Christie Johnstone (film)
Encyclopedia
Christie Johnstone is a 1921 British
silent
romance film
directed by Norman McDonald and starring Gertrude McCoy
, Stewart Rome
and Clive Brook. It was adapted from the 1853 novel Christie Johnstone
by Charles Reade
.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
romance film
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...
directed by Norman McDonald and starring Gertrude McCoy
Gertrude McCoy
Gertrude McCoy was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 131 films between 1911 and 1926.She was born in Sugar Valley, Georgia and died in Atlanta, Georgia.-Selected filmography:...
, Stewart Rome
Stewart Rome
Stewart Rome was a British actor who appeared in more than 150 films between 1913 and 1950. He was born in Newbury, Berkshire in 1886 as Wernham Ryott Gifford but took the stage name of Stewart Rome which was later unsuccessfully contested by Cecil Hepworth who also used the name...
and Clive Brook. It was adapted from the 1853 novel Christie Johnstone
Christie Johnstone (novel)
Christie Johnstone is a 1853 romantic drama novel by the British writer Charles Reade. It follows the adventures of the young and wealthy aristocrat Viscount Ipsden who falls for a woman named Christie Johnstone.-Adaptation:...
by Charles Reade
Charles Reade
Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.-Life:Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford,...
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Cast
- Gertrude McCoyGertrude McCoyGertrude McCoy was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 131 films between 1911 and 1926.She was born in Sugar Valley, Georgia and died in Atlanta, Georgia.-Selected filmography:...
... Christie Johnstone - Stewart RomeStewart RomeStewart Rome was a British actor who appeared in more than 150 films between 1913 and 1950. He was born in Newbury, Berkshire in 1886 as Wernham Ryott Gifford but took the stage name of Stewart Rome which was later unsuccessfully contested by Cecil Hepworth who also used the name...
... Viscount Ipsden - Clive Brook ... Astral Hither
- Mercy HattonMercy Hatton-Selected filmography:* The Harbour Lights * The World, the Flesh and the Devil * Beau Brocade * The Laughing Cavalier * The Sands of Time * The Case of Lady Camber * A Sportsman's Wife...
... Lady Barbara Sinclair - J. Denton-Thompson ... Wully
- Peggy Hathaway ... Jean
- Adeline Hayden CoffinAdeline Hayden Coffin-Selected filmography:* The Manxman * The Sands of Time * God's Clay * After Many Days * The Greater Love * The Call of the Road * The Holiday Husband * The Black Spider...
... Mrs. Gatty - Gordon CraigGordon Craig (actor)-Selected filmography:* Consequences * The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton * The Breed of the Treshams * Christie Johnstone * The Door That Has No Key * The Glorious Adventure...
... Charles Gatty - Dorothy Vernon ... Widow McKay
- Tom Beaumont ... Saunders