The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.
Lillian Diana Gish was an American actress, director, and screenwriter. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called the "First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th greatest female movie star of classic Hollywood cinema.
A hummingbird is a member of a family (Trochilidae) of very small birds.
Isaac Henderson Jr. or Isaac Austin Henderson was an American newspaper publisher, novelist, and dramatist. He was associated with the New York Evening Post for ten years.
The Soul Market is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Francis J. Grandon. The film is considered to be lost.
The Spell of the Yukon is a 1916 American silent American drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Edmund Breese.
What Every Woman Knows is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film adapted form the play What Every Woman Knows by James Barrie. The play had premiered on Broadway in 1908 and was a hit starring Maude Adams. A British silent film version had been made in 1917 and a later American talkie would be produced in 1934 with Helen Hayes. This silent film version was directed by William C. deMille continuing his forte at adapting literary and/or stage plays to the silent screen. The film stars Lois Wilson and Conrad Nagel. This version is now lost.
Wildfire is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter. It was produced by Distinctive Productions, a company founded by George Arliss, and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. The film stars Aileen Pringle.
The Eternal Three is a 1923 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. It was directed by both Marshall Neilan and Frank Urson. Hobart Bosworth, Claire Windsor, and Bessie Love star.
Charles Cameron Cherry was a British born actor. He was born to James Frederick Cherry and his wife, Lady Emily Louisa Haworth-Leslie at Greenwich, Kent, England. His mother was a relation to Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes. He spent a large part of his career in the United States often as leading man to many beautiful star actresses i.e. Elsie de Wolfe, Maxine Elliott, Ethel Barrymore, Marie Doro and Elsie Ferguson.
The Straight Road is a 1914 American drama silent film based upon the play by Clyde Fitch, directed by Allan Dwan, and starring Gladys Hanson, William Russell, Iva Shepard, Arthur Hoops and Lorraine Huling. It was released on November 12, 1914, by Paramount Pictures.
When We Were Twenty-One is a 1915 American silent comedy film directed by Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter and written by H.V. Esmond. The film stars William Elliott, Charles Waldron, Marie Empress, Helen Lutrell, Winifred Allen, and Arthur Hoops. The film was released on April 5, 1915, by Paramount Pictures.
Charles Pearce Coleman was an Australian-born American character actor of the silent and sound film eras.
The Puppet Crown is a 1915 American drama silent film directed by George Melford and written by Harold MacGrath and William C. deMille. The film stars Ina Claire, Carlyle Blackwell, Chris Lynton, Cleo Ridgely, Horace B. Carpenter and John Abraham. The film was released on July 29, 1915, by Paramount Pictures.
Peer Gynt is a surviving 1915 American fantasy silent film directed by Oscar Apfel and Raoul Walsh and adapted from the Henrik Ibsen play by Oscar Apfel. The film stars Cyril Maude, Myrtle Stedman, Fanny Stockbridge, Mary Reubens, Mary Ruby and Winifred Bryson. The film was released on September 16, 1915, by Paramount Pictures.
The Plow Girl is a lost 1916 American drama silent film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Edward Morris, Charles Sarver and Harvey F. Thew. The film stars Mae Murray, Elliott Dexter, Charles K. Gerrard, Edythe Chapman, Horace B. Carpenter and William Elmer. The film was released on November 13, 1916, by Paramount Pictures.
Is Matrimony a Failure? is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze and written by Walter Woods based upon a play of the same name by Leo Ditrichstein, which itself was an adaptation of the German play Die Tür ins Freie by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg. The film stars T. Roy Barnes, Lila Lee, Lois Wilson, Walter Hiers, ZaSu Pitts, Arthur Hoyt, and Lillian Leighton. The film was released on April 16, 1922, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film.
Roi Cooper Megrue was an American playwright, producer, and director active on Broadway from 1914 to 1921.
Robert Schable was an American stage and screen actor as well as a stage manager from Hamilton, Ohio.
