![]() ![]() Pearl White was safely. US 1914) cas.: Helen Holmes, J. Mystery of the Fatal Pearl (1914) . See more MSN results on Bing Web Results. The Mystery of the Fatal Pearl and the Sequel (1914). The Mansard Mystery (1916. The Exploits of Elaine; Pearl White i Creighton Hale u sceni filmskog. The Fatal Ring; The Hidden Hand; The Mystery of the. The Exploits of Elaine (1914). The Mystery of the Fatal Pearl and the Sequel. Die unheilbringende Perle (original title) 9 January 1914 (Germany) Add a Plot » Director: Joe May. ![]() Gale Henry – Women Film Pioneers Projectby Steve Massa. Thought to be the prototype for Popeye’s girlfriend Olive Oyl, Gale Henry was tall and extremely skinny, with large eyes and a sharp nose. Watch Full 'The Mystery of the Fatal Pearl and the Sequel. The Mystery of the Fatal Pearl and the Sequel 1914. Known as “The Elongated Comedienne,” from 1. Like her contemporaries Alice Howell, Mabel Normand, Marie Dressler, and Louise Fazenda, Gale took many bumps and bruises in the name of laughter alongside her male comedian counterparts in an estimated two hundred fifty- eight shorts and features, some of the craziest of which she wrote. Her active female characters bear comparison with Pearl White and Helen Holmes, the “serial queens” of the 1. Henry’s performing style could be very broad, but she also had a gift for small, insightful gestures that could bring a moment of pathos and feeling into the knockabout. She often played put- upon slavies, but her unconventional looks also made her perfect as a lovelorn spinster, an overbearing wife, or a burlesque country girl. She wore a wide- brimmed hat, a tight, old- fashioned button- up blouse, a long plaid or checkered skirt, and clunky high- top shoes. The overall look had a feel of L. Frank Baum’s Scarecrow of Oz—as if she were put together from odd, mismatching parts. Advertising slide Gale Henry (a/p/w) “The Elongated Comedienne.” Mo. MI Unidentified Joker Comedy w/ Gale Henry (a/p/w), Billy Franey & Max Asher. PCSM Unidentified Joker Comedy w/ Gale Henry (a/p/w), Billy Franey, Max Asher & Lillian Peacock. PCSM Gale Henry (a/p/w), Billy Franey & Max Asher How Billy Got His Raise (1. PCSM Unidentified Joker Comedy w/ Boby Vernon, Heinie Conklin, Billy Franey, Gale Henry (a/p/w), & Lillian Peacock. PCSM Gale Henry (a/p/w), Billy Franey & Max Asher in episode Lady Baffles and Detective Duck series (1. PCSM Publicity shot Gale Henry (a/p/w). PCSM After growing up on a ranch in Bear Valley, California, Gale Henry began her stage career with the Temple Opera Company. In a 1. 92. 0 Photoplay article, “The Bear Facts About Gale Henry,” she said that her film career began in 1. I knew a girl who worked at Universal; she took me out there with her one morning, and I got a job. That’s all there is to it, except I remained there five years and was featured in two hundred comedies” (2. She was regularly employed in Universal’s Joker Comedies, a series set up in 1. Mack Sennett’s Keystone comedies. One motion picture from the series that survives, A Millionaire for a Minute (1. Max Asher as a bumpkin in love with schoolmarm Gale. Her old, Egyptologist uncle is against their marriage, but when Max gets an inheritance, they decide to elope. At the same time a pair of crooks breeze into town to fleece Max. When it turns out that his inheritance is Cleopatra’s ring, everyone leaves him in disgust except faithful Gale. The uncle finds out about the ring and is more than willing to trade Gale for it to provide a happy ending. Presented in an economical style, the slapstick grows logically out of the situations, and the acting is relatively subdued for a knockabout comedy. During her tenure at Universal Pictures, Gale Henry turned up in the studios’ other brands, such as Nestor and L- Ko, after their star comedienne Alice Howell moved to Century Comedies. In 1. 91. 5 Pat Powers produced the Lady Baffles and Detective Duck series, a spoof of cliff- hanger serials in eleven one- reel chapters, of which at least two are extant. Max Asher played inventor and master of disguise Detective Duck, who was hot on the heels of his nemesis, the mysterious crook, Lady Baffles (Gale). For this witty and surreal series Gale wrote many of the original stories, with chapter titles like “The Dread Society of the Sacred Sausage.” While she is only officially credited as author on a handful of other shorts, it is very likely that she continued contributing story ideas and developing her screen character, especially when she set up her own independent production company, the Model Comedy Company. Gale Henry left Universal in 1. Bruno J. Becker, started the Model Comedy Company. Their shorts were distributed by the Bulls Eye Corporation and were designed to exploit and showcase Henry’s talents. The extant two- reel The Detectress (1. Chinese gang lord’s plot to steal the plans for an invention that will enable diners to see what is in the chop suey they’re eating. A nonstop chase through the Chinatown maze of trapdoors and secret panels provides the climax, but in the end the story turns out to be Gale’s opium- induced dream. Another extant Model Film Company title, Her First Flame (1. Gale is running for the office of fire chief, and after she wins, the loser kidnaps Gale’s frilly boyfriend. When he spurns her advances, the rival ties him up in a burning house, but Gale saves the day in a last- minute rescue. It would be productive to investigate whether, under the guise of comedy, Henry had, in fact, greater freedom of movement than the popular lady detectives and cliff- hanger heroines whose films she spoofed and played on. In 1. 92. 0, when Bulls Eye merged and became part of the Reelcraft Pictures Corporation, Gale discontinued her series and was off the screen for a time. Through the 1. 92. Open All Night (1. Raymond Griffith, and Stranded (1. Hollywood bit player who takes young Shirley Mason under her wing and teaches her the ropes of working at the studios. When sound took over Hollywood, Gale made a swift transition, appearing in two features, The Love Doctor (1. Darkened Rooms (1. Charley Chase’s first Talkie The Big Squawk (1. Her precise, spinster- like voice was fine and suited to her established persona, but after an occasional short, again with Chase, she retired in 1. See Also: Marie Dressler, Helen Holmes, Alice Howell, Mabel Normand, Pearl White. Selected Bibliography“Comedienne Gale Henry is No Longer with Bulls Eye.” The Moving Picture World (1. Feb. 1. 92. 0): 1. Gale Henry Forms Company.” The Moving Picture World (1. Aug. 1. 91. 8): 8. Gale Henry is now L- KO Star.” The Moving Picture World (2. Jan. 1. 91. 8): 5. Webster, Dorothy Faith. Complete Project Bibliographies. Filmography. A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles: 1. Gale Henry as Story Writer and Actress. Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry. Dir.: Allen Curtis, st.: Gale Henry (Powers Film Co. US 1. 91. 5) cas.: Max Asher, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 1 reel. Archive: USW. Lady Baffles and Detective Duck - Episode One: The Great Egg Robbery. Dir.: Allen Curtis, st.: Gale Henry (Powers Film Co. US 1. 91. 5) cas.: Max Asher, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 1 reel. Gale Henry as Actress and Producer (Model Film Company) The Detectress. Prod.: Gale Henry, dir.: Bruno J. Becker (Model Comedy Co. US 1. 91. 9) cas.: Gale Henry, Milburne Morante, si, b& w, 2 reels, Archive: USF, ITG, USW. Her First Flame. Prod.: Gale Henry, dir.: Bruno J. Becker (Model Comedy Co. US 1. 91. 9) cas.: Gale Henry, Milburne Morante, si, b& w, 2 reels, Archives: USF, USR, USW. The Slavey. Prod.: Gale Henry, dir.: Unknown (Model Comedy Co. US 1. 91. 9) cas.: Gale Henry, Milburn Moranti, si, b& w, 2 reels. Gale Henry as Actress. Love Disguised. Dir.: Allen Curtis (Joker US 1. Louise Fazenda, Gale Henry, si, b& w,1 reel. Archive: USW. Fools and Pajamas. Dir.: Allen Curtis (Joker US 1. Louise Fazenda, Gale Henry, si,b& w, 1 reel. Archive: USM. A Millionaire for a Minute. Dir.: Allen Curtis (Joker US 1. Max Asher, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 1 reel. Archive: USW. The Inspector’s Double. Dir.: William Beaudine (Joker US 1. Gale Henry, Billy Franey, si, b& w, 1 reel. Archive: USW. Bashful Charley’s Proposal. Dir.: Allen Curtis (Joker US 1. Gale Henry, Billy Franey, si, b& w, 1 reel. Archive: NLA. A Burglar’s Bride. Dir.: Allen Curtis (Joker US 1. Gale Henry, Jack Dillon, si, b& w, 1 reel. Archive: GBB. Circus Sarah. Dir.: Allen Curtis (Joker US 1. Gale Henry, Milton Sims, si, b& w, 1 reel. Archive: GBB. Kitchinella. Dir.: Allen Curtis (Joker US 1. Gale Henry, Milton Sims, si, b& w, 1 reel. Archive: GBB. It’s a Cruel World. Dir.: Allen Curtis (Nestor US 1. Gale Henry, Billy Franey, si, b& w, 1 reel. Archive: GBB. Night Life in Hollywood. Dir.: Fred Caldwell (Maescher US 1. Gale Henry, J. Frank Glendon, si, b& w, 6 reels. Archive: USWThe Sheik of Hollywood. Dir.: Fred Caldwell (L. K. C. US 1. 92. 3) cas.: Gale Henry, Victor Potel, si, b& w, 2 reels, 1. Archive: USF, FRL. Open All Night. Dir.: Paul Bern (Paramount US 1. Viola Dana, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 6 reels. Archive: ITG, USR, USW, USL. Soup to Nuts. Dir.: William Watson (Christie Comedies US 1. Neal Burns, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 2 reels. Archive: USM, USL. His Wooden Wedding. Dir.: Leo Mc. Carey (Hal Roach US 1. Charley Chase, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 2 reels. Archive: USF, ITG, USW, USM, USL. All Tied Up. Dir.: George “Slim” Summerville ( Joe Rock Productions, US 1. Hilliard “Fatty” Karr, Frank “Kewpie” Ross, Frank D. Archive: USWMighty Like a Moose. Dir.: Leo Mc. Carey (Hal Roach US 1. Charley Chase, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 2 reels. Archive: GBB. Galloping Ghosts. Dir.: Ralph Cedar (Joe Rock US 1. Frank Alexander, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 2 reels. Dir.: Harry Sweet (Joe Rock US 1. Harry Sweet, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 2 reels, 1. Archive: Streamline Film Archives. The Vulgar Yachtsman. Dir.: Marcel Perez (Joe Rock US 1. Frank Alexander, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 2 reels. Archive: GBB. Two Time Mama. Dir.: Fred Guiol (Hal Roach US 1. Glen Tryon, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 2 reels. Archive: USM. One Mama Man. Dir.: James Parrott (Hal Roach US 1. Charley Chase, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 2 reels. Archive: ESM, USR, USW, USL. Stranded. Dir.: Phil Rosen (Sterling Pictures US 1. Shirley Mason, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 6 reels. Archives: USW. The Long Hose. Dir.: William Watson (Christie Comedies US 1. Jack Duffy, Gale Henry, si, b& w, 2 reels. Archive: FRL. The Big Squawk. Doane (Hal Roach US 1. Charley Chase, Gale Henry, sd, b& w, 2 reels. Filmography: Not Extant Titles: 1. Gale Henry as Story Writer and Actress. Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the 1. Helen Holmes – Women Film Pioneers Projectby Karen Ward Mahar. Helen Holmes became a star playing the part of the fearless railroad telegrapher “Helen” in the Kalem Company’s long- running, stunt- driven serial The Hazards of Helen (1. Not only were her films successful at the box office, but they featured some of the most heroic female images in silent cinema as she leapt to the top of speeding trains and handled pistols with ease. Did these images—at least some of them—originate with Holmes? Certainly Helen Holmes needs to be situated within a tradition that included the American branch of Path. Some would argue that Holmes carried on at Kalem in the tradition of Gene Gauntier, who had physically risked so much in the Girl Spy series. But Gene Gauntier ’s memoir gives far more information about how she wrote scenarios and set up stunts for her character while at Kalem. With few sources other than extant films and popular and trade magazine discourse, it is difficult to discern the exact role Helen Holmes played behind the camera. Helen Holmes (a/p/w/d/o) The Hazards of Helen (1. PCJYHelen Holmes (a/p/w/d/o). USWAdvertising slide Perils of the Rail (dir. Joseph Mc. Gowan, 1. Helen Holmes (a/p/w/d/o). PCJYHelen Holmes (a/p/w/d/o) publicity portrait. AMPASHolmes’s well- publicized status as the daughter of a railroad engineer implicitly suggests that she shaped the character of “Helen.” Holmes told Green Book in 1. The 1. 91. 5 Signal serial The Girl and the Game, which she coproduced with director- husband J. Mc. Gowan, was full of what she called “real thrilly action”: the intrepid “Helen” saves her boyfriend and father from a train wreck, saves the former again, this time from a burning locomotive, saves the railroad from financial ruin, recovers the payroll from thieves, saves her boyfriend and another male friend from another train wreck, rescues a male character from a lynching, captures more thieves, saves two men from a mine cave- in, recovers more stolen money, and uncouples a freight train to prevent a “terrible wreck.” All this she does in The Girl and the Game, according to the “Story to Date,” from extant Episode 1. Driving the Last Spike.” Contemporary audiences can see for themselves exactly how many thrilling chances the Helen character takes in Episode 1. Escape on a Fast Freight,” and Episode 2. The Wild Engine,” of The Hazards of Helen series, both available on DVD from the National Film Preservation Foundation. We have reason to believe that at least some of the breathtaking stunts were Holmes’s invention, as she told the New York Telegraph in 1. Frank Hamilton Spearman authored the script, she had to adapt his story to make “the thrills cascade throughout.” In an unpublished typescript from 1. Holmes, she is made to say that “the thrills are director Mc. Gowan’s inventions,” and that she followed his direction. This last account, although credited to Helen Holmes, was written by Terry Ramsaye, then the director of publicity for the Mutual Film Corporation, who would later write the earliest history of the American film industry, A Million and One Nights (Ramsaye 1. Holmes did appear physically able to execute her own stunts. In 1. 91. 7, the Moving Picture World reported that Holmes staged a head- on railroad collision for the California State Fair, jumping from a moving train to a moving car in front of a live audience (2. Holmes to “loop the loop” in an airplane over Broadway and 4. Street to promote The Fatal Fortune, a stunt “which will establish her as an . According to a later Moving Picture World account, the only serial produced under this arrangement, The Girl and the Game, grossed $2,2. When Mutual dissolved in 1. Signal. Mc. Gowan went back to Universal, but independent producer S. Krellberg created the S. L. K. Serial Corporation for Holmes and made a highbrow mystery serial, The Fatal Fortune (1. In 1. 91. 9, Holmes signed a contract with producers Harry and Albert Warner (of the not- yet- famous Warner Brothers) to make serials under the Helen Holmes Production Corporation, according to Variety in 1. However, the Warners made her first film, The Danger Trail (1. Ultimately Holmes herself loaned the Warners $5,0. The Tiger Band (1. Variety reported. With distribution agreements tied up in court, The Tiger Band was released on a states- rights basis with little advertising or promotion, and did not do well at the box office. The importance of advertising and distribution in the case of the serial queens cannot be emphasized enough, and could be dramatized by a comparison between the careers of Holmes and that of the more widely known Pearl White, whose international renown was made possible by French Path. Also, while Pearl White was safely ensconced at an established company, Helen Holmes, after leaving the Kalem Company, was buffeted around as an independent producer between 1. After The Tiger Band, Helen Holmes retired as a producer. She continued to act in character roles under the direction of Mc. Gowan. They divorced in the early- to- mid- 1. Holmes retired from the screen after marrying cowboy stuntman Lloyd Saunders in 1. She returned to Hollywood when their cattle business failed and played a small role in Poppy, a 1. W. Fields film (Carroll n. After working as a Hollywood animal trainer in 1. Star of . When Holmes died of a heart attack at age fifty- eight, Rose “Helen” Gibson, the actress- producer who replaced her on the Hazards of Helen after episode 4. Selected Bibliography. Burden, Alan. 1. 91. Carroll, Harrison. Helen Holmes biography file, AMPAS- SC. Duryea, Brian. 1. Helen Holmes Sues.” Variety (3 July 1. Helen Holmes clippings file, NYPL- BRTD.“Helen Holmes, the Money Getter.” Moving Picture World (1. Apr. 1. 91. 7): 2. Holmes, Helen. Helen Holmes clippings file, NYPL- BRTD.- -- -- -. Unpublished typescript. Helen Holmes clippings file, NYPL- BRTD. Lahue, Kalton C. 1. Mahar, Karen Ward. The Girls Who Play: The Short Film and the New Woman” in Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2. Paramount Publicity Department. Helen Holmes biography file, AMPAS- SC. Parsons, Louella. Helen Holmes biography file, AMPAS- SC. Sewell, C. S. NYPL- BRTD. Helen Holmes biography file. AMPAS- SC. Complete Project Bibliographies. Filmography. A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles: 1. Helen Holmes as Actress and Co- Producer The Girl and the Game chapters: Dir: J. Mc. Gowan, sc.: Frank H. Spearman (Signal Film Corporation US 1. Helen Holmes, J. Mc. Gowan, Leo Maloney, George Mc. Daniel. Chapt. 1, “Helen’s Race with Death,” si. A Dash Through the Flames,” si. A Fight for a Fortune,” si. Driving the Last Spike,” si. Archive: USWThe Manager of the B& A. Mc. Gowan (Signal Film Co. US 1. 91. 6) cas.: Helen Holmes, Leo D. Maloney, Thomas Lingham, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW. Lost Express chapters: Dir.: J. Mc. Gowan (Signal Film Co. US 1. 91. 7) cas.: Helen Holmes, Leo D. Maloney. The Railroad Raiders. Mc. Gowan (Signal Film Co. US 1. 91. 7) cas.: Helen Holmes, Thomas Lingham. Chapt. 1, “The Circumstantial Evidence,” si, b& w, 3. A Double Steal,” si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW, AUC. Whispering Smith. Mc. Gowan (Signal Film Co. US 1. 91. 7) cas.: Helen Holmes, Thomas Lingham, si, b& w, 3. Helen Holmes as Actress, Director and Screenwriter. The Hazards of Helen chapters: Dir: J. Mc. Gowan, Leo Maloney, Helen Holmes, sc.: J. Mc. Gowan, Helen Holmes (Kalem US 1. Helen Holmes, Leo Maloney. Chapt. 3, “The Girl at the Throttle,” si., b& w, 1 reel. Leap From the Water Tower,” si., b& w, 1 reel. Archive: GBB, USR, USW, USF. Chapt. 1. 3, “Escape on a Fast Freight,” si., b& w, 1 reel. Archive: USF, USW, USL. Chapt. 2. 0, “The Girl at Lone Point,” si., b& w, 1 reel. The Wild Engine,” si., b& w, 1 reel. Archive: USR, USW, USF. Unidentified Episode, si, b& w. Helen Holmes as Actress. Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life. Dir.: Mack Sennett (Mutual Film Corporation US 1. Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, Helen Holmes, si, b& w, 3. Archive: GBT, ITG, URS, USW, USM, CAO, USL, USF, USB, AUC. The Flying Switch. Mc. Gowan (Kalem US 1. Helen Holmes, G. Williams, si, b& w. Archive: GBB. Hide and Seek. Archive: USW, FRL. The Smuggler’s Last Deal. Archive: GBB. The Car of Death. Mc. Gowan (Kalem US 1. Helen Holmes, Hart Hoxie, si, b& w. Archive: USR. Demon of the Rails. Mc. Gowan (Kalem US 1. Helen Holmes, J. Mc. Gowan, Charles Wells, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW, CAO. Grouch, The Engineer. Mc. Gowan (Kalem US 1. Helen Holmes, J. Mc. Gowan, si, b& w, 3. Archive: GBB. The Lost Mail Sack. Mc. Gowan (Kalem US 1. Helen Holmes, J. Mc. Gowan, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USR. A String of Pearls. Mc. Gowan (Kalem US 1. Helen Holmes, William Brunton, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USR. The Fatal Fortune chapters: Dir.: Donald Mac. Kenzie (S. US 1. 91. Helen Holmes, Jack Levering, Frank Wonderlee. Chapt. 1. 4, “The Hidden Treasure,” si, b& w, 3. Archive: USR. Fighting Fury. Dir.: Clifford Smith (Universal Pictures US 1. Jack Hoxie, Helen Holmes, Fred Kohler, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW. Outwitted. Mc. Gowan (Independent Pictures US 1. Helen Holmes, William Desmond, J. Mc. Gowan, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW, GBB. Barriers of the Law. Mc. Gowan (Independent Pictures US 1. Helen Holmes, William Desmond, J. Mc. Gowan, si, b& w, 3. Archive: NLA, USL, USR. Blood and Steel. Mc. Gowan (Independent Pictures US 1. Helen Holmes, William Desmond, Robert Edeson, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW. Crossed Signals. Schlank Productions US 1. Helen Holmes, Henry Victor, Georgie Chapman, si, b& w. Archive: FRB, USW. The Lost Express. Schlank Productions US 1. Helen Holmes, Jack Mower, Henry Barrows, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW, USF, USB. Mistaken Orders. Mc. Gowan (Larry Wheeler Productions US 1. Helen Holmes, Henry Barrows, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW, USF, GBB. The Open Switch. Mc. Gowan (Larry Wheeler Productions US 1. Charles Whittaker, Mack V. Wright, Helen Holmes, si, b& w. Archive: USWWebs of Steel. Schlank Productions US 1. Helen Holmes, Andrew Waldron, si, b& w, 3.
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