Dorothy Cumming

Dorothy Cumming

Nacimiento : 1899-04-12,

Muerte : 1983-12-10

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Dorothy Cumming

Películas

Applause
Mother Superior
This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps.
Kitty
Mrs St. George
A shopgirl loves a paralysed amnesiac and kidnaps him from his interfering mother.
Trafalgar
Queen Maria Carolina
Emma entra a trabajar con su madre en la casa de un rico aristócrata, el honorable Charles Greville, quién no tarda en seducirla, aunque no mucho después decide enviarla a Nápoles con su tío Sir William Hamilton para que se convierta en su amante y así evitar que este se case y perder la herencia. Con lo que no contaba Greville es que finalmente Hamilton pediría la mano de Emma y acabaría casándose con ella, a pesar de que Emma le ha confesado que no le ama. Poco después estalla la guerra entre Inglaterra y Francia... (FILMAFFINITY)
El viento
Cora
Letty, una inocente joven de Virginia, se traslada desde el Este a las praderas de Texas, donde parece que el viento nunca deja de soplar y la arena llega a todas partes. Allí vive con unos parientes, pero, como no se siente querida, se verá abocada a un matrimonio que no desea. (FILMAFFINITY)
Vírgenes modernas
Diana's Mother
Ben Blaine, un apuesto y joven millonario, es asediado por dos jovencitas. Ellas juegan a conquistarlo asumiendo roles opuestos a su verdadera personalidad. Diana, una chica de buenos sentimientos, se vuelve frívola y calculadora. Ann, es amoral, vana y se torna dulce y considerada. Ben elige a Ann y se casan. Diana, perpleja y desesperada, trata de no seguir pensando en Ben pero el destino les depara una sorpresa que vuelve a reunirlos.
Forbidden Hours
Queen Alexia
Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.
The Divine Woman
Mmme. Zizi Rouck, Marianne's Mother
[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
La canción de Kentucky
Mrs. Brierly
Una acaudalada familia sureña que basa gran parte de su fortuna en el negocio de los caballos ve como la I Guerra Mundial acaba con su armonía a raíz de que el hijo vaya a luchar al frente y los caballos sean ofrecidos al ejército.
El rey de reyes
Mary, the Mother
Una de las primeras películas del cine mudo que abordaron la narración bíblica de Jesucristo. En esta ocasión, contada desde el punto de vista de María Magdalena (Dorothy Cumming), antigua cortesana al servicio de los romanos que es redimida por el amor de Jesús (H.B. Warner). En 1961, Nicholas Ray hizo un remake con Jeffrey Hunter en el papel principal.
Butterflies in the Rain
Lady Pintar
Tina, who is from an aristocratic English family, believes in the new freedom for women and is an ardent follower of a group of pseudo-bohemians. While riding through the neighboring estate of John Humphries, a wealthy commoner resented by the Carteret family, she is retrieved from a fall by John and blames him for the accident. The following day, she invites him to dinner, pretending repentance, but taking pleasure in ridiculing his old-fashioned dignity.
Mademoiselle Modiste
Marianne
Robert Z. Leonard directed Griffith in a story based on a popular 1905 Victor Herbert operetta on Broadway, Mlle. Modiste, with a libretto by Henry Martyn Blossom, which was similar to the MGM film The Merry Widow. The film is now considered a lost film. The story was refilmed in 1930 as the talkie Kiss Me Again.
A Kiss for Cinderella
Queen
An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.
The New Commandment
Countess Stoll
Billy Morrow (Ben Lyon), who comes from a wealthy family, is sailing to Europe with his father (Holbrook Blinn) on their yacht. Along for the ride is Mrs. Parr (Claire Eames) and her stepdaughter. Near the French coast, Billy discovers that Mrs. Parr wants to arrange a marriage between him and the girl, so he escapes and takes a lifeboat ashore.
The Coast of Folly
Constance Fay
Silent film drama...
The Manicure Girl
Flora
A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
The Female
Clodah Harrison
A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melodrama, from the Cynthia Stocklet Story. Dalla (Betty Compson) is a pretty orphan who is adopted by a wealthy man. When she matures, he invites her to England (leaving her beau behind),and eventually marries her. After her husband is murdered, she is accused of the crime, because she has still been seeing her old beau Col. Valentia (Warner Baxter). After eventually being cleared of the crime Della maries her first love...Valentia.
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Mrs. Horton
Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the death of her benefactor, she becomes a model in a fashionable shop. There she falls into the hands of her mother's unscrupulous nephew, who contrives to do away with her in order to obtain her fortune. ....
The Next Corner
Paula Vrain
While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.
Twenty-One
Mrs. McCullough
Twenty-One is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson and starring Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill and Joe King.
The Cheat
Lucy Hodge
After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.
A Self Made Wife
Elena Vincent
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
Manslaughter
Eleanor Bellington
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
The Man from Home
Princess Sabina
A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamorous prince in beautiful Italian surroundings.
Don't Tell Everything
Jessica Ramsey
Two men in love with the same woman are further complicated by the arrival of a second woman.
The Thief
Isabelle Lenwright
Silent film comedy drama..
Idols of Clay
Lady Cray
A girl raised isolated from society in the South Seas falls in love with a visiting sculptor.
Snow White
Queen Brangomar, Snow White's Stepmother
Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarfs in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.