Lois MoranFilmography

Men in Her Life

Actors: Lois Moran, Charles Bickford, Victor Varconi, Luis Alberni

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman with dubious past finds herself blackmailed when she makes plans to marry a senator's son. She finds salvation with a bootlegger who offers to take care of the excursionist. Unfortunately, he chooses to kill the fellow, gets caught, and is put on trial. Now the woman must Read More

West of Broadway

Actors: John Gilbert, El Brendel, Lois Moran, Madge Evans, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Though silent star John Gilbert's talking pictures were habitual money-losers, the stubborn actor insisted that MGM honor his $250,000-per-picture contract, signed just before talkies came on. West of Broadway wasn't a bad Gilbert vehicle by any means, but the star's previous failures worked Read More

Transatlantic

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, John Halliday, Greta Nissen, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: Adhering to a formula that would later be popularized further in Grand Hotel, Transatlantic is one of the best of the "multi-story" films of the early 1930s. As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe Read More

The Spider

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Howard Phillips, Lois Moran, Earl Foxe, Manya Roberti

Synopsis: An illusionist is performing his astounding tricks when an audience member is killed by another. This mystery chronicles the attempts of the magician to find out whodunit and why. He gives his theories to a police detective who thinks the illusionist is plumb nuts. Still the investigator goes Read More

Not Damaged

Actors: Inez Courtney, Lois Moran, Walter Byron

Synopsis: In this romance, a young woman aspires to have a huge church wedding with all the trimmings, but first she must find the perfect mate. One night the young woman has a nightmare in which she walks naked down a street. Her roommate the amateur fortune teller informs her that it means she will meet a Read More

Mammy

Actors: Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis: Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another. One of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell Sherman) is shot backstage, and it is assumed thanks to several Read More

Under Suspicion

Actors: Lois Moran, J. Harold Murray, J.M. Kerrigan, Erwin Connelly, Lumsden Hare

Synopsis: Set in Canada, Under Suspicion finds heroine Alice Freil (Lois Moran) heading above the border to escape a trumped-up criminal charge. After a suspenseful train trip to Jasper National Park, Alice links up with RCMP officer John Smith (J. Harold Murray). Lost in the wilderness, hero and heroine Read More

The Dancers

Actors: Lois Moran, Walter Byron, Phillips Holmes, Mae Clarke, Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Gerald du Maurier, The Dancers stars Lois Moran as free-spirited Diana Snowden. Though once pure of heart and noble of mind, Diana has "strayed" rather dramatically over the years. When her childhood sweetheart Tony (Phillips Holmes) returns to London after a long absence Read More

Song of Kentucky

Synopsis: In this drama, an early talky, a horse race determines a woman's romantic fate. The trouble begins when she finds herself falling deeply in love with a handsome songwriter. Unfortunately, she is already betrothed to a real cad. When her fiance finds out that she loves another, he decides to frame Read More

True Heaven

Actors: George O'Brien, Lois Moran, Phillips Smalley, Oscar Apfel, Duke Martin

Synopsis: A silent film save for a synchronized Movietone score, True Heaven is a WWI espionage yarn, tailored to the talents of he-man George O'Brien. Hero Phillip Gresson (O'Brien) is in the employ of the British secret service, while heroine Judith (Lois Moran) is a spy for the Enemy. Hoping to gain Read More

Making the Grade

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, Albert Hart, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: For 55 of its 63 minutes, Making the Grade is a silent picture; only the opening sequence and a brief "radio broadcast" scene contain any dialogue. Based on a play by George Ade, the story focuses on Herbert Dodsworth (Edmund Lowe), the scion of a family of scrappers. Alas, Herbert is something of Read More

Behind That Curtain

Actors: Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Claude King, Philip Strange

Synopsis: Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously made the first all-talking picture of any kind, In Old Arizona (also 1929). Chan fans may be disappointed in this globe-trotting mystery, however, as the detective (played by Read More

Words and Music

Actors: John Wayne, Lois Moran, Tom Patricola, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees, Frank Albertson

Synopsis: In this college campus musical comedy from director James Tinling, the first film in which John Wayne received billing (though it's as Duke Morrison), Lois Moran stars as Mary, a pretty young singer who is sought after by two competing composers. Wayne plays Phil, one of the two rival songwriters Read More

Joy Street

Synopsis: An heiress Lois Moran heads to the United States from her Swiss boarding school. She begins an exciting life as a flapper whose love interest (Nick Stuart), works unsuccessfully to change her. Only the trauma of an automobile accident makes her realize her mistakes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Blindfold

Actors: George O'Brien, Lois Moran, Earl Foxe, Don Terry, Maria Alba

Synopsis: Blindfold is a crime drama that gets off to a lively (if unbelievable) start when a dedicated cop deliberately gets himself knocked off by the villains so that the hero, ex-cop George O'Brien, will seek vengeance. Things get even more incredible when heroine Lois Moran develops amnesia and joins a Read More

The River Pirate

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Lois Moran, Nick Stuart, Earl Foxe, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: One of the first talkies, this film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective. This film was recently remastered complete with its long-absent talking sequence finale. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Love Hungry

Actors: Lois Moran, Lawrence Gray, Marjorie Beebe, Edythe Chapman, James Neill

Synopsis: Lois Moran stars as Joan Robinson, the chorus-girl daughter of blue-collar workers Ma and Pa Robinson (Edythe Chapman and James Neill). Hoping to supplement the family income, Ma Robinson takes in a boarder, a struggling young writer named Tom Harvey (Lawrence Gray). When Joan returns from a Read More

Sharp Shooters

Actors: George O'Brien, Lois Moran, Noah Young, Tom Dugan, William Demarest

Synopsis: George O'Brien stars as George, a footloose sailor who adheres to a philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em." While on leave in Morocco, George makes the acquaintance of fiery French dancer Lorette (Lois Moran), who of course falls madly in love with him. Regarding Lorette as just another diversion Read More

Don't Marry

Actors: Lois Moran, Neil Hamilton, Henry Kolker, Claire McDowell

Synopsis: According to most sources, actress Lois Moran was the model for Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Never a great actress, Lois was always effervescent and willing to please, as proven in the jazz-age comedy Don't Marry. Stuck with a prudish boyfriend (Neil Hamilton, later 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

The Whirlwind of Youth

Actors: Lois Moran, Donald Keith, Alyce Mills, Larry Kent

Synopsis: Whirlwind of Youth was taken (as far as possible, apparently) from Soundings, a novel by Hamilton Gibbs. Impulsive 18-year-old Nancy Hawthorne (Lois Moran) falls hard for Bob Whittaker (Donald Keith), a rakish "love 'em and leave 'em" type. At first refusing to take Nancy seriously, Whittaker Read More

Publicity Madness

Actors: Lois Moran, Edmund Lowe, E.J. Ratcliffe, Arthur Houseman, Byron Munson

Synopsis: Written by Anita Loos, Publicity Madness has much in common with Loos' 1916 Doug Fairbanks vehicle His Picture in the Papers. Edmund Lowe stars as Pete Clark, a young press agent who hits upon a fool-proof publicity stunt. Using $100,000 of his boss' money, Clark promotes a contest requiring the Read More

Music Master

Actors: Alec B. Francis, Lois Moran, Neil Hamilton, Norman Trevor

Synopsis: The Music Master was based on the barnstorming David Belasco-David Warfield play of the same name. Alec B. Francis assumes the old Warfield role as Anton Von Barwig, an elderly musician eking out a meager existence in a Bohemian artists' colony. Years earlier, a cad had run off with Von Barwig's Read More

Just Suppose

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Lois Moran, Geoffrey Kerr, Henry Vibart, Harry Short

Synopsis: In this adaptation of a play by A. E. Thomas, Richard Barthelmess stars as Prince Rupert of Koronia, who becomes tired of palace life and yearns to be among the common folk. On a visit to America, Rupert gets his wish, and even goes so far as to fall in love with down-to-earth Linda Lee Stafford (Lois Moran Read More

Padlocked

Actors: Lois Moran, Noah Beery, Sr., Louise Dresser, Helen Jerome Eddy, Allan Simpson

Synopsis: Padlocked began as a serial for Cosmopolitan magazine, written by Rex Beach. After only a couple of chapters were published, Famous Players Lasky bought the rights to the story, reportedly for $100,000. Why the studio would pay so much for this utterly common (at least for its era) narrative is a Read More

God Gave Me Twenty Cents

Actors: Lois Moran, Lya de Putti, Jack Mulhall, William Collier, Jr., Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Synopsis: The scene is New Orleans, during Mardi Gras week. The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren (Jack Mulhall), who tries his best to support his wife Mary (Lois Moran) on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when Read More

The Reckless Lady

Actors: Belle Bennett, James Kirkwood, Lois Moran, Lowell Sherman, Ben Lyon

Synopsis: Belle Bennett, the unforgettable star of the original Stella Dallas (1926), again suffers nobly through the "mother love" melodrama Reckless Lady. Just to make Bennett feel at home, she is here reunited with her Stella Dallas co-star Lois Moran. Bennett is cast as the prodigal Mrs. Fleming, whose Read More

The Road to Mandalay

Actors: Lon Chaney, Lois Moran, Owen Moore, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: Having nothing whatever to do with the Rudyard Kipling poem, The Road to Mandalay is a typically bizarre collaboration between star Lon Chaney Sr. and director Tod Browning. Chaney plays Singapore Joe, the one-eyed proprietor of a Mandalay bordello. Joe's convent-bred daughter Rosemary (Lois Read More

Prince of Tempters

Actors: Lois Moran, Ben Lyon, Lya de Putti, Ian Keith, Mary Brian

Synopsis: Prince of Tempters was adapted from The Ex-Duke a story by prolific author E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story focuses on two Benedictine monks, the virtuous Francis (Ben Lyon) and the wavering Mario (Ian Keith). With papal dispensation, Francis is voluntarily released from his vows to assume the Read More

Stella Dallas

Actors: Jean Hersholt, Belle Bennett, Ronald Colman, Alice Joyce, Lois Moran

Synopsis: One of the silent era's most popular tearjerkers, this soapy melodrama was adapted by legendary screenwriter Frances Marion from the 1923 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. Belle Bennett stars as Stella Dallas, a small town girl who is devastated by her father's death and quickly marries the upper Read More

Feu Mathias Pascal

Actors: Lois Moran, Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Originally released in 1926 in hand-tinted prints, for years this silent classic, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1937) was only available in low-quality and incomplete black-and-white prints. It was restored by the Cinémathèque Française and was re-released in 1990. Pirandello's Read More

La Galerie Des Monstres

Actors: Lois Moran, Jaque Catelain, Jean Murat