Immigration Articles

Sold for Marriage (1916) Direction: Christy Cabanne Screenplay: William E. Wing Cast: Lillian Gish, Frank Bennett, Walter Long, Allan Sears, Pearl Elmore, Curt Rehfeld   Though all but completely forgotten today, Christy Cabanne (at times billed as William Christy Cabanne) was a respected name in the 1910s and 1920s. Among his credits are the1916 Douglas Fairbanks vehicle The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, considered by [...]

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 [...]