Marguerite De La Motte (June 22, 1902 – March 10, 1950) was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era.
15-824: Iron Mask may refer to: Film and television [ edit ] The Iron Mask , a 1929 American adventure film Le Masque de fer , a 1962 French film also released as The Iron Mask Viy 2: Journey to China , a 2019 Russian-Chinese adventure film released in English-speaking countries as Iron Mask or The Iron Mask Television episodes [ edit ] "The Iron Mask", Rambo: The Force of Freedom episode 35 (1936) "The Iron Mask", Stars Over Hollywood episode 50 (1951) "The Iron Mask", The Cisco Kid season 4, episode 20 (1954) Literature [ edit ] The Iron Mask , an 1847 penny dreadful by Elizabeth Caroline Grey Le Masque de fer ,
30-495: A 1923 play by Maurice Rostand Le Masque de fer ou l'amour prisonnier , a 1929 novel by Renée Dunan Le Masque de fer , a 1999–2001 French comic series written by Patrick Cothias Le masque de fer , a 2009 book by Michel Vergé-Franceschi "Iron Mask": The Story of Harry Bensley's "Walking Round the World" Hoax , a 2016 book by Steve Holland about Harry Bensley Other uses [ edit ] Iron Mask (band) ,
45-599: A Belgian power metal band See also [ edit ] Man in the Iron Mask (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Iron Mask . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iron_Mask&oldid=1238359802 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
60-464: A close friendship with Fairbanks and his wife, actress Mary Pickford . Her career as an actress slowed dramatically at the end of the silent film era of the 1920s. She did continue acting in bit parts through the sound era and made her final appearance in the 1942 film Overland Mail opposite both Noah Beery Sr. and Noah Beery Jr. , as well as Lon Chaney Jr. De La Motte was married twice. She first wed silent film actor John Bowers in 1924, who
75-517: A film that is perhaps the supreme achievement of its genre." Marguerite De La Motte Born in Duluth, Minnesota , De La Motte was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph De La Motte. She was a 1917 graduate of the Egan School of drama, music, and dancing. De La Motte began her entertainment career studying ballet under Anna Pavlova . In 1919, she became the dance star of Sid Grauman on
90-427: A theme song entitled “One For All — All For One (Song Of The Musketeers)” which was composed by Jo Trent (words) and Hugo Riesenfeld and Louis Alter (music). The song is sung on the soundtrack and is played instrumentally several times throughout the film. The 1929 part-talkie, entitled The Iron Mask , was the first talking picture starring Douglas Fairbanks . Fairbanks lavished resources on his first sound film with
105-482: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Iron Mask The Iron Mask is a 1929 American part-talkie adventure film directed by Allan Dwan . In addition to some sequences with dialogue, the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects and a theme song. The film is an adaptation of the last section of the 1847-1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père , which
120-580: Is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask . The film stars Fairbanks as d'Artagnan, Marguerite De La Motte as his beloved Constance (who is killed early in the film to protect the secret that the King has a twin brother), Nigel De Brulier as the scheming Cardinal Richelieu , and Ullrich Haupt as the evil Count De Rochefort. William Bakewell appeared as the royal twins. The film featured
135-570: The 1952 version has it in chronological order with the scene with the King cut out. In 1999, with the cooperation of the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art , Kino Video released a DVD of the 1929 version. A complete set of Vitaphone disks exists for this picture. However, only a small portion of the original sound from these was synchronized with film footage, namely the two short sequences in which Douglas Fairbanks speaks. The rest of
150-417: The film features a musical score with a few sound effects and a theme song that is sung and played several times. In 1952, the film was reissued, with the intertitles removed and a narration voiced by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. added. The original film included a scene in which d'Artagnan tells the young King of an embarrassing adventure involving him and the three musketeers. The story is told in flashback but
165-438: The knowledge he was bidding farewell to his beloved genre. This marks the only time where Fairbanks's character dies at the end of the film, with the closing scene depicting the once-again youthful Musketeers all reunited in death, moving on (as the final title says) to find "greater adventure beyond". The original 1929 release has only two short sequences of dialogue which consisted of speeches delivered by Fairbanks. The rest of
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#1732765761912180-435: The program for the 1999 premiere showing of the reconstruction. A complete restoration of the original sound version has yet to be released. Fairbanks Biographer Jeffrey Vance has opined, "As a valedictory to the silent screen, The Iron Mask is unsurpassed. In one of his few departures from playing a young man—and with fewer characteristic stunts—Fairbanks conjures up his most multi-dimensional and moving screen portrayal in
195-497: The soundtrack, which contained a Synchronized Score along with sound effects and a theme song was not used as this would make the DVD public domain . (The copyright has expired on the original 1929 sound version.) For this DVD reissue, therefore, a new score was commissioned from composer Carl Davis . The Kino disc also includes excerpts from the 1952 version, some outtakes from the original filming, and some textual background material from
210-761: The stage of his theater. In 1918, at the age of 16, she made her screen debut in the Douglas Fairbanks -directed romantic comedy film Arizona . In 1920, both of her parents died, her mother in January in an automobile accident and her father in August from heart disease. Film producer J.L. Frothingham assumed guardianship of her and her younger brother. De La Motte spent the 1920s appearing in numerous films, often cast by Douglas Fairbanks to play opposite him in swashbuckling adventure films such as 1920's The Mark of Zorro and The Three Musketeers . She developed
225-429: Was then a matinee idol of the silver screen. That marriage ended with Bowers's suicide in 1936. De La Motte later married attorney Sidney H. Rivkin whom she divorced after four years of marriage. Her cousin, Clete Roberts , was an American war correspondent and journalist, who appeared in two episodes of the television series M*A*S*H* in the 1970s. After her film career ended, De La Motte worked as an inspector in
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