William Garwood
William Garwood (April 28, 1884 – December 28, 1950) was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s. Between 1911 and 1913, Garwood starred in a number of early adaptions of popular films including Jane Eyre and The Vicar of Wakefield (1910), Lorna Doone, The Pied Piper of Hamelin and David Copperfield (1911), The Merchant of Venice (1912), and Little Dorrit and Robin Hood (1913). In total, he appeared starred in more than 150 films. Garwood was born in Springfield, Missouri, and at the age of 15 moved to New Mexico for several years. His advanced education was at Springfield's Drury College, where he was awarded prizes for his abilities in dramatic reading and literature. Garwood could have pursued a career as a top athlete and ran the 100-yard (91 m) dash in 10.20 seconds, also playing on the college football team. His father hoped that he would follow a career in metallurgy and secured a position for his son with a zinc company in Joplin, Missouri. However, young Garwood had other plans, and aspired to be an actor on stage. Among his early work was employment in 1903 for $3.
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Petticoat Camp
Early "women's lib" with a comedy twist! This comedy capitalizes on the booming pastime of a newly mobile American middle class, fishing and camping. Not only is the woodsy lakeside photogenic, but it also provides a charming locale for a light-handed battle-of-the-sexes comedy. With a fresh and...Watch Movie
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Cymbeline
Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show rapidly improving narrative technique and realism well beyond the limitations of the stage. Especially cinematic are the bedchamber scene in the first...Watch Movie
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The Coffin Ship
A love story filmed in Long Island Sound with a stowaway and a shipwreck. Because of 1911 production convention, a sprawling adventure is truncated to one-reel length. Good location work, a strength of Thanhouser pictures, creates a visually strong seagoing story. Long Island Sound locations were...Watch Movie
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The Evidence of the Film
Recently discovered and preserved, THE EVIDENCE OF THE FILM is a particularly clever and unusual early example of a fictional dramatic movie with filmmaking as a subject. The portrayal of a movie crew that just happens to be at work on a street corner is accurate. The director...Watch Movie
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The Pasha's Daughter
A young American man in trouble is assisted by the daughter of the pasha to escape in woman's clothes from Turkey. The elements of an adventure-romance are dressed in an exotic setting (Ottoman Turkey was hot in the news as the empire was on the verge of collapse and the...Watch Movie
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The Vicar of Wakefield
Edwin Thanhouser and Lloyd F. Lonergan, who wrote or supervised screenplays for hundreds of Thanhouser films, often turned to classic plays and novels for quality source material. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD was an enormously popular English novel for 150 years, offering a complex...Watch Movie
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Get Rich Quick
The moral tale, a staple of early film, observes in this case how an elaborate swindle, the "Utopia Investment Corporation," affects one of its participants. The film challenges the quest for material wealth without concern for those victimized. A review in The Billboard praised Marguerite Snow's...Watch Movie
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The Little Girl Next Door
The “Thanhouser Twins,” Marion and Madeline Fairbanks, are featured in this tragic drama with a moral lesson. Although limited by the constraints of one-reel storytelling, the scenario (the first by Philip Lonergan, the brother of story department head Lloyd Lonergan) is a...Watch Movie
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