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One Touch Of Sin
''One Touch of Sin'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Richard Stanton and starring Gladys Brockwell, Jack Standing and Willard Louis.Solomon p.20 Cast * Gladys Brockwell as Mary Livingston * Jack Standing as Richard Mallaby * Willard Louis as Watt Tabor * Sedley Brown as Old Livingston * Carrie Clark Ward as The Widow * Frankie Lee Frankie Lee (December 31, 1911 – July 29, 1970), was an American child actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1916 and 1925. Best remembered in the 1919 film '' The Miracle Man'', he was the little boy on crutches healed by the phony fai ... as Little Billy * Charles Edler as Rd * Jack McDonald as Hard-luck Danver References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011. External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Stanton
Richard Stanton (October 8, 1876 – May 22, 1956) was an American actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in 68 films between 1911 and 1916. He also directed 57 films between 1914 and 1925. He was born in Iowa and died in Los Angeles, California. Stanton was described as a "handsome, musical fellow", but was also a capable pugilist, demonstrating his boxing skills to two other fighters he worked with in a film. Selected filmography * '' In the Secret Service'' (1913) * '' The Wasp'' (1915) * '' Graft'' (1915) * '' The Yankee Way'' (1917) * ''One Touch of Sin'' (1917) * '' The Spy'' (1917) * '' Cheating the Public'' (1918) * '' Rough and Ready'' (1918) * ''Bride 13 ''Bride 13'' is a 1920 American thriller film serial directed by Richard Stanton, and the first film serial made by Fox. It is considered to be a lost film. ''Bride 13'' was promoted as romantic film. Plot A band of pirates operating from a su ...'' (1920) * '' The Face at Your Window'' (1920) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Lee
Frankie Lee (December 31, 1911 – July 29, 1970), was an American child actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1916 and 1925. Best remembered in the 1919 film '' The Miracle Man'', he was the little boy on crutches healed by the phony faith healer just after Lon Chaney. He is the older brother of child actor Davey Lee. He was born in Gunnison, Colorado, United States. Death On July 29, 1970, Lee was shot in the head four times while he was asleep in his studio apartment in Los Angeles, California, 5 months before his 59th birthday. His cause of death was due to homicide. Partial filmography *'' The Right to Be Happy'' (1916) *''Her Husband's Faith'' (1916) *'' The Boss of the Lazy Y'' (1917) * '' The Bronze Bride'' (1917) *'' God's Crucible'' (1917) * '' The Soul of Satan'' (1917) * ''One Touch of Sin'' (1917) *''Quicksand'' (1918) * '' Cheating the Public'' (1918) *'' Daddy-Long-Legs'' (1919) *'' Rough Riding Romance'' (1919) *'' The Miracle Man'' (1919) *'' Bonds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Richard Stanton
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Black-and-white Films
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Silent American Drama Films
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American Silent Feature Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910s English-language Films
Year 191 ( CXCI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Bradua (or, less frequently, year 944 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 191 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Parthia * King Vologases IV of Parthia dies after a 44-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Vologases V. China * A coalition of Chinese warlords from the east of Hangu Pass launches a punitive campaign against the warlord Dong Zhuo, who seized control of the central government in 189, and held the figurehead Emperor Xian hostage. After suffering some defeats against the coalition forces, Dong Zhuo forcefully relocates the imperial capital from Luoyang to Chang'an. Before leaving, Dong Zhuo orders his troops to loot the tombs of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Drama Films
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1917 Films
1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood". __TOC__ Events *January – ''Panthea'' is released, the first film from the company that Joseph Schenck formed with his wife, Norma Talmadge, after leaving Loew's Consolidated Enterprises. *February – Buster Keaton first meets Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in New York and is hired as a co-star and gag man. *April 9 – Supreme Court of the United States rule in Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Manufacturing Co. which ends the Motion Picture Patents Company appeal and results in the end of the company. *April 23 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McDonald (actor)
Jack McDonald (September 17, 1880 – 1962) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1912 and 1930. He was born in San Francisco, California. Partial filmography * '' Shotgun Jones'' (1914) * ''A Just Punishment'' (1914) * '' Chip of the Flying U'' (1914) * ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'' (1917) * '' One Touch of Sin'' (1917) * '' The Girl of My Dreams'' (1918) * '' Better Times'' (1919) * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1920) * '' Ladies Must Live'' (1921) * '' The Big Punch'' (1921) * '' The Bait'' (1921) * '' Singing River'' (1921) * ''The World's a Stage'' (1922) * '' Main Street'' (1923) * '' Cameo Kirby'' (1923) * '' The Circus Cowboy'' (1924) * '' Against All Odds'' (1924) * ''Greed'' (1924) * ''Don Q, Son of Zorro'' (1925) * '' Champion of Lost Causes'' (1925) * '' The Interferin' Gent'' (1927) * '' The Dove'' (1927) * '' The Phantom City'' (1928) * '' The Whip'' (1928) * ''Show Boat ''Show Boat'' is a musical theatre, musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Clark Ward
Carrie Clark Ward (January 9, 1862 – February 6, 1926) was an American actress of the silent era. Biography Ward was born in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1862. In 1885 Clark acted in a company at the San Francisco Bush Street Theatre. Ward appeared in more than 60 films between 1911 and 1925. Ward appeared in numerous silent films in the company of many stars, including her comic turn in the Rudolph Valentino-Clarence Brown directed classic ''The Eagle'' 1925. Ward was married to J. Sedley Browne, the first husband of Henrietta Crosman. In 1879, she married comedian and actor James M. Ward. Ward died on February 6, 1926, in Hollywood, California. Partial filmography * '' How Spriggins Took Lodgers'' (1911) * '' The Bank'' (1915) * '' The Conqueror'' (1917) * '' One Touch of Sin'' (1917) * ''Under the Yoke'' (1918) * ''Cheating the Public'' (1918) * '' The Siren's Song'' (1919) * '' Daddy-Long-Legs'' (1919) * ''Why Smith Left Home'' (1919) * ''Wolves of the Night'' (191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fox (producer)
Wilhelm Fried Fuchs ( hu, Fried Vilmos; January 1, 1879 – May 8, 1952), commonly and better known as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s. Although he lost control of his film businesses in 1930, his name was used by 20th Century Fox (now '' 20th Century Studios'') and continues to be used in the trademarks of the present-day Fox Corporation, including the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News, Fox Sports and Foxtel. Early life Fox was born in Tolcsva, Hungary, and originally named Wilhelm Fried Fuchs. His parents, Michael Fuchs and Anna Fried, were both Hungarian Jews. The family immigrated to the United States when William was nine months old and settled in New York City, where they had twelve more children, of whom only six survived. With his family largely destitute, William found himself as a youth forced to sell candy in Central Park, work as a newsbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
