The Toast of Death
The Toast of Death is a 1915 silent era drama/ romance motion picture released by Mutual Film Corporation starring Louise Glaum, Harry Keenan, and Herschel Mayall.
Directed by Thomas H. Ince and produced by the New York Motion Picture Company, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.
Although contemporary sources list Thomas Ince as the director, modern sources give directorial credit to Scott Sidney.
One of the early five- reel feature length silent movies," The Toast of Death" was filmed at Inceville Studio in Topanga Canyon near the Pacific Ocean.
The film marked Glaum's first role as a" vamp" and her first starring role in the new features of the day.
Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent Sullivan
( September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American television personality, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the" New York Daily News" and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.
He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program" The Toast of the Town", later popularly —and, eventually, officially —renamed" The Ed Sullivan Show".
Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest- running variety show in US broadcast history.
" It was, by almost any measure, the last great TV show," said television critic David Hinckley.
" It's one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories."
Sullivan was a broadcasting pioneer at many levels during television's infancy.
As TV critic David Bianculli wrote," Before MTV, Sullivan presented rock acts.
Before Bravo, he presented jazz and classical music and theater.
Before the Comedy Channel, even before there was" the Tonight Show", Sullivan discovered, anointed and popularized young comedians.
Before there were 500 channels, before there was cable, Ed Sullivan was where the choice was.
From the start, he was indeed' the Toast of the Town'."
In 1996, Sullivan was ranked number 50 on" TV Guide"'s" 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time".
Fred Niblo
Fred Niblo( born Frederick Liedtke; January 6, 1874 – November 11, 1948) was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.
The Famous Mrs. Fair
The Famous Mrs. Fair is a 1923 American silent drama film produced by Louis B. Mayer, distributed through Metro Pictures, and directed by Fred Niblo.
The film is based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes that had starred Blanche Bates in the 1919 theatre season.
Brief behind- the- scenes production footage is extant in the recently restored" Souls for Sale"( 1923).
A copy is held at George Eastman House, donated by MGM for preservation.
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas Harper Ince( November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent film producer, director, screenwriter, and actor.
Ince was known as the" Father of the Western" and was responsible for making over 800 films.
He revolutionized the motion picture industry by creating the first major Hollywood studio facility and invented movie production by introducing the" assembly line" system of filmmaking.
He was the first mogul to build his own film studio dubbed" Inceville" in Palisades Highlands.
Ince was also instrumental in developing the role of the producer in motion pictures.
Two of his films," The Italian"( 1915), for which he wrote the screenplay, and" Civilization"( 1916), which he directed, were selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
He later entered into a partnership with D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett to form the Triangle Motion Picture Company, whose studios are the present- day site of Sony Pictures.
He then built a new studio about a mile from Triangle, which is now the site of Culver Studios.
Ince's untimely death at the height of his career, after he became severely ill aboard the private yacht of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, has caused much speculation, although the official cause of his death was heart failure.
Faces of Death VI
Faces of Death VI is a 1996 direct- to- video compilation of the highlights of the earlier films in the" Faces of Death" series.
It features many of the same scenes shown in" Faces of Death" 1 and 4, as well as the earlier compilation" Faces of Death V".
It begins without any opening credits, before recycling( for the third time) the sequence from" Faces of Death" involving the killing of a monkey which is then prepared and served to patrons of a gourmet restaurant.
Also shown for the second time are the staged heart- ripping scene by African natives and the" head in a box" scene, both taken from" Faces of Death IV".
John Alan Schwartz's cameo as the leader of the flesh eating cult, as well as" The encapsulation of Samuel Berkowitz" are also featured again, and the final credits are those from" Faces of Death".
" Faces of Death VI" exists in three distinct versions:
1. The widest- known version is the one that was released" unofficially" by Gorgon Video in the U.S. in 1996.
It features the artwork from part four reversed.
It contains clips mostly from parts one and four, and has the opening credits from part one.
This is the version of" Faces of Death 6" that was released to buy or rent on video in the U.S. 2.
The second is a nearly extinct mail- order only version( which" Fangoria" possibly offered in the back of old issues) that is no longer available.
Most outlets online with" Faces of Death 6" to download carry this version.
It has no narration, all different footage, and the title screen reads" FACES OF DEATH", and then the word" SIX" slowly becomes imposed over the text.
As stated on various sites, this version is extremely washed out.
Most of the scenes are almost completely white and unwatchable.
At the very end of this version the" Gorgon Video" bumper begins to play but is suddenly cut off.
3. The third version is part of the German version of the series.
It is titled" Gesichter Des Todes VI" and was released in 1992 on video, and subsequently DVD, in Germany in German with no English option.
This version is reportedly all different footage, with no narrator.
However, it is possible it is just a different" death" film re-titled.
Possibly" Faces of Death: The Millennium Edition", as the images on the back of the" Gesichter Des Todes VI" DVD are from some of the same footage found on" Faces of Death: Millennium".
James Forbes (screenwriter)
James Gerrie Forbes( September 2, 1871 – May 26, 1938) was a Canadian playwright who worked as a Hollywood movie screenwriter.
" The Chorus Lady" and" The Famous Mrs. Fair" were his best known plays.
Blanche Bates
Blanche Bates( August 25, 1873 – December 25, 1941) was an American actress.
She made her début in San Francisco in a benefit performance of Brander Matthews's" This Picture and That".
Among her early successes were her Mrs. Hillary in" The Senator", Phyllis in" The Charity Ball", and Nora in" A Doll's House".
She joined Daly's company in 1898 and, the next year at Daly's Theatre in New York, played Mirtza in" The Great Ruby".
In 1901 she appeared as Cigarette in" Under Two Flags" at the Garden Theatre in New York.
Thereafter devoting herself to the productions of David Belasco, she won great success in" The Darling of the Gods"( 1902) and" The Girl of the Golden West"( 1905) and after World War I in" The Famous Mrs. Fair"( 1919).
In 1902, H.M. Caldwell Company, New York and Boston, published a lavish souvenir book," Blanche Bates Edition of" Under Two Flags by Ouida, with handsome illustrated covers, and numerous photographs from the play version( written by Paul M. Potter) starring Miss Bates.
Traces of Death
Traces of Death is a 1993
Z movie mondo shockumentary that consists of various scenes of stock footage depicting death and real scenes of violence.
Unlike the earlier" Faces of Death" which included fake deaths and reenactments," Traces" consists mostly of actual footage depicting death and injury, and consists also of public domain footage from other films.
It was written and narrated by Damon Fox.
Since its release," Traces of Death" has been followed by four sequels.
The first sequel," Traces of Death II", was released the following year in 1994.
This was followed by" Traces of Death III" in 1995," Traces of Death IV: Resurrected" in 1996 and" Traces of Death V: Back in Action" in 2000.
The Toast of New Orleans
The Toast of New Orleans is a 1950 MGM musical film directed by Norman Taurog and choreographed by Eugene Loring.
It stars Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, David Niven, J. Carrol Naish, James Mitchell and Rita Moreno.
The film was made in the wake of" That Midnight Kiss", Lanza's successful film debut, as an opportunity for Lanza to sing on the big screen again.

Question: Are the directors of films The Toast Of Death and The Famous Mrs. Fair both from the same country?
Answer: yes