Marguerite ClarkFilmography

Easy to Get

Synopsis: The popular silent-film team of Marguerite Clark and Harrison Ford star in Easy to Get. While on their honeymoon, newlyweds Milly (Clark) and Bob Morehouse (Ford) have a falling out. It's all hubby's fault: Milly has overheard Bob insist that all girls are "easy." To prove otherwise, Milly spends Read More

A Girl Named Mary

Synopsis: Stage and film star Marguerite Clark was Mary Pickford's biggest competition during the 1910s. Keep in mind that she was nine years older than Pickford and was still playing young girls in 1920. In fact, Kathlyn Williams, who plays her mother in this rather insipid drama, is actually five years Read More

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Synopsis: This adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's controversial novel Uncle Tom's Cabin had a certain degree of novelty value by virtue of the fact that its star, Marguerite Clark, was cast as both the tragic Little Eva and the mischievous African American slave child Topsy. While the brunt of the film's Read More

All-of-a-Sudden Peggy

Synopsis: This amusing little comedy was based on the play by Ernest Denny. Anthony, Lord Crackenthorpe (Orral Humphrey), studies spiders, and he has asked Mrs. O'Mara (Lillian Leighton), the widow of a zoologist, to collaborate with him on a book about the creatures. Mrs. O'Mara and her impetuous daughter Read More

Three Men and a Girl

Synopsis: Director Marshall Neilan gave Marguerite Clark's career a needed boost with this amusing little comedy. A trio of grumpy misogynists (Richard Barthelmess, Percy Marmont and Jerome Patrick) rent a house in the country in an effort to avoid feminine contact. Into this manly idyll bursts Sylvia Read More

Luck in Pawn

Synopsis: Marguerite Clark was one of the most popular stars of the screen when she starred in this light comedy. Always girlish, Clark was actually ten years older than her co-star, Charles Meredith. Country girl Annabel Lee (Clark) has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother (Lydia Knott) Read More

Let's Elope

Widow by Proxy

Synopsis: Gloria Grey (Marguerite Clark) is not very successful as a music teacher -- primarily because if her students display no talent, she tells them. So trying to make ends meet, along with helping to support young war widow Dolores Pennington (Brownie Vernon), is difficult. Steve Pennington (Nigel Barrie Read More

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Synopsis: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice was a favorite children's book of the Victorian era. It was made into a play and filmed several times. This version is notable because its Mrs. Wiggs, Mary Carr (who made a screen career of playing kindly old ladies), also performed the role on Read More

Come Out of the Kitchen

Synopsis: Claudia Daingerfield (Marguerite Clark) is part of an aristocratic but impoverished Southern family. Her father (George Stevens) becomes ill and it becomes necessary for her and her siblings (Frances Kaye, Bradley Barker and Albert M. Hackett) to raise the funds to get him to New York for Read More

Girls

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Pamela (Marguerite Clark), Violet (Mary Warren) and Kate (Helene Chadwick) are roommates who have been disappointed in love. Pamela, fed up with the male race, declares herself a man-hater, and the other girls follow suit. But Edgar Holt (Harrison Ford) comes along and scoffs at Pam's silly ideas. Read More

Prunella

Synopsis: The directorial genius of Maurice Tourneur and the ageless beauty of Marguerite Clark combined to make Prunella a winner all down the line. Based on a play by Granville Barker and Laurence Houseman, the film found Clark repeating her stage role as Prunella, an idealistic country girl who is swept Read More

Rich Man, Poor Man

Synopsis: It perhaps goes without saying that the 1918 drama Rich Man, Poor Man bore no relation to the 1976 TV miniseries of the same name. The earlier film served as a vehicle for Marguerite Clark, who though rapidly approaching forty was convincing as the gaminelike heroine. Born and raised in poverty, Clark Read More

Little Miss Hoover

Synopsis: Little Miss Hoover is not the story of a female vacuum cleaner salesperson. The title is a reference to Herbert Hoover, who in the years following World War I was instrumental in teaching advanced agricultural skills to American farmers. Leading lady Marguerite Clark (who, though on the cold side Read More

Out of a Clear Sky

Synopsis: Celeste, a young Belgian countess (Marguerite Clark) has run off to America to avoid being married off to a German prince (Raymond Bloomer). While escaping from her villainous Uncle (E.J. Radcliffe), who wants to see the marriage consummated, she winds up in Tennessee and is protected by a Read More

Seven Swans

Synopsis: The Seven Swans was one of several fairy-tale adaptations starring Marguerite Clark -- who, though way past thirty, still retained her fresh ingenue appeal. Clark is cast as a Princess whose seven handsome brothers run afoul of a wicked witch. The old harridan transforms the brothers into seven Read More

Bab's Matinee Idol

Valentine Girl

Synopsis: When her guardian gets married, twelve-year-old Marian Morgan (Marguerite Clark) is sent to live with her father (Frank Losee). Mr. Morgan owns a gambling house, and Marian's presence causes him to rethink his lifestyle. He decides to sell the joint, but a former colleague, Joe Winder (Adolphe Menjou Read More

The Amazons

Synopsis: The Amazons is neither a story of ancient Greece nor a South American travelogue. Instead, it is based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero, gently spoofing the "independent woman" then emerging on the social scene. All the ladies in the cast bear masculine names: Tommy, Willie, Noel etc. Marguerite Clark Read More

Fortunes of Fifi

Synopsis: Fifi (Marguerite Clark) is an actress in Napoleon-era France. She wins a lottery and leaves Cartouche, the man she loves (William Sorelle) to go live with a rich family. The conniving Louis Bourcet (Jean Gauthier) tries to woo her because he wants her money. But Fifi wants nothing to do with him Read More

Bab's Diary

Synopsis: In Bab's Burglar, we were introduced to boarding-school brat Bab Archibald (Marguerite Clark). In Bab's Diary, Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named Harold Valentine. Imagine what happens Read More

Bab's Burglar

Synopsis: Marguerite Clark added to her already considerable film fame by appearing in a brace of comedies based on a Mary Roberts Rinehart character. In Bab's Burglar, Bab Archibald (Clark) is in boarding school, running through her dad's money like there's no tomorrow. She also gets mixed up in a planned Read More

Snow White

Synopsis: Before becoming a silent screen star, Marguerite Clark played Snow White on the stage, and Famous Players eventually had her do the screen version. It's the classic Grimm fairy tale, with a few additions (at one point Santa Claus makes an appearance!): The evil Queen (Dorothy G. Cumming) wants Read More

Out of the Drifts

Synopsis: This Marguerite Clark vehicle was set in London and Switzerland, courtesy of the Famous Players back lot and the snowy peaks of Northern California. Having come to the Alps to cure himself of alcoholism, British ne'er-do-well George Van Rensselear (William Courtleigh Jr.) falls for Swiss miss Read More

Silks and Satins

Synopsis: On the eve of her wedding to a man she does not love, young Felicite (Marguerite Clark) stumbles upon a diary written by one of her ancestors. In flashback, it is revealed that the ancestor (also played by Clark) was likewise scheduled for a loveless marriage but at the last moment ran off with Read More

Miss George Washington

Synopsis: Marguerite Clark stars as Bernice Somers, mockingly nicknamed "Miss George Washington" because of her inability to tell the truth. After several examples of the havoc wreaked by her prevarications, Bernice outdoes herself by claiming that she is a married woman. As a result, she and her "husband" Read More

Molly Make-Believe

Synopsis: Age could not wither the waiflike beauty of Marguerite Clark, which is why she continued playing Mary Pickford-style roles even as she approached forty. In Molly Make Believe, Clark plays the title character, a "Cinderella" type who vows to save her family home from foreclosure. With the help of Read More

Little Lady Eileen

Synopsis: Little Lady Eileen featured little Marguerite Clark in the title role. The heroine finds herself in a romantic tug-of-war between two brothers: The kindly Stanley Churchill (Vernon Steele) and the less-kindly Sir George Churchill (also Vernon Steele). The wicked Sir George forces Lady Eileen into Read More

Mice and Men

Synopsis: Not to be confused with John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Mice and Men began life as a Broadway play, written by Madeline Lucette Ryley. The film version starred Marguerite Clark as Peggy, who in Restoration-comedy fashion is "trained" from girlhood to be a perfect wife by her guardian-fiancee Read More

Pretty Sister of Jose

Synopsis: Set in Spain, Pretty Sister of Jose was based on a story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, an author better known for such British-based fare as Little Lord Fauntleroy. Marguerite Clark plays the title character, the daughter of a philandering Spanish aristocrat. Soured on all men because of her Read More

The Goose Girl

Synopsis: While critiquing this fairy tale-like romance, Motion Picture News noted the "youthful personality and girlish portrayal" of Marguerite Clarke (then a stage star who had just begun her cinematic career). Although Clarke was 32 years old when she played the title character, for quite a long while Read More

Helene of the North

Synopsis: An English society woman throws a party and invites all her guests to tell a story. The most fascinating is told by Helene (Marguerite Clark). It involves her past, as the daughter of a card shark (Frank Losee) who was forced to run away with Helene to Canada. He continues his illicit habits Read More

The Seven Sisters

Synopsis: An old Hungarian story was the basis for the Marguerite Clark vehicle Seven Sisters. The story takes place in a Budapest household, where it is believed that if one of the younger daughters marries first, her older siblings will be doomed to live out their lives as old maids. The youngest Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Synopsis: Normally the very picture of femininity, Marguerite Clark was persuasively masculine in the dual "britches" role of The Prince and the Pauper. This first feature-length version of the Mark Twain story de-emphasized the author's acerbic social commentary, preferring instead to concentrate on the Read More

Gretna Green

Synopsis: In the year 1915, Grace Livingston Furniss' enduringly popular novel and play Gretna Green was first adapted for the silver screen by Famous Players. Though well past thirty, Marguerite Clark was sublimely convincing as Dolly Vardon, the mischievous teenaged ward of a titled British country Read More

Still Waters

Synopsis: Marguerite Clark stars as Nesta, the daughter of canal-boat skipper Mike (Robert Conville). When she expresses a desire to attend a circus, Mike refuses, telling her the story of how her mother came to grief when she ran off with a circus performer. This serves only to make Nesta all the more Read More

Wildflower

Synopsis: The sprightly Marguerite Clark stars in this light romantic drama. Letty Roberts (Clark) is a naive little country girl who attracts the attention of Arnold Boyd (Harold Lockwood), a wealthy man who has gone on a retreat from the city. They become friends, but then his younger brother Gerald Read More

Crucible

Synopsis: No relation to the same-named Arthur Miller play, the 1915 Paramount production The Crucible was based on a novel by Mark Lee Luther. The beautiful and fragile Marguerite Clark stars as Jean, a much-put-upon tenement girl who suffers under the persecution of self-styled moralists. Misfortune piles Read More