Jane Shore (1915 film)
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Jane Shore is a 1915 British
silent
historical film directed by Bert Haldane
and F. Martin Thornton and starring Blanche Forsythe
, Roy Travers
and Robert Purdie. It is an adaptation of the 1714 play The Tragedy of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe and is based on the life of Jane Shore
, the mistress of Edward IV.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
historical film directed by Bert Haldane
Bert Haldane
-Selected filmography:* Tommy Atkins * Beneath the Mask * By the Shortest of Heads * Brigadier Gerard * The Romance of Lady Hamilton * The Winding Road -External links:...
and F. Martin Thornton and starring Blanche Forsythe
Blanche Forsythe
-Selected filmography:* Sixty Years a Queen * Jane Shore * Tommy Atkins * Brigadier Gerard * Trapped by the London Sharks * A Just Deception -External links:...
, Roy Travers
Roy Travers
-Selected filmography:* The Man Who Bought London * A Romance of Old Baghdad * The House of Peril * The Hypocrites * Q Ships * Romany Love * Kiss Me Sergeant -External links:...
and Robert Purdie. It is an adaptation of the 1714 play The Tragedy of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe and is based on the life of Jane Shore
Jane Shore
Elizabeth "Jane" Shore was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England, the first of the three whom he described respectively as "the merriest, the wiliest, and the holiest harlots" in his realm...
, the mistress of Edward IV.
Cast
- Blanche ForsytheBlanche Forsythe-Selected filmography:* Sixty Years a Queen * Jane Shore * Tommy Atkins * Brigadier Gerard * Trapped by the London Sharks * A Just Deception -External links:...
- Jane Winstead - Roy TraversRoy Travers-Selected filmography:* The Man Who Bought London * A Romance of Old Baghdad * The House of Peril * The Hypocrites * Q Ships * Romany Love * Kiss Me Sergeant -External links:...
- Edward IV - Robert Purdie - Matthew Shore
- Thomas H. MacDonaldThomas H. MacDonaldThomas H. MacDonald was a British stage and film actor.-Selected filmography:* The Woman Who Did * Jack Tar * Jane Shore * The Tailor of Bond Street * The Hard Way * Burnt Wings...
- Lord Hastings - Dora De WintonDora De Winton-Selected filmography:* Jane Shore * Tom Jones * The House Opposite * The Chinese Puzzle * Wuthering Heights * The Manchester Man * The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP -External links:...
- Margaret - Maud YatesMaud Yates-Selected filmography:* Jane Shore * What Every Woman Knows * Thelma * The Romance of Lady Hamilton * God's Clay * The Green Terror * Castles in Spain -External links:...
- Queen Elizabeth - Nelson Phillips - William Shore
- Rolf Leslie - Duke of Gloucester
- Tom CoventryTom Coventry-Selected filmography:* A Fortune at Stake * The House of Peril * Paddy the Next Best Thing * Dixon's Return * Claude Duval * The Wonderful Wooing * The Squire of Long Hadley...
- Master Winstead - Rachel de Solla - Dame Winstead
- Frank MelroseFrank MelroseFranklyn Taft Melrose was an American jazz and blues pianist, who recorded as Kansas City Frank.He was born in Sumner, Illinois, the younger brother of Walter and Lester Melrose who set up the Melrose Brothers Music Company in Chicago in 1918, and went on to become leading figures in the Chicago...
- Garth the Bard - Fred Pitt - Warwick