Mary NolanFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: American actress Mary Nolan was born Mary Imogene Robertson. She started her career as a model and a "Ziegfeld Girl." In 1925, she made her screen debut in Germany, billing herself as Imogene Robertson. Soon after she returned to the States to star in a number of average-quality Hollywood films....Read More

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Docks of San Francisco

Actors: Mary Nolan, Jason Robards, Sr., Marjorie Beebe, John Davidson

Synopsis: In this action drama, set on San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast, a girl gets deeply entangled with gangsters. A professional writer understands why she got involved with the criminals; he tries to help her get out of that seedy life. It is not easy. Action and violence ensues before she Read More

1932
The Midnight Patrol

Actors: Regis Toomey, Betty Bronson, Edwina Booth, Mary Nolan, Earl Foxe

Synopsis: Upon her release from prison, Joyce Greeley (Edwina Booth) is promptly and mysteriously murdered. Fledgling crime reporter John Martin (Regis Toomey) wants to find out why and also wants to discern the role of Joyce's lawyer Judson (Earl Foxe) in this whole sordid mess. Martin befriends the dead Read More

1932
File 113

Actors: Lew Cody, Mary Nolan, Clara Kimball Young, George E. Stone, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: On something of a "literary binge" in the early 1930s, low-budget Monogram Pictures acquired the screen rights for the well-known Gaborieu detective yarn File 113. Lew Cody stars as urbane Parisian detective Le Coq, who must contend with a bank robbery and blackmail scheme. Le Coq is anxious to Read More

1932
Enemies of the Law

Actors: Mary Nolan, Johnny Walker, Lou Tellegen, Harold Healy, Alan Brooks

Synopsis: This shoddy "B"-picture represents one of the few talkie appearances by former Broadway matinee idol Lou Tellegen. Mary Nolan heads the cast as lady cop Florence Vinton, who goes undercover to get the goods on rival gangsters Eddie Swan (Tellegen) and Larry Marsh (Johnny Walker). Just at the point Read More

1931
The Big Shot

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Roscoe Ates, Belle Bennett

Synopsis: The Big Shot is Ray (Eddie Quillan), a go-getting but incredibly naïve real estate speculator. Duped into purchasing some worthless swamp land, Ray is kept in the dark by the villains when the land turns out to be harboring a profitable sulphur spring. On the verge of selling back the property at Read More

1931
X Marks the Spot

Actors: Lew Cody, Sally Blane, Fred Kohler, Wallace Ford, Mary Nolan

Synopsis: In this crime drama, the writer of a Broadway newspaper column finds himself accused of murder after a showgirl, who had been suing his paper for libel is found murdered. Just before she died, the columnist had been seen leaving her apartment. He launches his own investigation and discovers that Read More

1931
Outside the Law

Actors: Mary Nolan, Edward G. Robinson, Owen Moore, Edwin Sturgis, John George

Synopsis: A remake of his 1921 film of the same name, Tod Browning's Outside the Law offers Edward G. Robinson in an incisive, pre-Little Caesar gangster portrayal. Robinson, however, is not the star of the picture: that honor goes to Owen Moore, cast as enterprising bank robber Fingers O'Dell. As part of Read More

1930
Young Desire

Actors: Mary Nolan, Ralf Harolde, Mae Busch

Synopsis: Released in both silent and sound versions, this lurid melodrama from Universal was based on the 1924 play Carnival by William R. Doyle. Mary Nolan, whose demure name hid a rather volatile personality, played Helen Herbert, a sideshow dancer falling for handsome socialite Bobby Spencer (Leon Read More

1930
Undertow

Actors: Mary Nolan, Johnny Mack Brown, Robert Ellis

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars as Paul, who wants nothing more out of life than to take charge of a lighthouse. Falling in love with Sally (Mary Nolan), Paul talks her into sharing his life as a lighthouse keeper. Evidently staring into the beacon once too often, Paul goes blind, and it's quite a chore Read More

1930
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

1929
Shanghai Lady

Actors: James Murray, Mary Nolan, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: Mary Nolan, whose own private life was as sensationally scandalous as any of her screen roles, starred in this cinemadaptation of the stage play Drifting. Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook (Nolan) yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise Read More

1929
Charming Sinners

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Mary Nolan, William Powell, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a Read More

1929
Good Morning Judge

Actors: Reginald Denny, Mary Nolan, Otis Harlan, Dorothy Gulliver, Bull Montana

1929
Desert Nights

Actors: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Mary Nolan

Synopsis: Desert Nights was the last silent film made by MGM's resident heartthrob John Gilbert -- and the last of his truly successful efforts. The melodramatic plot revolves around the robbery of a diamond mine, masterminded by Steve (Ernest Torrence). The criminals have taken Rand (Gilbert), the mine's Read More

1929
Eleven Who Were Loyal

Actors: Mary Nolan

Synopsis: Eleven Who Were Loyal is set in 1808, during the Prussian uprising against Emperor Napoleon. King Wilhelm III (Gustav Semmler) of Prussia is opposed to the rebellion, but his orders are defied by patriotic Major Von Schill (played by Rudolph Meinert, the film's director). Leading ten equally Read More

1929
West of Zanzibar

Actors: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter, Mary Nolan, Jacqueline Gadsdon

Synopsis: In this lurid Tod Browning melodrama, boasting a thoroughly creepy performance by Lon Chaney, Chaney plays Phroso, a limehouse magician who is thoroughly in love with his wife Anna (Jacquelin Gadsdon). Also in love with Phroso's wife is ivory-trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore). After a performance Read More

1928
Uneasy Money

Actors: Mary Nolan, Werner Fuetterer, Oscar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff

Synopsis: Veteran German cinematographer Karl Freund made his directorial debut with the 1926 production Die Abenteur eins Zehnmarkscheines, released in the U.S. as Uneasy Money. Credit for the direction, however, was bestowed upon Freund's assistant, Bertold Viertel, which may be why 1932's The Mummy is Read More

1928
Foreign Legion

Actors: Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, Crauford Kent, Walter Perry, June Marlowe

1928

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Mary NolanFilmography

Docks of San Francisco

The Midnight Patrol

File 113

Enemies of the Law

The Big Shot

X Marks the Spot

Outside the Law

Young Desire

Undertow

Silks and Saddles

Shanghai Lady

Charming Sinners

Good Morning Judge

Desert Nights

Eleven Who Were Loyal

West of Zanzibar

Uneasy Money

Foreign Legion

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