Gertrude AstorFilmography

All in a Night's Work

Actors: Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson, Norma Crane

Synopsis: Tony Ryder (Dean Martin) thinks that Katie Robbins (Shirley MacLaine) was the mistress of a recently deceased millionaire. On this fragile plot peg hangs the rest of All in a Night's Work. The millionaire died with a smile on his face, and Tony, who stands to inherit the dead man's publishing Read More

The Oklahoman

Actors: Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter, Gloria Talbott, Verna Felton

Synopsis: Joel McCrea stars in this leisurely paced Western from Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) originally released in Cinemascope. Having lost his wife in childbirth en route to California, Dr. John Brighton (McCrea) builds a new home for himself and his baby daughter in an Oklahoma backwater town Read More

Everything But the Truth

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, John Forsythe, Tim Hovey, Frank Faylen, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: This very lightweight comedy focuses on young orphan Willie Taylor (Tim Hovey). Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison (Maureen O'Hara). Things begin to get dicey when Willie Read More

Daddy Long Legs

Actors: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark

Synopsis: This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron. Fragments of the basic plot remain: American millionaire Astaire is the unknown benefactor of French orphan girl Caron, financing the girl's Read More

At Gunpoint

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan, Tommy Rettig, Skip Homeier

Synopsis: One of the best of the High Noon derivations, At Gunpoint is the story of reluctant hero Fred MacMurray. When a band of gunmen invade a small frontier town, storekeeper MacMurray fires off a lucky shot and kills the leader. Hailed as a hero, MacMurray realizes deep down that he's a coward. When Read More

Loose in London

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Angela Greene, Walter Kingsford

Synopsis: Though scheduled for production as early as 1950, the Bowery Boys' Loose in London didn't go before the cameras until 1953. In this outing, Sach (Huntz Hall) is told that he's a relative of Sir Percy, the Earl of Walsingham (Walter Kingsford). In short order, Sach, his pals Slip (Leo Gorcey) Read More

Angel Face

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Leon Ames

Synopsis:
Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne (Herbert Marshall), who remarried a wealthy woman (Barbara O'Neil), Diane Treymayne's (Simmons) angelic countenance masks an unbridled Read More

I Love Lucy: Ricky Loses His Voice

Actors: Arthur Q. Bryan, Barbara Pepper, Gertrude Astor, Helen Williams, Hazel Pierce

Synopsis: Ricky (Desi Arnaz) develops laryngitis just when he is slated to stage an elaborate floor show for the reopening of the Trocadero Club. Unable to reach club owner Mr. Chambers (Arthur Q. Bryan) in time to deliver the bad news, Lucy takes the bull by the horns and vows to stage the show herself. To Read More

Paula

Actors: Loretta Young, Kent Smith, Alexander Knox, Tommy Rettig, Otto Hulett

Synopsis: Loretta Young plays a guilt-ridden hit-and-run driver in Paula. After leaving the scene of an accident, Paula (Young) discovers that her victim, a young boy named David Larson (Tommy Rettig), may have permanently lost the power of speech. Her maternal instinct overcoming her desire for Read More

Crazy over Horses

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gloria Saunders, William Benedict, Bernard Gorcey, Tim Ryan

Synopsis: On a pure storytelling level, Crazy Over Horses is one of the best entries in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" series. This time, Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) and the gang come into possession of a race horse. Slip is convinced that the horse, which he'd picked up as payment for a debt owed to Read More

When Worlds Collide

Actors: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Larry Keating

Synopsis: First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by Paramount as a possible project for director Cecil B. DeMille. But because none of Paramount's scriptwriters were able to come up with an adequate screen treatment, the Read More

A Place in the Sun

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Keefe Brasselle, Anne Revere, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a Read More

Sunset Boulevard

Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of Read More

Montana

Actors: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Douglas Kennedy, James Brown

Synopsis: Unlike his earlier Warner Bros. westerns, Errol Flynn's Montana was strictly a programmer, inexpensively produced and modestly promoted. Flynn plays Morgan Lane, an Australian sheepherder who arrives in the middle of Montana's cattle country. He faces opposition from wealthy cattle rancher Maria Read More

Father Makes Good

Synopsis: In this comedy, a local citizen, miffed by the mayor's new milk tax, buys his own cow. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Story of Seabiscuit

Actors: Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister, Rosemary de Camp, Donald MacBride

Synopsis: The racehorse Seabiscuit really existed, but this is not his true story -- this is a romance and centers on lovely Margaret O'Hara (Shirley Temple), an Irish lass who comes to cheer on her uncle Shawn O'Hara's (Barry Fitzgerald) horse during the big races and ends up falling in love with handsome Read More

The File on Thelma Jordon

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up in the office of happily married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey) to seek help in solving the string of robberies at her wealthy aunt's estate. Before Cleve can Read More

Jolson Sings Again

Actors: Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath, Bill Goodwin

Synopsis: This Technicolor follow-up to Columbia's 1946 blockbuster The Jolson Story again stars Larry Parks as legendary entertainer Al Jolson--and Jolson himself, as Parks' singing voice. The story concentrates on Jolson's tireless activities entertaining the troops during WW II. After VJ day, Jolson Read More

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Actors: Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Elyse Knox, William Frawley, Stanley Clements, John Shelton

Synopsis: Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one, soft-hearted boxer Joe (Joe Kirkwood) is approached by a trio of gamblers, who want him to throw an upcoming bout. Naturally he refuses, but has cause to regret this decision Read More

Sitting Pretty

Actors: Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Charles Arnt, Clifton Webb, Ken Christy, Richard Haydn, Ed Begley, Sr., Mary Field, Louise Allbritton

Synopsis: Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the job of baby-sitting the troublesome children of Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara; he wins the job by calmly dumping a bowl of cold oatmeal on the head of the couple's most Read More

Music Man

Synopsis: This musical tells of two argumentative brothers who accidently find themselves working on the same musical performance. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

My Dear Secretary

Actors: Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Helen Walker, Keenan Wynn, Rudy Vallee

Synopsis: Produced by comedy specialist Harry M. Popkin and his brother Leo Popkin, My Dear Secretary stars Kirk Douglas as Owen Waterbury, a best-selling novelist with an eye for the ladies. When aspiring writer Stephanie Gaylord (Laraine Day) signs on as his secretary, Waterbury assumes that he's lined up Read More

Dragonwyck

Actors: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Spring Byington, Scott Elliott, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Ruth Ford, Anne Revere, Keith Hitchcock

Synopsis: Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the best-selling novel by Anya Seton. Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price) is a wealthy feudal heir of Dutch ancestry living in New York's Hudson Valley in the 1840s. Nicholas has come to Read More

Sister Kenny

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: We prefer Rosalind Russell when she's making us laugh; judging by such films as Mourning Becomes Electra and The Velvet Touch, Russell preferred herself in heavy dramatics. In Sister Kenny, Rosalind Russell is all grim determination and pursed lips as Elizabeth Kenny, tireless battler of infantile Read More

Dick Tracy, Detective

Actors: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki, Jane Greer, Mickey Kuhn, Lyle Latell

Synopsis: Dick Tracy, Detective (originally just Dick Tracy) was the first of four RKO Radio B-pictures based on Chester Gould's classic comic strip. Though Ralph Byrd is most closely associated with the role of Tracy, the title character is played herein by Morgan Conway (Byrd would be seen as Tracy in the Read More

The Scarlet Claw

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl

Synopsis: Though it is not based on any Conan Doyle story, The Scarlet Claw is regarded by Baker Street aficionados as the best of Universal's Sherlock Holmes series. Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Bruce) journey to Canada to investigate a series of mysterious murders. All the victims have been Read More

Moontide

Actors: Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's Moontide. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker who gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon Read More

Sleepytime Gal

Synopsis: Judy Canova plays Bessie Cobb, a kitchen worker at a Miami hotel who happens to have a crackerjack singing voice. The bell captain, Chick Patterson, learns that band leader Danny Marlowe is looking for a new girl singer, and a contest will be held at the hotel to choose one. Chick sees this as a Read More

Misbehaving Husbands

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Harry Langdon, Esther Muir, Luana Walters, Gayne Whitman

Synopsis: Misbehaving Husbands was intended as a comeback vehicle for silent-film comedy great Harry Langdon, who after his fall from grace in the 1920s had to content himself with cheap 2-reelers, featured roles and screenwriting assignments. Langdon plays henpecked store-owner Henry Butler, who decides to Read More

Hold Back the Dawn

Actors: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel

Synopsis: Hold Back the Dawn begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life story to director Mitchell Leisen (who actually directed this film). In flashback, we see that Boyer was once a conscienceless gigolo, desperate to flee Nazi-occupied Read More

Lady for a Night

Actors: Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Philip Merivale, Ray Middleton, Blanche Yurka, Edith Barrett

Synopsis: The unlikely combination of John Wayne and Joan Blondell adds a bit of vinegar and spice to the so-so costume drama Lady for a Night. Blondell is cast as Jenny Blake, owner of the Memphis Belle-not a WW2 bomber, but a gambling ship moored just outside New Orleans. Jenny's partner and erstwhile Read More

The Women

Actors: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard

Synopsis: Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is justly famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by George Cukor. The plot centers on a group of gossipy high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily wedded Read More

$1,000 a Touchdown

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward, John Hartley

Synopsis: This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye, together in the same picture. Brown and Raye play a show business couple who inherit a near-bankrupt college. They decide to build up the school's scraggly football team in hopes Read More

Easy Living

Actors: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni, Mary Nash

Synopsis: Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest investment bankers in the country, but he also knows the value of a dollar. And when his wife (Mary Nash) spends 50,000 of them on a sable coat, he is driven into such a fury in Read More

The Man Who Cried Wolf

Actors: Tom Brown, Robert Gleckler, Forrester Harvey, Billy Wayne

Synopsis: An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been confessing to homicides he never committed. Naturally the cops think he is bonkers so that when he really does kill his victim, no one believes he did it. Unfortunately, his lies Read More

Empty Saddles

Actors: Buck Jones, Louise Brooks, Harvey Clark, Charles B. Middleton, Frank Campeau

Synopsis: Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn it into a profitable dude ranch, drifter Buck Devlin (Buck Jones) purchases the Ranch of Empty Saddles, the former site of a bloody war between cattle ranchers and sheep Read More

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Actors: W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross, Lynne Overman, Bob Hope

Synopsis: Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar, The Shep Fields Orchestra, and opera singer Kirsten Flagstad are hardly household names today), but a slightly stronger storyline than the others, as well as a top-notch comic cast. Read More

All Over Town

Actors: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Mary Howard, Harry Stockwell, Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis: Olsen and Johnson's second starring vehicle for Republic was better than their first (Country Gentlemen), but a Hellzapoppin' it wasn't. Ole and Chic play a couple of itinerant vaudevillians, teamed with Sally the Singing Seal ("the eighth wonder of the world"). Heroine Joan Eldredge (Mary Howard) Read More

His Brother's Wife

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia, John Eldredge

Synopsis: In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible cure for spotted fever. However, Chris has a dark side; he has a weakness for gambling and has fallen into debt with a gangster named Fish Eye (Joseph Calleia). While visiting Read More

Our Relations

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Betty Healy, Daphne Pollard, Sidney Toler

Synopsis: Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks its central mistaken-identity situation for all it's worth. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are two solid citizens, happily married and highly respected in their community. Read More

The Milky Way

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Veree Teasdale, Helen Mack, William Gargan

Synopsis: One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The Milky Way was based on the Broadway play by Lynn Root and Harry Clork. Lloyd plays Burleigh Sullivan, a mild-mannered milkman who intercedes one night when his sister Mae (Helen Mack Read More

Great Guy

Actors: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke, Robert Gleckler, Henry Kolker

Synopsis: After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of Weights and Measures. However, when he discovers that his organization is full of corruption and lies, he sets out to uncover the scam, much to the dismay of his girlfriend Read More

Postal Inspector

Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Patricia Ellis, Bela Lugosi, Michael Loring, David Oliver

Synopsis: A postal inspector finds himself caught in a sticky situation as he tries to pin a rap for mail theft upon the owner of a prominent nightclub owner. The owner is guilty and only stole the mail so he could get the money he needs to pay off a murderous and impatient loan shark. Unfortunately, upon Read More

San Francisco

Actors: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio troubleshooter Bob Hopkins. The story begins on the Barbary Coast on New Year's Eve, 1906, as rakish but likeable political boss Blackie Norton (Clark Gable Read More

Northern Frontier

Actors: Kermit Maynard, Eleanor Hunt, Russell Hopton, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: The second of Kermit Maynard's "Mountie" actioners for Ambassador Pictures, Northern Frontier was a major improvement on the first (The Fighting Trooper), which in itself wasn't such a bad picture either. On behalf of the Feds, Royal Mountie McKenzie (Maynard) joins a gang of counterfeiters. The Read More

No More Ladies

Actors: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Charlie Ruggles, Franchot Tone, Edna May Oliver

Synopsis: MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good example of this. Joan Crawford marries bon vivant Robert Montgomery, hoping to mend his wastrel ways. Montgomery refuses to assumes the proper responsibilities of a husband, so Read More

Four Hours to Kill

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael, Helen Mack, Dorothy Tree

Synopsis: Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be described as "Grand Hotel goes to the theater." Richard Barthelmess stars as Tony, a condemned murderer, who is handcuffed to Detective Taft (Charles Wilson) while en route to Read More

I Live for Love

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen. Dolores Del Rio stars as hot-tempered South American stage favorite Donna Alvarez, who is brought to America to headline a Broadway show. The film details the backstage romance Read More

Dante's Inferno

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Rita Hayworth, Alan Dinehart, Scotty Beckett

Synopsis: Carnival barker Spencer Tracy befriends elderly concessionaire Henry B. Walthall, who owns a picturesque but stodgy display depicting Dante's Inferno. Walthall is more interested in the spiritual aspects of Man's fascination with Hell, but Tracy uses hoopla and exaggeration to get the suckers into Read More

Now I'll Tell

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, Alice Faye, Robert Gleckler, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: Though the names have been changed to protect the guilty, this romantic crime drama offers a relatively factual account of the life of Arnold Rothstein, an infamous bookie and is based upon a story by his widow. The story tells how he gambled his way to the top of his profession. Though he Read More

Guilty Parents

Actors: Glen Boles, Donald Keith, Lynton Brent

Synopsis: In this drama, a teenage girl threatened by a man who wants to steal her virtue, kills him. She is taken to court and her lawyer ends up laying the blame upon the girl's narrow minded mother who did not provide proper sex-education for the girl. The distraught teen winds up jumping out of a Read More

The Mighty Barnum

Actors: Wallace Beery, Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Bruce, Rochelle Hudson, Janet Beecher

Synopsis: Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is operating a dry goods store in New York City with his friend Bailey Walsh (Adolphe Menjou), and he is looking for a way to boost business. He strikes upon the idea of Read More

Wine, Women, and Song

Actors: Lilyan Tashman, Lew Cody, Matty Kemp, Paul Gregory

Synopsis: Once-prominent silent-film director Herbert Brenon attempted a talkie comeback with the low-budget Wine, Women and Song. Adapted by Leon D'Usseau from his own stage play, the film stars Lilyan Tashman as aging chorus girl Frankie Arnette, who'll do anything for publicity. Fiercely ambitious Read More

Washee Ironee

Actors: Wally Albright, George "Spanky" McFarland, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Scotty Beckett, Tommy Bond

Synopsis: On the day that he is scheduled to perform a violin solo at a swank bridge luncheon held by his social-climbing mother, rich kid Wally Albright opts instead to play football with the Our Gang kids. With Wally's help, the kids win the game, but his expensive clothes are covered with mud. Unofficial Read More

After Midnight

Actors: Alan Dinehart, Gertrude Astor, Matthew Betz, Eddie Boland

Synopsis: I Have Lived takes place in a New York penthouse, a Broadway theater, and a seedy speakeasy, though not necessarily in that order. Alan Dinehart essays one of his rare leading roles as Thomas Langley, a brilliant playwright whose career has taken off like a skyrocket. Experiencing an attack of Read More

Ship of Wanted Men

Actors: Leon Waycoff [Ames], Gertrude Astor, Maurice Black, Jason Robards, Sr., James Flavin

Synopsis: Ship of Wanted Men stars former MGM leading lady Dorothy Sebastian and burly, all-purpose villain Fred Kohler Sr. A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who Read More

Carnival Lady

Actors: Boots Mallory, Jason Robards, Sr., Donald Kerr, Rollo Lloyd

Synopsis: A young blue-blood gets jilted on his wedding day after his bride-to-be discovers that he lost his fortune during the stock-market crash. This melodrama follows his exploits when he becomes a hobo and then joins a traveling carnival. There he becomes buddies with a pugilist and petty thief. He Read More

They Never Come Back

Actors: Regis Toomey, Dorothy Sebastian, Gertrude Astor, Earl Foxe, Greta Granstedt

Synopsis: After being injured in the prizefighting ring, an ex-boxer is reduced to speakeasy bouncer and meets a charming burlesque performer whose complex personal difficulties prompt him to aid her by attempting a return to the world of professional pugilism. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Western Limited

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Edmund Burns, Lucien Prival, Gertrude Astor, Eddie Kane

Synopsis: Western Limited is another of the "Grand Hotel on wheels" films so popular in the early 1930s. Stealing a valuable diamond at a Los Angeles society function, gentleman thief Edmund Burns boards a train bound for Chicago. A murder occurs during the journey, casting suspicion not only on Burns but Read More

Hell Bound

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Lola Lane, Helene Chadwick

Synopsis: A "B" picture with "A" ambitions, Hell Bound stars Leo Carrillo as ruthless but basically decent racketeer Nick Cotrelli. Worried that singer Platinum Reed (Lola Lane) may know too much about his crooked operation, Cotrelli marries the girl so that she can't testify against him in court. Believing Read More

Come Clean

Synopsis: This Laurel and Hardy two-reeler contains a similar premise to Chickens Come Home, and starts off the same way as Should Married Men Go Home? does -- Ollie and his wife (here, it's Gertrude Astor) are spending a quiet evening at home, away from "those Laurels." Just then, Stan and his wife (Linda Read More

Finger Prints [Serial]

Actors: Kenneth Harlan, Edna Murphy, Gayne Whitman, Gertrude Astor, William Worthington

Synopsis: A couple of holdovers from the silent era, Kenneth Harlan and Edna Murphy, starred in this below-average Universal serial directed by the prolific Ray Taylor. Murphy's father (William Worthington) is falsely accused of murder, but Secret Service agent Harlan believes the real culprit to be the Read More

Dames Ahoy

Actors: Glenn Tryon, Otis Harlan, Gertrude Astor, Eddie Gribbon

Synopsis: The overall comic tone of Dames Ahoy is implicit in its title. Chubby Otis Harlan is cast as veteran seaman Bill Jones, who while drunk is tricked into marriage by a blonde gold-digger. Waking up the next morning, all Bill can remember is that his elusive bride has a strawberry-shaped birthmark on Read More

Be Yourself

Actors: Fanny Brice, Robert Armstrong, Harry Green, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: While Barbra Streisand played musical-comedy star Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and Funny Lady, the closest Brice ever came to playing a Streisand-like role on film was in the 1930 comedy-drama Be Yourself. The Rose of Washington Square is cast as Fanny Field, the long-suffering girlfriend of Read More

The Fall of Eve

Actors: Patsy Ruth Miller, Ford Sterling, Gertrude Astor, Arthur Rankin, Jed Prouty

Synopsis: In this comedy, a businessman takes his client with a beautiful escort to a fancy nightclub where he plans to close an important business deal. Unfortunately, the client's joins them. The escort must then pretend to be the businessman's wife. Marital trouble ensues when the businessman's real Read More

Untamed

Actors: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, John Miljan

Synopsis: Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in Hollywood Revue of 1929. Best described as Somerset Maugham on toast, the film casts Crawford as Bingo, an oil heiress who has been raised in the tropics. When her Read More

Two Weeks Off

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, Gertrude Astor, James Finlayson, Jed Prouty

Synopsis: Taking Two Weeks Off for the first time in his life, plumber Dave Pickett (Jack Mulhall) spends his savings on a posh hotel suite. During his vacation, he meets and falls in love with pretty Kitty Weaver (Dorothy Mackaill). Hoping to impress the girl, Dave poses as a famous movie star (Jack Mulhall Read More

Synthetic Sin

Actors: Colleen Moore, Antonio Moreno, Edythe Chapman, Kathryn McGuire, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: Colleen Moore's starring vehicles were never as "naughty" as their titles suggested. In Synthetic Sin, for example, Moore is cast as virtuous small-town girl Betty. An aspiring actress, Betty scores a huge flop in her local stage debut. Deciding she hasn't "lived" enough to be a good actress, our Read More

Twin Beds

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Patsy Ruth Miller, Armand Kaliz, Gertrude Astor, Knute Erickson

Synopsis: The 1929 comedy Twin Beds was the second of three versions of the 1914 stage farce by Margaret Mayo and Salisbury Field. The original story of a newlywed bride who is briefly lured from her honeymoon suite by a vainglorious opera singer has been realigned as a traditional "backstage" romance. Read More

Frozen Justice

Actors: Lenore Ulric, Robert W. Frazer, Louis Wolheim, Ullrich Haupt, Sr., Laska Winter

Synopsis: In this melodrama, set in the Far North, a half-Eskimo woman leaves her tribe and her husband to find adventure with a visiting sea captain. Unfortunately, she finds that the big world isn't what she expected. She ends up having to support the lazy sea-captain by singing. She then decides to go Read More

Rose-Marie

Actors: James Murray, Joan Crawford, House Peters, Creighton Hale

Synopsis: This first version of the Rudolf Friml operetta Rose-Marie had no music, but it did have Joan Crawford in the title role. More faithful to its source than the 1936 Nelson Eddy-Jeanette McDonald remake, the 1928 film finds the heroine torn between her love for Mountie House Peters and her loyalty Read More

Butter, Egg Man

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen, Sam Hardy, Gertrude Astor, Lucy Beaumont

Stocks and Blondes

Actors: Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Jacqueline Logan, Gertrude Astor, Albert Conti

Synopsis: According to existing information, perennial comedy foil Gertrude Astor was afforded top billing in Stocks and Blondes. Still, the bulk of the story deals with the marriage of unemployed stockbroker Tom Greene (Skeets Gallegher) and nitery dancer Patsy (Jacqueline Logan). To pay for their Read More

The Cohens and Kellys in Paris

Actors: George Sidney, John Farrell MacDonald, Vera Gordon, Kate Price, Charles Delaney

Synopsis: A businessman and his partner rush off to Paris in hopes of stopping their children from getting married. Unfortunately, the two are married before their father's arrive. This romantic comedy follows what happens when the businessmen find themselves having to act as marriage counselors to the Read More

Naughty Duchess

Actors: H.B. Warner, Eve Southern, Gertrude Astor, Martha Mattox

Synopsis: The Naughty Duchess was the come-on title affixed to this filmization of the novel Indiscretion of a Duchess (apparently "naughty" was easier to spell). Eve Southern plays a woman with a shady history who tries to elude the Law by boarding a train. Here she begs handsome fellow-passenger H.B. Warner Read More

Five and Ten Cent Annie

Actors: Gertrude Astor, Tom Ricketts, Douglas Gerrard, André Beranger

Synopsis: A poor street cleaner inherits a fortune in this farce, which came complete with a music score and sound effects. According to a provision in his uncle's will, Elmer, the street cleaner (Clyde Cook), must marry or forfeit the inheritance to Briggs (William Demarest), the deceased man's faithful Read More

Hit of the Snow

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Gertrude Olmstead, William Norton Bailey, Gertrude Astor

The Taxi Dancer

Actors: Joan Crawford, Owen Moore, William Orlamond, Marc MacDermott, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: Impoverished Southern belle Joslyn Poe (Joan Crawford) heads to New York, hoping to become a professional dancer. Unable to land work on Broadway, she becomes a taxi dancer in a cheap dive, where her cardsharp boyfriend Lee Rogers (Owen Moore) whiles away his time fleecing the suckers. Hoping to Read More

Cheerful Fraud

Actors: Reginald Denny, Gertrude Olmstead, Otis Harlan, Emily Fitzroy, Charles Gerrard

Synopsis: Silent film comedian Reginald Denny's regular leading lady Laura La Plante had gone on to bigger things at Universal in 1927, thus Denny was co-starred with Gertrude Olmstead in A Cheerful Fraud. Denny plays a wealthy young man whose one true love (Olmstead) chooses to keep her distance. To get Read More

The Cat and the Canary

Actors: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: Frank Willard's barn-storming stage melodrama Cat and the Canary was filmed four times over a fifty-year period. This silent 1927 version stars Laura LaPlante as one of several potential heirs to a huge fortune. Brought to a foreboding mansion on the 20th anniversary of their eccentric Read More

Ginsberg the Great

Synopsis: Having missed the opportunity to re-create his Broadway role in The Jazz Singer on film, Georgie Jessel attempted to launch a movie career in lesser vehicles. In Ginsberg the Great, Jessel plays an aspiring sideshow magician whose act is tinctured with ethnic humor. Given a crack at the Big Time Read More

Shanghaied

Actors: Ralph Ince, Gertrude Astor, Alan Brooks, Tom Santschi, Patsy Ruth Miller

Synopsis: Ralph Ince was one busy beaver in 1927, starring in and directing several low-budget programmers. In Shanghaied, Ince plays a burly sea captain who loses his bankroll to a crooked café proprietor. In retaliation, the captain kidnaps the café's hootchy-kootchy dancer Patsy Ruth Miller, spiriting Read More

Pretty Clothes

Actors: Jobyna Ralston, Johnny Walker, Gertrude Astor, Lloyd Whitlock

Synopsis: Jobyna Ralston, perennial leading lady in the Harold Lloyd pictures, is afforded star billing in Pretty Clothes. When Marian Dunbar (Ralston) falls in love with wealthy young Russell Thorpe (Johnny Walker), Thorpe's father (Charles Clary) decides to break up the romance. The elder Thorpe arranges Read More

The Irresistible Lover

Actors: Norman Kerry, Lois Moran, Gertrude Astor, Lee Moran, Myrtle Stedman

Synopsis: The title character is world-famous lothario Norman Kerry, who has given up keeping track of all his female conquests. While strolling to yet another dalliance, Kerry is struck down by a car. He is nursed back to health by winsome Lois Moran. Genuinely falling in love for the first time in his Read More

Country Beyond

Actors: Olive Borden, Ralph Graves, Gertrude Astor, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: The Country Beyond is another "Northwest Mountie" opus from the pen of James Oliver Curwood. Filmed on location in Canada's Jasper National Park, the story focuses on Valencia (Olive Borden), an orphan girl left in the care of the abusive Hawkins family. Fugitive from justice Roger McKay (Ralph Graves Read More

Sin Cargo

Actors: Shirley Mason, Earl Metcalfe, Lawford Davidson, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: Unbeknownst to his sweet sister Eve (Shirley Mason), San Francisco ship-owner Harry Gibson (Earl Metcalfe) secretly operates a successful smuggling racket. Likewise ignorant of Gibson's criminal activities is Captain Matt Russell (Robert Frazer), who has been hired to commandeer Gibson's ship. Read More

Behind the Front

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Mary Brian, Hayden Stevenson

Synopsis: Behind the Front is a raucous silent vehicle for Paramount's Mutt-and-Jeff comedy team of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. The film begins during the early months of World War I; myopic detective Beery chases pickpocket Hatton into an "enlistment" party held by pretty socialite Mary Brian. The Read More

Dame Chance

Actors: David M. Hartford, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: Julanne Johnston, Doug Fairbanks' gorgeous vis-a-vis in The Thief of Bagdad, essays the title character in Dame Chance. Johnston is cast as impoverished actress Gail Vernon, who is sponsored into Broadway stardom by wealthy art patron Lloyd Mason (Robert Frazer). At first, Gail is convinced that Read More

Boy Friend

Actors: Marceline Day, George K. Arthur, Gertrude Astor, Ward Crane

Synopsis: No relation to the much-later musical comedy of the same name, The Boy Friend focuses on the misadventures of dreamy-eyed Marceline Day. Unhappy with her small-town home and middle-class family, our heroine yearns to attend a high-society party. To accommodate the girl, her boyfriend John Harron Read More

Don Juan's Three Nights

Actors: Lewis Stone, Malcolm McGregor, Shirley Mason, Gertrude Astor, Kalla Pasha

Synopsis: Famed concert pianist Johann Aradi (Lewis Stone) has earned a "Don Juan" reputation because of his love-'em-and-leave-'em attitude with the ladies. While performing in Rome, he meets a likely conquest in the form of the beautiful Nanette (Shirley Mason), who idolizes the pianist. But when he Read More

Kiki

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Gertrude Astor, Marc MacDermott, George K. Arthur

Synopsis: This first film version of Andre Picard's stage success Kiki stars Norma Talmadge in the title role. A saucy Parisian dancer, Kiki begins keeping time with theatrical manager Victor Renal (Ronald Colman). Her rival for Renal's affections is icy "legitimate" actress Paulette (Gertrude Astor), but Read More

The Strong Man

Actors: Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim

Synopsis: The Strong Man was the second starring feature of silent screen comedian Harry Langdon--not to mention first feature-length directorial effort of Frank Capra. Langdon plays a Belgian soldier who, during World War I, is captured by German conscript Arthur Thalasso. Almost immediately, the armistice Read More

The Old Soak

Actors: Jean Hersholt, George Lewis, June Marlowe, William V. Mong

Synopsis: Don Marquis' bucolic stage comedy-drama The Old Soak was first brought to the screen in 1926. Jean Hersholt plays the title character, Clem Hawley Sr., the town drunk in a small rural community. When his beloved son Clemmy (George Lewis) is falsely accused of a crime, Clem Sr. nobly takes the Read More

Borrowed Finery

Actors: Louise Lorraine, Ward Crane, Lou Tellegen, Taylor Holmes, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: Louise Lorraine stars as a fashion model who takes a job with government agent Lou Tellegen. At least, he says he's with the government; actually, he's a jewel thief who hopes to utilize Lorraine's charm to gain access to a valuable gem. Meanwhile, another crook, Ward Crane, has his eyes on the 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

Easy Money

Synopsis: Likeable Bud Parsons (Cullen Landis) commits a less-than-likeable robbery to impress a fickle cabaret dancer (Gladys Walton). The imprisoned Parsons is approached by shifty lawyer Lewis (Crauford Kent), who persuades the lad to pose as the long-lost heir to a fortune. Anxious to get out of jail Read More

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

Actors: Irene Rich, Huntly Gordon, John Harron, Gayne Whitman, June Marlowe

Synopsis: Young Bob Mannering (John Harron) is out for a ride with his fast-living pals when they're involved in a car accident which kills a woman. Even though Diane Graham (Elinor Faire) was driving the car, she accuses Bob of being behind the wheel. Bob's father, John (Huntley Gordon), is the district Read More

Kentucky Pride

Synopsis: John Ford directed this sentimental horse opera set among the racing crowd in Kentucky. Henry B. Walthall, of Griffith's Birth of a Nation fame, starred as Beaumont, a horse breeder losing everything he owns on the horse Virginia's Future. His upwardly mobile wife (Gertrude Astor) having deserted Read More

Stagestruck

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor, Ford Sterling

Synopsis: Although she is largely remembered for her lavish screen outfits and highly dramatic vehicles, Gloria Swanson started off her career as a comedienne, and even at the height of her fame, she sometimes performed in films that played down her wardrobe and emphasized her comic ability. Stage Struck Read More

The Reckless Sex

Actors: Madge Bellamy, William Collier, Jr., Wyndham Standing, Walter Long

Synopsis: A young Bostonian (Johnnie Walker) travels West to expect his father's New Mexico estate, which has become a target for gun runners. Along the way he mistakes travelling stock company actress Madge Bellamy for a child and brings her to the ranch. (The mistake is understandable as Bellamy was Read More

Satan in Sables

Actors: Lowell Sherman, John Harron, Pauline Garon, Gertrude Astor, Frank R. Butler

Synopsis: Considering how unsympathetic Lowell Sherman's character was, this melodrama about Parisian high life made for questionable entertainment. Michael Yervedoff (Sherman) is an exiled Russian nobleman of vast wealth. He spends his time and money on love affairs and he callously casts the women away Read More

Stage Struck

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: A fresh-faced waitress and a celebrity-obsessed cook enter into a warmhearted romance in this tender love story starring Gloria Swanson and Lawrence Gray. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Charmer

Actors: Pola Negri, Wallace MacDonald, Robert W. Frazer, Trixie Friganza, Cesare Gravina

Synopsis: Mariposa (Pola Negri) is a dancer in a Spanish café who is discovered by theatrical manager Señor Sprotti (Cesare Gravina) around the same time that Ralph Bayne, a wealthy American (Wallace MacDonald), sees her. Bayne falls in love with her immediately, as does his chauffeur, Dan Murray (Robert W. Fraser Read More

Broadway or Bust

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Ruth Dwyer, Gertrude Astor, Stanhope Wheatcroft

Synopsis: Universal lined up several players not necessarily known for their riding capabilities in this lighthearted Hoot Gibson western. The slightly tattered cowpoke falls for a beautiful actress and instantly sells his ranch for a fortune in order to follow her to Broadway. With money in his pocket and Read More

Secrets

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, Winter Hall, Frank Elliott, George Cowl

Synopsis: After a series of less-than-stellar pictures, Norma Talmadge tried something a little different with this sentimental romance, which spans a period of nearly 60 years. Mary Carlton (Talmadge) is in her seventies and her husband, John (Eugene O'Brien), is deathly ill. While writing in her diary Read More

Silent Watcher

Actors: Glenn Hunter, Bessie Love, Hobart Bosworth, Gertrude Astor, George Nichols

Synopsis: After his impressive directorial effort on The Sea Hawk, Frank Lloyd made this far smaller and more intimate film. The idealistic Joe Roberts (Glenn Hunter) adores his wife Mary (Bessie Love) and looks up to his boss, John Steele (Hobart Bosworth), who is a candidate for U.S. senator. Steele Read More

The Torrent

Actors: William Fairbanks, Ora Carew, Frank Elliott, Gertrude Astor, Joseph Kilgour

Synopsis: Ernest Leeds (Frank Elliott) is the love 'em and leave 'em type, and he's having a blast on board an ocean liner. Another voyager is Hale Garrison (William Farnum), a hunter who is returning from the jungles. He meets Gloria Manner (Ora Carew) while sailing and falls in love with her instantly. Read More

The Ne'er-Do-Well

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Gertrude Astor, John Miltern, Gus Weinberg

Synopsis: Although this Rex Beach story was filmed before in 1916 as a "super-feature," seven years later it would become a routine Paramount release starring the ever-steady, enduringly popular Thomas Meighan. Meighan is Kirk Anthony, a young spendthrift whose wild parties and all-around laziness cause his Read More

The Wanters

Synopsis: A young and still inexperienced Norma Shearer was originally cast in the lead role of Myra Hastings in this society drama -- it was her first film for Metro, and Irving Thalberg, vice president and Louis B. Mayer's right hand man, had high hopes for her. But director John M. Stahl didn't see much Read More

Alice Adams

Actors: Florence Vidor, Vernon Steele

Synopsis: Almost an instant classic, Booth Tarkington's 1921 small-town morality tale reached the screen two years later courtesy of King Vidor and Encore Pictures. Vidor's wife, the beautiful Florence Vidor, played the title-role, a girl of modest means who pretends to be wealthy to her friends in general Read More

Hollywood

Actors: Luke Cosgrave, George K. Arthur, Ruby Lafayette, Eleanor Lawson

Synopsis: The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire gives it a number of unexpected turns. In addition, just about every star in Hollywood -- not just those at Paramount, the releasing studio -- has a cameo at one point or Read More

Rupert of Hentzau

Actors: Elaine Hammerstein, Bert Lytell, Lew Cody, Claire Windsor, Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis: Author Anthony Hope's sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda had been filmed once before, in 1915. But filmgoers were far more likely to compare this production to Rex Ingram's version of Prisoner of Zenda, which was released in 1922. Rupert of Hentzau suffered greatly in comparison; in spite of lavish Read More

Beyond the Rocks

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder

Synopsis: This picture did great at the box office, and no wonder -- Paramount's biggest star of the day, Gloria Swanson, co-starred with Rudolph Valentino (whose fame was so new that his first name was still being spelled "Rodolph"), in a story written by the most famous trashy novelist of the day, Elinor Glyn Read More

The Kentucky Derby

Actors: Reginald Denny, Lillian Rich, Emmett C. King, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: This horse-racing melodrama was Reginald Denny's first starring feature, after making a strong impression in a series of shorts called The Leather Pushers. Denny is Donald Gordon, the son of Colonel Moncrief Gordon, a Kentucky gentleman (Emmett King). Colonel Gordon makes a ten-thousand-dollar bet Read More

The Ninety and Nine

Synopsis: Vitagraph shot this melodrama, based on the stage play by Ramsay Norris, once before, in 1916. The newer version seemed to belong to the earlier decade, and ironically, its star was Colleen Moore, who would wind up making a name for herself by becoming the 1920s ultra-modern, quintessential Read More

Seeing's Believing

Synopsis: This was a pleasant, though not particularly exciting vehicle for light comedienne Viola Dana. Circumstances force wealthy Diana Webster (Dana) to spend the night in a hotel with Jimmy Harrison (Philo McCullough), who is engaged to her Aunt Sue (Gertrude Astor). Later on she meets Bruce Terrington Read More

The Wall Flower

Actors: Colleen Moore, Richard Dix, Gertrude Astor, Laura La Plante, Tom Gallery

Synopsis: Writer Rupert Hughes chose this predictable story as his first directorial effort, but he brings it fresh life with the help of Colleen Moore (who, at the time, was a rising star, not yet the icon for a generation of flappers). Moore plays Idalene Nobbin, the classic ugly duckling, both homely and Read More

Hurricane's Gal

Actors: Dorothy Phillips, Robert Ellis, Wallace Beery, James O. Barrows, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: Dorothy Phillips stars in this tale of the sea, which was directed by her husband, Alan Holubar. Lola (Phillips) is the daughter of a smuggler, and after his death, she follows in his footsteps, taking command of a contraband ship. During one voyage, government agent Steele O'Conner (Robert Ellis) Read More

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Robert Cain, Conrad Nagel, Richard Wayne, Frank Elliott

Synopsis: As Gloria Swanson's star rose higher and higher, Paramount endlessly repeated the formula that brought her fame -- take a glamorous woman who wears lots of fancy gowns and place her in romantic and domestic situations of high drama. Swanson was not terribly happy being on this treadmill and this Read More

Her Mad Bargain

Synopsis: One of the silent era's more popular leading ladies, Anita Stewart, stars in this colorful but not particularly true-to-life picture. Alice Lambert (Stewart) has had a hard life, full of sadness and disillusionment. One day she finally decides to end it all, but she is discovered by David Leighton Read More

Through the Back Door

Actors: Mary Pickford, Gertrude Astor, Wilfred Lucas, Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis: For her fourth United Artists picture, Mary Pickford once again plays a poor little rich girl. This one, Jeanne, is so neglected that when her mother, Hortense (Gertrude Astor), remarries, she is pawned off on her Belgian nurse. Five years later, when Hortense returns to fetch Jeanne, the nurse Read More

Thru Back Door

Actors: Mary Pickford, Gertrude Astor, Wilfred Lucas, Helen Raymond, C. Norman Hammond

Concert

Actors: Lewis Stone, Myrtle Steadman, Raymond Hatton, Mabel Julienne Scott, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: This sophisticated light comedy was based on a successful stage play by Herman Bahr. Augustus Martinot (Lewis Stone) is a famed pianist. He is also no great catch, although his wife Mary (Mary Stedman) knows how to handle him. Nevertheless, women are fascinated by Martinot, primarily because of Read More

Occasionally Yours

Synopsis: Lew Cody plays yet another "male vamp" here -- Bruce Sands (Cody) is an artist who spends more time fooling around with his models than painting them. The determined Bunny Winston (Betty Blythe) pursues Sands all the way to the home of John Woodward (J. Barney Sherry). Woodward is having Sands up Read More

The Branding Iron

Synopsis: Domestic issues take center stage in this sensationalistic Western directed by Reginald Barker for Goldwyn. A young woman (Barbara Castleton) escapes her homicidal father by marrying a rancher (Russell Simpson). History repeats itself, however, and the rancher turns out to be a brute who actually Read More

Wicked Darling

Synopsis: Priscilla Dean has impressive support from Lon Chaney in this crime drama. Mary Stevens (Dean) is a thief of the slums. She is loved by Stoop (Chaney), a hoodlum. Mary happens on a society reception and makes off with a pearl necklace which has been dropped by Adele Hoyt (Gertrude Astor). She Read More

The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit

Synopsis: While other silent-film studios had their Muriel Ostriches and Arline Prettys, Universal had the dazzling Louise Lovely. In The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit, Lovely plays the daughter of a mine owner (Henry A. Barrows). When her dad is falsely accused of robbery, Our Heroine sets about to clear his Read More

Brazen Beauty

Synopsis: Popular Universal star Priscilla Dean teamed for the second time with director Tod Browning in 1918's Brazen Beauty (the first of their many collaborations was the profitable The Deciding Kiss) Dean plays a Montana rancher who heads to New York when she inherits her late father's millions. The Read More

Cheyenne's Pal

Devil's Pay Day

Synopsis: Jeannie, the usual cinematic country girl (Leah Baird), marries a city man (Franklyn Farnum) who neglects her and then divorces her when he finds a friend coming on to her. The shock of the divorce kills her mother, so Jeannie swears revenge. First she becomes lovers with the man who lusted after Read More

The Rescue

Synopsis: The successful star-director team of Dorothy Phillips and Ida May Park served up another box-office winner with The Rescue. Though she despises her ex-husband Kent (William Stowell), Anne Wetherell (Phillips) agrees to marry him again. The reason? Anne wants to spare Kent's latest sweetheart Nell Read More