Biography: Creighton Hale |
Silent-film leading man Creighton Hale was brought to America from his native Ireland via a theatrical touring company. While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe film... more
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Cast: David Butler
Length: 75min
"Little Billy" Fitzgerald, the talented midget best known for his villainous portrayal in the deathless novelty western Terror of Tiny Town, stars in the nonsensical farce Oh Baby. Little Billy plays a prizefight manager who is talked into posing as a...
Length: 59min
Celebrated "fan dancer" Sally Rand plays a minor role in the crime melodrama Shadow on the Wall. Under threat of death, young Creighton Hale is forced into a life of crime. At the behest of his brutish mentor, Hale poses as the long-lost child of a...
Cast: Lilyan Tashman
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Crime
Length: 75min
Mary Roberts Rinehart's story -When a Man Marries was made into a successful play, +Tumble In, by Avery Hopwood. Biograph filmed a poor version of it as Seven Days, but, in 1925, producer Al Christie -- an expert when it came to comedy -- remade it as...
Cast: Creighton Hale
Length: 58min
Already in his forties, Creighton Hale had no small difficulty conveying the extreme youth of his character in Speeding Thru. Hale is cast as a college student who aspires to become a champion racecar driver. Pledging eternal loyalty to his sweetheart...
Cast: Eleanor Boardman
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 60min
This mildly amusing comedy, based on a play by Cosmo Hamliton, was light on plot and just a touch racy (at least for the silent era). The lively John Rathburn (Lew Cody) is married to the more sedate Margaret (Eleanor Boardman). Their next-door...
Length: 71min
When a young man confesses to theft, his wealthy and influential father has him "shanghaied" aboard one of the company ships in this silent melodrama starring Creighton Hale and 1924 WAMPAS BABY STAR Dorothy Mackaill. Mackaill, a former "Follies"...
Cast: Victor Sjöström Hobart Bosworth Patsy Ruth Miller
Tags: Melodrama
Length: 84min
This powerful drama, based on the novel -The Master of Man, by Sir Hall Caine, was the first time Swedish director Victor Sjorstrom made a film in America. When her stepfather (De Witt Jennings) locks her out of the house, Bessie Collister (Mae Busch)...
Cast: ZaSu Pitts Frank Borzage
Tags: Comedy
Length: 7rlmin
Nell Bailey (Jacqueline Logan) is nothing if not practical. When Danny Kester (Creighton Hale) proposes marriage, she agrees only on the condition that he turn over half his salary, as her "wifely wages." But after the wedding, Danny refuses to honor...
Cast: Clara Bow Irene Rich Phil Rosen Ricardo Cortez
Tags: Melodrama
Length: 7rlmin
Irene Rich was one of Warner Bros.' new stars when she made this drama. Poverty-stricken singer Carol Drayton (Rich) attempts suicide, but she is saved by Rose (Louise Fazenda), a woman of the streets. They go to eat at a disreputable cafe where they...
Cast: Ernst Lubitsch Florence Vidor Adolphe Menjou
Tags: Sophisticated Comedy Comedy
Length: 90min
Viennese doctor Monte Blue is madly in love with his wife Florence Vidor--so much so that many suspect that they aren't married at all! Vidor's best friend Marie Prevost is an incurable coquette; Marie's divorce-bound husband Adolphe Menjou hires...
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