Tag: silent era film

La madre e la morte (1911)

Mary Cléo Tarlarini (la madre / the mother) in La madre e la morte (S. A. Ambrosio, 1911)
Mary Cléo Tarlarini (la madre / the mother) in La madre e la morte (Arrigo Frusta, 1911)
Mary Cléo Tarlarini (la madre / the mother) in La madre e la morte (S. A. Ambrosio, 1911)
Mary Cléo Tarlarini (la madre / the mother) in La madre e la morte (S.A. Ambrosio, 1911)
La madre e la morte (Arrigo Frusta, 1911) – musica di Simone Farò / src Cinemateca Museo Nazionale del cinema on Vimeo
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Mary Cléo Tarlarini (la madre / the mother) in La madre e la morte (S. A. Ambrosio, 1911)
Mary Cléo Tarlarini (la madre / the mother) in La madre e la morte (S. A. Ambrosio, 1911)

The Chalice of Sorrow (1916)

Advertisement for The Chalice of Sorrow (1916). Signed: Burton Rice
Advertisement for The Chalice of Sorrow (1916). Signed: Burton Rice
A powerful emotional drama "The Chalice of Sorrow" [aka, The Fatal Promise] with Cleo Madison. The Story of a Fruitless Love, directed by Rex Ingram. Moving Picture World, November 1916
A powerful emotional drama “The Chalice of Sorrow” [aka, The Fatal Promise] with Cleo Madison. The Story of a Fruitless Love, directed by Rex Ingram. Moving Picture World, November 1916

Bluebird Photo-Plays began advertising in Moving Picture World, January 8, 1916. Burton Rice created the advertisements for Bluebird Photo-Plays that appeared in Moving Picture World beginning April 15, 1916. On December 23th, 1916 MPW published a short article on Burton Rice and his plans of moving to Europe. He left the US, moved to Paris and mailed his artwork to Bluebird Photo-Plays in New York City. In 1917 Rice produced fewer works for Bluebird Photo-Plays. Ethel Rundquist was hired to fill-in for Rice and eventually replaced him.

In the second half of the 1920s, Rice began using the pen name, Dynevor Rhys. From 1930 to 1935 Rice, as Rhys, was credited with almost three dozen covers for The Delineator. He contributed drawings to Harper’s Bazaar.

A powerful emotional drama “The Chalice of Sorrow” [aka, The Fatal Promise] with Cleo Madison. The Story of a Fruitless Love, directed by Rex Ingram. Motion Picture News, October 1916

The Price of Silence (1916)

Ad for movie 1910s by Rice
Advertisement for The Price of Silence (1916). Signed: Rice / Paris
The drama of a woman who trusted and the price she paid. "The Price of Silence", with Dorothy Phillips & Lon Chaney. From the story by W. Carey Wonderly. Directed by Joseph De Grasse. | Moving Picture World, December 1916
The drama of a woman who trusted and the price she paid. “The Price of Silence”, with Dorothy Phillips & Lon Chaney. From the story by W. Carey Wonderly. Directed by Joseph De Grasse. | Moving Picture World, December 1916

Bluebird Photo-Plays began advertising in Moving Picture World on January 8, 1916. Burton Rice created the advertisements for Bluebird Photo-Plays that appeared in Moving Picture World beginning April 15, 1916. On December 23th, 1916 MPW published a short article on Burton Rice and his plans of moving to Europe. He left the US, moved to Paris and mailed his artwork to Bluebird Photo-Plays in New York City. In 1917 Rice produced fewer works for Bluebird Photo-Plays. Ethel Rundquist was hired to fill-in for Rice and eventually replaced him.

In the second half of the 1920s, Rice began using the pen name, Dynevor Rhys. From 1930 to 1935 Rice, as Rhys, was credited with almost three dozen covers for The Delineator. He also contributed drawings to Harper’s Bazaar.

Valkyrien in The Hidden Valley

Valda Valkyrien [Adele Frede, Adele Freed] in the American silent adventure fantasy The Hidden Valley (1916) directed by Ernest Warde.
Valda Valkyrien [Adele Frede, Adele Freed] in the American silent adventure fantasy The Hidden Valley (1916) directed by Ernest Warde.
Valda Valkyrien [Adele Frede, Adele Freed] in the American silent adventure fantasy The Hidden Valley (1916) directed by Ernest Warde.
Advertisement for The Hidden Valley (1916). Motion Picture News (November 1916)
Valda Valkyrien [Adele Frede, Adele Freed] in the American silent adventure fantasy The Hidden Valley (1916) directed by Ernest Warde.
Advertisement for The Hidden Valley (1916). Moving Picture World, November 1906

Betty Compson is Tillie de Vamp

Betty Compson as Tillie de Vamp in an Al Christie’s comedy: Hist! At Six O’clock (1916)
“The Vamp Primes Herself with Poison Gas”. Betty Compson as the vampire in Hist! At Six O’clock”. Motion Picture News, December 1916. | src internet archive
Eddie Barry and Betty Compson in a Christie Comedy of the 1913 vintage.
Betty Compson in in a Christy diversion entitled “Hist at Six o’clock”. December, 1919 issue of Photoplay magazine

Adrian costume design, 1925

An Adrian costume design for Myrna Loy for What Price Beauty? (1925)
Pathé Exchange, 1925. Pencil and gouache on illustration board, signed at lower right, (“Adrian”), and inscribed on lower left: “Birthday Greeting / Myrna Loy.” The drawing, which depicts a blonde Myrna Loy in a sleek black gown with low gold sash, was executed for the Natacha Rambova-written and produced silent. This was one of the earliest film appearances of Myrna Loy, who played an exotic vamp, and among the earlier films for which Adrian designed costumes. | src Bonhams