Leatrice JoyFilmography

Air Hostess

Actors: Gloria Henry, Ross Ford, Audrey Long, Marjorie Lord, William Wright

Synopsis: The upsurge in commercial air travel in the postwar years resulted in several films dealing with the trials and tribulations of airline stewardesses. Gloria Henry, who'd later star as Alice Mitchell in TV's Dennis the Menace, is teamed with Danny Thomas' future TV wife Marjorie Lord and Audrey Long Read More

Red Stallion in the Rockies

Actors: Arthur Franz, Wallace Ford, Ray Collins, Jean Heather

Synopsis: Hoping to shed itself of the onus of its low-budget predecessor PRC Pictures, Eagle-Lion productions occasionally invested in such above-average endeavors as Red Stallion in the Rockies. Color-filmed on location in Colorado, the story revolves around a former circus horse who has escaped to the Read More

A Guy Named Joe

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, Lionel Barrymore, James Gleason

Synopsis: Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a tough, devil-may-care bomber pilot who's amassed an enviable record in combat, mostly by taking chances that give his C.O. (James Gleason) the shakes, much as he and the top Read More

The Old Swimmin' Hole

Actors: Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, Leatrice Joy, Charles D. Brown, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: Longtime "Our Gang" director Robert McGowan wielded the megaphone for the laid-back Monogram drama Old Swimming Hole. Jackie Moran and Marcia Mae Jones, whom the studio was hoping to develop into a screen team, star as Chris and Betty, bucolic sweethearts who hope to play matchmaker for Chris' Read More

First Love

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish, Lewis Howard

Synopsis: Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized variation of the Cinderella legend (there's even "six white mice" in the form of a sextet of motorcycle policemen!). The film casts Durbin as Constance Harding, the poor Read More

The Love Trader

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Chester Conklin, Henry B. Walthall, Noah Beery, Sr., Barbara Bedford

Synopsis: "East is East, West is West, Never the Twain Shall Meet." That's the lesson to be learned in the low-budget exotic romance The Love Trader. Leatrice Joy plays the restless young wife of an elderly ship's captain (Henry B. Walthall). While her husband goes on a pearl-hunting expedition in the South Read More

Strong Boy

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Leatrice Joy, John Farrell MacDonald, Clyde Cook, Kent Sanderson

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, an enormous baggage handler earns the reputation of being an all-'round good joe and soon gets promoted. He is in love with Joy, a pretty newsstand girl. Despite his good work, which includes stopping a train robbery, she realizes that her lovable lug will never rise to Read More

A Most Immoral Lady

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Walter Pidgeon, Montagu Love, Josephine Dunn

Bellamy Trial

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

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

Blue Danube

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Joseph Schildkraut, Nils Asther, Seena Owen, Albert Gran

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille functioned as executive producer for the derivative romantic melodrama The Blue Danube. Leatrice Joy stars as Marguerite, a Budapest tavern girl, who falls in love with young baron Erich (Nils Asther). When WWI breaks out, Erich is called back to his regiment on the eve of his Read More

Man-Made Women

Actors: Leatrice Joy, H.B. Warner, Seena Owen

Synopsis: The piquant Leatrice Joy starred in this frothy marital comedy about a wife who leaves her boring husband (John Boles) to be the companion of a kept woman (Seena Owen). The latter, however, leaves in a huff when she suspects that her gentleman friend (H.B. Warner) may be paying a bit too much Read More

Show People

Actors: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson, Paul Ralli, Tenen Holtz

Synopsis: This Marion Davies vehicle was loosely inspired by the career of Gloria Swanson. Davies plays would-be starlet Peggy Pepper, who arrives at the gates of MGM Studios with her dad Colonel Pepper (Dell Henderson) in hopes of becoming a great dramatic actress. Instead, she a scores a hit as an ingenue Read More

Vanity

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray

Synopsis: Although Vanity was one of Leatrice Joy's most successful films, it can hardly be considered one of her best. Joy is cast as spoiled society girl Barbara Fiske, who, out of boredom, begins romancing roughneck tramp-steamer skipper Dan Morgan (Alan Hale). She offers to spend the night with Morgan Read More

Nobody's Widow

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray, Phyllis Haver, David Butler, Dot Farley

Synopsis: Popular leading lady Leatrice Joy was copacetically teamed with "fading star" Charles Ray in Nobody's Widow. After a whirlwind courtship, American gal Roxanna Smith (Joy) marries rakish English aristocrat John Clayton (Charles Ray). It isn't long before Roxanna becomes convinced that her new Read More

The Angel of Broadway

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Victor Varconi, May Robson, Alice Lake, Elsie Bartlett

Synopsis: Glamorous Broadway actress Babe (Leatrice Joy) is cast as a Salvation Army lass in her latest musical. For research purposes, she pays a visit to a Lower East Side S. A. Mission, dons a uniform, and goes to work on a street corner, complete with tambourine and contribution pot. This upsets her Read More

Eve's Leaves

Actors: Robert Edeson, Richard Carle, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Leatrice Joy

Synopsis: If Eve's Leaves has the "look" of a Cecil B. DeMille production, it's because DeMille himself functioned as producer. Salty sea captain Robert Edeson tries to keep his daughter Leatrice Joy away from men, but the rambunctious Joy yearns to experience such forbidden pleasures as kissing. When Read More

For Alimony Only

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Clive Brook, Lilyan Tashman, Casson Ferguson

Synopsis: Though For Alimony Only was technically a Cecil B. DeMille production, it was directed by DeMille's less-flamboyant brother William C. DeMille. Mercenary Narcella (Lilyan Tashman) schemes to land a wealthy husband, fully intending to divorce the poor sap and reap the benefits of a handsome alimony Read More

Made for Love

Synopsis: This picture banked on the publicity surrounding the excavation of King Tut's tomb and contained a weak copy of the classic Cecil B. DeMille historical interlude. Nicholas Ainsworth (Edmund Burns) is an Egyptologist who discovers a tomb in which a pair of lovers were buried alive. Intent on Read More

The Clinging Vine

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Tom Moore, Robert Edeson, Dell Henderson

Synopsis: One of the few surviving films of Leatrice Joy, the wife of screen heartthrob John Gilbert, The Clinging Vine is a typically frothy '20s comedy: Mannish and efficient executive secretary Antoinette Allen (Joy), known colloquially as A.B., is the real power behind Bancroft Paint ("the kind that Read More

Hell's Highroad

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Edmund Burns, Robert Edeson, Julia Faye, Helene Sullivan

Synopsis: Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald McKane, a struggling civil engineer (Edmund Burns), is encouraging her to join him in New York, but she only goes when she is bequeathed an inheritance. Unfortunately, the Read More

Dressmaker from Paris

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Ernest Torrence, Allan Forrest, Mildred Harris

Synopsis: While on leave of absence in Paris, American Air Force officer Billy Brent (Allan Forrest) meets Fifi (Leatrice Joy), a midinette, or dressmaker's apprentice. Although they are attracted to each other, Brent is suddenly called to the front and they lose touch. Years later, Brent is back home in Read More

The Wedding Song

Actors: Alan Hale, Robert Ames, Jack Curtis, Rosa Rudami, Leatrice Joy

Synopsis: Under the supervision of Cecil B. DeMille, character actor Alan Hale handled the directing chores in Wedding Song. DeMille contractee Leatrice Joy plays Beatrice Flynn, a beautiful con artist who marries Hayes Hallan (Robert Ames), the owner of a pearl-rich island. No sooner has the couple said "I Read More

Marriage Cheat

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Percy Marmont, Adolphe Menjou, Laska Winter

Synopsis: With a racy title and a South Seas backdrop, producer Thomas Ince put together a solid box-office picture, even if it wasn't exactly a great film. Paul Mayne (Percy Marmont) is a missionary sent to a South Seas island. He doesn't have a lot of luck converting the natives, except for Rosie (Laska Winter Read More

Changing Husbands

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Victor Varconi, Raymond Griffith, Julia Faye, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: Leatrice Joy has a dual role, as Gwynne Evans, a restless young wife who longs to go on the stage, and as lookalike actress Eva Graham, who wants nothing more than peace and quiet. The two women meet up and agree to change places. Oliver Evans (Victor Varconi) is glad to see that his wife has 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

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

Minnie

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Matt Moore, George Barnum, Josephine Crowell, Helen Lynch

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille was busy developing Leatrice Joy into a glamorous star a la Gloria Swanson when she was loaned out to director Marshall Neilan for this romantic comedy. She played the title character of Neilan's film -- a homely, unwanted girl whose father (George Barnum) has invented a "wireless 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

The Ten Commandments

Actors: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Estelle Taylor, Richard Dix, Julia Faye, Rod La Rocque

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45 minutes recaps the struggle between Moses (Theodore Roberts) and Rameses (Charles de Roche) over the liberation of the Hebrews. Only after the Lord has imposed a series of Read More

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Nita Naldi, Lewis Stone, Pauline Garon, Paul McAllister

Synopsis: After a promising start (not to mention a really good cast), this stylish society drama gets bogged down in overwrought melodrama. Powerful Wall Street financier Garth McBride (Lewis Stone) ruins his rival after a tough battle. To celebrate, he goes to Florida with his wife, Edith (Leatrice Joy) Read More

The Silent Partner

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Owen Moore, Robert Edeson, Robert Schable, Patterson Dial

Synopsis: Leatrice Joy outshines the trite material and the rest of the cast in this Paramount release. Although it was adapted from Maximillian Foster's Saturday Evening Post serial, it's hard to tell how the author dragged the story on for more than a couple of installments (it was certainly a stretch to Read More

Saturday Night

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel, Edith Roberts, Jack Mower, Julia Faye

Synopsis: Even with its share of sumptuous sets and domestic mixups, this comedy-drama was not typical for director Cecil B. DeMille. Plus, the class-conscious attitude reflected the attitudes of the pre-World War I era -- mores started changing during the 1920s. A young society couple, Iris Van Suydam Read More

Trip To Paramountown

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

The Bachelor Daddy

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Maude Wayne, Adele Farrington, J. Farrell McDonald

Synopsis: Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy star in this slight but amusing comedy-melodrama; they would appear together again later in the year in a far more prestigious film -- Cecil B. DeMille's Manslaughter. New York millionaire Richard Chester (Meighan) is called West to the silver mines where he made 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

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Leatrice Joy, Albert Roscoe, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: Leatrice Joy was just starting her association with Paramount and was not yet a star when she played Thomas Meighan's love interest in this South Seas romance. New York society man Burke Hammond (Meighan) travels to the South Sea Islands and falls in love with Rita (Joy), the daughter of Morgan Read More

Ladies Must Live

Actors: Betty Compson, Robert Ellis, Mahlon Hamilton, Leatrice Joy, Hardee Kirkland

Synopsis: This drama was director George Loane Tucker's last film; in fact his health was failing as he completed it. Too bad the maker of 1919's The Miracle Man didn't leave a better picture than this mediocrity as his final legacy. Christine (Betty Compson) and Barbara (Leatrice Joy) are two women who Read More

Bunty Pulls the Strings

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Russell Simpson, Raymond Hatton, Cullen Landis

Synopsis: Bunty Pulls the Strings was adapted from the immensely popular stage farce by Graham Moffat. Leatrice Joy stars as a Scottish lassie who has her hands full solving various domestic problems. Her brother Raymond Hatton faces a prison term, and she herself is in danger of losing boyfriend Cullen Landis Read More

A Tale of Two Worlds

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Wallace Beery

Synopsis: This is one of a number of silent pictures in which a young American is raised as a Chinese girl, and even though she has no Asian features to speak of, she never guesses she's white until the film's end. While they are visiting China on business a curio collector, Carmichael (Dwight Crittenden) Read More

The Ace of Hearts

Synopsis: Based on a story by Gouverneur Morris, this drama involves a group of terrorists whose motive is to do away with capitalists of their choosing. To pick the assassin for their latest mark, they draw cards, and a pretty female member, Lillith (Leatrice Joy), offers to marry the man chosen. Forrest Read More

Night Rose

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Lon Chaney, John Bowers, Cullen Landis, Richard Tucker

Synopsis: Before he was known as "the man of a thousand faces," Lon Chaney had already become famous for portraying underworld characters. If he does not come off well in this Goldwyn picture, in which he plays a gang leader, it has nothing to do with his acting and everything to do with the editing. The Read More

The Poverty of Riches

Actors: Richard Dix, Leatrice Joy, John Bowers, Louise Lovely, Irene Rich

Synopsis: Leatrice Joy and Richard Dix play an ambitious couple in this domestic drama. John and Katherine Colby (Dix and Joy) decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson (John Bowers and Louise Lovely), decide to start a family right away. While John Read More

Down Home

Synopsis: This picture was based on the novel Dabney Todd by F.N. Westcott, and it was one of Leatrice Joy's better pre-Cecil B. DeMille films. Because her father, Joe (William Robert Daly), is a drunk, Nance Pelot (Joy) plays piano at a local inn run by Larry Shayne to make ends meet. Joe occasionally Read More

Right of Way

Synopsis: This film was adapted from a well-known novel by Sir Gilbert Parker. Charley Steele (Bert Lytell) is a hard-drinking lawyer who is unhappily married. His brilliant oratory skills save the life Jo Portugais (Gibson Gowland), but when Jo tries to thank him, he replies, "Out of my sight. You're Read More

Smiling All the Way

Synopsis: When Hannibal Pillsbury (David Butler) loses his job as cook at a lumber camp, he goes down to New York's Greenwich Village and buys a restaurant with ex-socialite Alice Drydon (Leatrice Joy). They make a success of the restaurant, but Hannibal is too bashful to make a success of their romance. Read More

The Man Hunter

Synopsis: At the time William Farnum made this adventure film, he was near the peak of his stardom. After a wild, drunken night, wealthy George Arnold (Farnum) wakes up to discover that he has proposed to a young woman, Helen Garfield (Louise Lovely). He resolves to honor the commitment, but then Henry Read More

One Dollar Bid

Synopsis: Knowing a good thing when they had one, Universal continued to team J. Warren Kerrigan and Lois Wilson in such five-reel "specials" as One Dollar Bid. The scene is a tiny backwater Kentucky town, where Toby (Kerrigan), a genial drunkard, delights the local children by spinning fanciful tall tales Read More

Wedlock

Synopsis: The title of this emotionally supercharged melodrama could just as well have been "Deadlock." Low-born Marjery Harding (Louise Glaum) marries high-born Granger Hollister (John Gilbert), who at first insists upon keeping their marriage a secret. When Hollister finally tells all to his aristocratic Read More

Shackled

Actors: Louise Glaum, Charles H. West, Roberta Wilson

Synopsis: Louise Glaum, who outside of Theda Bara was perhaps the screen's most popular "vamp," headed the cast of Shackled. Glaum was starred as woman-of-the-world Lola Dexter, who carries on a romance with wastrelly millionaire Walter Cosgrove (Charles West) on the assumption that he intends to marry her. Read More

The Other Man

Synopsis: Discovering that his wife has been unfaithful, doctor John Stedman (Harry T. Morey crawls into a bottle an ends up on skid row. Eventually he is forced to use his medical skills to save the life of a wounded gangster. Out of gratitude, the crook's chums help Stedman to re-establish himself as an Read More

Three X Gordon

Synopsis: Harold Chester Winthrop Gordon (J. Warren Kerrigan) wakes up one afternoon to discover that because of his spendthrift ways, his father has cut him off, his fiancee's father has forbidden him to come around, and his club wants his resignation. As a result, he is forced to do something he's never Read More

A Girl's Folly

Synopsis: Director Maurice Tourneur transformed Frances Marion's perfunctory scenario Girl's Folly into a visual delight that resulted in not a few oohs and ahhs from 1917 audiences. June Elvidge plays an impressionable country lass who is thrilled when a movie company sets up camp near her home. She falls Read More

The Pride of the Clan

Synopsis: The title may have been designed to cash in on the success of Griffith's Birth of a Nation (wherein the Ku Klux Klan were the heroes!), but Maurice Tourneur's Pride of the Clan was set not in the American South but in Scotland. Mary Pickford plays the daughter of a Scottish seaman. When her dad is Read More

Slave

Synopsis: This two-reel Billy West comedy should not be confused with the Fox drama of the same name which was also released in 1917. It was the first film West shot on the West Coast after moving the company from New Jersey. Although Leatrice Joy had apparently been in a few other West films, this is the Read More