Mathilde Comont
Nacimiento : 1886-09-09, Bordeaux, France
Muerte : 1938-06-21
Historia
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Mathilde Comont (9 September 1886 – 21 June 1938) was a French-born American actress of the silent era. She appeared in films in her native country, particularly shorts, before going on to appear in US films, she would feature in a total of 71 films between 1908 and 1937. A largish and short women of 5 feet,4 inches, she died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.
Customer
The shop girl Emmy Grant meets the handsome doorman John Patrick O'Ryan outside of a theater and she is convinced that he is her true love. O'Ryan is a zealous medical student, soon to be a pediatrician, and is oblivious to Emmy's frantic attempts to gain his attention. O'Ryan is totally focused on babies. Undaunted, she 'borrows' a baby and a buggy, determined to catch O'Ryan.
Cook Guisseppi
Anthony Adverse, un niño huérfano que crece en un convento, se enamora de la hija del cocinero. Pero el muchacho se verá envuelto en un sinfín de aventuras que lo llevarán de Cuba a África y después a París. Allí encontrará a su amada convertida en una estrella de la ópera; él, por su parte, llegará a descubrir los secretos que oculta su pasado.
Tony's Wife
La hija de un acaudalado hombre de negocios se pierde en la estación y es acogida por una pareja de artistas de variedades fracasados, que ven en ella la solución a su mala racha.
Señora Matinez
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
Mrs. Spadaloni
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Viola
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Carmen
A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.
Gypsy (Uncredited)
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Proprietess (uncredited)
Naomi mata a su marido maltratador para proteger a su familia, y construye una nueva vida para criar a sus cuatro hijos.
Heavy Woman (uncredited)
George Curtis, pintor, y Tom Chambers, autor teatral, que comparten un piso en París, conocen en el tren que se dirige a esta ciudad a Gilda Farrell, americana como ellos y dibujante publicitaria. Ambos se enamoran inmediatamente de ella y, como Gilda es incapaz de decidirse por uno, deciden vivir un menage à trois.
Nana
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
Mamacita
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a 52-minute feature called The Film Parade that was shown in New York and favorably reviewed by "Variety" in 1933. He continued tinkering with the film for the rest of the decade, and later filmmakers and distributors used Blackton's footage for stock or to produce their own variously titled and truncated versions. -UCLA Film & Television Archive
French Hotel Maid
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Waitress (Uncredited)
Una chica rica de la alta sociedad neoyorkina con fama de aburrida se da cuenta de que se es mucho más popular entre los hombres cuando se pretende ser una chica "mala". De viaje en París conoce a Guy, un joven americano arruinado que le ayudará a inventarse esa "mala" fama para llamar la atención de la sociedad en la que se mueve y en particular la de su amado Donnie.
Madame Bartet (uncredited)
En un circo lleno de seres deformes, tullidos y personas con diversas amputaciones, Hans, uno de los enanos, hereda una fortuna. A partir de ese momento, Cleopatra, una bella contorsionista, intentará seducirlo para hacerse con su dinero. Para lograr su objetivo, traza un plan contando con la complicidad de Hércules, el forzudo del circo...
Aunt Rosa
Un marine estadounidense atormentado por la culpa regresa a Cuba para localizar a su hijo ilegítimo.
Maria Romero
When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he is in trouble when his mother arrives and exposes the hoax.
Chambermaid
A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim.
Bit Role (uncredited)
Set in London, American Larry Brooks, former millionaire and now broke, pursues lovely Elinor Farrington who, encouraged by her Aunt to marry wealth, falls for him not knowing that he is poor. Trying to regain his status in the racing world since the loss of his champion racehorse and the efforts of a gangster left him penniless, he and his trainer live from hand to mouth as he tries desperately to woo the girl, despite her aunt's suspicions. But Elinor soon finds herself falling for him until he admits to all that he is not what he appears to be.
Madame Fogharde
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi. Intent on ruining the circus's chances at success, Tobey sabotages their performances. But after a tragedy befalls Mimi, Tobey has a dramatic change of heart and views Mimi in a completely new way.
Rita's Maid Vannucci
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.
La Rumbarita
A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.
Mimba
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
Aunt Rosita
A complete version of the film is held by Cineteca Del Friuli.
Marda
Ramona, una joven mestiza, aunque ella lo ignora, vive en la hacienda de la señora Moreno, quien la adoptó, con el hijo de ésta, a quien Ramona considera como un hermano. Todo cambiará cuando llegue Alessandro, el jefe de los esquiladores de ovejas.
Mother Suzy
Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.
Marfa the Hostess at Inn (uncredited)
Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo) está casada con el senador Karenin (Brandon Hurst), de quien tiene un hijo de cinco años. Pero cuando conoce al capitán del ejército zarista Alexei Vronsky (John Gilbert), ambos quedan prendados el uno del otro y así comenzará la historia de un gran amor prohibido que, ni la sociedad ni el ejército, aprueban en absoluto.
Buttercup, Mary's Companion
Emilia
The Loves of Carmen is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Raoul Walsh. The film, based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, stars Dolores del Río in the title role, and Don Alvarado as Jose.
Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who creates a new kind of ladies' lingerie. When he goes to Atlantic City to meet his lost sweetheart, he discovers she has grown fat and ugly, so he pretends to be "Mr. Wright". All kinds of comic hilarity ensue. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
Maid (scenes deleted)
Chester Binney, a wounded war veteran, erroneously believes he is carrying a silver plate in his head and must avoid all excitement. He returns to his hometown, and there his former employer, George Simmons, attempts to arrange a match between Chester (who is to inherit a fortune) and his daughter Ethel. Ethel, however, finds Chester unexciting as a lover; and to enliven the affair, the father invents a lurid past for the boy by displaying a signed photograph of Rita Renault, a famous movie star. Rita, accompanied by her jealous husband, Jack Shields, arrives in the town for a personal appearance. By chance, Jack discovers the photograph of Rita, presumably the property of Chester, and when he sees his wife kissing Chester, a running fight ensues.
Camille
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), una compañía de marines estadounidenses se encuentra destacada en Francia bajo el mando del Capitán Flagg. Como los refuerzos que les llegan están formados por muchachos sin experiencia, Flagg solicita al alto mando un sargento mayor que se encargue de adiestrarlos antes de entrar en combate. Llega, entonces, el Sargento Quirt, un viejo rival de Flagg.
Rosa
Nicola Riccobini, a puppet master in New York's Italian quarter, is an energetic and domineering man in the family, in contrast to his dreamy, poetic cousin Bruno.
Madame Timbuctoo
Zabette de Chauvalons leaves a convent in Brussels to join her father on the island of Martinique, escorted by Père Bénédict. In St. Pierre she finds that her father has died; his widow, who rules the island's French society, believes Zabette to be the child of a beautiful quadroon with whom Zabette's father left for France; when Zabette is sent to the mulatto quarter, Stéphane Séquineau is present and takes an interest in her. Destitute, Zabette is forced to auction off her Paris fashions, and though Quembo, a cunning quadroon, is the highest bidder, Stéphane outbids him at the last minute and professes his love, which she accepts, believing herself to be une fille de couleur; however, his older brother, Maurice, insinuating that a mixed marriage would ruin him, persuades her to desist.
Madame Vauquer
In a Paris boarding house, a mysterious stranger seems to somehow solve the problems and conflicts of the residents, all the while hiding a secret of his own.
Maid (uncredited)
Kiki se gana la vida vendiendo periódicos por las calles de París. Cuando se entera que una chica del coro ha sido despedida de la revista Folies Barbes dirigida por Víctor Renal, encuentra un camino para realizar su sueño y solicita el trabajo. Kiki se gasta todo su dinero en comprar ropa adecuada, pero es expulsada de la prueba ya que no ha sido recomendada por la Agencia de colocación. Pero no ceja en su empeño. Mientras está en la sala esperando para otra prueba, es confundida con la secretaria de Renald por una solicitante de la Agencia, quien le da a Kiki su carta de recomendación. Ésta se apropia de la carta y se la presenta a Renald, quien le procura otra audición...
Sarah
After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marriage engagements.
Madame Benoit
Romance inspirado en la ópera de Giacomo Puccini, situado en el París de 1830. Un grupo de bohemios (pintores, escritores, músicos) sobreviven en las calles como pueden, acosados por el alquiler y el hambre. El dramaturgo pobre Rodolphe intenta sacar adelante su obra de teatro. Mimi, su novia, acude a un vizconde para poner en marcha la producción... siendo malinterpretadas por ambos hombres las intenciones de Mimi.
Carmenata
A Parisian cabaret dancer Emilia finds herself under the scrutiny of aristocratic British military officer Jerome Hautrix, who catches her act while on furlough during WWI. Convinced that Emilia is of noble birth, Hautrix tracks her down after the war, determined to trace her family tree. In the process, the two mismatched souls fall in love.
Conchita
Based on a Peter B. Kyne novel, The Enchanted Hill featureds a triangle romance between Jack Holt, rancher's daughter Mary Brian and jealous foreman Richard Arlen.
Mula
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
Fat Harem Lady
Gritzko (John Gilbert) es un noble ruso que desea conquistar a Tamara (Aileen Pringle). Basada en la novela "Three Weeks" de Elinor Glyn.
Dueña / Mme. Nellie
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
Persian Prince (uncredited)
Abú, un ladronzuelo que actúa por las calles de Bagdad, es detenido y encarcelado. Comparte la celda con el príncipe Ahmad, legítimo heredero del trono de Bagdad, a quien el Gran Visir Jaffar ha encarcelado para arrebatarle el poder.
Rosita's Mother
The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.
The bride
A 1923 silent comedy.
A welcome guest of the French aristocracy, Monsieur Picard having been awarded the Croix De Guerre, is also a master thief who baffles the Parisian police. One night, while Picard watches an Apache dance, he learns that one of his three adopted children is seriously ill. When his car breaks down, Picard politely forces Helen Deprenay to loan him her auto, and leaves his cross as security. The next day, the police pursue Picard to the Deprenay home where the prefect warns Helen about Picard. Helen writes to the entreating Picard, and refuses to see him until he proves himself of worth to society. Disguised as Scotland Yard agent Armand DuBois, Picard is present at the Deprenay home when a necklace is stolen. After Helen covers for him, Picard catches the thief in an attempt to swindle the entire community in a stock market scheme. He informs the police that Picard no longer exists, and escapes with Helen to a new life.