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Robert Clugston
Robert Clugston (born April 15, 1889 - Date of death unknown) was an actor in silent films. He had several leading parts and worked for the Fox Film Corporation. Clugston was born in Elgin, Illinois. Selected filmography *''The Haunted Manor'' (1916) *'' The Siren'' (1917) *''The Hunting of the Hawk ''The Hunting of the Hawk'' is a 1917 American silent mystery film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring William Courtenay. It was distributed by Pathé Exchange. It is an incomplete surviving film with reels in the Library of Congress and N ...'' (1917) * '' Little Miss Nobody'' (1917) *'' Kick In'' (1917) * '' The Little Terror'' (1917) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clugston, Robet 1889 births Male actors from Illinois American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors People from Elgin, Illinois ...
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Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of intertitle, title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a piano, pianist, theatre organ, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or musical improvisation, improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experie ...
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Fox Film Corporation
The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film Company (founded 1913). The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, but in 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood, California to oversee the studio's new West Coast production facilities, where the climate was more hospitable for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. After the Wall Street crash of 1929, William Fox lost control of the company in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners began conversations of a fusion with Twentieth Century Pictures, under founders Joseph M. Schenck and his friend Darryl Zanuck. Schenck, Zanuck, and Spyros Skouras merged the Fox Studios with ...
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Elgin, Illinois
Elgin ( ) is a city in Cook and Kane counties in the northern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. Elgin is located northwest of Chicago, along the Fox River. As of the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 114,797, the seventh-largest city in Illinois. History The Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Black Hawk Indian War of 1832 led to the expulsion of the Native Americans who had settlements and burial mounds in the area and set the stage for the founding of Elgin. Thousands of militiamen and soldiers of Gen. Winfield Scott's army marched through the Fox River valley during the war, and accounts of the area's fertile soils and flowing springs soon filtered east. In New York, James T. Gifford and his brother Hezekiah Gifford heard tales of this area ripe for settlement, and they traveled west. Looking for a site on the stagecoach route from Chicago to Galena, Illinois, they eventually settled on a spot where the Fox River could be bridged. In April 1835, the ...
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The Haunted Manor (1916 Film)
''The Haunted Manor'' ( pl, Straszny dwór) is an opera in four acts composed by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko in 1861–1864. The libretto was written by . Despite being a romance and a comedy, it has strong Polish patriotic undertones, which made it both popular with the Polish public and unpopular – to the point of being banned – by the Russian authorities of Congress Poland. It is considered Moniuszko's best opera and the greatest 19th-century Polish opera score. However, it is mostly unknown outside Poland. Background and reception The story represents both an idyllic view of life in a Polish country manor house, and at the same time an idealistic preoccupation with the patriotic duties of the soldier, the military virtues of courage, bravery, and readiness to take up arms against any enemy of the nation, and the importance of family honor. It presents in its opening scenes the obvious conflict between those patriotic aspirations on the one han ...
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The Siren (1917 Film)
''The Siren'' is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by Roland West, in one of his earlier efforts, and starred Valeska Surratt. ''The Siren'' is now considered lost. Cast * Valeska Suratt as Cherry Millard * Clifford Bruce as Derrick McClade * Robert Clugston as Burt Hall * Isabel Rea as Rose Langdon * Cesare Gravina as Her Father * Armand Kalisz as Armand * Rica Scott as Cherry's Maid * Curtis Benton See also * List of lost silent films (1915–19) A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References External links * * 1917 films 1917 Western (genre) films Fox Film films American black-and-white films Films directed by Roland West Lost Western (genre) films Lost American films 1917 lost films Silent American Western (genre) films 1910s ...
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The Hunting Of The Hawk
''The Hunting of the Hawk'' is a 1917 American silent mystery film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring William Courtenay. It was distributed by Pathé Exchange. It is an incomplete surviving film with reels in the Library of Congress and National Archives of Canada (Ottawa). Prints and/or fragments were found in the Dawson Film Find in 1978. Cast *William Courtenay as Desselway *Marguerite Snow as Diana Curran *Robert Clugston Robert Clugston (born April 15, 1889 - Date of death unknown) was an actor in silent films. He had several leading parts and worked for the Fox Film Corporation. Clugston was born in Elgin, Illinois. Selected filmography *''The Haunted Manor'' ( ... as Wrenshaw References External links * * 1917 films American silent feature films Films directed by George Fitzmaurice American mystery films American black-and-white films 1917 mystery films 1910s American films Silent mystery films {{1910s-US-film-stub ...
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Little Miss Nobody (1917 Film)
''Little Miss Nobody'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Harry F. Millarde and starring Violet Mersereau, Clara Beyers and Helen Lindroth.Connelly p.377 Cast * Violet Mersereau as Bonnie * Clara Beyers as Elinor Grenville * Helen Lindroth as Charlotte Wharton * Sidney Mason as Arthur Wharton * Dean Raymond as George Grenville * John Mackin as Bull Dorgan * James O'Neill as Joe Gaskell * Robert Clugston as Billy Hamilton * Willis Baker Willis may refer to: Places United States * Willis, Florida, an unincorporated community * Willis, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Willis, Kansas, a city * Willis, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Willis, Nebraska, an unincorporate ... as Dr. Morley References Bibliography * Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American dra ...
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Kick In (1917 Film)
''Kick In'' is a lost 1917 silent film crime melodrama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring William Courtenay. It is based on the 1914 Broadway play of the same name by Willard Mack. Cast *William Courtenay - Chick Hewes *Robert Clugston - Benny *Mollie King Mollie Elizabeth King (born 4 June 1987) is an English pop singer, radio presenter and a member of girl group The Saturdays. As part of the Saturdays, King has had 13 Top 10 and eight Top 5 singles, including the UK number-one hit "What About U ... - Molly Cary *Richard Taber - Charlie (*as Richard Tabor) *Suzanne Willa - Myrtle Sylvester *John W. Boyle - Commissioner Garvey See also *'' Kick In'' (1922) *'' Kick In'' (1931) References External linksKick In at IMDb.comallmovie/synopsis
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The Little Terror
''The Little Terror'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Rex Ingram and starring Violet Mersereau, Sidney Mason and Ned Finley.Connelly p.377 Cast * Violet Mersereau as Tina and Alice * Sidney Mason as George Reynolds * Ned Finley as John Saunders * Robert Clugston as Wallace Saunders * Ed Porter as The Manager * John Raymond as Archibald Watkins * Mathilde Brundage Mathilde Brundage (September 22, 1859 – May 6, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in 87 films between 1914 and 1928. Also known as Bertha Brundage, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky. For much of her life, her family thwarted her de ... as Mrs. Watkins References Bibliography * Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures film ...
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1889 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 5 – Preston North End F.C. is declared the winner of the inaugural Football League in England. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. * January 30 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria a ...
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Male Actors From Illinois
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization. A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. Not all species share a common sex-determination system. In most animals, including humans, sex is determined genetically; however, species such as ''Cymothoa exigua'' change sex depending on the number of females present in the vicinity. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineages, an example of ...
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American Male Silent Film Actors
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