Bayard VeillerFilmography

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The Trial of Mary Dugan

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Laraine Day, Robert Young, Tom Conway, Frieda Inescort, John Litel

Synopsis: MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer vehicle in 1929. This time, Laraine Day is cast as Mary Dugan, a young stenographer who is falsely accused of murdering her philandering employer Edgar Wayne (Tom Conway). In Read More

1941
Within the Law

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, Paul Kelly, William Gargan, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a thieving employee sticks her stolen goods into the locker of a co-worker and causes all sorts of trouble. The stolen items are found in the locker of a store clerk who ends up imprisoned. The store owner's son knows that she is innocent, but he says nothing. The enraged Read More

1939
The Thirteenth Chair

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Dame May Whitty, Madge Evans, Elissa Landi, Thomas Beck

Synopsis: The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates the proceedings as Mme. La Grange, a phony mystic who is on hand when a man is killed during one of her seances. The killing takes place in the home of a provincial British Read More

1937
The Woman Accused

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel, Norma Mitchell

Synopsis: On the eve of her marriage to Cary Grant, socialite Nancy Carroll is visited by her sadistic ex-lover Louis Calhern, who threatens to have his gangster pal Jack LaRue rub out Grant if Carroll doesn't give up her marriage plans. She responds by killing Calhern with a piece of statuary; a Read More

1933
The Eagle and the Hawk

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Guy Standing

Synopsis: Eagle and the Hawk is a "war is hell" saga slightly reminiscent of All Quiet on the Western Front. Fredric March plays a British World War One flying ace suffering from emotional fatigue. March's happy-go-lucky pilot buddy (Cary Grant) tries to help his friend forget his problems by accompanying Read More

1933
Arsene Lupin

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, John Miljan, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: John Barrymore plays a burglar and his brother Lionel Barrymore is the detective trying to catch him in this cleverly cast drama. An upscale thief who works under the name of Arsene Lupin is making the rounds of the homes of the wealthy and privileged, and Detective Guerchard (Lionel Barrymore) is Read More

1932
Mordprozess Mary Dugan

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Nora Gregor, Egon Von Jordan, Peter Erkelenz, Julia Serda

Synopsis: The 1929 all-talkie adaptation of Bayard Veiller's stage play The Trial of Mary Dugan proved a worthy showcase for MGM-diva Norma Shearer. But Shearer was not conversant in German, thus Nora Gregor inherited the leading role in the German-language version, Mordprozess Mary Dugan. The personnel may Read More

1931
Guilty Hands

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Madge Evans, William Bakewell, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: The titular hands belong to Lionel Barrymore, who plays a prominent defense attorney. To save his daughter (Madge Evans) from a cad (Alan Mobray), Barrymore murders the man and arranges to make the deed look like suicide. The victim's mistress (Kay Francis) suspects foul play, but the lawyer has Read More

1931
Paid

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Kent Douglass, John Miljan

Synopsis: Paid was the third film version of the Bayard Veiller stage play Within the Law. Joan Crawford is cast as a shopgirl falsely arrested for stealing and sent to jail for three years. She swears vengeance on the store owner (Purnell Pratt), and to that end sets up a shady but legal racket wherein she Read More

1930
Alias French Gertie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Lyon, Robert E. O'Connor, John Ince, Betty Pierce

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels plays a safecracker posing as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, Daniels is interrupted by Ben Lyon, another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, Bebe and Ben decide to pool their talents, but Bebe Read More

1930
The Thirteenth Chair

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard, Holmes Herbert

Synopsis: Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first collaboration with Bela Lugosi, whom he would launch to stardom two years later. Lugosi plays Inspector Delzante, who investigates a series of murders near a British mansion in Read More

1929
The Trial of Mary Dugan

Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Norma Shearer, H.B. Warner, Raymond Hackett, Lilyan Tashman

Synopsis: In this well-executed courtroom drama, a Broadway chorine is accused of stabbing her wealthy boy friend to death. The girl is defended by her good friend. During the trial, the lawyer refrains from cross-examining the witnesses. This enrages the dancer's younger brother, who has just passed the Read More

1929
Held by the Law

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Johnny Walker, Marguerite de la Motte, Ralph Lewis

Synopsis: In his heyday, Universal Studios president Carl Laemmle was known derisively as "Uncle Carl" because of the dozens of relatives he hired as employees. Some of these relatives were layabouts: others, like director Edward Laemmle, actually had talent. In Laemmle's Held by the Law, Ralph Lewis plays Read More

1927
Smooth As Satin

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Evelyn Brent, Bruce Gordon, Fred Kelsey, Fred Esmelton, Mabel Van Buren

Synopsis: Once again, Evelyn Brent plays a girl crook who eventually reforms in this entertaining melodrama, in which nearly every character is a crook. Gertie Jones (Brent) is posing as a maid solely to get her hands on the valuables of a wealthy dowager. Just as she has opened the safe, Jimmy Hartigan Read More

1925
Within the Law

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, Eileen Percy, Joseph Kilgour

Synopsis: This is the second time Bayard Veiller's play made it to the silent screen (it would be made one more time in 1939 as a talkie). This version is a run-of-the-mill Norma Talmadge vehicle -- lots of high drama, with no expense spared, but in the end nothing much without its excellent cast. Talmadge Read More

1923
Woman with Four Faces

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Richard Dix, George Fawcett, Theodore Von Eltz, Joseph Kilgour, James Farley

Synopsis: This implausible crime drama had the benefit of Betty Compson's presence: she was best known for playing lady criminals. District attorney Richard Templer (Richard Dix) is trying to solve a drug smuggling case, but to do so he needs to break into the safe belonging to Ralph Dobson (Charles A. Read More

1923
Under the Red Robe

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: An epic, 13-reel costume drama produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions -- and it doesn't star his mistress, Marion Davies! Based on the novel by Stanley Weyman, this film was said to be the first to cost 1.5 million dollars to produce (a real fortune in those days). Read More

1923
Sherlock Brown

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Although this mystery-comedy came out mere weeks after John Barrymore portrayed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous character, it's not a spoof on Sherlock Holmes. Nevertheless, it's an amusing vehicle for Bert Lytell. The secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen Read More

1921
The Last Card

Crew: Director

Actors: May Allison, Al Roscoe, Stanley Goethals, Frank Elliott, Dana Todd

Synopsis: Lawyer Tom Gannell (Frank Elliot) is jealous of the attentions that college student Sorley (Dana Todd) pays his wife, Emma (Irene Hunt). Sorley funds his education by working on furnaces, and Gannell kills him while he is working in the cellar of Ralph Kirkwood (Al Roscoe). Kirkwood is accused of Read More

1921

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Bayard VeillerFilmography

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Within the Law

The Thirteenth Chair

The Woman Accused

The Eagle and the Hawk

Arsene Lupin

Mordprozess Mary Dugan

Guilty Hands

Paid

Alias French Gertie

The Thirteenth Chair

The Trial of Mary Dugan

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Within the Law

Woman with Four Faces

Under the Red Robe

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