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Ray June
Ray June, American Society of Cinematographers, A.S.C. (March 27, 1895 – May 26, 1958) was an American cinematographer during the early and classical Hollywood cinema. His best-known films are ''Babes in Arms (film), Babes in Arms'' and ''Funny Face''. June attended Columbia University but did not graduate.Ray June papers, 1915-1958. Collection Number: 2588 Cornell University Library. Retrieved February 24, 2022. His experience as a cameraman in the United States Army, U.S. Army United States Army Signal Corps, Signal Corps during World War I was instrumental to his success in Hollywood. Partial filmography *''The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford'' (1915) (short) *''Patria (1917 film), Patria'' (1917) *''The Great Whi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Garden (1949 Film)
''The Secret Garden'' is a 1949 American drama film. It is the second screen adaptation of The Secret Garden, the classic 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The first was The Secret Garden (1919 film), a silent version released in 1919. The screenplay by Robert Ardrey was directed by Fred M. Wilcox (director), Fred M. Wilcox. It centers on a young orphan who is thrust into the dark and mysterious lives of her widowed uncle and his disabled son when she comes to live with them in their isolated country house in Yorkshire, England. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM film was filmed primarily in black-and-white, with the sequences set in the restored garden of the title filmed in Technicolor. The movie was Margaret O'Brien's final film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was released on DVD on May 7, 2013, as part of the Warner Archive Collection. Plot When tempestuous Mary Lennox (Margaret O'Brien), born in India to wealthy parents, is orphaned by a cholera epidemic, she is sent to l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bits Of Life
''Bits of Life'' is a 1921 American film produced and directed by Marshall Neilan. The cast included Lon Chaney and Noah Beery, Sr. For her performance in this film, Anna May Wong received her first screen credit. It is notable as an early anthology film, comprising four short stories: “The Bad Samaritan” by Thomas McMorrow, “The Man Who Heard Everything” by Walter Trumbull, “Hop” by Hugh Wiley, and “The Intrigue” by Marshall Neilan. The four stories were unrelated, shot with different casts, by different directors, and at different times. The poster called the format "The Magazine Idea brought to the screen". (Chaney only appeared in the "Hop" episode.) The film's tagline was "The Social World! The Underworld! and San Francisco's Chinatown!". Portions of the film were shot in San Francisco and at the Goldwyn Studios. The film premiered on Aug. 9, 1921 at the Raymond Theatre in Pasadena, California. Buster Keaton, Marshal Neilan and Charles Chaplin attende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heroes Of The Night
''Heroes of the Night'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Cullen Landis. It was produced by Gotham Pictures and released by Lumas Film Corporation. Plot Cast * Cullen Landis as Joe Riley * Marion Nixon as Mary Allen *Rex Lease as Tom Riley *Wheeler Oakman as Jack Nichols * Sarah Padden as Mrs. Riley * J. P. Lockney as Marty Allen * Robert Homans as "Bull" Corrigan *Lois Ingraham as Jennie Lee Preservation The film 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 law o ... collection.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', p. 79 c.1978 References External links * 1927 films American silent feature films Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sign Of The Claw
''The Sign of the Claw'' is a 1926 American silent action film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Ethel Shannon, Edward Hearn and Lee Shumway.Munden p.715 Produced by the independent Gotham Pictures, it was designed as a vehicle for Peter the Great, one of several dog The dog (''Canis familiaris'' or ''Canis lupus familiaris'') is a domesticated descendant of the gray wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it was selectively bred from a population of wolves during the Late Pleistocene by hunter-gatherers. ... stars to appear in films during the 1920s. Cast * Peter the Great as Peter * Ethel Shannon as Mildred Bryson * Edward Hearn as Robert Conway * Lee Shumway as Al Stokes * Joseph Bennett a Jimmie Bryson * Carmencita Johnson as Little Girl 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 Pict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Pack
''King of the Pack'' is a 1926 American silent adventure film directed by Frank Richardson and starring Charlotte Stevens, Robert Gordon, and Vera Lewis. Produced by the independent Gotham Pictures, it was designed as a vehicle for Peter the Great, one of several dog stars to appear in films during the 1920s. Plot As described in a film magazine review, young Selah Blair suffers at the hands of her brutal stepmother, the hardened mountain woman 'Widder' Gasper. With her companion dog King she saves a young woman, and the wealthy father rewards her with the gift of $1,000. Her stepmother plots to get rid of Selah so that she will get the money. With her henchman Chuck Purdy and her half-wit son Bud, she captures the runaway Selah and hold her captive in a cave. When Selah refuses to tell where she hid the money, the widow leaves Selah to die. However, her faithful dog King and her rural sweetheart Clint Sifton work together to rescue her and eventually the widow topples off a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racing Blood (1926 Film)
''Racing Blood'' is a 1926 American silent sports drama film directed by Frank Richardson and starring Robert Agnew, Anne Cornwall and John Elliott.Connelly p.400 Synopsis College student James Fleming discovers that his uncle has gambled away his inheritance on a horse race and then killed himself. Worse it was at the hands of the man whose daughter James is in love with. He goes to work as a journalist and loses touch with her. He acquires a horse, unknowingly the very animal whose victory led to his uncle's downfall. He plans to race it in a steeplechase, but when he is unable to qualify his former girlfriend takes over and rides it to victory before they reconcile. Cast * Robert Agnew as James Fleminng * Anne Cornwall as Muriel Sterlinng * John Elliott as John Sterling * Clarence Geldert as Harris Fleming * Charles Sellon Charles A. Sellon (August 24, 1870 – June 26, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. Sellon appeared in more than 100 films and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Power
''The Silent Power'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Ralph Lewis, Ethel Shannon and Charles Delaney.Connelly p.255 It was produced by the independent company Gotham Pictures. Synopsis The manager of a hydro-electric plant manages to secure his reckless college graduate son a job working on the construction of a new dam. He falls in love with a woman, but when her crazed brother kills his boss he is arrested and convicted for murder. Sentenced to the electric chair The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution. The condemned is strapped to a custom wooden chair and electrocuted via electrodes attached to the head and leg. Alfred P. Southwick, a Buffalo, New Yo ... it seems that it will be the unfortunate duty of his father to supply the electricity that will execute his son. Cast * Ralph Lewis as John Rollins * Ethel Shannon as Olive Spencer * Charles Delaney as Rob Rollins * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Of The Forest
''The Phantom of the Forest'' is a 1926 American silent Western film, also classified as a Northern. It is directed by Henry McCarty and stars Thunder the Dog, Betty Francisco and Eddie Phillips. Produced by the independent Gotham Pictures, location shooting took place around the Redwood Forest in Santa Cruz County, California. The film was designed as a vehicle for Thunder, an Alsatian who was featured in several films during the 1920s. It was released in Great Britain the same year by Stoll Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine review, while a pup, Thunder runs wild in the forest, but becomes attached to Helen Taylor, who owns land that has oil prospects and is mortgaged. Certain land speculators plot to seize the property, but are prevented by Frank Wallace who pays the interest. The plotters set fire to the forest. Helen and Frank are trapped, and then escape by a hair's breadth. Thunder fights his way through the flames and rescues a sick child. At the end, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Web (1926 Film)
''The Golden Web'' is a 1926 American silent mystery film directed by Walter Lang and starring Lillian Rich, Huntley Gordon and Lawford Davidson. The cast also features Boris Karloff before he established himself as a horror star. It is based on the 1910 novel '' The Golden Web'' by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. A previous British film adaptation of the novel was produced in 1920. Plot As described in a film magazine, a man loses the deed to a mine he has purchased, and is blackmailed by the finder. John Rowan, the original owner of the mine offers to secure the deed, but is arrested when the blackmailer is found dead. Rowan's daughter Ruth steals the deed from the office of the District Attorney, and the present owner of the mine marries her to atone for her father’s predicament. The husband captures the blackmailer’s crony, who confesses to the murder. The father is freed and Ruth rescued as she is about to leap from a cliff at the hour of the execution. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Of The Bravest
''One of the Bravest'' is a 1925 American silent action drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Ralph Lewis, Edward Hearn, and Pat Somerset. Plot A father of Irish heritage rejects his firefighter son when he marries and Jewish girl, and wrongly suspects him of being a coward. Cast Preservation A complete print of ''One of the Bravest'' is held by 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 law o .... 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 * 1925 films 1925 drama films American silent feature films 1920s action drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow On The Wall (1925 Film)
''The Shadow on the Wall'' is a 1925 American silent mystery film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Eileen Percy, Creighton Hale, and William V. Mong. Plot As described in a film magazine review, George Walters is a youth who is dominated by Bleary, a heartless bully, who forces him to pose as the son of millionaire George Warring, kidnapped as a baby. The missing son had a twin brother who had recently died, but a painting of the shadow of the late son is on one wall. Walters' shadow matches this painting perfectly, establishing him as the missing son to the Warring family. Walters falls in love with Warring's daughter Lucia and finds that the family attorney Glaxton is slowly poisoning the old man. Then the underworld bully makes a deal with the lawyer so that they can share the millions. Walters is able, with some assistance from Bleary's wife Missus, to bring the two scoundrels to justice. In the end it is discovered that Walters is the missing son, and Lucia is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missing Daughters (1924 Film)
''Missing Daughters'' is a 1924 American silent crime drama film directed by William H. Clifford and starring Eileen Percy, Pauline Starke and Claire Adams.Munden p.517 Cast * Eileen Percy as Eileen Allen * Pauline Starke as Pauine Hinton * Claire Adams as Claire Mathers * Eva Novak as Eva Rivers * Walter Long as Guy Benson * Robert Edeson as Chief of Secret Service * Rockliffe Fellowes as John Rogers * Sheldon Lewis as Tony Hawks * Walt Whitman Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incor ... as The Beachcombeer * Frank Ridge as Frank Linke * Chester Bishop as Anthony Roche 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 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |