Julanne Johnston
Also Known As: Julanne Johnson, Juliane Johnston, Julianne Johnston, Julianne Johnstone, Julanne Rust
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Julanne Johnston (May 1, 1900 - December 26, 1988) was an American silent film actress born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Johnston is known for being on William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida during the weekend in November 1924 when film director and producer Thomas Ince later died of heart failure. She was also the female lead in the Douglas Fairbanks film The Thief of Bagdad, with Anna May Wong, that same year. She died in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, at the age of 88. Her remains were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julanne Johnston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Birthday: April 30, 1900
Deathday: December 26, 1988
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Gender: Female
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The Big Parade
Overview: The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-05
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The Thief of Bagdad
Overview: A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
Genres: Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-18
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Better Times
Overview: Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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Golden Dawn
Overview: Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Good Time Charley
Overview: Song-and-dance man Charles Edward Keene (Good Time Charley) is bereft when his wife, Elaine, dies as a result of a fall incurred trying to evade the advances of Hartwell, her manager. Years later, his daughter, Rosita, becomes an overnight sensation as a result of her cafe act under Hartwell's management, and Charley is given a bit part in the show at her request.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-05
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The Young Rajah
Overview: A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-11
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The Younger Generation
Overview: Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-04
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Aloma of the South Seas
Overview: A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-15
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Strictly Modern
Overview: Strictly Modern is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Dorothy Mackaill and Sidney Blackmer. A lady novelist falls deeply in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-02
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Twinkletoes
Overview: "Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck, whose wife, Cissie, is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful. Meanwhile, Twink has secured a job in a singing-dancing act in a Limehouse theater, under the auspices of Roseleaf, who has more than just a protective interest in the girl. The jealous Cissie discovers that Twink's sign-painting father also has a night job as a burglar, and she turns him into the police. While a big success dancing on the stage, the arrest of her father has left her somewhat down in the dumps, and she decides to toss herself into the Thames. Possibly, the now-free Chuck, since Cissie has been killed in an accident, might come along and rescue her.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-28
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The Prude's Fall
Overview: A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-23
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Her Wild Oat
Overview: In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, who is pretending to be his own chauffeur. With her savings, she pursues him to a resort hotel, only to be mistaken for a duchess. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Národní filmový archív in 2007.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-25
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Prisoners
Overview: Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief. When she is caught in the act, a young lawyer offers to defend her. Unfortunately, he loses the case, causing her to spend several months in jail. Fortunately, the two have fallen in love, and he promises to wait for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-18
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Madam Satan
Overview: A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
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The Brass Bottle
Overview: Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom. Horace accepts the genie's offer but finds out that things aren't working out quite as well as he thought they would.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-22
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Die Stadt der Versuchung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-04-08
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Oh Kay!
Overview: On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-26
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Venus of Venice
Overview: A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-20
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Fickle Women
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-09
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Big Pal
Overview: A judge's daughter spurns his wealthy lifestyle and goes to do social work in poorer neighborhoods. There she meets a boxer contending for a championship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-29
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Garragan
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-10-20
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Miss Hobbs
Overview: She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brutes. But love has a way of smashing such an idea. Then she went in for barefoot dancing, futurist art and other advanced notions. Well, the upshot of it was the young man took upon himself to tame her, to make her a regular girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-19
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Seeing It Through
Overview: Swindled out of her small property by crooked money lender Bogrum, Betty Lawrence turns to large estate owner and old friend Jim Carrington. On a tip supplied by Bolter, Bogrum's secretary, Jim investigates and after Bogrum's crooked dealings are exposed, and he is imprisoned, Betty and Carrington join their property through matrimony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Whip Woman
Overview: A different kind of a story about a different kind of a girl---a modern, young cavewoman who whipped her way into the heart of a man who wanted to forget about love!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-05
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The Scarlet Empress
Overview: During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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Smiling Irish Eyes
Overview: A 1929 film directed by William A. Seiter.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-22
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Name the Woman
Overview: Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Anita Stewart, Huntley Gordon, Gaston Glass, Chappell Dossett.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-25
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The Olympic Hero
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-15
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