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Neither director Henry King nor star Richard Barthelmess could do much with the cliched situations of this dark melodrama. Joe Newbolt (Barthelmess) goes to work for farmer Isom Chase (Charles Hill Mailes) to save his mother (Mary Alden) from the poorhouse. Chase is a cruel taskmaster and he ... abuses his wife Ollie (Mary Thurman). To escape her situation, Ollie has an affair with a traveling salesman and makes plans to elope with him. Because of his religious convictions, Joe tries to talk her out of her plan. Chase catches them together and thinks that the two are plotting against him.
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No, Richard Barthelmess doesn't don women's apparel in the 1929 talkie The Drag. Barthelmess plays a Vermont newspaper editor, happily married to Alice Day. That is, he was happy until the day his wife's troublesome in-laws (Lucien Littlefield, Katherine Ward) came to visit.
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Richard Barthelmess died of throat cancer on August 17, 1963, in New York. In some ways, you could say he came full circle. He was an East Coast man who got to enjoy his latter years where his career started out. It can only be hoped that as more and more preservation and restoration work is done on films from the silent era, much of Richard’s work will be salvaged so that modern audiences can have a taste of the charisma, talent and ravishing good looks that made Richard so popular in his day.
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With the advent of the sound era, Barthelmess' fortunes changed. He made several films in the new medium, most notably Son of the Gods (1930), The Dawn Patrol (1930), The Last Flight (1931), and The Cabin in the Cotton (1932), Central Airport (1933), and a supporting role as Rita Hayworth's character's husband in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). However, he failed to maintain the stardom of his silent film days and gradually left entertainment. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in World War II, served as a lieutenant commander, and never returned to film, preferring instead to live off his investments. He died of cancer in 1963 and was interred at the Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA.
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In 1916, Richard was on vacation when he made the acquaintance of actress Alla Nazimova, a friend of his mothers and a Russian actress of note who is perhaps best known today for her title role in 1923’s Salome. Alla was about to start production in her first feature film, War Brides and asked Richard if he would be interested in appearing in the film. Though the pictures were entirely new to him, something must have told him that this was an offer he shouldn’t refuse, and a career was about to begin.
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The article focuses on the motion picture "The Enchanted Cottage," starring Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy. "The Enchanted Cottage" is the famous old Pinero valentine, brought up to date and from England to New England about a homely spinster and a disfigured veteran who, because they are in love, look beautiful to each other until people who are not involved in their illusion rudely shatter. The author was so transfigured by the film that for some weeks afterward, behind locked doors, the author alternated his imitations of Barthelmess's work.
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