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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Uncontacted Jawara women at Andaman islands
The tribes of the Andaman Islands, the Jarawa, Great Andamanese, Onge and Sentinelese are believed to have lived in their Indian Ocean home for up to 55,000 years.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Old Public Domain Movies are Starting to Pay Big Dollars for Independent Internet Television Streaming
WOODLAND CA (IFS) -- It's been no secret to streaming movie collectors that were collecting as many of the Public Domain Movies. The answer is that -- no shortage of digital celluloid as the hundred of thousands of film makers across the planet continues to crank them out for free downloads and streaming.
The number of independent television stations on Roku have increased from a handful to several hundred within a couple of years. Many of these television stations have collected and stored many of the finest films every made, including many early westerns and classic romance movies that had nothing to do with what the world is all about today.
Youtube is starting to charge for streaming hundreds of westerns videos that were free to watch earlier. The names of the movies in the "public demand" with a price of $2.99 per play in the United States.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Sally Payne
Overview (3)
| Date of Birth | 5 September 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Death | 8 May 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA (stroke) |
| Height | 5' (1.52 m) |
Mini Bio (1)
Sally Payne was born on September 5, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Rodeo Dough (1940), Jesse James at Bay (1941) and Young Bill Hickok (1940). She was married to Arthur F. Kelly and William Telaak. She died on May 8, 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Spouse (2)
| Arthur F. Kelly | (1942 - 8 May 1999) (her death) |
| William Telaak | (? - 1941) (divorced) |
Trivia (4)
Sally left film in the early 1940's to marry her current husband, Arthur F. Kelly who was president of Western Airlines in the 1970's. His claim to fame is in creating "Wally"...the "Only Way to Fly" bird!
They have two sons and three grandchildren.
Ran a small bookstore in Bel Air called "The Bookworm". She and her son Jim, were both creators in several children's books.
Starred in westerns for Republic and in comedy shorts for MGM and RKO.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Beryl Mercer
Beryl Mercer was born to British parents in Seville on 13 August 1882. Her father was Edward Sheppard Mercer, said to be Spanish despite his name, and her mother was the actress Beryl Montague. She became a child actor, making her debut on 14 August 1886 at the Theatre Royal, Yarmouth, when she was four. She returned to the stage when she was ten.
In London she appeared in The Darling of the Gods and the production by Oscar Asche of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1906 she appeared as a Kaffir slave in the West End play The Shulamite. She traveled with this play to the USA, where she received good reviews.
In London she appeared in The Darling of the Gods and the production by Oscar Asche of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1906 she appeared as a Kaffir slave in the West End play The Shulamite. She traveled with this play to the USA, where she received good reviews.
Mercer was best known as a film actress for her motherly roles. She regularly appeared as a grandmother or cook or maid in some high profile films. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1916 and 1939 but her career was at a peak in the 1930s when she regularly appeared in between five and ten films a year.[citation needed] Mercer appeared in Cavalcade (1933) as a cook, and in Jane Eyre, The Little Minister, and The Richest Girl in the World (all 1934). She was in two talkie versions of Three Live Ghosts (1929 and 1935) and The Little Princess (1939) as Queen Victoria.
Marriages, Death
Mercer was married to one Maitland Paisley early in her life. Her only other marriage was much later in the late 1920s briefly to actor Holmes Herbert. She had one child, Joan Mercer, later Bitting, born on September 16, 1917.
| Date of Birth | 13 August 1876, Surrey, England, UK |
| Date of Death | 28 July 1939, Santa Monica, California, USA (following surgery) |
| Height | 4' 11" (1.5 m) |
Mini Bio (1)
Too short to be a leading lady, Beryl Mercer had a very active and productive career playing motherly characters. She had played opposite of great leading men like Colin Clive, Robert Montgomery, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Leslie Howard, Spencer Tracy, and Randolph Scott. Beryl played Queen Victoria in The Little Princess (1939) and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939).
She and Holmes Herbert had a daughter, Joan.
She and Holmes Herbert had a daughter, Joan.
Spouse (2)
| Maitland Stewart Sabine Pasley | (1896 - ?) (divorced) (1 child) |
| Holmes Herbert | (? - ?) (1 child) |
Trivia (6)
She appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Cavalcade (1933).
She played Queen Victoria in two unrelated films released in 1939: The Little Princess(1939) and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939).
Received a medal for entertaining British troops during World War I.
Her father, Sheppard Mercer, was a diplomat and her mother, Beryl Montague, was an English concert singer.
Early in her career, played boys in several stage productions.
Made her first stage appearance when she was four years old.
Mercer died in Santa Monica, California in 1939 aged either 56 or 62, following surgery for an undisclosed ailment.
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