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Julia Crawford Ivers is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 3 october 1867 at Los Angeles (USA)

Julia Crawford Ivers

Julia Crawford Ivers
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Birth name Julia Crawford
Nationality USA
Birth 3 october 1867 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 8 may 1930 (at 62 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Julia Crawford Ivers (October 3, 1869 - May 8, 1930) was an American motion picture pioneer. Born in Los Angeles when it was no more than an exotic outpost, Ivers watched the film industry come into existence and establish itself in southern California. She participated in several facets of filmmaking i.e. writer, producer and director. Her son James Van Trees (1890–1973) became a popular cinematographer for Paramount and Warner Bros. and shot some of his mother's films. They are possibly the earliest mother-son team of director and cinematographer. Ivers later worked with director William Desmond Taylor and was allegedly a part of his inner circle before his murder. Ivers died in the city of her birth.



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Biography

Julia Crawford (épouse d'Oliver Ivers en secondes noces) est considérée comme une pionnière du cinéma américain, auquel elle contribue exclusivement durant la période du cinéma muet, de 1915 à 1927, notamment au sein de la Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.

On lui doit 50 films comme scénariste (1915-1927), cinq films comme productrice (1917) et quatre films comme réalisatrice (1916-1923). Son deuxième film à la réalisation est The Heart of Paula (1916, avec Forrest Stanley et Lenore Ulrich), coréalisé par William Desmond Taylor, qu'elle retrouve souvent en tant que scénariste (ex. : Tom Sawyer en 1917 et The Soul of Youth en 1920), jusqu'à la mort tragique de ce dernier en 1922. Le quatrième et dernier film qu'elle réalise est The White Flower (1923, avec Betty Compson et Edmund Lowe).

Elle est la mère de James Van Trees (1890-1973, né d'un premier mariage avec Franklin S. Van Trees), directeur de la photographie — notamment sur The Heart of Paula et The White Flower pré-cités —.

Usually with

William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor
(20 films)
James Van Trees
James Van Trees
(10 films)
Herbert Standing
Herbert Standing
(8 films)
Winifred Kingston
Winifred Kingston
(7 films)
Dustin Farnum
Dustin Farnum
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Julia Crawford Ivers (37 films)

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Director

The Call of the Cumberlands
The Call of the Cumberlands (1916)
, 50minutes
Directed by Frank Lloyd, Julia Crawford Ivers
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Herbert Standing, Myrtle Stedman
Rating61% 3.08663.08663.08663.08663.0866
The story is about a family feud in the mountains of Kentucky.

Scriptwriter

Married Flirts
Married Flirts (1924)
, 1h10
Directed by Robert G. Vignola
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Pauline Frederick, Mae Busch, Conrad Nagel, Huntley Gordon, Alice Hollister, John Gilbert

Nellie Wayne (Pauline Frederick) is a novelist who loses her husband to a vamp, who thereupon rejects him to marry another man, who subsequently is enticed away by the novelist.
The Green Temptation
The Green Temptation (1922)
, 1h
Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Betty Compson, Theodore Kosloff, Mahlon Hamilton, Neely Edwards, Edmund Burns, Mary Thurman
Roles Writer

Betty plays a girl who is involved in the Paris criminal underworld. During World War I she becomes a wartime Red Cross nurse and after the war leaves for America for a new start in life. There she meets an old wartime colleague (Kosloff), a criminal who is conniving to steal a valuable jewel called 'The Green Temptation'. Kosloff wants Betty to help him steal the jewel and when she balks he threatens to reveal her sordid past to her new American friends. Scotland Yard detective (Mahlon Hamilton), probably hired to protect the jewel, is sweet on Betty and kills Kosloff when he tries to steal the jewel.
Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love (1921)

Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Elsie Ferguson, Conrad Nagel, Thomas Holding, Helen Dunbar, Winifred Greenwood, Forrest Stanley
Roles Scenario Writer

As described in a film publication summary, Carlotta Peel (Ferguson), brought up by a maiden aunt with maiden ideas, secretly attends a concert by Emilie Diaz (Nagel). After the concert she meets the pianist and later succumbs to the strains of "Samson and Delilah" played by Emilie. Carlotta spends the night with Emilie and returns home the next morning to find her aunt dead. She does not see Emilie again, and after several years she is a well known novelist who is loved by her publisher, Frank Ispenlove (Holding). The publisher's wife Mary (Greenwood) commits suicide because of her husband's affair with Carlotta. Frank then kills himself. After some time and at a different locality, Carlotta finds Emilie, a victim of absinthe. She nurses him back to health and his musical gift is restored. She is now happy with her first love.
Morals
Morals (1921)

Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors May McAvoy, W. E. Lawrence, William P. Carleton, Kathlyn Williams, Marian Skinner, Bridgetta Clark
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.981992.981992.981992.981992.98199
A woman escapes the Turkish harem in which she has been brought up and flees to London in the company of a British adventurer.
Beyond
Beyond (1921)

Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ethel Clayton, Charles Meredith, Fontaine La Rue, Lillian Rich, Winifred Kingston, Charles K. French
Roles Writer

On her deathbed, the mother of Avis Langley begs her to watch over her wayward twin brother, Alec. Just before Avis is to be married to Geoffrey Southerne, Alec disappears and the spirit of Mrs. Langley appears to Avis to remind her of her promise. Samuel Ackroyd, from New Zealand, calls to explain that Alec who is engaged to his daughter has disappeared. Avis goes to New Zealand, finds Alec and persuades him to reform and marry Bessie and then sails for home. En route, the steamer is wrecked, and Avis being the only survivor is washed up on the shore of a small island. Geoffery, believing her dead, marries Viva Newmarch whom he does not love. After a year, Avis returns and her mother's spirit comes to console her. She declines to reveal that she is alive, however, until the accidental death of Viva creates the possibility of her reunion with Geoffrey.
Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn (1920)

Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Martha Mattox, Esther Ralston, Lewis Sargent, Frank Lanning, Katherine Griffith, Edythe Chapman
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.228313.228313.228313.228313.22831
As described in a film publication, Huckleberry Finn (Sargent) has been adopted by the Widow Douglas (K. Griffith) who plans to "civilize" him. With Tom Sawyer (G. Griffith) he forms a robber gang, and in a cave has the local boys take an oath to stick together. In his bedroom he runs into his no-account father (Lanning) who steals Huck's small change and later kidnaps Huck, taking him in a small boat down the river, while Tom and the gang wait for their leader to appear. Huck later escapes from a cabin where his father mistreated him, making it look as if he drowned while getting away in a canoe. Rumors of Huck's death spreads. Jim (Reed), the widow's slave boy, hears that he is to be sold and runs off, and joins Huck on a raft. Duke (Humphrey) and King (Bates), two broken-down actors fleeing a crowd they had fooled with a mock theatrical performance, join them. At the next town the actors again fool the people with a pretend theatrical performance with Huck acting as the doorkeeper. Further downstream the actors then impersonate the brothers of a deceased man named Wilks in an attempt to obtain the inheritance, but Huck takes the money to keep it from the actors after he is smitten by the daughter, Mary Jane Wilks (Ralston). Huck and Jim leave to escape the wrath of their former companions just as the actual relatives of the dead man show up. After peace is made when King and Duke rejoin the group, a shabby trick is performed when King sells Jim to a man named Phelps and then tells Huck that Jim has been lost. Upon learning the truth, Huck sets out to rescue his friend. He discovers that Mrs. Phelps (Moore) is the sister of Tom's Aunt Polly. Huck poses as the nephew Tom, whom Mrs. Phelps has never met. Then the real Tom arrives, who is surprised as he believed that Huck had died. After exchanging signals, Tom poses as his brother Sid and they go through with a plan. In a struggle to get Jim away, Tom is shot in the leg. Jim escapes, and while the two youngsters are congratulating themselves at Tom's sickbed, Aunt Polly arrives and says that Jim had been freed a month earlier. She informs the Phelps of Huck's actual identity and takes him back, cured of his wandering, to the Widow Douglas.