The Year - 1918
The Family News..:
Oliver Leanord Hall, husband of Antoninette Bagnole, was born on July 17th in Iron Mt. MI.
Marie L, was born to Mary (Curtin) and William Nolan on Nov. 30
The #1 Songs Were .....
AT THE (Silent) MOVIES....
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - (Fantasy).
Director - Chester M. & Sidney Franklin.
Writer - Bernard McConville.
Cast - George Stone as Ali Baba, Gertrude Messinger as Morgiianna, Lewis Sargent as Khaujeh Houssain, Buddy Messinger as Kasim Bara, G. Raymond Nye as Abdullah, Raymond Lee as Also Talib, Charles Hincus as Aasif Azaar, Marie Messinger as Kasim's Servant, Jack Hull as Jameel.
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April Fool - (Comedy).
Director - John K. Holbrook.
Writer - Leopold Wharton.
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Bell Boy - (Comedy).
Director - Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.
Writer - Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.
Cast - Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Bellboy, Buster Keaton as Bellboy, Al St. John as Desk Clerk, Alice Lake as Manicurist, Joe Keaton as Guest.
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Boston Blackie's Little Pal - (Drama).
Director - E. Mason Hopper.
Writer - Jack Boyle.
Cast - Bert Lytell as Boston Blackie, Rhea Mitchell as Mary, Rosemary Theby as Mrs. Wilmerding, Joey Jacobs as 'Little Pal' Martin Wilmerding, Howard Davies as Donald Lavalle
John Burton as Jackson, the Butler, Frank Whitson as Martin Wilmerding.
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Fallen Angel - (Drama).
Director - Robert Thornby.
Writer - Bennett Cohen.
Cast - Jewel Carmen as Jill Cummings, Charles Clary as George Hemingway , Lee Shumway as George Hemingway Jr, Herbert Heyes as Harry Adams, Daisy Robinson as Marguerite Cummings, Lavine Monsch as Jane Cummings.
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Girl From Bohemia - (Comedy, Drama).
Director - Lawrence B. McGill.
Cast - Irene Castle as Alice Paige.
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Go West Young Man - (Western, Comedy, Drama).
Director - Harry Beaumont.
Writer - Willard Mack.
Cast - Tom Moore as Dick Latham, Ora Carew as Rosa Crimmins, Melbourne MacDowell as Amos Latham, Jack Richardson as Hugh Godson, Mollie McConnell as Mrs. Latham, Edward Coxen as Dandy Jim, James Robert Chandler as Crimmins, Hector Sarno as Joe.
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Others - Great Impostor, Green Eyes, Heiress for a Day, Lawless Love, Little Orphant Annie, Madam Who, Midnight Madness, Money Isn't Everything, Raindrops, Rich Man Poor Man,
Riders of the Night, Romance of Tarzan, She Loves Me Not, Wedlock, Winding Trail, Younger Brothers.
In The News..:
Russian revolutionaries execute the former czar and his family.
Russian Civil War between Reds (Bolsheviks) and Whites (anti-Bolsheviks); Reds win in 1920.
Allied troops (U.S., British, French) intervene (March); leave in 1919. Second Battle of the Marne (July-Aug.)
German Kaiser abdicates (Nov.); hostilities cease on the Western Front. Japanese hold Vladivostok until 1922.
World-wide influenza epidemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish.
Last updated on Sunday, May 07, 2000