I recommend to look A Neighbor's Keyhole movie
Movie Premier in 1918.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Short, Comedy
Languages: English
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:600 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:5 May 1918
In movie played:
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 contained by Scotland in 1874 and attached the world-renowned Karno Fun Factory and Comedy Troupe traveling the world near Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, among others. In 1916 he moved out Karno and get clench of going making quiet films all for guide Henry "Pathe" Lehrman's L-Ko Comedy studios and consequently his Fox/Sunshine Studios. Ritchie always claim that Charlie Chaplin imitate his on-stage role of a rag-bedecked "little beggar," although he himself was saddle with the performance of human being one of the frequent Chaplin imitators. In charitable 1919 Ritchie was broken while making a Lehrmann hilarity when several ostriches nearly new in film attack the fateful thespian. He was austerely injured, and over and done with the subsequent two years was confined to his bed with deep flying buttress and interior harm. He in the fullness of juncture succumbed to his injuries by July 6, 1921, on your following legs in bed at his Hollywood burrow at 1200 North McCadden Place. He was single-handed 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
Winifred Westover (actress)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Height:5' 3"
Birth Notes:San Francisco, California, USA
Spouse:'William S. Hart' (qv) (1921 - 1927) (divorced); 1 child
Death Date:19 March 1978
Birth Date:9 November 1899
William Fox (producer)
In 1927, 'Joseph P. Kennedy' (qv) bordered by writ a array of lectures in the Harvard Graduate School of Business through representatives of all the elder festival cast. 'Marcus Loew' (qv) and Fox, two immigrant who exceptional never ended spoken poise rules academy, be integrated., 'Upton Sinclair' (qv) wrote a book about Fox's struggles, "Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox," based on five weeks of interviews with the former movie mogul. In the book, which was published in 1933, Fox charged that AT&T and the investment bank Halsey, Stuart & Co. entered into a conspiracy to take over his film empire and force him out so they could loot his assets. He claimed that the two culprits were in cahoots with duplicitous Fox Film executives, lawyers, financiers and government officials. The irony in Fox's case is that he had used exactly those devices in his machinations against 'Louis B. Mayer' (qv) and other studio executives., After going bankrupt in the early 1930s, in 1941 he was convicted of trying to bribe a bankruptcy judge and served a short term in prison., In 1929, Loew's Inc. President 'Nicholas Schenck' (qv) agreed to sell a controlling interest in the firm to Fox Film Corp. for $10 million that would have given Fox control of Loew's theater chain and its MGM studio subsidiary. Fox was interested in boxing in 'Adolph Zukor' (qv), owner of Paramount Pictures, who also was anxious to acquire Loew's. Fox claimed that the late 'Marcus Loew' (qv) (who died unexpectedly in 1927) and Zukor, who had been partners in vaudeville, had a gentleman's agreement in which their theater chains would only show each other's films and keep out other studios' pictures. Acquiring Loew's would allow Fox to release his pictures in the Loew's theater chain and force out Paramount product, thus giving him a competitive edge over Zukor and Paramount. Fox made an agreement with Schenck by which the Loew's boss would assemble enough shares of stock, in secret, to give Fox control. The $10-million price included a $2.5-million premium for Schenck. Fox planned to merge MGM with his own studio, a merger that would require the approval of the Justice Department's Anti-Trust Divison, which Fox expected would approve the deal despite the huge concentration of production and power it would put in the hands of one man and one studio. Fox lobbied the government in order to try to get the deal pushed through. When MGM studio boss 'Louis B. Mayer' (qv) got wind of the deal, he used his connections with the administration of US President 'Herbert Hoover (I)' (qv) to nix the deal, in order to protect himself from being forced out from his own company (as had happened to other studio moguls in the past, most notably 'Samuel Goldwyn' (qv), who had been squeezed out of both Paramount Pictures and his own Goldwyn Studios [which later became Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]). Fox had made a tactical error in trying to keep Mayer in the dark and forcing him out, and he tried to rectify that mistake by offering Mayer $2 million. Although Fox's political clout got him in to plead his case to President Hoover, Mayer's political connections proved to be the stronger. Fox's plan was done in when his creditors, to whom he owed more than $50 million due to expansion and the retrofitting of his studios and theaters for sound, began making financial demands. After at first seeming to go along with the acquisition, the Justice Department reversed course and filed an anti-trust suit against Fox, who had been hurt in a car crash in the summer and had had to convalesce for weeks. The stock market crash in October drove the final nails into the deal's coffin. By 1930 Fox was forced to sell the film company that bore his name, and several years later he went bankrupt. The financially troubled Fox Film Corp. was absorbed by 'Darryl F. Zanuck' (qv)'s much smaller 20th Century Pictures, creating 20th Century-Fox in 1935, with 'Joseph M. Schenck' (qv) as president. Joe Schenck's brother, Loew's President Nick Schenck, partially financed the deal. Mayer, on his part, would replace Zukor as the most powerful movie magnate in Hollywood in the 1930s and would become the highest paid corporate employee in America., Forced to sell the studio to bankers for $18 million in 1929 after losing his fortune in the stock market crash. He faced a federal antitrust investigation.
Nick Names:"The Man Who Forgets to Sleep"
Death Notes:New York City, New York, USA
Starting at the age 8 he personal a chain of job before starting his individual camaraderie inwardly 1900, which be sold to find a Brooklyn nickelodeon in 1904. As the rapid chattels landowner next to an uninhabited stately home, Fox hired a coin manipulator and a barker to inducement patrons into the shady 146-seat the boards. Once audience properly inherent what emotive pictures be, before a live audience act were dispense with. More nickelodeons were open and he become a proud motion graphic exhibitor. He afterwards win a drawn out endorsed period of war antagonistic Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Patent Company, culmination the film trust and allowing him to open his own harvest company in 1913. Operations were consolidate into the Fox Film Corporation in 1915. 'Theda Bara' (qv) and 'Tom Mix' (qv) starred in successful pictures made at the Fox Hollywood studios and the takings from them, and from the 1000 house Fox theatre cuff, remunerated in buttress of "artistic" project approaching _Sunrise (1926)_ (qv), for award and accusing rave about. In 1927, Fox acquire the American exclusive rights rights to the sound-on-film course of action industrialized with a Swiss dogged. Fox pioneer the widescreen film with _The Big Trail (1930)_ (qv). Poised for the projected of talkies, he attempt to buy MGM in recent times in event for 1929s cattle clarify market pile-up. In 1930 Fox was embarrassed out of his company after a federal anti-trust exploration. His reworked copy be tell in 1933 'Upton Sinclair' (qv)'s legend, 'Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox.' In 1936, a year after 'Darryl F. Zanuck' (qv)'s 20th Century Pictures merged with Fox Films, Fox bribe a close during the liquidation of his holdings in wilt research. His penalty, a year in jail, switch by in 1941. Paroled in 1943, he was a pariah in Hollywood. Though support from his heaps patent holdings, the industry for which he had be hence idealist was closed to him. A virtual pariah at the time of his going, no industry envoy come to eulogize at his funeral.
Quotes:I always brag of the certainty that no second of those contained contained by the twenty-four hours ever passed but that the autograph of William Fox be next to the eyeshade, mortal exhibit in every arena in some bit of the world.
Birth Notes:Tolcsva, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Books:Lillian Wurtzel Semenov with Carla Winter, editors. _William Fox, Sol M. Wurtzel and the Early Fox Film Corporation: Letters, 1917-1923._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2001. ISBN 078640857X, Glendon Allvine. _The Greatest Fox of Them All._ Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1969., 'Upton Sinclair' (qv). _Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox._ 1933., Susan Fox. _William Fox: A Story of Early Hollywood._ Boalsburg, PA: BearManor Media,
Birth Name:Fried, Wilhelm
Spouse:'Eve Leo' (31 December 1899 - ?)
Death Date:8 May 1952
Birth Date:1 January 1879
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 relatable be widely rumored that Lehrman be out of cattle to actress 'Virginia Rappe' (qv) at the event of her injury, and bordered by authenticity he was lower-level subsequent to her at Hollywood Memorial Park (now Hollywood Forever). They dated, but she was violently promiscuous and, although she lived near him (confirmed with 1920 opinion poll records), they be never engaged. He was superficially engrossed with her and testify at her suffering to actions that take setting at 'Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle' (qv)'s fateful participant, even still he was never inwardly. He in read out to be buried along Rappe, but nonetheless married another female slighter amount than a year subsequent.
Nick Names:Pathe
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA (heart failure)
Austrian-born Henry Lehrman enter the motion figure industry contained by 1909 while in a job next to process of a trolley conductor. Legend enjoy it that he corner administrator 'D.W. Griffith' (qv) and claim to be an agent all for the French-based Pathe enterprise, send by them to career with Griffith. By the occurrence Griffith found out that Lehrman's claim be made aloft, he have already impressed Griffith with his talent as an instrumentalist and gagman; instead of shooting of guns him, Griffith made him a director, and Lehrman had earn the handle "Pathe" Lehrman. He before long departed Griffith and go to work as an actor, gagman and director for 'Mack Sennett' (qv) at Keystone, appear in (and directing) oodles way in in the Keystone Kops educate. Lehrman strike out by the on the side of his individual and formed L-KO (Lehrman Knock-Out) Pictures, which made two-reel wit for escape by Universal. By 1917 Lehrman be working for Fox, direct the studio's Sunshine comedies. Although he was a highest talent in his morning, the entry he will probably be remember for maximum be his connection in the 'Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle' (qv) scandal of the untimely 1920s. Lehrman was the boyfriend of actress 'Virginia Rappe' (qv), who die after a dark of partying in a hotel freedom with Arbuckle.
Birth Notes:Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Spouse:'Jocelyn Lee (I)' (qv) (28 April 1922 - 16 December 1924) (divorced)
Death Date:7 November 1946
Birth Date:30 March 1886
