Bess Meredyth

Bess Meredyth

Nacimiento : 1890-02-12, Buffalo, New York, USA

Muerte : 1969-07-13

Perfil

Bess Meredyth

Películas

Sin sombra de sospecha
Adaptation
Victor Grandison es criminólogo y una estrella de la radio; es el tutor de una rica heredera, Matilda, a quien se ha dado por muerta en un naufragio. También tenía una secretaria, a la que han asesinado. Para alegrarle la vida, sus amigos le preparan una fiesta, a la que acude una persona no invitada: el viudo de Matilda, del que nadie sabía nada... todo esto se parece demasiado a su programa de radio.
Aquella noche en Río
Screenplay
An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.
El signo del Zorro
Adaptation
Cuando Don Diego Vega regresa a su hogar, descubre que su padre, el alcalde del pueblo de Los Angeles, ha sido destituido por el capitán Esteban Pasquale. Ocultando su identidad bajo una máscara, se convierte en el abanderado de la justicia social; e intentará que Don Luis Quintero abandone el puesto usurpado. Obra maestra que narra las aventuras de El Zorro, el famoso espadachín. Tyrone Power tenía el difícil reto de hacer olvidar a Fairbanks, pero la acertada decisión de acentuar el lado romántico del personaje -en contraposición a su faceta atlética- ayudó a conseguir una versión a la altura de sus predecesoras.
The Great Hospital Mystery
Screenplay
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
Half Angel
Writer
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
Metropolitan
Story
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
Metropolitan
Screenplay
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
Folies Bergère
Screenplay
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
The Mighty Barnum
Theatre Play
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
The Mighty Barnum
Screenplay
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
The Affairs of Cellini
Screenplay
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
El futuro es nuestro
Writer
Un empleado de unos grandes almacenes es despedido, perro encuentra un nuevo empleo en una panadería. La mujer del propietario no soporta la falta de dinero, de modo que se fuga con otro hombre. Al final, los grandes almacenes se salvan de la quiebra y una nueva alianza se forja entre los dos hombres.
Extraño intervalo
Writer
Gordon Shaw era un piloto que fue derribado durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Nina se hubiera casado con él, pero su padre prohibió la boda. Ahora se encuentra tristemente casada con Sam, quien no le puede dar los hijos que ella quiere.
West of Broadway
Screenplay
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
Bajo el cielo de Cuba
Screenplay
Un marine estadounidense atormentado por la culpa regresa a Cuba para localizar a su hijo ilegítimo.
Salvada
Writer
Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens intenta suicidarse cuando Hamilton la abandona. Menos mal que aparece un predicador del Ejército de Salvación que está dispuesto a ocuparse de ella.
The Prodigal
Writer
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
Romance
Screenplay
Cuando Harry se enamora de una actriz, le confiesa su intención de casarse con ella a su abuelo, el obispo Tom Armstrong, pero éste trata de disuadirlo contándole su propia experiencia: cuando era estudiante, conoció en una fiesta a Rita Cavallini, una célebre cantante de ópera, y tuvo un romance con ella, convencido de que por él abandonaría su frívola y escandalosa vida. Pero Rita era la amante de un hombre muy poderoso y no parecía dispuesta a dejarlo.
Our Blushing Brides
Writer
Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Gerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.
Our Blushing Brides
Dialogue
Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Gerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.
The Sea Bat
Writer
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
In Gay Madrid
Dialogue
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.
Chasing Rainbows
Writer
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
Chasing Rainbows
Story
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
El poder de una mujer
Writer
Un pianista alemán va a romper con su esposa infiel, cuando recibe el mensaje de que su hijastro favorito ha muerto.
La mujer ligera
Screenplay
Tras haber sufrido un desengaño amoroso, Diana (Greta Garbo) se abandona a la mala vida y busca la felicidad en brazos de otros hombres. Finalmente, se casa con uno que resulta ser un delincuente.
La mujer ligera
Continuity
Tras haber sufrido un desengaño amoroso, Diana (Greta Garbo) se abandona a la mala vida y busca la felicidad en brazos de otros hombres. Finalmente, se casa con uno que resulta ser un delincuente.
The Scarlet Lady
Writer
Silent film drama...
The Yellow Lily
Writer
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
Sailors' Wives
Screenplay
Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.
Sailors' Wives
Adaptation
Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.
Rose of the Golden West
Writer
Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor who is about to hand California over to the Russians. Since the governor also happens to be Elena's father, this puts him in quite a fix.
Rose of the Golden West
Adaptation
Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor who is about to hand California over to the Russians. Since the governor also happens to be Elena's father, this puts him in quite a fix.
La llama mágica
Writer
Película perdida. Drama, Cine mudo.
Los amores de Manón
Screenplay
Francia, siglo XVIII. Un noble que estudia para ser sacerdote abandona su vocación cuando se enamora de una hermosa, pero reticente, cortesana.
Los amores de Manón
Adaptation
Francia, siglo XVIII. Un noble que estudia para ser sacerdote abandona su vocación cuando se enamora de una hermosa, pero reticente, cortesana.
Irish Hearts
Adaptation
Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However, when he loses his job, Sheila is forced to get a job in a cheap restaurant. There she meets Rory, a poor American boy who works in a shipyard. Rory falls in love with her but she still loves Emmett. Then she finds out that Emmett has been taking up with a brassy "flapper" named Clarice.
Don Juan
Screenplay
La acción se desarrolla en Roma, en la época de los Borgia, Lucrecia (Estelle Taylor), César (Warner Orland), y el Conde Donati (Montagu Love). Don Juan (John Barrymore), a quién su padre Don José (también John Barrymore) enseñó que las mujeres sólo traen tres cosas: vida, desilusión y muerte, tiene múltiples romances a sus espaldas, pero vive obsesionado con la única mujer que nunca pudo tener, Doña Isabel (Jane Winton). Ella y él sufrirán la ira de Lucrecia, despechada por ser ignorada por Don Juan, así como por matar este al conde Donati en un duelo... Destaca por ser la primera película de la historia con una banda sonora completa y efectos de sonido sincronizados, al ser el primer largometraje de la Warner Bros que utilizó el sistema de sonido Vitaphone. Sin embargo, en esencia, y al margen de estos detalles técnicos, se concibió y produjo como una película muda, sin ningún diálogo sonoro, siendo todos los diálogos a base de intertítulos al igual que en el cine mudo.
The Sea Beast
Writer
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
Ben-Hur
Continuity
En los años del Imperio Romano del reinado de Augusto y su sucesor Tiberio, Judá Ben-Hur, hijo de una familia noble de Jerusalén, y Mesala, tribuno romano que dirige los ejércitos de ocupación, se han convertido en enemigos irreconciliables. Acusado de atentar contra la vida del nuevo gobernador romano, Mesala le encarcela junto a su familia. Cuando se llevan a Ben-Hur a galeras, un joven llamado Jesús de Nazaret se apiada de él y le da de beber.
A Slave of Fashion
Writer
Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in a train wreck in which another woman is killed. Katherine finds the woman's purse and, among its contents, discovers an invitation for the woman to spend 6 months in an unoccupied luxury apartment in Manhattan. Katherine seizes this opportunity and sets up housekeeping in the elegant suite, living well and dressing in the newest fashions.
The Red Lily
Screenplay
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
The Red Lily
Scenario Writer
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
Thy Name Is Woman
Adaptation
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
Thy Name Is Woman
Screenplay
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
Strangers of the Night
Writer
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when the two Russian thieves Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
The Dangerous Age
Writer
Married for 22 years, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a husband. He is stung by her rebuffs and, therefore, succumbs to the youthful charms of Gloria Sanderson, whom he meets on a business trip. But just after he mails a letter to Mary telling her that he will not return, John finds Gloria in the arms of her fiancé.
One Clear Call
Screenplay
An outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only friend, a doctor, falls for a married woman.
Grand Larceny
Writer
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
The Song of Life
Writer
A woman abandons her husband and baby to look for a better life in the big city. Years later, as an elderly woman, she finds her son living in the big city and tries to make amends by moving in with him without revealing her secret identity.
The Grim Comedian
Writer
Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her daughter, Dorothy (Gloria Hope) sequestered in a convent far, far away from her fast lifestyle. But when Dorothy leaves the convent to come live with her mother, Marie decides to reform. She gives up her fancy apartment and her latest lover, Harvey Martin (Jack Holt), to concentrate on her daughter and her career, in that order. But Martin has fallen for Dorothy, and Dorothy cares for him too, even though she is already promised to a young artist, Geoffrey Hutchins (John Harron).
The Fighting Breed
Writer
The Big Little Person
Writer
After Arathea Manning loses her hearing during an epidemic of scarlet fever among the children she teaches, her fiancé Arthur Endicott, who is involved with another woman, complains of always having to shout to make himself heard. An inventor, Gerald Staples, gives Arathea an auriphone, a device to restore her hearing, but one of her problem pupils, in a fit of rage, breaks it. Gerald asks Arathea, whom he calls "The Big Little Person -- small in size, but big in ideas," to be the secretary of his new company marketing the invention. He falls in love with her and plays the piano for her even though she hears only rumblings.
The Man Who Wouldn't Tell
Writer
During World War I, young Englishman Hawtrey Burke captivates New York society with his charming manner and his skill at polo, but he incurs the scorn of the woman he loves, Elinor Warden, who, having recently returned from war-torn Belgium, cannot understand why Hawtrey is not on the front lines.
The Romance of Tarzan
Scenario Writer
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws...
That Devil, Bateese
Story
After her romance with Martin Stuart shatters, Kathleen St. John leaves Montreal for the little village of Montrouge, where she plans to teach school. Kathleen loses her way between the station and the village and is attacked in the woods by the town bully, Louis Courteau. Seeing a pretty woman in distress, Bateese Latour, a warmhearted lumberjack whose drunken temper tantrums have earned him the sobriquet "That devil, Bateese," beats off her attacker. A short time later, Bateese falls in love with Kathleen, and promising to abandon his drinking, he carries her off and marries her.
Morgan's Raiders
Writer
"Wild Cat" Betsey Dawley, whose father, "Handsome Harry," was disowned by the proud Dawley family of Greenburgh, Kentucky, meets and thoroughly charms her snobbish cousin Virginia's fiancé, John Davidson, at a picnic. At the start of the Civil War, John becomes a Union officer, while Betsey and her father staunchly defend the South. When Confederate Colonel Morgan, the leader of the intrepid band known as "Morgan's Men," commissions a young horseman to deliver an important message to the Dawley mansion, the rider is shot and Betsey takes his place, breaking through the lines and successfully accomplishing the mission.
Morgan's Raiders
Director
"Wild Cat" Betsey Dawley, whose father, "Handsome Harry," was disowned by the proud Dawley family of Greenburgh, Kentucky, meets and thoroughly charms her snobbish cousin Virginia's fiancé, John Davidson, at a picnic. At the start of the Civil War, John becomes a Union officer, while Betsey and her father staunchly defend the South. When Confederate Colonel Morgan, the leader of the intrepid band known as "Morgan's Men," commissions a young horseman to deliver an important message to the Dawley mansion, the rider is shot and Betsey takes his place, breaking through the lines and successfully accomplishing the mission.
Scandal
Writer
Pay Me!
Writer
During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man's wife. He then deserts his own wife and son to elope with the saloon keeper's daughter. As they are fleeing, the girl discovers the deed and insists upon caring for the baby found in the dead wife's arms.
The Midnight Man
Story
When young inventor Bob Moore fails in his efforts to provide his father, a safe manufacturer, with a lock that is burglar proof, he contacts The "Eel," the most talented safecracker in the city, to offer him a job in his factory. The Eel, deciding to go straight, accepts the offer, but when he later learns that Irene Hardin has been given a valuable necklace by her father, The Eel plans one last job to secure Irene's pearls.
The Little Orphan
Screenplay
Three bachelor buddies, David Clark (Jack Conway), Dick Porter (Richard LeReno), and Jerry Mathers (George Webb) adopt three Belgian children who have been orphaned by the war. David winds up with Rene Lescere (Ella Hall), who -- much to his dismay -- comes with a pet goat and chicken. But Rene comes to love her foster father and vice versa. In fact, she's determined to find him a wife who will also serve as a foster mom for her.
The Little Orphan
Scenario Writer
Three bachelor buddies, David Clark (Jack Conway), Dick Porter (Richard LeReno), and Jerry Mathers (George Webb) adopt three Belgian children who have been orphaned by the war. David winds up with Rene Lescere (Ella Hall), who -- much to his dismay -- comes with a pet goat and chicken. But Rene comes to love her foster father and vice versa. In fact, she's determined to find him a wife who will also serve as a foster mom for her.
Bringing Home Father
Screenplay
Bringing Home Father
Scenario Writer
The Wedding Guest
Scenario Writer
The sheriff of the county is elected by men who call him the "squarest sheriff alive." Panchita Garcia, the flower of the town, loved by all, leaves home for a walk, passing through the town, where all the cowboys come out to meet her. "Bad" Pedro, a native, sees her and follows. He overtakes her and tries to kiss her. The sheriff, who has been passing by and has given Pedro's wife money to buy food for the starving children, hears her and runs to her assistance.
The Severed Hand
Story
The Severed Hand, a society of Italian criminals and blackmailers, swear to kill Danny Dawson, who has turned traitor.
The Forbidden Room
Writer
Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitimate child. His sister's mind has snapped and Gibson takes his sister and his baby niece home with him. The years pass and the niece has grown into a beautiful woman, while her mother is kept locked in a room that the young woman is forbidden to enter. Gibson and his wealthy neighbor, John Morris, are both interested in hypnotism, and one night the two men conduct an experiment by hypnotizing Gibson's niece. This film is presumed lost.
Women and Roses
Scenario Writer
Wallace's mother is the faded rose, his wife the pink rose and his mistress the red rose.
Cupid Incognito
Story
Frank Graham, rich mine owner, is fatally injured by an explosion. On his death bed he confides to his friend, Jim Blake, all his plans concerning his daughter, Angela's, future. He makes him promise to watch over her. His fortune he places in the hands of his brother, a New York banker, to be held in trust for his daughter until her wedding day; the fact of her being an heiress to be kept secret in order to insure her safety from fortune-hunters.
The Way of a Woman
Scenario Writer
Dorothy is a city girl who has chosen to teach school in the backwoods. Pierre is a product of the backwoods, a man who will allow no one to cross him in the most trivial matter, a man in whom the baser elements of character are predominant.
The Voice of the Viola
Scenario Writer
This is a story of the love of two brothers for the same girl.
The Countess Betty's Mine
Scenario Writer
Counters Betty Ardmore inherits from an uncle a large mining property in the United States. At the advice of her counselor she comes to America to personally superintend the conduct of her property. Her brother, a dissolute fellow, is left out of the inheritance, but at his solicitation and promise to reform, she takes him with her.
Cross Purposes
Scenario Writer
Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the old, old tale follows.
The Gratitude of Wanda
Scenario Writer
An indian girl brings military relief to the besieged cabin because of her gratitude to the white man who befriended her.
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Scenario Writer
Reed and Rosson are owners of the Yellow Aster mine. They have taken out enough gold to make the final payment, which is due. Both brothers love the same girl, Pauline, but she prefers Reed. Reed saves an Indian, Eagle Eye, from the drunken taunts of a half-breed, and the latter swears vengeance.
A Sailor’s Heart
The Sailor's 1st Sweetheart
A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.