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Carmelita Geraghty (March 21, 1901, Rushville, Indiana – July 7, 1966, Manhattan) was an American silent-film actress and painter.
The daughter of screenwriter Tom Geraghty, she was the sister of writers Maurice and Gerald Geraghty. Although born in Indiana she was educated mostly in New York City. She went on to be a graduate of the Hollywood High School and was in the graduating class of 1919. Though her parents wished her to stay at home, she went off to become a movie star. Her father was slow to approve of his daughter's new employment. Geraghty achieved a measure of success as a Mack Sennett featured player.
She started work out as an extra in the early 1920s, using a fictitious name until getting her big break. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1924. She soon became a leading actress, including a co-starring role with Virginia Valli in The Pleasure Garden (1925), the first film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She played golfer Jordan Baker in the first film version (1926) of The Great Gatsby.
Thelma Hill (December 12, 1906 – May 11, 1938) was an American silent screen comedian and Sennett Bathing Beauties.
Born Thelma Floy Hillerman in Emporia, Kansas, she was one of the few Sennett Bathing Beauties to make it into featured roles. Hill was widely known as the "mah jongg bathing girl" because of the mah jongg bathing suit she was photographed in.
After her parents divorced Thelma moved to California where her mother opened a cafe down the road from the Sennett studios. She was discovered by Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle when she was serving him and dropped soup in his lap. Arbuckle introduced her to Mack Sennett who made her one of his bathing beauties. In a 1924 article Sennett declared she was the "ideal bathing beauty of her time".
She made her film debut as a bathing girl in the 1924 comedy short Picking Peaches. She would appear in more than 100 films during her career mostly for the Sennett and Hal Roach studios. She was featured with Ralph Graves in a series of two-reel comedies that were made for Sennett on Glendale Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. As she became older, Hill began to double for Mabel Normand.
The Corner is a 2000 HBO drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) by David Simon and Ed Burns, and adapted for television by Simon and David Mills. It premiered on premium cable network HBO in the United States on April 16, 2000 and concluded its six-part run on May 21, 2000. The series was released on DVD on July 22, 2003. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries in 2000.
The Corner chronicles the life of a family living in poverty amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. "The corner" is the junction of West Fayette Street and North Monroe Street (U.S. Route 1) (39°17′22″N 76°38′49″W / 39.289372°N 76.646848°W / 39.289372; -76.646848).
Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American director and actor and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy". His short Wrestling Swordfish was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.
Born Michael Sinnott in Richmond Ste-Bibiane Parish, Quebec, Canada, he was the son of Irish Catholic John Sinnott and Catherine Foy, married 1879 in Tingwick St-Patrice Parish (Québec). The newlyweds moved the same year to Richmond, where John Sinnott was hired as a laborer. By 1883, when Michael's brother George was born, John Sinnott was working in Richmond as an innkeeper; he worked as an innkeeper for many years afterward. John Sinnott and Catherine Foy had all their children and raised their family in Richmond, then a small Eastern Townships village. At that time, Michael's grandparents were living in Danville, Québec. When he was 17, Michael Sinnott moved to Connecticut.
On the Corner is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, recorded in June and July 1972 and released later that year on Columbia Records. Owing to its unconventional sound, it was scorned by established jazz critics at the time of its release and was one of Davis's worst-selling recordings. Its critical standing has improved dramatically with the passage of time; In 2014, Stereogum ranked it as Davis's best album, while in 2007 BBC Music noted its influence and foreshadowing of a variety of subsequent musical genres.
Joining previous multi-disc Davis reissues, On the Corner was reissued as part of the 6-disc box set The Complete On the Corner Sessions in 2007.
Davis claimed that On the Corner was an attempt at reconnecting with the young African American audience which had largely forsaken jazz for such groove-based idioms as soul, funk and rock. Much to his chagrin, the album's commercial success was as limited as that of other albums since Bitches Brew, topping the Billboard jazz chart but only peaking at #156 in the more heterogeneous Billboard 200. In addition to the discernible rock and funk influence on the album, it also represented a culmination-of-sorts of the proto-electronic editing approach that Davis and producer Teo Macero had begun to explore in the late 1960s.
Thelma Hill and Carmelita Geraghty in a funny (and shocking) scene from Mack Sennett's 1929 silent comedy Clunked On The Corner ~ You can learn more about Thelma at http://www.thelmahill.net
Mack Sennett's 1929 silent comedy short Clunked On The Corner starring Johnny Burke, Carmelita Geraghty, Thelma Hill, and Vernon Dent ~ You can learn more about Thelma at http://www.thelmahill.net
Paris Bound (1929) Movie Ann Harding, Fredric March, Carmelita Geraghty
Novo canal alternativo: https://goo.gl/3Yoaa6 -Acione a legenda no ícone à esquerda do ajuste de resolução- Título Original: The Pleasure Garden. Gênero: Drama, Romance. País: Reino Unido, Alemanha. Estrelas: Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander. Direção: Alfred Hitchcock. Sinopse: Patsy Brand (Virginia Valli), que dança em um teatro chamado "Pleasure Garden", se casa com o rico Levett (Miles Mander), e acaba por conhecer a namorada de um amigo dele, a Jill (Carmelita Geraghty). Ela arranja para a nova amiga um trabalho no teatro, e logo as duas ficam sozinhas em Londres, porque os homens tiveram que ir para as colônias tropicais da Inglaterra. Não demora muito para Jill esquecer o namorado e começar a viver um outro tipo de vida.
Jeanette Loff, Ken Maynard, Carmelita Geraghty, and Wallace McDonald in the 1930 western Fighting Thru. Also known as California In 1978 (this movie is public domain) - Learn more about Jeanette at http://www.jeanetteloff.com
Stars: Myrna Loy, Walter Miller, Carmelita Geraghty Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet A notorious Robin Hood like bandito falls for an Argentine singer (Myrna Loy) despite his belief that women bring much bad luck!
Production Companies * Gainsborough Pictures * Münchner Lichtspielkunst AG (Emelka) Distributors * Wardour Films (UK) * Aymon Independent (1926) (USA) Virginia Valli ... Patsy Brand Carmelita Geraghty ... Jill Cheyne Miles Mander ... Levett John Stuart ... Hugh Fielding Ferdinand Martini ... Mr. Sidey (as Ferd Martini) Florence Helminger ... Mrs. Sidey Georg H. Schnell ... Oscar Hamilton (as George Snell) Karl Falkenberg ... Prince Ivan (as C. Falkenberg)
SMITH'S UNCLE starring Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt, Andy Clyde, Mary Ann Jackson, Bud Jamison and Carmelita Geraghty. Released in 1926, this was the fifth in the Smith Family series of comedies. This is a Standard 8mm Kodascope print.