Marian NixonFilmography

Tango

Actors: Marian Nixon, Chick Chandler, Matty Kemp, Marie Prevost, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: In this melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until his snooty family rejects her. At her job, her boss is cruel to her. Still the woman persists and even gets jobs waiting tables and modeling. Luckily for her, a good friend Read More

Captain Calamity

Actors: George Houston, Marian Nixon, Vince Barnett, Juan Torena

Synopsis: Set in the scenic South Seas, this high-seas adventure centers on a sailor who creates all kinds of trouble when he tells a whopper about having found a great Spanish treasure. Soon he finds himself and his girlfriend pursued by a colorful assortment of treasure-seeking pirates. ~ Iotis Erlewine Read More

Reckless Way

Synopsis: An obscure backstage drama from Poverty Row company Puritan Pictures, The Reckless Way stars Marion Nixon as Helen Rogers, a hotel stenographer hoping to break into the movie business. Although her ad agency boyfriend, Don (Malcolm MacGregor), disapproves, Helen accepts the opportunity to make a Read More

Sweepstake Annie

Actors: Tom Brown, Marian Nixon, Wera Engels, Inez Courtney, Ivan Lebedeff

Synopsis: In this drama, a studio script girl works very hard to support her no-account family. One day she wins a lottery, gives her family some of the winnings and moves in with her best friend. She had a boy friend, but he became disgusted with her loyalty to her lazy family and abandoned her. Soon after Read More

By Your Leave

Actors: Genevieve Tobin, Neil Hamilton, Marian Nixon, Glenn Anders

Synopsis: In this emotional but fast-paced comedy, a husband/businessman creates an ingenious cure for his mid-life crisis. He suggest to his wife that they take separate vacations and not discuss them with each other afterward. The wife isn't sure, but being a loving and understanding woman, agrees to the Read More

The Lineup

Actors: William Gargan, Marian Nixon, Paul Hurst, John Miljan, Harold Huber

Synopsis: William Gargan plays his first movie detective (but definitely not his last) in Columbia's The Lineup. The hero, a gumshoe named Bob (Gargan), is on the trail of a gang of fur smugglers. Deducing that a posh nightclub serves as the front for the villain's activities, he arrests everybody in the Read More

Once to Every Bachelor

Actors: Marian Nixon, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Raymond Hatton, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: Marian Nixon made the first of a brace of starring appearances at low-budget Liberty Pictures in Once to Every Bachelor. Nixon plays a young innocent who through no fault of her own has become involved with gangsters. Seeking a way out, she latches on to a wealthy playboy (Neil Hamilton). Having Read More

Strictly Dynamite

Actors: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Norman Foster, William Gargan, Marian Nixon

Synopsis: Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian who's running out of material. Jimmy Durante stars as Maxie Slaight, an airwaves mirthmaker who hires young Nick Montgomery (Norman Foster) as his new gag man. Before he Read More

Embarrassing Moments

Actors: Chester Morris, Marian Nixon, John Wray, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: Looking for all the world like a 2-reel comedy bloated to 6-reel proportions, Embarrassing Moments was directed by Edward Laemmle, one of the many salaried relatives of avuncular Universal chieftain Carl Laemmle. Chester Morris plays Jerry Randolph, an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Read More

We're Rich Again

Actors: Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Marian Nixon, Reginald Denny, Joan Marsh

Synopsis: Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play And Let Who Will be Clever. Carolyn Page's (Joan Marsh) once-rich family has gone broke thanks to their profligate spending habits. Parents Mr and Mrs. Page (Billie Burke and Grant Mitchell Read More

The Face in the Sky

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Marian Nixon, Stuart Erwin, Sam Hardy, Lila Lee

Synopsis: In this romance, two travelling sign painters find themselves inspired by a young woman's lovely smile. Soon her face is found painted on signs and barns throughout New England. Eventually one of the painters and the girl get married. Soon after the wedding, the painters are offered job in New Read More

Pilgrimage

Actors: Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster, Marian Nixon, Maurice Murphy

Synopsis: John Ford directed this emotional drama, which was a considerable change of pace from the westerns and war pictures for which he was best known. Hannah Jessop (Henrietta Crosman) fears being abandoned by her son Jim (Norman Foster), and she doesn't approve of his romance with Mary Saunders (Marian Nixon Read More

Out All Night

Actors: George "Slim" Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Laura Hope Crewes, Shirley Grey, Alexander Carr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young couple are forced to marry after they are accidentally locked in a store overnight. Unfortunately for the young groom, his overbearing mother is unhappy with the match and keeps trying to get them divorced. She even follows them on their honeymoon. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Doctor Bull

Actors: Will Rogers, Vera Allen, Marian Nixon, Howard Lally, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to the citizens, often substituting advice and witticisms for pills and sutures. There are those who resist Dr. Bull's everyday doses of common sense and humanity, especially Read More

Best of Enemies

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Marian Nixon, Frank Morgan, Joseph Cawthorn

Synopsis: Rian James was the last of three directors assigned to The Best of Enemies; this sort of unnecessary expenditure was one of the reasons that the Fox Studios was always on the brink of bankruptcy. The plot is basic Hatfield/McCoy stuff, with Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children Read More

Chance at Heaven

Actors: Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, Marian Nixon, Andy Devine, Virginia Hammond

Synopsis: A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon. It is love at first sight when debutante Glory Franklyn (Nixon) spots handsome grease monkey Blacky Gorman (McCrea), who promptly dumps faithful girlfriend Marje Harris Read More

Too Busy to Work

Actors: Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Dick Powell, Frederick Burton, Constantine Romanoff

Synopsis: The second film version of Ben Ames Williams' magazine serial Jubilo, and the second to star Will Rogers, Too Busy to Work takes considerably more liberties with the source material than the original 1919 Jubilo. Once again, Rogers is cast as a lovable hobo named Jubilo (after the old spiritual of Read More

After Tomorrow

Actors: Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon, Minna Gombell, Josephine Hull

Synopsis: Peter Piper (Charles Farrell) and Sidney Taylor (Marian Nixon) are deeply in love, and saving to get married, but their mothers have other ideas. Mrs. Piper (Josephine Hull) is jealous of Sidney, refusing to allow the couple to move in with her after they marry. Elsie (Minna Gombell), Sidney's Read More

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Actors: Marian Nixon, Ralph Bellamy, Mae Marsh, Louise Closser Hale, Alphonse Ethier

Synopsis: Originally filmed with Mary Pickford in 1917, the Kate Douglas Wiggin children's classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was remade as a talkie in 1932. Though a bit long in tooth to play the leading character, Marian Nixon (replacing a recalcitrant Janet Gaynor) makes a charming Rebecca. Placed in the Read More

Madison Square Garden

Actors: Jack Oakie, Marian Nixon, Thomas Meighan, William "Hopalong" Boyd, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: A goodly portion of this boxing drama was filmed on location at the real-life Madison Square Garden. Jack Oakie stars as Eddie Burke, a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams (William Collier Sr Read More

A Private Scandal

Actors: Lucille Powers, Theodore Von Eltz, Fletcher Norton

Synopsis: In this drama, an orphan girl marries a kindly crook to stay out of reform school. The crook is the head thief in a robber ring that preys on homes of the wealthy, but his new wife doesn't know this. She innocently gets a job with the district attorney, and there learns the truth. Still she is Read More

Charlie Chan's Chance

Actors: Warner Oland, Alexander Kirkland, H.B. Warner, Marian Nixon, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: Warner Oland's third appearance as humble oriental sleuth Charlie Chan was in the 1932 release Charlie Chan's Chance. This time, our hero has a personal reason to solve the murder at hand; he himself was the intended victim, but another man was killed by mistake. Keeping one step ahead of both the Read More

Amateur Daddy

Actors: Warner Baxter, Marian Nixon, Rita La Roy, Lucille Powers, William Pawley

Synopsis: Mildred Cram's novel Scotch Valley was transformed by the scenarists at Fox into the Warner Baxter vehicle Amateur Daddy. Baxter plays a true-blue sort who agrees to take care of the family of dying pal Edwin Stanley. While his neighbors make cruel fun of Baxter's efforts to play surrogate father Read More

Winner Take All

Actors: James Cagney, Marian Nixon, Guy Kibbee, Clarence Muse, Virginia Bruce

Synopsis: James Cagney stars as a popular prizefighter who loses his winnings through too much partying and too many women. Cagney's fans finance the boxer's regenerative stay at a New Mexico health resort. For the sake of pretty, poverty-stricken Marian Nixon, Cagney enters into a return bout. He splits Read More

Sweepstakes

Actors: Eddie Quillan, James Gleason, Marian Nixon, Lew Cody, Paul Hurst

Synopsis: The exciting world of horse-racing provides the setting for this lively comedy that centers on luckless Bud Doyle, a jockey who was falsely accused of cheating and barred from the track. Desperate for work, the fellow becomes a singing waiter in Tijuana. Eventually he is allowed back and ends up Read More

Women Go on Forever

Actors: Clara Kimball Young, Marian Nixon, Paul Page, Yola D'Avril

Synopsis: Women Go On Forever is almost as old-fashioned as its title. Silent-screen queen Clara Kimball Young makes a comeback attempt as Daisy Bowman, the salty but lovable proprietress of an all-female boarding house. Like all landladies from the dawn of recorded time, Daisy takes special interest in the Read More

Ex-Flame

Actors: Neil Hamilton, Marian Nixon, Norman Kerry, Judith Barrie, Roland Drew

Synopsis: As the low-budget Liberty Pictures Corporation emerged from the chrysalis of the late Tiffany Studios, the new company inherited the 1931 Tiffany production Ex-Flame. Marian Nixon plays Lady Catherine Hamilton, whose fascination with a dashing criminal results in an unpleasant divorce and a messy Read More

The Lash

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, James Rennie, Mary Astor, Marian Nixon, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist avenger battling injustice and corruption. Among his targets is the wicked gringo land commissioner. He also preserves the honor of a beautiful senorita. In addition to fighting Read More

Scarlet Pages

Actors: Elsie Ferguson, John Halliday, Marian Nixon, Grant Withers, Daisy Belmore

Synopsis: In rare film appearance, Broadway luminary Elsie Ferguson repeats her 1929 stage role in the 1930 film version of Scarlet Pages. Ferguson is cast as brilliant attorney Mary Bancroft, who defends nightclub songstress Nora Mason (Marian Nixon) from a murder charge. The victim was Nora's rapacious Read More

Courage

Actors: Belle Bennett, Marian Nixon, Rex Bell, Richard Tucker, Leon Janney

Synopsis: Belle Bennett, the star of the 1925 version of Stella Dallas, once again goes the "long-suffering" route in Warner Bros.' Courage. Bennett plays Mary Colbrook, the widowed mother of a large and rambunctious brood. All but one of her seven kids have inherited her late husband's nasty, selfish Read More

College Lovers

Actors: Jack Whiting, Frank McHugh, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Russell Hopton, Wade Boteler

Synopsis: In this youthful sports comedy two football jocks, Eddie Smith and Tiny Courtlay are grid iron rivals competing to win the heart of coed Mary Hutton who loves a nerd. In the film's climax. Eddie and Tiny quibble over which of them will get to take the ball for the final yard in the big game. Read More

The Pay Off

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Hugh Trevor, George F. Marion

Synopsis: Exercising his usual creative prerogative, Lowell Sherman was both star and director of RKO's The Pay Off. Sherman plays Gene Fenmore, a jaded gangster boss who falls in love with innocent young Nancy Porter (Marian Nixon). When Nancy's sweetheart Tommy Brown (William Janney) faces execution for a Read More

Red Sword

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Marian Nixon, Demetrius Alexis, Alan Roscoe

Synopsis: Another of RKO Radio's "leftovers" from its previous existence as FBO Pictures, The Red Sword is set in a backlot Russia. Lecherous Czarist officer Litvoski (Allan Roscoe) really "asks for it" when he blinds elderly innkeeper Fiveless (Charles Darvas) and rapes Catherine (Carmel Myers), the Read More

Rainbow Man

Actors: Eddie Dowling, Marian Nixon, Frankie Darro, Sam Hardy, Lloyd Ingraham

Synopsis: In this drama, a singer finds himself stuck with his best friend's newly orphaned son. Now he must juggle both parenthood and his growing career. Fortunately he falls in love with an inkeeper's daughter whom he discovers is the boy's aunt on his mother's side. Songs include: "Little Pal," "Rainbow Read More

Man, Woman and Wife

Say It with Songs

Actors: Al Jolson, Davey Lee, Marian Nixon, Holmes Herbert, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: On the strength of his previous hits The Jazz Singer (1927) and The Singing Fool (1928), Al Jolson was Hollywood's hottest star in 1929. Jolson's cinematic offering for that year was Say It With Songs, a characteristic blend of music, comedy and treacly sentiment. The star is cast as Joe Lane, a Read More

Geraldine

Actors: Marian Nixon, Eddie Quillan, Albert Gran, Gaston Glass

Synopsis: Based on a story by Booth Tarkington, Geraldine stars winsome Marion Nixon in the title role. Though quite wealthy, sweet Geraldine Wygate lacks the social graces to win the heart of aristocratic Bell Cameron (Gaston Glass). The heroine's dad (Alexander Gran) spends a fortune sending the girl to Read More

General Crack

Actors: John Barrymore, Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Armida, Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis: This costume drama is the first all dialog film in which Barrymore appeared. He plays a mercenary who will serve anyone who pays him. He is currently working for the Austrian Emperor. His mission is to abscond with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. En route, the hero marries a gypsy and leaves Read More

Young Nowheres

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon, Bert Roach, Anders Randolf, Raymond Turner

Synopsis: In this drama, an elevator operator in a big hotel gets in big trouble after he and a chambermaid are found in a guest's suite. Though they had good reason to be in there, they are charged with breaking and entering. The story has an unexpected twist at the end. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Silks and Saddles

Actors: Marian Nixon, Richard Walling, Mary Nolan, Otis Harlan, Claire McDowell

Synopsis: The racetrack provides the setting of this drama that tells the tale of a jockey who throws a race to impress a sexy girl. Later, the jockey redeems himself to his former employer and the boss's daughter, who has loyally loved him all along, by riding a dangerously spirited horse that no one else Read More

In the Headlines

Synopsis: While investigating a double murder, reporters Grant Withers and Marian Nixon fall in love. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Out of the Ruins

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Robert W. Frazer, Marian Nixon, Emile Chautard

Red Lips

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Marian Nixon, Stanley Taylor, Hugh Trevor, Hayden Stevenson

Synopsis: Red Lips was based on the novel The Plastic Age by Percy Marks, previously filmed under its original title in 1925. Charles "Buddy" Rogers stars as college track star Hugh Carver, who'd rather party than anything else. Hugh's bad habits eventually catch up with him, leading to his expulsion when Read More

How to Handle Women

Actors: Glenn Tryon, Marian Nixon, Raymond Keane, Bull Montana, Cesare Gravina

Synopsis: When Universal's plans to create a popular screen team out of Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller fell through, the studio co-starred Tryon with another contract charmer, Marian Nixon, in How to Handle Women. When Prince Hendryx (Raymond Keane) of Volgaria is unable to float a loan during a visit to Read More

Jazz Mad

Actors: Jean Hersholt, Marian Nixon, George Lewis, Charles Clary

Fourflusher

Actors: Marian Nixon, Eddie Phillips, Churchill Ross, Burr McIntosh

Synopsis: Shoe clerk Andy Whittaker (George Lewis) decides to quit his job when a bank unexpectedly extends him $10,000 in credit. This windfall was arranged by Andy's uncle, who wants to see how the boy will behave with his newly-found riches. Alas, our hero inadvertently manages to offend the uncle Read More

Heroes of the Night

Actors: Rex Lease, Cullen Landis, Marian Nixon, Wheeler Oakman

Taxi Taxi

Actors: Burr McIntosh, Edward Everett Horton, Marian Nixon

Synopsis: Caught in a heavy rainstorm without a car, Edward Everett Horton purchases a dilapidated taxicab so that he can get his girlfriend Marion Nixon home safely. The couple arrives at a rustic church, where Nixon impishly talks Horton into getting married. But before the ceremony concludes, the police Read More

Heroes of the Night

Synopsis: Rex Lease and Cullen Landis star as Tom and Joe Riley, respectively a fireman and a cop. The Riley boys both fall in love with the same girl, comely Mary (Marion Nixon). But when duty calls, the brothers forget their romantic rivalry and work shoulder-to-shoulder to "serve and protect." The climax Read More

Chinese Parrot

Actors: Marian Nixon, Florence Turner, Hobart Bosworth, Sojin

Synopsis: This "lost" film would be especially valuable to see again, if only for two reasons: It was the second American effort of German director Paul Leni (of Cat and the Canary), and it represented the second screen appearance of Earl Derr Biggers' celebrated oriental sleuth, Charlie Chan. The plot is Read More

Out All Night

Actors: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Dan Mason, Dorothy Earle

Synopsis: Fate is a funny thing: If young physician John Graham (Reginald Denny) had not been stuck in a faulty elevator overnight with stage star Molly O'Day (Marian Nixon), the two might never have met and fall in love. Once the couple is rescued, John and Molly legalize their union at City Hall. At this Read More

Hands Off

Actors: Fred Humes, Marian Nixon, Nelson McDowell, Bruce Gordon

Synopsis: The founder of Universal, "Uncle" Carl Laemmle, had, as the writer Ogden Nash once pointed out, "quite a big faemmle." Laemmle was a great believer in nepotism and countless members of the Laemmle clan worked at one time or another for the studio. Nephews Edward and Ernest Laemmle directed routine Read More

Down the Stretch

Actors: Marian Nixon, Jack Daugherty, Otis Harlan, Ward Crane

Synopsis: This minor racetrack drama was directed by King Baggot, at one time a prominent silent-film leading man. Robert Agnew stars as Marty Kruger, a jockey who is forced to starve himself to qualify weight-wise for the Big Race. This Kruger does at the behest of his nasty trainer Devlin (Lincoln Read More

The Auctioneer

Actors: George Sidney, Doris Lloyd, Sammy Cohen, Marian Nixon, Gareth Hughes

Synopsis: Jewish comedian George Sidney stars as the title character in The Auctioneer. Sidney also doubles as a pawnbroker, which allows for a steady stream of colorful supporting characters. Our hero's lifestyle undergoes a radical shake-up when he takes over the mansion of a millionaire. He manages to Read More

Hands Up

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Marian Nixon, Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Sophisticated, silk-hatted silent-film comedian Raymond Griffith had at least one classic in him, and Hands Up was that film. Griffith plays a Southern spy during the Civil War, sent West to retrieve a vital gold shipment. Along the way, he meets boisterous Mack Swain (who was nearly booted from Read More

Devil's Island

Actors: Pauline Frederick, Richard Tucker, William Dunn, Leo White, John Miljan

Synopsis: This romance featured respected old-timers (Pauline Frederick in a starring role and Leah Baird as screenwriter) and a fresh up-and-comer (pretty WAMPAS baby star Marion Nixon). Jean Valyon (Richard Tucker) is sent to Devil's Island to serve a life sentence. After several years, he is allowed to Read More

Spangles

Actors: Marian Nixon, Pat O'Malley, Hobart Bosworth, Gladys Brockwell, Jay Emmett

Synopsis: Spangles was adapted by actress Leah Baird from the novel by Nellie Revell, with Revell receiving "star" billing in the credits. Marion Nixon plays the title character, a gorgeous bareback rider with a travelling circus. Spangles falls in love with Dick (Pat O'Malley), a young fugitive from Read More

What Happened to Jones

Actors: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Melbourne MacDowell, Frances Raymond, Otis Harlan

Synopsis: What Happened to Jones takes approximately 70 minutes' screen time to tell in this frothy comedy. On the night before his wedding, Tom Jones (Reginald Denny) attends a poker game with his corpulent pal Ebeneezer Goodly (Otis Harlan). When the cops raid the game, Tom and Eb sneak into a ladies' Read More

Rolling Home

Actors: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, E.J. Ratcliffe, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Margaret Seddon

Synopsis: The felicitous star-director combination of Reginald Denny and William A. Seiter served up another moneyspinner for Universal with Rolling Home. Denny plays young businessman Nat Alden, who is fired from his job when one too many of his surefire business schemes fizzles. He is given a lift home by Read More

Where Was I?

Actors: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Pauline Garon, Lee Moran, Tyrone Power

Synopsis: During the 1920s, Reginald Denny was popular in pictures for portraying all-American young men (this changed after the sound era revealed his British accent). He plays Thomas Berford, who inherited his father's business and has made a huge success of it. The only competitor who remains uncowed is Read More

Let 'er Buck

Synopsis: Silent western star Hoot Gibson enjoyed showing off his rodeo skills in his westerns. This time, he mistakenly assumes he killed the cousin of his boss in a duel and flees to Oregon. That, of course, gave director Edward Sedgwick a chance to film the 1924 Pendleton Roundup with Hoot as the Read More

Riders of the Purple Sage

Actors: Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnham, Arthur Morrison, Seesel Ann Johnson, Warner Oland

Synopsis: First filmed by Fox in 1918 with William Farnum, Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage became a typically lavish Tom Mix extravaganza, filmed on locations at picturesque Lone Pine, California. Mix plays Jim Lassiter, the bold Texas Ranger whose sister, Millie Erne (Beatrice Burnham), and her Read More

Sporting Life

Synopsis: There are only two ways the Earl of Woodstock (Ralph Graves) can get out of debt -- either his horse Lady Love wins the Derby or his protégé, boxer Joe Lee (Warner Richmond), wins his next fight. Malet de Carteret (Charles Craig) and his wife Olive (Willette Kershaw), enemies of Woodstock Read More

Durand of the Bad Lands

Actors: Carole Lombard

Synopsis: A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands starred Buck Jones in the title role, a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff Clem Allison (Malcolm Waite) and his henchman Pete Garson (Fred De Silva). In his attempt to clear himself, Durand comes across 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

The Hurricane Kid

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Marian Nixon, Harry Todd

Synopsis: Silent screen cowboy Hoot Gibson handled situation comedy better than any of his rivals, with the possible exception of Tom Mix. Many of Gibson's film's were rural farces rather than outright westerns and usually highlighted the star's bumbling attempts to woo a pretty girl. That is exactly what Read More

The Last of the Duanes

Actors: Tom Mix, Marian Nixon, Brinsley Shaw, Frank Nelson, Lucy Beaumont

Synopsis: Zane Grey's often-filmed tale of the gunfighter's pacifist son who is forced into action by his father's erstwhile enemies was given a sumptuous production by Fox and turned into a typical Tom Mix extravaganza with all the trimmings. Mix was awarded a pretty new co-star in the blond Marian Nixon Read More

Vagabond Trail

Actors: Charles Coleman, George H. Reed, Charles "Buck" Jones, Marian Nixon, Harry Lonsdale

Synopsis: Searching for his wayward brother, saddle tramp Donnegan (Buck Jones) gets in trouble with a bully and is thrown off a freight train in this average Buck Jones oater. Unconscious, the hero is picked up by lovely Lou Macon (Marian Nixon) and her father (Harry Lonsdale), both of whom are on their Read More

Just off Broadway

Actors: John Gilbert, Marian Nixon, Trilby Clark, Ben Hendricks, Sr.

Synopsis: Jean Lawrence (Marian Nixon) is a failed musical comedy star who is befriended by Nan Norton (Trilby Clark), whose boyfriend is a crook. The crook is arrested and detective Stephen Moore (John Gilbert) shows up in New York, posing as the crook and pretending to have made a killing in Paris as a Read More

Ridin' Kid from Powder River

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Marian Nixon, G. Raymond Nye, Josie Sedgwick, Charles French

Synopsis: Pulp writer Henry Herbert Knibb wrote the original story of this silent Hoot Gibson western, which enjoyed an above-average cast that included statuesque comedienne Gertrude Astor as a saloon belle, a devilish-looking Tully Marshall as a notorious outlaw named "The Spider," as well as future Read More

Circus Cowboy

Actors: Charles "Buck" Jones

Synopsis: Cowboy Buck Saxon (Buck Jones) is falsely accused of attempting to murder his rival in love (Jack McDonald) and is on the run from the law. He is hired incognito by a travelling circus and works there as a trick rider. On the job, Saxon falls for the show's blond high-wire artist, Bird Taylor (Marian Nixon Read More

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Synopsis: Having achieved fame and fortune in a series of bucolic country-boy roles, Charles Ray decided he was ready to become his own producer. For a while, Ray did all right by himself, turning out "typical" vehicles that pleased his fans. Then he became fatally ambitious-and the result was the infamous Read More

Cupid's Fireman

Actors: Charles "Buck" Jones, Marian Nixon, Brooks Benedict, Eileen O'Malley, Al Fremont

Synopsis: In this simple little romantic drama, Charles "Buck" Jones plays fireman Andy McGee. McGee becomes a fireman over the protests of his mother (Lucy Beaumont), who doesn't want to see her son sacrifice his life the way his father did. When she dies, McGee adopts little Elizabeth Stevens (Eileen Read More

Rosita

Actors: Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich, George Walsh, Charles Belcher

Synopsis: This historical comedy-drama resulted from the unlikely collaboration of girlish silent star Mary Pickford and sophisticated German director Ernst Lubitsch (it was also Lubitsch's first American-made film). But at least the story, adapted from the novel Don Cesar de Bazon, came closer to Read More

Big Dan

Actors: Eileen O'Malley, Buck Jones, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Charles Coleman

Synopsis: Fox Western star Buck Jones enjoyed a change of pace in this boxing melodrama directed by a young William Wellman. Returning from the war, Dan O'Hara discovers that his wife has left him for another man. To find a new purpose in life, Big Dan turns his home into a gym for street boys, where he Read More