Alberta VaughnFilmography

The Laramie Kid

Synopsis: From small-scale Reliable Pictures, The Laramie Kid starred the strapping Tom Tyler as a cowboy returning home to help his girlfriend (Alberta Vaughn) save her ranch from a ruthless usurper. Promising the girl to blast the town wide open in order to get the necessary funds, Tyler soon finds Read More

Randy Rides Alone

Synopsis: In perhaps the most haunting opening of any B-Western, Randy Rides Alone has John Wayne enter a deserted saloon filled with corpses. To the tinny strains of a player-piano and with someone eerily peeking from behind a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, Wayne's reconnaissance ends with his arrest for Read More

Emergency Call

Actors: Wynne Gibson, William Gargan, Betty Furness, Reginald Mason

Synopsis: In this drama, a young surgeon and his driver must combat the racketeers who have taken over the hospital where he works. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dance Hall Hostess

Actors: Helen Chandler, Jason Robards, Sr., Eddie Nugent, Natalie Moorhead, Alberta Vaughn

Alimony Madness

Actors: Helen Chandler, Edward Earle, Charlotte Merriam

Synopsis: A wife is on trial for murdering her husband's former spouse in this inexpensive melodrama from low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp. In flashback, it is shown that Joan Armstrong (Helen Chandler), an unemployed stenographer, is hired to act as corespondent for architect John Thurman (Leon Waycoff Read More

Daring Danger

Actors: Alberta Vaughn, Edward J. Le Saint, Bobby Nelson

Synopsis: Although based on a story by William Colt McDonald, the creator of The Three Mesqueteers, this Tim McCoy effort from Columbia was a conventional Western at best. McCoy played Tim Madigan, a cowpoke coming to the aid of Jerry Norris (Alberta Vaughn), whose father (Murdock MacQuarrie) is in trouble Read More

Dancers in the Dark

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Jack Oakie, William Collier, Jr., Eugene Pallette, Lyda Roberti

Synopsis: In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer. To protect the tender youth, the conductor sends him out of town.The bandleader soon finds himself wooing the lovely dancer. Unfortunately, a jealous gangster is also in love Read More

Love in High Gear

Actors: Harrison Ford, Alberta Vaughn, Tyrell Davis, Arthur Hoyt, Ethel Wales

Synopsis: Harrison Ford (the original silent era Harrison Ford) and 1924 WAMPAS Baby Star Alberta Vaughn starred in this comedy-thriller from low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp. When fussy Ronald Courtney (Tyrell Davis) spots his fiancée, Betty (Vaughn), winking at Donald Ransome (Ford) at a friend's wedding Read More

Midnight Morals

Actors: Beryl Mercer, DeWitt Jennings, Charles Delaney, Alberta Vaughn, Gwen Lee

Synopsis: The problem with the main characters in Midnight Morals is that they have more midnight than morals in their lives. Rookie cop Charles Delaney falls in love with taxi dancer Alberta Vaughan, much to the consternation of Delaney's chief-detective father DeWitt Jennings. Dad's trepidations seem to Read More

Wild Horse

Synopsis: By many considered the best of Hoot Gibson's eight Westerns for Gower Gulch producer M.H. Hoffman, Wild Horse starred The Hooter as Jim Wright, a cowpoke hired to work on George Bunny's rodeo ranch. Gibson manages to capture "The Devil Horse," a magnificent steed which had been eluding the Read More

Working Girls

Synopsis: Working Girls is a slight, dated, but still entertaining comedy, typical of its era. Louise Adams (Frances Dee) and her friend (Claire Dodd) travel to the city in order to get jobs and hopefully find husbands. There they face the usual complications, but the women persevere and all ends well. The Read More

Show of Shows

Synopsis: Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all singing and all dancing" sweepstakes of 1929. Though slightly better than MGM's Hollywood Revue of 1929, the Warners entry pales in comparison to Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 Read More

Molly and Me

Actors: Belle Bennett, Alberta Vaughn, Charles Byer

Synopsis: In this early talkie, a burlesque team grows tired of playing rural gigs. When the fellow is offered a chance to do a solo act in the big-city Frolics, he accepts leaving his partner to keep working in hicksville. Meanwhile, back in the Big Apple, the fellow begins falling for a voluptuous vamp Read More

Points West

Actors: Hoot Gibson

Synopsis: Universal's top western ace, the charming Hoot Gibson, starred in this average oater about a young man who goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death. As always, Gibson uses guile and wit instead of brute force to unmask and apprehend the guilty party Read More

Noisy Neighbors

Actors: Alberta Vaughn, Theodore Roberts, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: Only three minutes of the 74-minute Noisy Neighbors contains any dialogue; the rest of the film has hardly any noise at all. Written for the screen by F. Hugh Herbert (of Kiss and Tell and The Moon is Blue fame), the story focuses on a family of second-string vaudevillians, played by genuine Read More

Old Age Handicap

Actors: Alberta Vaughn, Vivian Rich, Olaf Hytten

Synopsis: Cabaret dancer Alberta Vaughan falls in love with upright Southern gentleman Gareth Hughes. To save Hughes' sister Vivian Rich from ruination, Vaughan "comes on" to Rich's would-be seducer Bud Shaw. The younger girl is kept from losing her virtue, but the price of her salvation is Vaughan's Read More

Forbidden Hours

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Connelly, Alberta Vaughn

Skyscraper

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Alan Hale, Sue Carol, Alberta Vaughn

Synopsis: A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd stars in the virile Cecil B. DeMille production Skyscraper. Boyd is cast as Blondy, a New York steel riveter with a fondness for girls and practical jokes, though not necessarily in that order. Blondy decides to change his carefree ways when he falls in love Read More

The Dropkick

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Barbara Kent, Dorothy Revier, Eugene Strong, Alberta Vaughn

Synopsis: The silent The Dropkick stars Richard Barthelmess as a talented but hopelessly conceited college football star. Because of his frequent clashes with his coach, Barthelmess is the prime suspect when said coach is murdered. He manages to clear himself just in time to win the Big Game. Of interest to Read More

Uneasy Payments

Actors: Alberta Vaughn

Synopsis: After winning a Charleston contest, Missouri gal Alberta Vaughan heads to Broadway, hoping to achieve stardom. Landing a job as a cabaret chorus girl, our heroine takes the advice of one of her bosses, who suggests that she has to put up a good "front" to impress potential employers. To that end Read More

Sinews of Steel

Actors: Alberta Vaughn

Synopsis: The low-budget Sinews of Steel originally premiered in New York as one-half of a double feature, paired with the equally inexpensive She's My Baby. On the outs with his steel-magnate father, young Gaston Glass proves his worth by establishing his own steel mill. Ultimately he finds himself in Read More

Ain't Love Funny?

Actors: Alberta Vaughn

Synopsis: Love ain't all that funny, but this 5-reel comedy elicited a chuckle or two from 1927 audiences. Alberta Vaughn plays a lovely lass who wants to do her part during World War 1. Her idea of contributing to the war effort is to pledge her undying love to every doughboy she meets. The fun begins when Vaughn Read More

Romantic Age

Actors: Alberta Vaughn, Eugene O'Brien, Stanley Taylor

Synopsis: The direction for Columbia's The Romantic Age is credited to "Scott Florey," but knowledgeable film buffs will recognize this as an alias for "B"-picture stylist Robert Florey. Engaged to middle-aged Eugene O'Brien, Alberta Vaughn develops a yen for O'Brien's handsome younger brother Stanley Taylor Read More

The Adorable Deceiver

Actors: Alberta Vaughn, Cora Williams, Daniel Makarenko, Jane Thomas

Synopsis: The Roberston-Cole Studio had just merged with Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices when the company released the 1926 silent comedy The Adorable Deceiver. Alberta Vaughan plays an exiled European princess who, to help support her father after, agrees to impersonate....herself! Her employer Read More

A Friendly Husband

Actors: Lupino Lane, Alberta Vaughn, Eva Thatcher

Synopsis: British music hall favorite Lupino Lane enjoyed an energetic if not spectacular film career in Hollywood. Largely confined to 2-reelers, Lane managed to star in one feature film, Friendly Husband. In this one, he plays the very patient spouse of featherbrained Alberta Vaughan. And, of course, he Read More