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Charlotte Blair Parker

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Birth name Charlotte Blair
Nationality USA
Birth at Oswego (USA)
Death 5 january 1937 at Cleveland (USA)

Charlotte Blair Parker (1858 - January 5, 1937) was a noted playwright and aspiring actress in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She began her theatrical career as an actress, eventually playing opposite John Edward McCullough, Mary Anderson, and Dion Boucicault. Writing under the pen name Lottie Blair Parker, she wrote about a dozen produced plays but is remembered most for three popular stage plays produced between 1897 and 1906: Way Down East, Under Southern Skies and The Redemption of David Corson. Of the three, Way Down East, produced in 1898, was the most successful, proving to be one of the most popular American plays of its time, steadily performed for two decades

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Way Down East, 1h20
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, Slim Summerville, Andy Devine, Margaret Hamilton, Louis King
Roles Theatre Play
Rating60% 3.046853.046853.046853.046853.04685
The story centers upon a starving, impoverished gamin who lost everything after a wicked millionaire tricked her into a marriage and impregnated her. The baby doesn't survive the ordeal and the poor girl ends up sheltered by a puritanical farm family. While there, she falls in love with the son.
Way Down East, 2h25
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Kate Bruce, Creighton Hale
Roles Theatre Play
Rating72% 3.6451453.6451453.6451453.6451453.645145
The rich, typified by the handsome man-about-town Lennox (Lowell Sherman), are exceptionally selfish and think only of their own pleasure.