
Siegmund Lubin (April 20, 1851 – September 11, 1923) was an American motion picture pioneer who founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (1902–1917) of Philadelphia.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegmund_Lubin
Siegmund Lubin (April 20, 1851 – September 11, 1923) was an American motion picture pioneer who founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (1902–1917) of Philadelphia.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegmund_Lubin
Helen Jerome Eddy (February 25, 1897 – January 27, 1990) was a movie actress from New York City. She was noted as a character actress who played genteel heroines in films such as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917).
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Jerome_Eddy
Reine Davies (born Irene Douras; June 6, 1883 – April 5, 1938) was an American singer and actress.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reine_Davies
Just a head’s up: there’s no #SilentFilm on the TCM schedule this week BUT they will he showing “Movie Crazy” (1932) starring Harold Lloyd midday on Wednesday and “A King in New York” (1957) starring Charlie Chaplin on Saturday afternoon + next week’s #SilentSundayNights has the 1919 war drama “Behind the Door”
#TCMParty #HaroldLloyd #CharlieChaplin #BehindTheDoor
Arnold Daly (October 4, 1875 – January 13, 1927) was an American actor, playwright, and producer. He was the father of actress and Algonquin Round Table personality Blyth Daly.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Daly
John Davidson (December 25, 1886 – January 16, 1968) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films from 1915 to 1963. He was born in New York City, and he died in Los Angeles, California.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davidson_(actor,_born_1886)
William C. Dowlan (September 21, 1882 – November 6, 1947) was an American stage performer and a film actor and director during the silent era.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Dowlan
Bradley Barker (January 18, 1883 – September 29, 1951) was an American actor and film director of the silent era. He also created sound effects for film and radio.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Barker
Hobart Bosworth (August 11, 1867 – December 30, 1943) was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer. Bosworth began his career in theater, eventually transitioning to the emerging film industry.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Bosworth
Bud Duncan (October 31, 1883 – November 25, 1960) was an American actor of the silent era, most known for his early work with silent film comedian Lloyd Hamilton. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1912 and 1942.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Duncan
William A. Berke (October 3, 1903 – February 15, 1958) was an American film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He wrote, directed, and/or produced some 200 films over a three-decade career.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Berke
George Gaston Bell (September 27, 1877 – December 13, 1963) was an American stage and film actor active over the early decades of the twentieth century.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Bell
Van Dyke Brooke, né Stewart McKerrow (1859–1921) was an early American actor, screenwriter and film director, whose works include The Reprieve: An Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln (1908) and Lights of New York (1916).
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Dyke_Brooke
"The fast and pronounced editing style generates a form of expressionist editing that communicates individual and mass neuroses and sexual desire. The result, to borrow a phrase from Béla Balázs, conveys the crowd’s most 'expressive expression'. Put another way, here is editing that 'grasps what is behind' the characters and rips them frenetically to the surface."
Bernard McCarron, Le Brasier ardent (1923): Ivan Mosjoukine's clin d'oeil to German Expressionism.
And here’s all of the #SilentFilm on this month’s TCM schedule
#TCMParty #SilentSundayNights #BusterKeaton #HaroldLloyd #CharlieChaplin #AlfredHitchcock #comedy
Next week #SilentSundayNights has more comedy with a Harold Lloyd triple feature: “Among Those Present”, “Now or Never” and “I Do” , all from 1921
#TCMParty #HaroldLloyd #SilentFilm
Just a head’s up #SilentFilm/Comedy/#SilentSundayNights fans: Set your DVRs this Tuesday b/c TCM will be celebrating Buster Keaton’s Birthday with a day of #BusterKeaton films!
#TCMParty
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1908) — one of the first horror films ever made. A chilling classic about duality and darkness.
What’s your favorite adaptation?
John Boles (October 28, 1895 – February 27, 1969) was an American singer and actor best known for playing Victor Moritz in the 1931 film Frankenstein.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boles_(actor)
Yale Boss (October 18, 1899 – November 16, 1977) was an American child actor of the silent screen. He was one of the screen's first child stars. Boss's popularity waned in the late 1910s and he later worked as a prop man.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Boss