Jean Acker

Jean Acker

Nascimento : 1893-10-23, Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Morte : 1978-08-16

História

Jean Acker (born Harriet Ackers; October 23, 1893 - August 16, 1978) was an American actress.

Perfil

Jean Acker

Filmes

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
Young Man with Ideas
Party Guest (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
O Quarto Mandamento
Party Guest (uncredited)
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
Do Céu Caiu Uma Estrela
Townswoman (uncredited)
Com tanto problemas a atormentá-lo, George Bailey está decidido em acabar com tudo de vez, embora seja véspera Natal. Enquanto os Anjos conversam sobre George, a sua vida passa em retrospectiva. Mas quando George está prestes a saltar de uma ponte, é salvo por Clarence, o seu Anjo da Guarda, que lhe mostra como seria a cidade se ele não tivesse feito tantas coisas boas. Será que Clarence consegue convencer George a regressar à sua família e esquecer o suicídio?
A Casa Encantada
Matron (uncredited)
O famoso médico Edwardes é o recém contratado diretor de uma clínica para doentes mentais. A Dra. Constance é a psiquiatra do local e percebe que os comportamentos de Edwardes estão bastante estranhos.
Obliging Young Lady
Cousin (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Minha Esposa Favorita
Postponed Case Witness (uncredited)
Sete anos depois de um naufrágio no qual ela foi supostamente morta, Ellen Arden chega em casa e descobre que seu marido Nick acabou de se casar novamente. O radiante Nick esforça-se por dar a notícia à sua nova noiva. Mas ele fica chocado quando ouve a história toda: Ellen passou esses sete anos em uma ilha deserta sozinha com outro homem.
Sedutora Aventureira
Minor Role
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...
Lembra-se Daquela Noite?
Jury Member (uncredited)
Antes do Natal, Lee Lander é presa por tentar roubar um bracelete de uma vitrine de uma joalheria. No tribunal, é decidido que ela aguardará julgamento após as festas de fim de ano. O promotor penalizado pela situação resolve levá-la sob custódia para passar as festas de fim de ano com sua família. Após algumas peripécias ela se encanta com o pequeno mundo cheio de bons sentimentos da família dele. Ele por sua vez cai amoroso pela bela delinquente e passa a viver um sério dilema.
Good Girls Go to Paris
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Vogues of 1938
Maid
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
It's in the Air
(uncredited)
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Adeus Mulheres
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Friend of Miss Fane
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Torch Singer
Nightclub Patron
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the child she gave up.
No Marriage Ties
Adrienne's Maid
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
Braveheart
Sky-Arrow
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
Brewster's Millions
Barbara Drew
Monte Brewster learns that he has inherited $10 million from his late grandfather, but then learns that he must spend $2 million in less than a year and remain unmarried to inherit the rest of the money.
The Round-Up
Polly Hope
The adventures of a lovesick sheriff.
An Arabian Knight
Zorah
Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa is cast as an ancient Egyptian donkey boy in An Arabian Knight. The humble Hayakawa rescues high-born Lillian Hall from lascivious pasha Fred Jones. All this brouhaha is actually a dream experienced by Hall.
Lombardi, Ltd.
Daisy
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max Strohm, the manager of a musical review, has promised payment for his girls' lavish costumes as soon as the show makes money. To the dismay of Norah Blake, Lombardi's faithful assistant, who loves him, Lombardi proposes to Phyllis Manning, one of the showgirls, and presents her with his finest creations, while not even attempting to kiss her, as she puts off setting a wedding date and also accepts the attentions of wealthy bachelor Bob Tarrant.
Checkers
Pert Barlow
Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order to save someone he loves from disaster.
Are You a Mason?
Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub. Unfortunately, when he tries to return home, he enters the wrong house and is nearly arrested When Helen comes back he tells her that the "incident" was actually an initiation rite of the Masons, knowing that his wife has always wanted him to join the group. She excitedly tells her father about Frank's becoming a Mason, since her father is also a Mason. What neither she nor Frank know is that her father has actually been doing the same thing Frank is--pretending to be a Mason when he actually isn't. Complications ensue.
Her Own Money
Ruth Alden
Her Own Money is a 1922 comedy