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  Eleanor Boardman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eleanor Boardman (August 19, 1898 - December 12, 1991) was an American film actress, popular during the era of silent movies.
Boardman was married to the film director King Vidor from 1926 until 1931.
Eleanor Boardman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eleanor_Boardman   (257 words)

  
 ELEANOR BOARDMAN
ELEANOR BOARDMAN was born in Philadelphia on August 19, and in one of the quiet suburbs of that city she received her early education.
After finishing a course in the Germantown High School, it was the wish of her father that she continue her studies or remain at home with her mother and younger sister.
For her the stage had always had a fascination, and as she grew older it seemed to draw her until her greatest desire was to be up behind the footlights enacting some role.
home.att.net /~tmbest/EBoardman.html   (344 words)

  
 Silent Star of March
Eleanor Boardman was born August 19, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to strict, Presbyterian parents.
Eleanor and Vidor finally married September 8, 1926, in what was to have been a double wedding with John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.
Eleanor's first sound film in 1929 was not at MGM but at United Artists, for whom she was loaned out to for She Goes to War, also a story by Rupert Hughes.
www.csse.monash.edu.au /~pringle/silent/ssotm/Mar97   (938 words)

  
 © Eleanor Boardman - Silent Movie Star - goldensilents.com
Eleanor Boardman was born on August 19th, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia and attended an art school, before leaving for New York as a teenager to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress.
Once there Eleanor was selected as the "Eastman Kodak Girl", and a series of photos of Eleanor put out by that company attracted the attention of director King Vidor in Hollywood.
Eleanor is five feet, 6 inches tall, and weighs 120.
www.goldensilents.com /stars/eleanorboardman.html   (372 words)

  
 Eleanor Boardman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Eleanor Boardman was born on August 19, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Eleanor spent the 1940's and 1950's moving between the U.S. and Europe.
Eleanor Boardman died on December 12, 1991 in Montecito, California.
www2.lhric.org /POCANTICO/womenenc/boardman.htm   (91 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Eleanor Boardman : Biography
Accustomed to glamourous, sophisticated roles, Eleanor balked when she was asked in 1928 by then-husband King Vidor to appear as the plain, tenement dwelling housewife in Vidor's The Crowd.
Eleanor's final film was the multinational (and multilingual) d'Arrast project The Three-Cornered Hat (1936).
Eleanor Boardman spent the last four decades of her life in wealthy retirement in Montecito, an upper-class suburb of San Bernardino, California.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/6184/bio.jhtml   (261 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Eleanor was not only beautiful and sophisticated, she was a very good actress.
He was alike to Eleanor in the sense that he too had once been an important part of Hollywood and was now working in another film studio in another country.
For years, Eleanor divided her time between the United States and Europe where the d'Arrasts lived in a chateau in the Pyrenees in the south of France.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Cinema/2359/ebbio.html   (503 words)

  
 Way of a Girl
Several of them show Miss Boardman in a hideous dress made out of a blanket, supposedly of her own design, according to the caption under a different portrait of her in the scratchy gown in a Photoplay magazine from June, 1925.
The AFI summary recounts the film in melodramatic terms, yet Miss Boardman remembered it as one of the few comedies she ever made.
Eleanor Boardman found her immortality as the heroine of The Crowd, an influential and moving film made by her then husband, director King Vidor.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDWayofaGirl.htm   (951 words)

  
 The Crowd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Crowd is an influential and acclaimed American film released in 1928, and nominated for the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production that same year.
The film centers on ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker John Sims (played by James Murray) who meets and marries Mary (Eleanor Boardman).
Murray was a studio extra, and Boardman was a minor actress and Vidor's second wife.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Crowd   (436 words)

  
 Tell It To The Marines
Boardman was more serious about her acting career than her New Faces companion and her career took off while his coasted.
She's such a real person." Boardman, interviewed by William Drew in 1980 (Speaking of Silents), said of her career, "I was never enamoured by working in films, and I think that is one reason why I don't remember much about them.
Hill's direction of the male actors and the climactic action scene in this film is exciting and assured; perhaps a lack of interest in Boardman's character is the reason for her limply decorative performance.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDTellItToTheMarines.htm   (1192 words)

  
 Film Star Biographies, Vintage, Movie, Silent, 30s, 40s, 50s
BOARDMAN, Eleanor (1898-1991, Philadelphia, PA) A MGM contract player during her career, there are still a fair amount of her films left that are not currently the equivilant of baby powder for many of her films were on nirate and not many were turned into video.
But by 1928, Eleanor already knew her years were numbered.
Eleanor appeared in 35 movies from 1922-1934, and in 1980 appeared on the TV miniseries "Hollywood".
www.eyedealpostcards.com /FilmBios.html   (2143 words)

  
 William Haines photo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He made five films for Goldwyn, one of which was the Elinor Glyn sexy romance "Three Weeks," before being borrowed by Columbia for his first starring role in "The Midnight Express." Haines was also used by Universal prior to the merging of Goldwyn with Metro to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Haines' star began to rise rapidly with good roles in first-class movies such as "Wine of Youth" (1924) with Eleanor Boardman, "So This is Marriage?" (1924) with Eleanor Boardman, "Tower of Lies" (1925) with Lon Chaney, and "Little Annie Rooney" (1925) with Mary Pickford.
Finally, in 1926, he was starred in "Brown of Harvard" as a breezy, arrogant college athlete, the type of role he seemed to become identified with and portrayed so well.
www.silentsaregolden.com /photos/williamhainesphoto.html   (405 words)

  
 goatdog's movies - The Crowd, 1928
Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach, Lucy Beaumont, Freddy Burke Frederick, Alice Mildred Puter
Vidor uses wide shots of the office (quoted by Billy Wilder in The Apartment), with its endless rows of identical desks and identical young men, all facing the same direction and doing the same thing, to slam home the point that most people in modern society are simply cogs in a huge machine.
Johnny wants to be something important, but he's not sure exactly how, and he does his best to do the things expected of a young man. He meets a charming young woman, Mary (Eleanor Boardman); they fall in love and get married; they rent an apartment in the city and have two children.
goatdog.com /moviePage.php?movieID=595   (761 words)

  
 Eleanor Boardman Biography, Filmography,
Born August 19, 1898 - After graduation from Philadelphia's Academy of Fine Arts, Eleanor Boardman went to New York, where she became a photographer's model.
An attempt to become a stage actress came to naught when Eleanor came down with laryngitis.
Discuss Eleanor Boardman with Starpulse members in the forums...
www.starpulse.com /Actresses/Boardman,_Eleanor   (122 words)

  
 Bio for William Haines on MSN Movies
Leaving his Virginia hometown at age 14 to earn a living, William Haines was an assistant bookkeeper at a New York bond house when he sent in his photograph to a "New Faces" contest sponsored by movie producer Samuel Goldwyn.
The winners of the contest were Haines and another future film star, Eleanor Boardman.
Entering films in 1922, Haines rose to stardom at MGM as the star of several breezy comedy-dramas, in which he usually played a smart-lipped braggart who was forced to eat humble pie sometime before the fadeout.
entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?c=142104&mp=b   (212 words)

  
 Biography for King Vidor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Father of Suzanne Vidor Parry by his first marriage to Florence Vidor and Antonia Vidor and Belinda Vidor Holiday by his second marriage to Eleanor Boardman..
With Eleanor Boardman he had daughters Antonia, born in 1927, and Belinda, born in June, 1930.
Vidor moved to Metro, where he directed Three Wise Fools (the first of several pictures with next-wife-to-be Eleanor Boardman), The Woman of Bronze (both 1923), Wild Oranges, Happiness, Wine of Youth (all 1924), and Proud Flesh (1925).
www.imdb.com /name/nm0896542/bio   (1329 words)

  
 Crowd review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James Murray makes his initial bow to the public in a manner that will not be forgotten, while Eleanor Boardman is nearly perfect.
Eleanor Boardman is even better as the wife.
Submerging her delicate beauty, Miss Boardman achieved a portrait of a middle class lady that she should be proud of.
www.silentsaregolden.com /reviewsfolder/crowdreview.html   (594 words)

  
 2003 NAC 104 Idaho Army and Air National Guard and American Federation of Government Employees, Local 3006
The Union called as a witness in the matter of the water system contamination Major Eleanor Boardman, a State Occupational Health Nurse.
Boardman, in her testimony, described Higginbotham as acting as if he were angry and accusatory toward the grievant.
There were apparently no other witnesses, and, based on the testimony of the participants, I cannot say that one person’s description of what happened is more or less accurate than another’s.
www.lawmemo.com /arb/award/2003/104.htm   (2935 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - boardman, Fiction Books, Non-Fiction Books, Records items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Tony Rose, Harry Boardman, Kempion, Jon Raven MINT LP
ABC of SF Boardman Farmer Clarke Vonnegut Wyndham Pohl
Northern Paradise by Philip Boardman - NORWAY - PB
search.ebay.co.uk /boardman_W0QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3   (337 words)

  
 FILM REVIEW -- Vidor's Silent `Crowd' Still an Urban Masterpiece
Johnny may be a bit of a jerk, but Murray plays him as so eager and desperate to please that he always remains sympathetic.
Boardman has a wonderful moment where, over the course of a long take, she recovers from an argument with Johnny and then remembers that she forgot to tell him she's pregnant.
The subtlety and clarity of her acting allow Vidor to communicate the information without an intertitle, even though this is the first the audience is learning of the pregnancy.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/11/08/DD53801.DTL   (566 words)

  
 Classic Images: Leatrice Gilbert Fountain
John continued to awe and thrill the movie-going public with such classics as La Boheme, MGM 1926 with movie pioneer super star Lillian Gish; Bardelys The Magnificent with the elegant Eleanor Boardman; and Tod Browning's underrated The Show, co-starring Renee Adoree, Lionel Barrymore and Edward Connelly.
Leatrice Gilbert Fountain was told the following story by actress Eleanor Boardman who was supposed to be joined with her director husband King Vidor in a double ceremony with John Gilbert and Garbo.
Eleanor Boardman observed all of these events and swore to Leatrice Gilbert Fountain this was the gospel truth.
www.classicimages.com /1996/november/fountain.html   (1760 words)

  
 LON CHANEY SR. WILLIAM HAINES ELEANOR BOARDMAN TELL IT TO THE MARINES MOVIE CAST Autograph
Photograph signed: "Lon Chaney", "Eleanor Boardman" and "William Haines".
Also in the photograph, but not signing, is Brigadier General Smedley Butler, Commander of the Marine Barracks at San Diego and winner of two Congressional Medals of Honor.
Chaney, known as "the man of a thousand faces", died four years later at the age of 47.
www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?prodid=674&start=31   (238 words)

  
 Harry d'Abbadie D'Arrast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Despite high critical acclaim and some box-office success, he was often at odds with studio bosses and producers, and by 1934 he could no longer find work in Hollywood.
He went to Spain, where he directed a film based on Alarcón's THE THREE-CORNERED HAT, starring his wife, Eleanor Boardman, then returned to Hollywood, where he spent several idle years.
In 1946 he returned to France and spent the rest of his life at the family estate in the Basses-Pyranees and in Monte Carlo, managing to eke out a living at the Casino roulette table.
www.theoscarsite.com /whoswho/darrast_h.htm   (218 words)

  
 The Crowd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
CAST: James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark
But the story of his ordinary life, with its common joys and sorrows, is widely recognized as one of the greatest films of all time.
Directed by King Vidor with heartbreaking insight into the pain and beauty of life, The Crowd features performances of remarkable sensitivity by James Murray and Eleanor Boardman.
www.silentfilm.org /pastprograms/2003festival/thecrowd/schedule.htm   (89 words)

  
 Portrait of the actress Eleanor Boardman by Thomas Staedeli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Portrait of the actress Eleanor Boardman by Thomas Staedeli
The actress Eleanor Boardman had her first job at the age of 15 when she worked as a model for Eastman Kodak.
She was very successful and became the "Kodak Girl".
www.cyranos.ch /spboar-e.htm   (318 words)

  
 University of New Hampshire Library - Milne Special Collections and Archives - Movie Stills (VC 31)
With: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy, Lionel Belmore.
With: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark, Daniel G. Tomlinson.
With: Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Eddie Gribbon, Carmel Myers.
www.izaak.unh.edu /specoll/mancoll/moviestills.htm   (1142 words)

  
 filmcritic.com Movie Review: The Crowd
Vehemently realistic, the film portrays life as hard and with few rewards.
James Murray makes the perfect Everyman, who sees the ups and, well, mostly the downs with his wife Mary, played by Eleanor Boardman.
Stars: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark, Daniel G. Tomlinson, Dell Henderson
www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/2b441dc50304875d8825695100133ae3?OpenDocument   (249 words)

  
 Eleanor Boardman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 The Squaw Man (1931 b 107')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lord Henry Kerhill (Paul Cavanagh) has raised 18,000 pounds for the regiment's orphanage; but when Hardwick commits suicide, he is missing 10,000 pounds.
Henry is jealous of his cousin Jim Wynn (Warner Baxter), causing his wife Diana (Eleanor Boardman) and Jim to realize they love each other.
To stop Henry from killing himself, Jim takes the blame for the missing money and leaves, telling Henry to pay back the fund.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1931/SquawMan.html   (437 words)

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