Really cool - Mr. Wu movie
Movie Is being made - in 1919.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: UK
Genres: Drama
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:1575.82 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
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Teddy Arundell (actor)
Death Notes: London, England, UK (heart disease)
Birth Notes: Devon, England, UK
Death Date: 5 November 1922
Birth Date: 18??
Matheson Lang (actor)
Articles: "New York Times" (USA), 13 April 1948, pg. 27:3, "Matheson Lang, British Actor, 68; Shakespearean Performer Is Dead in Barbados--Seen with Ellen Terry, Mrs. Langtry"
Death Notes: Bridgetown, Barbados
Birth Notes: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Books: Rudolph De Cordova. _"Mr. Matheson Lang and Miss Hutin Britton"._ Westminster, England: Abbey Press, 1909., Matheson Lang. _"Mr. Wu Looks Back"._ London: Stanley Paul, 1940.
Other Works: (1914-1915) He and Ben Greet be the earliest director of the Old Vic Theatre delimited by its premiere season. The band built-in Dame Sybil Thorndike who play Adriana, Nora Nicholson, Ben Greet, Andrew Leigh, Estelle Stead, Hutin Britton, Constance Robertson, Fisher White, William Stack, J. Leslie Frith, JOhn Napper, and A. Corney Grain., (1914-1915) He and Hutin Britton directed William Shakespeare's plays, "The Taming of the Shrew," "Hamlet," and "The Merchant of Venice" at the Old Vic Theatre., On April 23, 1917 the Old Vic Theatre (formerly known as the Royal Victoria Hall) in London, England held a Shakespeare Birthday Festival where he appeared with Dame Ellen Terry, Russell Thorndike, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Lillian Braithwaite, Joyce Carey, Florence Saunders, Hutin Britton, Gertrude Elliott, Ben Webster, directed by Sir Ben Street.
Birth Name: Lang, Alexander Matheson
Spouse: 'Nellie Hutin Britton' (qv) (? - 11 April 1948) (his death)
Death Date: 11 April 1948
Birth Date: 15 May 1879
Roy Royston (actor)
Death Notes: Kingston-upon-Thames, England, UK
Birth Notes: London, England, UK
Death Date: 7 October 1976
Birth Date: 5 April 1899
Meggie Albanesi (actress)
Death Notes: Broadstairs, Kent, England, UK (intestinal ailment)
Birth Notes: London, England, UK
Other Works: Stage actress.
Birth Name: Albanesi, Margherita Cecila Brigida Lucia Maria
Daughter of novelist Effie Adelaide Rowlands., Cousin of 'May Hallatt' (qv)., Supposedly had the ability to cry on cue., Plagued by ill health in the last few months of her life, she was taken extremely ill to a nearby hospital while on a train to Kent in order to check herself into a nursing home. Her death was due to an infection following a burst intestinal abscess., Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts at age 16 and received the schools Bancroft Medal for her Lady Teazle in Sheridan's "The School for Scandal"., Came from a heady family. Her father, Chevalier Carlo Albanesi, was an Italian musician who tutored royal children; her mother, Maria Albanesi, was the novelist of 29 books., Promising Italo-British stage and silent film ingénue (born in London) who earned strong kudos as a teen but died suddenly at age 24 before fulfilling her prophecy.
Death Date: 9 December 1923
Birth Date: 8 October 1899
Lillah McCarthy (actress)
Death Date: 15 April 1960
Death Notes: London, England, UK
Books: Lillah McCarthy. _Myself and My Friends._ London: Thornton Butterworth, 1933.
Spouse: 'Harley Granville-Barker' (qv) (1906 - 1918) (divorced), 'Frederick W. Keeble' (? - ?)
Birth Notes: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Birth Date: 22 September 1875
Harold Owen (writer)
Death Date: 1930
Birth Date: 1872
Maurice Vernon (writer)
Death Notes: Woodland Hills, California, USA
Birth Notes: Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Other Works: Play: "Mr. Wu", Play: "Me and My Gal", Play: "The Bamboula" BIOGR, Play: "The Princess and the Dancer"
Birth Name: Vernon, Harry Maurice
Death Date: 11 November 1942
Birth Date: 11 July 1880
Maurice Elvey (director)
Death Notes: Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Maurice Elvey be born contained by Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham England, the oldest son of William Clarence Folkard, an inspect intend and Sarah Anna Seward Folkard (formerly Pearce). He never have a dignified education, and was engaged by the tenderloin of the street of London by channel of the age of nine have gully out abode. For a juncture he work by habitual of a page boy in the Hyde Park Hotel and a providential encounter next to a luxurious American encode him doing a outing to a occupation in, firstly, the drama and after in films. It was while in New York when he was working as a time firm that he saw his early motion visualize, The Flying Dutchman. This made such an dimple on him that when he come vertebrae to England he was obstinate to produce/direct films; and so switch on a career spanning 44 years, during which time he made complete 300 fact films, and numerous shorts. Amongst the 'firsts' that Maurice Elvey can avow as a head be: Gaumont's first discussion feature film 'High Treason' in 1929, and the first British tincture film 'Sons of the Sea' in 1939. Carol Reed and David Lean began their member of the aristocracy career in film by working in favour of him, and he directed Gracie Fields in her first motion picture 'Sally in Our Alley' which was made in 1931. Maurice Elvey was the elder brother of Fred V. Merrick, and during the 20's and 30's they worked on a few films equally. In May 1996 the world premiere of a long-lost film in the constituency of David Lloyd George, directed by Elvey, take plonk in Cardiff beyond 70 years following than programmed. The 3-hour film was concealed on the eve of its unpick in atmosphere which have immobile not be fully explain. The film was acclaimed by make obvious historians as a milestone in film making, and it be believed that had it been released in 1918, as originally intentional, it may very well have changed the memo of British cinema. Maurice Elvey was married three times. His first nuptials took place on 31st December 1910 to Adeline Maud Charlton Preston (Philippa Preston the actress). This marriage terminated in divorce. He then married Florence Hill Clarke (a sculptor) on 2nd February 1916. This marriage as well ended in divorce. On 13th January 1923 he married Isabella Reed (Isobel Elsom the actress), but this marriage also ended in divorce. As Maurice Elvey's niece and god-daughter I was thrilled to bare a plaque in April 1997 at the Green Dragon Museum, Stockton-on-Tees as sector of the Centenary of Cinema Celebrations.
Birth Notes: Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK
Other Works: Active on Broadway in the following productions:, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1910). Written by Baroness Orczy and Montague Barstow. Directed by Fred Terry. Knickerbocker Theatre: 24 Oct 1910- Nov 1910 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: J. Carter-Edwards, Malcolm Cherry, Guy Cunningham, J.L. Dale, George Dudley, Walter Edwin, 'Maurice Elvey' (qv), Frederick Groves, Horace Hodges, Alfred Kendrick, 'Philip Merivale' (qv), Julia Neilson, E. Eastern Pickering, Fred Terry, H.H. Wright, Norman Yates. Produced by Klaw & Erlanger., Henry of Navarre (1910). Written by William Devereaux. Knickerbocker Theatre: 28 Nov 1910- Dec 1910 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Eileen Beatrice, J. Carter-Edwards, Malcolm Cherry, Guy Cunningham, J.L. Dale, George Dudley, Walter Edwin, 'Maurice Elvey' (qv), Leslie Gordon, Horace Hodges, Phyllis Manners, 'Philip Merivale' (qv), Julia Neilson, W.B. Parker, E. Eastern Pickering, Fred Terry, H.H. Wright. Produced by Klaw & Erlanger., Fanny's First Play (1912). Written by 'George Bernard Shaw' (qv). Collier's Comedy Theatre: 16 Sep 1912- Apr 1913 (closing date unknown/256 performances). Cast: Kate Carlyou, Walter Creighton, C.H. Croker-King, Herbert Dansey, 'Maurice Elvey' (qv), Gladys Harvey, 'Walter Kingsford' (qv), 'Eva Leonard Boyne' (qv), 'Arnold Lucy' (qv), 'Lionel Pape' (qv), Sydney Paxton, Valentine Penna, Frank Randall, 'Elizabeth Risdon' (qv, Tim Ryley, Quentin Todd. Produced by The Shuberts., Beauty and the Jacobin (1912)., The Poetasters of Ispahan (1912)., The Gentleman from Number 19 (1913). Written by 'Mark Swan (I)' (qv), from the French of Henri Keroul and 'Albert Barre'. Directed by 'Maurice Elvey' (qv). Comedy Theatre: 1 May 1913- May 1913 (closing date unknown/4 performances). Cast: Florine Arnold, Henry Bergman, Charles Brown, E.D. Coe, Nannette Comstock, Millicent Evans, 'Robert Paton Gibbs' (qv), Stephen Gillis, Tom Graves, Walter Jones, 'Richie Ling' (qv), Kevitt Manton, Dorothea Sadlier, Raymond Smith, Jay Wilson. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert., Active on Broadway in the above productions:
Birth Name: Folkard, William Seward
Spouse: 'Preston, Philippa' (31 December 1910 - ?) (divorced), 'Florence Hill Clarke' (2 February 1916 - ?) (divorced), 'Isobel Elsom' (qv) (13 January 1923 - ?) (divorced)
Death Date: 28 August 1967
Birth Date: 11 November 1887
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