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Saba Raleigh
Saba Raleigh was the pseudonym of ''Isabel Pauline Rowlands'', née ''Ellissen'' (8 August 1862 – 22 August 1923), an English actress. On 31 March 1894 she became the second wife of Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands, the actor and playwright Cecil Raleigh, and was often billed as "Mrs. Cecil Raleigh". Selected filmography * '' The Two Orphans'' (1915) billed as Mrs. Cecil Raleigh * '' The Clemenceau Case'' (1915) billed as Mrs. Cecil Raleigh * '' Profit and the Loss'' (1917) * ''Desire'' (1920) * '' The Temptress'' (1920) * ''The Princess of New York ''The Princess of New York'' is a 1921 British crime film directed by Donald Crisp. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is now considered a lost film. Cast * David Powell - Geoffrey Kingsward * Mary Glynne - Helen Stan ...'' (1921) * '' Love Maggy'' (1921) References External links * 1862 births 1923 deaths English stage actresses English film actresses English silent film actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Temptress (1920 Film)
''The Temptress'' is a 1920 British silent romance film directed by George Edwardes-Hall and starring Yvonne Arnaud, Langhorn Burton and John Gliddon.Low p.462 Plot Cast * Yvonne Arnaud Germaine Yvonne Arnaud (20 December 1890 – 20 September 1958) was a French-born pianist, singer and actress, who was well known for her career in Britain, as well as her native land. After beginning a career as a concert pianist as a child, Ar ... as Amy Howard * Langhorn Burton as Allan Ashton * John Gliddon as Paul Howard * Christine Maitland as Mrs. Tredgett * Austin Leigh as John Howard * Edward Sorley as Arthur Stanley * Bruce Winston as Reggie Featherstone * Lennox Pawle as Perkins * Saba Raleigh as Mrs. Tredgett References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * 1920 films 1920s romance films British romance films British silent feature films British black-and-white films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Film Actresses
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity * English studies, the study of English language and literature Media * ''English'' (2013 film), a Malayalam-language film * ''English'' (novel), a Chinese book by Wang Gang ** ''English'' (2018 film), a Chinese adaptation * ''The English'' (TV series), a 2022 Western-genre miniseries * ''English'' (play), a 2022 play by Sanaz Toossi People and fictional characters * English (surname), a list of people and fictional characters * English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach * English Gardner (born 1992), American track and field sprinter * English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer * Aiden English, a ring name of Matthew Rehwoldt (born 1987), American former professional wrestler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Deaths
In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Thursday, 1 March ''(Gregorian Calendar).'' Events January–February * January 9, January 5 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium Occupation of the Ruhr, occupy the Ruhr area, to force Germany to make reparation payments. * January 17 (or 9) – First flight of the first rotorcraft, Juan de la Cierva's Cierva C.4 autogyro, in Spain. (It is first demonstrated to the military on January 31.) * February 5 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class cricket score for the first time in his third match at this level, at Melbourne Cricket Ground, giving the Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1862 Births
Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria. * January 6 – Second French intervention in Mexico, French intervention in Mexico: Second French Empire, French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico. * January 16 – Hartley Colliery disaster in north-east England: 204 men are trapped and die underground when the only shaft becomes blocked. * January 30 – American Civil War: The first U.S. ironclad warship, , is launched in Brooklyn. * January 31 – Alvan Graham Clark makes the first observation of Sirius B, a white dwarf star, through an eighteen-inch telescope at Northwestern University in Illinois. February * February 1 – American Civil War: Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time in the ''Atlantic Monthly''. * February 2 – The Dun Mountain Railway, first railway is opened in New Zealand, by the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Maggy
''Love Maggy'' is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by Fred LeRoy Granville and starring Peggy Hyland, Campbell Gullan and James Lindsay.Quinlan p.121 It was made at Isleworth Studios as a sequel to the 1920 film '' The Honeypot''. Cast * Peggy Hyland as Maggy Chalfont * Campbell Gullan as Lord Chalfont * James Lindsay as Fred Woolf * Maudie Dunham as Joan * Maidie Hope as Lady Susan * Lillian Hall-Davis as Alexandra Hersey * Alfred Drayton as De Preyne * Fred Thatcher as Lord Lancing * Mabel Terry-Lewis Mabel Gwynedd Terry-Lewis (born as Mabel Gwynedd Lewis) ( 28 October 1872 – 28 November 1957) was an English actress and a member of the Terry-Gielgud dynasty of actors of the 19th and 20th centuries. After a successful career in her twe ... as Lady Shelford * Alfred Wood as Mr. Simmons * Saba Raleigh as Mrs. Simmons References Bibliography * Quinlan, David. ''The illustrated encyclopedia of movie character actors''. Harmony Books, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Princess Of New York
''The Princess of New York'' is a 1921 British crime film directed by Donald Crisp. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is now considered a lost film. Cast * David Powell - Geoffrey Kingsward * Mary Glynne - Helen Stanton * Saba Raleigh - Mrs. Raffan * George Bellamy - Sir George Meretham * Dorothy Fane - Violet Meretham * Ivo Dawson - Allan Meretham * Philip Hewland - Colonel Kingsward * R. Heaton Grey - Mr. Greet * Wyndham Guise - Eardley Smith (as Windham Guise) * Jane West - Mrs. Eardley Smith * H. Lloyd - Moneylender * Lionel Yorke - Reddish * William Parry - Magistrate See also *Alfred Hitchcock filmography *List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. Reas ... References External links *''The Princess of New York'' at Sile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desire (1920 Film)
''Desire'' (aka ''The Magic Skin'') is a 1920 British silent fantasy film directed by George Edwardes-Hall, produced by Edward Godal, and starring Dennis Neilson-Terry, Yvonne Arnaud and Christine Maitland. The film was known in England as ''The Magic Skin''. The screenplay was based on the 1831 Honoré de Balzac novel '' Le Peau de Chagrin'', which strangely was adapted to film three different times in 1920 alone, the other two being released as ''The Dream Cheater'' and ''Narayama''. Born in 1872, director Hall relocated from his birthplace Brooklyn, New York to England later in life, then moved to California, where he died in 1922. He actually did more screenwriting than directing during his career, and also wrote a number of plays and short stories.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 214.. Plot A man named Valentin obtains a magic shagreen, a leather hide made from the skin of a wild jacka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. The English identity began with the History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxons, when they were known as the , meaning "Angle kin" or "English people". Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who invaded Great Britain, Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups: the West Germanic tribes, including the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who settled in England and Wales, Southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons who already lived there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. "Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Profit And The Loss
''Profit and the Loss'' is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and Eliot Stannard and starring James Carew, Randle Ayrton and Margaret Halstan Margaret Halstan (25 December 1879 – 8 January 1967) was a British stage, radio, television and film actress. In theatre and film roles she often played upper-class ladies of the gentry, with a career spanning over six decades. She was particula .... It adapts a play (''Profit - and the Loss'') by H.F. Maltby. Plot When friends fail him, a tenant farmer turns to making money. Cast * James Carew - Dicky Bransome * Randle Ayrton - Jenkins * Margaret Halstan * Saba Raleigh References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''The History of British Film, Volume 4 1918-1929''. Routledge, 1997. External links * 1917 films British silent feature films Films directed by A. V. Bramble Ideal Film Company films British black-and-white films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films 1910s British films Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clemenceau Case
''The Clemenceau Case'' is a 1915 American silent film, silent drama film written and directed by Herbert Brenon and costarring Theda Bara and William H. Shay. The film is based on the French novel ''L'affaire Clémenceau'', by Alexandre Dumas, fils, and is now considered to be lost film, lost. Cast * Theda Bara as Iza * William E. Shay as Pierre Clemenceau * Mrs. Allen Walker as Marie Clemenceau * Stuart Holmes as Constantin Ritz * Jane Lee (actress), Jane Lee as Janet * Saba Raleigh as Countess Dobronowska (credited as Mrs. Cecil Raleigh) * Frank Goldsmith as Duke Sergius * Sydney Shields, Sidney Shields as Madame Ritz Reception Like many American films of the time, ''The Clemenceau Case'' was subject to cuts by Film censorship in the United States, city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors for the 1918 reissue of the film cut, in Reel 4, two scenes in Iza's bedroom between her and Constantin beginning with her locking the door, Reel 5, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
