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Henri Bernstein
Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (20 June 1876 – 27 November 1953) was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre. Biography Bernstein was born in Paris. His earliest plays, including ''La Rafale'' (1905), ''Le Voleur'' (1907), ''Samson'' (1908), ''Israël'' (1908), and ''Le Secret'' (1913), are written in a realistic style and powerfully depict harsh realities of modern life and society. The far-right royalist ''Camelots du Roi'' youth organization of the ''Action française'' organized an anti-Semitic riot against a production of one of his plays in 1911. During the Second World War, he fled to the United States and lived in New York City at the Waldorf Astoria. Jean-Pierre Aumont relates in his work ''Le Soleil et les Ombres'' (Robert Laffont, 1976) the luxury in which he lived, as well as his general lack of interest in the war. He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris. Works *''Le Marché'' (The Market), 1900 *''Le Détour'', 1902 *''Joujou'', 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Lewis (director)
Edgar Lewis (July 22, 1869 – May 21, 1938) was an American director. Career He began his career as a stage actor and entered the film industry in 1911 as an actor, making his directorial debut two years later. Specializing in action-adventure films and westerns, he directed dozens of pictures between 1913 and 1930, when he left directing and returned to his first love, acting. Most of his films during the sound era were in bit parts or uncredited roles. He appeared in his final film, '' Riding Wild'' in 1935 and retired. He died in Los Angeles in 1938. Partial filmography * '' The Thief'' (1914) * ''The Governor'' (1915) * '' Samson'' (1915) * '' The Plunderer'' (1915) * '' The Bondman'' (1916) * '' Sherry'' (1920) * '' Lahoma'' (1920) * '' A Beggar in Purple'' (1920) * '' Other Men's Shoes'' (1920) * '' The Sage Hen'' (1921) * '' Strength of the Pines'' (1922) * '' You Are Guilty'' (1923) * '' The Right of the Strongest'' (1924) * '' Red Love'' (1925) * '' A Made-To-Order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreaming Lips (1932 Film)
''Dreaming Lips'' (german: Der träumende Mund) is a 1932 French-German drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Rudolf Forster and Anton Edthofer. The film is based on the play '' Mélo'' by Henri Bernstein. As was common at the time, the film was a co-production with a separate French-language version ' made. After Bergner and Czinner went into exile in Britain following the Nazi takeover, they remade the film in 1937. A further German remake was released in 1953, starring Maria Schell. Cast *Elisabeth Bergner as Gaby *Rudolf Forster as Michael Marsden *Anton Edthofer as Peter *Margarethe Hruby as Christine *Jaro Fürth as Arzt *Peter Kroger as Kind * Karl Hannemann as Impresario * Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Polizist *Werner Pledath *Gustav Püttjer *Willi Schur Willi Schur (22 August 1888 – 1 November 1940) was a German actor and singer. He appeared in roughly ninety feature films in a variety of supporting roles. Selected filmography * '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brabin
Charles Brabin (April 17, 1882 – November 3, 1957) was a British-American film director. Biography Born in Liverpool, England, he was educated at St. Francis Xavier College. Brabin sailed to New York City in the early 1900s and, while holding down odd jobs there, he tried his hand as a stage actor. He joined the Edison Manufacturing Company around 1908, first acting, later writing and directing. He was active during the silent era, then pursued a short-lived career in talkies. His last film was '' A Wicked Woman'' for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934. Brabin married his first wife socialite Suzan "Susette" Jeanette Mosher, the daughter of Edwin Howard Mosher and Jennie Slater Mosher of New York City. They wed December 14, 1913, at Bedford Congregational Church in the Bronx, shortly after Brabin returned from a trip to England and Europe. Brabin's best friend, screen actor Marc MacDermott, served as best man. Charles and Suzan Brabin remained married for seven years."United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Masquerade
''The Washington Masquerade'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Charles Brabin and written by John Meehan and Samuel Blythe. The film stars Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, Diane Sinclair, Nils Asther and Reginald Barlow. The film was released on July 9, 1932, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot After successfully freeing a wrongfully convicted boy from prison, attorney Jeff Keane is nominated and elected to the United States Senate. Although Keane had been aloof from politics, his crusade against big business becomes popular yet controversial. At a White House gala, Keane meets Consuela Fairbanks, a socialite whom he eventually marries despite his daughter Ruth's protestations. After the marriage, Consuela confesses that she is heavily in debt and urges Jeff to resign and join lobbyist Alan Hinsdale's law firm. After discovering that Hinsdale is corrupt and that Consuela is having an affair with her former lover Henri Brenner, Jeff and Ruth open a Senate investigati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson (1923 Film)
''Samson'' (Italian:''Sansone'') is a 1923 Italian silent drama film directed by Torello Rolli and starring Angelo Ferrari and Elena Sangro.Goble p.38 It is an adaptation of the 1908 play of the same title by Henri Bernstein. A woman from a poor aristocratic family is pressured by her relatives to marry a wealthy businessman, although she doesn't love him. Cast * Gemma De Ferrari * Angelo Ferrari as Jack Brachart * Franco Gennaro as Andeline * Giuseppe Pierozzi * Elena Sangro as Anne-Marie d'Andeline * Enrico Scatizzi Enrico is both an Italian masculine given name and a surname, Enrico means homeowner, or king, derived from ''Heinrich'' of Germanic origin. It is also a given name in Ladino. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Henri (French), Enr ... as La Govain References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. '' The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1923 films 1923 drama films Italian drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon (born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon; 13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through the 1930s. Brenon was among the early filmmakers who, before the rise of corporate film production, was a genuine “ auteur”, controlling virtually all creative and technical components in crafting his pictures. The quality of Brenon's artistic output rivaled that of film pioneers D. W. Griffith. Brenon was among the first directors to achieve celebrity status among moviegoers for his often spectacular cinematic inventions. Among his most notable films are Neptune's Daughter (1914), Peter Pan (1925), A Kiss for Cinderella (1925), and the original film version of Beau Geste (1926). Early life Brenon was born at 25 Crosthwaite Park, in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Dublin to Edward St. John Brenon, a journalist, poet, and politician and his wife Francis Harries. In 1882, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shackles Of Gold
''Shackles of Gold'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring William Farnum, Alfred Loring, and Marie Shotwell. It is an adaptation of the 1908 play ''Samson'' by Henri Bernstein with the setting moved from France to America.Goble p. 38. The screenplay involves a woman from an aristocratic but poor family who is pressured by her relatives to marry a wealthy financier. Plot As described in a film magazine, John Gibbs (Farnum) is a dock laborer but rises to wealth by speculation in the oil market. He marries Marie (Bonillas), the daughter of Charles Van Dusen (Loring), but she consented to the marriage solely because the family fortune was depleted and to maintain their social standing. John bears this quietly until he learns that his wife has gone to a cabaret with another man. John turns on his former friend, Donald Valentine (Griffin), and, while breaking him becomes, ruins himself. However, through the strange workings of the human mind, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques De Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli (25 June 1881 – 12 January 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He came from a Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century, occupying a building in the centre of Avignon then called the Baroncelli Palace (now the Palais du Roure). His father's side of the family were of Tuscan origin and part of the Ghibelline tradition, and they were hereditary Marquises of Javon. Though somewhat aristocratic, the family spoke Provençal, which was rather controversial at a time when it was considered to be a language of the common people. His older brother was Folco de Baroncelli-Javon, He directed well over 80 films between 1915 and 1948 and in the 1940s released numerous films in the United States and Italy. One of his films, a version of the Pierre Louÿs novel ''La Femme et le pantin'' (1928) was filmed in the experimental Keller-Dorian color process. Selected filmography * '' Ramun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telemaco Ruggeri
Telemaco Ruggeri (15 September 1876 – 15 October 1957) was an Italian actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ... and film director of the silent era.Jandelli p.255 Selected filmography * '' Floretta and Patapon'' (1913) * ''Woman Against Woman'' (1921) * '' Take Care of Amelia'' (1925) References Bibliography * Jandelli, Cristina. ''Le dive italiane del cinema muto''. L'epos, 2006. External links * 1876 births 1957 deaths People from Narni Italian male film actors Italian male silent film actors 20th-century Italian male actors Italian film directors {{Italy-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel L'Herbier
Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Early life Marcel L'Herbier was born in Paris on 23 April 1888 into a professional and intellectual family, and as he grew up he demonstrated a multi-talented disposition for sports, dancing, debating and the arts. He attended a Marist school and then the Lycée Voltaire, followed by the École des Hautes Études Sociales in Paris. He worked hard at his education and by 1910 he had obtained his ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Ford (director)
Hugh Ford (February 5, 1868 – 1952) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed or co-directed 31 films between 1913 and 1921. He also wrote for 19 films between 1913 and 1920. Filmography Director * ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1913) co-director * '' Such a Little Queen'' (1914) co-director * ''The Crucible'' (1914) co-director * '' The Morals of Marcus'' (1915) * ''Niobe'' (1915) * ''When We Were Twenty-One'' (1915) * '' Sold'' (1915) * '' Poor Schmaltz'' (1915) * '' The White Pearl'' (1915) * ''Zaza'' (1915) * '' Bella Donna'' (1915) * ''The Prince and the Pauper'' (1915) co-director * '' Lydia Gilmore'' (1915) co-director * '' The Eternal City'' (1915) co-director * '' The Woman in the Case'' (1916) * '' Sleeping Fires'' (1917) * '' The Slave Market'' (1917) * ''Seven Keys to Baldpate'' (1917) * '' Sapho'' (1917) * '' Mrs. Dane's Defense'' (1918) * ''The Danger Mark'' (1918) * '' Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' (1919) * ''The Woman Thou Gavest Me' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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