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Alice Brady
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Actress Alice Brady was the star player at the World Film Studios, which was as much due to her versatility as to the fact that her father William Brady ran the studio. In Ballet Girl, she plays a carnival performer who aspires to better things in life.
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American actress "Alice Brady" first came to prominence in the silent films produced by World Studios, which was owned and operated by Brady's father, the influential theatrical producer William H. Brady. A star from her first film, "As Ye Sow" (1914), onward, she was applauded for her acting skills, though critics at the time noted that her somewhat offbeat facial features would be better suited to character roles than to ingenues. Brady devoted the 1920s to motherly and matronly portrayals on stage - which, as it turned out, were far more rewarding professionally than the heroines she'd played at World. Making her talking-picture debut in 1933's "When Ladies Meet", Brady rapidly became one of Hollywood's most prolific portrayers of addlebrained society matrons and world-weary matriarchs.
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Alla Nazimova and Alice Brady in O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, on a set designed by Robert Edmond Jones for production at the Guild Theatre. Both women were part of the original cast.
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Inspired by the recent Russian Revolution, At the Mercy of Men casts Alice Brady as Vera Souroff, a Petrograd music teacher. While heading to work, Vera is suddenly seized by three officers of the Czar's Imperial Guard and dragged off to a darkened restaurant, where one of the men rapes her. When the police arrive, Vera is unable to determine which of the three men was responsible for the outrage. The shock of the girl's humiliation has a startling effect on her fiance Boris, who immediately swears vengeance on the Czarist regime and joins the revolutionists. Likewise, Vera's father, a retired Army officer, is galvanized into forming "The Forces of the People." The suggestion that the Revolution was inspired solely by a sexual assault on a single woman may have been a bit hard to swallow, but audiences unfamiliar with the actual political turmoil in Russia were willing to suspend disbelief.
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Brady's position as manager of James Corbett brought him into contact with films as early as 1894 when he acted as time-keeper in the Corbett-Courtenay contest held in Edison 's Black Maria studio. Brady was involved with the filming of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons title fight in 1897, and the Jeffries-Sharkey contest in 1899. While producing over 250 plays he retained an interest in motion pictures, running the Hale's Tours shows in the 1900s and opening the Unique cinema, Manhattan in 1907. In 1914 he became a founder member of World Pictures (with their famous slogan, 'World Pictures - Brady Made'). He served as president of the National Assembly of the Motion Picture Industry between 1915-1920, and, in 1917, he was appointed chairman of a committee to organise the American film industry for the First World War. His daughter Alice Brady (1892-1939) was a well-known stage and film actress.
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Alice Brady won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her role in this film. Brady wasn't present at the award ceremony, but a man walked up and accepted the award on her behalf. After the show, he and the Oscar were never seen again.
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