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Haines found box-office success with Little Annie Rooney (1925), co-starring Mary Pickford, and Show People (1928), costarring Marion Davies. He was a top-five box-office star from 1928 to 1932. He made a successful transition into "talkies" in the part-talking film Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928).
Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy; [1] October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model.. Thomas began her career as an illustrator's model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year.
The Crisis is a 1916 American silent historical drama film produced by William N. Selig and directed by Colin Campbell. The film is based on the American Civil War novel The Crisis by American novelist Winston Churchill. The novel was adapted into a play and produced on Broadway in 1902. [1] A copy of this film is preserved at the Library of ...
The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009). The collection is also known as The Last Days of the Civil War. Gettysburg (broadcast on History ...
On November 29, 1923, while working on location in San Antonio, Texas on the film The Warrens of Virginia, Mansfield was severely burned when a tossed match ignited her Civil War costume of hoop skirts and flimsy ruffles. Mansfield was playing the role of Agatha Warren and had just finished her scenes and retired to a car when her clothing ...
Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook (1 June 1887 – 17 November 1974) was an English film actor. After making his first screen appearance in 1920, Brook emerged as a leading British actor in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States in 1924, Brook became one of the major stars for Paramount Pictures in the late silent era.
Post civil war picture alleging "Pickets cooking their rations. Reserve picket fort near Fredericksburg, December 9, 1862" [1] Picture of alleged "Confederate dead on Matthews Hill, Bull Run" Brady Handy Collection [2] [3] The American Civil War was the most widely covered conflict of the 19th century. The images would provide posterity with a ...
Buddy Roosevelt (born Kenneth Stanhope Sanderson; June 25, 1898 – October 6, 1973) was an American film and television actor and stunt performer from Hollywood's early silent film years through the 1950s.