Phyllis Haver
Nacimiento : 1899-01-06, Douglass, Kansas, USA
Muerte : 1960-11-19
Historia
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Phyllis Haver (January 6, 1899 – November 19, 1960) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Haver auditioned for comedy producer Mack Sennett on a whim. Sennett hired her as one of his original Sennett Bathing Beauties. Within a few years, she appeared as a leading lady in two-reelers for Sennett Studios.
Later, while signed with DeMille-Pathé, Haver played the part of Roxie Hart in the first film adaptation of Chicago in 1927, opposite Hungarian film actor Victor Varconi. One reviewer called her performance "astoundingly fine," and added that Haver "makes this combination of tragedy and comedy a most entertaining piece of work."
She performed in the comedy film The Battle of the Sexes (1928), directed by D. W. Griffith, and appeared with Lon Chaney in his last silent film, Thunder (1929).
Haver retired from the industry with two 'sound' films to her credit.
In 1929, she married millionaire William Seeman with a service performed by New York Mayor James J. Walker at the home of Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist. The couple divorced in 1945.
Haver retired in Sharon, Connecticut. She died at age 61 from an overdose of barbiturates in 1960, a suspected suicide. Haver left no survivors.
archive footage
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.
(archive footage)
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Mary Brown
In Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel, Jim Jones, wants Mary for himself. Jim uses a publicity still that Sam sent away for against him to show Sam the cad in the eyes of Mary. Disgraced and without Mary, Sam leaves town and heads for Hollywood to redeem himself. Despite not being typical leading man material, Sam is able to make a success of it in Hollywood, and wants to return to Sleepytown a new man and to get Mary back. But Jim will not give Mary up without a fight, he using any means, including lying, to turn the town, including Mary, against Sam, their newly beloved hometown son. This 1939 version was re-edited from a 1921 film with added sound.
Zella
A train operator's obsession with being on time leads to tragedy for his family.
Jerry Cullen
Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.
Sal
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
Marie Skinner
Un respetable hombre de negocios y padre de familia, pierde la cabeza por una rubia callejera.
Lyla Mason
Joe, a weakling gangster, and Bob, an ex-gambler, compete for Lyla Mason, a working girl who also runs a 10th Avenue rooming house in New York city. Bob's desire to show Lyla he can support her leads him back to the gambling table when past-due rent threatens her with eviction. Bob and Joe are both suspected when Fink, a bootlegger, is found murdered in his room.
Roxie Hart
Basada en la historia real de un crimen, la película trata sobre una esposa salvaje amante del jazz y alcohólica, Roxie Hart, que mata a su novio a sangre fría después de que él la deja, y cómo logra no ser condenada. Adaptación a la gran pantalla del éxito de Broadway.
Helen Blaisdell
John Blaisdell, a stolid businessman married for 10 years, concludes that romantic love is a thing of the past for him. His wife, Helen, a very domestic and conservative woman, invites Jenny Lou, a young southern girl, as her houseguest, and the girl flirts with John; she is conspicuously unsuccessful until she pretends to faint on the golf course and the unsuspecting victim finds her in his arms.
The Temptress
Un empleado de banco feliz pierde su identidad después de un robo y luego se presume muerto.
Countess de Launay
The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.
Victoria Stoddard
When Victoria’s husband Leonard leaves her for Helen , Victoria takes up with artist Antonio. However both couples end up on George La Fuente's dude ranch. Everybody begins arguing with the poor Senor Fuentes.
Shanghai Mabel
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), una compañía de marines estadounidenses se encuentra destacada en Francia bajo el mando del Capitán Flagg. Como los refuerzos que les llegan están formados por muchachos sin experiencia, Flagg solicita al alto mando un sargento mayor que se encargue de adiestrarlos antes de entrar en combate. Llega, entonces, el Sargento Quirt, un viejo rival de Flagg.
Sally Morgan
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
Lily
Tres forajidos ayudarán a una joven cuya madre acaba de ser asesinada. Una banda de malhechores y un sheriff corrupto completan el bando de los auténticos y verdaderos hombres malos.
Alice Atkins
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
Imperia (uncredited)
La acción se desarrolla en Roma, en la época de los Borgia, Lucrecia (Estelle Taylor), César (Warner Orland), y el Conde Donati (Montagu Love). Don Juan (John Barrymore), a quién su padre Don José (también John Barrymore) enseñó que las mujeres sólo traen tres cosas: vida, desilusión y muerte, tiene múltiples romances a sus espaldas, pero vive obsesionado con la única mujer que nunca pudo tener, Doña Isabel (Jane Winton). Ella y él sufrirán la ira de Lucrecia, despechada por ser ignorada por Don Juan, así como por matar este al conde Donati en un duelo...
Destaca por ser la primera película de la historia con una banda sonora completa y efectos de sonido sincronizados, al ser el primer largometraje de la Warner Bros que utilizó el sistema de sonido Vitaphone. Sin embargo, en esencia, y al margen de estos detalles técnicos, se concibió y produjo como una película muda, sin ningún diálogo sonoro, siendo todos los diálogos a base de intertítulos al igual que en el cine mudo.
Phyllis Wells
Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
Justine Morton
Tom Mix plays an Eastern dandy who finds himself banished to a Western ranch in this silent Western
Roxana
When his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old college friend, Jack Harding, with whom Kay has flirted on a previous dinner engagement; there he finds solace in the charms of Roxana, and he soon is making excuses to his wife for his frequent absences from home.
Dolly Van Dream
Una chica de clase alta aburrida, corta un billete de 100 dólares por la mitad, escribe la dirección de su casa en una de las dos mitades y lo tira por la ventana para quien lo encuentre. La persona que lo encuentra resulta ser el conductor de un camión de carbón. Ella decide darle un cambio de imagen completo para hacerlo presentable para la clase alta.
Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle son, Tom Jr. (Neil Hamilton), calls him a grouch. As a result, Bates decides to teach his son a lesson by putting him in charge of the business for a year.
Myra Fuller
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.
Sylvia Vane
A young woman marries a rich young man. However, he doesn't trust her with money and won't let her have any of her own. Desperate, she turns to gambling and finally forgery. Complications ensue.
Dallas O'Meara
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
Directed by Scott R. Dunlap. With Elaine Hammerstein, Alan Roscoe, Phyllis Haver, Freeman Wood.
Dorothy Rensheimer
Dos maestros de escuela, casados por amor, están separados por el deseo obsesivo del marido por la riqueza y la posición social.
Jim Owens (Robert Frazer), a reformed thief and successful inventor, meets quiet, meek and refined Mary Adams (Elaine Hammerstein) at a jazz party. They fall in love and all goes well until she finds out about his sordid past. It's Only after he rescues her from a blazing forest fire that she forgives him and confirms her love.
Jessie Sybil
Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bill Brachley, steals Jack's car, and the chase leads to a meeting between Jack, the engineer of the Midnight Express, and the engineer's pretty daughter, Mary. As he is led back to jail, Brachley swears revenge.
Gertrude Trayle
A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
Herself
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
Elvira
Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
Mary Holden
Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn robber again to continue to provide for Buck's daughter.
Gertrude
A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
Constance Lane
Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.
Rita Terris
Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his aristocratic family doesn't approve of the relationship and persuades Valerie to promise that she won't marry him. She does, however, tell Louis that she will become his common-law wife on a certain date the following summer. Complications ensue.
The Young Woman
Buster Keaton parodia el cine de aventuras: volará en un dirigible, se enfrentará a osos y freirá peces utilizando las raquetas de tenis como sartén.
Polly Love
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John....
Rodney's Sweetheart
The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time.
The Modest Maid
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
The Baker's Sweetheart
Mary Brown
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
Herself - in Prologue
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
Prune Magnate's Daughter
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Bathing Girl
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Minor Role (uncredited)
Por detrás de las líneas enemigas, el Capitán Bob White se disfraza de mujer para engañar a los miembros del Alto Mando alemán, incluido el propio Kaiser. (filmaffinit) Con Mack Sennett como supervisor y buena parte de su troupe en el reparto (Ford Sterling, Mal St. Clair, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin, etcétera), no cabía esperar otro resultado como el que se nos ofrece: una brillante mascarada bélica que algunos podrían considerar como un "ajuste de cuentas" de los americanos contra los germanos, pero que a nosotros nos parece que ni siquiera el guionista se planteó presentarla como tal. Se nota que su objetivo principal era pasárselo bomba y, recíprocamente, nos lo hace pasar a nosotros.
Dental Assistant
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
Young Bee Adams
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
Harem Girl (uncredited/unconfirmed)
On a sailing trip, sweethearts Bobby and Gloria arrive in a very sinister-looking India, where an evil rajah attempts to force Gloria into his harem.
A 1916 short starring Jack Cooper, Hank Mann & Bobby Dunn.
