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Josephine Crowell is a Actor Canadienne born on 10 january 1859 at Nova Scotia (Canada)

Josephine Crowell

Josephine Crowell
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Birth name Josephine Bonaparte Crowell
Nationality Canada
Birth 10 january 1859 at Nova Scotia (Canada)
Death 27 july 1932 (at 73 years) at Amityville (USA)

Josephine Crowell (January 11, 1859 – July 27, 1932) was a Nova Scotian film actress of the silent film era. She appeared in 94 films between 1912 and 1929.

She was born Josephine Boneparte Crowell in Nova Scotia, British North America and began her film acting career in the 1912 film The School Teacher and the Waif. By 1919 she had appeared in 50 films, many of which were film shorts. Her most notable film appearance during that period was in the early film classic The Birth of a Nation, starring Lillian Gish and directed by D. W. Griffith. In 1920 she appeared with Gladys Brockwell in Flames of the Flesh, which was followed by another six film appearances that year. From 1921 until 1929 she had 34 more film appearances, including Hot Water in which she played Harold Lloyd's mother in law and The Splendid Crime starring Bebe Daniels in 1925.

Her last role was in the 1929 film Wrong Again, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. With the coming of "talking films", her career abruptly ended. She had married actor Emile La Croix earlier in her career, and was residing in Amityville, New York at the time of her death on July 27, 1932, at the age of 73.

Biography

Installée aux États-Unis, Josephine Crowell débute au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway (New York) dans une pièce représentée en 1902.

Au cinéma, elle contribue à quatre-vingt-quinze films muets américains (dont des courts métrages), le premier sorti en 1911. Entre autres, elle apparaît dans dix films réalisés par D. W. Griffith, dont Naissance d'une nation (1915), Intolérance (1916) et Cœurs du monde (1918), tous trois avec Lillian Gish. Dans Intolérance, elle personnifie Catherine de Médicis, rôle qu'elle retrouvera à l'occasion d’Ashes of Vengeance de Frank Lloyd (1923, avec Norma Talmadge et Conway Tearle).

Citons également Pillars of Society de Raoul Walsh (1916, avec Henry B. Walthall et Mary Alden), La Veuve joyeuse d'Erich von Stroheim (version de 1925, avec Mae Murray et John Gilbert), ou encore L'Homme qui rit de Paul Leni (son dernier long métrage, 1928, avec Mary Philbin et Conrad Veidt). Son dernier film est le court métrage Y a erreur ! de Leo McCarey, avec Laurel et Hardy, sorti en 1929.

Usually with

Robert Harron
Robert Harron
(9 films)
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
(11 films)
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp
(8 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Josephine Crowell (52 films)

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Actress

Wrong Again, 20minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dell Henderson, Josephine Crowell, William Gillespie, Sam Lufkin
Roles Painting owner's mother
Rating69% 3.4889353.4889353.4889353.4889353.488935
Stable grooms Laurel and Hardy overhear news of a $5,000 reward for the return of the stolen painting The Blue Boy, but think the reward is for the horse at their barn named Blue Boy. When they bring the horse to the painting's owner, he speaks to them from an upstairs window where he can't see the steed; he tells them to bring Blue Boy in the house and put "him" on the piano. This triggers a running gag where Ollie explains patiently to Stan that (Scott Fitzgerald aside), the rich are different from you and me. He punctuates his lesson with a twisting gesture of his hand to demonstrate the 180-degree difference between the classes.
The Man Who Laughs, 1h50
Directed by Paul Leni
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Brandon Hurst, Olga Baclanova, Cesare Gravina, Stuart Holmes
Roles Queen Anne
Rating75% 3.7953053.7953053.7953053.7953053.795305
Taking place in England in the year 1690, The Man Who Laughs features Gwynplaine, the son of an English nobleman who has offended King James II. The monarch sentences Gwynplaine's father to death in an iron maiden, after calling upon a surgeon, Dr. Hardquannone, to disfigure the boy's face into a permanent grin. As a title card states, the King condemned him "to laugh forever at his fool of a father."
Speedy
Speedy (1928)
, 1h25
Directed by Ted Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Brooks Benedict, Ernie Adams, Jack Hill
Roles Lady in Car (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.7941253.7941253.7941253.7941253.794125
Harold Swift, surnommé Speedy, vit de petits boulots à New York. Amoureux de la fille du propriétaire de la dernière ligne de tramway à cheval de New York, il va tout faire pour que son beau-père puisse vendre son affaire au meilleur prix…
The Merry Widow, 1h52
Directed by Erich von Stroheim
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas, Operetta films
Actors Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, George Fawcett, Josephine Crowell, Tully Marshall
Roles Queen Milena
Rating72% 3.6439653.6439653.6439653.6439653.643965
Prince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O'Hara. His uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco forbids the marriage because she is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries old, lecherous Baron Sadoja, whose wealth has kept the kingdom afloat. When he dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
Mantrap
Mantrap (1926)
, 1h26
Directed by Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Ernest Torrence, Ford Sterling, Eugene Pallette, Tom Kennedy
Roles Mrs. McGavity
Rating67% 3.382213.382213.382213.382213.38221
Ralph Prescott (Marmont) is a New York divorce lawyer tired of his clientele. Woodbury (Pallette), who runs a ladies hosiery business across the hall, suggests that they get away from the city and camp in Mantrap, Canada.
Dog Shy
Dog Shy (1926)
, 24minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charley Chase, Stuart Holmes, Josephine Crowell, William Orlamond, Fred Kelsey
Roles The Girl's Mother
Rating69% 3.4701053.4701053.4701053.4701053.470105
The Sporting Venus
Directed by Marshall Neilan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman, Lew Cody, Josephine Crowell, Edward Martindel, Kate Price
Roles Countess Van Alstyne
Rating78% 3.9125053.9125053.9125053.9125053.912505
Lady Gwendolyn (Blanche Sweet) is an heiress in love with a medical student, Donald (Ronald Colman), despite being bespoken to foreign prince Carlos (Lew Cody).
Zander the Great, 1h20
Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Marion Davies, Emily Fitzroy, Hedda Hopper, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Harry Myers
Roles Orphanage Trustee (uncredited)
Rating56% 2.8044652.8044652.8044652.8044652.804465
Zander (Jack Huff) is a boy searching for his missing father. Mamie (Marion Davies) takes him out West, where a substitute father is found in a bootlegger who rescues them from bandits.
No Father to Guide Him, 20minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charley Chase, Josephine Crowell, Katherine Grant, Lyle Tayo, Bull Montana, Leo Willis
Roles Jimmy's Mother-in-Law
Rating71% 3.552423.552423.552423.552423.55242