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Author: Wendy Warwick White Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786482206 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 209
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Vaudeville, burlesque, Shakespeare, baseball--in the course of his career, Ford Sterling performed them all. The well-educated son of a middle-class Chicago family, Sterling succumbed to the acting bug and left school at the age of 18. After trying a variety of performing activities--including working as an aerobatic circus clown--Sterling found his true niche in comedy. Best known for his role as the Keystone Kops villain, Sterling was a comedy legend as great as Charlie Chaplin in the opening decades of the twentieth century. He left his mark on silent film and effortlessly made the transition to sound, becoming one of the most sought-after character actors of the 1920s. From A Dutch Gold Mine to Many Unhappy Returns, this biography chronicles the life and times of George Ford Stich, Jr. (aka Ford Sterling). It follows Sterling from his childhood to his college days at Notre Dame, where he got his first taste of acting. The main focus of the work is Sterling's career, from 1911 to 1937, which is unfortunately largely forgotten today. With an emphasis on correcting inaccuracies and restoring Sterling's legacy, this volume examines his on-screen work, his production ventures, his reputation as a world renowned photographer and his final debilitating illness. A detailed filmography provides all known production, cast and crew information as well as a synopsis for each film when available. The work is also indexed.
Author: Wendy Warwick White Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786482206 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
Vaudeville, burlesque, Shakespeare, baseball--in the course of his career, Ford Sterling performed them all. The well-educated son of a middle-class Chicago family, Sterling succumbed to the acting bug and left school at the age of 18. After trying a variety of performing activities--including working as an aerobatic circus clown--Sterling found his true niche in comedy. Best known for his role as the Keystone Kops villain, Sterling was a comedy legend as great as Charlie Chaplin in the opening decades of the twentieth century. He left his mark on silent film and effortlessly made the transition to sound, becoming one of the most sought-after character actors of the 1920s. From A Dutch Gold Mine to Many Unhappy Returns, this biography chronicles the life and times of George Ford Stich, Jr. (aka Ford Sterling). It follows Sterling from his childhood to his college days at Notre Dame, where he got his first taste of acting. The main focus of the work is Sterling's career, from 1911 to 1937, which is unfortunately largely forgotten today. With an emphasis on correcting inaccuracies and restoring Sterling's legacy, this volume examines his on-screen work, his production ventures, his reputation as a world renowned photographer and his final debilitating illness. A detailed filmography provides all known production, cast and crew information as well as a synopsis for each film when available. The work is also indexed.
Author: George Gordon Publisher: Emerge Publishing Group Llc ISBN: 9781488565267 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 68
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Experience Ford Sterling in a whole new way. This book is your ultimate resource for Ford Sterling. Here you will find the most up-to-date 119 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Ford Sterling's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: The Keystone Kops, Alice in Wonderland (1933 film) - Cast, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film), Mantrap (1926 film) - Cast, Fatty and the Broadway Stars - Cast, The Foreman of the Jury - Cast, Murphy's I.O.U. - Cast, Hollywood Forever Cemetery - S, The Waiters' Picnic - Cast, Wine (1913 film) - Cast, Between Showers, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, The Sea Nymphs (film) - Cast, He Who Gets Slapped - Cast, In the Clutches of the Gang - Cast, Marvel Rea, Cohen Saves the Flag - Plot, Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life - Plot, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid - Casting, Mabel's Dramatic Career - Cast, Sennett Bathing Beauties - Keystone Studios, Oh, kay! (film) - Cast, Court House Crooks - Cast, Stage Struck (1925 film), For the Love of Mike - Cast, When Dreams Come True - Cast, Eugene Pallette - Selected filmography, Keystone Cop, The Brass Bottle (1923 film) - Cast, Mabel's Awful Mistakes, Safe in Jail - Cast, The Headline Woman - Cast, Mickey's Gala Premier - Synopsis, Sally (1929 film) - Plot, Casey at the Bat - Film, Marvel Rea - Film comedian, Keystone Cops, The Show-Off, The Bangville Police, A Film Johnnie - Cast, The Show Off, That Little Band of Gold - Cast, Professor Bean's Removal - Cast, Miss Brewster's Million - Cast, A Robust Romeo - Cast, Casey at the Bat (1927 film) - Cast, Stage Struck (1925 film) - Cast, and much more...
Author: Rob King Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520942851 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 378
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From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company—home of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties—made an indelible mark on American popular culture with its high-energy comic shorts. Even as Keystone brought "lowbrow" comic traditions to the screen, the studio played a key role in reformulating those traditions for a new, cross-class audience. In The Fun Factory, Rob King explores the dimensions of that process, arguing for a new understanding of working-class cultural practices within early cinematic mass culture. He shows how Keystone fashioned a style of film comedy from the roughhouse humor of cheap theater, pioneering modes of representation that satirized film industry attempts at uplift. Interdisciplinary in its approach, The Fun Factory offers a unique studio history that views the changing politics of early film culture through the sociology of laughter.
Author: Bruce Sterling Publisher: Spectra ISBN: 0307796809 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty--the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers. They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen--or should have. They wage battles in wars already lost and become heroes--and sometimes martyrs--in their last-ditch efforts to preserve the dignity and individuality of humanity. A hack Indian filmmaker takes the pulse of a wounded and declining civilization--21st-century Britain. A pair of swashbuckling Silicon Valley entrepreneurs join forces to make a commercial killing--in organic underground slime and computer-generated jellyfish. A man in a Japanese city takes orders from a talking cat while pursuing a drama of danger and adventure that has become the very essence of his life. From "The Littlest Jackal", a darkly hilarious thriller of mercs and gunrunners set in Finland, to a stark vision of a post-atomic netherworld in his haunting tale "Taklamakan", Bruce Sterling once again breaks boundaries, breaks icons, and breaks rules to unleash the most dangerously provocative and intelligent science fiction being written today.
Author: Robert K. Klepper Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476604843 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 597
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This film reference covers 646 silent motion pictures, starting with Eadweard Muybridge's initial motion photography experiments in 1877 and even including The Taxi Dancer (1996). Among the genres included are classics, dramas, Westerns, light comedies, documentaries and even poorly produced early pornography. Masterpieces such as Joan the Woman (1916), Intolerance (1916) and Faust (1926) can be found, as well as rare titles that have not received critical attention since their original releases. Each entry provides the most complete credits possible, a full description, critical commentary, and an evaluation of the film's unique place in motion picture history. Birth dates, death dates, and other facts are provided for the directors and players where available, with a selection of photographs of those individuals. The work is thoroughly indexed.
Author: Ted Okuda Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595365981 Category : Comedians Languages : en Pages : 231
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Charlie Chaplin is universally hailed as the greatest comedic talent in the history of motion pictures. And yet Chaplin's early efforts-which account for more than half of his total output-are often overlooked in favor of his later films. In 1914 Chaplin appeared in a total of 35 films for the Keystone Film Company; the following year he signed with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, where he wrote, directed and starred in more than a dozen short comedies. Though the resulting pictures were frequently crude and erratic, they reveal the emergence of a formidable comic genius. Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp is a film-by-film examination of this period in Chaplin's career, tracing the birth of his beloved 'Tramp" character and his evolution as an actor and filmmaker. Also discussed are how these movies have been re-edited, recopied, reissued and retitled over the years, with a special section that matches pseudonym titles to their original source film. Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp is a fascinating look at the first celluloid steps taken by this legendary laughmaker, and is a must for all Chaplin fans, old and new.
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