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The Firing Line
''The Firing Line'' is a lost 1919 American silent drama film directed by Charles Maigne and starring Irene Castle. It was based on the 1908 novel by Robert W. Chambers and produced by Famous Players-Lasky. Paramount Pictures distributed the film. at silentera.com Cast * as Sheila Cardross * as Mrs. Cardross * May Kitson as Constance Paliser * |
Charles Maigne
Charles Maigne (November 11, 1879 – November 28, 1929) was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for 32 films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 18 films between 1918 and 1923. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and died in San Francisco, California. Partial filmography * ''The Brand of Cowardice'' (1916) (writer) * ''Barbary Sheep'' (1917) (writer) * ''The Rise of Jennie Cushing'' (1917) (writer) * '' Prunella'' (1918) (writer) * ''A Doll's House'' (1918) (writer) * '' Rose of the World'' (1918) * '' The Song of Songs'' (1918) (writer) * ''The Firing Line'' (1919) (director) * ''Redhead'' (1919) (director) * '' The Indestructible Wife'' (1919) (director) * ''The Copperhead'' (1920) (director) *'' The Fighting Chance'' (1920) (director) * ''A Cumberland Romance'' (1920) (director, writer) * ''The Kentuckians'' (1921) (director) * ''Hush Money'' (1921) (director) * ''Received Payment'' (1922) (director) * '' The Cowboy and the Lady'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Powell (actor)
David Powell (December 17, 1883 – April 16, 1925) was a Scottish stage and later film actor of the silent era. Background He was born in Glasgow. In his twenties Powell appeared in stage companies of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry, and Johnston Forbes-Robertson. In 1907 he appeared with Terry on Broadway in the first American presentation of Shaw's ''Captain Brassbound's Conversion''. In 1912, Powell started his film career in one to three reel shorts. At the beginning of the 1920s, he starred in several Paramount-produced English films. Extant films that feature Powell are ''The Dawn of A Tomorrow'' (1916), ''Less Than Dust'' (1916), '' Idols of Clay'' (1920), ''The Virtuous Liar'' (1924), '' The Green Goddess'' (1923 version), and ''The Average Woman'' (1924). Powell died of pneumonia in New York City, New York, in April 1925, at the age of 42. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Partial filmography * ''One of Our Girls'' (1914) * '' The Dawn of a T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Drama Films
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Films Based On Works By Robert W
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] |
Paramount Pictures Films
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Films Directed By Charles Maigne
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] |
Lost American Films
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American Silent Feature Films
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1919 Films
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and the Independent Social Demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaw Lovett
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