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404:(1916). His extravagant expenditures filming the picture led to immense cost overruns, outraging producer William Fox. That, and Brenon's emerging celebrity status among movie critics led Fox to seize the footage and edit it himself, excising Brenon from the screen credits. Film historian Richard Koszarski describes the clash between producer and director.:
475:"Peter Panâs encouragement of kidnapping, vengeance and murder deserves a whole psychological study in itself, and Brenonâs direction brings out its viciousness in the scenes when the children slowly prod a pirate to death at swordâs point, force Captain Hook to walk a plank, or giggle at his doom in the maw of a crocodile."
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celebrated materialistic acquisition with repulsiveness, and Brenon adds many vulgar touches to Barrie's scenes when the little London skivvy dreams of a socially successful marriage to Prince
Charming, the epitome of bourgeois money-grubbing
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story about courage, brotherly love, and self-sacrifice and the supposed theft of the priceless Blue Water sapphire from Lady
Brandon is a constant annoyance, but Brenonâs handling, replete with all the sadistic relish of his 1925
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and many others. I find that the more temperamental an actor is, the easier it is for them to grasp the subtleties of the role (accented) and imbue it with life, instead of merely playing a part.â
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598:âI wouldnât give a hang for an actor without temperament...the amount and quality of temperament distinguishes a good actor from a bad one...During my years as a director, it has my pleasure,
671:âSo many of the silent film directors were phonies. I didn't think highly of Herbert Brenon, for instance. He was the old, imperious type of director. Lordly, demanding. There was a scene in
659:(1925). She noted, however, a demonstration of the hostility to the domineering director when a sandbag dropped from the rafters by technicians, nearly hit Brenon. Screenwriter and director
408:âTales of Brenon's extravagance began to reach the ears of William Fox, and he was stunned by what he heard. A complete concrete and steel city was built on the disused island fortress of
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had some of their finest moments in Brenonâs films, (while carrying on uncontrollably elsewhere) ... his directorial success with the widest range of silent stars remains unparalleled."
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512:(1946) ... Despite extraordinary special effects, Barrie's deconstruction of the Cinderella myth - with an unhappy ending - was indeed quite unpopular with audiences..."
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Violette Oberg (1885-1955) on 18 February 1904 while they were both working vaudeville circuits. Their son, Herbert Cyril Brenon, was born in 1906.
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Brenon took his IMP production unit to Europe in 1913, and made a number of films in
England, France and Germany. The most "spectacular" of these was his adaptation of
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Kellerman quickly jumped to Fox Company and produced on location in the West Indies one of the most elaborate or early photoplays
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Brenon was among the early filmmakers who, before the rise of corporate film production, was a genuine "
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Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 76-9262.
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bestowed fulsome praise on the production, declaring that "
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498:(1926), a sophisticated fantasy that historian
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529:Richard Koszarski observes approvingly that
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1860:Koszarski, 2008 p. 55: "Irish curmudgeon".
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1964:. Doubleday & Company, Inc. New York.
1945:, Forgotten-ny.com. Accessed 24 July 2023.
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201:(1925), and the original film version of
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459:(1925). Brenon enlisted the talents of
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2470:The Street of Forgotten Men
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1985:Rutgers University Press.
1981:Koszarski, Richard. 2008.
1974:Koszarski, Richard. 1976.
2764:People from DĂșn Laoghaire
2406:The Woman With Four Faces
2254:The Fall of the Romanoffs
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1691:Johnston Forbes-Robertson
1586:at the cost of $ 50,000."
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762:Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
591:Motion Picture Magazine
558:Hollywood on the Hudson
267:(IMP), later to become
147:Brenon in 1917 reading
80:Los Angeles, California
2739:Fantasy film directors
2724:Irish male film actors
2486:The Song and Dance Man
2462:The Little French Girl
2214:A Daughter of the Gods
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1664:Slide, 1970 pp. 92-95.
1639:A Daughter of the Gods
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2174:The Heart of Maryland
2035:Early American Cinema
1996:Oberg, Helen (2014).
1920:Ankerich, Michael G.
1768:Koszarski, 2008 p. 56
1735:A Kiss for Cinderella
1723:A Kiss for Cinderella
1412:Koszarski 1976 p. 123
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1050:The Side Show of Life
874:Whom the Gods Destroy
810:The Heart of Maryland
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2719:Irish film directors
2598:Wine, Women and Song
2342:The Sign on the Door
2334:The Stronger Passion
2206:The Soul of Broadway
2063:at Wikimedia Commons
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954:The Stronger Passion
842:The Soul of Broadway
37:Herbert Brenon, 1916
2630:Someone at the Door
2542:Laugh, Clown, Laugh
2350:The Wonderful Thing
2182:The Clemenceau Case
2166:The Kreutzer Sonata
1792:The Garden of Allah
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1530:Claude Graham White
1521:Across the Atlantic
1470:Kathleen Mavourneen
1403:at Daly's Theatre."
1210:Someone at the Door
1138:Laugh, Clown, Laugh
970:The Wonderful Thing
818:The Clemenceau Case
802:The Kreutzer Sonata
778:Kathleen Mavourneen
748:Partial filmography
522:(1926), with actor
509:La Belle et la Bete
379:The Kreutzer Sonata
309:Claude Graham-White
281:Kathleen Mavourneen
16:Irish film director
2622:Living Dangerously
2526:The Telephone Girl
2430:The Breaking Point
2414:The Spanish Dancer
2398:The Rustle of Silk
2326:The Passion Flower
2158:Neptune's Daughter
2136:Films directed by
2102:at Virtual History
2071:Works by or about
1893:Higham, 1973 p. 93
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1820:Higham, 1973 p. 46
1796:The Spanish Dancer
1653:Erich von Stroheim
1590:Neptune's Daughter
1576:Neptune's Daughter
1457:Universal Pictures
1218:Living Dangerously
1122:The Telephone Girl
1018:The Breaking Point
1010:The Spanish Dancer
946:The Passion Flower
858:The Ruling Passion
794:Neptune's Daughter
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335:Neptune's Daughter
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1991:978-0-8135-4293-5
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1594:Annette Kellerman
1580:Annette Kellerman
1347:IrishGenealogy.ie
906:Victory and Peace
742:Woodlawn Cemetery
704:Woodlawn Cemetery
679:Winifred Westover
449:(1924), starring
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345:Annette Kellerman
290:(1909), starring
288:Leah the Forsaken
269:Universal Studios
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2638:The Dominant Sex
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