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Rose Dione
Claudine Rosalie Gras (22 October 1875 – 29 January 1936), professionally known as Rose Dione, was a French-American actress who appeared in numerous silent era and pre-code films. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1910 and 1932. She was born in Dardilly, Rhône in France, and died in Los Angeles, California. She was probably best known for her final role as Madame Tetrallini in the film '' Freaks'' (1932). Partial filmography * '' The Corsican Brothers'' (1917) * '' The World and Its Woman'' (1919) * '' It Happened in Paris'' (1919) * '' Suds'' (1920) * '' The Woman and the Puppet'' (1920) * '' Silk Hosiery'' (1920) * ''The Land of Jazz'' (1920) * '' The Great Lover'' (1920) * '' The Luck of the Irish'' (1920) * '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'' (1921) * '' Cheated Love'' (1921) * '' Silent Years'' (1921) * ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (1921) * '' Be My Wife'' (1921) * '' A Parisian Scandal'' (1921) * '' Under Two Flags'' (1922) * '' Omar the Tentmak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salomé (1923 Film)
''Salomé'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova, who also stars. It is an adaptation of the 1891 Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokanaan) at the request of Herod's stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after. ''Salomé'' is often called one of the first art films to be made in the United States. The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting, minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development. Plot The film starts by giving context for the banquet that is about to unfold. The Tetrarch is said to have murdered his brother to obtain the throne and for access to his brother's (now his) wife and daughter. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (film)
''The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'' is a 1921 American silent film, silent epic film, epic war film produced by Metro Pictures, Metro Pictures Corporation and directed by Rex Ingram (director), Rex Ingram. Based on the 1916 Spanish novel ''The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (novel), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'', by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, it was adapted for the screen by June Mathis. The film stars Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Bridgetta Clark, Rudolph Valentino, Wallace Beery, and Alice Terry. Often regarded as one of the first anti-war films, it had a huge cultural impact and became the top-grossing film of 1921 by beating out Charlie Chaplin's ''The Kid (1921 film), The Kid''. The film turned the little-known actor Rudolph Valentino into a superstar and associated him with the image of the Latin lover (stereotype), Latin lover. The film also inspired a tango craze and such fashion fads as gaucho pants. The film was written by June Mathis, who, by its success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Brummel (1924 Film)
''Beau Brummel'' is a 1924 American silent historical drama film starring John Barrymore and Mary Astor. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont and based upon Clyde Fitch's 1890 play, which had been performed by Richard Mansfield, and depicts the life of the British Regency dandy Beau Brummell. Several years after Barrymore's death, his daughter Diana Barrymore was shown a special screening of this film as she had never seen her father in any of his silent films. In 1952, the film entered the public domain in the United States because Warner Bros. did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.. See Note #44, pg. 142. Plot In 1795, the cream of English aristocracy attend the wedding of "tradesman's daughter" Margery. She loves Beau Brummel, a penniless captain in the Tenth Hussars, but has been pressured into agreeing to marry Lord Alvanley, exchanging her family's wealth for social standing and a title. When Brummel comes to see her just before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Try And Get It
''Try and Get It'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Cullen Tate and starring Bryant Washburn, Billie Dove, and Edward Everett Horton. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Larry Donovan, owner of a printing business, tells his credit manager Joe Merrill that if he cannot collect a seven-year-old bill for $25.11 against Tim Perrin in a week, he is through. Donovan also tells Glenn Collins that if he does not get Perrin's account within a week, he is through, too. Both young men are thrown out of Perrin's cement yard. Joe goes to a modiste shop owned by Perrin, ready to park there until he receives payment. He makes various attempts to see Perrin, who finally beats him up and wrecks the shop. When Merrill wins the love of Perrin's daughter and, with her connivance, finally secures the payment of the bill, Perrin capitulates and offers him a job. Cast Preservation A print of ''Try and Get It'' is held in the Library of Congress The Library of Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadows Of Paris (1924 Film)
''Shadows of Paris'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Pola Negri, Charles de Rochefort, and Huntley Gordon. The screenplay involves a young woman who rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-World War I Paris. It was based on the play ''Mon Homme'' by Francis Carco and André Picard. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Paris in 1918 knows Claire only as "The Blackbird," the Queen of the Apaches. Her lover Fernand is reported killed at the front during the War. She then masquerades as a society woman and becomes the wife of Raoul Grammont, the Minister of the Interior, but occasionally visits her old haunts in disguise. Fernand reappears as an Apache leader and they meet again. After several adventures, Claire comes to see that Fernand is only a monster of greed, and that her affections belong only to the man who made her an honorable wife. Fernand is shot and killed by her husband's secretary, Georges d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The French Doll
''The French Doll'' is a 1923 American silent comedy drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Mae Murray, Orville Caldwell, and Rod La Rocque.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The French Doll'' at silentera.com It was based on a French-language novel by Paul Armont and Marcel Gerbidon.Goble p. 770 Cast * as Georgine Mazulier * Orville Caldwell ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trilby (1923 Film)
''Trilby'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by James Young and starring Andrée Lafayette, Creighton Hale, and Arthur Edmund Carewe. It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel ''Trilby'' by George du Maurier about a young woman named Trilby who falls under the power of the domineering mesmerist Svengali. Plot A beautiful young model named Trilby falls in love with a young man named Little Billee when they meet in a laundry. A vile mesmerist named Svengali also encounters the girl and becomes obsessed over her. After Little Billee proposes marriage to Trilby, Svengali kidnaps her and uses his hypnotic powers to mesmerize her. He finds that although he can erase her will and make her do anything, he cannot make her love him. Svengali uses his powers to turn Trilby into a talented singer, and tours the capitals of Europe with her as her manager. Svengali dies from a heart attack, and Trilby immediately loses her ability to sing and dies as well shortly thereafter. Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drifting (1923 Film)
''Drifting'' is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the Broadway play ''Drifting'', by John Colton and Daisy H. Andrews. The play had starred Robert Warwick and Alice Brady. The film was directed by Tod Browning and features Priscilla Dean, Wallace Beery, and Anna May Wong. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. Plot Cassie Cook has been selling opium in Shanghai but bad luck has compelled her to team up with her biggest rival, Jules Repin. The horror of the opium trade weighs on her and she determines to quit the trade and leave China before it is too late. Believing in Repin's promise that he has a big shipment of opium coming in, she has bought a lot of new gowns on credit and is unable to pay for them. She also needs money to pay for passage home for a friend, Molly Morton, whose growing opium habit has left her an invalid. After betting on a "sure thing" in the races and losing, Cassie determines to make her way to Hang Chow, a trouble-infested vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar The Tentmaker (film)
''Omar the Tentmaker'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Guy Bates Post, Nigel de Brulier, Virginia Brown Faire, Noah Beery Sr., Patsy Ruth Miller, and Boris Karloff. It was produced and adapted by Richard Walton Tully from his own 1914 Broadway play ''Omar the Tentmaker''. The film's tagline was "Would You Know How Omar Loved? Would you sweep 1,000 years aside to find Shireen, the Persian Rose, who wed Omar and awoke in the harem of the Shah?" (Print Ad in the Albuquerque Herald, (Albuquerque NM)) 24 May 1923). The film is considered a lost film A lost film is a feature film, feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a number of reasons. .... Plot Omar the Tentmaker (Post) becomes an outcast because of his radical writings and improved calendar (Omar wrote the Iranian first solar ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under Two Flags (1922 Film)
''Under Two Flags'' is a 1922 American drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Priscilla Dean. The picture was one of several films based upon the 1867 novel '' Under Two Flags'' by Ouida and subsequent stage play version by Arthur Shirley. Plot Cast * Priscilla Dean as Cigarette * James Kirkwood as Cpl. Victor * John Davidson as Sheik Ben Ali Hammed * Stuart Holmes as Marquis de Chateauroy (Holmes also appeared in an earlier version of '' Under Two Flags'' with Theda Bara) * Ethel Grey Terry as Princess Corona * Bobby Mack as Rake (as Robert Mack) * Burton Law as Sheik's aide * Albert Pollet as Capt. Tollaire * W.H. Bainbridge as The Colonel * Wilberta Almyra Babbidge as Dancer (uncredited) * Rose Dione as Barmaid (uncredited) Production The film was delayed for a few days when, on the last day of shooting in 1922, a fire at Universal City destroyed 110,000 feet of the positive Positive is a property of positivity and may refer to: Mathematics and science * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Parisian Scandal
''A Parisian Scandal'' is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film, directed by George L. Cox. It stars George Periolat, Lillian Lawrence, and Marie Prevost, and was released on December 5, 1921. Plot As described in a film magazine, Liane-Demarest (Prevost), an American girl raised in France and the only daughter of doting parents, has many suitors. She becomes deeply interested in Basil Hammond (Gallery), a studious young American sent by Liane's grandmother to find out what kind of girl she is. Liane goes into his room at night, destroys his notebook, and pleads with him to be her friend. Thinking that he may have compromised her reputation, he offers to marry her. However, Liane follows the wishes of her parents and becomes engaged to Baron Stransky (Grassby). At a casino Basil and the baron meet, and later, taking shelter from a storm at a roadhouse, they meet again, and Basil administers a good beating to the baron. The baron challenges him to a duel, and Basil accepts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be My Wife (1921 Film)
''Be My Wife'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film written, directed, and starring Max Linder. Plot As described in a film magazine, Max (Linder) is seeking the hand of Mary (Allen), but he has a rival and her Aunt Agatha (Rankin) objects to him. He disguises himself as a music teacher, but a dog "Pal" discovers him. Max falls over a fence and becomes unconscious. He dreams that he is married but cannot shake the aunt. There is a wife who suspects her husband of flirting and retaliates by picking a few lovers herself. Just as the marital difficulties are settled, Max wakes up. He then attempts to win over his sweetheart by impersonating a burglar in a terrific struggle with himself in an adjoining room while Mary, his rival, and Aunt Agatha listen to the fight. He steps forth "victorious and wins her hand, and the crabby aunt accepts him as her nephew-in-law. Cast * Max Linder as Max, the Fiancé * Alta Allen as Mary, the Girl * Caroline Rankin as Aunt Agatha * Lincoln St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
