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Director - leading lady matrimonial unions
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:15 am
by Arndt
Having watched a couple of Rex Ingram films with Alice Terry recently it has struck me that the silent era had quite a few successful marital unions of a director and his leading lady. Off the cuff I could think of the following ones:
Rex Ingram + Alice Terry
Urban Gad + Asta Nielsen
Paul Czinner + Elisabeth Bergner
Paul Wegener + Lyda Salmonova
Joe May + Mia May
King Vidor + Florence Vidor
King Vidor + Eleanor Boardman
Any more?
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:19 am
by drednm
James Cruze + Betty Compson
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:47 am
by FrankFay
Louise Brooks + Edward Sutherland (but not exactly a successful marriage)
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:43 am
by drednm
Linda Arvidson + DW Griffith
Director leading lady
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:39 am
by moviepas
In Australia we should have had the union by marriage of pioneer director Raymond Longford & his leading lady Lottie Lyell. However, Mrs Longford would not allow a divorce until she knew that Lottie Lyell was about to die from TB in in 1925(Dec 21 1925). Lyell also started taking a full interest in Longford's films as well as acting with scripts and directing. She was c35 when she died. Longford did little after this and ended as a night watchman on the Sydney docks in old age and is buried with or beside Lyell. Little of Lyell's work as an actress survives today. Born in Sept 1878, Longford died in 1959.
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:40 am
by Bruce Long
Raoul Walsh + Miriam Cooper
Fred Niblo + Enid Bennett
Robert Z. Leonard + Mae Murray
Marshall Neilan + Blanche Sweet
James Cruze + Betty Compson
William Seiter + Laura La Plante
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:53 am
by Harold Aherne
Hugo Ballin & Mabel Ballin
John Collins & Viola Dana
Alan Crosland & Elaine Hammerstein
Allan Dwan & Pauline Bush
-Harold
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:56 am
by drednm
Anatole Litvak + Miriam Hopkins
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:11 am
by Mike Gebert
Nobody thought of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey?
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:27 am
by Rodney
Mike Gebert wrote:Nobody thought of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey?
He said "succesful marital unions."
(But you're right -- they successfully got married, at least).
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:35 am
by drednm
Marshall Neilan + Blanche Sweet
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:36 am
by radiotelefonia
María Turgenova - José A. Ferreyra
Nelo Cosimi - Chita Foras
Delia Garcés - Alberto De Zavalía
Mirtha Legrand - Daniel Tinayre
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:00 am
by silentfilm
Rodney wrote:Mike Gebert wrote:Nobody thought of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey?
He said "successful marital unions."
(But you're right -- they successfully got married, at least).
Well a lot of these other unions didn't last either...
King Vidor + Florence Vidor
King Vidor + Eleanor Boardman
Linda Arvidson + DW Griffith
Louise Brooks + Edward Sutherland
Robert Z. Leonard + Mae Murray
Marshall Neilan + Blanche Sweet
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:28 am
by Brent Walker
Not sure if the "successful" refers to the marriage itself or the film collaboration (the former seems rarer than the latter in show biz), but here are some others:
Howard Hickman - Bessie Barriscale
Dick Smith - Alice Howell
Wilfred Lucas - Bess Meredyth (early as an actress, later as writer)
Noel Mason Smith - Louise Fazenda (albeit brief)
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:52 am
by Arndt
Brent Walker wrote:Not sure if the "successful" refers to the marriage itself or the film collaboration (the former seems rarer than the latter in show biz), but here are some others:
I meant "successful" at the box office, not at the registrar's office.
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:45 pm
by drednm
how about Buster Keaton + Natalie Talmadge.....
Re: Director - leading lady matrimonial unions
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:35 pm
by Chris Snowden
Larry Semon + Dorothy Dwan
J. P. McGowan + Helen Holmes
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:40 pm
by boblipton
Well, so long as it's BO success, how about
Raoul Walsh and Miriam Hopkins
Robert Z. Leonard and Mae Murray
Georges Melies and Jeanne D'Alcy
Bob
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:33 pm
by spadeneal
George Albert Smith and Mrs. George Albert Smith.
Doesn't the poor lady have a first name?
spadeneal
director's lading lady
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:41 pm
by moviepas
Mrs George Albert Smith: Laura Bayley but is this her real name or not????
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:51 pm
by spadeneal
Indeed, if you search imdb on "Laura Bayley" the page defaults to:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809419/
spadeneal
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:11 pm
by Daniel Eagan
Andre De Toth + Veronica Lake
a marriage that evidently pleased neither
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:52 pm
by PhilipS
Moving to England, Henry Edwards and Chrissie White.
Not silent era but Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle had successful on- and off-screen unions.
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:53 am
by Brent Walker
spadeneal wrote:George Albert Smith and Mrs. George Albert Smith.
Doesn't the poor lady have a first name?
spadeneal
I'm glad you reminded me:
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew
Mr. and Mrs. Carter DeHaven
Harry Myers - Rosemary Theby
(although in the case of the Drews, Mrs. Drew co-directed as well)
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:14 am
by greta de groat
boblipton wrote:
Raoul Walsh and Miriam Hopkins
Miriam Cooper, i think?
greta
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:29 pm
by greta de groat
James Young and Clara Kimball Young
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:50 pm
by spadeneal
Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley (both actors/directors)
Herbert Blaché & Alice Guy Blaché (both directors; founded Solax where the Smalleys worked for them)
Jean Renoir & Catherine Hessling
Dmitri Kirsanoff & Nadia Sibirskaïa
in the sound period:
Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub (directors)
John and Faith Hubley (directors)
spadeneal
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:38 pm
by missdupont
Eddie Sutherland and Marjorie Daw
Clarence Brown and Alice Joyce
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:14 am
by Daniel Eagan
Merian C. Cooper + Dorothy Jordan
Although she did not have much of an acting career, she is the first person you see in The Searchers.