Mary DuncanFilmography

Born:: August 13, 1895 in Lutrellville, VA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Mary Duncan started her career playing Broadway leads during the 1920s. In 1927 she turned to films where she was typically cast as evil seductresses through the early sound period. She left films in 1933 to marry a wealthy man. She devoted her remaining years to philanthropic work. ~ Sandra...Read More

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Off Beat

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna, Jacques D'Amboise

Synopsis: In this charming comedy that lives up to its title, Judge Reinhold stars as Joe Gower, a librarian's assistant posing as a police officer and trying to win the heart of a beautiful police officer, Rachel Wareham (Meg Tilly). A complex chain of events is put in place when Joe agrees to help out a Read More

4/11/86
The Initiation

Actors: Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Marilyn Kagan

Synopsis: The appealing Daphne Zuniga makes her inauspicious debut in this dreary slasher film as a pampered freshman sorority pledge haunted by memory lapses and bizarre, violent dreams involving her parents (Clu Gulager and Vera Miles). Despite some progress in dream-research, her condition becomes Read More

1984
Jaws 3

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Putch

Synopsis: An ocean-themed Florida amusement park comes under attack from an angry Great White shark in this third installment of the horror series. The film maintains only a loose relationship to the original Steven Spielberg hit, centering on Mike (Dennis Quaid) and Sean (John Putch), the sons of police Read More

1983
Morning Glory

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Mary Duncan, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn won her first Oscar for her portrayal of Eva Lovelace, a small-town community-theatre actress who comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses producer Adolphe Menjou and playwright Douglas Fairbanks Jr. with her naively pretentious prattle, but neither man takes Read More

1933
The Phantom of Crestwood

Actors: Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez, H.B. Warner, Pauline Frederick, Robert McWade

Synopsis: Gary Curtis, aka Farnsbarns (Richardo Cortez), is really a former hoodlum hired to retrieve some compromising letters from gold digger Jenny Wren (Karen Morley). She, in turn, announces her retirement, but not before cajoling noted banker Priem Andes (H. B. Warner) into hosting a farewell party at Read More

1932
Thirteen Women

Actors: Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble began when the woman, who was of Japanese and Indian heritage, was ejected from a college sorority because she wasn't white. Still angry, the woman hires an astrologer to create Read More

1932
Five and Ten

Actors: Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Irene Rich, Richard Bennett

Synopsis: Based on a story by Fannie Hurst, Five and Ten stars Marion Davies as Jennifer, the spoiled daughter of department-store magnate John Rarick (Richard Bennett). Because Rarick neglects his family, they all manage to get themselves into hot water. Jennifer's mother, Jenny (Irene Rich), nearly runs Read More

1931
Men Call It Love

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Leila Hyams, Mary Duncan, Hedda Hopper, Robert Emmett Keane

Synopsis: Men Call it Love, but Vincent Lawrence called it Among the Married when he wrote the play upon which this MGM film was based. Adolphe Menjou stars as Tony Minot, a randy bachelor who is so sophisticated that he serves cocktails on a rectangular tray to accommodate all of his lady friends at once. Read More

1931
The Age for Love

Actors: Charles Starrett, Lois Wilson, Edward Everett Horton, Mary Duncan, Adrian Morris

Synopsis: Producer Howard R. Hughes intended to use Age for Love to prove that his current flame, silent-film leading lady Billie Dove, would be a smash hit in talkies. Beautiful Dove plays a working girl who consents to marry Charles Starrett, on the condition that she not be expected to bear children. Read More

1931
State's Attorney

Actors: John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond, Mary Duncan

Synopsis: John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts on his underworld connections to climb the ladder of success to the Governor's chair. "Humanized" by his girlfriend Helen Twelvetrees, a former streetwalker, Barrymore Read More

1931
City Girl

Actors: Charles Farrell, David Torrence

Synopsis: Director F.W. Murnau began City Girl as a silent film, hoping to match the artistic triumph of his earlier Sunrise. Murnau was frustrated by two elements: Fox's decision to hastily convert the film into a talkie, and his inability to secure the services of Sunrise star Janet Gaynor. The director Read More

1930
The Boudoir Diplomat

Actors: Betty Compson, Ian Keith, Mary Duncan, Jeanette Loff, Lionel Belmore

Synopsis: "Boudoir Diplomat" was, of course, a 1930s euphemism for a wealthy man who slept around. Ian Keith plays Baron Valmi, who uses his charms to rise to the top of the aristocracy ladder. The Baron is required to romance a series of eligible high-born ladies, but he's careful never to become Read More

1930
Kismet

Actors: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Mary Duncan, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role he'd created on stage in 1911, Otis Skinner stars as Hajji, the wily Baghdad beggar who goes from rags to riches to rags again to riches again in the space of 24 hours. Read More

1930
Thru Different Eyes

Actors: Mary Duncan, Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Natalie Moorhead, Earl Foxe

Synopsis: A murder trial provides the setting of this drama that presents, via flashback, three very different versions and motives of the killing. According to the prosecution, the deceased's sexy (and very much married) mistress is behind the murder. The defense asserts that the woman's lover killed Read More

1929
Romance of the Rio Grande

Actors: Warner Baxter, Mary Duncan, Antonio Moreno, Mona Maris, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. As Pablo Wharton Cameron, Warner Baxter essentially repeats his "Cisco Kid" characterization from the earlier picture. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico Read More

1929
Four Devils

Actors: John Farrell MacDonald, Anders Randolf, Claire McDowell, Jack Parker, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Two of them have grown to be lovers. Though they appear inseparable, trouble ensues when a usurper takes the girl away. The picture is considered a lost work -- no copies are Read More

1929
The River

Actors: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Ivan Linow, Alfredo Sabato, Margaret Mann

Synopsis: This Fox part-talkie reunited Charlie Farrell and Frank Borzage, respectively the star and director of the enormously successful Seventh Heaven. Farrell is cast as virile outdoorsman Allen John Pender, while Mary Duncan co-stars as Pender's haughty society sweetheart Rosalee. At first, Rosalee is Read More

1928
Soft Living

Actors: Madge Bellamy, Johnny Mack Brown, Mary Duncan, Joyce Compton, Thomas Jefferson

Synopsis: Madge Bellamy stars as Nancy Woods, the secretary to a successful divorce lawyer. Soured on matrimony by the examples set in her boss' office, Nancy decides to marry for money then dump her husband and live off the alimony. When she entraps millionaire Stockney Webb (Johnny Mack Brown) as her Read More

1928
Very Confidential

Actors: Joseph Cawthorn, Mary Duncan, Marjorie Beebe

Synopsis: Madge Bellamy stars as a humble sales clerk, forced by circumstance to pose as a famous female athlete. In this guise, she is wooed by wealthy Pat Cunning, who makes it clear that he's crazy about "outdoor" girls. So as not to lose Cunning, Bellamy endures a rigorous weekend of jogging, hiking Read More

1927