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Movie Premier in 1926.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Languages: English
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1, MET:1438.05 m
Release Dates: USA:29 August 1926
In movie have been taken:
Frank Adams (actor)
William Austin (actor)
Death Notes:Newport Beach, California, USA
Height:6' 1"
Birth Notes:Georgetown, British Guiana. [now Guyana]
Birth Name:Austin, William Crosby Piercy
Actor brother of actor 'Albert Austin' (qv).
Death Date:15 June 1975
Birth Date:12 June 1884
Charles Cruz (actor)
Height:5' 10 1/2"
Death Notes:New York City, New York, USA (pneumonia)
Birth Notes:Wichita, Kansas, USA
Death Date:31 August 1958
Birth Date:25 December 1899
Donald Keith (actor)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Height:6'
Birth Notes:Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birth Name:Feeney, Francis
Spouse:'Kathryn Spicuzza' (1927 - ?)
Death Date:1 August 1969
Birth Date:6 September 1903
John Steppling (actor)
Articles:"Variety" (USA), 12 April 1932, "John C. Steppling", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 12 August 1916, pg. 1090, "John Steppling Again a Universalite", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 December 1913, pg. 1420, by: George Blaisdell, "At the Sign of the Flaming Arcs", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 June 1913, pg. 1233, "John Steppling to Support Mrs. Fiske", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 September 1912, pg. 1183, "Steppling Still with Essanay"
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA
Birth Notes:Essen, Germany
Birth Name:Steppling, John C.
Death Date:5 April 1932
Birth Date:8 August 1870
Alys Murrell (actress)
Spouse:'Walter V. Coyle' (qv) (? - ?)
Alberta Vaughn (actress)
Articles:"Paris and Hollywood" (USA), October 1926, pg. 47-48, 78, by: Paula Gould, "Alberta Vaughn, Movie's Demurest Wise Cracker", "Photoplay" (USA), September 1926, pg. 91, "Questions and Answers", "Cinema Art" (USA), August 1926, pg. 19-45, by: Paula Gould, "Albert Looks Into the Looking Glass; Alberta Vaughn looks at her screen self and refutes and contention that screen stars are vain and self-satisfied", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 13 December 1924, pg. 654, "Alberta Vaughn Signed for Leads by Schulberg", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), December 1924, pg. 34-35, 80, by: Harry Carr, "Dining with George [O'Hara] and Alberta", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 3 May 1924, pg. 15, by: James M. Fidler, "The Pictures That Startled Hollywood; New and rare combination of art and photography coupled with the winsome charms of Miss Alberta Vaughn make blase Hollywooders sit up and take notice"
Sister of actress 'Ada Mae Vaughn' (qv), Silent film actress., Wampas Baby Star, 1924
Death Notes:Studio City, California, USA
Height:5' 2"
Birth Notes:Ashland, Kentucky, USA
Birth Name:Vaughn, Alberta F.
Spouse:'Joseph Egli' (? - ?)
Death Date:26 April 1992
Birth Date:27 June 1904
James Gruen (writer)
Spouse:'Beatrice Van' (qv) (? - ?); 1 child
Death Notes:Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:Michigan, USA
Child: Kreigh Vander-Pluym (c. 1912)
Death Date:19 March 1967
Birth Date:8 March 1894
Jean DuPont Miller (writer)
Jules Cronjager (cinematographer)
Death Notes:Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:Germany
Death Date:28 December 1934
Uncle of cinematographer 'Edward Cronjager' (qv)., He is the uncle of Henry Cronjager, Jr., He is the great-uncle of William H. Cronjager., He is the brother of Henry Cronjager.
Birth Date:1872
Del Andrews (director)
Son: Del Jr.
Death Notes:Tonopah, Nevada, USA (heart attack)
Birth Notes:St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Birth Name:Andrews, Udell Sylvester
Spouse:'Edith E.' (1921 - ?); 1 child
Death Date:27 October 1942
Birth Date:5 October 1894
Joseph P. Kennedy (miscellaneous crew)
US ambassador to the Court of St. James., Sons: Joseph Jr. (b. 1915), 'John F. Kennedy' (qv) (b. 1917), 'Robert F. Kennedy' (qv) (b. 1925) and Edward (b. 1932) (Senator 'Ted Kennedy (VI)' (qv))., Daughters: Rosemary (b. 1918), Kathleen (b. 1920), 'Eunice Kennedy Shriver' (qv) (b. 1921), 'Patricia Kennedy (V)' (qv) (b. 1924) and 'Jean Kennedy Smith' (qv) (b. 1928)., Father of the former US President 'John F. Kennedy' (qv), Senators 'Robert F. Kennedy' (qv) (D-NY) and 'Ted Kennedy (I)' (qv) (D-MA) and producer 'Eunice Kennedy Shriver' (qv)., Four of his nine children died before him: Joseph Jr. was killed in a W.W.II plane crash in 1944. Kathleen died in a plane crash in 1948. 'John F. Kennedy' (qv) was assassinated in 1963, and 'Robert F. Kennedy' (qv) in 1968., (1 January 1998) Has 30 grandchildren, 26 of whom are alive., Grandfather of 'Maria Shriver' (qv), 'Robert Shriver' (qv), 'Rory Kennedy' (qv), 'John Kennedy Jr.' (qv) and 'Caroline Kennedy (I)' (qv)., Father-in-law of 'Jacqueline Kennedy (I)' (qv) and 'Ethel Kennedy (II)' (qv)., Grandfather of 'Christopher Lawford' (qv), Grandfather of 'Kathleen Kennedy Townsend' (qv), 'Joseph Kennedy (I)' (qv), and Congressman 'Patrick Kennedy (II)' (qv)., RKO Pictures, under Kennedy's management, made an $8-million offer (approximately $85 million in 2005 dollars) to Alexander Pantages for his chain of theaters in order to boost RKO's exhibition operations. The Pantages Theater chain consisted of 63 premier, financially robust theaters that were the dominant movie exhibitor and vaudeville circuit in North America west of the Mississippi River. Having partnered with the movie distributor Famous Players (a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures) in 1920, Pantages had converted his theaters into "combo" houses that showed films as well as staged live vaudeville. However, Pantages' expansion effectively was blocked by the dominance of Kennedy's Keith-Albee-Orpheum Circuit in the East, which was now part of RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum). After Pantages declined the $8-million offer, Kennedy stopped distributing RKO films to Pantages. Despite the pressure, Pantages declined to knuckle under and sell out. A year later, in 1929, he was charged and tried for the rape of one of his 17-year-old ushers, Eunice Pringle. He was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. The trial battered his reputation and strained him emotionally, and he finally relented, accepting Kennedy's revised offer of $3.5 million for his chain. 'Ronald Kessler' (qv), in his book "The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded" (New York: Warner Books, 1997), recalled the rumor, begun during Pantages' second trial, that RKO had paid Pringle to frame Pantages; however, there is only anecdotal evidence to support this claim., During Prohibition, Kennedy's company Somerset Importers became the exclusive U.S. agent for Gordon's Dry Gin and Dewar's Scotch. Anticipating the end of Prohibition, he assembled a large inventory of stock that he sold for a profit of millions of dollars when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. One of his partners in the deal was 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' (qv)'s son, 'James Roosevelt' (qv). Kennedy invested the money from his legal liquor business in real estate, the Merchandise Mart in Chicago and Hialeah Race Track in Hialeah, Florida. However, rumors that he was a "bootlegger," involved in running illegal liquor across the Great Lakes into the U.S. from Canada in cahoots with the Bronfman family and the Mafia, have never been proven., In 1925 he was retained by the financially troubled owner of Film Booking Office of America (FBO), a "Poverty Row" studio specializing in cheaply made westerns, to help find a new owner. Kennedy formed his own group of investors and bought FBO for $1.5 million. Subsequently, he moved to California in March 1926 to focus on running the studio. At the time movie studios were permitted to also own exhibition companies (a practice that was stopped by a 1947 Supreme Court decision involving Paramount Pictures), so Kennedy launched a hostile buyout of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Theaters Corporation (KAO), which had more than 700 vaudeville and movie theaters across the U.S. In 1927 he acquired another production studio and film exhibitor, American Path, and its Path Exchange distribution subsidiary. In October 1928 he formally merged his film companies FBO and KAO with RCA's Photophone Division to form Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO). He topped this off by acquiring the Pantages Theater chain for $3.5 million, creating a major studio in the process with RKO Pictures., Born in Boston, the son of Patrick J. Kennedy, a successful businessman (liquor) and Irish Catholic community leader active in Democratic Party politics. Joseph attended Boston Latin School, where he was a below average academically but proved popular among his classmates, winning election as class president and playing on the school baseball team. Following the example of several older relatives, he attended Harvard University, where he focused on becoming a social leader, gaining admittance to the prestigious Hasty Pudding Club., Was a distant cousin of his wife, 'Rose Kennedy (I)' (qv), whom he married in 1914. Rose was the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald, the Democratic mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, who as the fabled "Honey Fitz" was the most recognized politician in the city., Created RKO Pictures in 1928 by combining his Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) theater chains, Film Booking Office of America (FBO) film production studio and the American Path film studio and distribution unit with the Radio Corporation of America's (RCA) Photophone Division. RCA hoped an alliance with Kennedy would allow it to break Western Electric Co.'s near monopoly on the sound-film business, and attempted to interest him in using its Photophone process for FBO Pictures. Kennedy responded by initiating negotiations with RCA boss 'David Sarnoff' (qv) that resulted in the creation of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum holding company in October 1928. A master stock manipulator, Kenedy and his confederates drove up the share price of RKO before film production had even begun. Kennedy's interest in the motion picture industry was in making money, not necessarily in making films, and the finances of the new company were shaky. He sold the last of his RKO stock in 1931; RKO went into receivership in 1932, after which it was taken over by interests aligned with 'Nelson Rockefeller' (qv) and his brothers. It is estimated that Kennedy made over $5 million (approximiately $54 million in 2005 dollars) from his investments in Hollywood., President 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' (qv), believing that Kennedy knew all of the goings on of the stock market, made him head of the Securities and Exchange Commission., As early as 1926, he set up a trust fund for the benefit of his wife Rose and the children that were then born. He set up two additional funds in 1936 and 1949. The 1949 trust is the fund that began to set portions of his wealth to his grandchildren. The three funds, plus the Joseph P. Kennedy,Jr. foundation were the chief vehicles for capital conservation. In 1968, the foundation had assets of $22.1 million, and dispersed as much as $1,600,000 to mental retardation research., When he died in 1969, his estate was estimated to be worth $400 million. His fortune was unusual in many ways, one of which was the fact that unlike most of the wealthiest families in America at the time, he was not heavily invested in oil. He made over $100 million in retirement as a real estate speculator. Another $100 million was in tax exempt securities. The only corporation the money was tied was to the family itself.
Death Notes:Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, USA (complications from a stroke)
Patriarch of a trunk embassy clan, Kennedy faddy a summarizing Hollywood occupation: He be one of the inspired financier to amount produced a prevailing role encircled by the grey blind industry. Although he spring aware in humble East Boston, where on earth his father was a barkeeper and official, Kennedy was cultured next to the Establishment's brood at Boston Latin School and Harvard. In 1914, he married Rose Fitzgerald, daughter of Boston's mayor. Billed via analysis of "America's youngest sandbank president" at 25 (his father and his friends personal the bank.) He become a prominent domestic animals souk "operator" in the 1920s. In 1926, as the facade man in favour of Wall Street interests, he became chief executive of Film Booking Office, a electrical device of low-budget features for crude audience. Soon Kennedy also assumed impetus at another studio, Pathe, and at the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater out of harm`s channel. Through "financial engineering" of these cast - whichever of their piece go into a smack new major studio, RKO - Kennedy added to his already great destiny. (A sidelight in his Hollywood outbreak was his company and sexual link with 'Gloria Swanson' (qv), recount in trifle in her account.) In the 1930s, Kennedy turned his nosiness to politics: an imprudent fund-raiser for 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' (qv), he became the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, consequently U.S. ambassador to England (1938-40). Kennedy's scornful statement endow with or purloin a few Britain's perspective in World War II alienated Roosevelt and made Kennedy stringently ostracized in America. After the time of war, Kennedy steered his surviving sons, John, Robert and Edward, into politics and serve as financier and strategist for their campaign. In 1961, he suffer a handle that disappeared him inept to cry, but by all accounts he was cognisant of heaps calamity that befall his family until his own damage in 1969. Some right to be heard that the scandal of his son Teddy at Chappaqudick was what kill him. Some historians see Kennedy's rapacious avariciousness for glory as a noxious disadvantage that he passed against to his sons, none of whom could transcend it.
Quotes:If you want to make money, go where the money is., There are only two pursuits that get in your blood: politics and the motion picture business., Don't get mad, get even.
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