Lois Weber: Suspense (1913) & Hypocrites (1915)

Lois Weber (1921)

Born

Florence Lois Weber

June 13, 1879

Allegheny, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Died

November 13, 1939 (aged 60)

Hollywood, California, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter

Spouse(s)

Phillips Smalley (1904-1922)

Harry Gantz (1926-1935)

Awards

Hollywood Walk of Fame - Motion Picture

6518 Hollywood Blvd

 

 

Suspense (1913) Lois Weber

Suspense is a 1913 silent drama film directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber. The Internet Movie Database lists Lon Chaney as appearing in the film in an uncredited role, however this is disputed. The film features an early example of a split screen shot.

A print of the film survives at the film archive of the British Film Institute.

Directed by Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber

Written by Lois Weber

Starring Lois Weber, Val Paul

Release date: July 6, 1913

Running time: 10 minutes

Country: United States

Hypocrites (1915)

Hypocrites is a 1915 silent drama film directed by Lois Weber (1881-1939).

The film contained several full nude scenes of an uncredited Margaret Edwards (1877–1929)[1] as Naked Truth, including a sequence with her posing nude as a statue. The film is regarded as anticlerical, and the nudity was justified by its religious context.

Directed by Lois Weber

Produced by Bosworth Company

Written by Lois Weber

Release date: January 1915

Running time: 49 minutes

Country: United States

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Something About Amelia (1984) Ted Danson, Glenn Close

 

 

 

 

Something About Amelia (1984) Ted Danson, Glenn Close

An ABC 1984 TV film starring Ted Danson, Glenn Close, Missy Francis and Roxana Zal. (Zal became the youngest primetime Emmy-winner in history for her work.)

TV movie drama exploring the trauma to a family caused by incest.

Directed by Randa Haines

Produced by Leonard J. Goldberg, Michele Rappaport

Written by William Hanley

American Broadcasting Company (ABC) & The Leonard Goldberg Company

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Love Hate Love (1971) Ryan O'Neal, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Haskell

Love Hate Love (1971)

TV Movie - 74 min - Drama - 9 February 1971 (USA)

Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Haskell

Director: George McCowan

Network: ABC

Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will ...

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Mary Pickford is Tess of Storm County (1914 & 1922)

Tess of Storm Country (1914)

Tess of Storm Country is a 1914 drama, based on the novel of the same name by Grace Miller White. It starred Mary Pickford, in a role she would reprise eight years later for the 1922 adaptation by John S. Robertson.

In 2006 the film was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress, for its "cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance".

Cast

Mary Pickford - Tessibel Skinner
Harold Lockwood - Frederick Graves
Olive Carey - Teola Graves
David Hartford - Daddy Skinner
Louise Dunlap - Old Mother Moll
William Walters - Elias Graves
Richard Garrick - Ben Letts
Eugene Walter - Ezra Longman
Jack Henry - Dan Jordan
H.R. Macy - DeForrest Young, Attorney at Law
H.L. Griffith - Old Longman

Directed by Edwin S. Porter

Produced by Famous Players Film Company
Written by B. P. Schulberg
Cinematography, Edwin S. Porter
Distributed by Famous Players Film Company(State's Rights Distribution)
Release date: March 20, 1914
Running time: 80 minutes

Tess of the Storm Country (1922)

Tess of the Storm Country is a 1922 melodrama starring Mary Pickford, directed by John S. Robertson, and based upon a Grace Miller White novel. It is a remake of Pickford's film from eight years prior and was subsequently remade a decade later as a sound version starring Janet Gaynor.

Leading actress Pickford's previous film Little Lord Fauntleroy flopped critically. Pickford realized she had to make a movie the audience loved to see her in.

She wanted to play the role again, because she loved the character and stated the crew had more abilities with a bigger budget and better technology.

Cast

Mary Pickford - Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
Lloyd Hughes - Frederick Graves
Gloria Hope - Teola Graves
David Torrence - Elias Graves
Forrest Robinson - Orn 'Daddy' Skinner
Jean Hersholt - Ben Letts

Danny Hoy - Ezra Longman

Robert Russell - Mr. Daniel 'Dan' Jordan

Gus Saville - Old Man Longman

Madame De Bodamere - Mrs. Longman

Jeanne Carpenter - (uncredited)

　

Directed by John S. Robertson

Produced by Mary Pickford

Written by Elmer Harris

Cinematography, Paul Eagler & Charles Rosher Sr.

Distributed by United Artists

Release date: 1922

Running time: 118 min

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On Golden Pond (2001) Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

 



On Golden Pond is a 2001 television adaptation of the play starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The movie originally aired on April 29, 2001 and was promoted as a live television event. The movie was filmed on a sound stage in Los Angeles, CA.

Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer had previously starred in the highly successful 1965 film, The Sound of Music, and their reuniting in this play was part of the promotion for the original broadcast of the film. The film is also notable because the author of the play, Ernest Thompson, directed this version and Craig Anderson, the producer/director of the original Off Broadway and Broadway productions of the play, was the executive producer.

Thompson provided rewrites to his original play for this broadcast. Most of them in Act II and centering on the characters of Bill Ray and Charlie Martin.

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Legendary comedian Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy (1962)

Harold Llod personally compiled these scenes from his funniest films. See the indomitable, horn-rimmed Harold overcome all manner of obstacles, in classic bits from "Why Worry?," "Girl Shy," "Movie Crazy," "Professor Beware," "Safety Last," and others.

90 min.

Release Date: 12 May 1962 (USA)

plus

Harold Lloyd Gems

Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918)
Neighbours (1919)
Number Please (1920)
Get Out and Get Under (1920)
Never Weaken (1921)
Milky Way (1936)
Calendar (4/16/1962)

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Norma & Constance Talmadge ~ The Forbidden City (1918) & The Duchess of Buffalo (1926)

The Forbidden City (1918) Norma Talmadge

Starring: Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, E. Alyn Warren, Michael Rayle, L. Rogers Lytton, Reid Hamilton

 

Directed by Sidney Franklin

Produced by Joseph M. Schenck

Norma Talmadge Film Corporation/Selznick Pictures

The Forbidden City is a film released in 1918 starring Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan and directed by Sidney Franklin. The plot centers around an inter-racial romance between a Chinese princess (Talmage) and an American (Meighan). When palace officials discover she has become pregnant she is sentenced to death. In the latter part of the film Talmadge plays the now adult daughter of the affair, seeking her father in Uzbekistan.

Release date: October 6, 1918

 

 

The Duchess of Buffalo (1926) Constance Talmadge

Starring: Constance Talmadge,Tullio Carminati, Edward Martindel, Rose Dione, Chester Conklin, Lawrence Grant, Martha Franklin, Jean de Briac

Directed by Sidney Franklin

Constance Talmadge Film Company

The Duchess of Buffalo is a 1926 silent film romantic-comedy produced by and starring Constance Talmadge and released through First National Pictures. It is based on a 1916 Broadway stage musical Sybil which is this film's alternate title.

Release date: September 5, 1926

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