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Movie - A Message from Mars

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First feature of 'Leonard Mudie' (qv).
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy
Languages: English
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1, MET:1581.00 m
Release Dates: USA:11 April 1921

In movie played:

Gordon Ash (actor)
Death Notes:New York City, New York, USA (acute alcoholism)
Birth Notes:England, UK
Death Date:20 April 1929
Spouse:'Eva Leonard Boyne' (qv) (? - ?)
Birth Date:1877

Frank Currier (actor)
Death Date:22 April 1928
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA (blood poisoning)
Other Works:Stage actor.
Spouse:'Ada Dow' (stage actress) (? - 1926) (her death)
Birth Notes:Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Birth Date:4 September 1857

Alphonse Ethier (actor)
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA
Birth Notes:Virginia City, Nevada, USA
Death Date:4 January 1943
Birth Date:10 December 1874

Bert Lytell (actor)
Articles:"Classic Images" (USA), July 1989, Iss. 169, pg. C15-C16, by: George Katchmer, "Remembering the Great Silents", "Variety" (USA), 29 September 1954, "Bert Lytell, One of 1st Matinee Idols, Dies at 67", "New York Times" (USA), 29 September 1954, pg. 31:1, "Bert Lytell Dies; Stage, Film Star; Leading Man for 30 Years Succumbs After Operation--He Made Debut at 3", "Paris and Hollywood Screen Secrets" (USA), October 1927, pg. 35, 37, "[divorcing Windsor]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 18 September 1926, pg. 176, "Lytell on Vaudeville Tour", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 27 December 1924, pg. 865, "Lubitsch Signs Bert Lytell", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 2 August 1924, pg. 8, 29, by: Alma Talley, "Bert", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 23 June 1923, pg. 7, 30, by: Gladys Hall, "Is There Such a Thing as a One-Man Girl? 'No!' Says Bert Lytell", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 31 July 1920, pg. 569, by: Edward Weitzel, "Bert Lytell Talks about Stock Acting and Metro's 'The Price of Redemption'", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 10 July 1920, pg. 220, "Metro to Present Bert Lytell in Four Specials Produced in New York Studio", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 23 November 1918, pg. 819, "Leaves for Training Camp", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 9 March 1918, pg. 1359, "Bert Lytell Signs Contract with Metro"
Brother of actor 'Wilfred Lytell' (qv)., Served on a civilian committee during World War II and urged the USO to stage "Macbeth" at Fort Meade, Maryland. All were surprised when the soldiers requested "more of that Shakespeare stuff.", The handsome, dashing matinee idol introduced two classic sleuths to the screen: The Lone Wolf and Boston Blackie.
Death Notes:New York City, New York, USA (following surgery)
Popular silent-screen star.
Height:5' 10 1/2"
Birth Notes:New York City, New York, USA
Other Works:He appear contained by the artistic 1934 Broadway produce glory of Emmet Lavery's "The First Legion", in the head role of the Rev. Mark Ahern. When the leap be film, the character's label was changed to Marc Arnoux, and French entertainer Charles Boyer play the role., Played the role of Kendall Nesbitt in the original Broadway production of Kurt Weill's "Lady in the Dark"., If (1917). Written by Mark Swan. Fulton Theatre: 7 Feb 1917- Feb 1917 (closing date unknown/13 performances). Cast: Ruth Benson, Walter Carter, Edward Colebrook, Peter Craig, Taylor Graves, Arthur Hyman, Ben Johnson, Arthur M. Loewy, 'Bert Lytell' (qv), Charles MacKay, Floy Murray, George Probert, Forrest Robinson, Reggie Sheffield, Sydney Shields. Produced by 'Holbrook Blinn' (qv) and James Shesgreen.
Birth Name:Lytell, Bertram
Spouse:'Grace Menken'' (1929 - ?), 'Claire Windsor' (qv) (1925 - 1927) (divorced), 'Evelyn Vaughn' (? - ?)
Death Date:28 September 1954
Birth Date:24 February 1885

Leonard Mudie (actor)
At 82, he was the oldest actor to ever appear in _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv). He played an illusory survivor of the S.S. Columbia in the first pilot "The Cage".
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA (heart ailment)
Leonard Mudie be a stalwart acting veteran who made nearly 150 appearance one-time the camera. He was from the Midlands of England and switch by on instance inside 1908 at the Gaiety Theater (1884-1959) in Manchester. This was the first regional repertory theater in England and resourcefully noted in help of the spectrum of drama produced and the patronage of foreign plays via area writers. Mudie was well competent when he come to America and Broadway in 1914, where on earth he first appear in the resourceful amount produced "Consequences". He was alive at hand past its sell-by date and on through 1948 in a few twenty-five role. Later in 1921 Mudie was lure to Hollywood and mute films, sample two for a year and later return to Broadway. But after delayed 1931 Mudie returned to Hollywood, not to arrival to the Great White Way until his state-of-the-art draft in 1948. Hollywood rumble leg could run through his well-run, to some extent nasal British intonation and execute - profusely. He manage to roll stirring in configuration of at smallest possible a feature added - not always next to lines - in lots of the excessive and historic films of the mid 1930s. About moderately his roles to 1946 be uncredited, but his was a stable voice of certainty in doesn`t matter what the cog: priggish British executive, doctor of drug, decriminalized signifying - lots of law lords - but also many an everyman role. In 1935 alone he was in thirteen films. And in one of these he was a chiefly indicative go-between. Warner Bros. was have a bet on a dashing but relatively untried and unknown Australian (well Tasmanian) thespian name 'Errol Flynn (I)' (qv) for a hope bang remake reworked copy of the 'Rafael Sabatini' (qv) new-fangled _Captain Blood (1935)_ (qv). Production was comb Hollywood for guise actor for the oversize stereotype, and Mudie was picked for one of the maximum evil even so historical characters of the motion image, Chief Judge George Jeffreys, Baron of Wem, the "Hanging Judge", who preside ended the "Bloody Assizes", the wholesale trial of the followers of the Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion at the commencing of the film. Flynn's first grease spectacular scene be his conflict with Jeffreys, bewigged and look ashen with the kidney bug massacre him. It is a great scene with great lines for both actors. Mudie was comprehensive of be in motion with over ten roles per year from 1937 thru 1941 before he began to lazy fluff, age bring going on for not as markedly of character roles -- four or consequently per annum in the follow-on years. He enjoy a somewhat perceptive queue playing an insipid standard actor Horace Karlos in a Charlie Chan whodunit _The Scarlet Clue (1945)_ (qv) when he make a quotation to appear in the immobile child pipeline as "Well, it's a flesh and blood!" Indeed by 1953 Mudie get his foot raining in TV, and by subsequent 1955 he was more a fixture of that milieu than film and visit all the assorted progression with a full sprinkling of character roles-including judges. In gravity in the super cast of Hollywood who's who in the film _The Story of Mankind (1957)_ (qv), he was the Chief Inquisitor for the cosmic aliens put death on investigation. That soupcon of fictional was autocrat by wished-for sci-fi and underwater suffer showman 'Irwin Allen (I)' (qv). He all gone off his prolonged, busy energy with a few more TV roles at 82 - it absolutely was a living.
Birth Notes:Cheetham, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Other Works:The Lullaby (1923). Drama. Written near 'Edward Knoblock' (qv). Directed by Fred G. Latham. Knickerbocker Theatre: 17 Sep 1923- Jan 1924 (closing date unknown/144 performances). Cast: Peter Carpenter, Harold Elliott, Alice Fleming, David Glassford, 'Rose Hobart' (qv) (as "The Young Girl"), Rupert Lumley, 'Frank Morgan (I)' (qv) (as "Count Carlo Boretti"), 'Leonard Mudie' (qv) (as "Claudet, a Young Sailor"), Grace Perkins, Henry Plimmer, Florence Reed, Mary Robson, Bernard Thornton, 'Charles Trowbridge' (qv) (as "Freddie Maynard"), Marianne Walter. Produced by 'Charles B. Dillingham' (qv)., East of Suez (1922). Drama., Mr. Pim Passes By (1921). Comedy., Abraham Lincoln (1919). Drama., Laurette Taylor in Scenes from Shakespeare (1918)., A Pair of Petticoats (1918)., The Merchant of Venice (1918). Comedy (revival)., The Lady of the Camellias (1917). Written by 'Alexandre Dumas pre' (qv). Empire Theatre: 24 Dec 1917- Feb 1918 (closing date unknown/56 performances). Cast: 'Herbert Ayling' (qv) (as "The Old Year") [final Broadway role], 'Ethel Barrymore' (qv) (as "Marguerite Gautier"), 'Holbrook Blinn' (qv) (as "Georges Duval"), Charles F. Coghlan, Rose Coghlan, 'Wallace Erskine' (qv) (as "Doctor Guerin"), Mary Hampton, Percy Marmount, 'Leonard Mudie' (qv) (as "Gaston Rieux"), Douglas Paterson, Allen Ramsey, Maxwell Ryder, 'Conway Tearle' (qv) (as "Armand Duval"), John M. Thoughton, Charles Wallace, Mary Worth. Produced by Charles Frohman, Inc., The Wooing of Eve (1917)., Out There (1917)., The Little Man (1917). Written by 'John Galsworthy' (qv). Maxine Elliott's Theatre (moved to The Garrick Theatre from 19 Mar 1917 to close): 12 Feb 1917- unknown (56 performances). Cast: John Burkell, Arthur Fitzgerald, Herman Gerold, 'O.P. Heggie' (qv), Nella Jefferis, Walter F. Jones, Thomas Louden Miss Meredith, Roy Mitchell, 'Leonard Mudie' (qv)'. Produced by Magic Producing Co., Inc., Magic (1917). Comedy. Written by 'G.K. Chesterton' (qv). Maxine Elliott's Theatre moved to The Garrick Theatre from 19 Mar 1917 to close): 12 Feb 1917- unknown (56 performances). Cast: Frank Conroy, 'Wallace Erskine' (qv), Donald Gallaher, 'O.P. Heggie' (qv), Thomas Louden, 'Leonard Mudie' (qv), 'Cathleen Nesbitt' (qv). Produced by Magic Producing Co., Inc., The Guilty Man (1916)., The Merry Wives of Windsor (1916)., Consequences (1914). Written by 'H.F. Rubinstein' (qv). Comedy Theatre: 1 Oct 1914- Nov 1914 (closing date unknown/36 performances). Cast: 'Horace Braham' (qv) (Broadway debut), Elliott Dexter, 'Hubert Druce' (qv), 'Winifred Harris' (qv) (Broadway debut), Fania Marinoff, 'Gaston Mervale' (qv), 'Leonard Mudie' (qv) (Broadway debut), Saba Raleigh, Mary Servoss. Produced by Lee Shubert
Birth Name:Cheetham, Leonard Mudie
Spouse:'Beatrice Terry' (? - ?), 'Gladys Lennox' (? - ?)
Death Date:14 April 1965
Birth Date:11 April 1883

George Spink (actor)
Articles:"Variety" (USA), 3 June 1936, pg. 54:1, "George Spink", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 30 October 1915, pg. 25:2, "Spink Joins Lubin Staff"
Death Notes:East Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Other Works:Active on Broadway in the following productions:, Ragged Robin (1910). Musical., The Lancers (1907). Musical. Music by 'Cecilia Loftus' (qv) and 'George Spink' (qv). Lyrics by Cecilia Loftus and George Spink. Written by 'Rida Johnson Young' (qv) and 'J. Hartley Manners' (qv). from the German of Homer Von Moser and Fritz Von Schoenthan. Featuring "Any Little Girl" by Milton Lusk and H.A. Evans. Featuring "Twinkling Star" by C.P. McDonald and Arthur Gumble. Musical Direction by George Martens. Directed by 'Frank Smithson' (qv). Daly's Theatre: 5 Dec 1907- 14 Dec 1907 (12 performances). Cast: Eileen Anglin, Henry Coote, Phoebe Coyne, 'Lawrence D'Orsay' (qv) (as "Captain Cecil Fitzherbert"), Ben Field, Grace Fisher, Cecilia Loftus (as "Marcia Tremaine"), 'A.H. Van Buren' (qv) (as "Lieutenant Gordon Willoughby of the 17th Lancers"), Bertram Allen, Leon Bailey, Jane Brown, Theresa Bryant, Doris Cameron, Cyril Chadwick, Margaret Cobb, Violet Curtis, H.B. Eirick, William J. Ellis, J.F. Fitzgerald, Mollie Hall, Hubert Harben, George Hollis, Evelyn Honohan, Harold Kehoe, 'Stapleton Kent' (qv), Arthur R. Lawrence, Edna Merrill, Anna Millward, Percival Norton, Ethel Peyton, Maud Rowland, Suzanne Rusholme, Cyril Sully, Roma Thorne, Fred Tyler, Stella Warner, Lillias Wilde. Produced by Lee Shubert and Sam Shubert. Produced by arrangement with The Augustin Daly Estate., The Hoyden, The Lady from Lane's (1907). Musical comedy., The Truth (1907). Drama., The Social Whirl (1906). Music by Gustav Kerker. Material by Charles Doty and Joseph Herbert. Lyrics by Joseph Herbert. Musical Direction by Gustav Kerker. Featuring songs by Anne Caldwell, 'George Spink' (qv), Charles J. Ross and E. Ray Goetz. Featuring songs with lyrics by George Spink, James O'Dea, Hugh Morton, Charles J. Ross and 'E. Ray Goetz' (qv). Directed by 'R.H. Burnside' (qv) and Caroline F. Siedle. Casino Theatre: 9 Apt 1906- 15 Sep 1906 (195 performances). Cast: Frances Alexander, Madge Allen, Marie Arnold, E.H. Barlab, Frederick Bond, Elizabeth Brice, Estelle Christy, Alice Clifford, Margaret Cobb, Eugenie Cole, Joseph Coyne, Edward Craven, Willard Curtiss, Mr. Deay, Katherine Deay, Blanche Deyo, Irma Dickson, Louise Elton, Mabel Fenton, Bessie Friganza, J. Rider Glynn, Carolyn Green, Charles Halton, Marie Hammett,Mart E. Heisey, Irene Hobson, Claudia Hubbard, Katherine Hunton, Violet Jewell, Mr. Kramer, Adah Lewis, Caroline Locke, Belle Lorimer, Eleanor Lund, M. Lutz, Paula Marr, Edna Mayo, Sadie Melles, Pauline Neff, Almeda Potter, Maude Raymond, Adele Ritchie, Mattie Rivenberg, Charles J. Ross, Della Spray, Grace Studdiford, Sybilla Thorne, Grace Wallis, Madge Wallis, Beatrice Walsh, Lillian Ward, M. Wheeler, Ethel Wheeler, Henry Williams, Evelyn Wood. Produced by San Shubert and Lee Shubert., The Wizard of Oz (1903). Musical., Mr. Pickwick (1903). Musical.
Death Date:27 May 1936
Birth Date:c. 1873

Mary Beaton (actress)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:California, USA
Death Date:25 January 1961
Niece of producer 'Richard A. Rowland' (qv).
Birth Date:4 March 1912

Raye Dean (actress)

Maud Milton (actress)
Death Notes:Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Birth Notes:Gravesend, Kent, England, UK
Death Date:19 November 1945
Birth Date:24 March 1859

Richard Ganthoney (writer)

Arthur Maude (writer)
Articles:"Motion Picture World" (USA), 4 September 1920, pg. 94, "Arthur Maude Is Preparing Scenario for Bert Lytell", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 9 August 1919, pg. 817, "Arthur Maude in Big 'U' Film"

Arthur J. Zellner (writer)

Arthur Martinelli (cinematographer)

Maxwell Karger (director)

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