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Katherine Perry
Katherine Perry (January 5, 1897 – October 14, 1983), also known as Kathryn Perry, was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in 37 films between 1920 and 1936. Biography Katherine Perry was born on January 5, 1897. Although she spent a brief time in a private school, the bulk of Perry's education came in public schools. Before she became an actress, Perry worked as a model. She was in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1911, 1917, 1918, 1919, and the more risqué Midnight Frolic show in 1918. Apart from the Follies, she also acted on Broadway in ''(From) Broadway to Paris'', which ran from November 1912 to January 1913, ''The Passing Show of 1913'', ''Robinson Crusoe, Jr.'' (1916), ''The Century Girl'' (1916-1917), and ''Miss 1917''. She made her film debut in ''Sooner or Later'' (1920). She next appeared in minor roles in ''The Chicken in the Case'' (1921) and ''Why Girls Leave Home (1921 film), Why Girls Leave Home'' (1921), in which she was billed as Mrs. Owen Moore ... [...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] |
Love Is An Awful Thing
''Love Is an Awful Thing'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Victor Heerman and starring Owen Moore Owen Moore (12 December 1886 – 9 June 1939) was an Irish people, Irish-born American actor, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937. Early life and career Moore was born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland. A ..., Marjorie Daw, and Katherine Perry. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Anthony Churchill is to marry Helen after six months probation to convince her father Judge Griggs that he is a proper young man when Marion turns up some of Anthony's old love letters. To put her off, Anthony assumes the role of a married man with six children, but Marion discovers the hoax. Helen runs into a scene with Anthony with his made-up family. Complications ensue and it appears that the marriage will be wrecked when it is discovered that Marion is married to her attorney and the two were involved in hatching a blackmail sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Rainy Afternoon
''One Rainy Afternoon'' is a 1936 American romantic comedy film directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Francis Lederer and Ida Lupino, and featuring Hugh Herbert, Roland Young, and Erik Rhodes. It also marked the last film appearance by actress Florence Lawrence, who died in 1938, who had an uncredited bit role in the film. It was written by Stephen Morehouse Avery, with additional dialogue by Maurice Hanline, from the screenplay for the 1935 French film ''Monsieur Sans-Gêne'' by Emeric Pressburger and René Pujol, which was based on the story "The Satyr" by Pressburger.TCNotes/ref> The film was reissued in 1948 as ''Matinee Scandal''. Plot On a rainy afternoon in Paris, debonair actor Philippe Martin goes to a darkened movie theatre for a romantic assignation with his married mistress, Yvonne, but sits in the wrong seat and kisses instead lovely Monique Pelerin, the daughter of a powerful publisher. Monique, who is engaged to powerful Count Alfredo Donstelli, makes a public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Mail (film)
''Air Mail'' is a 1932 American pre-Code adventure film directed by John Ford, based on a story by Dale Van Every and Frank "Spig" Wead. The film stars Ralph Bellamy, Pat O'Brien and Gloria Stuart."Air Mail (John Ford, 1932)" grunes.wordpress.com; retrieved September 1, 2014. A copy is preserved in the Library of Congress. Plot Pilot Mike Miller (Ralph Bellamy) owns and operates Desert Airport, an air mail base at the foot of the . He leads a group of young pilots who risk their lives flying through dangerous weather and over treacherous terrain to deliver air mail. When Joe Barnes ( |
Is Zat So?
''Is Zat So?'' is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. The film was based on a 1925 play of the same name by James Gleason and Richard Taber and produced by George Brinton McLellan, which ran for 634 performances at the 39th Street Theatre in New York and opened in the same year at the Adelphi Theatre The play starred Gleason, Sidney Riggs and a pre-talkies Robert Armstrong. Plot Cast * George O'Brien as Ed 'Chick' Cowan *Edmund Lowe as Hap Hurley *Katherine Perry as Marie Mestretti *Cyril Chadwick as Robert Parker *Doris Lloyd as Sue Parker *Diane Ellis as Florence Hanley *Richard Maitland as Major Fitz Stanley *Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as G. Clifton Blackburn * Philippe De Lacy as Little Jimmy Parker *Jack Herrick as Gas House Duffy Preservation With no prints of ''Is Zat So?'' located in any film archives, it i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Year (1926 Film)
''The First Year'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Matt Moore, Katherine Perry, John Patrick, Frank Currier, and Frank Cooley. It is based on the 1920 play of the same name by Frank Craven. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on January 24, 1926. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Tom and Grace Tucker have been married a year. Grace is discontented and wishes they had more money. Tom consoles her by the promise of what he will achieve by a prospective big business deal. He invites Mr. and Mrs. Barstow to dinner and has the former all hooked up for a real estate killing. Mr. Barstow is a railroad executive while his wife is a former showgirl. However, the inexperience of their maid Hattie makes the dinner less than ideal, and the arrival of Dick Loring and a chance conversational slip by Grace threatens to spoil the deal. Grace and Tom quarrel, and she leaves to go to her mother. Tom gets drunk, but closes the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wings Of Youth (1925 Film)
''Wings of Youth'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and written by Bernard McConville. The film stars Ethel Clayton, Madge Bellamy, Charles Farrell, Freeman Wood, Robert Cain, and Katherine Perry. The film was released on May 21, 1925, by Fox Film Corporation The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American independent company that produced motion pictures and was formed in 1914 by the theater "chain" pioneer William Fox (producer), William Fox. It was the corporate successor to .... Plot As described in a film magazine review, Mrs. Katherine Manners loves her three grown daughters who are in boarding school. When she plans a party for them at home, they phone from the school that they cannot come because they are too busy. But she hears the sounds of a party in the background, so she goes to the school where she finds her daughters with young men. She is told that two of the daughters plan to be married, while the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fools And Riches
''Fools and Riches'' is a 1923 American drama film directed by Herbert Blaché and written by Charles Kenyon and George C. Hull. The film stars Herbert Rawlinson, Katherine Perry, Tully Marshall, Doris Pawn, Arthur Stuart Hull, and Nick De Ruiz. The film was released on May 7, 1923, by Universal Pictures. Cast *Herbert Rawlinson as Jimmy Dorgan *Katherine Perry as Nellie Blye *Tully Marshall as John Dorgan *Doris Pawn as Bernice Lorraine *Arthur Stuart Hull as Dick McCann * Nick De Ruiz as Frasconi *Roy Laidlaw Roy James Laidlaw (born 5 October 1953) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.Bath, pp145, 146 Rugby Union career Amateur career Much of his domestic rugby was played with Jed-Forest RFC, who were in the Scottish Second Divi ... as Lawyer * John Cossar as President of the Railroad References External links *{{IMDb title, 0014053, Fools and Riches 1923 films 1920s English-language films Silent American drama films 1923 drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Womanpower
''Womanpower'' is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and written by Kenneth B. Clarke. The film stars Ralph Graves, Katherine Perry, Margaret Livingston, Ralph Sipperly, Will Walling and David Butler. The film was released on September 19, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation. The short story was remade as '' Right to the Heart'' (1942). Cast *Ralph Graves as Johnny White Bromley *Katherine Perry as Jenny Killian * Margaret Livingston as Dot * Ralph Sipperly as Gimp Conway *Will Walling William R. Walling (June 2, 1872 – March 5, 1932) was an American actor of stage and film in the silent era. Biography Before he acted in films, Walling traveled the United States performing with stock theater companies. In 1912, he wa ... as Jake Killian * David Butler as Mallory * Lou Tellegen as The Broker * Anders Randolf as Bromley Sr. *Robert Ryan as Sands *Frankie Grandetta as Sheik References External links * 1926 films 1920s English-langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Street (1923 Film)
''Main Street'' is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the 1920 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Harry Beaumont. A Broadway play version of the novel was produced in 1921. It was the first film to be released after the foundation of Warner Bros. Pictures on April 4, 1923. Plot As described in a film magazine review, a young city woman with advanced ideas marries a small town doctor, and go to live in a backwoods burg. Her irritation at the small talk and petty incidents which make up the lives of the townspeople finally culminate in her leaving home and going to work as a government clerk in Washington, D.C. After a time her husband follows her there and there is a reunion. Cast Box office According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $510,000 domestically and $46,000 foreign. Preservation status ''Main Street'' is a lost film A lost film is a feature film, feature or short film in whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Door (film)
''The Last Door'' is a 1921 American silent mystery film directed by William P.S. Earle and starring Eugene O'Brien, Nita Naldi and Charles Craig.Munden p.420 Plot Cast * Eugene O'Brien as The Magnet * Charles Craig as Freddie Tripp * Nita Naldi as The Widow * Helen Pillsbury as Mrs. Rogers * Martha Mansfield as Helen Rogers * Katherine Perry Katherine Perry (January 5, 1897 – October 14, 1983), also known as Kathryn Perry, was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in 37 films between 1920 and 1936. Biography Katherine Perry was born on January 5, 1897. Although s ... as Guest * Warren Cook as Colonel 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 mystery films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by William P. S. Earle Selzn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Divorce Of Convenience
''A Divorce of Convenience'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Robert Ellis and starring Owen Moore, Katherine Perry and Nita Naldi.Munden p.191 Plot Cast * Owen Moore as Jim Blake * Katherine Perry as Helen Wakefield * George Lessey George Lessey (June 8, 1879 – June 3, 1947) was an American actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1910 and 1946. He also directed more than 70 films between 1913 and 1922. Lessey was born in Amh ... as Sen. Wakefield * Nita Naldi as Tula Moliana * Frank Wunderlee as Blinkwell Jones * Dan Duffy as Mr. Hart * Charles Craig as Mr. Holmes 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 bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
