Chrissie White Movies
British actress Chrissie White was once a popular child star in early silent films. Born Ada White in London, she got her start in the early 1900s when she substituted for her sister, Gwen, in a production from Hepworth studios. She was named "Chrissie" and was one of the first stars in British films. She frequently staffed shorts directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. In the 1920s, White married her long-time co-star and frequent director, Henry Edwards. She left the screen in 1924, but returned briefly in the early '30s to appear in a few sound films. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1933
Based on a play by George A. Birmingham, General John Regan is a remake of the 1921 film of the same name. Henry Edwards, who also directed, stars as Dr. O'Grady, general practitioner of a small Irish village. As a gag, O'Grady convinces a visiting American newspaper publisher (played by future Superman villain Ben Welden) that a resident of this village was General John Regan, liberator of Bolivia. This harmless prank mushrooms into a major headache when the American spreads this "fact" to the rest of the world. Co-starring with Henry Edwards is his actress wife Chrissie White, whose last film this was. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Henry Edwards, David Horne, (more)
- 1930
In this drama a British naval officer searches an isolated tropical island for his friend who mysteriously disappeared there long ago. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1923
Written and directed by Henry Edwards and starring Mrs. Edwards, Chrissie White, this silent British melodrama about the wife of a coffee salesman who dreams that her husband (Edwards) goes blind and is killed in a tragic fire was filmed completely without subtitles more than one year before F.W. Murnau attempted the same feat with the German Der Letzte Man (1924). British trade papers, however, although awarding Mr. Edwards an "A" for effort, complained that the lack of sub-titles led to "some rather farfetched ways of conveying simple ideas." ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- 1920
British writer-director Henry Edwards wrote himself a juicy part in this silent melodrama produced in England by Hepworth. Edwards played the son of a nasty squire who, under the assumed name of Dick Derelict, settles down in the nearby village, improving the life of everyone around with his writings and all-around good deeds. Chrissie White, Edward's real-life wife and one of the early British film industry's leading lights, played the love interest. Appearing in no less than 22 films together, Edwards and Miss White enjoyed the same kind of adulation bestowed on America's Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- 1920
Canadian-born British film personality Henry Edwards both directed and starred in Aylwin. Set in Wales, the film concerns Aylwin's (Edwards) romance with Winifred Wynne (Chrissie White). When Winifred's drunken father dies in a landslide, the poor girl becomes mentally unhinged. Aylwin tries his best to set things right, but is stymied by a lack of money. Based on the novel by Theodore Watts-Dunton, Aylwin is one of several silent films which co-starred Henry Edwards and his wife Chrissie White. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1919
A typically melodramatic British silent film, Possession starred the husband-and-wife team of Henry Edwards (who also directed) and Chrissie White). He played a White Russian revolutionary and she his secret wife, a Britisher. She gives birth and for the sake of appearance is forced to marry her nasty cousin (pompous-looking Gerald Ames). Based on a trashy novel by Olive Wadley, Possession was produced by Hepworth, a British company with rather lofty if often unfulfilled ambitions. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- 1918
Writer-director Henry Edwards does "triple duty" as star of The Hanging Judge. Edwards plays Dick Veasey, the son of stern, unforgiving jurist Sir John Veasey (Hamilton Stewart). Disowned by his father, Dick becomes a newspaperman and a staunch advocate of British legal reform. One of his first acts is to marry Molly (Chrissie White, Edwards' real-life wife), the daughter of a man whom Sir John had sent to prison. Proving that Molly's dad was innocent, Dick is able to orchestrate a reconciliation with his repentant father. The Hanging Judge was based on a play by Leon M. Lion. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1916
Produced and directed by British film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, this family drama about a young couple trying desperately to win the approval of an irascible grandfather was set in British occupied Ireland in 1850. The five-reel drama starred Hepworth's two leading players, Alma Taylor and Stewart Rome. In fact, Miss Taylor, along with Betty Balfour and Chrissie White (Hepworth's wife), was one of England's few genuine movie stars, as popular in her day as Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- 1915
The British film industry always suffered in comparison with American movie-making and never more so than in the silent era. American stars were as popular in England than at home and few British players were able to compete. Three who made the grade were gathered in this five-reel Hepworth production about a society lush (Stewart Rome) whose gambling habit ruins his entire family and eventually leads to his own degradation and death. Rome, an old-style slick matinee-idol, was supported by British film's two leading ladies at the time, Violet Hopson and Chrissie White. Interestingly, Her Boy was distributed in America by the New York-based Thanhouser company, a nickelodeon firm whose literary aspirations closely resembled those of Hepworth's. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- 1913
The complex story of a village minister fighting desperately to support his large family, The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith remains a mainstay in British literature. The American Thanhouser company filmed the story in a one-reel version in 1910 starring Marty Faust in the title-role. Three years later came this British rendition featuring two of England's few genuine homegrown movie idols, Violet Hopson and Chrissie White. Warwick Buckland played the vicar and the 2-reeler was directed by Frank Wilson. Two additional British versions followed (one also in 1913) but it was again the Thanhouser company of New Rochelle, New York, who was to produce perhaps the definitive version, an 8-reel extravaganza in 1917 starring British stage actor Frederick Warde. Both Thanhouser versions are known to have survived. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
