Claire Du Brey

Claire Du Brey

Рождение : 1892-08-31, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA

Смерть : 1993-08-01

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Claire Du Brey (born Clara Violet Dubrey, August 31, 1892 – August 1, 1993) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 200 films between 1916 and 1959. Her name is sometimes rendered as Claire Du Bray or as Claire Dubrey. Du Brey's screen career began with Universal Studios and she played at one time or another with almost all the larger companies. More notable films in which she appeared were Anything Once (1917), Social Briars (1918), The Devil's Trail (1919), What Every Woman Wants (1919) and Dangerous Hours (1919). Other films include The Wishing Ring Man, The Spite Bride, The World Aflame, and The Walk Offs. Her career declined with the sound era and she later played mostly small roles. Du Brey was proficient in athletics, excelling in swimming, riding, golfing, tennis and motoring. She was five feet seven inches high, weighed 130 pounds and had auburn hair and brown eyes, and took a lively interest in horticulture.

Профиль

Claire Du Brey

Фильмы

Escort West
Mrs. Kate Fenniman
Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his daughter meet Beth (Elaine Stewart), whose fiancé is a Union soldier. Lassiter falls for Beth, and when Indians attack, they head to a cavalry camp where Lassiter must battle the Indians as well as Beth's fiancé.
Frontier Gun
Bess Loveman
Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
Hot Rod Gang
Agatha, the maid
A kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.
Жажда жизни
Housekeeper
Фильм рассказывает о художнике Винсенте Ван Гоге, одолеваемом психическими проблемами и разочарованием от неудач. При поддержке своего брата Тео измученный Ван Гог покидает Голландию и отправляется во Францию, где он встречается с художником Полем Гогеном и старается найти вдохновение для своего творчества.
Туз в рукаве
Spinster (uncredited)
Журналист Чарльз Тэйтум, работавший ранее на крупную нью-йоркскую газету, вынужден из-за своего пьянства сменить место работы и перебирается в глухую провинцию. Он надеется дать новый старт своей карьере, однако, в течение целого года не может найти достойную тему. Однажды он узнает, что неподалеку некий Лео Миноза застрял в старой индейской шахте и не может оттуда выбраться. Чарльз решает, что это именно то, что он так долго искал, и начинает раздувать из этой истории большую сенсацию…
Золушка
(credit only) (voice)
Золушка — бедная сиротка, которую злая мачеха и ее вздорные дочки, заставляют тяжко работать с утра до ночи. Она так хочет попасть на королевский бал. На помощь бедняжке приходит Добрая фея! Силой волшебства она наделяет Золушку роскошной каретой, чудесным платьем и необыкновенными хрустальными башмачками.
Самсон и Далила
Temple Spectator (uncredited)
Самсон — израильский богатырь, прославившийся в войнах с филистимлянами. Однажды на него напал лев, и Самсон растерзал его голыми руками. Много раз враги израильтян, филистимляне, покушались убить его, но всегда безуспешно. Любовь к филистимлянке Далиле погубила Самсона. Узнав, что сила героя заключается в его длинных волосах, она во время сна остригла ему волосы и передала в руки филистимлян. Язычники, выколов глаза, посадили Самсона в темницу. Согласно Ветхому Завету однажды мучители вывели Самсона на всенародное поругание в свой языческий храм. Самсон попросил отрока, водившего его за руку, подвести его к двум колоннам, на которых держалось все здание, чтобы прислониться к ним. Помолившись Богу, он уперся в столбы руками и сдвинул их с места. Здание обрушилось. Под развалинами здания погибли все филистимляне, бывшие там, а с ними и сам Самсон.
Эбботт и Костелло встречают убийцу Бориса Карлоффа
Mrs. Grimsby
В отеле, где работают Эбботт и Костелло, совершается убийство. Все улики указывают на Костелло, который решает провести собственное расследование и доказать властям свою невиновность.
Out of the Storm
Mrs. Smith
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
French Leave
Mom LaFarge
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.
Lightnin' in the Forest
Martha
Psychiatrist David Lamont is pressured into "analyzing" the madcap but glamorous niece of a judge. Then crooks on the lam intrude...
Жена епископа
Second Lady in Michel's
Канун рождества, магазины полны подарков, идет пушистый снег, горожане любуются огнями новогодних елок и блеском мишуры. Только Генри Брогхэм - епископ, мечтающий о новом кафедральном соборе и отдающий все свое время сбору пожертвований у богатых горожан на его строительство, не замечает предпраздничной суеты. Увлеченный своей мечтой, он практически не уделяет внимания своей красавице жене Джулии и дочери. Однажды вечером перед епископом появляется незнакомец по имени Дадли, который уверяет, что он Ангел, спустившийся с небес ему на помощь. Пришелец быстро становится лучшим другом Джулии и её дочери Дебби, также этот симпатичный господин рассказывает горожанам поучительные истории на тему жизни и веры, и вскоре становится своим человеком в городке. Епископ не может поверить в существование Ангела, но происходящие маленькие чудеса вынуждают Генри задуматься над суетностью своей жизни и пересмотреть отношения с близкими, друзьями, дочерью и любимой женой...
Bells of San Fernando
Manta
In the New Spain era, a tyrant ruling the San Fernando Valley attempts to wrestle a blacksmith’s daughter from the arms of her Irish sailor fiancé.
Лучшие годы нашей жизни
Mrs. Talburt - Perfume Customer (uncredited)
Фильм рассказывает историю о трех офицерах американской армии, которые с войны возвращаются домой к своим семьям. Эл, Фред и Хомер — эта история о них, у Эла дома жена и двое уже подросших детей, которые как раз вступают во взрослую жизнь, он пытается наверстать упущенное, узнать их заново и вновь завоевать семейную любовь и доверие, по возвращению его приглашают работать в банке на более высокую должность, нежели он был до того как отправился на войну. У Фреда в свою очередь красавица жена, которая начала самостоятельную жизнь, уехав от родителей Фреда и поселившись в отеле и как видимо не очень то скучала без мужа, к тому же на работу Фреда брать не торопятся и у него, серьезные финансовые проблемы, после совместной выпивки в баре Фред попадает домой к Элу и там он влюбляется в дочь Эла, Пегги.
The Secret of the Whistler
Laura - Harrison's Servant
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
Don Ricardo Returns
Mama Teresa
After being shanghaied in a plot to have him declared dead and take over his ranchero and other properties, Don Ricardo, disguised as a peon, returns to Old California, and begins the fight to reclaim what is his.
Плащ и кинжал
Администрация президента Рузвельта во время второй мировой войны основала тайную организацию Управление Стратегических Служб — «ОСС» цель и задача, которой состояла в промышленном шпионаже и похищении интеллектуальной собственности у нацистов. Ученый-атомщик Алва Джеспер призван в ОСС, чтобы добыть немецкие научные разработки в области создания ядерной бомбы. Его миссия начинается в Швейцарии и состоит в получении сведений от его бывшего коллеги — ученого-атомщика, работавшего на нацистов, а в настоящее время отдыхающего в швейцарском санатории. Алва не удается встретиться с физиком, агент немецкой разведки убивает ученого.
The Invisible Informer
Martha Baylor
An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the theft of a valuable emerald necklace. The company assigns operatives Eve Rogers and Mike Regan to the case.
The Catman of Paris
Servant
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).
Дакота
Wahtonka
1871 год. Чикаго. Крепкий парень, меткий стрелок и просто хороший человек Джон Девлин тайно обвенчался с Сэнди Поли, дочерью человека вспыльчивого, но отходчивого - владельца Чикагской железной дороги Марко Поли. Ко всему прочему доченька, стащив у папаши 20000 долларов, бежит с молодым мужем из родного дома и садится в поезд идущий до штата Дакота, славящегося своими пшеничными полями и высокими урожаями зерновых.
Star in the Night
Traveler's Wife (uncredited)
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.
A Song to Remember
Madame Mercier (uncredited)
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Lights of Old Santa Fe
Rosie McGurk
Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. Roy finds a broken rawhide rope at the scene and uses it to bring Madden to justice.
Oh, What a Night!
Petrie
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
Потомство дракона
Hysterical Woman
Линг Тань и его семья живут на процветающей ферме в сельских районах Южного Китая и еще не ощутили влияния японского вторжения на Север. Два старших сына Таня, Лао Та Тань и Лао Эр Тань - женатые и трудолюбивые, в то время как младший сын Лао Сан Тань растёт беззаботным. Единственная дочь Линг Таня замужем за местным торговцем, получающем прибыль от продажи японских товаров. Когда волна японского вторжения доходит до деревни Линг Таня, местные жители предпочитают мирно относиться к своим завоевателям. Но независимая и отличающаяся прогрессивными взглядами невестка Линг Таня Джейд решает сплотить односельчан для сопротивления японцам...
Небеса могут подождать
Miss Ralston - Jack's Secretary (uncredited)
Дон Амече в роли Генри Ван Клива, современного Казановы, чья жизнь показана с младенчества и до самой смерти (в возрасте 70 лет). Скончавшийся Ван Клив стоит перед Дьяволом, требующим предъявить пропуск в Ад. Для этого Дьявол должен тщательно изучить всю жизнь Ван Клива…
No Place for a Lady
Apartment House Manager
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Вперед, путешественник
Hilda (uncredited)
Шарлота Вэйл — поздний ребенок в семье, и как все поздние дети несет постоянную печать чрезмерной опеки; мать — Миссис Генри Уиндл Вэйл держала ее постоянно под контролем с детских лет. Прошли годы и этот контроль превратил Шарлоту в отрешенную и испуганную женщину, единственное, что приносило ей успокоение — резьба по кости. Супруга одного из братьев Шарлоты — Лиза пригласила в дом своей свекрови психиатра, который, посмотрев на затворницу, поставил ей диагноз: «нервный срыв» и предложил ей посетить свой санаторий отдохнуть и подлечить нервы. Несколько недель проведенные в санатории «Каскад» вернули Шарлоте надежду, а когда ее еще и отправили на теплоходе в круиз к берегам южной Америки, она обрела уверенность и впервые за многие годы бывшая покорная дочь смогла заявить матери, что имеет право на личную жизнь.
Bells of Capistrano
Melinda (Ma) McCracken
America's favorite singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this vintage tale as an up-and-coming rodeo singer caught in the middle of two rival companies, both angling to ride the talented crooner to riches. Featuring several memorable musical performances from Autry, including renditions of "Forgive Me" and "In Old Capistrano," this rousing Western co-stars Smiley Burnette, Virginia Grey and Lucien Littlefield.
The Magnificent Dope
Peter's Secretary
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Housekeeper
Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.
Rise and Shine
Miss Pinkham (as Claire DuBrey)
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
Private Nurse
Flower Shop Manager
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
Blossoms in the Dust
Nurse at Sammy's Birth
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
Бригхэм Янг
Emma Smith
Фильм рассказывает историю нескольких лет жизни Бригхэма Янга — американского религиозного деятеля, второго президента Церкви Иисуса Христа Святых последних дней (широкой публике известной как секта мормонов) и основателя города Солт-Лейк-Сити. Повествование начинается с 1844 года. После убийства Джозефа Смита — основателя религии мормонов и движения Святых последних дней, Бригхэм решает взять на себя руководство церковью и не дать только организовавшейся пастве разойтись в разные стороны. Именно он, после начатой травли мормонов властями США, стал инициатором «великого переселения» мормонов на запад 1846-47 гг. Под его руководством Мормоны дошли до Мексики, где и основали город Солт-Лейк-Сити, ставшей их столицей. В 1851 году президентом США Миллардом Филлмором, Бригхэм был назначен губернатором Юты.
Black Diamonds
Henderson's Secretary
A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.
Все это и небо в придачу
Nun (uncredited)
В 1846 году Онриэт Деспотс приплывает из Азии во Францию, чтобы стать гувернанткой в доме герцога Дюка де Праслена. Девушка видит, что в доме царит очень нервная обстановка, и виной тому супруга хозяина. Герцогиня Душесс — невротичная собственница, которая должна все контролировать и все, кто окружают ее, должны подчиняться только ей. От этого страдают больше всего четверо детей, которые лишены материнской ласки и любви. Онриэт решает исправить положение и при помощи своего педагогического дара возвращает детям интерес к жизни и приветливое отношение к людям. Она становится им второй матерью, проводя с ними целые дни вместе. Хозяин дома герцог Дюк де Праслен начинает оказывать знаки внимания гувернантке. Жестокая госпожа Душесс, замечая положительные перемены в доме, очень возмущена и готова принять любые меры, чтобы избавиться от милой Онриэт Деспотс…
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Mrs. Hackett (uncredited)
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
Смертельный круиз Чарли Чена
Sarah Walters
Известный китайский детектив находясь на круизном лайнере из Гонолулу в Сан-Франциско, пытаясь разобраться в убийстве друга из Скотланд-Ярда, ещё сталкивается с четырьмя убийствами.
Forty Little Mothers
Gym Teacher
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Женитьба врача
Party Guest
Джун Кэмерон является автором бестселлера о женских проблемах. Тимоти Стерлинг – врач, чье отношение к женщинам можно мягко назвать покровительственным. В результате серии недоразумений эту странную пару все ошибочно принимают за молодоженов. Тимоти и Джун скоро обнаруживают, что им выгодно поддерживать эту видимость.
Вирджиния-Сити
Southern Woman with Rifle (uncredited)
1864 год, Гражданская война в США подходит к концу. Сторонники южных штатов решают использовать последний шанс. В помощь своей истекающей кровью армии, они решают доставить $5 миллионов в золотых слитках из Вирджиния-Сити. Везти золото через вражеские штаты поручено капитану Ирби, у которого есть хитроумный план. Помешать этому пытается Керри Брэдфорд, капитан военной разведки союзной армии. Но о золоте узнал и главарь местной банды Маррелл. Три стороны сцепились в смертельной схватке…
High School
Miss Huggins
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Синяя птица
Nurse
История, основанная на германских сказаниях, как брат и сестра ищут Синюю птицу для исполнения своего желания и попадают в разные места и времена.
Магазинчик за углом
Customer (uncredited)
«Матюшек и Ко.» — магазин подарков и сувениров на углу. В штате есть сотрудник — Альфред Кралик, симпатичный молодой человек, который влюблен в девушку, которую он никогда не видел, и даже не знает имени (их «роман» завязался через почтовый ящик, по переписке).
Swanee River
Woman in Cafe
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Four Wives
Nurse Telling Crowley It's a Girl (uncredited)
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
See Your Doctor
Nurse
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
South of the Border
Dueña
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.
Chicken Wagon Family
Mrs. Kelsey
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
Coast Guard
First Nurse (uncredited)
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
Hotel for Women
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
Tell No Tales
Miss Arnold (uncredited)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Хуарес
Woman (uncredited)
Биографическая мелодрама о жизни Бенито Хуареса, национального героя Мексики. 1864 год. Когда Мексика почти выходит из под контроля Франции, Император Наполеон III посылает армию, чтобы свергнуть мексиканского президента Бенито Хуареса и взять под свой контроль страну, посадив своего ставленника на трон. Максимилиан Габсбург, Эрцгерцог Австрии, назначен Императором Мексики, не понимая, что французы подстроили результат плебисцита, чтобы одобрить имперское правление.
История Александра Грэхема Белла
Landlady
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
Everybody's Baby
Nurse Cordell
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Sergeant Madden
Nurse
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Secretary
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.
Within the Law
Prison Librarian
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Никогда не отчаивайся
Hotel Guest
Миллионер ипохондрик Джон Кидли приезжает лечиться в небольшое альпийское местечко. Но и тут его находит охотница за миллионами миссис Марко и вынуждает дать обещание жениться на ней. Доктор, по ошибке, выносит ему смертельный диагноз – Джону осталось жить всего месяц, вообщем хуже некуда. Все меняется, когда он встречает очаровательную Микки Хоукинс...
Джесси Джеймс. Герой вне времени
Mrs. Bob Ford
Этот фильм снят по реальным событиям, произошедшим во второй половине девятнадцатого века в США. После трагической войны между южными и северными штатами Америка приступила к завоеванию запада. Символом этой эпохи стало строительство трансконтинентальной железной дороги. Строительство часто сопровождалось произволом и насилием, люди стали ощущать себя жертвами растущего чудовища по прозвищу «железный конь». Хорошо это или плохо, но та эпоха даровала миру самых известных преступников — братьев Фрэнка и Джесси Джеймса. По легенде изначально братья были мирными фермерами, но когда железнодорожная компания попыталась нагло отнять их ферму в свою пользу, парни взялись за оружие, и, организовав отряд «справедливого мщения», начали совершать дерзкие ограбления банков, поездов и почтовых дилижансов.
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Mrs. Thurber
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
Тот самый возраст
Horsewoman
Журналист Винсент Буллитт возвращается с гражданской войны в Испании после ранения. Его босс - газетный магнат Фаллитрон предлагает ему отдохнуть и подлечиться у себя на загородной вилле, а за одно написать несколько статей о войне в Европе. Юная дочь босса Элис с друзьями в это время готовит театральную постановку в домике для гостей, который некстати занимает приехавший отдохнуть журналист. Молодежь возмущена неожиданным вторжением, ведь все репетиции отменяются. Ребята решают выжить гостя из дома и придумывают массу интриг и способов для осуществления своих планов. От ненависти до любви один шаг. И юная леди влюбляется в Винсента, который намного её старше. Вся семья босса и сам журналист в шоке... Как отрезвить девушку от нахлынувшего на неё чувства первой любви? Время лечит, все забудется и вернется на свои места, но в сердце юной Элис эта любовь останется на всю жизнь...
The Affairs of Annabel
Convict (uncredited)
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
Мария-Антуанетта
Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited)
16 мая 1770 г. 15-летняя Мария-Антуанетта была выдана матерью-императрицей Австрии замуж за Луи Августа, наследника трона Франции. Супруг не вызвал у возвышенной девушки восхищения: одутловатый и туповатый - он только раздражал юную принцессу. Еще больше расстраивали Марию ехидный, извращенный и больной король Людовик XV и его фаворитка - интриганка мадемуазель дю Барри, почувствовавшая угрозу со стороны будущей королевы. Следуя совету герцога Орлеанского, Мария ищет развлечения в светской бурлящей жизни и состоит в любовной связи с графом Акселем де Ферсеном. Однажды дело доходит до скандала, когда Мария публично на балу оскорбляет дю Барри, ее даже намерены с позором отправить обратно в Австрию, но король внезапно умирает, и Мария становится королевой Франции
Little Miss Broadway
Miss Blodgett
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Men with Wings
Edith
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
One Wild Night
Miss Thomas (uncredited)
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Miracle Money
Dr. Jones' Nurse Hazel
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
Walking Down Broadway
Claybourne's Secretary
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
Баронесса и её слуга
Martha - Kartina's Secretary
Дворецкий (Пауэлл) избирается в венгерский парламент, где он выступает против правительства своего господина.
Ничего святого
Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)
Аферист — газетный репортер Хзйзел Флэгг, чтобы добиться благосклонности от своего босса Оливера Стоуна, эксплуатирует историю о «неизбежной» кончине якобы «смертельно» больной девушки Уолли Кук. При помощи газетной «утки», «обреченная» молодая леди становится известна всему Нью-Йорку. Горожане искренне сопереживают девушке и заботятся о ней. Но ситуация выходит из под контроля репортера-афериста. Обман обнаруживается и…
Blossoms On Broadway
Fake Nurse (uncredited)
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
The Wrong Road
Matron (uncredited)
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Dangerously Yours
Ship Passenger
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Miss Farrell
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Топпер
Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Сумасбродная пара Джордж и Мэрион Керби гибнут в автомобильной аварии. Они не сразу понимают, что застряли между небом и землей и стали призраками, а когда приходит это осознание они не представляют, что с этим делать. К счастью, им приходит спасительная мысль начать творить добро,....
Mountain Justice
Woman with Baby
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
Man Of The People
Mrs. Sagon (uncredited)
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Ramona
Marda
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
Дьявольская кукла
Mme. Coulvet
Пол Лавонд попадает в тюрьму по ложному обвинению в мошенничестве, но сбегает оттуда вместе со своим сокамерником Марселем. В его доме Лавонд узнаёт о секрете, позволяющем уменьшать живые существа до размеров кукол и управлять ими. После смерти Марселя Лавонд решает продолжить его исследования и использовать их для мести тем, кто засадил его за решётку.
Провинциалка
Bit Role (uncredited)
Жизнь Кэй протекает в провинциальном городке скучно и размеренно. Возможно, хуже всего, ее совсем неромантичный, с далеко идущими планами, то ли друг, то ли ухажер — Элмер. Единственное развлечение, когда стекаются толпы любителей игры в футбол и тогда в городке не протолкнуться. Однажды в такой же суматошный день, Кэй вечером выходит из дома, чтобы хотя бы подышать атмосферой толчеи и судьба ставит на ее пути молодого и обворожительного Боба Дакена, который просит ее указать дорогу к местной таверне. Он слегка навеселе и просит проехаться с ним, так как он не может «понять» ее объяснений. Так жизнь расставила хитроумную ловушку обоим. В ресторане они весело отмечают свадьбу знакомых Боба, и совсем захмелевший спутник везет Кэй в соседний городок к судье, который в любое время суток готов зарегистрировать брак…
Life Begins at Forty
Mrs. T. Watterson Meriwether
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Among the Missing
Mrs. Alvin Abbott
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
Jane Eyre
Bertha Rochester
Jane Eyre is an orphan who was raised by her aunt until she came to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. But Jane is attracted by the intelligent and energetic Sir Rochester, a man of almost twice her age. But just when Sir Rochester seems to pay attention to her, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingram to stay at his house.
Blind Date
Head Saleswoman
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Да здравствует Вилья!
Banquet Guest with Tiara Next to Sierra
Беллетризованная биография Панчо Вильи, одного из лидеров повстанцев во время Мексиканской революции. Он родился в бедной крестьянской семье и рано потерял отца, в молодости трудился на ферме. Но однажды Панчо убил надзирателя и вынужден был бежать в горы. Там в 1910 году он познакомился с американским репортером Джонни Сайкесом. Они подружились, вместе вышли из тени и Панчо Вилья начал восхождение к оппозицонной власти. Ему предрекли будущее генерала революции. «Да здравствует Вилья!» — будут выкрикивать в его честь повстанцы. Цель революционера — свергнуть власть и самому править Мексикой.
Грех Норы Моран
Mrs. Edith Crawford
Нора Моран, молодая женщина с трудным и трагическим прошлым, осуждена на смерть за убийство, которое она не совершала. Она легко могла бы раскрыть правду и спасти свою жизнь, если только это не повредит жизни, карьере и репутации тех, кого она любит...
Ночной полет
Santiago Nurse (uncredited)
Малоизвестный фильм, рассказывающий простую историю летчиков, доставляющих почту из Южной Америки. Они летят на большой скорости, не взирая на ужасные погодные условия и предательство босса компании. Один из пилотов должен доставить в больницу умирающего ребенка, потому что только с помощью самолета можно успеть спасти его.
Broadway to Hollywood
Aunt Clara
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
Gabriel Over the White House
Nurse
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Prosperity
Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
Divorce In The Family
Mrs. Smith - Lucile's Mother
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Jean Parker and Louise Beavers.
Арсен Люпен
Mother at the Louvre (uncredited)
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
Politics
Rally Leader
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
Renegades
Eleanore's Maid (uncredited)
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War. Deucalion spots Eleanor, a spy who had done him dirt and after tangling with the local gendarmes, they take her and head back for Morocco where they are charged with desertion, and have to go out and defeat some more marauding natives, and dodge the machine-gun fire directed at them by the highly-displeased Eleanor, and one thing just follows another.
For the Love o' Lil
Mrs. Gardner
Directed by James Tinling. With Jack Mulhall, Sally Starr, Elliott Nugent, Margaret Livingston.
Two Sisters
Rose
Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robberies, keep confusing a detective about which one he his chasing for what, since he has different reasons for chasing both.
The Devil Dancer
Audrey
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
Miss Nobody
Ann Adams
The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dressed as a man.
The Exquisite Sinner
Dominique's Sister
Infatuation
Pasha's Wife
Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional soldier Sir Arthur Little at a dinner party. The two marry, and before long Viola has relocated to Egypt with her husband. Soon bored by her hothouse existence, Viola succumbs to the attentions of young British attache Ronald Perry.
Drusilla with a Million
Daphne Thornton
Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. And someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always wanted a child of her, in now in charge of a large brood of children, and very happy about it. But there may be a problem; the real heir to the money shows up.
The Girl of Gold
Edith Loring
Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his daughter, Helen, has an endless number of suitors. Needless to say, she gets tired of being courted only for her money, so she attends a party under an assumed name. There she meets Schuyler Livingstone, and they are immediately attracted to each other. What Helen doesn't know is that her father has paid Livingstone to marry her.
The Sea Hawk
Siren
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
Borrowed Husbands
Peggy Fleurette
A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.
Ponjola
Luchia Luff
Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley and directed by Donald Crisp. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson in a role in which she masquerades as a man. A print of Ponjola still exists and is held by a private collector.
The Voice from the Minaret
Countess La Fontaine
Lord Carlyle governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne, he can't make her love him. And no wonder -- he's not only cruel, he's unfaithful. Adrienne leaves him and boards a ship with the intention of returning to England. But on the boat she meets Andrew Fabian, who is studying for the clergy. They fall in love, and he convinces her to accompany him on a pilgrimage to Damascus.
Only a Shop Girl
Mrs. Watkins
Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culprit is the least-suspected person, who makes a deathbed confession.
When Love Comes
Marie Jamison
Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and asks her to run away with him. Unfortunately, around the time Jane's supposed to meet him at the station her father dies and she has to take care of her brothers and sisters. Jamison believes she loves someone else and disappears for several years. When he finally returns, he has a three-year-old child in tow. But he explains that his wife has been unfaithful and he and Jane renew their romance. Then wife shows up and causes trouble by claiming that Jamison left her for Jane.
You Never Know
Inez
Eddie Manning, on a secret mission in Central America, is apparently penniless, and he becomes friends with a street urchin named Muggsy. When Muggsy is knocked down by a car, Manning meets its owner, Miriam Folansbee, and she offers him a job as a chauffeur. There is a plot to overthrow the country and Inez, a dancer at a cafe, tells Manning that Carlos Medina is the leader of the revolutionaries.
To Have and to Hold
Patience Worth
King James I gives his consent to the marriage between Lord Carnal and Lady Jocelyn Leigh. Lady Jocelyn, however, does not want to wed the evil Lord Carnal, and makes her escape on a bridal ship headed for Jamestown, VA. When it lands, a ruffian tries to take Jocelyn as his bride, but Captain Ralph Percy rescues her by marrying her himself. The marriage, however, is in name only, as Jocelyn wants little to do with Percy.
The Ordeal
Elise
Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil's attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies.
Glass Houses
Mrs. Vicky
Glass Houses is a 1922 film.
The Hole in the Wall
Cora Thompson
When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
The Bronze Bell
Nairaini
In the 1850s, a young prince in India promises his dying father he will lead a revolt against the English colonial masters of India. However, since he is half-European himself, he can't bring himself to do it and flees to America, to live in obscurity. He finds, however, that he can't outrun his obligations
I Am Guilty
Trixie
Connie (Louise Glaum) is married to attorney Robert MacNair (Mahlon Hamilton). When he leaves town on a business trip, her friend from the old days, Molly May (May Hopkins), invites her to a party. Connie, who misses her old life, decides to go under an assumed name. Teddy Garrick, the host (Joseph Kilgour), makes a play for her and she burns her shoulder trying to get away from him. Dillon, a burglar who is hiding in the house (George Cooper), surreptitiously presses a gun into Connie's hand from behind a curtain. As Garrick comes toward her he is shot dead.
That Girl Montana
Lottie
Montana Rivers finally escapes her father who had forced her to wear men's clothing and help in robbing and cheating. She is taken in by friendly Indians and stays at their camp. Later, Akkomi, chief of the tribe, asks his friend Dan Overton to take the girl as it is not good for her to remain in the camp. Dan provides for "Tana" and falls in love with her but, because of her past, she keeps him at a distance. Jim Harris comes by and recognizes Tana as the boy robber, but when he attempts to blacken her past, Dan gives him a beating which paralyzes him. Jim then stays on with Dan, who regrets his hastiness. Eventually Tana's father appears and demands that Tana go away with him. She refuses but also does not tell Dan of this trouble.
My Lady's Latchkey
Countess Santiago
Young Annesley Grayle, weary of a gloomy, uneventful existence with her aunt, accepts the proposal of a young American that she pose as his wife. Later, they are actually married. When, at a ball, she hears her husband accused of stealing a valuable diamond and realizes that he is indeed a thief, she hides the jewel to save him.
The House of Whispers
Nettie Kelly
Spaulding Nelson moves into an apartment after his uncle has been driven from it by the sounds of screams and whispers. Upon undertaking an investigation, he meets neighbor Barbara Bradford, whose sister Clara is being tormented by the recurring sounds of her dead husband Roldo's voice.
A Light Woman
Jeanne DuPre
Young Doris Kane suspects that her fiance, Paul Evans, doesn't love her anymore. She finds out that he is now infatuated with a "vamp", Jeanne DuPre. Paul's father is appalled at his son's behavior, and devises a plan to break up the romance between his son and the vamp by making her fall for him and exposing her perfidy to his son.
Life's Twist
Mrs. Helen Sutton
Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness he admires but whose money he really desires. Discovering this on her wedding night, Mrs. De Koven, because of her love for her husband and her wounded pride, elects to live her life alone, seeing her husband only when formalities demand.
The Green Flame
Lou Tremaine
Country bumpkin Frank Marham comes to New York City to work in a world-famous jewelry store. At the hotel where he lives, Frank meets Ruth Gardner, a newspaper reporter who is investigating the operations of a gang of jewel thieves, as is also her admirer, detective Dan Lantry. The store's manager, Roger Imlay, is a member of the gang
The Heart of a Child
Lady Dorothea
A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.
The Walk-Offs
Mrs. Elliott
After the divorce of Schuyler Rutherford from his rich wife Caroline, who was his meal ticket, Schuyler's sister Kathleen is so humiliated by the fact that her penniless condition was brought to light during the court proceedings that she seeks solace in her friend, sculptress Mary Carter. Mary offers her friend a job as her secretary and, while working, she becomes acquainted with Mary's wealthy cousin Robert Winston when she overhears him denouncing parasitic girls like Kathleen. Vowing revenge, Kathleen assumes a false name and obtains a position as Robert's secretary, determined to make him fall in love with her.
Perilous Valley
Perilous Valley is a 1920 silent film
Dangerous Hours
Sophia Guerni
Idealistic young American falls under the influence of Communist agitators.
The Spite Bride
Trixie Dennis
Tessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister act, becomes embroiled in a scheme to earn money at her partner Trixie Dennis' insistence.
The World Aflame
Emma Reich
Wealthy businessman Carson Burr discovers first-hand the problem of social unrest when he loses his cook and his chauffeur and he is insulted by a waiter. Burr runs for mayor to improve the labor situation and is elected. The editor of The Red Messenger organizes the streetcar drivers to begin a general strike, but Burr manages to break up the strike
When Fate Decides
Alicia Carteret
Vera Loudon is unhappily married to the wealthy but profligate Herbert Loudon who openly makes advances to Mrs. Alicia Carteret at a dinner party. Donald Cavendish, a former admirer of Vera's, witnesses her humiliation and advises her to leave her husband, which she is unwilling to do.
The Ghost Girl
This tells of a pretty miss, expelled from a girls' school, who goes in for a harmless adventure. She poses as a slum girl and is taken in tow by a snobbish society girl, who at first befriends and then tries to impose, upon her.
Modern Husbands
Myrtle Cosgrove
When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consorts with philanderer Bert Brockwell. Finding them in an embrace forced by Brockwell, Stephen denounces Julia and leaves. After losing his fortune in the market, Stephen refuses Julia's offer to sell her jewels, and stays away for one year
The Sawdust Doll
Rose Budd
Sally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the place of a real mother.
A Man And His Money
Varda Ropers
Inheriting a fortune allows Harry Lathrop to indulge in extravagant spending and wild wine parties with chorus girls, decides to change his ways after his childhood sweetheart, Betty Dalrymple, gives back her engagement ring because he arrives drunk for dinner.
The Wishing Ring Man
Gale Maddox
Forced to wear quaint short dresses and pigtails so that she will inspire her grandfather's sentimental poetry, nineteen-year-old Joy Havenith longs for companions of her own age.
The Old Maid's Baby
Sylvia Deane
Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends most of her time with her lame dog and an elephant.
What Every Woman Wants
Sylvia
Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a result she incurs great debts.
A Man in the Open
Polly
Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go.
Border Raiders
Cleo Dade
Ranch owner John Hardy becomes the dupe of Cleo Dade when he marries her and brings her home to be a mother to his daughter Rose.
Prisoners of the Pines
Louise
Hillaire Latour, a warmhearted Canadian trapper, marries Rosalie Dufresne and then travels into the woods to seek his fortune as a lumberman. At the camp, he befriends "Spud" Lafferty, who for six years has tried unsuccessfully to return home with his money, each time falling prey to a beautiful woman who works in the saloon "down the hill." When Hillaire learns through a letter that he is a father, he asks for his money and begins the journey home, but on his first night away from camp, he enters the saloon, where he is robbed by the beautiful Louise.
Modern Love
Myrtle Harris
Stage actors Della and Julian, while playing a series of one-night-stands, miss their train and the troupe on it. They move into a hotel. A fight breaks out.
The Human Target
Thelma Von Styne
Harrison Craig, with the aid of a woman who has lost her husband through the sinking of a ship, uses her wiles on a member of Saxonia's royal family and obtains valuable drawings. The Prince and his lieutenant plot to demolish the block house in which Craig is a prisoner, but one of the artillery shots frees his bounds and he escapes.
Up Romance Road
Hilda
An engaged couple, whose two fathers are millionaire ship owners, is determined to put a little life in their engagement by writing a threatening letter.
Midnight Madness
Lola Montez
In the act of robbing a set of rare jewels from a museum, a robber is wounded in the hand. Prentice Tiller, while dressing a wound in his hand, overhears the woman in the next hotel room, Gertrude Temple, telephoning Aaron Molitor, to whom she is to deliver some jewels. Posing as Molitor, Prentice calls on Gertrude but disappears when Molitor, who also has been wounded in the hand, suddenly arrives. Molitor's men capture Prentice, who narrowly escapes death in the ruins of an old church and then continues to track Molitor.
Social Briars
Helen Manning
Iris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and when she reaches adulthood, Martha's son Jim falls in love with her. When Iris fails to return his affections, Mrs. Kane treats her so coldly that Iris decides to leave the stuffy little village for the metropolis. On her journey, she accepts a ride with Jack Andrews, but after he attempts to kiss her, she leaps from the car and walks the rest of the way. While singing in the choir of a large metropolitan church, she is discovered by Jack's wealthy father Peter, who recommends her as a soloist. Light opera star Helen Manning, who has helped Iris to cultivate her voice, quarrels with her theatrical manager, and Iris is offered her position.
The Risky Road
Mrs. Miles Kingston
Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer Dorothy Phillips for the company’s Bluebird brand. Park’s films often had a strong female perspective and The Risky Road is no exception. The story of a country girl who comes to the city to work, but falls for a rich man and undeservedly gets a bad reputation, the film was marketed as “the drama every woman should see”. The surviving fragment, showing the despair of Phillips’s character, is a real cinematic gem that leaves one yearning for more material of the film to be discovered. In 2008, a tinted nitrate fragment, with Swedish intertitles at the opening of the second reel, was deposited at the Archival Film Collections of the Svenska Filminstitutet. From the fragment, a 35mm B&W duplicate negative was made, from which this print was struck using the tinting of the nitrate as color reference.
The Magic Eye
Mrs. Bowman
During World War I, John Bowman, the captain of a tramp steamer, refuses to allow his wife and daughter Shirley to accompany him on a long voyage because he fears that the ship may be torpedoed. Before his departure, he entrusts his life insurance policy to shipping agent Sam Bullard, who, unknown to John, once courted Mrs. Bowman. Shirley, a clairvoyant, has a vision in which her father's ship is torpedoed, and the next day, Sam reports that the ship has been sunk and John killed.
Brace Up
Ellen Miles
Hero Henry Court (Herbert Rawlinson) is very much his parents' child, having inherited the predominant character traits of both his go-getting father and his shy, retiring mother. The "father" side of his nature manifests itself on the college football field, where Henry excels. Unfortunately, the "mother" side is evidenced by a streak of cowardice, which surfaces at all the wrong times. Hoping to expunge the cowardly part of his make-up, Henry hires a bunch of self-styled mentalists to "concentrate" his problems away. Pretty soon, Henry is a virtual slave to the whims of the mentalists, who push his emotional buttons with reckless abandon.
Madame Spy
Baroness Von Hulda
Robert "Bob" Wesley horrifies his father, Admiral John Wesley of the Naval Advisory Board, by failing his examination at the Annapolis naval academy. Bob seizes the chance to redeem himself, however, when he overhears Hanson, the butler, plotting with German agent Count Von Ornstorff to deliver his father's plans for the Atlantic coastal defenses to German Baroness Von Hulda. In Baltimore, Bob meets the baroness' ship and, with the aid of an old college professor, makes her his prisoner. Having impersonated a woman in the college play, Bob disguises himself as the baroness, rendezvous with the spies, and obtains the plans.
The Winged Mystery
Gerda Anderson
Louis and August Siever, the twins sons of a German father and American mother, are traveling in Europe when war breaks out. August joins the Kaiser's army, but Louis, a supporter of the United States, is practically made a prisoner in Berlin for a year while he tries to prove his American citizenship. After a violent confrontation with Louis, August steals his brother's passport and leaves for New York with Gerda Anderson, a German spy.
Anything Once
Señorita Paprika
Playboy Franklyn Farnum inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain (none other than Lon Chaney) makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but Farnum, no longer the wastrel of yore, persists and becomes full owner of the property.
Triumph
Lillian Du Pon
This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera.
Pay Me!
Nita
During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man's wife. He then deserts his own wife and son to elope with the saloon keeper's daughter. As they are fleeing, the girl discovers the deed and insists upon caring for the baby found in the dead wife's arms.
Follow the Girl
Donna
Orphan Hilda Swanson's prayers are answered when a Swedish-American colonization company agrees to send her to America. Aboard the steamer, she meets Olaf, a young Swede, and Donna, an enemy courier who is posing as a passenger. Learning that the secret service is on her trail, Donna sews secret documents into the hem of Hilda's skirt. She then sends a wire to her comrade Felix Martinez, notifying him to intercept the Swedish girl.
The Rescue
Henriette
After divorcing her husband Kent, actress Anne Wetherall returns to the stage. Upon receiving a plea for help from childhood chum Nell Jerrold begging Anne to save Nell's daughter Betty from marrying Kent, the ex-Mrs. Wetherall decides to journey to the Jerrold's home in the town of Wheaton to investigate.
Six-Shooter Justice
Mary Gregg - the Prospector's Daughter
John Gregg and his daughter Mary, on their way to Burro Springs, a boom mining town, lose their way and stumble into "Jawbone," a dilapidated town. Here they meet Mike Hernandez, a good-looking bad man. Mary, thinking Mike a gentleman, takes a liking to him. "Cheyenne" Harry, a homely looking good man, comes to Jawbone and Mary believes him to be a weak character. He becomes fascinated with her. Gregg hires Mike Hernandez to guide him to Burro Springs, displaying his small store of gold when paying Hernandez. Later, Gregg and his party become lost in the desert, and run out of water.
The Almost Good Man
Kitty Manville
The Almost Good Man is a 1917 Western short.
A 44-Calibre Mystery
Kitty Flanders
A 44-Calibre Mystery is a Silent Western short.
The Honor of an Outlaw
The Railroad President's Daughter
A reformed outlaw give up the girl because of his past.
Hair-Trigger Burke
The Vamp
Before dying, a man's friend asks him to do his best to keep the truth that he was a robber from his son.
The Fighting Gringo
May Smith
Disturbed by the separation of his friends Mary Smith and Arthur Saxon, who really love each other, William "Red" Saunders resolves to reconcile the couple. Discovering that Belknap, a missionary with political aspirations, exercises a destructive hypnotic influence over Mary, Red schemes to eliminate Belknap.
The Clash of Steel
Princess Seraphina
Princess Seraphina, taking her small son, Paul, flees from Yulania to the village of Champ Fleury in Normandy, because of the debauchery of her husband, Prince Feodor. The agent of Saxonia, Count Stefan, calls to convince Feodor he should divorce his wife and marry Princess Sofia Anoria with her fifty million francs, for Saxonia needs Yulania as a buffer state in case of war. Prince Feodor consents and agrees to the conspiracy of the agent to gain reason for divorce.
The Drifter
Dora Mason
The Drifter is a 1917 Western short.
Perils of the Secret Service
Princess Seraphina (Episode #2)
A 9-part movie serial
The Reward of the Faithless
Princess Dione
A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.
The Honeymoon Surprise
Mrs. Hardman
Fred Brandon and Eileen Northcote are the two heirs of a million-dollar fortune, on the condition that they are united in marriage within twenty-four hours. Both are indignant over the will.
The Piper's Price
Jessica's Maid
After divorcing his first wife and marrying a more gentle natured woman, Ralph Hadley finds himself again attracted to his ex-wife, a shrewd business woman. Trouble begins when he foolishly invites her to lunch, setting gossipy tongues-wagging. The news reaches his devoted wife who has discovered she is pregnant.
Civilization
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ commends the captain, and returns to earth in the commander's body to promote His message of peace.
Peggy
The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is bundled off to Scotland, where she is to be looked after by her no-nonsense uncle Andrew Cameron (William H. Thompson). If Peggy's family had hoped that she would straighten up and behave herself in Scotland, they were sorely mistaken. Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive with restoration funding provided by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.
The Devil's Trail
Dubec's Wife
Whiskey smuggler Dubec, trades liquor to the Indians, takes revenge on the Royal North West Mounted Police pursuing him by killing the wife of post commander Sergeant Delisle and abducting his teen-aged daughter Nonette.