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John Stuart Robertson (June 14, 1878 – November 5, 1964) was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore.
Pages in category "1920s dance films" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... The Dancers (1925 film) Danse Macabre (1922 film) S.
His influence can be noted by the dance moves in videos done by artists such as Kid N Play, Scrap Lover and Scoop Lover (dancers for Big Daddy Kane) and G-Wiz and the late Trouble T-Roy (from Heavy D & The Boyz). Shabba Doo (1955–2020), American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director. He has appeared in film and television.
The film, a romantic action-war picture, was rewritten by scriptwriters Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton from a story by John Monk Saunders to accommodate Bow, Paramount's biggest star at the time. Wellman was hired, as he was the only director in Hollywood at the time who had World War I combat pilot experience, although Richard Arlen and John ...
Title Director Featured Cast Genre Note 813: Charles Christie, Scott Sidney: Wedgwood Nowell, Ralph Lewis, Wallace Beery, Laura La Plante: Mystery: FBO: The Adorable Savage: Norman Dawn
Tiller Girls posing on a ship, c. mid-late 1920s. The Tiller Girls were among the most popular dance troupes of the 1890s, first formed by John Tiller in Manchester, England, in 1889. In theatre Tiller had noticed the overall effect of a chorus of dancers was often spoiled by lack of discipline. Tiller found that by linking arms the dancers ...
By the mid-to-late-1920s, the silent "art film" was on the rise with some of the greatest silent film achievements, such as Josef von Sternberg's Underworld and The Last Command, King Vidor's The Crowd, and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Erich von Stroheim's ultra-realist films such as Greed also had a big influence.
On with the Dance is 1920 American silent costume drama directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Mae Murray and David Powell, and released by Paramount Pictures. Art direction for the film was done by Charles O. Seessel. [1] The film is a screen adaptation of the 1917 Michael Morton play by the same name.