Margaret LivingstonFilmography

Call Her Savage

Actors: Clara Bow, Monroe Owsley, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd, Estelle Taylor

Synopsis: In this melodrama with strong racist overtones, Clara Bow attempts to revive her failing career by playing a free-spirited girl whose father is an American Indian and whose mother is Anglo Saxon. For some reason the girl doesn't know of her mixed heritage and constantly fights with her dad. The Read More

Kiki

Actors: Mary Pickford, Reginald Denny, Joseph Cawthorn, Margaret Livingston, Phil Tead

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1926 with Norma Talmadge, the creaky David Belasco stage piece Kiki served as a curious talkie vehicle for "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford. The star plays the title character, a jazz-age Parisian chorus girl (complete with a molasses-thick French accent). When theatrical Read More

Smart Money

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Evelyn Knapp, James Cagney, Ralf Harolde, Boris Karloff

Synopsis: Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney were teamed for the only time in their careers in Smart Money. Robinson has the larger part as a small-town barber who fancies himself a big-time gambler. He travels to the Big City in the company of his younger brother Cagney, who wants to make sure that Robinson Read More

God's Gift to Women

Actors: Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell, Charles Winninger, Louise Brooks

Synopsis: God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian Frank Fay. Portraying a most unlikely Frenchman, Fay pitches woo at every beautiful woman in sight, but falls in love with none of them. When Cupid genuinely strikes him for the Read More

Broadminded

Actors: Joe E. Brown, William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert

Synopsis: In this comedy, a carefree carouser creates trouble for his cousin the chaperone as they go 'round the world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lady Refuses

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a British aristocrat befriends a woman and hires her to begin distracting his son away from a conniving golddigger. She does, but finds herself falling in love with her titled boss instead. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Big Money

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Dorothy Christy

Synopsis: Breezy comic actor Eddie Quillan starred in several amiable Pathe programmers in 1929, 30' and '31. Big Money finds Quillan cast as a go-getting bank messenger, who falls in with unsuccessful gambler Jimmy Gleason. Entering a high-stakes card game, Quillan bets the bank's money, and is promptly Read More

For the Love O'Lil

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Elliott Nugent, Sally Starr, Margaret Livingston, Charles Sellon

Synopsis: Lawyer Wyn Huntley (Jack Mulhall) is a lion in the courtroom, but a lamb when it comes to women. In love with the beautiful but financially irresponsible Lil (Sally Starr), Wyn is advised that the way to Lil's heart is to indulge her every extravagance. Unfortunately, the man offering this advice Read More

What a Widow!

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Owen Moore, Lew Cody, Margaret Livingston, William Holden

Synopsis: The widow in question is wealthy Tamarind Brooks (Gloria Swanson), who flits from one man to another with the rapidity of a butterfly. Beginning in New York and ending in Paris, Tamarind collects men like some people collect stamps. Among her most ardent suitors are lawyer Gerry (Owen Moore) Read More

Murder on the Roof

Actors: Dorothy Revier, Raymond Hatton, Margaret Livingston, David Newell, Paul Porcasi

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a down-on-his-luck attorney with connections to a diamond thief is framed for the thief's murder by the owner of the night club whose roof the body was found on. The attorney's daughter sets out to prove her father's innocence and gets a job singing at the club, becoming a Read More

The Charlatan

Actors: Rockliffe Fellowes, Margaret Livingston, Crauford Kent, Philo McCullough

Synopsis: In one of his few film leading roles, dependable British character actor Holmes Herbert plays Peter Dwight, whose wife Florence (Margaret Livingston), a circus aerialist, walks out on him with their baby in tow. Adopting the guise of an Eastern mystic named Count Merlin, Dwight embarks upon a Read More

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Actors: Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1917 and 1925, the evergreen George M. Cohan-Earl Derr Biggers stage mystery Seven Keys to Baldpate was remade as a talkie in late 1929 (and there were still three more remakes to come). Richard Dix stars as novelist William Magee, who's having trouble completing his latest Read More

The Last Warning

Actors: Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Mack Swain, Roy D'Arcy, Tom O'Brien

Synopsis: In this mystery, a producer reopens a theater where five years before, a lead actor was killed on stage during a performance. The murder remained unsolved. To solve the mystery, the producer stages the same play with the same cast. As the play is performed, the same series of events occurs and the Read More

The Office Scandal

Actors: Phyllis Haver, Raymond Hatton, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: In this early, early talkie, a newspaper reporter convinces a judge to release an accused killer who used to be a colleague before he became an alcoholic. The reporter then gets the fellow a job at the paper. Trouble ensues when the city editor continues to doubt the innocence of the new employee Read More

Innocents of Paris

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Russell Simpson, George Fawcett

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

Tonight at Twelve

Actors: Madge Bellamy, Robert Ellis, Madeline Seymour, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, a married man finds himself in philanderer's heaven when he gets involved with three local women. Fortunately, before it all goes too far, his son confesses that one of the letters his father found was really meant for him. Romantic mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

His Private Life

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Kathryn Carver, Eugene Pallette, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: Look up "suave and sophisticated" in the dictionary, and one might very well find a picture of Adolphe Menjou. In His Private Life, Menjou is cast as Georges St. Germain, whose sexual peccadilloes are so frequent and plentiful that he is forced to bribe practically every civil servant in Paris to Read More

The Canary Murder Case

Actors: William Powell, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Jean Arthur, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis: This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it centers upon a conniving "canary" (a nightclub singer) who takes on wealthy lovers and then blackmails them into giving her money. If they don't cooperate, she will tell Read More

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

Acquitted

Actors: Lloyd Hughes, Margaret Livingston, Sam Hardy, Charles H. West

Synopsis: Gangster boss Egan (Sam Hardy) manages to beat a murder rap by framing his mistress Marion (Margaret Livingston) for the crime. After eight years in stir, Marian is released on good behavior. She seeks out Egan and tries to persuade him to confess his crime, but he is unmoved. But when his life is Read More

Through the Breakers

Synopsis: Owen Davis' 1898 barnstormer about a fun-loving socialite turned castaway on her former fiancee's South Seas island came to the screens in 1928 courtesy of poverty row company Gotham Productions. Margaret Livingston, who played the vamp in Murnau's Sunrise (also 1928), here acted Diane Garrett Read More

Say It with Sables

Synopsis: Banker John Caswell (Francis X. Bushman), a wealthy widower, decides to leave his scheming mistress Irene (Margaret Livingston) and marry the upper-class Helen (Helene Chadwick) instead. Seeking revenge, Irene starts an affair with Caswell's son Doug (Arthur Rankin). Caswell learns of their Read More

Mad Hour

Actors: Sally O'Neil, Alice White, Donald Reed, Larry Kent, Lowell Sherman

Synopsis: The confident direction of Allan Dwan transformed The Mad Hour into something more than a mere "soap opera." Based on a novel by Elinor Glyn (the Barbara Cartland of her time), the story concerns a hasty marriage and a long, long repentance. While drunk on bootleg hootch, good-time girl Cuddles (Sally O'Neil Read More

The Apache

Actors: Margaret Livingston, Warner P. Richmond, Don Alvarado, Philo McCullough

Synopsis: One of the more palatable non-Frank Capra silent films from Columbia Pictures, The Apache is not a western. The title character, played by Don Alvarado, is one of those beret-wearing French dancers who tosses his partner about on stage. Alvarado commits a murder, and hero Warner Richmond is Read More

Woman's Way

Actors: Warner Baxter, Margaret Livingston, Armand Kaliz

Synopsis: The economical Columbia programmer A Woman's Way benefits from the presence of such pros as Margaret Livingston, Warner Baxter and Armand Kaliz. Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Livingston, bon vivant Baxter and petty crook Kaliz. Livingston's Read More

The Way of the Strong

Synopsis: This silent gangster tale centers on a scarred racketeer, ironically called Handsome Williams (Mitchell Lewis), who has been robbing the liquor shipments of bootlegger Tiger Louie (William Norton Bailey). Handsome also runs a café where Dan (Theodor Von Eltz) works as a pianist. Outside his café Read More

Wheel of Chance

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Bodil Rosing, Warner Oland, Anne Schaefer, Lina Basquette

The Scarlet Dove

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Margaret Livingston, Robert W. Frazer, Shirley Palmer

Synopsis: Raised in a convent, pretty young heiress Mara (Josephine Boro) has been slated from birth to wed Russian officer Ivan Orloff (Lowell Sherman). Though she doesn't know much about men, Mara does know that she isn't fond of Orloff, and she begins formulating plans to avoid her wedding. She escapes Read More

Beware of Bachelors

Actors: André Beranger, Clyde Cook, Audrey Ferris

Synopsis: The screenplay for Beware of Bachelors was credited to Mark Canfield, but it was penned pseudonymously by future movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck. Here again is the old saw about the young couple who stand to inherit oodles of money if they can stay married for an entire year. Both hero William Collier Jr Read More

Slaves of Beauty

Actors: Olive Tell, Earl Foxe, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: One of many silent-movie satires of the "beauty salon" craze, Slaves of Beauty gets under way when chemist Leonard Jones (Holmes Herbert) invents a miraculous new facial clay. Whoever applies this clay to his or her face will emerge looking at least twenty years younger. Jones tests his formula on Read More

Lightning

Actors: Jobyna Ralston, Margaret Livingston, Robert W. Frazer, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Pat Harmon

Synopsis: Jobyna Ralston and Margaret Livingston play actresses touring with a "Topsy & Eva" act. In Chicago, they meet and flirt with a couple of cowboys, Lee (Robert Frazer) and Cuth Stewart (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams). By their third meeting, the brothers are ready propose, but the girls leave Read More

Girl From Gay Peree

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Barbara Bedford, Malcolm McGregor, Margaret Livingston, Walter Hiers

Synopsis: Although the plot to this comedy seems forced and unnatural (even for a farce), it does have a stellar cast. Even the smaller roles feature excellent performers -- the cabaret owners, for example, are played by Margaret Livingston and Walter Hiers. Mary Davis (Barbara Bedford) is just one of a Read More

Secret Studio

Actors: Olive Borden, Clifford Holland, Ben Bard, Kate Bruce

Synopsis: The "secret studio" is squirreled away somewhere in the artist's colony in Greenwich Village. It is kept a secret so that curious rubberneckers won't try to get a glimpse of the female nude models. Small-town girl Rosemary Marton (Olive Borden) agrees to pose for one of the studio's artists, but Read More

Married Alive

Actors: Margaret Livingston, Claire Adams, Lou Tellegen, Emily Fitzroy

Synopsis: Former Broadway matinee idol Lou Tellegen tries to recapture his past magic in the 1927 potboiler Married Alive. Tellegan plays James Duxbury, an exponent of polygamy, which may not be legal but certainly provides him with several evenings of entertainment. The plot shifts into gear when professor Read More

Sunrise

Actors: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of the wordless cinema at its zenith. Based on the Hermann Sudermann novel A Trip to Tilsit, this "Song of Two Humans" takes place in a colorful farming community, where people Read More

Streets of Shanghai

Actors: Pauline Starke, Kenneth Harlan, Margaret Livingston, Eddie Gribbon, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: The scene is Shanghai, where virginal missionary Pauline Garon finds herself the object of lust of the local Chinese crime lords. U.S. Marine Kenneth Harlan falls in love with Garon, while seductress Margaret Livingston sets her sights on Harlan. Once he disentangles himself from the troublesome Read More

American Beauty

Actors: Billie Dove, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Prival

Synopsis: The dazzlingly gorgeous Billie Dove is appropriately cast as the title character in American Beauty. This is the story of Millicent Howard (Dove), who banks upon her good looks to achieve wealth and luxury. Her efforts reach a pinnacle when millionaire Claverhouse (Walter McGrail) pops the Read More

Womanpower

Actors: Margaret Livingston, Ralph Graves, David Butler, William Walling

Synopsis: Former Ziegfeld Follies girl Kathryn Perry is the star of the romantic comedy Woman Power. Ralph Graves portrays a wealthy wimp who is led astray by selfish cabaret dancer Margaret Livingston. Humiliated in public by Livingston's bullying boy friend Lou Tellegen, Graves rents a training camp to Read More

Blue Eagle

Trip to Chinatown

Synopsis: Vampy Margaret Livingston and stalwart Earl Foxe seem miscast in this farce comedy. Foxe plays a young hypochondriac who believes that he has only a week to live. His name, by the way, is Welland Strong (get it?). He decides to visit his uncle (J. Farrell MacDonald) in the short amount of time he Read More

Hell's 400

Synopsis: This melodrama was based on the novel The Just and the Unjust by Vaughn Kester. District attorney John North (Harrison Ford) is in love with Barbara Langham (Marceline Day), the sister of gambler Marshall Langham (Wallace McDonald). John Gilmore, a café owner (Henry Kolker), sends Evelyn Vance, a Read More

The Yankee Senor

Actors: Tom Mix, Olive Borden, Tom Kennedy, Francis McDonald, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: Yellowstone National Park was the setting for this delightful Tom Mix western that also featured a two-color Technicolor fiesta scene starring leading lady Olive Borden. Of mixed parentage (from Mexico and New England a title explains). Mix's Paul Wharton is paymaster of a railroad construction Read More

When the Door Opened

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Walter McGrail, Margaret Livingston, Robert Cain, Frank Keenan

Synopsis: This tale of the Northwoods is yet another James Oliver Curwood story brought to the silver screen. Clive Grenfal (Walter McGrail) returns home to Montreal after a month's absence to find his wife (Margaret Livingston) in the arms of Henry Fredericks (Robert Cain). He shoots Fredericks as he is Read More

Up the Ladder

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

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

Wages for Wives

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Creighton Hale, Earl Foxe, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: Nell Bailey (Jacqueline Logan) is nothing if not practical. When Danny Kester (Creighton Hale) proposes marriage, she agrees only on the condition that he turn over half his salary, as her "wifely wages." But after the wedding, Danny refuses to honor the agreement, whereupon Nell goes on strike. Read More

Best People

Actors: Warner Baxter, Esther Ralston, Kathlyn Williams, Edwards Davis, William Austin

Synopsis: Esther Ralston, who plays a nice chorus girl in this comedy-drama, is upstaged by Margaret Livingston, who has a much-flashier role as her not-so-nice friend. Ralston is Alice O'Neil, who is in love with Bertie Lenox (Joseph Striker), the son of a nouveau riche family. His sister Marian Read More

Havoc

Synopsis: This drama was based on the play by Henry Wallace. Two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter McGrail), are both in love with the fickle Violet Deering (Margaret Livingston). When World War I breaks out, the men both enlist. Chappell, whose proposal has been accepted Read More

After Marriage

Synopsis: The marriage of the title is the union between wealthy George Fisher and unwealthy Helen Lynch. Disinherited by his millionaire father (Herschel Mayall) for marrying "beneath his station," the disconsolate Fisher takes up with seductive actress Margaret Livingston. Little does Fisher know that Livingston Read More

Greater Than a Crown

Synopsis: This mythical kingdom romance, based on The Lady From Longacre by Victor Bridge, is spiced up with a mystery angle. It wasn't exactly original, but it made for an entertaining programmer. Wealthy American Tom Conway (Edmund Lowe) and his pal, pugilist Tiger Bugg (Ben Hendricks), rescue a girl from Read More

Capital Punishment

Actors: Clara Bow, George Hackathorne, Elliott Dexter, Margaret Livingston, Robert Ellis

Synopsis: The drama opens with a prologue in which an innocent boy (Eddie Phillips) is sent to the electric chair and executed before the governor (Joseph Kilgour) can get through to save him. The actual story involves a contention by George Harrington (Elliott Dexter) that he can have an innocent man Read More

I'll Show You the Town

Actors: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Edward M. Kimball, Lilyan Tashman, Hayden Stevenson

Synopsis: Reginald Denny is Alec Dupree, a young but serious college professor who is hard at work on a book. He is interrupted by a colleague who needs someone to show wealthy widow Agnes Clevenger (Cissy Fitzgerald) the town. The idea is to encourage Agnes to donate money to the college. Alec agrees, but Read More

Butterfly

Actors: Margaret Livingston, Kenneth Harlan, Norman Kerry, Ruth Clifford

Synopsis: Universal Studios star Laura LaPlante has a rather unsympathetic role in this drama, based on the novel by Kathleen Norris. Hillary Collier (Ruth Clifford) promises her dying mother that she will give her sister, Dora (LaPlante), every chance to develop her skills as a violinist. She goes to work Read More

Chorus Lady

Actors: Margaret Livingston, Alan Roscoe, Virginia Lee Corbin, Lillian Elliott, Lloyd Ingraham

Synopsis: When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien (Margaret Livingston) returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory (Alan Roscoe), catches fire, and Pat helps save his prize horse, Lady Belle, who is blinded. Because of the fire, Pat and Dan have to put their wedding plans on hold, and Pat Read More

Her Marriage Vow

Synopsis: For a husband, Carol Pelham (Beverly Bayne) chooses hard-working Bob Hilton (Monte Blue) over the wealthy but idle Ted Lowe (John Roche). For a few years the marriage is happy, but when Carol's friend, Estelle Winslow (Margaret Livingston), moves into the same apartment building, Lowe comes back Read More

Love's Whirlpool

Actors: Lila Lee, James Kirkwood, Madge Bellamy

Synopsis: The off-screen husband-and-wife team of James Kirkwood and Lila Lee played just that in this silent crook melodrama from low-budget Regal Pictures. They are both hardened criminals, however, and when Kirkwood's younger brother (Robert Agnew) is killed during a prison break, they kidnap the Read More

Wandering Husbands

Actors: Lila Lee, James Kirkwood, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: There was nothing actors Lila Lee and James Kirkwood or writer C. Gardner Sullivan could do to bring new life to the tired old triangle theme of this comedy-drama. Lee plays Diana Moreland, whose husband, George (Kirkwood), has acquired a wandering eye. He is in the middle of an affair with Read More

Divorce

Actors: Jane Novak, John Bowers, James Corrigan, Edythe Chapman, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: The "shocking" (by 1923 standards) title to this picture was just a smokescreen -- in reality, it was merely a domestic soap opera geared toward women film fans. Jane Novak and John Bowers star as Jane and Jim Parker, a happily wed couple with a little boy, Dickie (Philippe DeLacy). Jim works for Read More

The Home Stretch

Actors: Walt Whitman, Margaret Livingston, Wade Boteler

Synopsis: Johnny Hardwick (Douglas MacLean) is the owner of the fastest horse in the next race. Although it's almost guaranteed that he will win big, Hardwick ruins his chance by saving a little girl who has run out onto the track. The child's father shows his gratitude later on when he offers Hardwick a Read More

Passing Thru

Actors: Douglas MacLean, Madge Bellamy, Otto Hoffman, Cameron Coffey, Willard Robards

Synopsis: Billy Barton, a bank teller (Douglas MacLean), gets himself in a load of trouble when he takes responsibility for some money stolen by Fred Kingston (Louis Natheaux), the son of the bank president (Bert Hadley). Fred has promised to come clean but he never does and Billy finds himself on a train Read More

Lying Lips

Actors: House Peters, Florence Vidor, Margaret Livingston, Margaret Campbell

Synopsis: Nancy Abbott (Florence Vidor) and her mother (Margaret Campbell) are British ladies of high society. She falls in love with the Canadian rancher Blair (House Peters), but when the family fortunes are reversed, she agrees to marry the wealthy Joseph Kilgour (William Chase) at her mother's request. Read More

Colorado Pluck

Actors: William Russell

Synopsis: A naive Colorado rancher falls prey to a predatory female in this melodrama written and directed by former Chicago journalist Jules G. Furthman. William Russell, the Fox company's top Western ace at the time, starred as Colorado Jim, who falls for scheming Angela Featherstone (Margaret Livingston) Read More

Hairpins

Synopsis: Hairpins stars Enid Bennett as Muriel Rossmore, a housewife who has let her appearance go to seed. Muriel's husband Rex (Matt Moore), turned off by his wife's dowdy appearance, begins casting about for newer, prettier female companionship. At this point, the audience is way ahead of the game Read More

Water, Water, Everywhere

Synopsis: Although Billy Fortune (Will Rogers) has a hankering for Hope Beecher (Irene Rich), he acknowledges that her suitor, Ben Morgan (Wade Boteler) is the better man for her. Ben is the doctor of the Western town in which they all live, and to Hope's dismay, he loves his liquor a bit too much. A Read More

Busher

Synopsis: As might be guessed by the title, The Busher is a baseball film. Charles Ray plays Ben Harding, a country greenhorn who is the hired hand of Deacon Nasby (Otto Hoffman) and pitcher for the local team. A group of major league players and their manager get stuck in town when railroad trouble causes Read More

All Wrong

Synopsis: Salesman Bryant Washburn has some pretty peculiar ideas about love and marriage. Even after wedding winsome Mildred Davis, Washburn insists upon living separately and seeing Davis only on "dates". Inevitably, this leads to jealousy and misunderstanding. Equally inevitably, Washburn and his wife Read More