Leads the ratings - Madcap Madge movie
Movie Premier in 1917.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1, MET:
Release Dates: USA:24 June 1917
In movie have been taken:
J. Frank Burke (actor)
Birth Name: Burke, John Franklin
Birth Notes: Hartland, Vermont, USA
Death Date: 23 January 1918
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (arteriosclerosis)
Birth Date: April 1867
Charles Gunn (actor)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (influenza)
Birth Notes: Wisconsin, USA
Death Date: 6 December 1918
Birth Date: 31 July 1883
Jack Livingston (actor)
Articles: "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 June 1917, pg. 1439, "Jack Livingston", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 24 February 1917, pg. 1197, "Jack Livingston", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 9 December 1914, pg. 26:2, by: W.E. Wing, "On the Pacific Coast [birth of son]"
Became president and co-owner of Love Brassier Co.
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Height: 5' 11"
Birth Notes: Saint Albans, Vermont, USA
Birth Name: Livingston, John Horace
Spouse: 'Alice' (? - ?); 1 child
Death Date: 27 February 1944
Birth Date: 7 October 1877
J. Barney Sherry (actor)
Death Notes: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (heart disease)
Height: 6' 1"
Birth Notes: Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth Name: Reeves, J. Barney Sherry
Known for his portrayal of Robert E. Lee.
Death Date: 22 February 1944
Birth Date: 4 March 1874
Gertrude Claire (actress)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Death Date: 28 April 1928
Other Works: Stage actress.
Birth Date: 16 July 1852
Aggie Herring (actress)
Death Notes: Santa Monica, California, USA
Height: 5' 4"
Birth Notes: San Francisco, California, USA
Spouse: 'Jess Herring' (qv) (? - ?)
Death Date: 28 October 1939
Birth Date: 4 February 1876
Dorcas Matthews (actress)
Articles: "Motion Picture World" (USA), 10 September 1921, pg. 169, "McKim Baby No. 2 [son, 24 August 1921]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 May 1920, pg. 1093, "Los Angeles Studio Shots [son born, 4 May 1920]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 May 1920, pg. 1093, "Los Angeles Studio Shots [son born 4 May 1920]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 13 July 1918, pg. 185, "Dorcas Matthews' Injury Becomes Serious"
Toured with the Jeanne Russell theater company in 1909, the same group that gave Boris Karloff his start.
Death Notes: Berkeley, California, USA
Birth Notes: England, UK
Spouse: 'Robert McKim' (qv) (? - 4 June 1927); 2 children
Death Date: 24 January 1969
Birth Date: 5 November 1890
Olive Thomas (actress)
Articles: "Films in Review" (USA), November 1995, Vol. 46, Iss. 9-10, pg. 86, Stuart Oderman, "Classic Images" (USA), April 1995, Iss. 238, pg. 30, 32, by: Eve Golden, "Olive Thomas: The Midnight Frolics Girl", "Photoplay" (USA), December 1931, pg. 112, "Ask the Answer Man", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 29 July 1922, pg. 341, "Olive Thomas Estate Reported at $37,094 [left to mother, Mrs. Lorena VanKirke]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 23 October 1920, pg. 1122, "ilm Gives Public Chance to Pay Tribute to Olive Thomas", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 October 1920, pg. 980, "Olive Thomas Left No Will", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 9 October 1920, pg. 827, "Women and Girls Storm Church to Attend Funeral of Olive Thomas; Many Tears in the Vast Audience", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 October 1920, pg. 654, "Screen Snapshots' Shows Stars", "New York Times" (USA), 25 September 1920, pg. 13:4, "Olive Thomas's Funeral; Service for Film Star in St. Thomas's Church Tuesday Morning", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 September 1920, pg. 471, "Obituary", "Variety" (USA), 17 September 1920, "Olive Thomas", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 March 1920, pg. 1646, by: Edward Weitzel, "Olive Thomas Has Narrow Escape from an Embarrassment of Actors", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), April 1919, pg. 37-38, by: Sue Roberts, "An Olive from Sunny California", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 March 1919, pg. 1628, "Stars' Cars Hit Boys", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 1 February 1919, pg. 616, "[Jack Pickford] Presents Wife with $9,000 Car", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 18 January 1919, pg. 316, "Selznick Pictures' Again in Field", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 23 March 1918, pg. 1642, "Olive Thomas", "Picture-Play Magazine" (USA), September 1917, pg. 70, by: J.B. Waye, "An Alluring Call to Arms [worked at a recruiting station for the war effort]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 April 1917, pg. 433, "Olive Thomas with Triangle", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 14 October 1916, pg. 252, "Olive Thomas Has Big Ambition", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 8 September 1915, pg. 5:2, "Olive Thomas, One of the Chief Reasons for the Appeal of Mr. Ziegfeld's 'Follies' [photo only]"
Found poisoned enclosed by her liberty after consuming mercury bichloride tablets dissolve in alcohol. The environment in a hoop this entry be hidden but were properly intrepid to be unplanned. She die five days subsequently in the American Hospital in Neuilly., Irish-American descent, A member of the Ziegfeld Follies, Sister-in-law of 'Mary Pickford' (qv) and 'Lottie Pickford' (qv)., Daughter-in-law of 'Charlotte Smith (I)' (qv)., Her personal belongings were sold at auction in New York for $26,931. Fellow screen star Mabel Normand bought a 14-karet gold cigarette case for $50, a 20-piece toilet set for $1,425, a diamond pearl brooch and sapphire pin for $500, and a platinum set with star sapphire for $425 (22 November 1920), Her ghost has been said to haunt the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City., Discovered by 'Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.' (qv) for his Follies of 1915, he also cast her in the "Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics" which was a racier, after-hours show atop the New Amsterdam Theater for mostly male audiences. She often wore nothing but balloons which the gents would eagerly burst with their cigars. She also became Ziegfeld's mistress., Oldest of three. Younger brothers were James (born 1896) and William (born 1899)., Was sister-in-law of Mary Pickford., Was the first actress to play a 'Flapper' which would become a huge fad in the coming years., Was a Ziegfeld Girl.
Nick Names: Ollie
Death Notes: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (accidental poisoning)
Biographical Movies: _Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2003)_ (qv)
Oliveretta Elaine Duffy be born next to October 20, 1894, contained by Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Olive, via channel of she was determined to kith and kin and friends, carry out not enjoy by a long chalk of a seminal years. Life in industrial Pittsburgh was poignant and humourless next to its smoky factory and thorny alive. She married Bernard Krug Thomas at the age of 16 (which wasn't atypical at the time), but the nuptials ceremony wasn't a pleased one and they not linked two years following. By this juncture Olive have quit the Pittsburgh general population seminary group and gone in favour of New York. Here she found profession in a department warehouse. By accident here was a bout for the best lovely girl in New York City. On a lark she enter and, as chance would have it, she win. With the gasp coming from the win, Olive was freckled by 'Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.' (qv) and minus hesitation go to work in his famed Follies. She was without disbelief tremendous and man went rampant complete her spellbind. She also pose nude for the famed Peruvian ocular artist 'Alberto Vargas' . As a conclusion of her rapid celebrity, she was sign to a bond with Triangle Pictures. Her first masterpiece was _Beatrice Fairfax (1916)_ (qv). Later that year, on October 20, she married 'Jack Pickford' (qv), brother of eyeshade personality 'Mary Pickford' (qv), but the bond was a foul one. In 1917, she starred in four more films: _Madcap Madge (1917)_ (qv), _A Girl Like That (1917)_ (qv), _Broadway Arizona (1917)_ (qv) and _Indiscreet Corinne (1917)_ (qv). With five films on her hold aware, Olive was the toast of Hollywood and indeed the film world. Her beauty was influential. One gawk at her pictures can discharge one take in why. She made three films in 1918 and six in 1919. By 1920, Olive was at the zenith of the film world. She uncompromising to make correct pictures, most disreputably, _Youthful Folly (1920)_ (qv) and _The Flapper (1920)_ (qv), which was an humbling glory and have assured her lay in film ancient times. After finishing shooting _Everybody's Sweetheart (1920)_ (qv), Olive and Jack sail to France in August for a much needed time off. The brace seem happy, which seem bizarre in lantern of what was to skulk. Olive accidentally ingested bi-chloride of mercury from a French-labeled carafe in a darkened bathroom, believe it to be another medication, and she die from it not drawn out after. The going made collective headline and it was in due course ruled unplanned. Had Olive not died in this manner young-looking, she would always be remember as one of the finest actress of the unspeaking aeon. With the advent of clamour pictures, she would have beyond grill continued her dazzling available job. Olive Thomas, who was considered to be one of the world's grave beauty, was lone 20 when she died.
Birth Notes: Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
Books: Michelle Vogel. _Olive Thomas: The Life and Death of a Silent Film Beauty._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007. ISBN 0786429089
Birth Name: Duffy, Oliveretta Elaine
Spouse: 'Jack Pickford' (qv) (25 October 1916 - 10 September 1920) (her death), 'Bernhard Krugh Thomas' (1 April 1911 - July 1915) (divorced)
Death Date: 10 September 1920
Portrayed: _Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women (1978) (TV)_ (qv), _The I Don't Care Girl (1953)_ (qv)
Birth Date: 20 October 1894
R. Cecil Smith (writer)
Articles: "Motion Picture World" (USA), 23 August 1919, pg. 1146, "Smith Joins Selznick's Staff", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 10 November 1917, pg. 843, "Author Smith on Ince Staff"
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
Birth Name: Smith, Robert Cecil
Death Date: 17 December 1922
Birth Date: 1880
Charles J. Stumar (cinematographer)
Articles: "Variety" (USA), 3 July 1935, "Charles Stumar"
Death Notes: California, USA (plane crash)
Brother of cinematographer 'John Stumar' (qv).
Death Date: 29 June 1935
Birth Date: c. 1891
Raymond B. West (director)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (lingering illness)
Death Date: September 1923
Birth Date: 11 February 1886
Thomas H. Ince (miscellaneous crew)
Younger brother of 'John Ince' (qv), elder brother of 'Ralph Ince' (qv). Father of 'Thomas H. Ince Jr.' (qv)., He was taken ill under mysterious circumstances on board 'William Randolph Hearst' (qv)'s yacht on November 18, 1924. Also on board were 'Marion Davies' (qv), 'Charles Chaplin' (qv) and 'Louella Parsons' (qv), among other celebrities., Inceville, located where Sunset Boulevard reaches the Pacific Ocean, is named for 'Thomas H. Ince' (qv). It was in Inceville that he established his first studio, before moving his studio to Culver City., One of the stories about Ince's death aboard the 'William Randolph Hearst' (qv) yacht is that 'Marion Davies' (qv)' secretary, Abigail Kinsolving, may have been the shooter. According to these accounts, Kinsolving told police that she had been raped by Ince, and was seen by other guests on the yacht to have bruises on her. Although she was named as a suspect in Ince's death, she was never charged. She gave birth to a child several months after the incident--she wasn't married at the time--and died mysteriously in a car accident near Hearst's San Simeon castle soon after. A suicide note found in the car had several inconsistencies, such as her handwriting. Adding to the suspicions was that her body was found immediately after the crash by two of Hearst's bodyguards. Her newborn daughter Louise was sent to an orphanage and was supported by funds directly paid by Davies. The original investigator whose suspicions about Ince's death went unheeded lives in a retirement home near Morro Bay, CA, and still believes in Kinsolving's innocence. The case is closed and considered unsolved., One of the founders of Triangle Film Corp. and, later, Associated Producers, Inc., Built his Culver City studio in 1918. After his death, it was sold to 'Cecil B. DeMille' (qv), who later sold it to RKO, when it became known as RKO Culver. The studio was leased to 'David O. Selznick' (qv) in the late 1930s. _Gone with the Wind (1939)_ (qv) was filmed there, razing a number of old DeMille sets for the burning of Atlanta sequence. When 'Lucille Ball' (qv) and 'Desi Arnaz' (qv) bought RKO in 1956, the lot became Desilu Culver. In the mid 1980s, 'Grant Tinker' (qv) and Gannett Corp. bought the lot. They sold it to Sony in 1991, who in turn sold it to PCCP Studio City Los Angeles, who now operates it under the name The Culver Studios. The studio is now rented by all the major studios for both film and TV work.
Death Notes: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart failure)
Thomas H. Ince be born into a family connections of lap actor. He appear by the stage at age six and next work near a trifling farm animals fearless. He made his Broadway debut when he was 15. Vaudeville offered donkey work in defend of him, but the work was contradictory, for that reason he was a lifeguard, a promoter and charitable entertainer. His stage pursuit was a flop and he was head nowhere. In 1910 he get a job with Biograph, and after one corroborate, 'Carl Laemmle' (qv)'s Independent Motion Pictures Co. hired Ince with mechanical of a commander. He would budge to Cuba to invention films out of the manage of the Motion Pictures Patent Company--the trust that was attempt to condense all self-sufficient amount produced companies and cranny the souk on film production--but his surrender was minor. In 1911 he aligned the New York Motion Picture Co. and headed to California to make westerns. he would writ that all script be roundly intended out formerly the film beginning. This would furnish him the opportunity to film several scene at once with assistant director. One of those directors was 'Francis Ford' (qv), the brother of 'John Ford (I)' (qv). In 1912, NYMP and Independent merged to banner Universal Pictures. Ince enjoy build a township of motion oil "sets" on a stretch of manor in Santa Monica call "Inceville". Here he was competent to shoot heaps of the outdoor locales needed for his films. It was also here that empire would come to enter the cinema. At the break of 1912 Ince hired 'William Desmond Taylor' (qv) to creation in his film _Counterfeiter, The (1913)_ (these two would have by a long chalk more in rife than a squat instance ago making films in the untimely 1920s). In 1913 Ince would make complete 150 films, principally westerns and Civil War drama. He would also assign directors 'Frank Borzage' (qv), 'Fred Niblo' (qv), 'Jack Conway (I)' (qv) and 'Henry King (I)' (qv). In 1914 Ince hired 'William S. Hart' (qv) as an actor who could also obverse his decisive films. Ince would make the epic _The Battle of Gettysburg (1913)_ (qv) and thereafter focus on larger films as he moved from director to firm. He would employ thousands of technicians and make movies on an legislative article column net. In 1915 he would weave 'D.W. Griffith' (qv) and 'Mack Sennett' (qv) to form the Triangle Motion Picture Company. They would assemble a studio on Sunset Boulevard for 'Mabel Normand' (qv) to make _Mickey (1918)_ (qv), but she would rapidly gesture out for Goldwyn. Fortunately, Hart was a outsized and viable name who kept the company afloat. In 1916 Ince would breed and direct the anti-war film _Civilization (1916)_ (qv), which has-been at the sachet bureau as the drift of the nation changed out isolationism. Always look for try-out talent, Ince would sign the hauntingly attractive 'Olive Thomas' (qv), the budding young-looking star of the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic, to star in his films. At the end of World War I Ince insolvent with Triangle and joined his righter of wrong 'Adolph Zukor' (qv) to form Paramount/Artcraft, and he built another studio in Culver City. Ince come yawning awake with the concept for a sequence of absurdity pairing 'Douglas MacLean (I)' (qv) and 'Doris May' (qv), and their furthermost basic picture, _23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919)_ (qv), was jubilant. When William S. Hart's compact done, otherwise, he not here the company and Zukor controlled Ince out of Paramount/Artcraft. In December 1919, Thomas Ince, 'Mack Sennett' (qv), 'Marshall Neilan' (qv), 'Maurice Tourneur' (qv) and 'Allan Dwan' (qv) would hold in cooperation to form Associated Producers, an independent film alliance. 'Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle' (qv) had be approach, but he had no fancy to join the crew. In 1922 Associated Producers would join together with First National. On the February 1, 1922, Paramount director 'William Desmond Taylor' (qv) was shot to rift in his bungalow. One of the suspect, although never a academic one, was 'Mack Sennett' (qv), who stated that he spent the hours of darkness at the married of Ince. In 1924 Ince was one of several Hollywood people aboard the yacht of daily industrialist 'William Randolph Hearst' (qv) when he was hastily rushed historic its sell-by date the yacht and taken to a consulting legroom, and Hearst spokesmen said he had suddenly taken off-colour aboard the yacht. Ince was at the end of the day taken to his home, where on earth he die. The morning papers headline "Movie producer shot on Hearst yacht!" The evening papers would not interchange that headline and the competitor Hearst quality newspaper would print the subsequent time that Ince died of acute anxious front. One of the fiction on all sides of Ince's immediate and unknowable death--and believed to be the most plausible by many who know Hearst, Ince and the others aboard the yacht that day--is that the cassette wasn't designed for Ince but for 'Charles Chaplin' (qv), whom Hearst had protracted suspected of carrying on a restricted affair with Hearst's mistress, actress 'Marion Davies' (qv). Supposedly, Hearst inadvertently walk into Davies' log cabin and caught her and Chaplin in bed together, pull out his weapon, Chaplin jump up and flood face the cabin, Hearst chase him and fired several shot at him, deficient Chaplin but hitting Ince, who happen to be erect on deck at the time. As this story go, columnist 'Louella Parsons' (qv) was also on cross that day and witness the shooting, and in swapping for keeping rich nearly it, Hearst promise her a lifetime job as the Hollywood correspondent for his newspaper cord up (she act upon, in certainty, go to work for the Hearst Corp. shortly after the interval as its entertainment reporter, and remain in attendance for the time out of her life).
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