Viola Lawrence Trailers
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Viola Mallory Lawrence (December 2, 1894, New York – November 20, 1973) is considered by many to be the first woman film editor in Hollywood. She was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing: for Pal Joey (1957), with Jerome Thoms; and for Pepe (1960), with Al Clark.
She began working at Vitagraph Studios in Flatbush, Brooklyn as a messenger at the age of 11. At 12, she was holding title cards. In 1915, she became the second female film cutter in cinema history, after Anna McKnight, who also worked at Vitagraph. She married Frank Lawrence, her film cutting teacher at Vitagraph.
In 1917, she moved to Hollywood and worked for Universal, First National, Gloria Swanson Productions and Columbia Pictures at various times. She became Columbia's "head editor" or "supervising editor" in 1925. After director Erich von Stroheim was fired from the production of Queen Kelly (1929), star Gloria Swanson herself directed an alternate ending, with the help of cinematographer Gregg Toland and Lawrence. Lawrence edited Samuel Goldwyn Studio's first sound film, Bulldog Drummond (1929). She rejoined Columbia in 1934 and remained there for the rest of her long career, ending with Pepe (1960).
Orson Welles biographer Charles Higham wrote that, when Lawrence was assigned to The Lady from Shanghai (1947), she reported to studio boss Harry Cohn that "the footage was a jumbled mess". She also informed Cohn that Welles "had not shot a single close-up"; Welles reluctantly obeyed orders to add some. Following poorly received previews, the studio had Lawrence make drastic cuts, over an hour of footage, shortening the film to 87 minutes.
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Total trailers found: 79
23 March 1928
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman).
20 July 1939
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings.
25 October 1957
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
23 December 1953
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
25 April 1940
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
29 November 1945
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie.
24 January 1937
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris.
24 December 1950
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
21 December 1918
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers.
05 February 1938
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
22 June 1929
This film was released in both silent and sound versions.
25 October 1935
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity.
02 December 1949
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
02 April 1954
Joe Branch, reputed to be the son of Jesse James, comes riding into Coffeyville Kansas, looking for proof one way or the other regarding the question of who his father was.
12 September 1930
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
27 November 1937
Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which prompts Toni to seek retribution in divorce court.
24 March 1953
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias.
15 May 1952
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret.
11 June 1942
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways.
24 December 1938
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store.
13 June 1951
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
26 October 1949
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
06 October 1937
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune.
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.
17 May 1950
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
28 June 1935
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
22 December 1948
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
14 October 1926
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
15 August 1926
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris, one again and the other newly-crowned.
15 May 1939
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
27 March 1920
Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl.
22 March 1944
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
24 December 1947
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
30 July 1944
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman.
22 February 1935
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him.
27 September 1940
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
19 March 1955
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster.
21 December 1960
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss.
24 September 1942
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage.
07 November 1955
A wicked Southern woman ruthlessly manipulates her family.
22 February 1949
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
07 August 1941
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body.
20 April 1938
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job.
20 November 1933
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
02 November 1950
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
08 April 1960
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent.
29 July 1952
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
02 May 1929
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life.
22 October 1941
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
03 May 1954
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
27 May 1936
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
17 November 1928
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1.
02 May 1956
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
02 August 1957
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
21 October 1919
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
21 August 1947
Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.
24 February 1955
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II.
12 October 1948
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
31 December 1929
In Kronberg, Ruritania, the planned wedding of Queen Regina and Prince Wolfram is disrupted when the prince falls in love with Patricia Kelly, a beautiful orphan at the convent.
