Ralph Graves

Ralph Graves

Nacimiento : 1900-01-23, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Muerte : 1977-02-18

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Ralph Graves

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The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
(archive footage)
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.
Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Dr. Colman
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Alimony
George Griswold
A promising young composer is tempted away from his devoted wife by a fortune-seeking woman who cares more for his prospects than for him.
Batman y Robin
Winslow Harrison [Chs. 7-8]
This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.
Amazon Quest
Anna's Attorney
Thomas Dekker is a diamond cutter attempting to reclaim his right to a portion of a rubber empire in the early part of the twentieth century. Tom travels to Brazil to uncover the fate of his father and along the way meets Teresa, a local girl who offers to be his guide in the jungle. Eventually, they encounter three armed men who take them to Lobato, a bandit who knew his father. Once convinced that Tom is his friend's son, Lobato tells him a lengthy story which culminates with his meeting Tom's father, who rescued him from drowning. With the help of "flashbacks" from an obscure South American feature, Tom learns what really became of his father.
Double Exposure
Story
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
Eternamente tuya
Mr. Morrisey
Una joven de vida sencilla conoce un día a un ilusionista, El gran Arturo. Deslumbrada por su excitante personalidad, se enamora del mago y, poco después, se casa con él y abandona su pueblo natal para seguirlo en sus giras artísticas. Después de varios años de vida nómada, la mujer se da cuenta de que la felicidad para ella consiste en tener una casa, una familia y un marido a quien cuidar. Una vida que el ilusionista, más preocupado por sus trucos que por su esposa, no parece dispuesto a ofrecerle.
Three Texas Steers
George Ward
La bonita propietaria de un circo posee un rancho, pero nunca ha ido a verlo, aunque tampoco se lo quiere vender a Mike Abbott. Sus socios, conchabados en secreto con Abbott, sabotean el espectáculo para obligarla a vender, pero en cambio ella se instala a vivir en el rancho.
Street of Missing Men
Mike Reardon
An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to bring the paper down..
The Flying Irishman
First Man Grounding Doug in New York
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Outlaws of the Orient
Story
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls.
The Black Coin
Agent Walter Prescott
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.
Speed Limited
Writer
A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.
Speed Limited
Jerry Paley
A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.
Ticket to a Crime
Clay Holt
After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.
Nacida para ser mala
Original Story
Convencida de que su hijo Mickey (Jackie Kelk) tendrá menos oportunidades que los demás, Letty (Loretta Young), una madre soltera, ha educado al chico como un pillo callejero. Un día, Mickey sufre un accidente en el que se ve involucrado Malcolm Trevor (Cary Grant), un hombre de buena posición económica, casado y sin hijos. Cuando éste se encariñe con el chico, Letty verá en Malcolm la posibilidad de hacer el gran negocio de su vida.
Nacida para ser mala
Screenplay
Convencida de que su hijo Mickey (Jackie Kelk) tendrá menos oportunidades que los demás, Letty (Loretta Young), una madre soltera, ha educado al chico como un pillo callejero. Un día, Mickey sufre un accidente en el que se ve involucrado Malcolm Trevor (Cary Grant), un hombre de buena posición económica, casado y sin hijos. Cuando éste se encariñe con el chico, Letty verá en Malcolm la posibilidad de hacer el gran negocio de su vida.
War Correspondent
Franklyn Bennett
In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. While there, he falls for an ex-streetwalker, but must compete with a mercenary pilot for her love. By the end, the correspondent loses his objectivity after he helps the pilot save the woman from the enemy. The rescue costs the pilot his life.
Juventud triunfante
Coach Malcolm
El hijo de unos inmigrantes italianos consigue una beca y va a estudiar a Yale. Durante cuatro años aprenderá sobre fútbol, amor y prejuicios clasistas.
When a Feller Needs a Friend
Mr. Tom Randall
A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.
Scandal for Sale
Dialogue
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
Scandal for Sale
Adaptation
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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.
A Dangerous Affair
Wally Cook
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
Salvation Nell
Jim Platt
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....
Dirigible
'Frisky' Pierce
Un explorador francés, que desea hacer un viaje al Polo Sur, consigue la ayuda de la marina norteamericana. El almirante John S. Martin hará que el comandante Jack Bradon y su amigo y acróbata Frisky Pierce, acepten la empresa de llevar al aventurero. Sin embargo, la esposa de Pierce se opondrá a que su marido participe en lo que ella presiente que será una tragedia.
Hell's Island
Griff
In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her when one of them announces that he plans to marry her. The argument is quite heated and in the ensuing scuffle one of them is shot and wounded.
Mujeres ligeras
Jerry Strong
Kay Arnold es una cazafortunas que va de fiesta en fiesta con la intención de atrapar a un pretendiente rico. Jerry Strong es un joven procedente de una próspera familia que se esfuerza por tener éxito como artista. Lo que comienza como una relación de mutua conveniencia se convierte pronto en otra cosa.
Vengeance
Story
John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The company sends a stiff upper-lipper, Charles Summers, accompanied by his wife, Margaret. An antagonism develops between the two men from the moment Summers arrives.
Song of Love
Tom Gibson
A mawkish backstage musical.
Águilas
Story
Un aviador de la Marina y su profesor de la escuela de vuelo se enamoran de la misma hermosa enfermera.
Águilas
'Lefty' Phelps
Un aviador de la Marina y su profesor de la escuela de vuelo se enamoran de la misma hermosa enfermera.
The College Coquette
Story
Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her roommate, Doris Marlowe, is a naive girl who falls madly in love with Tom, a sophisticated playboy who leads Doris on until he tires of her. At this point Doris pleads with Tom to love her, but he refuses. Betty, afraid for Doris' welfare, tries to save her from Tom by falsely attracting him to herself. Doris, crestfallen, leaves them and accidentally tumbles into an elevator shaft and dies. Harvey is furiously jealous and determines never to see Betty again until he learns the real reason for her actions with Tom; then he asks her to marry him.
Glad Rag Doll
John Fairchild
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
The Eternal Woman
Hartley Forbes
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
The Fatal Warning
Russell Thorne
When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name.
The Flying Fleet
Steve Randall
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
The Sideshow
Gentleman Ted Rogers
Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered him in bookings; what he doesn't know is that the competitor has also planted a saboteur who creates accidents in hopes of reducing the value of the circus. Meanwhile, he's also hired a beautiful young woman as the magician's assistant, with eyes toward more - but he realizes that, as a midget, she won't have him.
Submarino
Bob Mason
Dos marineros rivalizan por conseguir a la misma chica. Cuando ella elige a uno de los dos, su amistad termina fatalmente. Esta situación cambia cuando uno de ellos queda atrapado en un submarino y el otro es enviado a rescatarlo.
The Cheer Leader
Jimmy Grant
Cómo se corta el jamón
Andy B. Charles, Jr.
Molly Kelly quiere casarse con un millonario. Cuando encuentra a Andy Charles decide casarse con él, pero el padre de éste, furioso, decide desheredarle...
The Swell-Head
Lefty Malone
Businessman Lefty Malone decides to become a prizefight, has his head turned by instant success, falls for the wrong woman, Kitty, then realizes the error of his ways, and finds true love with Molly O'Rourke.
The Swell-Head
Director
Businessman Lefty Malone decides to become a prizefight, has his head turned by instant success, falls for the wrong woman, Kitty, then realizes the error of his ways, and finds true love with Molly O'Rourke.
Alias The Deacon
The Country Beyond
Roger McKay
In the Canadian mountains an orphan girl, Valencia, is left in the care of the abusive Hawkins family. A fugitive outlaw, Roger McKay, stumbles onto the property and immediately falls in love with Valencia. When Mr. Hawkins is killed by his long-suffering spouse, Roger assumes that Valencia committed the murder and confesses to the crime to protect her.
Hooked at the Altar
Ralph Rollins
A vamp is hired to destroy an impending wedding.
Blarney
James Carabine
Young Irish boxer James Carabine arrives in New York from Ireland, his way having been paid by Peggy Nolan, a girl from his hometown who's sweet on him. Unfortunately, James falls for the trampy Marcolina, who hooks up with him when her boxer husband loses a fight due to the shady doings of friends of fighter Blanco Johnson. Peggy sets out to rescue him from the bad crowd he's hanging with and get him back into prime boxing form.
Womanpower
Johnny White Bromley
Womanpower (1926)
A Yankee Doodle Duke
Ralph Page
Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.
Meet My Girl
Ralph Rogers
Meet My Girl is a comedy silent short.
Hurry, Doctor!
Jimmy Bailey
Hurry, Doctor! is a 1925 comedy short
Good Morning, Nurse
Roland Royce
Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.
Breaking the Ice
Ray Granger - Football Hero
Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy.
Bashful Jim
Jim
A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short starring Ralph Graves.
Off His Trolley
Elmer Larkin - Conductor
Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're great"), Graves starts two-timing his girlfriend Marion (Alice Day) and spending money he cannot afford.
Riders of the Purple Cows
Ralph Bell
When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
Little Robinson Corkscrew
Jim Bailey
Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.
Yolanda
Maximillian of Styria
The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .
East of the Water Plug
Jim Bailey - the Hero
East of the Water Plug is a silent comedy.
The Extra Girl
Dave Giddings
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
Prodigal Daughters
Roger Corbin
Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper set. Lester Hodges, a songwriter, is enamored of Marjory, while Garside, who runs a card room, is interested in Swifty. While gambling at Garside's place, Swifty meets Roger Corbin, who works as an engineer at her father's business. Corbin falls in love with Swifty. When Mr. Forbes protests against both his daughters' behavior, they move out. Marjory marries Hodges, but eventually leaves him and returns to her parents. Swifty, who has gambled herself into debt, agrees to marry Garside. But when the couple are together in a café, prohibition agents raid the place.
The Ghost Patrol
Terry Rafferty
With his understanding manner policeman Donald Dorgan wins respect on his tough beat in "Little Hell." He tries to help Terry Rafferty "go straight" so that he may receive Rudolph Kugler's permission to marry Effie, but Terry gets into a fight and is sentenced to prison.
The Long Chance
Bob McGraw
Harley P. Hennage, town gambler, takes under his protection Dana Corbaly when her widowed mother dies. He becomes suspicious of the motives of Bob McGraw, a young engineer who has come to town to investigate the mining claim of Dana's father, John Corbaly. But events reveal that he is only the tool of Corbaly's former partner, capitalist T. Morgan Carey.
Come on Over
Shane O'Mealia
Shane O'Mealia leaves Ireland, promising to send for his sweetheart, Moyna. In the mean time the son of the old lady she lives with, takes them back to America without telling Shane, who then must explain a girl he's been seeing in New York.
Kindred of the Dust
Donald McKaye
Discovering that her husband is a bigamist, Nan returns with her child to her Puget Sound logging town. She is treated as an outcast by all save Donald, her childhood sweetheart, the son of a millionaire....
Dream Street
James Spike McFadden
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
Polly with a Past
Rex Van Zile
Polly Shannon takes a job as a maid to earn money to go to Paris and study opera. She becomes embroiled in a scheme by her two employers to help their friend in the love of a woman who does not fancy him: She will pretend to be interested in their friend instead. The film has been lost.
Little Miss Rebellion
Sgt. Richard Ellis
The Grand Duchess Marie Louise is the beautiful young ruler of Molvania. She is a fun-loving girl who secretly hopes that the revolutionaries who threaten to take over her country are able to do so, as that will free her to go to America to be with the soldier friends she met during the Great War.
Mary Ellen Comes to Town
Bob Fairacres
A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.
The Greatest Question
John Hilton Jr.
Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and his wife. Years later, "Little Miss Yes'm", as Nellie is known, returns to the area as an orphan. Locals Mr. and Mrs. Hilton, though poverty stricken, take her into their family. Fully integrated with the loving Hiltons, she wishes to relieve them of their financial strain. Nellie travels to a nearby farmhouse to gain employment from depraved Martin Cain and his paranoid wife.
Días rojos
John Randolph aka Sir Whiteheart
Un romántico bandido llamado Álvarez, buscado por asaltos a los campamentos mineros de la fiebre del oro en California en 1849, es reformado por el amor de una buena mujer.
Her Kingdom of Dreams
Billy Dayne
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
Nobody Home
Malcolm Dale
A young woman is so superstitious that she cannot make a move or a decision without the approval of the cards or the stars. Pursued romantically by two men, one virtuous, the other villainous, the cards point her toward the villain. Which will she follow, her cards or her heart?
I'll Get Him Yet
Harold Packard
A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealth.
What Am I Bid?
Ralph McGibbon
Betty Yarnell lives with her drunkard father in the North Woods mountains. Betty is shunned by the villagers whenever she ventures out to pick up her father from Abner Grimp's saloon, and her only friend is a little lamb. In debt to Abner, John Yarnell signs a note turning over his daughter to Abner in return for unlimited drinks. When Abner goes to the cabin to claim Betty, revenue officer Ralph McGibbon arrives from the city and rescues her. Abner sends his Indian partner Dark Cloud, but Ralph rescues Betty again, although he is badly beaten up.
The Scarlet Shadow
Van Presby
Elena Evans is raised by her puritanical Aunt Elvira, who believes that because of Elena's mother, Elena possesses "the scarlet strain."
The Yellow Dog
Tom Blakely
In the small shipbuilding town of Danforth, Albert Walker realizes, to his distress, that German sympathizers, spies and draft evaders, by voicing doubts about the United States' involvement in the war, are having a disastrous effect on the patriotic spirit of the townspeople.
Tinsel
Bobby Woodward
After the death of her second husband, Princess Sylvia Carzoni writes to her first husband, Richard Carmichael, requesting the custody of their daughter Ruth. The naïve Ruth is so thrilled at the prospect of entering society that Richard reluctantly allows her to go, and in her new surroundings, she happily receives the attentions of several of her mother's friends. Through her own innocence, Ruth withstands their advances, but she falls victim to the dashing Jefferson Kane, who suggests that she visit him at his home. Suspicious, Sylvia follows her daughter to Jefferson's estate, where she finds Ruth struggling with the villain, and after denouncing him, Sylvia takes the girl home. Sylvia lovingly embraces Ruth, and as she is discussing the shallowness of society life, Richard and Bobby Woodward, Ruth's old sweetheart, arrive demanding Ruth's return. Eventually, however, Sylvia regains Richard's love, and Ruth is united with Bobby.
Men Who Have Made Love to Me
The Callow Youth
The story of six affairs of the heart, drawn from controversial feminist author Mary MacLane's 1910 syndicated article(s) by the same name, later published in book form in 1917. None of MacLane's affairs - with "the bank clerk," "the prize-fighter," "the husband of another," and so on - last, and in each of them MacLane emerges dominant. Re-enactments of the love affairs are interspersed with MacLane addressing the camera (while smoking), and talking contemplatively with her maid on the meaning and prospects of love.
Swell Hogan
Writer
A comedy about a Bowery bum.
Swell Hogan
Director
A comedy about a Bowery bum.
Swell Hogan
A comedy about a Bowery bum.