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Famous Players Film Company

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The Famous Players Film Company or Celebrated Players was film company.
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Filmographie de Famous Players Film Company (40 films)

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Production

Rock and Rule
Rock and Rule (1983)
, 1h17
Réalisé par Clive A. Smith
Origine Canada
Genres Science-fiction, Fantasy, Action, Aventure, Musical, Animation
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, La musique, Film post-apocalyptique, Religion, Le futur, Musique, Politique, Dystopique, Film catastrophe
Acteurs Don Francks, Susan Roman, Paul Le Mat, Lou Reed, Catherine O'Hara, Greg Salata

Nous sommes dans un futur imprécis. Suite à la Troisième Guerre mondiale, l'écosystème terrestre est dominé par une race mutante descendant du chien, du chats et du rat. Le musicien Mok Swagger est le roi incontesté du rock. Ses albums se vendent comme des petits pains chauds et ses spectacles sont toujours complets. Mais comme tout musicien blasé par le succès, Mok en a assez de n'être qu'un amuseur public et aspire maintenant à maîtriser les forces obscures de la magie noire.
Bab's Burglar
Bab's Burglar (1917)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par J. Searle Dawley
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique, Romance
Acteurs Marguerite Clark, Richard Barthelmess, Frank Losee, Nigel Barrie

As described in a film magazine, Bab's father (Losee) decides to give her an allowance of $1,000 per year with nothing extra. Bab (Clark), believing herself in possession of a small fortune, buys violets for all of her teachers and an automobile for herself, spending the remaining funds for its upkeep. After balancing her books she finds that she has 16 cents left for the year. However, her father is right there to help her out. She is anxious to see her sister Leila (Greene) married off so that she will be treated as a young woman. Bab mistakes the young man interested in her sister for a burglar and interferes with her sister's elopement. Disgusted at her failure to assist Leila, Bab retires, not knowing that she saved her sister from the hands of a fortune hunter.
Bab's Diary
Bab's Diary (1917)

Réalisé par J. Searle Dawley
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique, Romance
Acteurs Marguerite Clark, Nigel Barrie, Richard Barthelmess, Frank Losee, John B. O'Brien

As described in a film magazine, Barbara Archibald (Clark) objects to being pushed into the background and, to give her family something to think about, declares that she is in love and is about to be married and end it all. She is amazed of the effect of her remark and thereupon invents a name for her lover and buys a photograph of a likely looking chap to impersonate him. Matters become complicated when Carter Brooks (Barrie), an old friend of the family, announces to Bab that he knows her new found friend and promises to bring him to a party so Bab can meet him. He also volunteers to deliver an impassioned love note she penned to her imaginary sweetheart Valentine, the name she had selected for him. An actor made up like the photograph is introduced to Bab and persists in his attentions until she flees from the house. She thinks of the love note and goes to the actor's apartment to secure it. An alarm is raised and she is found by the police apparently drowning in the bathtub, into which she had fallen. Matters are straightened up at home and she is sent back to school in disgrace.
The Love That Lives
The Love That Lives (1917)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par Robert G. Vignola
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Pauline Frederick, John St. Polis, Patrick H. O'Malley Jr.

As described in a film magazine review, the life of Molly McGill (Frederick) has been a hard struggle since birth, and upon the death of her husband in a barroom brawl and her baby daughter in an accident, she offers herself to Harvey Brooks (St. Polis), a broker, to provide money for the education of her son Jimmy (Carroll / O'Malley). She keeps her life a secret from the boy. He grows to manhood, secures a position in the city fire department, and becomes engaged to Dora Palmer (Palmer). Molly breaks with Brooks and sinks to the slum's lowest level. One day while passing the engine room, Molly sees her son taking to his sweetheart. She gets a job as a scrub woman, and later saves Dora from Brooks by stabbing him. The office building catches fire and Jimmy saves Dora, but is unable to save his mother.
A Girl Like That
A Girl Like That (1917)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par Dell Henderson
Origine Etats-Unis
Acteurs Irene Fenwick, Owen Moore, Eddie Sturgis, Olive Thomas, John T. Dillon, William J. Butler

Nell Gordon (Fenwick) is unfortunate in her ancestry; her father is a crook, but she possesses qualities of resourcefulness and loyalty. Though she love her father, she detests his associates, particularly one, Bill Whipple (O'Keefe), who is her constant suitor, Joe Dunham (Sturgis), who does the scouting for the trio, finds a likely bank in the town of Wheaton, the fact that a new bookkeeper is needed there opening a way for the gang to get into the bank, as Nell is an expert. Working on her love for her father, who is a very sick man, Whipple and Dunham persuade Nell to go to Wheaton and take the position. Boarding with Rev. Dr. Singleton, Nell wins the confidence of Jim Brooks (Moore), the cashier of the bank, and of Tom Hoadley (Dillon), his best friend and sheriff of the country. What the girl is working for, of course, is the combination of the safe, but before she has a chance to get it, she begins to realize that she is in love with cashier. On the very day that she learns the combination and copies it. Jim proposes to her, and, after a mental struggle, she decides that her love for him is greater than her loyalty to the gang, and she surrenders, concealing her identity, she had come to the town under an assumed name. Becoming suspicious of Nell's Delay inforwarding word to them, Whipple and Dunham attempt to force her father to write a note ordering her to act quickly, but the old man refuses and is shot. The crook go to Wheaton and try to force Nell to rob the bank. She has undergone complete reformation and has even confessed her identity to Jim's friend and is planning to leave Wheaton rather than bring disgrace upon the man she love. She discovers that her father has been murdered by the crooks and decides to be revenged. Apparently consenting to their demands, she gets them into the bank, but not until she has warned the sheriff. Nell is wounded in the fight which follows, and when she awakens finds herself in the arms of the man from whom she attempt to escape because she loved him.
The Eternal Temptress
The Eternal Temptress (1917)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par Émile Chautard
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Natalina Cavalieri, Elliott Dexter, Alan Hale, Edward Fielding

As described in a film magazine, Harry Althrop (Dexter), a young American, is in love with Princess Cordelia (Cavalieri) and when he finds his funds are getting low he forges the signature of Thomas Lawton (Laffey), the American ambassador and a close friend of his father, to a check so that he might buy the beautiful Italian princess some jewelry. Count Rudolph Frizel (Hale) of Austria, anxious to obtain information concerning Italy's stand in an approaching war, threatens to expose Harry unless he provides the documents from the American embassy. It turns out that the specific documents are readily available with the ambassador, and Harry picks them up and gives them to the Count. This act is discovered by the ambassador and Harry is brought to trial. Cordelia learning of Harry's predicament, goes to Count Frizel and kills him to obtain the documents. The documents are then returned to the embassy, and Harry is released. Cordelia returns home, takes poison and dies in her lovers arms. The film ends with Cordelia on her bier.
The Hungry Heart
The Hungry Heart (1917)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par Robert G. Vignola
Origine Etats-Unis
Acteurs Pauline Frederick, Helen Lindroth

As described in a film magazine, Courtney Vaughan (Frederick) is very much in love with her husband Richard (Hall). However, when he neglects her for his chemistry work, she turns to Basil Gallatin (Cain), her husband's partner and a homewrecker. When Richard learns that Courtney desires her freedom he divorces her, giving her custody of their little son. After a separation of some time, Richard returns to the home and asks permission to use the laboratory. He asks Courtney to assist him, which she does. Basil, learning that Courtney is free, returns to her only to be turned away. He then goes to Richard and demands Courtney, but Courtney tells Richard to kill both her and Basil. Basil, frightened, runs away, and Courtney and Richard make arrangements to start life anew.