Who held more roles in the film industry, Mervyn LeRoy or Mack Sennett?
6a7da8c88752bd1b220cb524bb165ea0
Mervyn LeRoy Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer and occasional actor.
a11af76bc0bf02ebb06bc49b4f5a7e60
Mack Sennett Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American director and actor and was known as an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy". His short "Wrestling Swordfish" was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.
c80af7ad941f1244c0ac65eeafa99d22
Thelma Hill Thelma Hill (December 12, 1906 – May 11, 1938) was an American silent screen comedian and one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties.
228bee0b7cc469f0ea88c436199c2666
Caught in the Rain Caught in the Rain is a 1914 American comedy silent film starring Charlie Chaplin. This film was the first of many movies in which Chaplin both directed and played the lead. The short film was produced by Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios with a running time of 16 minutes.
1b44fe69db54f44bc1f54ce24f350b44
My Man (1928 film) My Man (1928) is a black and white part-talkie American comedy-drama musical film from Warner Bros. starring Fannie Brice and featuring Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. It was Fannie Brice's feature film debut at the age of 37. She was a star in the "Ziegfeld Follies" before she started acting in motion pictures. At the time this movie was made there were still some silent movies in production and being released. It would not be until 1929 that talking movies would completely take over, but Warner Bros. had completely stopped making silent movies and switched to sound pictures by the end of that year, either part talking or full talking. Warners would also start making movies in color as well as sound movies.
a3a6bce4ee8741f6725656ada2a28bfc
Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's "A Woman of Paris", in which he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's "The Marriage Circle"; "The Sheik" with Rudolph Valentino; "Morocco" with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and "A Star Is Born" with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. He was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Front Page" in 1931.
b7bd862914a689b5e1df2202cc0b9610
Blue of the Night Blue of the Night is a 1932 Mack Sennett Star Comedy (No. S3628) starring Bing Crosby and directed by Leslie Pearce. This was the last of the six short films Crosby made for Mack Sennett and which helped launch his career as a solo performer.
e5c40fa1f3d314db1e12d4949e41087c
Without Reservations Without Reservations is a 1946 American comedy film starring Claudette Colbert and John Wayne, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was adapted by Andrew Solt from the novel "Thanks, God! I'll Take It From Here" by Jane Allen and Mae Livingston.
9c40884d02d7987562cefce722840397
Harold Lockwood Harold A. Lockwood (April 12, 1887 – October 19, 1918) was an American silent film actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most popular matinee idols of the early film period during the 1910s.
982dc8122a358f356b8a2fd00041de61
Naughty Baby (film) Naughty Baby is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Alice White as Rosalind McGill, a cloak room girl falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich. It was released in December 16, 1928 by First National Pictures.
3a71f34497f7120ac71750655f906819
Gordon Collingridge Gordon Collingridge was an Australian actor during the silent film era. He played many matinee idol type roles, most notably for director Beaumont Smith and opposite Louise Lovely in "Jewelled Nights" (1925). Lovely called him "the male screen star to the manner born."
9ff209d1f6839a7890e78e54da74846d
Safety in Numbers (1930 film) Safety in Numbers is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film. Directed by Victor Schertzinger, it stars Buddy Rogers, and features Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, and Carole Lombard (in one of her early roles).
83a5f2e5e30ae25638b8f5f1ff7026c8
Wilmuth Merkyl Wilmuth John Merkyl (June 2, 1885 – May 1, 1954) was an American stage and screen actor popular in early silent films. On stage he had also been a singer in light operettas. He was born in Iowa and died in California.
e0574d9c4c97139228259eb4668b9f02
Kenneth Thomson (actor) Kenneth Thomson (January 7, 1899 – January 26, 1967) was an American character actor active during the silent and early sound film eras. He, along with his wife Alden Gay, was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. The group was founded after meetings held at the Thomsons' home during 1933. During his brief twelve-year career in front of the camera, he appeared in over 60 films. After appearing in several Broadway plays during the early and mid-1920s, Thomson would make his film debut with a starring role in 1926's "Risky Business". Over the next four years, he would appear in over a dozen films, in either starring or featured roles. In 1930 alone he would appear in ten films, half of which were in starring roles, such as "Lawful Larceny", which also starred Bebe Daniels and Lowell Sherman (who also directed), and "Reno", whose other stars were Ruth Roland and Montagu Love; the other half would see him in featured roles as in "A Notorious Affair", starring Billie Dove, Basil Rathbone, and Kay Francis. During the rest of the 1930s, he would appear in numerous films, mostly in either supporting or featured roles, such as "The Little Giant" (1933), starring Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor, and "Hop-Along Cassidy" (1935), starring William Boyd; although he occasionally would have a starring role, as in opposite Harold Lloyd in 1932's "Movie Crazy".
9c525901980abfb4f368ac1326179c75
Benny Thau Benny Thau (born Benjamin Thau, 15 December 1898 – 5 July 1983) was an American businessman who became vice-president of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a subsidiary of the Loew's theater chain. From 1928 he was in charge of casting, in the business of discovering and developing talented performers. He was known for his quiet and calming influence with often temperamental stars. Towards the end of his career he was studio boss for a short period.
a4499617af5acfa2113c6bec14407862
Mervyn Haisman Mervyn Haisman (15 March 1928 – 29 October 2010) was a television and film script writer. Prior to this career he worked as an actor and managed a theatre company as well as working in insurance.
6280bc8bf91bc8e0f57f1cbf54c33366
Gentlemen of Nerve Gentlemen of Nerve is a 1914 American comedy silent film directed by Charles Chaplin, starring Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and produced by Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios.
e2225f7b2966eaa5b4a2fba683e5f015
The Lone Wolf Returns (1935 film) The Lone Wolf Returns is a 1935 American crime film starring Melvyn Douglas as jewel thief Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf. Retired, the Lone Wolf is forced back into crime, but turns the tables on his enemies. It is based on the 1923 Louis Joseph Vance novel "The Lone Wolf Returns", which had previously been made into a 1926 film of the same name.
d7b564a0a2367e022e204651ec97beb0
Marjorie Kane Marjorie Kane (April 28, 1909 – January 8, 1992) was an American film and stage actress born in Chicago, Illinois. She appeared in 68 films between 1929 and 1951, occasionally under the name Babe Kane.
1701c24970d82fac616f5cd31bbf91e0
Pat O'Malley (actor) Pat O'Malley (September 3, 1890 – May 21, 1966) was an American vaudeville and stage performer prior to starting a prolific film career at the age of 16.
e68b0edfc877c08a9bf5869230a72ac1
The Jungle (1914 film) The Jungle (1914) is an American drama silent film made by the All-Star Feature Corporation starring George Nash. The film is an adaptation of the 1906 book of the same name by Upton Sinclair, the only one to date. Sinclair reportedly bought the negative of the film prior to 1916, hoping to market the film nationally after its initial release in 1914. Sinclair himself reportedly appears at the beginning and end of the movie, as a sort of endorsement of the film.
a4c70a869cd8da36aeed744b6eefd81a
Big City Blues (1932 film) Big City Blues is a 1932 Warner Bros. pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The film is based on the play "New York Town" by Ward Morehouse and stars Joan Blondell and Eric Linden, with an uncredited early appearance by Humphrey Bogart.