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Fred Niblo (January 6, 1874 – November 11, 1948) was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer. Niblo was born Frederick Liedtke (several sources give "Frederico Nobile", apparently erroneously) in York, Nebraska, to a French mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. Using the stage name, Fred Niblo, Liedtke began his show business career performing in vaudeville and in live theater. After more than twenty years doing live performing as a monologist, during which he traveled extensively around the globe, he worked in Australia from 1912 through 1915, where he turned to the burgeoning motion picture industry and made his first two films.
As a Hollywood director, he is most remembered for several notable films beginning with his 1920 work The Mark of Zorro which starred Douglas Fairbanks. The following year he teamed up with Fairbanks again in The Three Musketeers and then directed Rudolph Valentino in Blood and Sand.
In 1924, Niblo directed the film Thy Name Is Woman. In 1925, Niblo was the principal director of the epic Ben-Hur that was one of the most expensive films of the day but became the third highest-grossing silent film in cinema history. Niblo followed up on this success with two major 1926 works, The Temptress starring Greta Garbo in her second film in America, and Norma Talmadge in Camille. Niblo went on to direct some of the greatest stars of the era including Joan Crawford, Lillian Gish, and Ronald Colman. In 1930 he directed his first talkie with two of the biggest names in show business, John Gilbert and Renée Adorée in a film titled Redemption.
Fred Niblo retired in 1933 after more than forty years in show business. The last sixteen years were used to make more than forty films, most of which were feature length projects. He was an important personality in the early years of Hollywood and was one of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In recognition of his role in the development of the film industry, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7014 Hollywood Boulevard on February 8, 1960. His Ben-Hur film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Fred Niblo died in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery near his wife Enid Bennett in Glendale, California. His son with Josephine Cohan, Fred Niblo, Jr. (1903–1973) was a successful Hollywood screenwriter.
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04 February 1924
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
23 March 1928
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman).
10 September 1923
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement.
05 April 1930
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée.
05 December 1919
Betsy Thorne (Bennett) travels to investigate a missing man where she overhears a conversation between the sheriff and an imported detective that reporters are barred from the house and grounds where the mystery has taken place.
30 November 1940
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
22 March 1930
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood.
28 September 1924
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
18 April 1920
Roger Moran, a member of a gang of thieves headed by Mike Wilson, is released from prison after having served a two-year sentence.
23 January 1941
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
22 October 1922
Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through education by Reverend Charles Alden.
22 March 1919
Agnes Cuyler, a cabaret singer in New York who loathes her work, is fired for slapping Grant Haywood, a customer from the West who tries to kiss her.
11 January 1920
Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.
22 April 1923
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
08 October 1943
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel.
01 January 1927
The vast majority of the commercial films made by Kinugasa in the 1920s have, like almost all Japanese films of the period, been lost.
04 September 1931
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
03 November 1927
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with.
19 February 1923
A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes..
02 August 1930
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch.
17 July 1921
Grace Merrill works as a shill in a gambling hall. Her five roommates are even less honestly employed.
25 December 1925
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite.
09 April 1925
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
07 July 1930
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
01 December 1928
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne.
26 August 1918
Pretty young Nell Bradley is the daughter of a saloonkeeper in a "dry" town, and is looked down upon by townspeople, but Rev.
01 August 1920
A young attorney hopes to better his position in the business world by making a favorable impression socially.
20 September 1940
Hollywood stuntman falls in love with a big name actress but still wants to pursue his risky career. The women gives him a choice-the stunts or her.
01 March 1932
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
05 December 1920
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro.
09 April 1922
A rich man's son marries an artist's model, and is then disinherited by his father. Despite their cil
26 August 1918
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brute.
08 December 1927
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted.
27 November 1942
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
25 May 1929
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
04 August 1928
A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger.
17 August 1932
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
29 March 1920
A Broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect.
24 August 1920
An episode of the Screen Snapshots newsreels, showing seven segments of filmmakers behind the scenes.
01 December 1918
An uneducated young girl becomes suddenly wealthy and hires the disinherited son of an upper-class family to tutor her in the ways of society.
17 December 1919
Idealistic young American falls under the influence of Communist agitators.
21 September 1919
A young wife slaves for her cad of a husband. When she learns that he has been "stepping out" with his secretary, she gets revenge by going after the attentions of her husband's employer.
28 August 1921
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
01 July 1922
Tells of a waif from the sea, who on the death of her guardian and protector, is forced to make her own way in New York.
08 September 1924
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society.
06 October 1922
Silent directed by Victor Schertzinger
29 May 1913
An amusing burlesque of gang fighters. The police go after them, one by one, and each guardian of the peace is caught and despoiled of his clothing and compelled to return to the station.
03 October 1926
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
26 December 1920
In a prologue, as a woman pages through a book, male figures, including a musketeer, a cowboy, a swordsman and a military officer, appear and bow.
04 September 1927
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
23 February 1919
A woman's faith in her husband is put to the test when she discovers a photograph of another woman.
06 June 1931
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
05 August 1922
Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador.
14 November 1920
Princeton Hadley feels obligated to pay alimony to Judith, the widow of his deceased friend Billy Westover, due to favors Billy had done for him in the past, even though the law doesn't require it.
13 October 1918
Impersonating Little Eva in a third-rate travelling production of Uncle Tom's Cabin fails to earn Nora enough for a square daily meal, and to make thing worse, her stage career comes to a sudden end when the sheriff arrives with a writ of seizure.
10 August 1919
A girl tries to save her brother from prosecution after he steals some money from his employer. She goes to work for the employer, who tries to take advantage of her.
27 April 1919
A sculptress is taken under the wing of an art patron, who is murdered.
09 November 1919
Because Amy Fortesque's dying grandfather advises her to get all the joys out of life, she marries Dick Gaylord because he is funny, rather than Walter Melrose, a staid young lawyer who loves her.
