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J. Searle Dawley is a Director and Scriptwriter American born on 4 october 1877 at Colorado (USA)

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Birth name James Searle Dawley
Nationality USA
Birth 4 october 1877 at Colorado (USA)
Death 29 march 1949 (at 71 years) at Hollywood (USA)

James Searle Dawley (May 13, 1877 – March 30, 1949) was an American director and screenwriter. He directed 149 films between 1907 and 1926. He was born in Del Norte, Colorado and died in Hollywood, California.

Biography

Il travailla pour l'Edison Company de 1907 à 1912. Il quitta celle-ci pour rejoindre la Famous Players où il notamment travaillé avec Edwin S. Porter.

Usually with

Marguerite Clark
Marguerite Clark
(16 films)
Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor
(12 films)
Edwin S. Porter
Edwin S. Porter
(9 films)
Frank Losee
Frank Losee
(7 films)
Charles Ogle
Charles Ogle
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of J. Searle Dawley (52 films)

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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918)
, 50minutes
Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Origin USA
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films based on plays
Actors Marguerite Clark, Sam Hardy, Augusta Anderson, Frank Losee, Walter P. Lewis, Walter P. Lewis
Rating23% 1.166571.166571.166571.166571.16657
L'Oncle Tom et Eliza sont tous deux esclaves de la même maison dans le Kentucky.
The Mysterious Miss Terry
The Mysterious Miss Terry (1917)

Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Origin USA
Actors Billie Burke, Thomas Meighan, Gerald Oliver Smith, Walter Hiers

As described in a film magazine, a fascinating young heiress (Burke) takes rooms at a cheap boarding house and assumes the name Miss Terry. The male boarders immediately fall in love with her and, when she secures a temporary position in a hardware store as a bookkeeper, they all help her keep the books. As a test of the bravery of one of the young men, she arranges for two others to dress as burglars and break into the store at night when she and Gordon True (Meighan) are there. Professional burglars, however, overhear the plan and break into the store first where they steal the money and shoot Gordon. Miss Terry nurses the boy back to health, arranges to have his book published, and assists the other male boarders to better themselves. Miss Terry discloses her identity, and the film ends with wedding bells for her and Gordon.
Bab's Burglar
Bab's Burglar (1917)
, 50minutes
Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Marguerite Clark, Richard Barthelmess, Frank Losee, Nigel Barrie

As described in a film magazine, Bab's father (Losee) decides to give her an allowance of $1,000 per year with nothing extra. Bab (Clark), believing herself in possession of a small fortune, buys violets for all of her teachers and an automobile for herself, spending the remaining funds for its upkeep. After balancing her books she finds that she has 16 cents left for the year. However, her father is right there to help her out. She is anxious to see her sister Leila (Greene) married off so that she will be treated as a young woman. Bab mistakes the young man interested in her sister for a burglar and interferes with her sister's elopement. Disgusted at her failure to assist Leila, Bab retires, not knowing that she saved her sister from the hands of a fortune hunter.
Bab's Diary
Bab's Diary (1917)

Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Marguerite Clark, Nigel Barrie, Richard Barthelmess, Frank Losee, John B. O'Brien

As described in a film magazine, Barbara Archibald (Clark) objects to being pushed into the background and, to give her family something to think about, declares that she is in love and is about to be married and end it all. She is amazed of the effect of her remark and thereupon invents a name for her lover and buys a photograph of a likely looking chap to impersonate him. Matters become complicated when Carter Brooks (Barrie), an old friend of the family, announces to Bab that he knows her new found friend and promises to bring him to a party so Bab can meet him. He also volunteers to deliver an impassioned love note she penned to her imaginary sweetheart Valentine, the name she had selected for him. An actor made up like the photograph is introduced to Bab and persists in his attentions until she flees from the house. She thinks of the love note and goes to the actor's apartment to secure it. An alarm is raised and she is found by the police apparently drowning in the bathtub, into which she had fallen. Matters are straightened up at home and she is sent back to school in disgrace.
Bab's Matinee Idol
Bab's Matinee Idol (1917)
, 50minutes
Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Marguerite Clark, Nigel Barrie, Frank Losee, Cyril Chadwick, Vernon Steele

As described in a film magazine, Bab (Clark) is in love with Adrian (Steele), an actor, and cuts his picture out of a newspaper and worships it. An epidemic of measles breaks out and Bab is sent home. A few days later Bab learns that the play with her idol is in town, so she borrows money to see a performance with her hero. She writes him a note, and he invites her into his dressing room. She learns that unless the show gets more publicity, it will close. She arranges with Carter Brooks (Barrie) and her father (Losee) for Adrian to apply for work at her father's ammunition factory, and after he is thrown out the story will be in the newspapers. However, the Honorable Page Beresford (Chadwick), who is after Bab's sister Leila's (Greene) hand and fortune, arrives at the factory to place an order for shells and, mistaken for Adrian, gets thrown out. When the real Adrian applies for work, he is hired and not allowed to leave, and misses the matinee performance. His irate wife, searching for Adrian, soon puts matters right. Bab succumbs to the measles and the revelation that Adrian is married completely shatters her thoughts of romance, at least for the time being.
The Seven Swans
The Seven Swans (1917)

Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Origin USA
Actors Marguerite Clark, Richard Barthelmess, Augusta Anderson

Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen, Clark stars as Princess Tweedledee who later falls in love with Prince Charming. An evil witch, yearning to take over a kingdom, turns the Princess's brothers into swans. Moon Fairies vow to turn her brothers back to humans if she knits them seven robes and not speak to another human for a specified amount of time.