Alphonse Martell

Alphonse Martell

출생 : 1890-03-27, Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]

사망 : 1976-03-18

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Alphonse Martell (born March 27, 1890 in Strasbourg, German Empire, died March 18, 1976 in San Diego, California, United States) was a screen and television actor. Martell performed many French roles in American cinema and directed a film, Gigolettes of Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alphonse Martell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Alphonse Martell
Alphonse Martell

참여 작품

뉴 카인드 오브 러브
Cafe Headwaiter (uncredited)
A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.
7인의 도둑
Governor (uncredited)
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
캉캉
Butler (uncredited)
Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, lawyer François Durnais.
The Man Who Understood Women
Paul – Headwater (uncredited)
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
Paris Playboys
Pierre
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
Convicted
Convict Melreau (uncredited)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
A Woman's Secret
Algerian Waiter (Uncredited)
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
길다
Roulette Croupier (uncredited)
아르헨티나의 도박장에서 많은 돈을 딴 조니는 거리에서 강도의 습격을 받는다. 카지노 소유주 먼슨의 도움으로 위기를 모면한 조니는 그의 심복이 된다. 조니는 먼슨의 아내 길다를 소개받는데, 길다는 다름아닌 조니의 옛 애인. 길다와 조니는 서로에게 이끌리고 이것을 눈치챈 먼슨은 질투와 증오심을 참지 못한다. 먼슨이 비행기 사고로 죽자, 결혼하게 되는 조니와 길다. 하지만 조니는 길다의 과거 남성 편력에 대해 의심을 갖게 되고 이들의 결혼 생활은 순탄치 않게 된다. 그러던 중 죽은 줄 알았던 먼슨이 복수를 하기 위해 돌아오고, 조니와 먼슨의 최후의 격투가 벌어진다.
The Catman of Paris
Maurice Cocaignac
When author Charles Regnier (Carl Esmond) returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour, Marie (Lenore Aubert), and best friend, Henry (Douglass Dumbrille), believe he's innocent ... until the creature begins to stalk Marie (from Netflix description).
Club Havana
Waiter (uncredited)
A doctor answers a suicide call in a Latin nightclub.
Enter Arsène Lupin
Conductor
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
Bathing Beauty
Doorman (uncredited)
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
The Mask of Dimitrios
Roulette Croupier (uncredited)
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Honeymoon Lodge
Headwaiter
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
코니 아일랜드
Jerry - Headwaiter
1905년, 에디 존슨(Eddie Johnson : 죠지 몽고메리 분)은 옛 친구인 존 로코(Joe Rocco : 세사 로메로 분)가 경영하는 코니 아일랜드의 화려한 영업소, '오션 가든스'을 찾는다. 하지만 존 로코는 그를 그다지 반기지 않고 에디는 로코의 가게 건너편에서 가게를 하고 있는 프랭키(Frankie : 필 실버스 분)와 함께 사업을 구상한다. 한편 에디는 조의 여자인 불같은 성미의 댄서 케이트 팔리(Kate Farley: 베티 그레이블)가 스타가 될 잠재성이 있다고 생각하고 케이트를 다듬어 가기 시작한다. 결국 케이트는 일류 연예인의 자질을 갖추게 되고 윌리엄 해머스타인(William Hammerstein : 매트 브리그스)의 후원 아래 브로드웨이의 일류 뮤지컬 스타가 된다. 하지만 정작 케이트를 열심히 키우던 에디는 조의 계략으로 케이트와 헤어지고 이후 케이트는 에디의 라이벌이 돼 버린 존 로코와 사귀게 된다. 하지마 머지않아 케이트는 자신이 사랑하는 에디의 품으로 돌아간다.
Arise, My Love
French Correspondent (Uncredited)
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.
북서 기마 순찰대
Marcel
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
A Dispatch from Reuter's
Board Member (uncredited)
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Hired Wife
Waiter
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
I Was an Adventuress
Frenchman at Exhibit
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
레베카
Hotel Headwaiter (uncredited)
평범하고 수줍음 잘 타는 그녀는 몬테 카를로에서 몇년 전 아내 레베카와 사별한 부유한 신사 맥심을 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 그녀는 아직도 전처를 잃은 슬픔에 다소 불안정한 심리 상태의 맥심과 결혼 후 그의 대저택 '맨덜리'에 입성한다. 아름답지만 음산하고 기묘한 분위기를 풍기는 대저택 ‘맨덜리’는 죽은 레베카가 마치 살아 숨쉬고 있는 것처럼 레베카에게 깊게 물들어 있다. 집사 댄버스 부인 마저 시종일관 무표정함을 유지하며 경계심을 드러내 그녀를 노이로제 상태로 몰아간다. 하지만 남편 맥심은 자신의 심적 고통 때문에 미처 그녀에게 신경을 쓰지 못하고 그들 부부의 결혼 생활은 위기를 맞이하게 된다. 어느 비 바람 몰아치던 저녁, ‘맨덜리’ 저택의 비밀이 드러날 사건이 일어나는데…
브로드웨이 멜로디 오브 1940
French Dancer (uncredited)
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
어나더 틴 맨
West Indies Club Waiter (uncredited)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
City in Darkness
Gendarme
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Miracles for Sale
Nightclub Headwaiter
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Stronger Than Desire
Headwaiter (uncredited)
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Man About Town
Waiter in Show (uncredited)
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Headwaiter
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
The Three Musketeers
Carriage Driver
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Suez
General St. Arnaud
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
I'll Give a Million
Cameraman (uncredited)
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
The Jitters
Mr. Maurice (as Alfonso Martell)
When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself.
Gold Diggers in Paris
Mons. Galledet
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
Doctor Rhythm
Marvelous Marko (uncredited)
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
Judge Hardy's Children
Maitre d'Hotel (uncredited)
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
The Buccaneer
Major Latour
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Wells Fargo
Headwaiter
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Tovarich
Mr. Pierre
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Beg, Borrow or Steal
French Policeman (uncredited)
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
I'll Take Romance
Waiter
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
붉은 옷의 신부
Hotel Headwaiter (uncredited)
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
Artists & Models
Waiter (uncredited)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
The Girl from Scotland Yard
Valet #2
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.
쉘 위 댄스
Doorman (uncredited)
발레 스타 페트로프는 아틀란트를 건너는 배 위에서 우연히 톱 댄서 린다를 만난다. 하지만 페트로프는 그녀가 유명 스타인지 모르는 상황에서 감정이 통해 사랑에 빠진다. 린다에 대해 아는 사람들은 페트로프와 함께 있는 모습을 보고 그들을 부부로 오해, 이 소문이 기정사실화되면서 두 사람은 갈등을 겪기에 이른다. 1930년대, 프레드 아스테어와 진저 로저스가 제작사 RKO에 막대한 경제적 이득을 가져다주던 시기, 두 배우가 콤비로 호흡을 맞춘 영화들 중 일곱 번째 영화인 . 발레단의 스타인 페트로프, 재즈 댄스계의 스타인 린다를 연기한 프레드와 진저는 이 작품에서도 롤러스케이트 댄스를 비롯한 아름다운 댄스의 하모니를 보여주는데, 영화의 타이틀인 Shall We Dance는 동명의 음악이 라스트에 울려 퍼지며 우여곡절을 겪은 두 사람의 사랑이 이루어지는 상징성을 나타내는 것이기도 하다. 프레드 아스테어는 이 영화에서 우아한 발레와 스피디한 탭댄스까지 완벽하게 선사하는데, 미남형의 배우라고 하기엔 어려운 그가 춤을 추면 완벽하고도 매력적인 남성으로 보이는 것은 그가 가진 타고난 재능과 매력 덕분일 것이다.
They Gave Him a Gun
French Captain (uncredited)
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
Let Them Live
Headwaiter
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
Marked Woman
Club Intimate Doorman (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
We Have Our Moments
Headwaiter
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
Seventh Heaven
Frenchman (uncredited)
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
숙녀의 명예
Steward from 'S.S. Queen Ann' on Dock (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
공작 부인
Ship Passenger (Uncredited)
도스워드 자동차 회사의 설립자인 샘 도스워스(Sam Dodsworth: 월터 휴스턴 분)는 미국 굴지의 사업가이다. 경제적으로 안정된 생활 속에서 중년의 삶을 살아가고 있던 어느날, 아내 프랜(Fran Dodsworth: 루스 채터톤 분)의 청으로 은퇴할 것을 결심한다. 사회적 책임에서 벗어나 자유롭게 새 인생을 시작하자는 아내의 소망에 따른 것이다. 샘과 프랜은 주위의 만류에도 불구하고 제2의 인생에 대한 희망으로 유럽 여행을 떠난다. 뉴욕항에서 이들을 배웅하는 친구들과 갓 결혼한 딸 에밀리(Emily: 캐서린 마로 분) 부부. 런던으로 향하는 배 안에서 프랜에게 첫 눈에 반한 아놀드(Arnold Iselin: 폴 루카스 분)는 그녀의 주위를 맴돌며 프랜의 마음을 흔들리게 한다. 처음에는 주저하던 프랜도 20년동안 나무랄데 없는 남편이었던 샘 대신 아놀드를 자신의 변화된 삶 속에 어울리는 동반자로 여기게 된다. 역시 배 안에서 만난 이혼녀 에디뜨(Edith Cortright: 매리 애스터 분)와 함께 샘, 프랜 그리고 아놀드는 런던에 도착한다. 그러나 아내 프랜과는 달리 계속되는 여행과 파티에 싫증을 내고 있던 샘은 집으로 돌아가길 원하고 결국 혼자 돌아가게 된다.
Give Me Your Heart
Dining Room Captain (uncredited)
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
Satan Met a Lady
Headwaiter (uncredited)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
디즈 씨 도시로 가다
Headwaiter (uncredited)
버몬트 주의 작은 마을에서 축하 카드에 시를 쓰는 일을 하는 롱펠로우 디즈(Longfellow Deeds: 게리 쿠퍼 분)가 얼굴 한 번 본 적 없는 삼촌에게서 막대한 유산 을 물려받고 하룻밤 사이에 벼락부자가 된다. 마을 사람들의 환송을 받으며 뉴욕으로 향하는 디즈, 작은 마을의 시인이자 마을 악단의 튜바 연주가였던 그는 이제 뉴욕에 있는 으리으리한 맨션에서 삼촌의 사업을 돌보게 됐다. 하지만 정작 그가 할 일은 변호사들에게 사업을 맡기고 얼굴 마담만 하면 되는 것. 한편, 냉소적인 신문사 편집장인 맥 웨이드(Editor Mac Wade: 죠지 밴그로프트 분)는 디즈의 순진하고 정직한 이미지에 의심을 품고 베이브 베넷(Babe Bennett: 진 아서 분)이라는 현실적인 여기자를 보내 디즈에 대해 몰래 취재하도록 한다. 한 달간의 유급 휴가를 걸고 디즈에게 접근하는 베이브. 디즈의 집 앞에서 기절한 척한 후 자신을 실업자라고 속여 디즈의 동정과 관심을 산다. 마음 여린 디즈는 아무 것도 모른 채 그녀를 극진히 돌봐주고 다음 날 아침 베이브가 일하는 신문의 1면에 '신데렐라 맨'이라는 제목 아래 디즈를 장난거리로 만든 기사가 실린다. 낯선 환경에, 이런 사건까지 생기자 디즈는 더더욱 베이브에게 의존하고 디즈와 베이브는 뉴욕의 구석구석을 돌아다니며 함께 시간을 보내며 점점 가까워진다. 그러다 디즈는 베이브에게 청혼을 하게 되고 양심의 가책을 느끼는 베이브는 디즈를 떠나려 한다. 그런 와중에 디즈는 베이브의 실체를 알게 되면서 실망한 그는 상속받은 돈을 가난한 이들에게 나눠주려고 한다. 하지만 디즈의 변호사들과 삼촌의 유산을 노리는 친척이 디즈의 유산을 가로채려고 서로 협심해 디즈를 정신병자로 취급하는 사건이 생긴다. 디즈의 정신 상태에 대한 재판이 있는 날. 사람들에게 실망한 디즈는 모든 권리 행사를 포기하고 침묵을 지키고 베이브는 디즈에게 정당하게 싸울 것을 호소하는데....
Colleen
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Emil
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
Broadway Hostess
Bartender in 'Playboy of Paree' Number (uncredited)
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Confidential
Jeweller
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
The Cowboy and the Bandit
Larkin
Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes a job on the Barton ranch and joins in the fight against gang leader Larkin. Finding a wounded Scarface he helps him recover. Arrested by Larkin's stooge Sheriff, and with another lynch mob after him, he once again needs Scarface's help.
웨딩 나이트
Waiter
경제적으로 쪼들리던 소설가 토니는 아내와 뉴욕을 떠나 고향 농장으로 간다. 이웃의 폴라드인 얀 노박이 토니의 농장을 원하고, 농장을 팔아 돈이 생기자 아내는 뉴욕으로 가버린다. 한편, 노박 가족에게 흥미가 생긴 토니는 그들을 소재로 글을 쓰려고 고향에 남는데, 그는 얀의 딸 마냐와 사랑에 빠지고 만다. 비극적 결말이 예견되지만, 허락 받지 못할 사랑에 대한 색다른 시선을 담았다. 한때 ‘제2의 그레타 가르보, 마를렌 디트리히’라 불리며 기대를 모았으나 아쉽게도 할리우드에 정착하지 못했던 러시아 출신의 안나 스텐이 풍부한 잠재성을 보여준 작품이기도 하다.
One More River
Headwaiter (Uncredited)
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
One Night of Love
Headwaiter
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Maid in Hollywood
Director
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
Soup and Fish
Hemingway, Third Butler (uncredited)
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count. Just before our working-class pair arrives at the party, the hostess is called away to see to an ill dog. Thelma tries to behave in a refined way, but Patsy, with a head full of practical jokes and a bra filled with trick gadgets, turns the party on its head. The butler calls the hostess back to her home. Is Thelma and Patsy's moment in high society coming to a crashing end?
Only Yesterday
Headwaiter (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Gigolettes of Paris
Story
Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a rich customer, Count Albert Valraine (Theodore Von Eltz), salesgirl Suzanne Ricord accepts his engagement ring, but when she fails to understand "the rules of the game," as he puts it, the caddish Valraine demands that she return the bauble.
Gigolettes of Paris
Director
Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a rich customer, Count Albert Valraine (Theodore Von Eltz), salesgirl Suzanne Ricord accepts his engagement ring, but when she fails to understand "the rules of the game," as he puts it, the caddish Valraine demands that she return the bauble.
The Match King
Frenchman Lighting Match (uncredited)
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Private Lives
Hotel Concierge (uncredited)
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot remarries to Sibyl, Amanda weds Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive to a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda sees Elyot on the adjacent terrace.
The Gigolo Racket
Alphonse - the Headwaiter
As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is a gigolo, with whom she eventually falls in love.
God's Gift to Women
Alphonse, the Headwaiter (uncredited)
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
Sweethearts and Wives
Gendarme
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
A Woman of Affairs
French Hotel Concierge (uncredited)
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
Dream of Love
Michonet
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play resembling the sad story of their earlier relationship. He falls in love with her again. The jealous duchess and the duke arrange to have him shot by firing squad but revolutionaries save him and make him King.
Noah's Ark
French Policeman (uncredited)
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
The Night Bird
Pete (as Alphonse Martel)
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
The Divine Sinner
Paul Coudert
Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police prefect Nigel De Brulier, Lillia agrees to seduce a politically important foreign prince Ernest Hilliard in exchange for her freedom.
Scarlet Youth
A country girl is seduced by a criminal and moves with him to the big city. When she sees him with another woman, she leaves him and goes to work in a brothel, where she contracts a venereal disease.
Naughty Nanette
Carlton (as Alphonse Martel)
The Strings of Steel
Alexander Graham Bell
The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial.
The Love Thief
Berzoff
To avert war between their countries an official marriage is arranged between Crown Prince Boris of Moraine and Princess Flavia of Norvia. Prince Karl of Norvia sees in the alliance an opportunity to gain control of both kingdoms but upon visiting Boris finds him unyielding and independent. Flavia, shedding her stately dignity in the palace garden, is accosted by the flirtatious Boris, who believes her to be the princess' cousin; and falling in love, he realizes that he cannot go through with the planned marriage.