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Julia Dean (actress, Born 1878)
Julia Dean (May 13, 1878 – October 17, 1952) was a stage and film actress who began her career in the 1890s. Biography Julia Dean was born to Albert Clay Dean and Susan Jane Morton in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1878. She had a sister Eloise and a brother. She made her Broadway debut December 1, 1902 in ''The Altars of Friendship''. She toured with Joseph Jefferson and James Neill. In 1907 she appeared with Maclyn Arbuckle in ''The Round-Up''. She worked for producers William A. Brady and David Belasco. In 1914-1915 she had significant success portraying Margaret Harding, a battered woman who kills her husband to protect her young son, in George Broadhurst's '' The Law of the Land'' at Broadway's 48th Street Theatre. She began making silent pictures in 1915 and continued until 1919. She then devoted her career to the stage until 1944 when she returned to films in ''The Curse of the Cat People''. She continued to appear in film noir classics like '' Nightmare Alley'' l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Dean (actress, Born 1830)
Julia Dean (July 22, 1830 – March 6, 1868) was an American actress who made her New York debut at 16 in a starring role with the James Sheridan Knowles comedy, ''The Hunchback (play), The Hunchback''. Her performance was met with such praise that she continued to star in productions of ''The Hunchback'' over much of her twenty-year career. Although she began and ended her career on the East Coast of the United States, East coast, Dean's greatest popularity was achieved in tours of the Southern United States, American South and the Western United States, Far West. Dean was married twice; she was the mother of four children, but died in childbirth with a stillborn son at the age of 37. Early life Dean was born in Pleasant Valley (town), New York, Pleasant Valley, New York, the daughter of Edwin Dean (1804–1876) and Julia Drake Fosdick Dean, Julia Drake (1800–1832). Her father, an actor and theatre manager, was born in Poughkeepsie, the son of Quakers Her English-born mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Town
''Magic Town'' is a 1947 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman and starring James Stewart and Jane Wyman. The picture is one of the first films about the then-new practice of public opinion polling. The film was inspired by the Middletown studies. It is also known as ''The Magic City''. The "magic" of the title is the mathematical miracle (as it is called in the film) that certain towns can be used to fairly accurately predict the actions of the whole country. This was character actor Donald Meek’s final film. Plot Lawrence "Rip" Smith is a former basketball player and ex-military who now runs a company that performs polls and consumer surveys. Lately he has started obsessing about being able to find a perfect mathematical "miracle formula" to perform the perfect survey, and compete for real with his rival companies. Because he lacks funds, he is far behind his number one rival, George Stringer. One day Rip discovers that a survey made by a friend and ex-Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of The Blue (1947 Film)
''Out of the Blue'' is a 1947 American screwball comedy film based on the short story by Vera Caspary who also co-wrote the screenplay. It stars George Brent, Virginia Mayo, Turhan Bey, Ann Dvorak and Carole Landis. It was directed by Leigh Jason. Plot Arthur Earthleigh (George Brent) lives in an apartment in Greenwich Village where he is dominated by his wife Mae (Carole Landis) and annoyed by Rabelais, the German Shepherd owned by his neighbour, artist and swinging bachelor David (Turhan Bey). David has a constant parade of attractive women visiting his apartment to pose for him. He currently is being visited by Deborah (Virginia Mayo) who wants David's champion Rabelais to breed with her dog. When his wife goes off to visit her sister, Arthur visits a bar where he's picked up by interior decorator Olive (Ann Dvorak) who comes home with him. Olive has a taste for brandy that she insists alleviates her heart condition but makes her tipsy. Arthur orders the reluctant Olive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Do You Love Me (film)
''Do You Love Me'' is a 1946 American Technicolor musical romance film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes and Reginald Gardiner . The film also features band leader Harry James and his Orchestra. It was produced and distributed by 20th Century-Fox. Betty Grable makes a cameo at the end of the film. At the time Harry James was married to contracted Fox star Betty Grable. Plot Jimmy Hale, a successful singer, chases Katharine "Kitten" Hilliard, a prim music-school dean who transforms herself into a desirable, sophisticated lady after traveling to the big city. Trumpeter and bandleader Barry Clayton also pursues Katharine. Cast * Maureen O'Hara as Katherine 'Kitten' Hilliard * Dick Haymes as Jimmy Hale * Harry James as Barry Clayton * Reginald Gardiner as Herbert Benham * Richard Gaines as Ralph Wainwright * Stanley Prager as Jay Dilly * Betty Grable Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experiment Perilous
''Experiment Perilous'' is a 1944 American melodrama film set at the turn of the 20th century. The film is based on a 1943 novel of the same name by Margaret Seymour Carpenter, Margaret Carpenter, and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, and Claude E. Carpenter were nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Production Design, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White. Hedy Lamarr's singing voice was dubbed by Paula Raymond. Plot The story takes place in 1903. During a train trip, psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey (George Brent) meets a friendly older lady (Olive Blakeney), when she turns to him for reassurance during a torrential downpour. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida, both of whom she effectively raised. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died while visiting her brother for tea. Shortly afterwards, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Society Exile (1919 Film)
''A Society Exile'' (1919) is an American silent film drama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Elsie Ferguson, Julia Dean, and William Carleton. The assistant director to Fitzmaurice was William Scully. The film was based upon the 1910 play ''We Can't Be as Bad as All That'' by Henry Arthur Jones, adapted for the screen by Ouida Bergère. The film marks the second screen appearance of the actor Henry Stephenson. According to the American Film Institute catalog, William Cameron Menzies may or may not have been the art director for the film. Plot Based upon a plot summary included in a film review in a film publication, Nora (Ferguson) is an American heiress who is courted by Lord Bissett (Gamble) while visiting England. She overhears Bissett discussing with his sister the need of Nora's money to replenish his fortune, so she leaves him and moves into a nearby cottage. A successful playwright Sir Howard Furnival (Stephenson) assists her in preparing a play based upon a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruling Passions
''Ruling Passions'' is a lost 1918 American silent drama film produced, written, and directed by Abraham S. Schomer and starring Julia Dean. It was released on State Rights basis. Cast * Julia Dean as Eveline Roland *Edwin Arden as John Walton *Claire Whitney Claire Whitney (May 6, 1890 – August 27, 1969) was an American stage and film actress who appeared in 111 films between 1912 and 1949. Only 21 of these films survive, as most have been lost. Whitney gained early acting experience with a ... as Louise Palmer *Earl Schenck as Alexander Vernon *Doan Borrup as Lew References External links * 1918 films 1918 drama films 1918 lost films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films American black-and-white films American silent feature films English-language drama films Lost American drama films Selznick Pictures films Silent American drama films Lost silent American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ransom (1915 Film)
''The Ransom'' is a lost 1915 silent film drama starring directed by Lawrence Edmund and starring Julia Dean. It was released by World Film Company. Plot summary Cast * Julia Dean - Janet Osborne * Louise Huff Louise Huff (November 14, 1895 – August 22, 1973) was an American actress of the silent film era. Biography Huff was a descendant of former President James Knox Polk. She began her acting career at the age of 15 and toured in productions ... - Marcia Osborne * J. Albert Hall - Mark Osborne (*as James Hall) * Ethel Lloyd - Sarah Osborne * Willard Case - Ellis Raymond * Kenneth Hunter - Geoffrey Allen * William McKey - (*as William Mackey) * Lorna Volare - * Adelaide Lawrence - * Evelyn Dumo - References External links * * * 1915 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films 1910s English-language films World Film Company films Lost American drama films Silent American drama films 1915 drama films 1915 lost films 1910s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matrimony (film)
''Matrimony'' was a lost 1915 silent film drama directed by Scott Sidney and starring Julia Dean, and a teenaged John Gilbert. The first four of five reels were found in Russia in September, 2024, without inter titles. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation. Cast * Julia Dean - Diana Rossmore *Howard C. Hickman - Weston Rossmore *Thelma Salter - Viola *Louise Glaum - Thelma Iverson *Betty Burbridge Elizabeth Burbridge (December 7, 1895 – September 19, 1987) was an American screenwriter and actress, best known for her Western screenplays. Biography Elizabeth Burbridge was born in San Diego, California, on December 7, 1895, the granddaugh ... - Antoinette *Lou Salter - Nurse (unconfirmed) References External links * 1915 films 1915 drama films 1915 lost films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films American black-and-white films American silent feature films Films directed by Scott Sidney Lost American drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
