Clara Williams Articles
Martin Scorsese/HUGO Subject Georges Méliès Movies: Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Several shorts directed by film pioneer Georges Méliès, played by Ben Kingsley in Martin Scorsese's well-received Hugo, will be featured throughout January 2012 at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's Edison Theater in Fremont, Calif. The Méliès screenings will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 21, and 28. On Jan. 7, the Edison Theater will show Méliès' 1910 short The Doctor's Secret prior [...]
THE ITALIAN d: Reginald Barker
The Italian (1915) Direction: Reginald Barker Screenplay: Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan Cast: George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke George Beban (right) was a renowned stage and vaudeville star. Even though he never became a major film name, Beban appeared in nearly 20 films from the mid-1910s to the mid-1920s, almost invariably in the role of an Italian. His first [...]
Best Films – 1915: Reginald Barker’s THE ITALIAN, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford
In The Italian, George Beban plays an Italian immigrant whose dreams of riches in America quickly turn into a nightmare of poverty and despair. BEST FILM The Italian d: Reginald Barker; scr: Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan Little Pal d: James Kirkwood; scr: Marshall Neilan CHECK THESE OUT Carmen d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: William C. de Mille BEST ACTOR [...]