Betty BronsonFilmography

Blackbeard's Ghost

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Joby Baker

Synopsis: Blackbeard's Ghost was one of the first Disney productions released after Walt's death. Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to come to aid of his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester. The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that Read More

The Naked Kiss

Actors: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly

Synopsis: Kelly (Constance Towers), a prostitute who wants to transform her life, beats up her pimp, takes the 75 dollars he owes her, and leaves town. Winding up in the small town of Grantville, she turns a trick with Griff (Anthony Eisley), who is actually the sheriff. After paying her for sex, Griff Read More

Pocketful of Miracles

Actors: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk

Synopsis: Director Frank Capra's last feature film, Pocketful of Miracles is a Technicolor remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day. A barely recognizable Bette Davis plays Apple Annie, the besotted, unkempt, rag-clad street vendor who controls the activities of all the beggars on Broadway. Apple Annie is the Read More

Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Betty Bronson, Jack Kirk, LeRoy Mason, Charles B. Middleton, Art Mix

Synopsis: The prolific Jack Natteford wrote this unusual Gene Autry Western -- or, to be accurate, "Eastern" -- which reportedly suffered cuts after censors found it too violent. Gene, as usual, plays Gene Autry, this time the son of a Georgian cattleman (Charles Middleton) waging a war against the areas Read More

The Midnight Patrol

Actors: Regis Toomey, Betty Bronson, Edwina Booth, Mary Nolan, Earl Foxe

Synopsis: Upon her release from prison, Joyce Greeley (Edwina Booth) is promptly and mysteriously murdered. Fledgling crime reporter John Martin (Regis Toomey) wants to find out why and also wants to discern the role of Joyce's lawyer Judson (Earl Foxe) in this whole sordid mess. Martin befriends the dead Read More

Lover Come Back

Actors: Constance Cummings, Jack Mulhall, Betty Bronson, Jameson Thomas, Fred Santley

Synopsis: This first of three talkies bearing the title Lover Come Back stars Constance Cummings as Connie, a super-efficient stenographer. Connie would willingly forsake her career if office manager Tom Evans (Jack Mulhall) would propose, but he barely knows she's alive. When Tom marries Vivian (Betty Bronson Read More

The Medicine Man

Actors: Jack Benny, Betty Bronson

Synopsis: Jack Benny wasn't even 39 yet when he starred in the maudlin backstage drama The Medicine Man. Benny plays Dr. John Harvey, the worldly and none-too-honest title character, who while passing through a small town falls in love with winsome Mamie Goltz (Betty Bronson), the victim of what one Read More

One Stolen Night

Actors: Betty Bronson, William Collier, Jr., Mitchell Lewis, Nina Quartero, Rose Dione

Synopsis: In this adventure, a remake of 1923's The Arab, a British cavalry soldier stationed in the Sudan takes the rap for his brother, who had been accused of stealing; the soldier subsequently joins a vaudeville troupe. There he falls in love with a lovely woman only to lose her when she is purchased by Read More

The Locked Door

Actors: Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William "Stage" Boyd, Betty Bronson, Harry Stubbs

Synopsis: In this drama, which marks Barbara Stawyck's Hollywood film debut, a woman is taken to an illegal cabaret set aboard a wealthy man's yacht. Her captor, the owner, then locks her in a stateroom. When the cops raid the joint, she is photographed with the wealthy cad. Time passes and the woman ends Read More

Sonny Boy

Actors: Davey Lee, Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Edward Everett Horton, Gertrude Olmstead

Synopsis: A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are interspersed amongst the dialog. The parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her Read More

Bellamy Trial

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Betty Bronson, George Barraud, Margaret Livingston, Ken Thomson

Synopsis: Popular silent-screen star Leatrice Joy made an adequate talking-picture debut in MGM's The Bellamy Trial. The film was based on a novel by Frances Noyes Hart, which in turn was allegedly inspired by a true story. Told in flashback form (a la Elmer Rice's On Trial), the story concerns the events Read More

The Singing Fool

Actors: Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Reed Howes, Edward Martindel

Synopsis: Popular film lore has it that The Jazz Singer was the film that established the talkie as the pre-eminent film medium in 1927. But it was Al Jolson's follow-up film, The Singing Fool that actually introduced the sound film to the general film-going population of the United States and it was the Read More

Companionate Marriage

Paradise for Two

Actors: Richard Dix, Edmund Breese, Betty Bronson, André Beranger

Synopsis: It's a shame that so many of the silent directorial efforts of the innovational Gregory La Cava no longer exist. LaCava's Paradise for Two certainly sounds interesting, and any film combining the talents of Richard Dix and Betty Bronson can't have been too shabby. In addition, the witty Read More

Open Range

Actors: Betty Bronson, Lane Chandler, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures used the Zane Grey adaptation Open Range as a showcase for its newest western star (and potential Gary Cooper replacement) Lane Chandler. Teamed with winsome Betty Bronson, who three years earlier had starred in Paramount's Peter Pan, Chandler plays an itinerant cowboy who is Read More

Ritzy

Actors: Betty Bronson, James Hall, William Austin, Joan Standing, George Nichols

Synopsis: Hoping to change the winsome "Cinderella" image of actress Betty Bronson, Ritzy. Despite her name, Ritzy Brown (Bronson) is merely a small-town gal, though she harbors Big-City aspirations. When British nobleman Harrington Smith (James Hall) pays a visit to the Brown household, Ritzy is Read More

Brass Knuckles

Actors: Monte Blue, Betty Bronson, William Russell, George E. Stone, Paul Panzer

Synopsis: Brass Knuckles opens with a prison break, which is quelled by good-natured convict Monte Blue. As a reward, Blue is pardoned, whereupon he honors a promise made behind bars and visits orphanage resident Betty Bronson, the daughter of a condemned prisoner. Assuming that the girl is a mere Read More

Paradise

Actors: Milton Sills, Betty Bronson, Noah Beery, Sr., Lloyd Whitlock, Kate Price

Synopsis: Another triumph for the ever-popular Milton Sills, Paradise casts the star as Tony, a characteristically feisty stunt pilot. Upon marrying wealthy socialite Chrissie (Betty Bronson), Tony and his bride are given a tropical island for a wedding present. Unfortunately, the couple's "paradise" proves Read More

The Cat's Pajamas

Actors: Betty Bronson, Ricardo Cortez, Theodore Roberts, Arlette Marchal

Synopsis: One of the unfortunately "lost" films of silent-screen ingenue Betty Bronson, The Cat's Pajamas casts Bronson as a naïve seamstress. Egotistical opera star Ricardo Cortez, tired of being besieged by his doting female fans, marries Bronson so that he'll be safe from his public. Naturally, it's Read More

A Kiss for Cinderella

Actors: Betty Bronson, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston

Synopsis: As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated for the magic created by its cinematography. It has become a classic masterpiece, in the genre of similar films like Peter Pan. The story begins with a very young woman (Betty Bronson Read More

Everybody's Acting

Actors: Betty Bronson, Ford Sterling, Louise Dresser, Lawrence Gray, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: This sentimental comedy begins when four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu. The girl grows up to become Doris Poole (Betty Bronson), and it is hoped by her foster daddies that she will become an actress herself. When Doris falls in love with Read More

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell, Kathleen Key, Carmel Myers

Synopsis: The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version of Ben Hur, it was the unvarnished truth--and the filmmakers had the scars to prove it. The story behind the film is now part of Hollywood folklore: the cast and production Read More

Are Parents People?

Synopsis: Betty Bronson, who found overnight success when she played the title character in Peter Pan, has the ingenue lead in this curiously named domestic drama. Mr. and Mrs. Hazlitt (Adolphe Menjou and Florence Vidor) have never learned the give and take of a marriage relationship and have decided to Read More

Not So Long Ago

Actors: Betty Bronson, Ricardo Cortez, Edwards Davis, Julia Swayne Gordon

Synopsis: Although trade paper Motion Picture News insisted no pun was intended, readers probably groaned anyhow when it stated that this drama was meant to prove that actress Betty Bronson was no "flash in the pan" -- after all, Bronson had just recently won the lead role in Peter Pan over every female Read More

Peter Pan

Actors: Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, Cyril Chadwick, Virginia Brown Faire, Anna May Wong

Synopsis: When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter Pan, made famous on the stage by Maude Adams. Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and even Gloria Swanson thought they were perfect for the role, but Barrie's own choice was Betty Bronson Read More

Java Head

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Jacqueline Logan, Albert Roscoe, Arthur Stuart Hull

Synopsis: Louisiana-born Leatrice Joy plays Chinese princess Taou Yuen in Java Head. To save himself from being executed in a gruesome manner, American Jeremy Ammidon (Frederick Strong) marries Taou Yuen. Once he arrives in his New England home, Ammidon tries but fails to suppress his love for hometown Read More

Anna Ascends

Actors: Alice Brady, Robert Ellis, Dave Powell, Nita Naldi, Charles Gerrard

Synopsis: Victor Fleming was still a relatively new director when he helmed this melodrama, an adaptation of the stage play by Harry Chapman Ford. Alice Brady starred on Broadway, and she stars here, too, as Anna Ayyob, a Syrian immigrant living in New York and working at a coffee house owned by Siad Coury (Edouard Durand Read More