George FawcettFilmography

Personal Maid

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Pat O'Brien, Gene Raymond, Hugh O'Connell, Mary Boland

Synopsis: In this drama, a humble Irish lass from New York City's East Side, dreams of ascending the social ladder to escape her tumultuous family life. She attempts to live her dream by becoming a servant in upscale homes. Soon she finds that wealthy families are just as troubled as her own. Fortunately Read More

The Drums of Jeopardy

Actors: Warner Oland, June Collyer, Lloyd Hughes, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Most existing prints of the 1931 melodrama Drums of Jeopardy are in pretty bad shape, but it's worth enduring the tinny soundtracks and messy splices just to watch Warner Oland in his full villainous glory. Oland plays a mad scientist who seeks revenge on the aristocratic family responsible for Read More

The Bad One

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Edmund Lowe, Don Alvarado, Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues. The sailor kills his rival Read More

Men Are Like That

Actors: Hal Skelly, Charles Sellon, Clara Blandick, Morgan Farley

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1926, the George Kelly stage comedy The Show-Off was remade in 1930 as Men Are Like That. Broadway star Hal Skelly steps into the role of chronic braggart Aubrey Piper, incapable of either telling the truth or shutting up. Insinuating himself into the home of his wife Amy's (Doris Hill Read More

Hello Sister

Actors: Olive Borden, Lloyd Hughes, George Fawcett, Norman Peck

Synopsis: Produced and supervised by legendary silent-film director James Cruze, Hello Sister stars Olive Borden as pert heiress Vee Newell. According to the conditions of her grandfather's will, fun-loving Vee will come into her legacy only if she promises to attend church regularly for six months -- and Read More

The Great Divide

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Ian Keith, Lucien Littlefield, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Myrna Loy

Synopsis: In this early musical western, Stephen Ghent (Ian Keith) is a businessman who, after the death of his partner, has been helping to support Ruth Jordan (Dorothy Mackaill), the late man's college-age daughter. While visiting a town near the Mexican border on business, Ghent is shocked to discover Read More

Wild Company

Actors: Frank Albertson, H.B. Warner, Joyce Compton, Claire McDowell

Synopsis: This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents. He soaks them for as much money has he can get and then squanders the money in an illicit speak-easy where he has fallen for the lovely singer. Unfortunately, she is a gangster's moll. Read More

Swing High

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott, Dorothy Burgess, John Sheehan, Daphne Pollard

Synopsis: Advertised as an "all star" film, Swing High is hardly that: The biggest name in the picture, both in terms of popularity and sheer marquee space, was Helen Twelvetrees. A variation of the 1926 German classic Variety, the film casts Twelvetrees and Dorothy Burgess as sisters Maryan and Trixie, a Read More

Ladies of Leisure

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Marie Prevost, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Reformed gold-digger Barbara Stanwyck falls in love with a womanizing and wealthy aspiring artist and tries to convince him that she has really changed in this romantic Frank Capra drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Once a Gentleman

Actors: Edward Everett Horton, Lois Wilson, Francis X. Bushman, King Baggot, Emerson Treacy

Synopsis: A devoted valet takes a vacation in this lively drama. After 15 years of faithful service, he has earned it. He goes to India where he ends up mistaken for a colonel and gets into trouble. After it is straightened out, he brings home the charming widowed housekeeper he met, and she begins working Read More

Hot for Paris

Actors: Victor McLaglen, El Brendel, Polly Moran, Lennox Pawle

Synopsis: In this romance, a none-too-bright sailor (Victor McLaglen) takes a trip to Paris, not realizing he had just won the multi-million dollar prize in a horse lottery. The lotto officials send an agent (Ed Brendel) to find the young sailor and deliver his prize, but he runs away believing he was Read More

Fancy Baggage

Actors: Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy, George Fawcett, Edmund Breese, Burr McIntosh

Synopsis: In this crime melodrama, Iverson (George Fawcett) is a stockbroker who has been sent to prison for illegally manipulating the market; however, as a matter of honor, he refuses to implicate his partner John Hardin (Edmund Breese), who was responsible for most of the wrong-doing. Iverson's daughter Read More

The Gamblers

Actors: H.B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Jason Robards, Sr., George Fawcett, Johnny Arthur

Synopsis: The 1929 Wall Street crash was still two months in the future when Warner Bros.' Gamblers was released in the late summer of 1929. Jason Robards Sr. and George Fawcett play Carvel Emerson Jr. and Emerson Sr., father-and-son stock manipulators who "gamble" their firm's assets on a risky Read More

Lady of the Pavements

Actors: Lupe Velez, Jetta Goudal, Albert Conti, George Fawcett

Synopsis: D.W. Griffith's last silent film, The Lady of the Pavements was based on La Paiva, a story by Karl Gustav Vollmoeller. Set in 19th-century Paris, the story concerns the romantic travails of Prussian aristocrat Count Karl von Arnim (played by future "Hopalong Cassidy" star William Boyd). Feeling Read More

Innocents of Paris

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Russell Simpson, George Fawcett

Synopsis: In this drama, a junkman, Maurice Chevalier in his American film debut, rescues a drowning boy from the Seine. The boy's mother had been attempting to kill herself and her son as well. The junkman cannot save the mother. He takes the boy to his grandfather. There he encounters the boy's aunt with Read More

His Captive Woman

Actors: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Gladden James, Gertrude Howard, Marion Byron

Synopsis: Milton Sills, one of the silent era's great matinee idols, starred in this follow-up to his sound debut in the part-talkie The Barker (1928). Like that film, a major success for the veteran leading man, His Captive Woman was essentially a silent film with a music score and a few talking sequences. Read More

Wonder of Women

Actors: Leila Hyams, Peggy Wood, George Fawcett, Harry Myers

Synopsis: Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder of Women. Adapted from a novel by Herman Suderman, the film stars Wood as Brigitte, the wife of brilliant concert pianist Stephen Tromolt (Lewis Stone). Unable to adapt to Read More

Hearts in Exile

Actors: Dolores Costello, Grant Withers, James Kirkwood, George Fawcett, David Torrence

Synopsis: In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he Read More

Prowlers of the Sea

Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Carmel Myers, George Fawcett

The Four Feathers

Actors: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the last rendering during the silent era. Here, Richard Arlen stars as Harry Faversham, the British officer who resigns rather than fight against rebels in Egypt. When four of Read More

The Little Wildcat

Actors: James Murray, George Fawcett, Robert Edeson, Doris Dawson, Audrey Ferris, Hallam Cooley

Synopsis: Released in both silent and part-talkie versions, The Little Wildcat starred James Murray, late of The Crowd, as barnstorming pilot Conrad Burton. While touring the provinces, Burton finds time to romance both Audrey (Audrey Ferris) and Sue (Doris Dawson). Hoping to force Burton into marriage, Sue Read More

The Wedding March

Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Fay Wray, George Fawcett, George Nichols, ZaSu Pitts, Maude George

Synopsis: Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur Pat Powers for funding for his 1927 epic The Wedding March. Set during the Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg regime, the film stars director Von Stroheim as wastrelly Prince Nikki Read More

Tempest

Actors: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Boris de Fas, Ullrich Haupt, Sr.

Synopsis: One of John Barrymore's best-remembered silent films (mainly because it is one of the few that has remained in constant circulation), The Tempest is set before, during and after the Russian Revolution. Barrymore plays a Czarist military officer who is haughtily rejected by aristocratic Camilla Horn Read More

See You in Jail

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Alice Day, Mack Swain, George Fawcett, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Jack Mulhall stars as Jerry Marsden, the wastrelly son of millionaire milk wholesaler J. Marsden Sr. (George Fawcett). After bailing Jerry out of one scrape too many, the elder Marsden cuts off the boy's allowance and tells him he's on his own. While looking for work, Jerry is hired by wealthy Read More

Private Life of Helen of Troy

Actors: María Corda, Lewis Stone, Ricardo Cortez, George Fawcett, Alice White

Synopsis: Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly Read More

Hard Boiled Haggerty

Actors: Milton Sills, Molly O'Day, Arthur Stone, Mitchell Lewis, George Fawcett

Synopsis: "Hard Boiled" Haggerty (Milton Sills) is a flight lieutenant who uses German planes for target practice during WWI. For all his bravery in the air, Haggerty is something of a clod on solid ground. Thus, when he gets mixed up with a pair of twin sisters (both played by Molly O'Day), our hero messes Read More

Spring Fever

Actors: William Haines, George K. Arthur, George Fawcett, Eileen Percy

Synopsis: Another of William Haines' sports-oriented vehicles, Spring Fever casts the star as lowly shipping clerk Jack Kelly. Falling in love with heiress Allie Monte (a young Joan Crawford), Jack bluffs his way into Allie's country club, posing as a champion golfer. By the time he realizes that Allie Read More

Tillie the Toiler

Actors: Marion Davies, Matt Moore, Harry Crocker, George Fawcett, George K. Arthur

Synopsis: Marion Davies has the lead role of Tillie in this adaptation of Russ Westover's popular 1920s comic strip. Tillie is bored by both her job as a stenographer and her office romance with Mr. Whipple (George K. Arthur). She's far more interested in another man in the office, Mac (Matt Moore). Mac Read More

Riding to Fame

Actors: Gladys McConnell, Arthur Rankin, George Fawcett

Synopsis: The director of Riding to Fame was uncredited, but research has revealed his identity as one A. B. Barringer. Crippled heroine Gladys McConnell inherits virtually nothing but debts upon the demise of her father. The one tangible asset in the estate is a racehorse which has never won a race. Three Read More

Captain Salvation

Actors: Lars Hanson, Marceline Day, Ernest Torrence, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Lars Hanson had recently appeared as Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter when he was called on once again to play a man of the cloth. Anson Campbell (Hanson), however, has his doubts as he studies for the ministry -- he loves the sea at least as much as he loves God. Bess Morgan (Pauline Read More

The Valley of the Giants

Actors: Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Arthur Stone, George Fawcett, Paul Hurst

Synopsis: Valley of the Giants is about the struggle between the evil Pennington (Charles Sellon), owner of a local railroad and Bruce Cardigan (Milton Sills), whose family owns a lumber mill. Pennington wants control of the Cardigan possessions, so he cuts off service to the mill. The Cardigans also need Read More

Painting the Town

Actors: Glenn Tryon, Patsy Ruth Miller, George Fawcett, Sidney Bracey

Synopsis: Two of the best-looking human beings in Hollywood, Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first starring role, Tryon is cast as bucolic inventor Hector Whitmore, who falls for flirtatious city gal Patsy Deveau (Miller). Misinterpreting her Read More

Duty's Reward

Actors: Eva Novak, George Fawcett, Alan Roscoe, Lou Archer

Synopsis: A veritable harvest of cliches, Duty's Reward concentrates on the exploits of fearless newspaper editor George Fawcett. Hoping to rid his city of criminals, Fawcett nearly loses both his reputation and his life in the process. In the end, the villains are brought to heel through the efforts of a Read More

The Enemy

Actors: Lillian Gish, Ralph Forbes, Ralph Emerson, Frank Currier, George Fawcett

Synopsis: The Enemy was based on the rabidly anti-war play by Channing Pollock. Lillian Gish plays Pauli Amdt, the granddaughter of August Behrend (George Fawcett), a pacifistic Viennese schoolteacher. Pauli marries student Carl Behrend (Ralph Forbes), who almost immediately thereafter marches off to World Read More

Love

Actors: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, George Fawcett, Emily Fitzroy, Brandon Hurst

Synopsis: This MGM-ized adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was originally titled Heat but was changed to Love when someone at the studio pointed out the possible implications of having the opening title read "John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Heat." Heavily updated and revised, the film bore scant Read More

Paying the Price

Actors: John Miljan, George Hackathorne, Eddie Phillips, George Fawcett, Marjorie Bonner

Synopsis: This minor Columbia effort is a cautionary fable against alcohol abuse. Despite the efforts of a pious minister, two pretty sisters -- played by real-life siblings Marjorie and Priscilla Bonne -- are led astray by city slicker John Miljan. Hoping to have his way with the girls, the villain invites Read More

Flesh and the Devil

Actors: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, William Orlamond

Synopsis: A bulky, verbose novel by Herman Suderman was the source for the exquisitely silent Flesh and the Devil. On leave from the Austrian army, lifelong friends John Gilbert and Lars Hanson return to their loving families. At a reception in Hanson's honor, Gilbert makes the acquaintance of the Read More

The Flaming Frontier

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Anne Cornwall, Dustin Farnum, Ward Crane, Kathleen Key

Synopsis: Marking the 50th anniversary of General George Armstrong Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn, Universal re-created the battle in their biggest production ($400,000) of the year, The Flaming Frontier. Veteran screen actor Dustin Farnum came out of semi-retirement to play Custer -- to Read More

The Son of the Sheik

Actors: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love, Bull Montana, Karl Dane

Synopsis: The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast improvement upon) Valentino's 1922 blockbuster The Sheik, the 1926 film casts the legendary Latin Lover in the dual role of the now-older Sheik and his son Ahmed. The latter falls in love with Read More

Men of Steel

Actors: Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, May Allison, Victor McLaglen, Frank Currier

Synopsis: Men of Steel was the last of Milton Sills' four starring films in 1926. Sills plays Jan Bokak, a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt (May Allison) and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick (Doris Kenyon) Read More

Two Can Play

Actors: George Fawcett, Allan Forrest, Clara Bow

Synopsis: In one of her last films before joining Paramount Pictures, Clara Bow stars as Dorothy Hamis, the niece of conservative millionaire John A. Hamis (George Fawcett). Dorothy is in love with "lounge lizard" James Radley (Allan Forrest) while Uncle John would prefer her to keep company with a man of Read More

Under Western Skies

Actors: Norman Kerry, Anne Cornwall, Charles French, Harry Todd

Synopsis: Dashing Norman Kerry wasn't exactly what one would call a "cowboy" type, but that didn't stop his home studio of Universal from casting him in Under Western Skies. The plot centers around two basic incidents: A wild horse roundup and a championship hurdling race. Bob Erskin (Norman Kerry) captures Read More

Joanna

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, Paul Nicholson, George Fawcett, Edwards Davis

Synopsis: Dorothy Mackaill is well-cast as a high-living flapper in this lively picture, which was based on the popular newspaper serial by H.L. Gates. Joanna Manners (Mackaill) is a salesgirl, and a rather lousy one at that. Nevertheless, she is loved by John Wilmot, a struggling young architect (Jack Read More

Thank You

Actors: George O'Brien, Jacqueline Logan, Alec B. Francis, John Farrell MacDonald, Cyril Chadwick

Synopsis: The wild behavior of Kenneth Jamieson (George O'Brien) has finally gone too far and his millionaire father (George Fawcett) hands him a small allowance and sends him to live on a chicken farm in the tiny hamlet of Dedham. The pastor there, David Lee (Alec B. Francis), is an old friend of Read More

The Fighting Cub

Synopsis: Freckle-faced Wesley Barry was one of the most popular juvenile stars of the 1920s. In The Fighting Cub, Barry plays Thomas Patrick O'Toole, a copy boy who aspires to be an ace reporter. He takes the first step in this direction when he secures an interview with a beloved philanthropist (George Fawcett Read More

Up the Ladder

Actors: Virginia Valli, Forrest Stanley, Margaret Livingston, Holmes Herbert, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This routine domestic drama was based on a stage play by Owen Davis. Jane Cornwall, a wealthy heiress (Virginia Valli), secretly uses her fortune to help her sweetheart, James Van Clinton (Forrest Stanley), perfect his invention -- a "Tele-Vision-Scope" (a device which enables people to see each Read More

Mad Whirl

Actors: May McAvoy, Myrtle Stedman, Alec B. Francis, Barbara Bedford

Synopsis: This moralistic romance, based on the short story Here's How by Richard Washburn Child, was pretty typical for its era: jazz parties, bootleg gin, and decadent fun abounds until the last 15 minutes when the partygoers think better of their freewheeling ways and reform. Jack Herrington (Jack Mulhall Read More

Some Pun'kins

Actors: Charles Ray, George Fawcett, Duane Thompson, Bert Woodruff

Synopsis: After The Courtship of Miles Standish bombed, a bankrupted Charles Ray had to go back to working for other studios and trying to regain the audience he had lost. His role in this rural comedy was much like those that had made him famous -- the country boy who eventually gets the girl -- but Ray Read More

The Merry Widow

Actors: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This silent adaptation of Franz Lehar's famous operetta (in which precious little of the original story was retained) was a rare event in Erich Von Stroheim's directorial career -- a critical and commercial success that the director was also able to complete according to his wishes (though in the Read More

Sporting Chance

Actors: Lou Tellegen, Dorothy Phillips, George Fawcett, Theodore Von Eltz, Sheldon Lewis

Synopsis: Wealthy Northern sportsman Darrell Thornton (Lou Tellegen) wants to marry society girl Patricia Winthrop (Dorothy Phillips), but he has a rival in Southerner Robert Selby (Theodore Von Eltz), whose one possession is his horse Kentucky Boy. Patricia chooses Selby, and for revenge, Thornton has the Read More

Nine and Three-Fifths Seconds

Synopsis: Like many sports stars before and after him, champion sprinter Charles W. Paddock wound up in motion pictures, at least temporarily. Although the story to this action-drama didn't display Paddock's athletic talents to their best advantage, the sprinter does have a fine supporting cast. Charley Read More

Circle

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Alec B. Francis, Eugénie Besserer, George Fawcett

Synopsis: In spite of a fine cast and director, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer somehow managed to turn the stage play by W. Somerset Maugham into merely a classy-looking program picture. The Cheneys are "veddy" proper upper-class Englishmen, so it's a shock in the 1890s when Lady Catherine, wife of Lord Clive Cheney Read More

Home Maker

Actors: Alice Joyce, Clive Brook, Billy Kent Schaeffer, Maurice Murphy, Jacqueline Wells

Synopsis: Although this film sounds like a 1920s version of Mr. Mom, in some ways it's more enlightened than the 1983 comedy -- for one thing, being a stay-at-home dad comes quite naturally to husband Lester Knapp (Clive Brook). Nevertheless, the idea of switching traditional husband-wife roles was quite a Read More

Souls for Sables

Actors: Claire Windsor, Eugene O'Brien, Claire Adams, Edith Yorke, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This drama was the type of feature that was very popular among typical filmgoers in the 1920s. Fred and Alice Garlan (Eugene O'Brien and Claire Windsor) are happy newlyweds, but once they settle into their marriage, things get a little dull. Fred focuses on his work and Alice gets wrapped up in a Read More

Sporting Venus

Actors: Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman, Lew Cody, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Lady Gwendolyn (Blanche Sweet, who, at the time, was married to Marshall Neilan) is the daughter of Sir Alfred Grayle, a wealthy Scotsman (Edward Martindel). Because her mother is dead and Sir Alfred wanted a boy, Gwendolyn grows up sharing his passion for sports. When she meets commoner Donald Read More

The Price of Pleasure

Actors: Virginia Valli, Norman Kerry, Louise Fazenda, Kate Lester, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This ordinary romantic programmer starred Universal regulars Norman Kerry and Virginia Valli. Linnie Randall, a shopgirl (Valli), is bored with her humdrum life. Her complaints are overheard by the wealthy Garry Schuyler (Kerry), who is disguised as a mechanic. He asks her out to dinner and, to Read More

Peacock Feathers

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Helen Dumbar, Youcca Troubetzkoy, George Fawcett, Emmett C. King

Synopsis: When her family loses its fortune, aristocratic Mimi LeBrun (Jacqueline Logan) is forced into a marriage with a man she hardly knows. On the night before the nuptials, Mimi elopes with Jimmy Chandler (Cullen Landis), who mistakenly believes that he has inherited a palatial California mansion. In Read More

Verdict

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Lou Tellegen, Gertrude Astor, Louise Lorraine, Charles Clary

Synopsis: A minor mystery melodrama, producer Philip Goldstone's creaky The Verdict employed the oldest cliché of them all. Yes, the butler did indeed do it! Employers of a fashion emporium, Carol (Louise Lorraine), a sales girl, and Jimmy (William Collier Jr.), the young bookkeeper, find their innocent Read More

A Lost Lady

Actors: Irene Rich, Matt Moore, June Marlowe, John Roche, Victor Potel

Synopsis: Irene Rich plays a selfish and tragic figure in this drama based on a best-selling novel by Willa Cather. Marian (Rich) is married to Captain Forrester (George Fawcett), an elderly railroad magnate, but she longs for the romance that is lacking in her May-December relationship. She finds it in Read More

Triumph

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Rod La Rocque, Victor Varconi, Charles Ogle, Theodore Kosloff

Synopsis: After the spectacular epic The Ten Commandments, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille returns to the drawing room for this pleasingly straightforward drama. King Garnet (Rod La Rocque) is the idle son of factory owner David Garnet (George Fawcett). He is in love with Ann Land (Leatrice Joy), the factory's Read More

West of the Water Tower

Synopsis: In the more straight-laced era of the 1920s the lack of a marriage license could destroy a young couple's world - that's the only way that modern-day film historians can make sense of the plot to this character study. Adrian Plummer (Ernest Torrence) is a narrow-minded preacher; Charles Chew, the Read More

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Actors: Blanche Sweet, Stuart Holmes, Conrad Nagel, Joseph J. Dowling

Synopsis: Marshall Neilan may not have been the best director for this Thomas Hardy tragedy; he was better with subject matter that wasn't quite so heavy. But he and his then-wife Blanche Sweet still made a good and financially successful film. Tess (Sweet) comes from a poor family. When her father, the Read More

In Every Woman's Life

Synopsis: A young American girl in Paris is loved by three handsome men in this romantic melodrama based on Belonging, a popular 1920 novel by Olive Wadsley. Virginia Valli plays the young woman, Sara, who is asked to chose between three disparate suitors: Count Desanges (Marc MacDermott), who is Read More

The Breaking Point

Actors: Nita Naldi, Patsy Ruth Miller, George Fawcett, Matt Moore

Synopsis: Matt Moore stars as Judson Clark, a wealthy but idle young man who is in love with actress Beverly Carlysle (Nita Naldi). Her husband becomes jealous and he winds up in a fight with Clark. A shot rings out and the husband falls dead. Clark believes he is the murderer and dashes out into a Read More

Code of the Sea

Actors: Rod La Rocque, Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett, Maurice B. Flynn, Luke Cosgrave

Synopsis: The story to this sea melodrama was written by Byron Morgan. Morgan was best known for the fast-paced auto tales he wrote for Wallace Reid, so this was quite a departure for him. When Bruce McDow (Rod LaRocque) refuses to go aloft to fix a rigging during a storm, and he is branded a coward. McDow Read More

Broken Barriers

Synopsis: A very young Norma Shearer and a fine supporting cast that includes Adolphe Menjou and Mae Busch all suffered from a hackneyed screenplay in this silent society melodrama from Metro-Goldwyn, the forerunner of MGM. Shearer plays Grace Durland, a debutante forced to leave college when her father (George Fawcett Read More

Lieutenant Daring Rn and the Water Rats

The Bedroom Window

Actors: May McAvoy, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Edeson, George Fawcett

Synopsis: William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collaborator, scenarist Clara Beranger, for the 7-reel silent The Bedroom Window. Essentially a by-the-book mystery tale, the film is lifted from the ordinary by the expertise of DeMille and the charm of Read More

Her Love Story

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Ian Keith, George Fawcett, Mario Majeroni

Synopsis: Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made this film, and while it isn't one of her best -- a Graustarkian tale by Mary Roberts Rinehart wasn't really up her alley -- it certainly had a lot of spectacular touches. Swanson wears a 100,000-dollar bridal outfit (that was more than Read More

Drums of Fate

Actors: Mary Miles Minter, Maurice B. Flynn, George Fawcett, Robert Cain, Casson Ferguson

Synopsis: Carol Dolliver (Mary Miles Minter) is the young heiress sought by several suitors in this romantic adventure drama. She decides to marry engineer Laurence Teck (Maurice B. Flynn) who soon departs for a project in Africa following the wedding. When he is captured by natives, Laurence is given up 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

Salomy Jane

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: The second filming of Bret Harte's Salomy Jane's Kiss was given a sumptuous production by Paramount. This time around, the beautiful Jacqueline Logan portrayed the daughter of an outlaw leader (Charles Ogle) who saves a handsome stranger (Maurice "Lefty" Flynn) from a lynching. As it turns out 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

Just Like a Woman

Synopsis: This lightweight comedy-drama had barely enough plot to fill its five reels. Peggy Dean (Marguerite de la Motte) is at boarding school when she gets a letter from her two maiden aunts, Abigail (Jane Keckly) and Saline Julia Calhoun), inviting her to stay with them. Peggy knows that they are Read More

Woman with Four Faces

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

Mr. Billings Spends His Dime

Actors: Walter Hiers, George Fawcett, Robert McKim, Patricia Palmer, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: Although rotund Walter Hiers was frequently seen in motion pictures all throughout the silent era, he was generally playing a supporting role. In this light comedy feature, however, he gets top billing. John Percival Billings (Hiers) is a haberdashery clerk who falls in love with Suzanna, a Read More

Only 38

Actors: May McAvoy, Lois Wilson, Elliott Dexter, George Fawcett, Robert Agnew

Synopsis: Although Lois Wilson was lovely to look at, some of her best work was in character roles. Here, the 28-year-old star plays the widowed mother of 20-year-old twins. After the death of her strait-laced husband, Mrs. Stanley (Wilson) longs for romance. Her daughter Lucy (May McAvoy) and son Bob Read More

Trip To Paramountown

Actors: Wallace Reid, Marion Davies, Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson, May McAvoy

Beyond the Rainbow

Actors: Virginia Lee, Diana Allen, Jimmy Harrison

Synopsis: If her scenes had not ended up on the cutting-room floor, this uneven drama would have been the film debut of Clara Bow (later on, when she was a star, the scenes would be put back in and the picture re-released). How Bow was cut out in the first place is a mystery, since her role was pivotal to Read More

Silas Marner

Actors: Crauford Kent, Marguerite Courtot

Synopsis: George Eliot's tale of redemption had been filmed before in the silent era, most notably in 1917 by the underrated Thanhouser Studios. This version, put out by Associated Exhibitors, starred Crauford Kent, a British actor who was well cast as the man whose faith in humanity is renewed by an Read More

The Curse of Drink

Actors: Harry T. Morey, Edmund Breese, Marguerite Clayton, George Fawcett, Miriam Battista

Synopsis: No one in the bathtub-gin 1920s took Charles Blaney's hoary old stage melodrama The Curse of Drink seriously. This didn't stop independent producer Joseph M. Shear from mounting an updated film version of the Blaney chestnut. Alcoholic railroad engineer Harry T. Morey nearly causes a tragedy in Read More

Destiny's Isle

Actors: Virginia Lee, Ward Crane, Florence Billings, Arthur Houseman, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Filmed in Miami, which at one time was being considered as an alternate Hollywood, Destiny's Isle stars the charming Virginia Lee. Essentially a rehash of the old love-on-a-desert-island bromide, the film is enlivened by a wealth of imaginative notions. The best sequences take place on water (in a Read More

Ebb Tide

Actors: Lila Lee, James Kirkwood, Raymond Hatton, George Fawcett, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: This romantic adventure was based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. An old skipper, Captain Davis (George Fawcett), has as his companions two derelicts -- one, Huish (Raymond Hatton), is a Cockney, and the other, Robert Herrick (James Kirkwood) was once a gentleman. In Tahiti they board a Read More

Manslaughter

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, Lois Wilson, John Miltern, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This Cecil B. DeMille morality play came at just the right time -- the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal and William Desmond Taylor murder were both still fresh in the public's mind. Leatrice Joy plays Lydia Thorne, a rich society girl who is addicted to thrills. Because of her reckless driving, she Read More

Polly of the Follies

Synopsis: There seems to be some debate over exactly who directed this amusing Constance Talmadge picture. Since John Emerson directed so many of her films (and co-wrote the screenplays with his wife, Anita Loos), he has automatically been given credit by several sources. However, trade paper Motion Picture Read More

John Smith

Synopsis: Eugene O'Brien -- who was a better co-star for the likes of Norma Talmadge than he was a star in his own right -- has the lead in this comedy-drama. Upon being released from prison, where he was serving an unjust sentence, Lawrence Hilliard (O'Brien) takes the name of John Smith and looks for Read More

Old Homestead

Actors: Theodore Roberts, George Fawcett, T. Roy Barnes, Fritzi Ridgeway, Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Character actor Theodore Roberts was better known for his scene-stealing supporting roles than he was as a star in his own right. But he gets the opportunity to shine in this heart-warming drama based on the old play by Denman Thompson. Its small town theme was especially popular in an ever-more Read More

His Wife's Husband

Actors: Betty Blythe, Huntly Gordon, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This drama, based on the novel, The Mayor's Wife, by Anna Katherine Greene, was only a fair vehicle for Betty Blythe. Shortly after Olympia Brewster, a servant girl (Blythe), marries John Brainerd (Arthur Carewe), she leaves him, and later when she reads his obituary in the paper, she has every Read More

Burn 'em up Barnes

Actors: Johnny Hines, Edmund Breese, George Fawcett, J. Barney Sherry

Synopsis: After making a hit in the Torchy series of two-reelers, Johnny Hines chose this lively picture as his first full-length comedy. It was one of the year's hits. Young Barnes (Hines) is called "Burn 'Em Up" because of his love for fast driving, both on the track and on the street -- much to the Read More

Forever

Nobody

Actors: Jewel Carmen, Kenneth Harlan, Florence Billings, Herbert Frank

Synopsis: Tom Smith and his wife (Kenneth Harlan and Jewel Carmen) vacation in Palm Beach, where Mrs. Smith attracts the attention of millionaire John Rossmore (William Davidson). Rossmore convinces the couple that he can help the husband's career, so Tom goes back to New York and leaves his wife behind. Read More

Paying the Piper

Actors: Dorothy Dickson, Rod La Roque, Alma Tell, Reginald Denny, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This drama, written by Ouida Bergere, made the rather unoriginal observation that money did not buy happiness. Larry Grahame (Rod LaRocque) marries Barbara Wyndham (Dorothy Dickson) only because he knows that his father, who wants to align forces with the Wyndham fortunes, will give him a million Read More

Little Italy

Actors: Alice Brady, Norman Kerry, George Fawcett, Jack Ridgway, Gertrude Norman

Synopsis: This little human interest drama was not set in New York's Little Italy district, but at a settlement of Italian truck farmers near Stamford, CT. Alice Brady, at the time a spirited young star, plays the lead role of Rosa Mascani. The Mascani clan has had an ongoing feud with the Tumullos and Read More

The Way of a Maid

Actors: Elaine Hammerstein, Niles Welch, Diana Allen, Arthur Houseman, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This comedy drama finds Naida (Elaine Hammerstein) as a wealthy society girl who wins a prize when she appears at a costume party dressed as a maid. Millionaire Thomas Lawlor (Niles Welch) later mistakes her for the real thing at her friends apartment and asks her for some towels as well as her Read More

Chivalrous Charley

Actors: Eugene O'Brien, George Fawcett, Nancy Deaver, Huntly Gordon

Synopsis: This romantic drama finds Charley Riley (Eugene O'Brien) as a chivalrous young man who is always willing to help a damsel in distress. His uncle (George Fawcett) is a prominent politician who longs to teach his nephew about his unabashed heroics. Alice (Nancy Deaver) hides in Charley's apartment Read More

Hush Money

Actors: Alice Brady, George Fawcett, Laurence Wheat, Harry Benham

Synopsis: This drama was the first story author Samuel Merwin wrote directly for the screen. Millionaire Alexander Murray (George Fawcett) thinks that because of his wealth he is above the law, so when his daughter, Evelyn (Alice Brady), accidentally hits and injures a newsboy in a car accident, he tries to Read More

Peter Ibbetson

Actors: Wallace Reid, Elsie Ferguson, Montagu Love, George Fawcett, Dolores Cassinelli

Synopsis: aka Forever George du Maurier's classic novel was made into a play by John Raphael which starred John and Lionel Barrymore. In their places, the film version had lesser lights Wallace Reid and Montagu Love playing Peter and his uncle, Colonel Ibbetson, respectively. Peter is an orphan raised by Read More

Sentimental Tommy

Actors: Gareth Hughes, May McAvoy, Mabel Taliaferro, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Tommy Sandys (Gareth Hughes) is a poor Scottish boy who has an endless imagination. At the age of 16, he comes to the town of Thrums with his sister, Elspeth (Leila Frost). They meet Grizel (May McAvoy), a sweet young girl whose mother is known as the Painted Lady (Mabel Taliaferro). This woman Read More

Such a Little Queen

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One has to question the wisdom of remaking a comedy that starred Mary Pickford, even if it was made back in the early days of her stardom. Admittedly, this story did have a life before Pickford -- it was originally a 1909 stage play by Channing Pollock. But by mid-1921, the tale had been told so Read More

Lessons in Love

Actors: Constance Talmadge, Flora Finch, Kenneth Harlan, Florence Short, Jimmy Harrison

Synopsis: Constance Talmadge is clearly the driving force in this farce, based on A Man From Toronto by Douglas Murray. Flighty Leila Calthorpe (Talmadge) is the heiress to her grandfather's estate, and the family lawyer, Hanover Priestly (Henry Fawcett), is anxious to see her married and settle down. He Read More

The Branded Woman

Synopsis: This typical Norma Talmadge weeper casts Norma as a social half-caste. She may have had a millionaire daddy, but her mom was just a chorus hoofer. Unaware of her "scandalous" past, Norma becomes engaged to wealthy Percy Marmont. But things take a sinister turn when her mother's nasty boyfriend Read More

Bab's Candidate

Synopsis: Barbara -- or Bab -- Marvin (Corinne Griffith) is engaged to lawyer David Darrow (Webster Campbell). Darrow thinks that he would be a good politician, but Bab's father, Senator Marvin (George Fawcett) disagrees. Bab agrees with her pop, so she promotes the town's most notorious derelict as a Read More

Little Miss Rebellion

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Lively comedian Dorothy Gish plays an unlikely grand duchess in this Paramount picture. Marie Louise (Gish) presides over a section of the mythical kingdom of Bulgravia -- not that she really wants to. Like most Dorothy Gish characters, she's more interested in having fun than in doing anything Read More

Good References

Synopsis: Constance Talmadge's partners-in-comedy -- the writing team of Anita Loos and John Emerson -- were sorely missed in this anemic picture. Mary Wayne (Talmadge) can't get a job because she lacks references. But she finally lands a position when her friend Nell Norcross (the amusingly-named Mona Read More

The Greatest Question

Actors: George Nichols

Synopsis: As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her parents, she is taken in by a poor but honest couple, the Hiltons (George Fawcett and (Eugenie Besserer). To help pay for her keep, she goes to work for a very nasty pair of Read More

Two Weeks

Synopsis: This fluffy Constance Talmadge vehicle is based on the play by Anthony Wharton. Lilliums Blair (Talmadge) is an ambitious chorus girl with expensive tastes. To help her stage career, she welcomes the attentions of Reggie Clonberry (Reginald Mason), but she discovers he's a wolf when he takes her Read More

Dangerous Business

Synopsis: Constance Talmadge teams up once again with the writer/director team of Anita Loos and John Emerson for this light comedy. The spoiled, capricious Nancy Flavel (Talmadge) is always chasing after some inappropriate male and completely ignores the timidly offered love of Clarence Brooks (Kenneth Read More

Out of Luck

Synopsis: Dorothy Gish stars as a superstitious young miss in this silly farce comedy. Frances Wadsworth (Gish) keeps her eyes on the stars, her hands on the cards, and a rabbit's foot in her pocket. She encourages her friend to elope because "Venus is on the ascendant" and then discovers that there is a Read More

Scarlet Days

Synopsis: This D.W. Griffith picture has the distinction of being, arguably, the worst film that the director ever made. For starters, it's a western -- not one of Griffith's best subjects. And most of the characters are two-dimensional clichés. Rosy Nell (Eugenie Besserer) is a dance-hall woman of the Old Read More

A Romance of Happy Valley

Synopsis: Since much of this film takes place in rural Kentucky, where director D.W. Griffith grew up, it no doubt has many autobiographical touches. Since the setting was so close to his heart, that may be why this simple and winsome picture is one of Griffith's most charming creations. With complete lack Read More

True Heart Susie

Actors: Lillian Gish, Loyola O'Connor, Robert Harron, Wilbur Higby, Clarine Seymour

Synopsis: True Heart Susie is one of D.W. Griffith's "pastoral" films, wherein plot takes second place to characterization and romance. Lillian Gish plays Susie May Trueheart, who so loves local boy William Jenkins (Robert Harron) that she secretly finances his education. Returning to his home town as a Read More

I'll Get Him Yet

Synopsis: The story to this farce comedy (one of several that starred Dorothy Gish with Elmer Clifton as director) was written by Harry Carr, who was an editorial writer at the Los Angles Times. Susy Farady Jones (Gish) is a rambunctious young lady, and her millionaire father, Bradford "Skinflint" Jones Read More

The Girl Who Stayed at Home

Synopsis: Out of all of Griffith's films about the Great War, this one impressed the least. Perhaps Carol Dempster should share part of the blame for this -- it was her first starring vehicle and her hyperactive performance was soundly upstaged by her charismatic co-star Clarine Seymour. In brief, the plot Read More

Hearts of the World

Actors: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Dorothy Gish, George Fawcett, Erich Von Stroheim

Synopsis: On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director D.W. Griffith shifted gears for this film. Intolerance had proven a financial disaster for Griffith, so he signed with producer Adolph Zukor to release his next film. He came upon the Read More

The Hun Within

Synopsis: By the time this picture was released, World War I was nearly over and the public was tired of the same old spy stories. This picture has Dorothy Gish doing her patriotic duty by submerging her comic talents in favor of wartime melodrama. Beth (Gish) lives with her sick father (Adolphe Lestina). Read More

Talk of the Town

Synopsis: Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the Read More

The Great Love

Synopsis: This war-time D.W. Griffith film was literally filler -- some of the footage was left over from around the time he shot Hearts of the World. According to reports of the day (the film apparently no longer exists), its modest story and simple approach was a comedown from the director's other, far Read More

Panthea

Synopsis: The first collaboration between producer Joseph M. Schenck and his wife Norma Talmadge was also their first huge success. The film's title character (played by Talmadge) is a pianist graduate of the Moscow Conservatory. An evil Baron (L. Rogers Lytton) lusts after her, and through his machinations Read More

The Habit of Happiness

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks

Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds with his staid, wealthy family, who decide to get even when he blithely invites a group of derelicts to his sister's coming-out party. Wiggins is ordered to go to Skid Row Read More

Intolerance

Actors: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Tully Marshall, Alfred Paget

Synopsis: Sometime during the shooting of the landmark The Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he showed how, with the awesome Intolerance. The film began humbly enough as a medium-budget feature entitled The Mother and the Law, wherein the lives Read More

Frame-Up

Synopsis: Five reels were expended on the melodramatic contortions of Universal's The Frame-Up. The story is set in a corruption-ridden small town, where honest Ned Harter (Albert MacQuarrie) bucks the political machine and runs for mayor. Miraculously, Harter wins the election, whereupon the crooked Read More