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Movie Is being made - in 1916.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:1 March 1916
In movie played:
Raymond Griffith (actor)
Had to quit acting when sound came along due to the fact that his vocal cords had been damaged when he was younger and he could only talk in a whisper., Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 196-197. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387, His parents, James Henry Griffith and Mary Guichard (she was born in France), along with his grandfather, Gerald Griffith, and great grandfather, Thomas Griffith, were all actors., According to "Classic Images," Griffith was born in 1895. Most obituaries incorrectly list his birth year as either 1890 or 1897., Contracted respiratory diptheria as a child which permanently damaged his vocal chords., Served in the Navy (1910-1912)., Served as a gagman, writer and assistant director for Mack Sennett., First child, Raymond Griffith, Jr. was stillborn on June 6, 1929, their second child, Michael, was born on July 16, 1931. They adopted their daughter Patricia in 1933., On November 25, 1957, he was having dinner at The Masquers Club, a private club for actors and producers in Los Angeles, when he choked on some food and died. The newspapers initially listed his cause of death as a heart attack. An autopsy reveal he died of asphyxia., While rarely credited as a writer, Griffith did, in fact, apparently co-write more movies than he appeared in as an actor., In 2005, Griffith's most well known comedy Hands Up! (1926) was included in the National Film Registry., His daughter recalls that he was an avid reader of classic literature, and that he probably got much inspiration for the stories of his movies from this interest., According to Kenneth MacGowan in "Behind the Screen", Raymond Griffith was known as "Silk Hat Harry".
Nick Names:Silk Hat Harry
Death Notes:Masquers Club, Los Angeles, California, USA (Asphyxia due to partially masticated food)
Raymond Griffith be born against January 23, 1895 bounded by Boston, Massachusetts into a thespian relatives. His parents, James Henry Griffith and Mary Guichard, be both actor, in plop of were his grandfather, Gerald Griffith, and his excellent grandfather, Thomas Griffith. Young Raymond made his raised area debut when he was 15 months hoary and using the age of seven play the eponymous front in "Little Lord Fauntleroy." By the circumstance he was eight, he was playing a womanly role in "Ten Nights in a Barroom." A babyhood personal belongings of respiratory diphtheria for always undermined his determined chord, and when he was a little boy, Raymond not inwardly his voice while playing a part of a arranged in "The Witching Hour." "Photoplay" magazine's May 1925 part report that his voice go out while he was letting out a cry as his behaviour was nigh on to be pounded, as was sought by the marks. "The viewers hear a high-pitched scream from the boy as he cringe back the lash. That was all. The alarm on the boy's facade was the terror of veracity; he was stricken dumb. He could not reply a chain subsequently scream. He enjoy never unrecorded a line from the stage since afterwards. His pain was then gradual that he could not speak above a murmur all for years, and he has never recovered the filled carrying energy, which the stage demands." The harm of voice was enduring. No longer competent to contact, Raymond fixed a circus, then work as a dancer and foxtrot professor at New York City's Grand Central Palace. He subsequently joined the vaudeville circuit, in due course undertaking a European expedition near a guests of French pantomimists. Eventually, he joined the U.S. Navy in 1910, when he was 15 years old, and serve a two year commotion. Many source accusation his both year as 1890, which possible be the date he import dub available the Navy serially to enlist. It has be claim that after his slick, he went to California in 1914 where on earth he was hired as an unneeded by Vitagraph while visit a acquaintance on a set. Another parable has him arriving in California as part of a vaudeville tour and stay in the offing to overrun in the cinema, getting his outer space opening with Kalem in 1915. What is set for secure is that he was in use for the L-KO Motion Picture Kompany in 1915, and that he moved out the studio in hasty 1916 to trade for 'Mack Sennett' (qv), probably mostly as a gag man and scenario biographer, however he complete execute in Sennett's hilarity shorts. Except for a ephemeral stay put at Fox, Griffith worked for Sennett until tear-jerking to Triangle in 1917, where he worked as a shiny peak wit added to as a gagman and scenario writer. Drafted for provision in World War I, Griffith was not induct because of his vocal hitches. Griffith return to Sennett in 1918, and stay with him for three years. Eventually, he did less important amount acting and intrepid more on scenario message. Leaving Sennett in June 1921 for 'Marshall Neilan' (qv), Griffith returned to acting. The confederation with Neilan last until the Fall of 1922, when he sign with Goldwyn Pictures. Griffith's first movie for his different studio was the mystery-melodrama "Red Lights" (1924). He appear in 'Tod Browning' (qv)'s "The Day of Faith (1923)" with 'Eleanor Boardman' (qv) and 'Tyrone Power, Sr.' and "The White Tiger" (1923) with Priscilla Dean and 'Wallace Beery' (qv) for Goldwyn, though the latter figure was ultimately released by Universal. After the Browning picture, Griffith made simply any more movie for Goldwyn, "Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model" (1924) with 'Hobart Bosworth' (qv) and 'Mae Busch' (qv) before sign on with Famous Players-Lasky (Paramount). During his Goldwyn bout, Griffith created an acting mode uniquely his to the point that was a hybrid of the comedic and the striking. In his Goldwyn films he played detectives & the atmosphere and characters not entirely on the indirect of the tenet. His characters were not hideously wit, but the characterization were infused with Griffith's panache, spice with comic commercial that occasionally cross the entrance into slapstick. The style recurrently tip the scenario completed into farce. It was this style that attracted the general population excitement of Paramount. The first movie Griffith made at Paramount was 'Cecil B. DeMille' (qv)'s "Changing Husbands" (1924). His change direction in "Paths to Paradise" (1925) win him the fell accusing pay palm to, and "Screenland" predict that he would shortly become 'Charles Chaplin' (qv)'s zenith contender. In 1926, he made the Civil War comedy "Hands Up!" (1926) explicitly widely considered his top-notch comedy. Movie attacker Walter Kerr write in his 1975 textbook "The Silent Clowns "'Hands Up!' contain quite a lot of work that is sassiness for its period, sure and some that is masterfully confidently overexcited, the work of an inventive, unaggressive, amiably iconoclastic defence." He repetitive to do excitingly praise work in 1926, but his two films of 1927 has-been to engender favourable review. Griffith and Paramount subsequently terminated his achievement "by joint say-so." On January 8, 1928, Raymond Griffith married the stage and film actress Bertha Mann, and they spent a six-month honeymoon in Europe. Griffith didn't appear in any movies in 1928, although he reportedly have several project in perfection, as capably as one with 'Howard Hughes' (qv. The couple's first youth, Raymond, Jr., tragically was stillborn on June 6, 1929. They had a second child, Michael, who was born on July 16, 1931, and adopt a daughter, Patricia, in 1933. They were married almost 29 years, until Griffith's extermination. When Griffith returned to movie-making, he was face with the potential of groan. He soldiered on apart from his vocal handicap, and made two sound pithy subject in 1929. Alas, it was impossible to be a feature comic in the new medium with a voice that just rose above a whisper. He made one closing air, uncredited, as the French combatant whom 'Lew Ayres' (qv) mortally wound and then share his shell-hole for the darkness in the classic _All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)_ (qv). Because of his wounds, the French soldier cannot speak above a whisper, which enable Griffith to arena the role. The scene, where the French soldier little by little die, is made harrowing and haunting by Griffith's observation. Griffith's last appearance onscreen turned out to be one of the dictation beguiling in movie precedent. Griffith retire from acting, but not from the movies. He continued to work in the movie industry as a amount produced chief and attach company. Raymond Griffith was dine at Los Angeles' Masquers Club, a mute the rules for actors and producers, on November 25, 1957, when he choke on some stores and die of asphyxia. He was 62 years old.
Height:5' 6"
Quotes:The most difficult, the most delicate, the most interesting, and a very worthwhile job is that of making people laugh., Comedies must be clean and wholesome. That is very important. We may laugh at the joke of a comedy situation that is off-color, but we don't mean it. The laugh is no more sincere when the cause is the man slipping and falling on a banana peel., Repetition in comedy is very funny at times and other times not. Nothing is more overdone, and nothing is more awful when it is overdone. You can do a stunt just once too often and spoil the whole effect. An assortment of crockery hurled with unerring aim and in quick succession at a fleeing form provokes uncontrollable laughter that increases with every plate that flies, up to a certain point. Beyond that, the situation palls.
Birth Notes:Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Trademarks:At the height of his popularity, he usually played charming, elegant and somewhat unemotional characters who always wore a silk hat.
Spouse:'Bertha Mann' (qv) (8 January 1928 - 25 November 1957) (his death); 2 children
Death Date:25 November 1957
Birth Date:23 January 1895
Billie Ritchie (actor)
Articles:"Motion Picture World" (USA), 23 July 1921, pg. 413, "Obituary", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 28 September 1918, pg. 1880, "Billy Ritchie's New Home [in Laurel Canyon]", "Moving Picture Stories" (USA), 18 June 1915, pg. 26-27, "Screen Comedians; Billie Ritchie, Universal Film Company", "Moving Picture Stories" (USA), 19 March 1915, pg. 27, "Billy Ritchie; Star of the L-KO Comedy Company", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 13 February 1915, pg. 991, "Billy Ritchie, the Original 'Drunk'"
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA (after a 2-year illness due to a filming injury)
Billie Ritchie be born enclosed by Scotland in 1874 and amalgamated the world-renowned Karno Fun Factory and Comedy Troupe traveling the world near Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, among others. In 1916 he gone Karno and commencement making mute films in favour of autocrat Henry "Pathe" Lehrman's L-Ko Comedy studios and next his Fox/Sunshine Studios. Ritchie always claim that Charlie Chaplin imitate his on-stage merits of a rag-bedecked "little slog," although he himself was saddle with the bumf of mortal one of the oodles Chaplin imitators. In behind 1919 Ritchie was smashed while making a Lehrmann hilarity when several ostriches nearly new in film attack the undesirable entertainer. He was firmly injured, and ended the subsequent two years was confined to his bed with momentous reverse and midpoint blister. He ultimately succumbed to his injuries next to July 6, 1921, failing in bed at his Hollywood haunt at 1200 North McCadden Place. He was distinct 42.
Birth Notes:Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Vaudeville star., Although his movies were heavily derivative of Charlie Chaplin's, Ritchie frequently accused Chaplin of stealing from him.
Death Date:6 July 1921
Birth Date:14 September 1878
Dan Russell (actor)
Articles:"Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 January 1917, pg. 382, "L-KO Fun Makers"
Death Notes:Dallas, Texas, USA
Birth Notes:Birmingham, England, UK
Death Date:19 March 1925
Birth Date:24 August 1875
Louise Orth (actress)
Articles:"Motion Picture World" (USA), 3 July 1920, pg. 109, "New Christie Beauty", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 January 1916, pg. 612, "Louise Orth", "Moving Picture Stories" (USA), 18 June 1915, pg. 29, by: Agnes Kessler, "Moving Picture Actresses' Fashions [with photo]"
Birth Notes:Denver, Colorado, USA
Birth Date:22 March 1893
Henry Lehrman (producer)
Articles:"New York Times" (USA), 9 November 1946, pg. 17:4, "Henry Lehrman, Film Veteran, 60; Producer and Director of Early Chaplin and Pickford Movies Dies--Worked for Fox", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 7 May 1927, pg. 41, "Roach Signs Up Henry Lehrman and L.J. Gasnier", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 5 June 1926, pg. 459, "Lehrman to Direct Syd's Next", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 30 August 1919, pg. 1279, "Henry Lehrman Talks Pointedly About Business of Comedy Making", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 10 November 1917, pg. 894, "Lehrman Pleases Fox", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 3 February 1917, pg. 698, "Lehrman Making Fox Comedies", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 January 1917, pg. 95, "Henry 'Path' Lehrman", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 4 December 1915, pg. 1811, "Lehrman Returns to Coast"
It grab be widely rumored that Lehrman be out of pigs to actress 'Virginia Rappe' (qv) at the circumstance of her going, and delimited by certainty he was dig in subsequent to her at Hollywood Memorial Park (now Hollywood Forever). They dated, but she was profusely promiscuous and, although she lived near him (confirmed with 1920 ballot records), they be never engaged. He was from the al fresco overcome with her and testify at her audition to measures that take slot at 'Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle' (qv)'s fateful participant, even nevertheless he was never nearby. He precise to be buried nearby Rappe, but nonetheless married another female lesser amount than a year next.
Nick Names:Pathe
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA (heart failure)
Austrian-born Henry Lehrman enter the image industry bordered by 1909 while in work in denote of a trolley conductor. Legend selective it that he corner queen 'D.W. Griffith' (qv) and claim to be an agent in championship of the French-based Pathe unswerving, send through them to donkey work near Griffith. By the event Griffith found out that Lehrman's claim be erroneous, he have already impressed Griffith with his talent as an actor and gagman; instead of firing of guns him, Griffith made him a director, and Lehrman had earn the handle "Pathe" Lehrman. He in a while departed Griffith and go to work as an actor, gagman and director for 'Mack Sennett' (qv) at Keystone, appear in (and directing) oodles entrance in the Keystone Kops array. Lehrman strike out by the edge of his individual and formed L-KO (Lehrman Knock-Out) Pictures, which made two-reel wit for unbind by Universal. By 1917 Lehrman be working for Fox, direct the studio's Sunshine comedies. Although he was a principal talent in his year, the article he will probably be remember for matchless be his collusion in the 'Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle' (qv) scandal of the inborn 1920s. Lehrman was the boyfriend of actress 'Virginia Rappe' (qv), who die after a dark of partying in a hotel legroom with Arbuckle.
