Leads the ratings - Mr. Pringle and Success movie
Movie Issued - in 1917.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Short, Comedy, Drama
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:600 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:June 1917
In movie have been taken:
Robert Bolder (actor)
Death Notes: Beverly Hills, California, USA
Height: 5' 2"
Birth Notes: London, England, UK
Other Works: Stage actor.
Death Date: 10 December 1937
Birth Date: 1859
Rod La Rocque (actor)
Articles: "Classic Images" (USA), April 1995, pg. 44, by: Richard E. Braff, "Additional Film Credits for Rod La Rocque", "Classic Images" (US), June 1987, Iss. 144, pg. C55, C57, C43, by: Richard E. Braff, "The Films of Rod La Rocque", "Classic Images" (USA), April 1986, Iss. 130, pg. 19-22, by: George A. Katchmer, "Rod La Rocque; Matinee Idol", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), January 1929, pg. 30-31, 87, by: Dorothy Spensley, "Big Lens and Focus Men; Celebrities Who Are Always Behind a Camera When They're Not Before One", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), May 1928, pg. 26, 72, 91, by: Ann Cummings, "I'll Bring Back My Bonnie with Me; Rod Set Sail for Budapest--He Couldn't Live Without Her", "Screenland" (USA), October 1927, Iss. XV, pg. 22-23, 90-, 92, 94-95, "No Foolin'; One marriage ceremony in Hollywood that was 'For Keeps'; The love match of Vilma Banky and Rod La Rocque", "Paris and Hollywood Screen Secrets" (USA), May 1927, pg. 82, by: Paul Paige, "Close-Ups and Fade-Outs", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 April 1927, pg. 622, "Record Broadcast", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 19 February 1927, pg. 560, "LaRocque Holds Ace Against His Chief, Is Belief", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 June 1925, pg. 688, "Cecil B. DeMille Signs Tutor for Rod LaRocque", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 28 March 1925, pg. 8-10, 33, by: Gladys Hall and Adele Whitely Fletcher, "We Interview Rod La Rocque", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 14 March 1925, pg. 22, 28, by: Rod La Rocque, "The True Story of My Life [6]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 7 March 1925, pg. 81, "Rod LaRocque, DeMille Star, Is Proud of Famous Players", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 7 March 1925, pg. 13-14, 32-33, by: Rod La Rocque, "The True Story of My Life [5]", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 28 February 1925, pg. 13-14, 33, by: Rod La Rocque, "The True Story of My Life [4]", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 21 February 1925, pg. 12-13, 29, by: Rod La Rocque, "The True Story of My Life [3]", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 14 February 1925, pg. 14-15, 30, by: Rod La Rocque, "The True Story of My Life [2]", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 7 February 1925, pg. 8-9, 30-31, by: Rod La Rocque, "The True Story of My Life [1]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 27 December 1924, pg. 857, "Rod LaRocque Off to Paris; Supporting Gloria Swanson", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 July 1923, pg. 239, "Rod Larocque Signs with Paramount", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 17 July 1920, pg. 325, "Rod LaRocque with Brady"
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1580 Vine Street.
Pictorials: "Playboy" (USA), June 1965, Vol. 12, Iss. 6, pg. 156, by: Arthur Knight & Hollis Alpert, "The History of Sex in Cinema - Part Three: The Twenties - Hollywood's Flaming Youth"
Death Notes: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Rod La Rocque be born Roderick La Rocque de la Rou completed November 29, 1898 enclosed by Chicago, Illiinois to an culturally French father and an ethnically Irish mother. Stage strike in his token teen years, he spent his summers next to provincial sheep band, playing immature role all for $1.00 per dramatization. By the instance he was 16, while he was appear in vaudeville, he get a modicum part of the pack in the Triangle Studios' harvest "The Snowman," for which he was compensated the princely expense of $3.25 for a day's donkey work. He moved on to Chicago's other original studio, Essanay, with channel of a bit musician in the years 1914-1917. La Roque started out in their Black Cat Productions outfit, which produced potboilers and funniness. He in the fullness of time moved stirring into enhanced - and better-paying - parts. Essanay penniless in 1918, and La Roque moved to New York City, where on earth he sign with with the agent Eddie Small, who represent 'Norma Shearer' (qv), whom he would latter swivel up with in the 1930 M.G.M. optical aid "Let Us be Gay." The 6'3" La Rocque got a bit part in the 'Billie Burke' (qv) big eyeshade "Let's Get A Divorce" (1918) and turned to the theater for work. He was stereotype in the harmonize of "Up the Ladder," which flop, necessitate his flood back to concert work, but he would carry on to appear IMO the theater through the early 1920s. He made three cinema for Sam Goldfish (who renamed himself 'Samuel Goldwyn' (qv)) in 1918, but La Roque remain a freelance player, not sign with any one studio. He appear in motion pictures for Famous Players-Lasky, Universal and Vitagraph, among others, but track not contravene through to the big-time until 'Cecil B. DeMille' (qv) cast him in his ingenious gush at "The Ten Commandmentd" (1923), the motion picture that made La Roque a speechless cinema superstar. For the subsequent five years, until the advent of the talkies, he work for DeMille's hard to enchant Producers' Distribution Corporation and for Famous Players-Lasky (the considered Paramount, with which DeMille also was associated). He meet his future wife, Hungarian actress 'Vilma Bánky' (qv), at a tea entertainment at DeMille's married in 1925. When they married in 1927, it was a lavish affair where DeMille serve as longest man. The wedding ceremony was attend by the creme de la creme of Hollywood society, and afterward, here was a reception for 2,000 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. When La Rocque's compact with DeMille and Famous Players-Lasky lapsed after 1928, he go concluding to man a freelance actor, appearing in films for Fox, First National, and M.G.M. It was the scene up of the groan age, but La Roque and Banky be standing uncultured. In 1930, the Broadway originator 'Archibald Selwyn' (qv) (one of the founder of both Goldwyn Studios and M.G.M.) signed La Roque and Banky to star in the 'Anita Loos' (qv) frisk "Cherries be Ripe," but the play draw droopy crowd.Three years later, husband and wife went to Germany, where La Roque film "S.O.S. Iceberg" (1933) for dial 'Leni Riefenstahl' (qv) and Banky starred in what prove to be her final film, "The Rebel." After returning to the States, La Rocque unremitting to appear in films, though immediately they were B-pictures, with the occasional taking sides role in an A-picture approaching "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939). He made his second body in the 'Frank Capra' (qv) classic "Meet John Doe" (1941). After leaving from the screen, Rod La Rocque and Vilma Banky continued to playing in Los Angeles, where La Rocque die October 15, 1969, six weeks retiring of his 71st bicentenary.
Height: 6' 3"
Birth Notes: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Salary History: _The Showman (1914)_ (qv)::$3.50/day
Birth Name: la Rour, Roderick La Rocque de
Spouse: 'Vilma Bánky' (qv) (26 June 1927 - 15 October 1969) (his death)
Death Date: 15 October 1969
Birth Date: 20 November 1898
Hazel Daly (actress)
Mother with Harry Beaumont of twin daughters, Anne and Geraldine.
Death Notes: Santa Monica, California, USA
Birth Notes: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birth Name: Daly, Geraldine
Spouse: 'Harry Beaumont' (qv) (? - ?)
Death Date: 2 January 1987
Birth Date: 8 October 1895
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