All Star Casts in 1920s Silent Films Listed
The page lists Liberty Wallace Reid in Toe n and Olemm Carey in Christmas Hive and Pilot Jutte with Donovan From Headquarters at Winter Garden and May McAvey in A Private Scandal Anita Stewart in Play RAND Bar ied Treasure and Sentimental Terminy with Griffith in Tr aint Being Done This Season Monroe Salisbury stars in The Bar
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Colonial
May McAvoy
Blue Mouse
Anita Stewart
Coliseum
Timental
Tommy
Strand
Monroe Salisbury
Rex
Agnes Ayres
Wallace Reid
Liberty
Toen
Olemm Carey
Winter Garden
Donovan
Headquarters
May McAvey
Iliseum
Rand
Loubainbe Corte Griffith
Liberty Wallace Reid Returns in Top Speed Drama
Silent era report notes Liberty Wallace Reid stars as Wally in Top Speed at Liberty Theatre. The popular actor earns fresh praise for clever acting in this lively drama, adding to his growing list of screen laurels.
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Allace Reid
Wally
Reid
Movie Quizzes and Star News From Early Screen Era
Penelope is Joseph Frank Keaton known as Buster in fans circles. Madge Kennedy weds Harold Bolster and shone on stage. Corners marked by her year on stage. Gareth Hughes to headline his first film The Hughes with Ethel Grandin as co star. Keaton rose to fame in Sentimental Tommy after stage start at fourteen. Sea Dog features Diana Manners in a London fire era romance shot largely at Hall. J Stuart Blackton directs. Philip C notes Marie Prevost’s bobbed look as star of The Butterfly. Honorine confirms Jackie Coogan signed for five features to begin July 15.
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Diana Manners
Duke of Rutland
London
Hall
Manners
J. Stuart Blackton
Young Hughes Now in Pictures in Tom Santschi Outdoors
Thee juvenile roles in Tom Santschi's outdoor pictures are filled by Earl Hughes brother of Lloyd Hughes. Santschi has completed the fourth production of his second series for Pathe.
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Tom Santschi
Earl Hughes
Lloyd Hughes
Ince
Santschi
Pathe
Household Personnel Ties Highlight Beverly Hills Family
The narrative centers on Pauline Frederick and her mother known as Mumsie at their Beverly Hills home. George Pettingill, uncle and business manager for the KC Pictures star, also figures as a member of the cheerful household.
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Mumsie
Pauline Frederick
Beverly Hills
Los Angeles
Wifie Explores Reactions to Ten Dollar Weekly Raise at Home
A contest at the Blue Mouse theater and Star offers prizes for married women letters answering how they would spend a ten dollar weekly raise. First prize twenty five dollars, with smaller awards for runners up, tied to a photoplay feature.
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Blue Mouse Theatre
Star
Blue Mouse
Dustin Farnum Becomes Fox Story Collector
Fox officials gather strong stories to sustain Dustin Farnum's popularity after adding him to Fox roster. Several satisfactory vehicles have been selected and his success in The Scarlet Pimpernel sets a high standard for Fox scenarios.
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Dustin Farnum
Fox Stors
Dustin
Fox
Former Sennett Girl Shines in New Comedy Star Rise
Two Mack Sennett bathing beauties have moved from comedies to leading roles. Giorka Swanson has become a full star, and Marriet Hammond now stars in Live and Let Live produced by William Christy Cabanne for RC Pictures.
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Mack Sennett
Giorka Swanson
Marriet Hammond
William Christy Cabanne
RC Pictures Corporation
Betty Compson Chooses New Leading Man for The Woman in the Case
Will Carleton, a leading man of the screen, engaged to star opposite Betty Compson in her second Paramount star picture The Woman in the Case. The production, directed by Penrhyn Stanlaws, will begin soon.
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Will Carleton
Betty Compson
Paramount Star
Penrhyn Stanlaws
Clyde Fitch
Rainbow's End to Spotlight Wallace Reid Ellicott Dexter Gloria Swanson
Wallace Reid and Ellicott Dexter arrive in New York with Gloria Swanson finishing The Shulamite. Lasky will produce Rainbow's End forming a star trio for the project.
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Wallace Reid
Ellicott Dexter
Gloria Swanson
Lasky
Reid
Dexter
New York
Miss Swanson
Edith Storey Portrays a Girl Crook On Stage
Edith Storey delights in playing a girl crook saying she sees human charm in the mixed faults and virtues of her character. She admits a streak of perverseness and contrariness in her make-up fuels her performance.
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Edith Storey
Postponed Film With Guy Bates In Omar the Tentmaker
Announcement that the filming of Omar the Tentmaker by James Young for Richard Walton Tully is postponed. Guy Bates Post has come West to star in It and is staying in Pasadena for the time being.
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Omar the Tentmaker
James Young
Richard Walton Tully
Guy Bates Post
Pasadena
Gladys George Returns to Stage in San Francisco Alcazar Stock
Gladys George quits films briefly to perform on stage at the Alcazar theatre in San Francisco. She appears alongside Una Trevelyn, a well known screen beauty, in the stock company production.
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Gladys George
Footlights
Alcazar Theatre
San Francisco
Una Trevelyn
Julian Estinge Begins Vaudeville Tour After Surgery
Julian Estinge is hospitalized in Los Angeles with appendicitis. After recovery he will immediately begin his vaudeville tour.
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Julian Estinge
Los Angeles
Movies and stage notes on upcoming releases and talent
Petre Pater Alice Lake replaces mint beds with raspberry patches. BE D Biggers mystery Fifty Candles to be screened. Eileen Percy and William Scott perform In From Main Street to Broadway. A Midnight Bell Chi Ray release on haunted church. Pi Russell The Lady From Longacre with Mary Thurman. The Virtuous Outcast rebuilt for Mary Miles Minter. Pina Menichelli's first US films The Naked Truth and The Dangnrems Ane. Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik. Katherine McDonald designs gowns and watercolors. A mid aged woman hero in What Had You Expect changed to Short Skirts by John M Stahl with Gladys Walton. Seventeen film companies chartered in New York in one week. Dore Davidson in Humor esque to have part in The Rosary.
Notable historical questions about Universal City and film figures
Questions ponder historic closures of Universal City to visitors, a Carew linked to musical comedy, Mildred Davis family staff at a Philadelphia newspaper, massive film production totals, and Gareth Hughes arriving as a protege of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
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Universal City
Mildred Davis
Philadelphia
Gareth Hughes
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Warfield to appear in film production
David Warfield will make a series of pictures for Metro starting with The Music Master. Production begins within the year. Warfield had rejected many offers to act on screen.
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Warfield
David Warfield
Photoplay
Minneapolis
Metro
ActressHelene Chadwick Receives Chinese Slippers
Helene Chadwick received a pair of slippers from an admirer in China. She admired them and sent a note of thanks but felt they were too small, likening the fit to Cinderellas stepsister.
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Helene Chadwick
China
Cinderella
Cullen Landis Hunts Deer with Nervous Aim
Cullen Landis, noted as an expert rifle shot, goes deer hunting each season but grows anxious on sight of the living quarry and has yet to bag his first prize.
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Cullen Landis
The Kid Shows Solid Pace in 12 Weeks
The Kid drew 56,700,000 viewers in its first twelve weeks, underscoring strong audience appeal and steady box office momentum for the release.
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the Kid
Over the Hill film hits Seattle premiere
William Fox presentation of Will Carleton poems opens July 31 at the Metropolitan in Seattle after a triumphant Broadway run in New York last September. Critics in Gotham called it one of the most wonderful and beautiful pictures to grace the screen and its Broadway stay reflects strong reception.
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William Fox
Will Carleton
Seattle
Metropolitan Theatre
New York City
Gotham
Broadway
Reid Presents Cup to Delmonico Dancing Winners
Paramount star Wallace Reid, famed fox trotter and entertainer, will present the Wallace Reid silver cup to the winners of a dancing contest at Delmonico's in New York. The event features Reid as host and notable participation from renowned dancers.
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Wallace Reid
Paramount
Wallingford Film Due for Fall Release
The smooth-dealing J. Rufus Wallingford prepares for his screen bow in a Frank Borzage directed Cosmopolitan film about get-rich-quick adventures, slated for fall release.
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J. Rufus Wallingford
Frank Borzage
Kathleen Kirkham in Nobody's Kid role at R-C Pictures
Kathleen Kirkham daughter of a noted landscape artist and Cummock School of Expression graduate plays Katherine Trent in Mae Marsh production Nobody's Kid released by R-C Pictures.
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Kathleen Kirkham
Cummock School of Expression
Katherine Trent
Mae Marsh
R-C Pictures Corporation
Gloria Swanson's Great Moment Release Delayed
Gloria Swanson's first starring picture for Paramount titled The Great Moment from Elnor Glyn is postponed from July to fall, likely September, delaying the release plan.
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Gloria Swanson
Paramount
Elnor Glyn
Norma Talmadge to star in Smilin Through at studio
Norma Talmadge returns to the studio this month to begin work on Smilin Through directed by Bert Brenon. The film follows the central role that Jane Cowl played on stage last year and stems from a motion picture project that paid one of the highest salaries in Broadway to film.
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Norma Talmadge
Bayside
L. I
White Mountains
Miss Talmadge
Jane Cowl Peared
Atellar
Bert Brenon
Allen Langdon
Fatty Witnessed Big Ring Fight in Jersey City
Roscoe Arbuckle traveled from California to attend the Dempsey fight in Jersey City. The Paramount star sat ringside and mopped his brow as the real heavyweights clashed July 2.
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Jersey City
Roscoety" Arbuckle
Paramount
Dempsey
Buckle
Ifornia
Mack Sennett to take studio hiatus for two months
For the first time in his career, producer Mack Sennett will leave his studio for two months this year. He owns a number of films in his vault, and this move aims to balance production and market activity.
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Mack Sennett
Gloria Swanson Co Producing Serial Ventures
Gloria Swanson and her husband Herbert K. Sanborn head a new film company to be named Photoplays Co The Juanita is producing more serials under this venture and Juanita Hansen is linked to the project.
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Gloria Swanson
Herbert K. Sanborn
Juanita Hansen
Most Photoplays Co
Juanita
Two Troops of U S Cavalry Arrive in Part
Two troops of U S Cavalry arrive in part to reinforce dispersed units. The move underscores mounting security needs as patrols and escorts increase around critical routes and settlements. Local leaders express cautious optimism for smoother operations.
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U. S. Cavalry
Appo Ee
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