Louise Carver
Рождение : 1869-06-09, Davenport, Iowa, USA
Смерть : 1956-06-18
(archive footage)
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.
Soprano
Andy gets into hot water because of his frequent lodge meetings.
Mrs. Snyder
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Ma Sunday
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
Slim's Wife
The Rangers in New Mexico are being disbanded but Bob Houston gets them to make one more ride. They go after the outlaw gang led by Hashknife. They catch Hashknife, but he escapes taking Barbara with him and Bob and Slim have to go after him again.
Mrs. Carver
Benny Rubin is a New York City vaudeville performer who inherits a hotel in California, and takes all of his ham-actor friends there, as chefs, bellhops, maids and waiters, to help him run it. BUsiness is bad so Benny plants a story that his late uncle hid his fortune in the hotel. The place is soon filled with guests who tear down the hotel looking for the non-existent fortune.
Old Flirt
Andy Clyde trying to wear the pants in the family.
Dolores - Bearded Lady
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying multiple bulky instruments, boards a train and gives the conductor, the porter, and the passengers a terrible night as he tries to settle into his upper berth. Arriving at his rural destination of Beaver Dam, Charley masquerades as a hillbilly to track down the missing instruments. At the barn dance, he sings "Handsome Jim."
Gus' Mother-in-law
Брек Коулмэн человек молодой и горячий, желающий отомстить за смерть своего старого друга. Он подозревает Реда Флэка и его подручного Лопеса и чтобы подтвердить свои подозрения он присоединяется к группе переселенцев, следующих на Запад под началом Флэка. Во время похода Брек знакомится с дочерью полковника — Рут Кэмерон, которая присоединяется к каравану вместе с младшим братом и маленькой сестрой и между молодыми людьми вспыхивает взаимное чувство, хотя они оба с гонором и не хотят признаться в этом друг другу.
Actress at Casting Call (uncredited)
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
Masseuse
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
Masseuse
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
Madame Offskey
Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
A Passerby
A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.
The Customer's Wife
For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
Miss Perkins
Hat Lady
Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six underprivileged children out for a fun day at the carnival. Unfortunately, the children come from Juvenile Hall, and each one is more trouble than the last.
Maud - the Saloon Girl
Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.
Modiste Customer
A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
The Aunt
To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
Petunia - the Rajah's Sister
A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink.
Mrs. Otto Huffer
Should Husbands Marry? is a 1926 comedy
Bonnie May
Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale.
Snowflake's Mother
Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
Mrs. Riley
A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.
Dramatic Pupil
Hot Cakes for Two is a silent film comedy
Wedding Cake Victim (uncredited)
An auto salesman fall in love with a rich girl but she is already engaged.
Rodney's Mother
The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short.
Head of Purity League
Billy Bevan in a hell of a lot of chaos!
The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June.
Prospective Bride Who Operates Crane (uncredited)
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Wife in Store
Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.
His First Cook
A man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, domineering, and constantly smoking a cigar. Out of the blue, the couple gets a visit from his old friend, Roland Stone, bluff and portly. Roland befriends our newly-wed's wife, and this friendship deepens after the husband hires a new cook, the lovely Miss Gainsborough, who gives her boss a little too much friendly attention. That night, a prowler skulks, Miss Gainsborough faints, the newly-wed husband comes to her rescue, and she grabs him and holds on. His wife is offended and determines to leave with Roland. Is the marriage over?
Anti-Slum Committee Woman
Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
The Barber's Mother
Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.
Mrs. Patrick Pico
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
The Landlady
Monty Banks plays a groom who is about to get married. In fact, he has the marriage license just about in hand. Apparently, he's had a bachelor party the night before and when his fiancée rings him, he can't find the phone, but there's several other guys sleeping it off. The landlady suspects that some hijinks have gone on and looks to investigate. Monty figures things out pretty quickly. Luckily for him, one of the gentlemen sleeping it off is in a policeman's uniform and Monty has him pretend he's arrested everybody in the room.
Mrs. Matter
Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
Fabric Customer
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Wardrobe mistress
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
The Mother-in-Law
A Short Comedy
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.