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‘Legs eleven!’
Actors: Earle Williams and Clara Bow
Movie: ‘The Adventurous Sex’ (1925)
Original source: ‘Dreamstime’
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‘Legs eleven!’
Actors: Earle Williams and Clara Bow
Movie: ‘The Adventurous Sex’ (1925)
Original source: ‘Dreamstime’
Still from the 1912 short film 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝑨𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒚, featuring Mary Maurice, Helene Costello, Earle Williams and Jean, the Vitagraph Dog.
Earle Williams-Vola Vale "Hornet´s nest" 1919, de James Young.
Rudolph Valentino as an Apache Dancer in the silent crime drama ‘A Rogue’s Romance’ 1919.
“The night life of the great French city is presented in all it’s gayety and splendour with gorgeous cafe and tavern scenes - Mystery - Adventure - and Romance blended into a story both thrilling and entertaining.”
It was as a dancer that Valentino first won public admirations and in this feature he gyrates through a couple of wild Apache dances, in which his fair partner undergoes some rough treatment. Valentino distinguishes himself in the role of ‘The Ferret,’ a Montmartre hard-boiled egg. The girls will undoubtedly rush to see Rudy dance, so this picture has a real box office value.
The Story - M. Picard, a master criminal, antagonises ‘The Ferret,’ a dangerous Apache. The Ferret in return hounds Picard (Williams), informing the police and escapes. A girls induces Picard to turn his powers to the aid of society. He helps the police capture a dangerous band of grafters as well as recover a valuable pearl necklace. He is cornered several times, but always gets away.
Classification - One of those interesting French crook stories that always appeal.
Production Highlights - The Apache dances performed by Valentino and a sprightly little partner. The exciting escapes. The theft and discovery of the necklace. The fine photography, directions and lighting effects. The correct Montmartre atmosphere. The climax.
The story is full of surprises and unexpected twists, furnishing both Earle Williams and Valentino difficult and exacting roles. The action is exceptionally tricky and the business of a kind that keeps the players on the alert at all times.
Earle Williams, Oliver Hardy and Patsy Ruth Miller in Fortune’s Mask, which was Babe’s first second feature-length movie. Looks like he’s wearing his “General Alarm” uniform from A Pair of Kings, though here his character is “Chief of Police”. Both movies were made in the spring of 1922.
A Merry Christmas to you all, from Carlyle Blackwell, Mary Pickford, John Bunny, Lillian Walker, Edwin August, Earle Williams, Marc MacDermott, Alice Joyce, G. M. Anderson, Crane Wilbur, Mabel Trunnelle, Francis Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Warren Kerrigan, Wally Van, Clara Young, Maurice Costello, and from all the other plays (whom Mr. Gallagher could not find room for), and also from the Motion Picture Magazine.
Illustration by Jack Gallagher in Motion Picture Magazine, January 1915. Internet Archive.
‘Vintage legs!’
Movie: ‘The Adventurous Sex’ (1925)
Actors: Earle Williams and Clara Bow
Original source: ‘Dreamstime’
Earle Williams-Betty Ross Clarke "The man from Downing street" 1922, de Edward José.