is a 1924 silent American drama film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring May Allison, Sigrid Holmquist, and Richard Bennett. It was released on August 1, 1924. Plot Cast * May Allison as Molly Malloy * Sigrid Holmquist as Connie Sutton * Richard Bennett as Montgomery Breck * Charles Emmett Mack as Tom Powers * Alice Chapin as Mrs. Malloy * Tom Blake as Bill Brophy * Dorothy Allen as Pansy Mears * Charles Byer Charles Byer (February 28, 1893 – November 28, 1953) was an American film actor of the silent era.Babington & Barr p. 133 He appeared in films for a variety of companies including Fox Film, Fox, Paramount Pictures, Paramount, Tiffany Pictures, T ... as George Archibald * Harold Foshay as Edward Higgins References External links * * * 1924 drama films 1924 films American silent feature films Films directed by Christy Cabanne American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1920s English-language films 1920s Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Own Free Will
''Her Own Free Will'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Paul Scardon and starring Helene Chadwick, Holmes Herbert, and Violet Mersereau. It was based on a novel of the same name by the British writer Ethel M. Dell. Cast * Helene Chadwick as Nan Everard * Holmes Herbert as Peter Craddock * Allan Simpson as Jerry Lister * George Backus as Col. Everard * Violet Mersereau as Mona Everard Preservation With no copies of ''Her Own Free Will'' located in any film archives, it is a 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. .... References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1924 films 1924 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Recoil (1924 Film)
''The Recoil'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter based on a Rex Beach story. Mahlon Hamilton and Betty Blythe star. Blythe filmed some scenes for the picture in Paris in November 1923. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Gordon Kent, an enormously wealthy American, comes from South America to paint Europe red with wild parties with beautiful women and where champagne flows from fountains. In Deauville he meets and loves Norma Selbee, a penniless American who rings herself in during one of Kent's lavish parties. They marry, but despite receiving showered attentions from her husband, Norma elopes with the wily adventurer Marchmont. William Sothern, Kent's famous detective friend, discloses that Marchmont is a crook, and that Norma's crook husband Jim Selbee is still alive. Kent revenges himself by forcing Marchmont and Noima to always live together under penalty of his turning both over to the police. The two wander over Europe and hate one a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roulette (1924 Film)
''Roulette'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor and starring Edith Roberts, Norman Trevor, and Maurice Costello Maurice George Costello (February 22, 1877 – October 29, 1950) was a prominent American vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s who later played a principal role in early American films as leading man, supporting player, and director .... Plot As described in a film magazine review, on her father's death from shock after his partner cheats him in a card shuffle, Lois Carrington becomes the ward of gambler John Tralee. He utilizes the young woman as a decoy when playing his games. She meets and falls in love with Peter Marineaux. Peter fancies that Loris helped Tralee to cheat him. She offers herself as payment but Tralee objects as he also has designs on her. Finally, the men agree to play with the winner getting the young woman and the money. Loris controls the roulette wheel using a foot control so as to give Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three O'Clock In The Morning (film)
''Three O'Clock in the Morning'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Kenneth S. Webb and starring Constance Binney, Edmund Breese, and Richard Thorpe.Munden p. 805 It is now considered to be a lost film. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Elizabeth Winthrop becomes fascinated with cabaret life and makes friends who are objectionable to her parents. She resents her father's treatment of her friends and leaves home. She seeks work as a chorus girl in New York City and is aided by Hugo von Strohm, who unknown to her pays for her salary at the cabaret. Clayton Webster, her fiancé, objects to her work so she returns his engagement ring. Hugo invites her to a roadhouse and tries to force his attentions on her. On the way to the roadhouse, she is recognized by her mother and is rescued. Clayton is bound to leave by steamship to South America. Elizabeth arrives at the pier just as the ship is pulling away and wigwags that she loves him. He jumps overboard and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Lights Of Broadway
''Bright Lights of Broadway'' is a surviving 1923 American silent drama film directed by Webster Campbell. An independent film it stars Doris Kenyon, Harrison Ford, and Lowell Sherman. A print of ''Bright Lights of Broadway'' survives with the Library of Congress. Cast *Doris Kenyon as Irene Marley *Harrison Ford s Thomas Drake *Edmund Breese as Reverend Graham Drake * Claire de Lorez as Connie King *Lowell Sherman as Randall Sherrill * Charles Murray as El Jumbo *Effie Shannon as Mrs. Grimm, Landlady *Tyrone Power Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) was an American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His better-known films include ''Jesse James (193 ... as John Kirk References External links * 1923 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1923 drama films Films with screenplays by Gerald Duffy Films pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Are Guilty
''You Are Guilty'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Edgar Lewis and starring James Kirkwood, Doris Kenyon and Robert Edeson. Synopsis Stephen Martin takes the blame over some missing funds in order to spare his half-brother shame. He is forced to give up his sweetheart and travel around the world. Cast * James Kirkwood as Stephen Martin * Doris Kenyon as Alice Farrell * Robert Edeson as Theodore Tennent * Mary Carr as Mrs. Grantwood * Russell Griffin as 'Buddy' Tennent * Edmund Breese Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Biography Breese was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Renshaw Breese and Josephine Busby. The Opera House in Eureka Sprin ... as Judge Elkins * Carlton Brickert as Joseph D. Grantwood * Riley Hatch as Murphy Preservation The film survives in abridged form. References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spider And The Rose
''The Spider and the Rose'' is a 1923 American silent historical drama film directed by John McDermott and starring Alice Lake, Richard Headrick and Gaston Glass.Munden p.755 Plot Cast * Alice Lake as Paula * Richard Headrick as Don Marcello, as a child * Gaston Glass as Don Marcello * Joseph J. Dowling as The Governor * Robert McKim as Mendozza * Noah Beery as Maître Renaud * Otis Harlan as The Secretary * Frank Campeau as Don Fernando * Andrew Arbuckle as The Priest * Alec B. Francis as Good Padre * Edwin Stevens as Bishop Oliveros * Louise Fazenda Louise Fazenda (June 17, 1895 – April 17, 1962) was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films. Early life Fazenda was born in her maternal grandparents' house in Lafayette, Indiana, the daughter of merchandise bro ... as Dolores References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sure Fire Flint
''Sure Fire Flint'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Dell Henderson and starring Johnny Hines. Cast *Johnny Hines as Sure Fire Flint *Edmund Breese as Johnny Jets *Robert Edeson as Anthony De Lanni *Effie Shannon as Mrs. De Lanni * J. Barney Sherry as The Proud Father *Doris Kenyon as June De Lanni * Charles K. Gerrard as Digby Poole Preservation With no prints of ''Sure Fire Flint'' located in any film archives, it is considered a 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. .... References External links * 1922 films American silent feature films Lost American comedy films Films directed by Dell Henderson American black-and-white films Silent American comedy films Films with screenplays by Gerald Duffy 1922 comedy films 1922 lost fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
