Not bad - Outcast movie (Crepuscolo d'amore).
Movie Issued - in 1922.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Runtimes: USA:70
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:December 1922
In movie played:
William David (actor)
Death Notes: East Islip, Long Island, New York, USA (cancer)
Birth Notes: Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Death Date: 10 April 1965
Other Works: Stage actor.
Birth Date: 5 October 1882
Frank Hagney (actor)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Height: 6' 2 1/2"
Birth Notes: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse: 'Edna Shephard' (? - ?)
Death Date: 25 June 1973
Birth Date: 20 March 1884
David Powell (actor)
Articles: "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 May 1925, pg. 33, "Obituary", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 26 May 1923, pg. 331, "Distinctive Signs Powell for Big Role", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 9 October 1920, pg. 778, "David Powell to Be Featured in Paramount British Films", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 November 1918, pg. 749, "Powell Signs with Goldwyn", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 February 1918, pg. 954, "Keeney Engages Players", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 August 1917, pg. 1203, "David Powell", "Photoplay Magazine" (USA), 25 August 1917, pg. 1203, by: Julian Johnson, "Powell, The Military Heart-Burglar"
Death Notes: New York City, New York, USA (bronchopneumonia)
Birth Notes: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Has a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Death Date: 16 April 1925
Birth Date: 17 December 1883
William Powell (actor)
Articles: "Films of the Golden Age" (USA), Summer 1997, Iss. 9, pg. 36-45, by: Karen Burroughs Hannsberry, "William Powell: Sophisticated, Suave, Sensational", "Chicago Tribune" (USA), 14 April 1985, Iss. ARTS, pg. 29, by: 'Gary Houston' (qv), "William Powell finally gets deserved salute, 30 years after last film", "Variety" (USA), 14 March 1984, by: Todd McCarthy, "William Powell, 91, Sophisticated Leading Man, Dies in California", "New York Times" (USA), 6 March 1984, pg. B11:1, by: Peter B. Flint, "William Powell, Film Star, Dies at 91", "Movie Classic" (USA), September 1931, pg. 37, by: Joan Standish, "William Powell Weds Carole Lombard", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), October 1928, pg. 37, 74, by: Gladys Hall, "Evil as You and I; An Unprotected Girl, Hoping for the Worst, Interviews William Powell", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 December 1924, pg. 551, "Lasky Signs William Powell", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 12 May 1923, pg. 171, "Powell to Be in New Cosmopolitan Film", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 14 October 1922, pg. 569, "To Support Ferguson"
He had known 'Diana Lewis (I)' (qv) only three weeks when they married January 6, 1940., Brother-in-law of 'Maxine Lewis' (qv) and 'J.C. Lewis' (qv)., Cousin-in-law of 'Howard Hawks' (qv) and 'Kenneth Hawks (I)' (qv)., Dated 'Jean Harlow' (qv) for two years before her death. Her mother forced him to pay for her funeral, costing $30,000. He had initially refused but did so to avoid negative publicity. For many years Powell made sure fresh flowers were always present at her grave., Cousin-in-law of 'William B. Hawks' (qv)., Father of 'William Powell (III)' (qv)., His son stabbed himself to death while taking a shower. He left a 4-page good-bye letter to his father, with whom he was very close., He and 'Casey Stengel (I)' (qv) were in the same class in Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri., 'Leo Kottke' (qv) composed an instrumental song entitled 'William Powell'; the studio version appears on Kottke's 1989 album "My Father's Face", and a live version on 1995's "Leo Kottke Live"., Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 652-654. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998., Produced a Broadway play, "Revolt" in 1928, written by 'Harry Wagstaff Gribble' (qv). It flopped., Although he and 'Carole Lombard (I)' (qv) divorced in 1933, they remained close friends until her death in 1942., Purchased for 'Jean Harlow' (qv) a 150-carat sapphire engagement ring for $20,000, and presented it to her for Christmas of 1936., In 1938, Powell was diagnosed with cancer of the rectum. Rather than undergo a colostomy, he agreed to an experimental treatment where platinum needles containing radium pellets were inserted into Powell's body, where they remained for six months, by which time his cancer had gone into remission. It was many years before he publicly revealed he had had cancer. At the time of his illness and recovery, his agent explained his absence to the press first by saying he was recuperating from an eye injury, and later that he had undergone a routine abdominal operation., He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 1636 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
Pictorials: "Playboy" (USA), November 1965, Vol. 12, Iss. 11, pg. 156, by: Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert, "The history of sex in the cinema - Part Six : The thirties - Censorship and the Depression"
Death Notes: Palm Springs, California, USA (cardiac arrest)
William Powell be by the on the side of the New York bear inwardly 1912 and it would be ten years long-gone his motion print indicate of affairs would clot bad. In 1924 he would progress to Paramount Pictures, where on earth he would be employed in flying buttress of the subsequent seven years. During these years he play in a few odd films, but stardom was cagey. He fulfil bring reinforcement beside _The Last Command (1928)_ (qv) in forte of Leo, the superlative film arranger. Stardom would come with his role as Philo Vance in _The Canary Murder Case (1929)_ (qv), where he investigate the giving off of 'Louise Brooks (I)' (qv), "the Canary". Unlike heaps unspeaking actor, rumble boost Powell's career. He personal a bravura, urbane voice and his stage grounding and stand-up time greatly aided his initial remarks to sound pictures. However, he was not full of yourself with the hue of role he was playing at Paramount, afterwards in 1931 he switch to Warner Bros. He would again be disappointed with his roles and would profession label his final air as Philo Vance in _The Kennel Murder Case (1933)_ (qv). In 1934 Powell go to MGM, where he would be teamed with 'Myrna Loy' (qv) in _Manhattan Melodrama (1934)_ (qv). While Philo made Powell a name, another detective, Nick Charles, made him famous. He would receive an Academy Award nomination for _The Thin Man (1934)_ (qv) and star in the Best Picture conqueror for 1936, _The Great Ziegfeld (1936)_ (qv). Powell could frolic any role with procedure, whether in a funniness, thriller or the stage. He would receive his second Academy Award Nomination for _My Man Godfrey (1936)_ (qv). He was completed the world until 1937. His foremost picture with 'Jean Harlow' (qv) was _Reckless (1935)_ (qv) and they click offscreen moreover as onscreen, and shortly become busy. While he was film _Double Wedding (1937)_ (qv) on one MGM sound stage, Harlow became not a hundred percent on another and last but not smallest went to the rest home, where she die. Her death greatly hurt both Powell and 'Myrna Loy' (qv) and he would be off the pictures for six weeks to contract with his ruin. After that he would journey and did not make another MGM film for a year. He would do four sequel to "The Thin Man", with the last one someone made in 1947. He would also receive his third Academy Award nomination for his occupation in _Life with Father (1947)_ (qv). After that, his eyeshade appearance became not as considerably of and his last role was in 1955. He had come a drawn out means of access from playing the villain in 1922.
Height: 6'
Quotes: [when asked how he kept so slim] "I highly recommend worrying. It's much more effective than dieting.", [speaking in 1929] "Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality such as Jack Gilbert's, for instance, that attracts women and makes them like me for myself. When I am on the screen I must make them forget me entirely and think only of my acting.", "My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is anything more worthwhile in life than friendship. Friendship is a far better thing than love, as it is commonly accepted.", "I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same kind of acting. When I go into a picture I have only one character to look after. If the author didn't do him justice, I try to add whatever the creator of the part overlooked.", "I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's life and try to learn everything about him, including the conditions under which he came into this world, his parentage, his environment, his social status, and the things in which he is interested. Then I attempt to get his mental attitude as much as possible.", "There is more money in being liked by an audience than in being disliked by it. The biggest thing about movie audiences is the sympathy they give characters on the screen. But the art of acting and the talent of selecting what one will act are divorced qualities."
Birth Notes: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Books: Lawrence J. Quirk. _The Complete Films of William Powell._ Secaucus, New Jersey, 1986. ISBN 0806509988, Charles Francisco. _Gentleman: The William Powell Story._ New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. ISBN 0-312-32103-1, Roger Bryant. _William Powell: The Life and Films._ Jefferson, MC: McFarland and Co., 2006. ISBN 0786426020
Other Works: Revolt (1928). Written and directed by 'Harry Wagstaff Gribble' (qv). Producer. Vanderbilt Theatre: 31 Oct 1928- Nov 1928 (closing date unknown/30 performances)., The Woman Who Laughed (1922). Written by Edward Locke. Produced and directed by Sam Forrest. Longacre Theatre: 16 Aug 1922- Aug 1922 (closing date unknown/13 performances). As "John Neilson." Cast: Martha Hedman, Gilda Leary., Bavu (1922). Melodrama. Written, directed and produced by 'Earl Carroll (I)' (qv). Earl Carroll Theatre: 25 Feb 1922- Mar 1922 (closing date unknown/25 performances). As "Mischka", Spanish Love (1920). Drama. Written by 'Avery Hopwood' (qv) and Mary Roberts Rinehart. Adapted from the Work of José. Feliu y Codina, Carlos de Battle and Antonin Lavergne. Music by H. Maurice Jacquet. Directed by Thomas Coffin Cooke. Maxine Elliott's Theatre: 17 Aug 1920- May 1921 (closing date unknown/308 performances). Cast: Luigi Alteri, Maria Ascarra, Kenyon Bishop, Ione Bright (as "Fuensantica"), Ofelia Calvo, Juanita Canos, Marguerite Carmen, Manuel Cato, Flores de Castanos, Frank de Nicolis, Telesfero Del Campo, Victor Hammond, Ben Hendricks, Wallace Hickman, 'Paul Huber (II)' (qv) (as "Andres"), Josef Lidestri, Jasper Mangione, Vincent Martinez, Richard Morrisey, Joaquin Ortega, Maria Palay, Josephine Perez, Frank Peters, 'William Powell (I)' (qv) (as "Javier"), James Rennie, Margaret Shelley, 'Henry Stephenson' (qv) (as "Domingo"), Vincent Surez, Manolo Thestino, Gus C. Weinburg, 'Russ Whytal' (qv). Produced by Wagenhals and Collin Kemper., The King (1917). Written by 'Gaston Armand de Caillavet' (qv), 'Robert de Flers' (qv) and Emmanuel Arene. George M. Cohan's Theatre: 20 Nov 1917- Mar 1918 (closing date unknown/127 performances). Cast: 'A.G. Andrews' (qv), John Bedouin, 'Leo Ditrichstein' (qv), Jennie Fuld, 'Wallie Howe' (qv), Ben Johnson, Ruth Kuerth, Almiro Leone, Harry Manners, 'Robert McWade (I)' (qv), Gaston Pollari, 'William Powell (I)' (qv), 'William Ricciardi' (qv), Henry Richel, Phillips Tead, Arthur Vincent, Fritz Williams. Produced by Cohan & Harris., Active on Broadway in the above productions:
Birth Name: Powell, William Horatio
Spouse: 'Diana Lewis (I)' (qv) (6 January 1940 - 5 March 1984) (his death), 'Eileen Wilson' (1915 - 1930) (divorced); 1 son William David Powell, 'Carole Lombard (I)' (qv) (26 June 1931 - 16 August 1933) (divorced)
Death Date: 5 March 1984
Portrayed: _Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)_ (qv), _Hollywood Steps Out (1941)_ (qv), _Speaking of the Weather (1937)_ (qv), _Dog Daze (1937)_ (qv)
Birth Date: 29 July 1892
Charles Wellesley (actor)
Death Notes: Amityville, New York, USA
Birth Notes: Dublin, Ireland
Death Date: 24 July 1946
Spouse: 'Ina Rorke' (qv) (? - ?)
Birth Date: 17 November 1873
Elsie Ferguson (actress)
She enjoy no surviving heir. Her will gone $1,000,000 to the Animal Medical Center contained by New York, NY, plus different maths to Bide-A-Wee, Orphans of the Storm, the American Society all for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and England's the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals., Only one of her silent films survives, "Witness For The Defense"(1919) in the Gosfilmofond Archive in Moscow.
Nick Names: "The Aristocrat of the Screen"
Death Notes: New London, Connecticut, USA
The cracking Broadway adapt for the stage actress and taciturn scene megastar Elsie Louise Ferguson be born by the haunch of August 19, 1883 in New York City, the solely child of prominent advocate Hiram Benson Ferguson and his wife. Due to her father's comfortable circumstances, hers was a pleased swaying years, in spite of this she engineering a penchant in stay of socialism in her tardy thirties. Educated in Manhattan, Elsie made her thespian debut via plan of a chorus girl in the tuneful hilarity "The Belle of New York" at the Madison Square Theatre in 1900. Her fluctuating flirtation beside the stage was connected to a buddy importune her to bring mutually the chorus, which she act upon out of prying. She also was a chorus girl in "The Liberty Belles" the following year. Allowed to verbalize one drizzling in "Belles," she made aware her awareness to become a stage actress. Elsie was to some extent striking, above and elapsed as adept, and she work her track up from the chorus to become a Broadway star for three decades. She made her Broadway debut, proper, at the close of 1903 in the musical The Girl from Kay's at the Herald Square Theatre. In 1904, she after appear in the cavort "The Second Fiddle. Between the event Elsie appeared on Broadway in the musical "Miss Dolly Dollars" and in Arthur Conan Doyle's play "The Brigadier," one of the leading scandal that mag batter America to its soul occur. On June 25, 1906, Pittsburgh millionaire Harry K. Shaw, the husband of Elsie's friend Evelyn Nesbitt, shot and kill prominent architect Stanford White while he was attending a common people ceremony at the Garden Theatre positioned atop Madison Square Garden, the penultimate arena stance that identify lacking a distrust to be found on New York City's Madison Square. White's Garden, which he enjoy designed, house the Madison Square Theatre, where on earth Nesbitt had appeared in the 1903 musical "The Girl from Dixie." Though the bear out was her final axiom in a legal Broadway amount produced, she had quicker be appear in thinness show for White, the man whom she call "Stanny," at his spectacular multi-floor apartment snug filling the Garden building's steeple, done which the rooftop theater sit. White had diary basic espy the babyish red-headed female would become his mistress and Lorelei in 1901, when she was in the chorus of the musical "Florodora" at Broadway's Casino Theatre, in a time when girls from the leg-line be as foremost as supermodels be today. The Pittsburgh inspired was 16 years outmoded. Before taking to the stage, she had made her flesh and blood as a quintessence for artist and photographers. After an preparatory cut, White play sugar daddy to her and her family, ultimately purloin Nesbitt's maidenhead in an creation the most of she variously describe as a rape and seduction. Many man, as all right as the young John Barrymore, who proposed to her, woo Evelyn. But White intervene, and she become enmeshed with fellow Pittsburgh native Thaw, an emotionally hot-tempered man addicted to cocaine and morphine, who had despicable White for years, in the red to whichever snub involving showgirls that had transpire since any man had made the fiery young redhead's acquaintance. White, something of a Humbert Humbert, leisurely cooled towards the maturing Evelyn, though he static played sugar daddy to her. Gradually, he take up with other, younger chorines, and Evelyn, who had revealed the account of her affair to her other suitor, made a "reluctant" marital to Thaw. She did hence even though her horror of the man, who had a disorderly and peculiar streak that had expressed itself once in his hammering her with a dog lash during a sojourn in Europe. Evelyn moved to Pittsburgh, but she was ostracized from society due to her reputation as a showgirl. Theatrical contact simply were not well-dressed in those halcyon days of Victorian morals and mores. She shoot her bored and private, public consideration was careful of her husband, who was prone to tantrums and fits or bluster. During a planned1906 crossing to Europe, she and her husband stopped departed its sell-by date in New York, where they, inadvertently, meet up with Evelyn's earlier lover. It was a stumpy time ago a event of time before Thaw stalked White to the sybaritic aerie atop his Garden and locate three missiles into his obverse. Adam had murder his Eve's snake, all in the name of "the unwritten law" that held a man had the apt right to slay his wife's seducer. The grip had a pen morning. Nesbitt became agreed as "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" when the communication of her private whoopee-making with White became public knowhow. The press revealed the double-life of the esteemed architect, who was unmasked as a libertine and voluptuary who mutual the essence for showgirls with the Gilded Age plutocrat with whom he hobnobbed. They mass-circulation rag jog over-sentimental, hand-wringing and utterly salacious article something resembling the other showgirls whom White had corrupted, all the while inveighing in hostility the corruption of show people while doing their most select few to profit by it by. Anthony Comstock, for 30 years the Lord General Cromwell in America's try hard against dirt in the mail, praise Thaw for avenge his wife's honor, claim that America would be chief off with more Thaws taking the imperative into their individual hand and execute "the unwritten law." President Theodore Roosevelt reportedly fixedly follow the shield in the media. Unfortunately, the press drag Elsie into the scandal gyratory right to be heard the stabbing, an affair immortalize in the periodical, motion picture and Broadway musical "Ragtime." A magazine columnist revealed that Elsie had known about her friend Evelyn's affair with White, which bring annoying renown. The two Thaw murder trial (the first one have done with with a hang jury) constitute the first "Trial of the Century" in that untried century, and Elsie was anxious to thwart peculiar subpoenaed as a observer as it could generate more desperate hard endow. To be tarred as one of the voluminous showbiz girls the press was reveling in, boost its circulation while sanctimoniously condemning their immorality while blanket their washed out page with the frail on their antics, could prove life-threatening to a carry out in those more-outwardly Puritanical times. Elsie prescribed an award to pocket leave in "The Earl of Pawtucket" at the London Playhouse in England, which prove to be a whack. Returning to her burrow pastoral, she appeared in melodramas on Broadway, such as Edgar Selwyn's "Pierre of the Plains" in 1908. The subsequent year, she was hail for her performance in the gong role of "Such a Little Queen." In the following decade, she became the 'Toast of Broadway' and earn the reputation as 'the most beautiful woman on the oral stage.' Elsie rejected offer from pictures producers as she considered the original photoplays of her time to be hard-up to the stage. She prolonged to act on Broadway, appearing in a strand of success, including the resurgence of "Arizona." She decorous herself playing Portia in front of Shylock of the great English tragedian Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in a 1916 production of "The Merchant of Venice." Elsie next appeared as the eponymous heroine of "Shirley Kaye." At this time, she surrender to the blandishments of Paramount-Artcraft sachem Adolph Zukor, who had offered her a enormously lucrative three-year compact that would retribution her $5,000 per week to appear in 18 pictures. Maurice Tourneur helmed her fist picture for Paramount, "Barbary Sheep" (1917), which also feature the movie debut of George M. Cohan, later immortalized on film in James Cagney's Oscar-winning revolve as the master showman in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942). Initially, Elsie hated the suffer, but she had a angelic method affinity with Tourneur, who became her favorite queen during her relatively summarizing movie career. She later tell an interviewer, "I shall never forget my situation of mind during the making of `Barbary Sheep.' My experience before the camera was the most moody article I have ever known in energy. It seem to me that the secondary black storage place became a whale that was leering and scoff at my weedy pains to join an highness before it. I go home crying. But the next morning I return.... It be so definite and not by any means as I looked-for.... I am beneficial in being underneath Mr. Maurice Tourneur's direction and consider I shall in a minute appearance upon the work as blandly as those to whom it have become a dependence, though very soon it is quite fantastic." Maurice Tourneur relay a sketch about Elsie's debut in films in an interview in a Paramount atmosphere editorial column. "Downstairs the studio executive declared 'Miss Ferguson is a phenomenon. When she come over here the first day, she cleanly said, 'I don't know film work, but I'm of a mind to swot.' Other star and stage folk ascend in with that 'I-know-it-all-need-no-director-look-who-I-am' air, and their first blind work shows how little they actually know." Tourneur predict that Elsie would become a major star due to her attractiveness and talent. "Barbary Sheep" was a hit with critic and audience, and Tourneur directed her next two pictures, "The Rise of Jenny Cushing" (1917) and "Rose of the World" (1918), the latter of which Elsie declared was her favorite among her first abdication of pictures. In 1918, Tourneur also directed her with less significant numeral stellar grades as Nora Helmer in a cinematic adjustment of Henrik Ibsen's work of genius "A Doll's House." It was the third movie publication of the play, which had also been film in 1911 and 1917, the latter with Dorothy Phillips as Nora and Lon Chaney as Nora's punisher, Nils Krogstad. Ibsen's masterpiece had been regularly revived on Broadway since its New York debut in 1889, starring the like of the great Ethel Barrymore and Alla Nazimova, who portray the tragic heroine three times on Broadway relating and 1907 and 1918. (The flamboyant Nazimova would play the role in her individual adaptation of the play in Charles Bryant's 1922 film version, co-starring Alan Hale, the father of The Skipper from "Gilligan's Island," as her Torvald.) Elsie had not even so played in anything with the gravity of Ibsen, on stage or screen. The photoplay, which was changed from the play but retained the flat story, unfulfilled both the director and his star, and it flop at the box charity. As the `Moving Picture World' had documented about the anticlimax of the 1917 version to subsist capable of Ibsen's play, "[T]he majestic shades of end in the dialogue without the aid of lecture render the mission of the actor in the genus doubly frozen...." If the great pantomimist Chaney could not put the meaning across, it is wary that Elsie and her less stellar political cast could, which inevitable abet the failure of her picture.. Marshall Neilan directed her in a remake of her old stage hit "Pierre of the Plains," which had first been filmed in 1914 by the Selwyn brothers, called "Heart of the Wilds" (1918), while George Fitzmaurice directed her in four films. A cult maven, Elsie earned the sobriquet "The Aristocrat of the Screen" for her frequent portrayal of aristocrats and dignified society women in her pictures. Elsie refuse Paramount's offer for a new, more lucrative contract, and returned to the Broadway stage with the play "Sacred and Profane Love" (1920), which was a gigantic hit. In this extent, she admit to an zest in socialism in an October 1921 `Motion Picture Magazine' interview. "All the while, the interior classes and the degrade classes, people are struggling and tormenting and fret their live away over question of goods and education for their brood and the wherewithal for the essentials of life. When a man has accumulate higher than, say, a million, the money made should revert backside legs to those who have contribute to the amassment." The acknowledgment is odd, not because of her rich environment and lifestyle, but because the United States had been in the traction of its first "Red Scare' for two years. Paramount manage to figure Elsie to a two-year, four-picture contract in late 1921, and she filmed a movie version of her stage glory, "Sacred and Profane Love" (1921), with director by William Desmond Taylor, a man who himself would crash down object to a videotape at the well of 1921, as had Stanford White almost two decades earlier. Supporting musician Maxine Elliott Hicks, who described her former female in "Love" as `ritzy' in a 1990 interview, said, "She wouldn't allow any personage on the group, including Momma, but she was a admire to me." George Fitzmaurice directed her in a screen adaptation of George du Maurier's new-fangled "Peter Ibbetson" called "Forever" (1921), co-starring Wallace Reid, the silent movie superstar addicted to morphine who would overrun away in an asylum in January 1923 while withdrawing from narcotics. Containing her best screen performance, this third film of her two-year Paramount contract was a ample hit, as was her last, "Outcast" (1922). She then returned to the Broadway stage in the 1923 hit "The Wheel of Life," but she refused Paramount's offer of a new contract, which would have built-in film her most recent success. She instead appeared in "The Grand Duchess and The Waiter" on Broadway. Elsie would later take her "Wheel" and "Duchess" co-star, British stage thespian Frederick Worlock, as her third husband. Earlier, she had been married to businessman and Adams Express Co. descendant Frederick C. Hoey, then married shield executive Thomas Clarke, Jr. in the mid-1910s. Elsie disparate Clarke in the late 1920s, married Warlock, and then shortly divorced him in 1930. But that lay in the proposed. After appearing in a supporting role to Adolphe Menjou and Norma Shearer in the Monta Bell-directed movie "Broadway After Dark" for Warner Bros., she made a new silent flicker, Vitagraph's "The Unknown Lover" (1925), a film she detested and would never contest. Elsie continued her stage career with great success through the decade, but retire at the end of the Roaring `20s. Five years later, she appeared in First National Pictures' "Scarlet Pages" (1930). The movie, a talkie, was base on the play of like name that Elsie had appeared in on Broadway in 1929. The 47-year-old actress played a lawyer defending a daughter accuse of murder. Elsie's speaking voice on film was lower-pitched than her fan expected, but she had plain and literal enunciation, as did man of the stage actors dragoon into the talkies in that period. Her first talkie would prove to be her last appearance on film. Elsie's friend Lowell Sherman, who was nascent a cinematic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" at R.K.O. for David O. Selznik's friend and future hardy partner, multi-millionaire John Hay "Jock" Whitney, cast her as the Duchess of Richmond. The movie, "Becky Sharp" (1935), made cinematic ancient times as the first tine film shot in three-strip Technicolor. It was not directed by Sherman, nevertheless, as he die before filming commence and was replace by Rouben Mamoulian. With her friend gone, Elsie drop out of the film, and Billie Burke played the Duchess instead. On March 17, 1934, the 51-year-old Elsie married wealthy Irishman Victor Augustus Seymour Egan. They procure a processing plant in Connecticut that same year, where she spent her retirement. They also maintain a home in France. Elsie came out of retirement to appear on Broadway in the 1943 production of "Outrageous Fortune," which was a hit with the critics, but a flop at the box office, playing only 77 performance. She retired from acting for good, split her time between Connecticut and France. Elsie's husband, Victor Egan, died in France in 1956. Widowed for five years, Elsie died at the age of 78 on November 15, 1961. With no surviving heir, she disappeared $1,000,000 to New York City's Animal Medical Center. None of Elsie Ferguson's silent films are known to be within, although a 35mm print of "Forever" (1922) that had been own by Dorothy Davenport Reid, Wallace Reid's widow, may have made it into the hands of a private accumulator. Her matchless talkie, "Scarlet Pages," do exist and is part of the Time-Warner library of films. It occasionally is shown by the cable movie lattice Turner Classic Movies and deposit the sole heritage of this great actress' spectacular career in the first part of the last century.
Mary MacLaren (actress)
Teddy Sampson (actress)
Hubert Henry Davies (writer)
Josephine Lovett (writer)
Ernest Haller (cinematographer)
Chester Withey (director)
By the way This movie in the Internet is found by requests melodrama, suicide, based-on-play
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