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John Miljan
John Miljan (November 9, 1892 – January 24, 1960) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1924 and 1958. Biography Born in 1892, Miljan was the tall, smooth-talking villain in Hollywood films for almost four decades, beginning in 1923. This kind of smooth villainy was made famous by more established actors like Ward Crane and Miljan continued in the mold after Crane's death in 1928. Miljan made his first sound film in 1927 in the promotional trailer for ''The Jazz Singer'', inviting audiences to see the upcoming landmark film. In later years he played imposing, authoritative parts such as high-ranking executives and military officers. He is best remembered as General Custer in Cecil B. DeMille's film ''The Plainsman''. DeMille also cast him in two notable supporting roles in two of his biblical epics: the Tribe of Dan, Danite elder Lesh Lakish in ''Samson and Delilah (1949 film), Samson and Delilah'' (1949), and the blind Israelite grandfather in T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, California
Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles, neighborhood and district in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has become synonymous with the Cinema of the United States, U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios such as Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures are located in or near Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. The North Hollywood, Los Angeles, northern and East Hollywood, Los Angeles, eastern parts of the neighborhood were Merger (politics), consolidated with the City of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter, the prominent film industry migrated to the area. History Initial development H. J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. Whitley shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Stroke Of Three
''On the Stroke of Three'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Kenneth Harlan, Madge Bellamy, and Mary Carr. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Lafayette Jordan (Davis), financier, plans to inundate Caribou Canyon and turn it into a reservoir, but the villagers will not sell him their land. Among the resentful villagers is Judson Forrest (Harlan), who wants to be an inventor. Mary Jordan (Bellamy), daughter of the financier, is hurt and spends a night at his home. Learning of his attitude toward her father, she poses as a domestic at the Jordan home. Later, in New York, Judson looks her up. He is trying to sell his invention and, to get funds, he mortgages his home. The village banker, in league with Jordan, sells the financier the mortgage, and a foreclosure threatens when Jordan's business agent Henry Mogridge (Miljan) double-crosses Judson. The youth thinks Mary working against him. Friends come to Judson's aid and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Footloose Widows
''Footloose Widows'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Roy Del Ruth, and starring Louise Fazenda and Jacqueline Logan. Cast * Louise Fazenda as Flo * Jacqueline Logan as Marian * Jason Robards, Sr. as Jerry *Douglas Gerrard as Grover * Neely Edwards as The Ex-Mayor *Arthur Hoyt as Henry *Jane Winton as Mrs. Drew *Mack Swain as Ludwig, Marian's husband in retrospect *John Miljan as Mr. Smith * Eddie Phillips as "Tuxedo" Eddie * Henry A. Barrows as Hotel Manager Preservation A print of ''Footloose Widows'' is preserved in the Library of Congress collection. A 16mm copy is held at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is a major archive of motion picture, television, radio, and theater research materials. Located in the headquarters building of the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin, th .... References External links *Thumb size ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooding Eyes
''Brooding Eyes'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent crime film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Clifford, and Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892), Robert Ellis. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Slim Jim Carey, a titled nobleman who is also the leader of a band of crooks, is reported dead and leaves proof of his daughter’s claim to the estate with his henchmen. Not trusting them, he spies on them from behind his own portrait. With the aid of the man who loves his daughter, he frustrates their plots to get the money in the estate, and is caught by the police just as he is shot. Dying, he reveals his identity to the young man, but not to his daughter. Cast * Lionel Barrymore as Slim Jim Carey * Ruth Clifford as Joan Ayre * Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892), Robert Ellis as Phillip Mott * Montagu Love as Pat Callaghan * William V. Mong as Slaney * Lucien Littlefield as Bell * John Miljan as Drummond * Dot Farley as Marie De Costa * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Circus
''The Devil's Circus'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Danish director Benjamin Christensen, based upon his screenplay. The film stars Norma Shearer and Charles Emmett Mack. It was the first of seven films directed by Christensen in the United States, and one of only four of those films that have not been lost. The film involves a young female trapeze artist who is in love with a pickpocket. The film's sets were designed by the art director James Basevi. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Mary, a young country woman, is befriended by Carl, a pickpocket. She obtains employment in a circus. Carl is arrested for robbery but promises Mary to go straight thereafter. Hugo, a lion-tamer who is infatuated with Mary, assaults her. Jealousy impels Yonna, Hugo's mistress, to tamper with the ropes while Mary is doing her trapeze act. She falls among the enraged lions and is crippled. War breaks out, and many circus men leave to serve in the military. When pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flaming Waters
''Flaming Waters'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Malcolm McGregor, Pauline Garon, and Mary Carr. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Danny O'Neil moves to Oil City with his mother, seeking to find Jasper Thorne, who swindled his mother. He gets the best of Thorne in an oil deal and buys a well that turns out to be a gusher, the spray from its overflow covering the area surrounding their ranch. A lamp thrown by Thorne ignites the oil. Danny's foolish friend Midge Botsford opens the gate on the reservoir, and a flaming flood results. Danny rescues his mother and Doris Laidlaw, and he wins the young woman's heart. Cast Preservation *A print is preserved in 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morals For Men
''Morals for Men'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Bernard H. Hyman and starring Conway Tearle, Agnes Ayres, and Alyce Mills. It is based upon the novel ''The Lucky Serum'' by Gouverneur Morris. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Joe (Tearle) and Bessie (Ayres), living in defiance of the moral code, have sunk to the depths. Bessie, believing Joe has taken their meagre savings, leaves him and becomes a manicure, finally marrying a wealthy chap who turns out to be stingy and grouchy. Joe saves Marion (Mills), a rich girl, from drowning and eventually makes good as a civil engineer and marries her. Eventually Joe and Bessie meet and Joe, in helping her to keep her secret, incurs Marion's jealousy. Bessie is blackmailed by a former acquaintance and, in desperation, decides to tell everything to her husband, but to aid Joe she accuses Wallace (Miljan), with whom Marion is preparing to go away. Finally, Joe and Marion are reconciled, but Bessie learns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unchastened Woman
''The Unchastened Woman'' is a 1925 American silent drama film starring vamp Theda Bara, directed by James Young, the former husband of Clara Kimball Young, and released by start-up studio Chadwick Pictures. The film is based on a 1915 Broadway play, ''The Unchastened Woman'', which starred Emily Stevens. This was Bara's "comeback" film but turned out to be her final feature appearance and is one of her few surviving films. The play was also filmed in 1918 with Grace Valentine. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Caroline Knollys detects an intrigue between her husband Hubert and his gold digging secretary Emily Madden. Caroline goes abroad and, after her son is born, becomes a reigning belle. Eventually, she returns home, but keeps her husband in ignorance of the baby boy's birth and retires to a country estate. Hubert repents, but Caroline is obdurate. Because she has been flirting outrageously as part of her revenge, the jealous husband pays an unexpected v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unnamed Woman
''The Unnamed Woman'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Harry O. Hoyt and starring Katherine MacDonald, Herbert Rawlinson and Wanda Hawley.Connelly p.426 Cast * Katherine MacDonald as Flora Brookes * Herbert Rawlinson as Donald Brookes * Wanda Hawley as Doris Gray * Leah Baird as Billie Norton * John Miljan as Archie Wesson * Mike Donlin as Chauffeur Preservation With no prints of ''The Unnamed Woman'' 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 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, Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sealed Lips (1925 Film)
''Sealed Lips'' is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tony Gaudio and starring Dorothy Revier Dorothy Revier (born Doris Valerga; April 18, 1904 – November 19, 1993) was an American actress. Early years Born as Doris Valerga in San Francisco on April 18, 1904, Revier was one of five siblings of the famous Valerga performing family o ..., Cullen Landis, and Lincoln Stedman. Plot As described in a film magazine review, a young man who believes his fiancé’s dying father, a gambler, is his rival, breaks with the young woman. She tries to prove her innocence, but is not united with the young man until after she saves his sister from a villainous wooer. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1925 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures films 1920s American films English-language drama films {{1920s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wreckage (film)
''Wreckage'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring May Allison, Holmes Herbert, and John Miljan.Goble p. 163 Cast * May Allison as Rene * Holmes Herbert as Stuart Ames * John Miljan John Miljan (November 9, 1892 – January 24, 1960) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1924 and 1958. Biography Born in 1892, Miljan was the tall, smooth-talking villain in Hollywood films for almost four deca ... as Maurice Dysart * Rosemary Theby as Margot * James W. Morrison as Grant Demarest References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1925 films 1925 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by Scott R. Dunlap 1920s American films {{1920s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Overland Limited (1925 Film)
''The Overland Limited'' is a 1925 American silent film, directed by Frank O'Neill and produced by Sam Sax with cinematography by Jack MacKenzie. The story was written by James J. Tynan. The film was released July 14, 1925 in New York. Plot The film starred Malcolm McGregor as an idealistic young railroad engineer who designs and builds a new railroad bridge, and Olive Borden as his love interest. The conflicting male lead is played by Ralph Lewis as the railway engineer who ultimately saves a trainload of passengers from the dangerous bridge. The picture concludes with a model set of a steam locomotive breaking through the steel girders and plunging into the river. Cast * Malcolm McGregor as David Barton (male lead) * Olive Borden as Ruth Dent (female lead) * Charles Hill Mailes as Schuyler Dent * Evelyn Jennings as Agnes Jennings * Alice Lake as Violet Colton * Ralph Lewis as Ed Barton * Charles Post as "One Round" Farrell * Ethel Wales as Mrs. Barton * Charles Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
