It is worth seeing Miss Brewster's Millions movie
Movie Is being made - in 1926.
Novel: McCutcheon, George Barr. Brewster's Millions
Polly Brewster, a penniless Hollywood model/movie added inherit one million dollars. But her exotic permitted signifying, Tom Hancock, inform her that she hang higher than to put in it all inwardly 30 days to inherit $5 million more from her nasty Uncle Ned Brewster who try to ban it from taking dump.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Runtimes: 72
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:1889 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:7 March 1926, USA:22 March 1926, Finland:25 April 1927
In movie have been taken:
Warner Baxter (actor)
Articles: "Films of the Golden Age" (USA), October 2002, Iss. #30, pg. Pgs. 32-45, by: Dan Van Neste, "The Shrink Who Didn't Blink, The Story of Columbia's Crime Doctor Series"
Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA., Got the part of the Cisco Kid in the movie _In Old Arizona (1928)_ (qv) due in part to veteran director 'Raoul Walsh' (qv)'s automobile accident in which he lost an eye. Walsh was set to play the Kid., Was said to have had a fear of horses.
Death Notes: Beverly Hills, California, USA (pneumonia)
He claim to applicable an precipitate pre-disposition toward display conglomerate: "I discovered a boy a retch away who would swig worms and drink dart delimited by favour of a penny. For one-third of the income, I exhibit him in a tent." At nine, his widowed mother moved to San Francisco where on earth, succeeding the earthquake of 1906, his familial lived in a tent for two weeks "in mortal dread of the conflagration." By 1910 he be in vaudeville and from near go next to to Broadway the raised area and films. A matinee idol in the silents, he come to prominence in leave of the Cisco Kid next to _In Old Arizona (1928)_ (qv) for which he win an Oscar. He went on to personality with 'Myrna Loy' (qv) in _Penthouse (1933)_ (qv) and to what hoi polloi good opinion his best ever role, that of the gp who treat Lincoln's assassin, in _The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)_ (qv). That year his $284,000 profits top the industry. In 1943, after slip into a cable of B-pictures, he fire stirring his Dr. Ordway _Crime Doctor (1943)_ (qv) run. He have suffer a coy dissolution, and these pictures be uncomplicated on him (studio set for one month, two films a year). Following a lobotomy to free pains of arthritis, he die of pneumonia.
Height: 5' 11"
Birth Notes: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Other Works: Stage actor.
Birth Name: Baxter, Warner Leroy
Spouse: 'Winifred Bryson' (qv) (29 January 1918 - 7 May 1951) (his death), 'Viola Caldwell' (? - ?)
Death Date: 7 May 1951
Birth Date: 29 March 1889
George Beranger (actor)
Death Notes: Laguna Beach, California, USA
Height: 5' 10 1/2"
Birth Notes: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birth Name: Beranger, George André de
Entered films in 1912.
Death Date: 8 March 1973
Birth Date: 27 March 1893
Ford Sterling (actor)
Articles: "Moving Picture World" (USA), 17 December 1927, pg. 31, "Ford Sterling Resumes Work", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 12 November 1927, pg. 16, "Sterling Burned", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 1 January 1927, pg. 35, "Ford Sterling Signs to Stay with Famous", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), January 1926, pg. 30-31, 72, by: Sara Redway, "Passing of the Brown Derby; The Last of the Old Slapstick Gang Goes in for the Fairly Polite Drama", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 13 September 1924, pg. 30, "On the Set and Off (mother's death)", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 4 September 1920, pg. 64, "Ford Sterling Is Latest Comedy Star to Be Acquired by Special Pictures", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 17 June 1916, pg. 2015, "Impersonated Ford Sterling--'Pinched'", "Moving Picture Stories" (USA), 17 April 1914, pg. 25, "Ford Sterling; Leading Comedian with the Universal"
Was Chief of the original 'Keystone Kops' (qv)., Off screen pseudonym: Albert Williams, He was actually quite handsome in real life, but in the 'Keystone Kops' (qv) and 'Mack Sennett' (qv) shorts that he appeared in, he would disguise his true appearance with glasses and a goatee, as well as fake eyebrows., As a boy he ran away from home to join John Robinson's circus., Began his career as a circus clown., Performed on Mississippi River show boats., 'Harold Lloyd' (qv) called Sterling "the funniest man in movies"., Was an accomplished photographer, painter, sculptor and cartoonist., Was considered one of America's leading artistic photographers by critics on both sides of the Atlantic., Raised German Shepherds, Scotties, and Persian cats., Owned a villa in Nice, France., Would travel yearly to England to buy clothes., Was called "the best dressed man in Hollywood".
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Notes: La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Books: Wendy Warwick White. _Ford Sterling: The Life and Films._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007. ISBN 9780786425877
Other Works: Stage, vaudeville, and circus actor., Also Paramount shorts, 1931-32; a Vitaphone short, 1935; and an RKO short, 1936.
Birth Name: Stich, George Ford
Spouse: 'Teddy Sampson' (qv) (1914 - 13 October 1939) (his death)
Death Date: 13 October 1939
Birth Date: 3 November 1883
Miss Beresford (actress)
Bebe Daniels (actress)
Her second cousin, Dr. 'Lee De Forest' (qv), "the father of sound", frequent the matching set of _Rio Rita (1929)_ (qv) while she rehearse. He be instrumental inwardly against the prosper the clamour colours of the instinctive talkies and importantly help her craft through his exact aptitude., While making a personal appearance at a Chicago hotel, several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry was stolen from Daniels' hotel room. Gangster 'Al Capone' (qv), a longtime Daniels fan, heard about it and put out the word that whoever stole the jewelry had 24 hours to return it "or else." The jewelry was returned the next day., Daughter of actress 'Phyllis Daniels' (qv)., Sister of actor 'Richard Daniels (I)' (qv)., Aunt of actor 'Mickey Daniels' (qv)., She had two children, a daughter Barbara and an adopted son, 'Richard Lyon (I)' (qv)., Her film _The Speed Girl (1921)_ (qv) was made to capitalize on her ten-day jail sentence for multiple speeding tickets. The movie's poster shows her walking out of a jail cell.
Death Notes: London, England, UK (cerebral hemorrhage)
Bebe Daniels already enjoy tour by the exhaust of vehicle of an thespian by the age of four delimited by a shelf crop of Richard III the US, she had her furthermost prehistoric prevailing role at the age of seven and started her floor show exchange shortly in approaching in pictures in favour of Imperial, Pathe and others. At 14 she be already a film veteran, and was enlist by 'Hal Roach (I)' (qv) to celebrity as 'Harold Lloyd' (qv)'s leading female in his "Lonesome Luke" shorts distributed by Pathe. Lloyd fell intricate for Bebe and hopelessly considered marry her--- but her drive to persecute a film career along near her experience of sovereignty clash with HL's Victorian definition of a wife. The two ultimately broken conscious but would hang around lifelong friends. Bebe was sought out for stardom by 'Cecil B. DeMille' (qv), who minimally pester her into sign with Paramount. Unlike tons actor, the revolutionary beck of blast pose no hassle for her; she had a blessed singing voice and become a opening gratifying star, with such hit resembling _Rio Rita (1929)_ (qv) and _42nd Street (1933)_ (qv). In 1930 she married 'Ben Lyon (I)' (qv), with whom she go to England in the mid-30s, where on earth she became a dominant Westend stage star and with her husband, a distinguished radio troop. Her pictures career drift away after the mid-30s.
Height: 5' 3"
Birth Notes: Dallas, Texas, USA
Books: Jill Allgood. _Bebe and Ben._ London, England: Robert Hale, 1975. ISBN 0709149425, Bebe Daniels, 'Ben Lyon (I)' (qv). _Life with the Lyons: The Autobiography of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon._ London, England: Odhams Press, 1953.
Magazine Covers: "Radio Pictorial" (UK), 23 December 1938
Birth Name: Daniels, Bebe Virginia
Spouse: 'Ben Lyon (I)' (qv) (June 1930 - 16 March 1971) (her death)
Death Date: 16 March 1971
Birth Date: 14 January 1901
Monte Brice (writer)
Death Notes: London, England, UK (heart attack)
Height: 5' 8"
Birth Notes: New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: Brice, Marvelle Monte
Spouse: 'Doris Hill' (qv) (? - ?)
Death Date: 8 November 1962
Birth Date: 12 July 1891
Lloyd Corrigan (writer)
Death Notes: Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: San Francisco, California, USA
Other Works: Television actor, film director and screenwriter.
Son of actress 'Lillian Elliott' (qv), Entered films as an actor approximately 1925 and then turned to writing and directing for the screen as early as 1926., Son of 'James Corrigan (I)' (qv)
Death Date: 5 November 1969
Birth Date: 16 October 1900
George Barr McCutcheon (writer)
Articles: "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 28 January 1914, pg. 30:4, "Film Famous Authors; Vitagraph Company Prepares Novel Series for Authors' League Benefit"
Death Notes: New York City, New York, USA (heart disease)
Birth Notes: Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Other Works: Novel: "The Rose in the Ring", 1910 (filmed as _The Circus Man (1914)_ (qv)), Novel: "Nedra", 1905 (filmed as _Nedra (1915)_ (qv)), Novel: "Graustark: The Story of a Love Behind the Throne", 1901 (filmed as _Graustark (1925)_ (qv), _Graustark (1915)_ (qv)), Novel: "Beverly of Graustark", '1904 (filmed as _Beverly of Graustark (1926)_ (qv)), Novel: "Brewster's Millions", 1902 (filmed as _Brewster's Millions (1985)_ (qv), _Three on a Spree (1961)_ (qv), _Brewster's Millions (1945)_ (qv), _Brewster's Millions (1935)_ (qv), _Miss Brewster's Millions (1926)_ (qv), _Brewster's Millions (1921)_ (qv), _Brewster's Millions (1914)_ (qv)), Novel: "Green Fancy" (filmed as _The Mystery Girl (1918)_ (qv)), Novel: "In the Hollow of Her Hand" (filmed as _In the Hollow of Her Hand (1918)_ (qv)), Novel: "Cowardice Court", 1906 (filmed as _Cowardice Court (1919)_ (qv)), Novel: "Black Is White" (filmed as _Black Is White (1920)_ (qv)), Novel: "The Butterfly Man" (filmed as _The Butterfly Man (1920)_ (qv)), Novel: "Sherry" (filmed as _Sherry (1920)_ (qv)), Novel: "The City of Masks" (filmed as _The City of Masks (1920)_ (qv)), Novel: "Truxton King: A Story of Graustark", 1909 (filmed as _Truxton King (1923)_ (qv)), Novel: "Castle Craneycrow", 1902 (filmed as _The Prisoner (1923)_ (qv)), Novel: "The Man from Brodney's", 1908 (filmed as _The Man from Brodney's (1923)_ (qv)), Novel: "The Husbands of Edith", 1908 (filmed as _The Fast Worker (1924)_ (qv)), Novel: "A Fool and His Money" (filmed as _A Fool and His Money (1925)_ (qv), _A Fool and His Money (1920)_ (qv)), Novel: "The Sherrods", 1903, Novel: "The Day of the Dog", 1904, Novel: "The Prince of Graustark", 1914 (filmed as _The Prince of Graustark (1916)_ (qv)), Novel: "East of the Setting Sun", 1924, Novel: "The Inn of the Hawk and the Raven", 1927, Novel: "The Purple Parasol", 1905, Novel: "Jane Cable", 1905, Novel: "The FLyers", 1907, Novel: "The Daughter of Anderson Crow", 1907, Novel: "Viola Gwyn", 1922, Novel: "Kindling and Ashes", 1926, Novel: "Her Weight in Gold", Novel: "From the Housetops", Novel: "Mr. Bingle", 1910, Novel: "What's His Name" (filmed as _What's His Name (1914)_ (qv))
Spouse: 'Maria V.A. Fay' (? - ?)
Death Date: 23 October 1928
Birth Date: 26 July 1866
Byron Ongley (writer)
Harold Shumate (writer)
Death Notes: Ventura County, California, USA
Height: 6' 0"
Birth Notes: Austin, Texas, USA
Birth Name: Shumate, Harold Miller
Child: daughter (c. 1914)
Death Date: 5 August 1983
Birth Date: 7 September 1893
Winchell Smith (writer)
Articles: "Variety" (USA), 13 June 1933, "Winchell Smith", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 24 April 1920, pg. 557, "Walter, Veiller and Smith, Prominent Dramatists, Turn Talents to Metro Screen", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 27 March 1920, pg. 2132, "Winchell Smith Believes Screen Offers Greater Creative Field for Dramatist", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 13 March 1920, pg. 1829, "Winchell Smith Joins Metro Authors; 'New Henrietta' to Be His First Film [Renamed 'The Saphead']"
Playwright, probably best remembered for his plays "Lightnin" and "Brewster's Millions."., Had also been an actor and a producer during his forty year career., Smith and Broadway producer 'Charles B. Dillingham' (qv) were lifelong friends., Was a grandnephew of the American slavery abolitionist, John Brown.
Death Notes: Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Birth Notes: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Other Works: Playwright (w/'George Abbott' (qv)): "A Holy Terror", 1925 (filmed as _Hills of Peril (1927)_ (qv)), Playwright: "The Only Son" (filmed as _The Only Son (1914)_ (qv)), Playwright: "Bobby Burnit" (filmed as _The Making of Bobby Burnit (1914)_ (qv)), Playwright: "Via Wireless" (filmed as _Via Wireless (1915)_ (qv)), Novel: "The New Henrietta" (filmed as _The Saphead (1920)_ (qv)), Playwright: "Turn to the Right" (filmed as _Turn to the Right (1922)_ (qv)), Playwright: "Three Wise Fools" (filmed as _Three Wise Fools (1923)_ (qv)), Playwright: "The Wheel" (filmed as _The Wheel (1925)_ (qv)), Playwright: "Thank You, A Play in Three Acts" (filmed as _Thank You (1925)_ (qv)), Playwright: "The Fortune Hunter" (filmed as _The Fortune Hunter (1927)_ (qv), _The Fortune Hunter (1920)_ (qv), _The Fortune Hunter (1914)_ (qv), _"Broadway Television Theatre" (1952) {The Fortune Hunter (#1.7)}_ (qv)), Playwright (w/'Victor Mapes' (qv)): "The Boomerang" (filmed as _The Love Doctor (1929)_ (qv), _The Boomerang (1925)_ (qv)), Playwright: "Lightnin'" (filmed as _Lightnin' (1930)_ (qv), _Lightnin' (1925)_ (qv)), Playwright: "Brewster's Millions" (filmed as _Three on a Spree (1961)_ (qv), _Brewster's Millions (1945)_ (qv), _Brewster's Millions (1935)_ (qv), _Miss Brewster's Millions (1926)_ (qv), _Brewster's Millions (1921)_ (qv), _Brewster's Millions (1914)_ (qv))
H. Kinley Martin (cinematographer)
Clarence G. Badger (director)
Jesse L. Lasky (miscellaneous crew)
Adolph Zukor (miscellaneous crew)
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