Betty Bronson
Nascimento : 1906-11-17, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Morte : 1971-10-19
História
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Betty Bronson (November 17, 1906 – October 19, 1971) was an American television and film actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was a famous actress in silent and sound films.
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Old Lady
Nesta deliciosa comédia, o premiado e talentoso ator Peter Ustinov interpreta o fantasma do lendário pirata Barba Negra. Condenado a vagar pela eternidade até que pratique uma boa ação, o malvado Barba Negra aparece em uma cidadezinha da Nova Inglaterra. Sua grande oportunidade de livar-se desta maldição surge quando ele decide ajudar uma equipe de atletas da faculdade local... que não tem a menor chance de vencer! Usando seus poderes sobrenaturais, este fantasma brincalhão e irreverente apronta as maiores trapalhadas, nesta comédia que vai fazer você morrer de rir!
Miss Josephine
A prostituta Kelly, traumatizada por uma certa experiência feita por psiquiatras, deixa seu passado e encontra consolo na cidade de Grantville. Ela conhece Griff, o capitão da polícia da cidade, com quem passa uma tarde romântica. Kelly encontra um emprego como enfermeira em um hospital para crianças deficientes e o trabalho ajuda-a a encontrar o seu lado sensível no cuidado e ajuda dos seus jovens pacientes. O caminho de Kelly em direção à felicidade é errado, quando ela testemunha um evento chocante, que ameaça não apenas sua felicidade, mas também sua saúde mental.
Mayor's Wife (uncredited)
Conto de fadas de Damon Runyon, carinhoso e engraçado, contado pelo diretor Frank Capra. A preciosa Annie das Maçãs, uma mendiga com uma cesta de maçãs, é tão parte do centro de Nova York quanto a própria Broadway. O contrabandista Dave Dude é um fã das suas maçãs, ele acha que elas dão sorte. Mas Dave e sua namorada Queenie Martin precisam de muito mais do que sorte quando se descobre que Annie está em uma enrascada e só eles podem ajudar: a filha de Annie, Louise, que viveu toda sua vida em um convento espanhol pago pela pobre Annie, está vindo para a América com um Conde e seu filho. O filho do conde quer se casar com Louise, que acha que sua mãe faz parte da alta sociedade de Nova York. Cabe a Dave e Queenie e seus peculiares companheiros transformar Annie em uma dama e convencer o conde e seu filho que eles estão se unindo a elite de Nova York.
Milly Baynum
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.
Ellen Gray
A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.
Mamie Goltz
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
Helen Reagan
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
Aunt Winifred Canfield
Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Jeanne
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.
Reporter
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
Sally Williams (Betty Bronson) marries Donald Moore (Richard Walling) and have trials and tribulations and input from others but they demonstrate that the most successful marriages are usually based on trust and respect, rather than on sex alone. Released in the UK under the title of "The Jazz Bride".
Grace
After years of hopeful struggle, Al Stone (Jolson) is on his way. "I'm Sittin' on Top of the World", he sings to an appreciative speakeasy crowd. But, as Al discovers, getting there is one thing. Staying there is another. Singing waiter Stone gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows a big-time producer and a gold-digging showgirl he fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way. Al's fickle wife abandons him, taking the beloved son he calls Sonny Boy with her. Heartbroken, Al becomes a devastated loner until friends from the speakeasy that launched his career rescue him from a life on the streets. Soon, Al is back in lights. But another crisis awaits: Sonny Boy is in the hospital and dying....
Sally Lane
Steve Porter, a young American bachelor and fully intending to remain as such, inherits a fortune but must get married in order to claim it.
Doris Poole
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had never told her how she happened to become an orphan. They persuade Ted's mother to send him on a voyage to the Orient in order to get him away from Doris. But they neglected to tell the mother they had also booked passage for Doris on the same ship.
Chrissie
After a daredevil demonstration of aviator stunts, Anthony Fortescue-Stirling, more familiarly known as Tony, is cast adrift by his father. He meets Chrissie, of vaudeville fame, at a fancy-dress ball and falls in love with her.
Mary
Os amigos de infância Judah Ben-Hur e Messala encontram-se novamente quando adultos. Messala é um oficial romano e Ben-Hur é um israelita conquistado. Um mal-entendido durante um desfile romano faz com que Ben-Hur seja escravizado pelo agora ex-amigo e veja sua família humilhada. Este é apenas o começo da épica jornada de Ben-Hur em busca da vingança.
Cinderella (Jane)
An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.
Betty Dover
Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she devours -- finds one prospect in an earnest denizen of the Bowery, and another in an elegant young aristocrat. Focusing on the bygone era's fashions, the novelty of the bicycle-built-for-two, and an inventor's quest for the horseless carriage, the film gently stirs the audiences' nostalgia for simpler times.
Lita Hazlitt
The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most of their time fighting with each other, are planning to divorce. She schemes to get them back together by pretending to fall for a dimwitted actor, hoping that her parents will unite to prevent the "romance".
Peter Pan
Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.
Page (uncredited)
War drama - Fitzmaurice was able to film King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini reviewing Italian troops.
Minor Role (uncredited)
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
Janet Ammidon
Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to China to "get away from it all". While in Shanghai he rescues a beautiful young woman being attacked by a gang of street toughs. She turns out to be Taou Yuen, a Manchu princess. Gerrit discovers that, unless she finds a husband, she will be put to death, and he agrees to marry her. They return to Java Head, the Ammidon family home in Salem, Massachusetts, but Gerrit's "homecoming" has some unexpected consequences.