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Chrissie White
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British actress "Chrissie White" was once a popular child star in early silent films. Born Ada White in London, she got her start in the early 1900s when she substituted for her sister, Gwen, in a production from Hepworth studios. She was named "Chrissie" and was one of the first stars in British films. She frequently staffed shorts directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. In the 1920s, White married her long-time co-star and frequent director, "Henry Edwards". She left the screen in 1924, but returned briefly in the early '30s to appear in a few sound films. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Chrissie White made her first stage appearance as a child in Bluebell in Fairyland, and at the age of 14 was engaged by Cecil M. Hepworth for Lewin Fitzhamon’s For The Little Lady’s Sake. The following year she was teamed with Alma Taylor, one year her junior, as The Tilly Girls, a team who featured in a series of sentimental comedies in 1910 and 1911 (for more information, see Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor). By 1912 Chrissie White was established as Hepworth’s leading lady and the most popular British star. She was generally partnered by Stewart Rome or Henry Edwards, who ... directed most of their films together and whom she married. She was absent from the screen from 1924 until 1930, when she returned to make two talking pictures (The Call of the Sea, 1930, and General John Regan, 1933), both directed by Edwards, after which she definitively retired from the screen. — DR
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Upon their return to Canada Matt and Chrissie moved to Saint John, New Brunswick where they began to serve with Dan and Priscilla Trecartin at Grace Harvest Church, then a new plant. For 7 years they served as part of the leadership structure, its worship leaders and as trainers for emerging members of the ministry. Matt ... worked for World Vision under contract for 3 years as a promoter of the 30 Hour Famine, traveling through out the Maritime Provinces raising money for that organization’s international missions.
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In 1903, he produced Alice in Wonderland, (with his wife as the White Rabbit) which was 800' in length, a remarkable feat for his time, breaking away from the normal 50' films. Soon after, he filmed Rescued by Rover which starred his 8 month old baby and the family dog making the rescue (one of the most celebrated surviving films from that time). The film was so popular that he had to shoot it 3 times because the negatives would wear out from producing the 400 prints that were made to satisfy the demand for the film.
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[T]he winner of the Rin-Tin-Tin award goes to the dog featured in White Water (1924), one of a series of ‘Little Dramas of the Big Places,’ a series of short films produced at Lionhead lodge in Idaho. Nell Shipman plays Dreena, a writer who comes to a logging camp and becomes friends with two orphans at the camp. One of the boys finds himself stranded on a log in the river. Dreena’s dog spots the boy floating down the rapids. Chained to a dog house, in proper heroic fashion the dog pulls the large dog house over to Dreena’s cabin, alerting her to the boy’s danger. Released from his chain, the dog follows his mistress to the water.
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In 2002, with much prayer and support from Grace Harvest Church, Matt and Chrissie moved back to Fredericton where they planted Hope Church, a house church ministry where they continue to serve as lead pastors. Hope Church's objectives include relationship, the restoration of hearts in the body, developing a school and ultimately the eventual establishment of a cafe in downtown Fredericton.
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