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Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939 [1]) was an American silent film director and actor. Biography. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the grandson of Wendell Phillips; he was the son of George Washburn Smalley, a war correspondent, and his wife Phoebe Garnaut, adopted by Phillips.
Phillips Smalley was born on 7 August 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917), The Merchant of Venice (1914) and Captain Courtesy (1915).
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- Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- Hollywood, California, USA
Phillips Smalley is known as an Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Other, Adaptation, and Scenario Writer. Some of his work includes Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Make Way for Tomorrow, How Men Propose, Murders in the Zoo, Too Wise Wives, The Thirteenth Guest, The Greeks Had a Word for Them, and Cameo Kirby.
Directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley • 1916 • United States Starring Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Laura Oakley. Two trailblazing women artists—filmmaker Lois Weber and Russian ballet superstar Anna Pavlova—joined forces to create this long-unseen landmark of silent cinema, the first blockbuster ever directed by a woman.
Jul 19, 2018 · She was soon joined in the film business by her husband, Phillips Smalley, a lawyer turned actor, and they became a producing team.
Phillips Smalley was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Smalley's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "Flaming Youth" (1923), "The Fate of a...
It's a 30 second black and white short, called in actuality a brief recording of an event. 20 years into the future in 1913 you begin to see the dawn of the narrative film with the film Suspense directed by Lois Weber and Philips Smalley.
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- The Museum of Modern Art
