Louise FazendaFilmography

The Old Maid

Actors: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan

Synopsis: When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was roundly condemned by critics, who felt that Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour was more deserving, but had lost because of its lesbian theme. Certainly, Akins' story of the Read More

Swing Your Lady

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Louise Fazenda, Penny Singleton, Leon Weaver, Ronald Reagan

Synopsis: This musical comedy is based on a modestly successful Broadway play and stars Humphrey Bogart as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch. Ed is in Kentucky with his dopey, muscle-bound client Joe "The Wrestling Hercules" Skopapoulous (Nat Pendleton). The two are further accompanied by Ed's assistant Shiner (Allen Jenkins Read More

Down on the Farm

Actors: Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Louise Fazenda, Russell Gleason, Ken Howell

Synopsis: Down on the Farm was yet another entry in the seemingly endless saga of the Jones Family. The plot is set in motion when the Joneses' Aunt Ida (Louise Fazenda) invites the family to spend the summer on her farm while their house is undergoing repairs (thanks to an unfortunate encouter with a fire Read More

Merry-Go-Round of 1938

Actors: Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: Merry-Go-Round of 1938 was the first (and last) of a proposed series of films spotlighting top Broadway talent. Three headliners from the Great White Way--comedian Bert Lahr, pantomime artist Jimmy Savo and monologist Billy House--team with veteran Hollywood scene-stealer Mischa Auer. The Read More

Ready, Willing and Able

Actors: Ruby Keeler, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins, Louise Fazenda, Carolyn Hughes

Synopsis: The Warner Bros. musicals began running out of gas in the late 1930s, yielding such lukewarm efforts as Ready, Willing and Able. Ruby Keeler, as charmingly ingenuous as ever, plays Jane, a college student with show-biz aspirations. In order to land a role in an upcoming Broadway spectacular, Jane Read More

The Road Back

Actors: Richard Cromwell, George "Slim" Summerville, Andy Devine, Barbara Read

Synopsis: A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All Quiet On The Western Front, which like the first film was based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque. After the signing of the armistice, Capt. Von Hagen (John Emery) Read More

Ever Since Eve

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Marion Davies, Patsy Kelly, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim specs and tweed suits, she finds that she is actually able to get some work done. She begins working as a writer's secretary to help him make his deadline. When the writer Read More

First Lady

Actors: Kay Francis, Anita Louise, Veree Teasdale, Louise Fazenda, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story of the first woman president. The central character, played by Kay Francis, is the granddaughter of a president (though clearly inspired by Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Read More

The Widow from Monte Carlo

Actors: Warren William, Dolores Del Rio, Louise Fazenda, Colin Clive, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter. This letter could destroy her upcoming nuptials to a stuffy Englishman. The duchess enlists the Read More

Colleen

Actors: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Jack Oakie, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert

Synopsis: The titular colleen is Ruby Keeler, hired to manage a dress shop by wealthy Dick Powell. Keeler is the replacement for slatternly Joan Blondell, who'd been assigned the job by Powell's philandering father (Hugh Herbert). With Powell and Keeler at the helm, it's no time at all before the musical Read More

Doughnuts and Society

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Maude Eburne, Ann Rutherford, Eddie Nugent, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: Doughnuts and Society is the first of several attempts by Republic Pictures to create a new screen team comparable to MGM's Marie Dressler and Polly Moran. In this one, Louise Fazenda and Maude Eburne are paired up as Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan, joint owners of a greasy-spoon diner. Read More

I Married a Doctor

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee

Synopsis: In this drama, the big city wife of a small town doctor learns a valuable lesson as she struggles to adapt to rural life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Casino Murder Case

Actors: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook, Rosalind Russell, Arthur Byron

Synopsis: S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case. Paul Lukas plays Vance, who is brought to the mansion of a wealthy, eccentric widow (Alison Skipworth) by a mysterious unsigned letter. Several murders are committed in the elderly Read More

Broadway Gondolier

Actors: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Louise Fazenda, William Gargan

Synopsis: A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he gives a radio station secretary a lift. She prattles on about a sponsor's new contest. The sponsor, a prominent cheese company, is looking for a singing gondolier to participate Read More

Bad Boy

Actors: James Dunn, Dorothy Wilson, Louise Fazenda, Victor Kilian, John Wray

Synopsis: Bad Boy Eddie Nolan (James Dunn) spends more time in the poolroom than he does looking for work. Even so, Sally Larkin (Dorothy Wilson) is willing to marry Eddie, certain that he'll hunker down and seek employment once he acclimates himself to the responsibilities of marriage. But this doesn't Read More

The Winning Ticket

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Louise Fazenda, Ted Healy, Irene Hervey, James Ellison

Synopsis: In this lively comedy, a humble Italian barber wins the Irish sweepstakes. Unfortunately, he has misplaced the ticket. Mayhem ensues as the family turns things topsy-turvy to find it. The baby then becomes the prime suspect for hiding it. Things get hilarious as the adults try to get the infant to Read More

Caravan

Actors: Annabella, Conchita Montenegro, Loretta Young, Jean Parker, Charles Boyer, Pierre Brasseur, Phillips Holmes, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance Caravan. A miscast Loretta Young stars as young Countess Wilms, who is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. She impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi (Boyer) Read More

Wonder Bar

Actors: Kay Francis, Dick Powell, Al Jolson, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez

Synopsis: Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris' Montmartre district. Presiding over the evening's entertainment is manager-emcee Al Wonder (Jolson), who after greeting his guests in a multitude of languages (a la Joel Grey in Cabaret Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Billy Barty

Synopsis: This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the Looking Glass. In England of the 19th century, young Alice finds that the mirror over the library fireplace opens into a strange world. She has odd adventures and changes Read More

The Unwritten Law

Actors: Greta Nissen, Mary Brian, Louise Fazenda, Lew Cody

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, everyone around a murdered movie producer is a suspect, including his girl friend. Most of those involved have good reason to kill him. The murder occurred on a ship bound for a new location; all the suspects are aboard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Once in a Lifetime

Actors: Jack Oakie, Aline MacMahon, Russell Hopton, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: Based on the stage comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime is a satire of Hollywood's early-talkie era. A down-and-out vaudeville trio (Jack Oakie, Aline MacMahon, and Russell Hopton) takes advantage of the confusion attending the talkie revolution by heading to Hollywood and Read More

Racing Youth

Actors: Frank Albertson, June Clyde, Louise Fazenda, George "Slim" Summerville, Arthur Stuart Hull

Synopsis: Amelia Cruikshank (June Clyde) doesn't know what real trouble is until she inherits her dad's auto-manufacturing business. Hoping to destroy the company for his own financial gain, Amelia's duplicitous business manager Brown (Arthur Stuart Hull) does everything he can to ruin her chances of Read More

The Mad Parade

Actors: Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich, Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Marceline Day

Synopsis: This offbeat WWI drama concentrates not on Men in War (there are in fact no men in the picture!), but on their women. The story focuses on nine Red Cross nurses, each from a different social background, who converge on No Man's Land to tend to the wounded and dying. Though their wartime Read More

Misbehaving Ladies

Synopsis: When European princess Lee comes back to her Midwestern hometown, she is thought to be a seamstress and goes along with the ruse in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Cuban Love Song

Actors: Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Karen Morley, Hale Hamilton

Synopsis: MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this two-year project to an end. Tibbett plays a cocky marine stationed in Havana, who devotes his attention to voluptuous Cuban peanut vendor Lupe Velez. He serenades her with "The Read More

Newly Rich

Actors: Mitzi Green, Edna May Oliver, Louise Fazenda, Jackie Searl, Virginia Hammond

Synopsis: Forbidden Adventure is the British title of the American film comedy Newly Rich. Edna May Oliver was borrowed from RKO by Paramount to portray the "nouveau riche" mother of precocious Mitzi Green. Edna's great rival is Louise Fazenda, mother of Jackie Searl. At first the ladies compete through Read More

Gun Smoke

Actors: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, William "Stage" Boyd, Eugene Pallette, Charles Winninger

Synopsis: William Boyd is one of the stars of the Paramount western Gun Smoke -- only it's not the same William Boyd who later essayed the role of Hopalong Cassidy, but another actor who billed himself as William "Stage" Boyd. The plot was a familiar one to western devotees of the early 1930s: a bunch of Read More

Spring Is Here

Synopsis: In this frothy musical, a lovely young woman is wooed by two men. One of them meets her father's approval so it is only natural that she attempt to elope with the other. Fortunately the good guy catches up with them before it is too late. Songs include: "Spring Is Here in Person," "I Married an Read More

Leathernecking

Actors: Irene Dunne, Ken Murray, Louise Fazenda, Ned Sparks, Lilyan Tashman

Synopsis: In this musical, adapted from the earlier Musical Present Arms, a Marine private falls in love with a socialite and is willing to do anything to win her affections--even if it means stealing his captain's uniform and posing as an officer. When that doesn't work, he tries faking a shipwreck that Read More

High Society Blues

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Collier, Sr., Hedda Hopper, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: This version of Shakespeare's most famous love story is set in Scarsdale, New York. This time, the heroine comes from an old monied aristocratic family. Trouble ensues when the hero's newly wealthy, and terribly unsophisticated family from Iowa moves in next door. The young woman becomes Read More

No, No Nanette

Actors: Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Lucien Littlefield, Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman

Synopsis: In this faithful adaptation of the popular 1925 Broadway hit musical, a Bible salesman helps three women with their troubles and finds himself in deep when all three show up at his Atlantic City cottage simultaneously. Songs include: "Dance of the Wooden Shoes," "As Long as I'm With You," "King of Read More

Bride of the Regiment

Actors: Vivienne Segal, Allan Prior, Walter Pidgeon, Louise Fazenda, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: A newlywed countess is asked to make a tremendous sacrifice for her husband and herself in this musical comedy-drama. Count Adrian Beltrami (Allan Prior) is an Italian nobleman who on the day of his wedding to Anna-Marie (Vivienne Segal) is driven from his estate by Austrian rebels, who turn his Read More

Viennese Nights

Actors: Alexander Gray, Vivienne Segal, Jean Hersholt, Walter Pidgeon, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: This early musical was filmed in color and centers upon the love affair between a young composer and the woman he wants to marry. Unfortunately the two quarrel and split up, causing her to marry a wealthy man. He also marries, but the union is unhappy because his new wife doesn't understand his Read More

Wide Open

Actors: Edward Everett Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: In this sweet comedy, a meek and clumsy employee of a large firm is filled with useful ideas, but is too shy to present them. He gets involved with the boss's straight-forward daughter who helps get his ideas across. Mayhem ensues and the company's superintendent is fired. The employee's ideas are Read More

Rain or Shine

Actors: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier, Jr., Tom Howard

Synopsis: Legendary Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who was capable of reducing audiences to paroxysms of helpless laughter by telling them what he wasn't going to do that evening, was invariably better than the shows in which he appeared. Fully aware of this, director Frank Capra brought Cook's 1928 Read More

Loose Ankles

Actors: Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Louise Fazenda, Ethel Wales, Otis Harlan

Synopsis: A young woman stands to inherit a million bucks in this comedy. The deal is thus: her aunts will give her a cool million if she can stay out of trouble and marry a reputable man with a clean background whom her benefactors approve of. The girl eagerly advertises for her mate, and she finds a Read More

Hot Stuff

Actors: Alice White, Louise Fazenda, William Bakewell, Doris Dawson, Ben Hall

Synopsis: In this college romp, a free-spirited aunt decides to use a $10,000 insurance settlement to send her niece to college. She then accompanies her as a chaperone. The niece is quite pretty and immediately becomes the "hottest thing on campus." This causes riotous trouble for the protective aunt. Read More

Hard to Get

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, James Finlayson, Louise Fazenda, Jack Oakie, Edmund Burns

Synopsis: Edna Ferber's short story "Classified" was the source for the Dorothy Mackaill vehicle Hard to Get. Mackaill is cast as Bobby Martin, a dress-shop model with intellectual aspirations. Wealthy Dexter Courtland (Edmund Burns) rescues Bobby from a masher, whereupon romance blooms. Likewise smitten Read More

Show of Shows

Synopsis: Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all singing and all dancing" sweepstakes of 1929. Though slightly better than MGM's Hollywood Revue of 1929, the Warners entry pales in comparison to Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 Read More

Seven Footprints to Satan

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, Chester Conklin, Sheldon Lewis, William V. Mong, DeWitt Jennings, Dale Fuller

Synopsis: In this curious film, a knickknack collector falls in love with the daughter of a jewel collector. When a rare stone is swiped from a reception at the latter's home, the daughter and her sweetheart begin looking for it. As they drive to the police, they are taken upon a most circuitous path until Read More

On with the Show

Actors: Betty Compson, Louise Fazenda, Sally O'Neil, Joe E. Brown, Purnell Pratt

Synopsis: This early talkie antique is a backstage musical from Warner Bros. The plot involves the out-of-town tryout of a new musical comedy, and the people who perform therein: a bitchy leading lady (Betty Compson), an arrogant comedy lead (Joe E. Brown), and a starstruck chorus kid (Sally O'Neil). At the Read More

The Desert Song

Actors: John Boles, Louise Fazenda, Johnny Arthur, Edward Martindel

Synopsis: After literally inventing the movie musical with The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. purchased the motion picture rights to the evergreen Sigmund Romberg/Oscar Hammerstein II 2nd operetta The Desert Song. Although the results looked like a photographed stage play (a common failing of early-talkie Read More

Stark Mad

Actors: H.B. Warner, Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline Logan, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: In this adventure set in South America, the captain of a yacht moored there is really a fugitive criminal. The passengers are too busy trying to find the missing son of the boat's owner to pay the captain much mind. Later the hapless passengers find themselves having to deal with angry natives and Read More

The Broadway Hoofer

Actors: Jack Egan, Louise Fazenda, Howard Hickman, Ernest Hilliard

Synopsis: Blonde Broadway dancer Marie Saxon came to the screen in 1929 courtesy of Columbia Pictures, who starred her opposite popular stage emcee Jack Egan in Broadway Hoofer, a rather leaden musical concoction that played mostly in the hinterlands. Saxon appeared as Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who Read More

Outcast

Actors: Corinne Griffith, James Ford, Edmund Lowe, Kathryn Carver, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Corinne Griffith stars in this 1928 remake of the 1922 melodrama Outcast. Both films were based on a play by Hubert Henry Davies, originally written as a vehicle for Elsie Ferguson (who starred in the 1922 version). Worn-out prostitute Miriam (Griffith) links up with dissolute playboy Geoffrey (Edmund Lowe Read More

Pay As You Enter

Actors: Clyde Cook, Louise Fazenda, William Demarest, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: In this broad comedy, Clyde Jones (Clyde Cook) and "Terrible Bill" McGovern (William Demarest) are a pair of streetcar conductors who are rivals for the affections of waitress Mary Jones (Louise Fazenda). Myrna Loy appears in a typically exotic supporting role as Yvonne De Russo. Like many early Read More

The Terror

Actors: May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, Edward Everett Horton, Alec B. Francis, Matthew Betz

Noah's Ark

Actors: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Sr., Louise Fazenda, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Paul McAllister

Synopsis: Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the end, Curtiz' treatise of man's inhumanity to man was ironically sabotaged by the enormous success of yet another studio release, the groundbreaking The Jazz Singer (1927). Read More

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Actors: W.C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain, Louise Fazenda

Domestic Troubles

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, Betty Blythe, Jean Laverty, Arthur Rankin

Vamping Venus

Actors: Charlie Murray, Thelma Todd, Spec O'Donnell

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

Riley the Cop

Actors: John Farrell MacDonald, Louise Fazenda, Nancy Drexel, David Rollins, Harry Schultz

Synopsis: All evidence suggests that Riley the Cop was a delightful vehicle for John Ford "regular" J. Farrell McDonald. New York policeman James Riley is asked to retrieve neighborhood boy Joe Smith (David Rollins), who skipped town after being falsely accused of theft and is now living a sinful life in Read More

Heart to Heart

Actors: Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Louise Fazenda, Lucien Littlefield, Aileen Manning

The Red Mill

Actors: Marion Davies, Owen Moore, Louise Fazenda, Karl Dane

Synopsis: This lavish adaptation of Victor Herbert's operetta The Red Mill proved to be one of Marion Davies' most delightful and best-received silent vehicles. Davies is cast as Dutch barmaid Tina, who falls in love with handsome hero Dennis (Owen Moore). Alas, Dennis doesn't return her affections Read More

Babe Comes Home

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Louise Fazenda, Ethel Shannon

Synopsis: Baseball great George Herman "Babe" Ruth's second starring film (the first was 1920's Headin' Home) was the amiable romantic comedy The Babe Comes Home. Babe Ruth plays Babe Dugan, home run whiz of the Los Angeles Angels (a minor-league team in 1927). Babe's habit of chewing tobacco makes him the Read More

Finger Prints

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Warner P. Richmond, Helene Costello, John T. Murray

Synopsis: Hardly an important film, Finger Prints pleased the crowd with its heady combination of slapstick comedy and old-dark-house melodrama. A professional crook is collared by the law, but not before squirreling away a fortune in hidden money in a crumbling country mansion. The crook's sister is Read More

The Gay Old Bird

Actors: John T. Murray, Jane Winton, William Demarest, John Steppling, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: The Gay Old Bird in this silent Warner Bros. programmer is Louise Fazenda, cast as ugly-duckling maidservant Sisseretta Simpkins. Our heroine is in the employ of the unhappily married Cluneys (John T. Murray, Jane Winton). Mr. Cluney's wealthy uncle (John Stepping) has promised to bequeath a Read More

A Sailor's Sweetheart

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, Myrna Loy, William Demarest, John Miljan

Synopsis: It would seem that Warner Bros. was trying to develop hoydenish Louise Fazenda and diminutive Clyde Cook into a screen team, which would explain the existence of such trifles as A Sailor's Sweetheart. Upon inheriting a fortune, old-maid schoolmarm Cynthia Botts (Fazenda) takes a trip to Hawaii in Read More

Cradle Snatchers

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Ethel Wales, Franklin Pangborn, Dorothy Phillips

Synopsis: This first film version of the popular Russell Medcraft-Norma Mitchell stage farce The Cradle Snatchers is also one of the earliest directorial efforts of Howard Hawks. Tired of their husbands' philandering, three wealthy matrons decide to fight fire with fire by hiring three college boys to pose Read More

A Texas Steer

Actors: Will Rogers, Louise Fazenda, Sam Hardy, Ann Rork, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Synopsis: Though Will Rogers was still packing 'em in on Broadway, he was considered a Hollywood has-been when he starred in the independently produced A Texas Steer. Rogers also wrote the screenplay of this "topical comedy," in which he plays Texas rancher Maverick Brander, who is maneuvered into politics Read More

Passionate Quest

Synopsis: Based on a 1923 novel by Edward Phillips Oppenheim and directed by film pioneer J. Stuart Blackton, this silent society drama featured May McAvoy, Gardner James, and Willard Louis attempting to free themselves from the negative influence of their guardian, De Witt Jennings. In London, McAvoy goes 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

Millionaires

Actors: George Sidney, Vera Gordon, Helene Costello, Louise Fazenda, Nat Carr

Synopsis: Millionaires was based on The Inevitable Millionaire, a story by the incredibly prolific E. Phillips Oppenheim. George Sidney and Vera Gordon, who previously co-starred in The Cohens and the Kellys, are reteamed as nouveau riche Meyer and Esther Rubens. A former tailor, Meyer tries to please his Read More

The Bat

Actors: Charles Herzinger, Tullio Carminatti, Jewel Carmen, Louise Fazenda, Emily Fitzroy, Arthur Houseman, Robert McKim

Synopsis: Long believed lost, the silent thriller-chiller The Bat finally resurfaced in the mid-1970s and proved well-worth the wait. Based on the play by Mary Roberts Rinehart, the plot is set in motion by a maniacal serial killer who dresses in a bat costume and flashes a batlike shadow on the wall just Read More

Lady of the Harem

Actors: Greta Nissen, William Collier, Jr., Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Lady of the Harem was based on Hassan, a play by James McElroy Flecker. It all begins when the Caliph of Kornassah (Sojin) sends his minions out to find him more gold and more women. His henchmen return with gorgeous blonde captive Pervannah (Greta Nissen), whose sweetheart Rafi (William Collier Jr Read More

Footloose Widows

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline Logan, Jason Robards, Sr., Arthur Hoyt, Neely Edwards

Synopsis: In the tradition of the venerable stage comedy The Gold Diggers, Footloose Widows zeroes in on two girls who hope to land millionaire husbands. Department-store models Flo (Louise Fazenda) and Marian (Jacqueline Logan) set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith (Jason Read More

Miss Nobody

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Louise Fazenda, Walter Pidgeon, Arthur Stone

Synopsis: In this romantic silent adventure, a beautiful heiress goes to California for a visit and while there learns that her New York-dwelling father has died and left her penniless. Now desperately poor, she takes up with a rich, handsome cad and escorts him to a masquerade ball where she dresses as a Read More

Ladies at Play

Actors: Doris Kenyon, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Ladies at Play was based on Loose Ankles, a stage comedy by Sam Janney. Heroine Ann Harper is thrilled to discover that she has inherited six million dollars. She is less than thrilled when she finds out that, in order to collect her fortune, she must be married within three days. After looking Read More

Bobbed Hair

Actors: Marie Prevost, Kenneth Harlan, Louise Fazenda, John Roche, Emily Fitzroy

Synopsis: This mystery was based on a novel written by 20 popular authors, each of whom contributed a chapter. The point of each chapter was to put the characters in such a tight predicament that the next writer would have to be exceptionally clever to get them out of it. As can be imagined, the film that Read More

Broadway Butterfly

Actors: Cullen Landis, John Roche, Wilfred Lucas, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Two of the silent era's funniest comediennes, Dorothy Devore and Louise Fazenda, were wasted in this routine backstage melodrama courtesy of Warner Bros.. Devore played Irene Astaire, a small-town girl hoping for success on the wicked stage. She is befriended by Cookie Dale (Fazenda), a Read More

Compromise

Actors: Irene Rich, Clive Brook, Louise Fazenda, Pauline Garon, Raymond McKee

Synopsis: Forever forced to take a back seat to her pretty, popular younger sister Pauline Garon, Irene Rich manages to land handsome Clive Brook while Garon is off galavanting in Europe. When sis returns, she does her darnedest to steal Brook away from Rich. This time, however, true love wins out over Read More

Declasse

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Lloyd Hughes, Clive Brook, Rockliffe Fellowes, Lilyan Tashman

Synopsis: Corinne Griffith is Lady Helen Haden, who is unhappily married to the brutish Sir Bruce Haden (Rockliffe Fellowes). Lady Helen finds true love with Ned Thayer (Lloyd Hughes), the American brother-in-law of her friend, Mrs. Leslie (Lilyan Tashman). Because of her marriage, she writes him a letter Read More

Cheaper to Marry

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Paulette Duval, Marguerite de la Motte, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: When Dick Tyler (Conrad Nagel) becomes a partner in the firm of Knight and Tyler, he marries his sweetheart, Doris (Marguerite de la Motte). Jim Knight (Lewis Stone) disapproves of the marriage -- he points out to Tyler that a wife interferes with business. When Dick and Doris attend a dinner Read More

The Night Club

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Vera Reynolds, Wallace Beery, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Once he attained full stardom, silk-hatted comedian Raymond Griffith was rushed into several inexpensive Paramount vehicles. The Night Club is so pinchpenny that all the street exteriors are shot on the back lot, with a conspicuous paucity of extras. This hardly matters, since the principal Read More

Love Hour

Actors: Huntly Gordon, Louise Fazenda, Willard Louis, Ruth Clifford, John Roche

Synopsis: One of the final films bearing the Vitagraph stamp before that company was completely absorbed by Warner Bros., this silent melodrama starred debonair Canadian actor Huntley Gordon as a newlywed almost losing his wife to a bounder. Desiring both Rex Westmore's money, and his new wife Betty (Ruth Read More

Hogan's Alley

Actors: Monte Blue, Willard Louis, Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Fazenda, Ben Turpin

Synopsis: During the mid-'20s, Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller starred together in a number of pleasantly entertaining comedy-dramas for Warner Bros. This one is typical of the bunch -- it's well made and has a lot of thrills -- but it's not great filmmaking. Patsy Ryan (Miller) is engaged to fighter Lefty 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

This Woman

Actors: Irene Rich, Ricardo Cortez, Louise Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton Hale

Synopsis: Irene Rich was one of Warner Bros.' new stars when she made this drama. Poverty-stricken singer Carol Drayton (Rich) attempts suicide, but she is saved by Rose (Louise Fazenda), a woman of the streets. They go to eat at a disreputable cafe where they are joined by the wealthy Gordon Duane (Frank Elliot Read More

Listen Lester

Actors: Harry Myers, Louise Fazenda, Alec B. Francis, Eugenia Gilbert

Synopsis: This picture was adapted from a popular musical comedy. Colonel Dodge is a widower who enjoys his single status. After his former sweetheart, Arbutus Quilty (Louise Fazenda), threatens him with a breach of promise suit, he decides to take a vacation in Florida with his daughter, Mary (Eva Novak). Read More

Abraham Lincoln

Actors: Irene Hunt, Charles French, Calvert Carter

Synopsis: This epic covers all of Lincoln's life. His birth in a blizzard; his boyhood (depicted by Danny Hey as young Lincoln); his romance with the ill-fated Anne Rutledge (Ruth Clifford) and courtship of Mary Todd (Nell Craig), who he married; his debates with Stephen Douglas (William Humphreys); and his Read More

Being Respectable

Actors: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Louise Fazenda, Irene Rich, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: Darius Carpenter (Frank Currier) prides respectability above all else, and he's not thrilled when his son, Charles (Monte Blue), falls for flapper Valerie Winship (Marie Prevost). When he finds an opportunity to trick Charles into becoming engaged to Suzanne Schuyler (Irene Rich), the two have no Read More

Abe Lincoln (The New Salem Period)

True As Steel

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Huntly Gordon, Cleo Madison, Eleanor Boardman, Norman Kerry

Synopsis: Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose nephew was a teenager named Howard R. Hughes) wrote and directed this drama for MGM. Aileen Pringle stars as the businesswoman in question, Eva Boutelle, whose husband, Harry (Norman Kerry Read More

Galloping Fish

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Sidney Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin, John Steppling

Synopsis: A trained seal stole the limelight in this silent farce produced by Thomas H. Ince. Sydney Chaplin, brother of Charlie, starred as newlywed Freddy Wetherill, whose child-bride, Hyla (Lucille Ricksen), sends him packing after a quarrel. Freddy takes up with Undine (Louise Fazenda), "The Diving Read More

The Lighthouse by the Sea

Actors: Louise Fazenda, William Collier, Jr., Matthew Betz

Synopsis: Based on a play by Owen Davis, Lighthouse By the Sea top-bills Warner Bros.' most successful male star of 1924: dauntless doggy Rin-Tin-Tin. The "human" plot involves the efforts by the daughter (Louise Fazenda) of an aged lighthouse keeper (Charles Hill Mailes) to hide the fact that her father Read More

The Gold Diggers

Actors: Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, Louise Fazenda, Gertrude Short, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: This clever comedy-drama was based on the famed stage play by Avery Hopwood. All the actors gave enjoyable performances, even the star Hope Hampton, who was never known for her histrionic talents. Wally Saunders (Johnny Harron -- brother of Robert Harron) wants to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne 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

The Spider and the Rose

Actors: Alice Lake, Richard Headrick, Gaston Glass, Joseph J. Dowling, Robert McKim

Synopsis: For this tale of old California, producer Benjamin F. Zeidman put together an all-star cast. The governor of California (Joseph J. Dowling) relies on his trusted secretary, Mendoza (Robert McKim), for many of his decisions. But Mendoza uses the governor's faith in him to have him ousted from Read More

Tea With A Kick

Actors: Ralph Lewis, Doris May, Rosemary Theby, Creighton Hale, Stuart Holmes

Synopsis: This light comedy featured an "all-star cast" that really did contain some of the better also-rans of the silent era. Doris May stars as Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy Read More

The Spoilers

Actors: Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson, Ford Sterling

Synopsis: This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister (Milton Sills) and his partner, Joe Dextry (Robert Edeson), are tricked out of their Alaskan gold mines by a pair of crooked politicians. Alex McNamara (Noah Beery Sr.) and Read More

The Fog

Actors: Mildred Harris, Louise Fazenda, Louise Dresser, Ann May

Synopsis: The independently produced The Fog was adapted from a popular novel by William Dudley Pelly. Idealistic young Nathan Forge (Cullen Landis) publishes a poem about the "ideal woman." Forge's description perfectly matches Madelaine Theddon (Mildred Harris), who falls in love with the young poet Read More

Quincy Adams Sawyer

Actors: John Bowers, Blanche Sweet, Lon Chaney, Barbara La Marr, Elmo Lincoln

Synopsis: Based on the popular novel of rural life by Charles Felton Pidgin, this motion picture featured most of the star names that Paramount had in 1922. After meeting a pretty girl in the park, Quincy Adams Sawyer, a young, up-and-coming lawyer, is called to the village of Mason's Corners by his Read More

The Beautiful and Damned

Actors: Marie Prevost, Kenneth Harlan, Harry Myers, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: The Beautiful and Damned is one of the earliest cinemazations of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost play a jazz-age married couple who go through money like water. The least responsible of the two is Prevost, but Harlan isn't far behind. Things are okay so long as Harlan Read More

Beauty Shop

Actors: Raymond Hitchcock, Billy B. Van, James J. Corbett, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Musical comedy star Raymond Hitchcock portrayed the character of Dr. Arbutus Budd both on stage and on screen. The only problem with the screen version is that there was no singing, and little comedy. Dr. Budd is an eccentric beauty doctor who is facing financial ruin. An advertisement which shows Read More

The Quack Doctor

Down on the Farm

Married Life

Bullin' the Bullsheviki

Synopsis: As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses the Russian revolution as an excuse for a series of slapstick setpieces. The director even finds time to showcast a bevy of bathing beauties (in Siberia?) Essentially, the Read More

Hearts and Flowers

The Kitchen Lady

Mack Sennett Comedies: Vol. 2

Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of several short chucklers from the King of Slapstick comedy Mack Sennett. These shorts feature the hilarious Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. The titles include: Fatty and Mabel Adrift, Mabel, Fatty, and the Law, Fatty's Tin-Type Tangle, and Our Congressman. The Read More

Judge

Synopsis: This fast-moving Keystone comedy was directed by the talented F. Richard Jones. A flirtatious manicurist (Louise Fazenda) runs foul of the law when she turns down the attentions of a motorcycle cop (Charles Murray). He puts her under arrest but the old judge (Harry Booker) is charmed by the girl Read More

A Hash House Fraud

A Game Old Knight

Synopsis: Having inaugurated his association with Triangle Films with the 4-reel My Valet, comedy producer Mack Sennett quickly reverted to the 2-reel format which suited him best. Sennett's first Triangle 2-reeler was A Game Old Knight, with Charlie Murray as the title character and Louise Fazenda, Slim Read More

Keystone Comedies, Vol. 6

Keystone Comedies, Vol. 7

Keystone Comedies, Vol. 1

Synopsis: Keystone Comedies is a collection of silent film shorts produced by the legendary Mack Sennett. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

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