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Ivy Duke
Ivy Duke (9 June 1896 – 8 November 1937) was a British actress. . bfi.org.uk She was married to the actor and director with whom she co-starred in several films. Filmography * '' The March Hare'' (1919) * '' The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton'' (1919) * '' I Will'' (1919) * '' |
Kensington
Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensington Gardens, containing the Albert Memorial, the Serpentine Gallery and John Hanning Speke, Speke's monument. South Kensington and Gloucester Road, London, Gloucester Road are home to Imperial College London, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Albert Hall, Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Science Museum, London, Science Museum. The area is also home to many embassies and consulates. Name The Manorialism, manor of ''Chenesitone'' is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, which in the Old English language, Anglo-Saxon language means "Chenesi's List of generic forms in place names in Ireland and the United Kingdom, ton" (homestead/settlement). One early spelling is ''Kesyngton'', as wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Farm (film)
''Fox Farm'' is a 1922 Cinema of the United Kingdom, British silent film, silent drama film directed by Guy Newall and starring Newall, Ivy Duke and Barbara Everest. It is based on the 1911 novel ''Fox Farm (novel), Fox Farm'' by Warwick Deeping. A farmer's wife becomes obsessed with the high life, and abandons him after he loses his sight. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.Warren p.11 Unlike many of the era, the film is still extant. Cast * Guy Newall - James Falconer * Ivy Duke - Ann Wetherall * Barbara Everest - Kate Falconer * Cameron Carr (actor), Cameron Carr - Jack Rickerby * A. Bromley Davenport - Sam Wetherall * Charles Evemy - Slim Wetherall * John Alexander - Jacob Boase References Bibliography * Bamford, Kenton. ''Distorted Images: British National Identity and Film in the 1920s''. I.B. Tauris, 1999. * Warren, Patricia. ''British Film Studios: An Illustrated History''. Batsford, 2001. External links * 1922 films Silent British drama films 1922 drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Kensington
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Actresses From London
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. 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 (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Silent Film Actresses
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1937 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 Births
Events January * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation, later known as X-rays. * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 16 – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth (England). * January 17 – Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895–1896), Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British British Army, redcoats enter the Ashanti people, Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Knight In London
''A Knight in London'' () is a 1928 British-German silent drama film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Lilian Harvey, Ivy Duke and Robin Irvine. A sound version was released in 1930. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was one of a significant number of co-productions between the two countries in the late 1920s. The film's direction and the cinematography by Karl Freund were widely praised.Low, p. 195. Cast * Lilian Harvey as Aline Morland * Ivy Duke as Lady Morland * Robin Irvine as Harry Erskine *Bernard Nedell Bernard Jay Nedell (October 14, 1898 – November 23, 1972) was an American film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1916 and 1972. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California. He was married to actress Olive Bla ... as Prince Zalnoff * Robert English as Mr. McComber *Kenneth Rive as Boy * Zena Dare * Harry Nestor References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decameron Nights (1924 Film)
''Decameron Nights'' is a 1924 British-German silent drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke and Werner Krauss. It is based on the novel ''Decameron'' by Giovanni Boccaccio. Cast * Lionel Barrymore as Saladin * Ivy Duke as Perdita * Werner Krauss as Soldan * Bernhard Goetzke as Torello * Randle Ayrton as Ricciardo * Xenia Desni as Lady Teodora * Jameson Thomas as Imliff * Hanna Ralph as Lady Violante * Albert Steinrück as King Algarve Production Herbert Wilcox had previously made ''Chu Chin Chow'' in Germany with Eric Pommer. Pommer invited Wilcox back to make another film. UFA would provide the story, screenplay and cast plus 50% of the finance. Wilcox would produce and direct, bring in American and British stars and 50% of the finance. Wilcox signed Ivy Duke from Britain and Lionel Barrymore from the US. They arrived in Berlin a few days before filming was to start. Wilcox loved the sets and the story but felt the script "stank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Prince Shan
''The Great Prince Shan'' is a 1924 British silent drama film directed by A.E. Coleby and featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Ivy Duke, Tsuru Aoki, Valia, David Hawthorne, Fred Raynham and Henry Vibart in important roles. The film is adapted from the 1922 novel of the same title by E. Phillips Oppenheim. It was made at Cricklewood Studios by Stoll Pictures, the largest British production company of the era. Location shooting took place on the French Riviera.Nelmes p.331 It was one of two films former Hollywood Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (other) * Hollywood ... star Hayakawa made for Stoll along with '' Sen Yan's Devotion'' released later the same year. Plot The father of a young aristocratic woman is assassinated and she is reluctant to marry a cultured, reserved and brilliant Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Starlit Garden
''The Starlit Garden'' is a 1923 British silent romantic film directed by Guy Newall and starring Newall, Ivy Duke, Lawford Davidson and Mary Rorke. The film is set in Italy and concerns a doomed romance between a ward and her guardian. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.Warren p.11 Cast * Guy Newall as Richard Pinckney * Ivy Duke as Phyllis Berknowles * Valia Venitshaya as Frances Blett * A. Bromley Davenport as Colonel Grangerson * Lawford Davidson as Silas Grangerson * Mary Rorke as Aunt Maria * Cecil Morton York as Hennessey * John Alexander as Rafferty * Marie Ault Marie Ault (2 September 1870 – 9 May 1951) was a British character actress of stage and film. Biography Born Emily Cragg, in Wigan, Lancashire, the daughter of Jane Ann (née Ault) and Thomas Cragg, a plumber by trade. She made her first sta ... as Old Prue References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. * Warren, Patricia. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
