Bebe Daniels Filmography

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The Lyons in Paris

Synopsis: In this British comedy, based on a popular radio series, the Lyons family goes on a Parisian holiday. The father attempts to buy tickets through a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When the children see them talking, they immediately assume the worst. When they see her again in Paris, merry mayhem Read More

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Family Affair

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Synopsis: In this musical, the on-air rivalry between a married pair of American radio stars, each hosting a different show heats to boiling when they each have British evacuees on their shows. The wife gets a fellow who claims to live in a castle. A brouhaha ensues as he is believed to be the long-lost Read More

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The Return of Carol Deane

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Arthur Margetson, Zena Dare

Synopsis: A loving mother sacrifices all for her son in this drama. She is an artist's model who finds herself financially drained by a dead-beat artist when she falls in love with a younger man, marries him and bears a son. When her beloved husband dies in the war, the old artist tries to win her back. Read More

Treachery on the High Seas

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Tom Helmore, Charles Farrell, Hay Petrie

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an insurance detective goes undercover to try to bring in a jewel thief. He poses as a gangster and joins a gang. They end up stealing his passport and leaving him unable to return to the US. To get back he must pose as a crewman aboard a ship. He then discovers the purloined Read More

Stardust

Actors: Lupe Velez, Wallace Ford, Ben Lyon, Harry Langdon

Synopsis: This British musical comedy boasts one of the most eclectic casts in film history. Brash Wallace Ford and smoothie Ben Lyon play Jackson and Hartley, a couple of fly-by-night producers hoping to slap together a movie project. They hire showgirl Carla (Lupe Velez) as their leading lady, enhancing Read More

Music is Magic

Actors: Alice Faye, Ray Walker, Bebe Daniels, Frank Mitchell, Jack Durant

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels, all of 34, portrays an ageing movie star who refuses to admit she's too old for the ingenue role in an upcoming musical. Alice Faye is a hopeful chorus girl, while Ray Walker is a would-be director. All the young people get their deserved breaks when Daniels gets wise to herself and Read More

The Song You Gave Me

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Victor Varconi

Synopsis: Based on Walter Reisch's play The Song is Ended, The Song You Gave Me is a British attempt to emulate the glossy "continental" style. Hollywood's Bebe Daniels (who later took up permanent residence in London) stars as Mitzi Hansen, the personal secretary to world-renowned singer Karl Linden (Victor Varconi Read More

Registered Nurse

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Irene Franklin, Sidney Toler

Synopsis: In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeons regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse. At first, she is attracted to the Read More

Cocktail Hour

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Muriel Kirkland, Jessie Ralph, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: This melodrama, with a few comic overtones, was not the finest moment for either star Bebe Daniels or director Victor Schertzinger (who also composed the music and songs). It also hasn't weathered the years well, since its male chauvinism has fallen way out of favor. In fact, to modern eyes, Randolph Scott Read More

Counsellor-At-Law

Actors: John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Onslow Stevens, Isabel Jewell

Synopsis: Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon (John Barrymore) who finds it's lonely at the top. Simon's wife (Doris Kenyon) and children look down upon him because of his humble upbringings, while his mother reprimands him for Read More

42nd Street

Actors: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell

Synopsis: The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to opening night. Warner Baxter plays famed director Julian Marsh, who despite failing health is determined to stage one last great production, "Pretty Lady." Others involved Read More

A Southern Maid

Synopsis: This musical chronicles the escapades of two Spanish couples. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Silver Dollar

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline MacMahon, Jobyna Howland, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor counterpart, a prospector who strikes it rich with a silver mine. Robinson establishes the city of Denver, strongarms his way into political power, buys every creature comfort Read More

The Maltese Falcon

Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Bebe Daniels, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott

Synopsis: This first of three film adaptations of Dashiel Hammett's The Maltese Falcon plays at times like the road-company version of the more famous 1941 John Huston/Humphrey Bogart adaptation. Ricardo Cortez stars as a slick, rogueish edition of Sam Spade, using his office as a trysting place for his Read More

Reaching for the Moon

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton, Jack Mulhall, Claud Allister

Synopsis: In this elaborate big-budget musical, a handsome businessman follows a beautiful woman aboard a luxury liner and begins to woo her. This doesn't set well with her fiance. Later the fellow learns of the stock market crash and develops a taste for booze. Romantic mayhem ensues until the inevitable Read More

Honor of the Family

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Warren William, Alan Mowbray, Frederick Kerr

Synopsis: In this swashbuckling melodrama, set in Budapest, a seductive gold-digger becomes the mistress of a wealthy old man. She, with the assistance of her lover, a swordsman, soon comes to rule his house and keeps her elderly husband's family in line by intimidating them. Her ploys work well until the Read More

My Past

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: My Past is based on a novel called Ex-Mistress, a title that was rejected outright by the Hollywood censors. Even so, what transpires on screen is pretty racy for its time, with stage star Dora Macy (Bebe Daniels) enjoying the favors of wealthy bachelor John Thornley (Lewis Stone). When Dora falls Read More

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Love Comes Along

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Lloyd Hughes, Montagu Love, Ned Sparks, Alma Tell

Synopsis: Love Comes Along was based on Conchita, a stage melodrama by Edward (Kismet) Knoblock. The story takes place on the mythical island of Caparjota, a gathering spot for virtually every hot-to-trot sailor in the universe. One of these amorous tars is Johnny Stark (Lloyd Hughes), who falls hard for Read More

Alias French Gertie

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

Lawful Larceny

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Ken Thomson, Lowell Sherman, Olive Tell, Purnell Pratt

Synopsis: After several musicals and light comedies, Bebe Daniels went dramatic in this adaptation of Samuel Shipman's play Lawful Larceny. When Marion Dorsey's (Daniels) gullible husband Andrew (Kenneth Thompson) loses a great deal of money to seductress Vivian Hepburn (Olive Tell), our heroine adopts Read More

Dixiana

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Joseph Cawthorn

Synopsis: Hoping to repeat the success of its 1929 musical spectacular Rio Rita, RKO Radio reteamed leading lady Bebe Daniels and the comedy team of Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey for the equally lavish Dixiana. Set in antebellum Louisiana, the film casts Daniels as the title character, a lovely and charming Read More

Rio Rita

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Sam Nelson, John Boles, Fred Burns, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Don Alvarado, Dorothy Lee

Synopsis: Rio Rita, an expensive filmization of the legendary Florenz Ziegfeld-produced Broadway musical of 1928, was the first major production for fledgling RKO Radio Studios. Bebe Daniels plays Rita, an Irish-Mexican girl (with thick Hispanic accent) who oversees a large ranch near the Mexican border. Read More

Feel My Pulse

Actors: Bebe Daniels, George Irving, Charles Sellon, William Powell

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels' popular Paramount comedies of the 1920s frequently cast the sprightly heroine as a female Douglas Fairbanks, saving the day with equal parts cleverness and physical dexterity. Feel My Pulse is a typically Fairbanksian romp, with Daniels playing a sheltered rich girl who has been Read More

What a Night!

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Wheeler Oakman, Charles Sellon

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels once again plays an intrepid -- and somewhat foolhardy -- girl reporter in Paramount's What a Night!. A spoiled socialite, Dorothy Winston (Daniels) decides to prove that she's a valuable member of society by becoming a news hound. She manages to get the goods on mobster boss Mike Read More

Take Me Home

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman, Doris Hill, Joe E. Brown

Synopsis: Broadway chorus girl Peggy Lane (Bebe Daniels) is in love with stage-door-johnnie David North (Neil Hamilton). Vampish Derelys Devore (Lilyan Tashman), the obnoxious star of the show in which Peggy is appearing, tries to come between the adoring couple. When all else fails, Peggy is forced to put Read More

Hot News

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, Spec O'Donnell, Ben Hall

The Fifty-Fifty Girl

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, William Austin, Johnnie Morris

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels struck a blow for feminism--for at least 6 reels, that is--in The Fifty-Fifty Girl. It all begins when Kathleen O'Hara (Daniels) and Jim Donahue (James Hall) find themselves joint owners of a gold mine. Each party would like to get rid of the other and take full ownership. Thus, they Read More

Swim, Girl, Swim

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, Josephine Dunn, William Austin

Synopsis: Though she hadn't been a Hal Roach "bathing beauty" for nearly ten years, Bebe Daniels still cut quite a svelte figure in Swim, Girl, Swim. Daniels is cast as Alice Smith, a bookish, bespectacled type who emerges from her cocoon when she joins her college's swimming team Before she quite knows Read More

Senorita

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, William Powell, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: One of the most frustrating items in the list of missing Bebe Daniels comedies, Senorita certainly sounds fascinating. When the life and property of Spanish Californian aristocrat Don Hernandez (Josef Swickard) is threatened by land-grabbers, the old man sends for his grandson to help out. What he Read More

She's a Sheik

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William Powell, Josephine Dunn

Synopsis: She's a Sheik borrows more than a little from the Rudolph Valentino vehicle, Son of the Sheik, but refreshingly, the Valentino character here is a woman, played by the dashing comedienne Bebe Daniels. She is Zaida, half-Spanish and half-Arab, and determined to marry a Christian man. The Arabian Read More

Kiss in a Taxi

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was really more slapstick than farce. Ginette (Daniels) is a waitress at Pierre's café. She is in love with Lucien (Douglas Gilmore) and hates getting attention from anyone else. Whenever another man tries Read More

Palm Beach Girl

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Lawrence Gray, Josephine Drake, Marguerite Clayton, John Patrick

Synopsis: The Palm Beach Girl is Emily Bennett (Bebe Daniels), the poor Iowa relation of wealthy Florida dowager Aunt Jerry (Josephine Drake). Invited to spend the winter with her aunt, Emily boards the southbound train; en route, her face is blackened by a passing tugboat, compelling her to ride in the Read More

Splendid Crime

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, Anne Cornwall, Anthony Jowitt, Fred Walton

Synopsis: This nicely made Paramount feature benefits from the humanity and wit of writer/director William C. DeMille, and the spark of Bebe Daniels, who was fully coming into her own as a star and comedienne. Daniels plays Jenny, a female Raffles character, who breaks into the home of the wealthy Bob Van Read More

Stranded in Paris

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, Ford Sterling, Iris Stuart, Mabel Julienne Scott

Synopsis: Herman J. Mankiewicz was one of the screenwriters of the sprightly Bebe Daniels vehicle Stranded in Paris. Daniels is cast as New York salesgirl Julie McFadden, who wins a free trip to Paris, sponsored by a French perfume company. En route to Europe by boat, Julie enjoys a shipboard romance with Read More

The Campus Flirt

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, El Brendel, Joan Standing

Synopsis: Though well into her twenties, Bebe Daniels effectively passes as a teenager in The Campus Flirt. Daniels plays the spoiled-rotten daughter of a haughty rich woman. After receiving an expensive (if desultory) European education, Daniels is enrolled at an all-American college by her down-to-earth Read More

Volcano

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Dale Fuller

Synopsis: Volcano takes forever to get to the climactic eruption. In the meantime, the audience is subjected to the travails of convent-bred Zabette de Chauvalons, who upon returning to her father's estate in Martinique discovers that daddy has died and the property is now in the hands of her evil Read More

Miss Brewster's Millions

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Warner Baxter, Ford Sterling, André de Beranger

Synopsis: George Barr McCutcheon's novel had already been filmed a couple of times (and would be filmed several times more after the advent of talkies). To make it a vehicle for Bebe Daniels, writer Monty Brice threw the story out the window and just kept the basic premise. Polly Brewster (Daniels) is Read More

Miss Bluebeard

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Robert W. Frazer, Raymond Griffith, Martha Madison

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels is Colette Girard, a French actress who is traveling to London to visit her friend Gloria (Diana Kane). On the train she meets Gloria's fiancé, Bob Hawley (Kenneth MacKenna). Hawley is posing as his friend, Larry Charters (Robert Frazer), a musician who is trying to dodge his many Read More

Lovers in Quarantine

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Harrison Ford, Alfred Lunt, Edna May Oliver

Synopsis: After a few films that did not showcase her talent well, Bebe Daniels was able to redeem herself in this comedy based on the F. Tennyson Jesse stage play Quarantined. Although Pamela Gordon (Eden Gray) is engaged to explorer Tony Blunt (Harrison Ford), she gets tired of waiting for him to come Read More

The Manicure Girl

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Edmund Burns, Dorothy Cumming, Hale Hamilton, Charlotte Walker

Synopsis: Maria Maretti (Bebe Daniels) works as a manicurist at a posh hotel. She is in love with Tony Luca (Edmund Burns), and they are saving up to buy a home and get married, but Maria isn't blind to what is going on around her. She watches the other girls take money and favors from their wealthy men Read More

The Crowded Hour

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Kenneth Harlan, T. Roy Barnes, Frank Morgan, Helen Lee Worthing

Synopsis: When Billy Laidlaw (Kenneth Harlan) sees Peggy Laurence (Bebe Daniels) and her partner, Matt Wilde (T. Roy Barnes), performing at a Bowery amateur night, he resolves to help them. They do well on Broadway, thanks to Laidlaw, who begins falling in love with Peggy, even though he already has a wife Read More

Wild, Wild Susan

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Rod La Rocque, Henry Stephenson

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels stars in this action-packed comedy -- one of Edward Sutherland's first directoral efforts. Susan Van Dusen (Daniels) is bored by her society life and craves excitement. Her father (Henry Stephenson), however, wants her to settle down and marry one of the sons of his friend Chauncey Read More

Unguarded Women

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Walter McGrail, Frank Losee

Synopsis: This Paramount drama was based on the novel Face, by Lucy Stone Terrill. It was a change of pace for light comedienne Bebe Daniels. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albright (Richard Dix) has a moment of cowardice which causes the death of his friend, Captain Banning (Joe King). When Read More

Daring Youth

Actors: Lillian Langdon, Bebe Daniels, Lee Moran, Norman Kerry

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels never let her public or her studio down. In Daring Youth, Daniels delivers her usual sprightly performance as the free-thinking wife of Norman Kerry. Entering into marriage on the understanding that she will be given unbridled freedom to do what she wants with whom she wants, Daniels Read More

Sinners in Heaven

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix, Holmes Herbert, Florence Billings

Synopsis: This South Seas tale, based on the novel by Clive Arden, very much reflects the morals of its era. Barbara Stockley (Bebe Daniels) is raised in a very proper English town. Her friend, Mrs. Fields (Florence Billings), invites her on a trip by aeroplane to Australia with her brother, Alan Croft (Richard Dix Read More

Monsieur Beaucaire

Actors: Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman

Synopsis: The still photographs of this costume picture, showing Rudolph Valentino wearing foppish 18th century finery, are actually misleading when it comes to Monsieur Beaucaire's actual content. For much of the film, Valentino actually views his wardrobe -- and his matinee idol persona -- with sly humor. Read More

Heritage of the Desert

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Ernest Torrence, Noah Beery, Sr., Lloyd Hughes, Anne Schaefer

Synopsis: It seems like every word Zane Grey ever put to paper eventually wound up on screen during the silent days. Although there's a romance involved between Bebe Daniels and Lloyd Hughes in this Western, two of the era's finest character actors, Ernest Torrence and Noah Beery Sr. are really the whole Read More

Argentine Love

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, James Rennie, Mario Majeroni

Synopsis: Argentine Love is based on a novel by Vincent Blasco-Ibanez, whose Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse made a star of Rudolph Valentino. Not surprisingly, leading man Ricardo Cortez plays a Valentino clone: a headstrong Argentinian in love with fetching senorita Bebe Daniels. But Daniels prefers the Read More

Dangerous Money

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Tom Moore, William Powell, Dolores Cassinelli, Mary Foy

Synopsis: There is a dispute over the ownership of some valuable Long Island farmland -- the Clarks and the Sullivans both claim it. It is ultimately awarded to Adele (Bebe Daniels), the last of the Clarks. Although Adele is in love with Tim (Tom Moore), the son of Sheamus Sullivan (Edward O'Connor), their Read More

Glimpses of the Moon

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Nita Naldi, Dave Powell, Maurice Costello, Rubye DeRemer

Synopsis: After Hollywood was rocked by several scandals, the specter of censorship reared its ugly head. To keep local community leaders from doing the censoring, the film industry opted to do the editing itself. Perhaps that's why pictures such as this Allan Dwan-directed society drama based on a novel by Read More

World's Applause

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Kathlyn Williams, Adolphe Menjou, Brandon Hurst

Synopsis: The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly dramatic feature. Actress Corinne d'Alys (Bebe Daniels) is thrilled by her newfound success and aches for more publicity and fame. Although she is loved by her manager, John Read More

The Exciters

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Antonio Moreno, Burr McIntosh, Diana Allen, Cyril Ring

Synopsis: The Exciters is the old one about a footloose heiress who must marry by the age of 21 or forfeit her fortune. The girl (Bebe Daniels), an inveterate thrill-seeker, chooses as her mate a handsome gangster (Antonio Moreno). Lots of thrills and laughs occur as a result of this shaky union. The Read More

His Children's Children

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Dorothy Mackaill, James Rennie, George Fawcett

Synopsis: It was impossible for director Sam Wood to include all of Arthur Train's sprawling novel in this picture. Instead he seems to have turned it into a rather simplistic morality play about a flapper's redemption -- the sort of subject which was common in the 1920s. Old Peter B. Kayne (George Fawcett) Read More

North of the Rio Grande

Actors: Jack Holt, Bebe Daniels, Charles Ogle, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: A young cowboy turns vigilante after his father is killed in this fine silent Western filmed on location in blistering Southern Arizona. With revenge on his mind, Bob Haddington (Jack Holt) turns himself into Velantrie, the leader of a gang of outlaws. At a mission, he meets and falls for Val Read More

Nice People

Actors: Wallace Reid, Conrad Nagel, Bebe Daniels, Julia Faye

Synopsis: Although director Cecil B. DeMille was known for his Biblical spectaculars and florid comedy-dramas about domestic relations, it was his older brother William C. DeMille who had taste and class. His pictures were smaller and more intimate, and they were also often more sophisticated. This picture Read More

Singed Wings

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Conrad Nagel, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Brower

Synopsis: What was Paramount thinking when it cast a capable comedienne like Bebe Daniels in this artificial tragedy? The funny moments here were all created inadvertently. Conrad Nagel, Adolphe Menjou and Ernest Torrence are among the other capable actors who are also wasted. Bonita (Daniels), a Spanish Read More

Pink Gods

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Kirkwood, Anna Q. Nilsson, Raymond Hatton, Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis: This melodrama, based on the novel Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley, wasted the talents of James Kirkwood,