Word: wark
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Died. David Wark Griffith, 73, a pioneer film producer (The Birth of a Nation); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles (see CINEMA...
...could not find a job in the town he had invented. He clung to the shadows, a bald, eagle-beaked man, sardonic and alone. At parties, he sat drinking quietly, his sharp eyes panning the room for a glimpse of familiar faces, most of them long gone. David Wark Griffith had been The Master, and there was nobody quite like him afterwards...
...First "Colossal." Griffith brought a strange, yet significant, heritage to his work. His father was Colonel Jacob Wark ("Roaring Jake") Griffith, a Confederate cavalry officer given to florid readings of Shakespeare. Like him, young D. W. had a stentorian voice, a tough physical frame, and a character that mixed moral austerity with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first...
Divorced. David Wark Griffith, 73, pioneer producer of the cinema extravaganza (The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance); by Evelyn Marjorie Baldwin Griffith, 37, his second; after nearly twelve years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...first movie ever to tell a story, is one of the most important films ever made. The baby is anonymous. The eagle is stuffed. The Nature is by Richard Murphy. The Nature's Nobleman, who later rescues the baby, was played by a young actor named David Wark Griffith...