We've seen Great Expectations movie
Movie Premier in 1917.
Novel: Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. London, 1861, Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, ©1861. 266pp.
Charles Dickens' classic narrative of Pip, a impoverished urchin who befriend an escaped convict and who grow wakeful inside the band of a ruthless elderly female, Miss Havisham, and her stilted childish ward, Estella. Pip learn the rewards of both vindictiveness and appreciation near mission of a product of these measures.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Runtimes: USA:50
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:1500 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:8 January 1917
In movie played:
William Black (actor)
Birth Notes: Irvington, New York, USA
Other Works: Active on Broadway in the following productions:, La Belle Hélène (1899). Musical/opera., The Wild Rose (1902). Musical comedy., George W. Lederer's Mid-Summer Night Fancies (1903)., The Southerners (1904). Musical comedy., His Honor the Mayor (1906). Musical comedy., His Honor the Mayor (1907). Musical comedy., Little Nemo (1908). Musical comedy., The Deacon and the Lady (1910). Musical. Music by Alfred Aarons. Book by George Totten Smith. Lyrics by George Totten Smith. Musical Director: Ivan Rudisill. Musical Staging by Eddie Clark. Scenic Design by D. Frank Dodge. Costume Design by William H. Matthews. Directed by Alfred E. Aarons. New York Theatre: 4 Oct 1910- 15 Oct 1910 (16 performances). Cast: Lillian Baker, Gertie Barreto, Anna Bayuk, 'William Black (I)' (qv) (as "Jim Black"), Beatrice Caplet, Wanda Dean, Ida DeCampe, Eva Fallon, George Faust, B. Fetherstone, John Foley, Billy French, Georgie Gardner, Mayme Gehrue, H.W. Gray, Bessie Hale, Harold Healy, Charles Hoff, Dorothy Homer, Robert Hunter, William Izzard, Nellie Jackson, Percy Jennings, Harry Kelly, Arline LaCrosse, Claude Lea, Lee Leontine, Ethel Leyden, Lillian Lippkam, Lillian Mansfield, Aureals Marlow, Maedelyn Marshall, Janis McCann, Katherine McDonald, Birdice McLaughlin, Irene Messenger, Audrey Mohr, Hazel Mooney, Helen Mooney, Pearl Musi, Fletcher Norton, Beatrice Osgood, Clara Palmer, A.L. Rankin, P.H. Riblet, Velma Roberts, Milton Silby, Jeanette Singer, Estelle St. Clair, T. Stanton, C.G. Staples, C.G. Thompson, Marion Thompson, Nellie White, P. Wilson, 'Ed Wynn' (qv) [Broadway debut]. Produced by Alfred E. Aarons and Louis F. Werba., Company's Coming (1931). Comedy/farce. Written by Alma Wilson. Directed by 'E.B. 'Zeke' Colvan' (qv). Lyceum Theatre: 20 Apr 1931- Apr 1931 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: 'Leila Bennett' (qv) (as "Susie"), 'William Black (I)' (qv) (as "Mr. Patterson"), William Boren, Wilfred Clarke, 'William W. Crimans' (qv) (as "Sergeant"), Hy Glanz, Francesca Hill, 'Frieda Inescort' (qv) (as "Mrs. Janney"), Ellsworth Jones, James La Curto, Mona Lester, Frances Neilson, 'Lynne Overman' (qv) (as "Mr. Janney"), Sidney Riggs (as "Mr. Thompson"), 'Rosalind Russell' (qv) (as "Miss Mallory"), James Spottswood. Produced by Stanley Sharpe.
Birth Date: 1871
Frank Losee (actor)
Articles: "New York Times" (USA), 15 November 1937, pg. 23:4, "Frank Losee, 81, 50 Years next to Stage; Had Appeared next to John Drew, Clara Morris and Frances Starr--Dies contained by Yonkers; Also Had Screen Roles; Supported George Arliss in 'Disraeli,' Mary Pickford and Pauline Frederick", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 September 1919, pg. 1837, "Losee Renews Contract with Famous Players", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), May 1919, pg. 44, 78, by: C. Blythe Sherwood, "Richman, Poorman, Beggarman--! They're All Frank Losee", "Motion Picture World" (USA`), 10 November 1917, pg. 846, "Losee Renews Contract with Famous Players", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 October 1916, pg. 401, "Frank Losee Renews Contract with Famous Players", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 20 November 1915, pg. 31:1, "Losee with F.P.; Will Play Denman Thompson Role in Producion of 'The Old Homestead'", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 13 November 1915, pg. 1315, "Famous Players Sign Frank Losee"
50 year veteran of stage and screen., Played screen father to 'Mary Pickford' (qv), 'Pauline Frederick (I)' (qv) and 'Marguerite Clark' (qv).
Death Notes: Yonkers, New York, USA (pulmonary embolism)
Birth Notes: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Other Works: Active on Broadway in the following productions:
Spouse: 'Marion Elmore' (qv) (? - 14 November 1937) (his death)
Death Date: 14 November 1937
Birth Date: 12 June 1856
Jack Pickford (actor)
Articles: "Films in Review" (USA), November 1995, Vol. 46, Iss. 9-10, pg.86, Stuart Oderman, "Films in Review" (USA), 1995, Iss. Nov/Dec, pg. 86-97, by: Stuart Oderman, "Jack Pickford and Olive Thomas; Scandalous goings-on for Mary's little brother", "Classic Images" (USA), June 1994, Iss. 228, pg. 42, by: George Katchmer, "Jack Pickford", "Classic Film Collector" (USSA), 1978, Iss. 58 (Spring), pg. 22-24, by: Stuart Oderman, "In My Sister's Shadow and Other Private Hells of Jack Picford", "New York Times" (USA), 4 January 1933, pg. 17:1, "Jack Picford, 36, Is Dead in Paris; Mary's Brother, Who Was Film Star and Producer, Had Long Been Ill; Career Colorful, Tragic; His First Wife, Olive Thomas, Died of Poisoning--Marilyn Miller, Second Wife, Divorced Him", "Paris and Hollywood Screen Secrets" (USA), August 1927, pg. 35, "Dan Cupid's Bulletin Board [divorce from Miller]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 January 1926, pg. 81, "Schenck Signs Pickford on Long Term Contract", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 20 September 1924, pg. 16-17, by: Irene Martin, "On a Wedding Anniversary [spouse is Miller]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 October 1923, pg. 682, "Jack Pickford's Latest", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 5 May 1923, pg. 74, "Marilyn Miller and Pickford to Co-Star in Screen Play", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 24 February 1923, pg. 805, "Pickford Ready to Start on Next Film", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 5 March 1921, pg. 29, "Jack Pickford Has Bronchial Pneumonia", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 August 1920, pg. 1009, "Jack Pickford Has Name Legaally Changed as He Becomes a Citizen of United States", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 8 March 1919, pg. 1335, "Jack Pickford Will Fly to Location", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 8 February 1919, pg. 754, "Jack Pickford in New Home", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 1 February 1919, pg. 616, "Presents Wife with $9,000 Car", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 January 1919, pg. 474, "Jack Pickford Undergoes Operation", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 14 December 1918, pg. 1220, "Jack Picford Signs Up with the First National", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 13 April 1918, pg. 255, "Jack Pickford Now a Censor [enlisted in Navy]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 September 1916, pg. 1518, "Lottie and Jack Picford Rejoin Famous Players", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 23 October 1915, pg. 31:1, "In the Picture Studios", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 15 September 1915, pg. 25:1, "Selig Has a Pickford [Jack]"
Brother of actresses 'Mary Pickford' (qv) and 'Lottie Pickford' (qv)., While in the U.S. Navy Reserve in 1918, he was involved in a scandal that almost got him court-martialed. Along with other officers and enlisted men, he was accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from wealthy enlisted draftees who wanted light shore duty. The servicemen originally assigned to do the light shore duty were then assigned to shipboard duty and sent into combat. Jack's mother, 'Charlotte Smith (I)' (qv), had a secret meeting with President 'Woodrow Wilson (I)' (qv)'s personal secretary, Joseph Tumulty. Tumulty wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels requesting that Jack be discharged so he could make a movie designed to increase interest in the Army Air Corps. Daniels granted Jack a general discharge before the court-martial began (Charlotte had sought an honorable discharge). The others involved in the scandal were court-martialed, sentenced to up to three years in the brig and dishonorably discharged. Tumulty later claimed no knowledge of the graft charges or Jack's impending court-martial., Brother-in-law of 'Owen Moore' (qv)., Brother-in-law of 'Douglas Fairbanks' (qv)., Last of 3 children., Brother-in-law of 'Allan Forrest' (qv)., Named after his father., Son of actress 'Charlotte Smith (I)' (qv)., Given co-director credit for a couple of sister 'Mary Pickford' (qv)'s films: _Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)_ (qv) and _Through the Back Door (1921)_ (qv)., Found wife 'Olive Thomas' (qv) dead in their Paris hotel room after she took a deliberate overdose of mercury biochloride that had been prescribed for Jack's syphilis, which he had passed on to her. Jack was eventually cleared of all wrongdoing., Third wife, Mary Mulhern, was a Ziegfeld Follies girl.
Death Notes: Paris, France (multiple neuritis)
Nepotism absolutely personal have its advantages contained by Hollywood, none more in that opening than in the showing industry of Jack Pickford, whose foremost elder sis, "America's Sweetheart" 'Mary Pickford' (qv), saw to it that Jack had all the advantages her big name mass could muster. Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1896, Jack be prompted using his actress/mother, 'Charlotte Smith (I)' (qv), to hang around Mary into show commercial. As a youth entertainer next to chapter, he at a rate of knots preset into a colorful immature musician. It was Mary who made him a fixture beside Biograph pictures starting in 1909 at the age of 13. When Mary sign her famous million-dollar compact with First National in 1917, one of her stipulations was that Jack receive a lucrative contract in defences of powerfully. However, the boy in recent times couldn't kill circumstance out of friction no set-up what or where on earth he was. A be sparing with in the flotilla prove frightful when Jack was accuse of accepting bribe from well-off man to let go them stay out of front-line habit. With the help of his kinfolk, he was exonerated--- regardless, he received a nonspecific dribble out, which was greater than he deserve. Despite constrained acting talent, Jack found boy-next-door glory as Pip in _Great Expectations (1917)_ (qv) and the term hero _Tom Sawyer (1917)_ (qv), and go on to become a to numerous extent desirable star on his individual. He even produced several of his own films. Some of his top-quality films during this time integrated _The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920)_ (qv), _The Man Who Had Everything (1920)_ (qv) and _Waking Up the Town (1925)_ (qv), but a drink in favour of the great go rapidly take complete. A ne'er-do-well playboy and carouser, he arouse more town go because of his interesting off-camera life than in the lighting idealist films he appear in. He picked wakeful alcohol, medication and lay a bet addiction to shepherd his partying lifestyle. First wife actress 'Olive Thomas' (qv), a heroin user, committed suicide in 1920 after lone four years of bridal, and his subsequent two marriages-- to Broadway melodious star 'Marilyn Miller (I)' (qv) and less important actress Mary Mulhern--would also separate catastrophically. All three wives be Ziegfeld girls at one time. By the unclear 1920s Jack was immaculately undependable and, with the advent of clamour, his career terra firma to a screech halt, in the face of ever-faithful Mary's complete attempt to rescue it. Jack's condition deteriorate largely henceforth letdown, with persistent bout of syphilis totalling to the complications of his drawn out residence things molest. He die childish at 36. The act upon was down as "progressive multiple neuritis", but it was almost certainly precipitate by his inveterate alcoholism-- a tragic and seemingly unneeded end for a boy who choose to tarnish the shiny platter readily hand to him.
Height: 5' 7"
Birth Notes: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Magazine Covers: "Promotional Postcard" (UK), 1920
Birth Name: Smith, John
Spouse: 'Olive Thomas' (qv) (25 October 1916 - 10 September 1920) (her death), 'Marilyn Miller (I)' (qv) (30 July 1922 - June 1927) (divorced), 'Mary Mulhern' (12 August 1930 - 3 January 1933) (his death)
Death Date: 3 January 1933
Birth Date: 18 August 1895
Herbert Prior (actor)
Articles: "Motion Picture World" (USA), 10 March 1917, pg. 1516, "Persuading Actors Into Pictures", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 17 January 1914, pg. 273, "Herbert Prior, An Early Recruit from the Legitimate, Now Firmly Established as a Leading Photoplayer"
Remained active in films well past his prime in character roles throughout the rest of the silent era and became a bit player and extra in talkies until his retirement in 1934., The British born actor (Oxford, England) and wife Mabel appeared together in scores of films and were considered Hollywood's preeminent movie twosome until eclipsed by star couple 'Mary Pickford' (qv) and 'Douglas Fairbanks' (qv)., Charming, distinguished-looking pioneer actor of Edison silents who began freelancing in movies in 1907, signing with Edison in 1909. He and wife Mabel left the Edison fold briefly to join Majestic Studios but returned in 1912., Met and married 'Mabel Trunnelle' (qv) while both were acting in stock shows shortly after the turn of the century.
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
A contributor of the untimely Edison Stock Company and of D.W. Griffith's horses camaraderie, he latter combined the Biograph Company. He appear a few times beside his wife Mabel, and play inside several films during the 1920s, leaving in 1934.
Birth Notes: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Spouse: 'Mabel Trunnelle' (qv) (? - 3 October 1954) (his death)
Death Date: 3 October 1954
Birth Date: 2 July 1867
Grace Barton (actress)
Birth Date: 29 August ????
Marcia Harris (actress)
Height: 5' 8"
Birth Notes: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Birth Date: 14 February 1880
Louise Huff (actress)
Death Notes: New York City, New York, USA
Birth Notes: Columbus, Georgia, USA
Death Date: 22 August 1973
Birth Date: 14 November 1895
Charles Dickens (writer)
Articles: "The Daily Telegraph" (UK), 15 January 2009, by: Richard Savill, "Diamond ring could prove Charles Dickens had secret love-child", "The New York Times" (USA), 6 June 2008, Vol. 157, Iss. 54,333, pg. E2, by: Felicia R. Lee, "Dickens Desk and Chair Sold"
Paul West (writer)
William Marshall (cinematographer)
Robert G. Vignola (director)
Paul West (director)
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