Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and ActressesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 12 wrz 2010 - 464 As a five-feet-three-inch hunchback who weighed about 100 pounds, Homer Lea (1876--1912), was an unlikely candidate for life on the battlefield, yet he became a world-renowned military hero. In the Dragon's Lair: The Exploits of Homer Lea paints a revealing portrait of a diminutive yet determined man who never earned his valor on the field of battle, but left an indelible mark on his times. Lawrence M. Kaplan draws from extensive research to illuminate the life of a "man of mystery," while also yielding a clearer understanding of the early twentieth-century Chinese underground reform and revolutionary movements. Lea's career began in the inner circles of a powerful Chinese movement in San Francisco that led him to a generalship during the Boxer Rebellion. Fixated with commanding his own Chinese army, Lea's inflated aspirations were almost always dashed by reality. Although he never achieved the leadership role for which he strived, he became a trusted advisor to revolutionary leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen during the 1911 revolution that overthrew the Manchu Dynasty. As an author, Lea garnered fame for two books on geopolitics: The Valor of Ignorance, which examined weaknesses in the American defenses and included dire warnings of an impending Japanese-American war, and The Day of the Saxon, which predicted the decline of the British Empire. More than a character study, In the Dragon's Lair provides insight into the establishment and execution of underground reform and revolutionary movements within U.S. immigrant communities and in southern China, as well as early twentieth-century geopolitical thought. |
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Bessie Love | 229 |
Dorothy Mackaill | 233 |
Mary MacLaren | 237 |
Percy Marmont | 241 |
Mae Marsh | 247 |
James Morrison | 251 |
Jack Mulhall | 255 |
Mae Murray | 259 |
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Mary Brian | 43 |
Gladys Brockwell | 51 |
Kate Bruce | 55 |
John Bunny | 59 |
Ruth Clifford | 63 |
Elmer Clifton | 69 |
Miriam Cooper | 73 |
Pauline Curley | 79 |
Viola Dana | 83 |
Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon | 89 |
Philippe De Lacy | 97 |
Carol Dempster | 101 |
Dorothy Devore | 105 |
Richard Dix | 109 |
Billie Dove | 113 |
Claire DuBrey | 117 |
Virginia Brown faire | 121 |
Bess flowers | 127 |
Howard Gaye | 131 |
Lillian Gish | 135 |
Dagmar Godowsky | 141 |
Jetta Goudal | 145 |
Ethel Grandin | 153 |
Ralph Graves | 159 |
Gilda Gray | 163 |
Corinne Griffith | 167 |
Robert Harron | 173 |
William S Hart | 179 |
Alice Howell | 185 |
Alice Joyce | 189 |
Madge Kennedy | 193 |
Doris Kenyon | 199 |
J Warren Kerrigan | 203 |
Laura La Plante | 209 |
Lon Chaney Charlie Chaplin Greta Garbo Buster Keaton and Rudolph Valentino | 215 |
Harold Lloyd | 221 |
Babe London | 225 |
Conrad Nagel | 263 |
Nita Naldi | 267 |
Mabel Normand | 271 |
Jane Novak | 275 |
George OBrien | 281 |
Gertrude Olmstead | 285 |
Seena Owen | 289 |
Jean Paige | 293 |
Kathryn Perry | 297 |
Olga Petrova | 301 |
Mary Philbin | 307 |
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks | 311 |
Arline Pretty | 317 |
Esther Ralston | 321 |
Charles Ray | 325 |
Wallace Reid | 329 |
Billie Rhodes | 333 |
Charles Buddy Rogers | 337 |
Clarine Seymour | 341 |
Lowell Sherman | 344 |
Pauline Starke | 349 |
Gloria Swanson | 353 |
Blanche Sweet | 357 |
Constance Talmadge | 369 |
Norma Talmadge | 373 |
Alice Terry | 377 |
Florence Turner | 385 |
Theda Bara Louise Glaum Kitty Gordon Olga Grey Alice Hollister and Valeska Suratt | 389 |
George Walsh | 395 |
Henry B Walthall | 401 |
Kathlyn Williams | 407 |
Lois Wilson | 411 |
Margery Wilson | 415 |
Claire Windsor | 421 |
Fay Wray | 425 |
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Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film ... Anthony Slide Ograniczony podgląd - 2002 |
Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film ... Anthony Slide Ograniczony podgląd - 2002 |