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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).
The film was the highest-grossing film until it was overtaken by Gone with the Wind (1939), another film about the Civil War and Reconstruction era. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] By 1940 Time magazine estimated the film's cumulative gross rental (the distributor's earnings) at approximately $15 million. [ 97 ]
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 ...
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.
In 1994, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld penned a series of silent film stars for the United States Post Office, including Rudolph Valentino and Keaton. [115] Hirschfeld said that modern film stars were more difficult to depict, that silent film comedians such as Laurel and Hardy and Keaton "looked like their caricatures".
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 ...
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 ...
Pickford and his sister Lottie were both silent film actors in their own right, but of course, were often overshadowed by their older sister, Mary. Living in her shadow, the two younger siblings embraced the happy-go-lucky times and fast living of the 1920s. Oddly enough, they both starred in Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918) as lovers. [3]