Robert EdesonFilmography

Cameo Kirby

Actors: Norma Terris, Douglas Gilmore, Robert Edeson, Charles Morton

Synopsis: This early talkie is the third version of the popular Booth Tarkington play. It is set in the mid 19th-century and centers upon a good-hearted riverboat gambler who takes on a group of criminals in New Orleans during Mardis Gras when he rushes in to save a young woman from ruination. But she is a Read More

A Devil with Women

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Mona Maris, Humphrey Bogart, Luana Alcaniz, Michael Vavitch

Synopsis: A Devil with Women is the best way to describe soldier-of-fortune Jerry Maxton (Victor McLaglen). At large in South America, Maxton romances anything in skirts, though he seems most attached to fair senorita Rosita (Mona Maris). Unfortunately for his libido, Maxton must contend with a band of Read More

Pardon My Gun

Synopsis: This part-talkie is one of those strange hybrids so prevalent during the changeover to sound: part silent western, part variety show featuring Abe Lyman and His Orchestra, vaudeville comedienne Mona Ray, yodeling, and a barn dance. The silent western section of the film is actually more romantic 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

Little Johnny Jones

Actors: Alice Day, Edna Murphy, Robert Edeson, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: George M. Cohan's 1904 musical came to the screen a second time in 1930 courtesy of Warner Bros., who cast light leading man Edward Buzzell as the small-town jockey whose impromptu renditions of "Yankee Doodle Boy" lead to all kinds of theatrical offers. Johnny, however, is in New York to race Read More

The Way of All Men

Actors: Dorothy Revier, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anders Randolf, William Courtenay

Synopsis: In this corny disaster drama, patrons of an underground speakeasy in New Orleans attend a victory party and end up terrified when a Mississippi flood threatens to break through a levee and drown them all. Fortunately, the owner is a quick thinker and closes the airtight doors of the establishment. Read More

Swing High

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott, Dorothy Burgess, John Sheehan, Daphne Pollard

Synopsis: Advertised as an "all star" film, Swing High is hardly that: The biggest name in the picture, both in terms of popularity and sheer marquee space, was Helen Twelvetrees. A variation of the 1926 German classic Variety, the film casts Twelvetrees and Dorothy Burgess as sisters Maryan and Trixie, a 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

Dynamite

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye, Muriel McCormac

Synopsis: Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has noted, this 128-minute opus has enough plots for seven pictures. The basic storyline here involves spoiled heiress Cynthia Crothers (Kay Johnson) who will lose her fortune if Read More

Danger Lights

Actors: Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: In this drama, an older railroad supervisor is engaged to a lovely young woman. Unfortunately, she falls in love with the handsome hobo her husband befriended and employed as an engineer. A rivalry ensues, but when a life is endangered the two team up and save the day. The film may be most Read More

A Most Immoral Lady

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Walter Pidgeon, Montagu Love, Josephine Dunn

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

The Doctor's Secret

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, H.B. Warner, John Loder, Robert Edeson, Wilfred Noy

Synopsis: The Doctor's Secret was adapted by director William C. DeMille from James M. Barrie's play Half an Hour. After marrying wealthy Richard Garson (H.B. Warner) for his money and prestige, Lillian Garson (Ruth Chatterton) grows weary of her stuffed-shirt husband and decides to run off with another Read More

Marianne

Actors: Marion Davies, Cliff Edwards, Lawrence Gray, Benny Rubin, Scott Kolk

Synopsis: Marion Davies made her talkie debut in this early musical romance set during World War I. Marianne (Davies} is a beautiful French girl who is engaged to marry a soldier fighting on the front. However, she soon attracts the attentions of Pvt. Stagg (Lawrence Gray), an American soldier fighting in Read More

Tenth Avenue

Actors: Phyllis Haver, Joseph Schildkraut, Victor Varconi, Robert Edeson

The Home Towners

Actors: Richard Bennett, Doris Kenyon, Robert McWade, Robert Edeson, Gladys Brockwell

Synopsis: A wealthy man hits the half-century mark and promptly suffers a mid-life crisis in this silent romantic comedy. Like countless fellows before and after him, he ends up falling for a beautiful young woman. Trouble comes when the besotted gent's best friend begins suspecting that the girl only wants Read More

The Power of the Press

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Philo McCullough, Robert Edeson, Mildred Harris, Dell Henderson, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: Presently unavailable for public reappraisal, the biting and cynical melodrama Power of the Press would seem to be a precursor to such Frank Capra talkies as Platinum Blonde and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Cub reporter Clem Rogers (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) wants a "big scoop" more than anything else in Read More

George Washington Cohen

Actors: George Jessel, Robert Edeson, Corliss Palmer, Lawford Davidson, Florence Allen

Synopsis: His Lower-East-side accent unheard, George Jessel is still able to convincingly portray the Hebraic title character in George Washington Cohen. Hoping to live up to his presidential moniker, Cohen tries to live by the same creed which guided the Father of His Country. Unfortunately, his Read More

Marriage by Contract

Actors: Patsy Ruth Miller, Lawrence Gray, Robert Edeson, Shirley Palmer

Synopsis: Marriage by Contract was produced and directed by John M. Stahl for his own Tiffany-Stahl Studio. Although only a part-talkie, the film represented the sound debut of Patsy Ruth Miller, here cast as Margaret, one of the longest-suffering heroines in screen history. Having entered into a contract Read More

Beware of Blondes

Actors: Dorothy Revier, Matt Moore, Roy D'Arcy, Robert Edeson, Walter P. Lewis

Synopsis: Known as The Caviar of Poverty Row, brunette Dorothy Revier was Columbia Pictures' first female star. In Beware of Blondes, a lurid melodrama typical of the studio at this early stage, Revier played a girl falsely suspected of being Blonde Mary, a notorious thief. In reality, she is a detective on Read More

The Little Wildcat

Actors: James Murray, George Fawcett, Robert Edeson, Doris Dawson, Audrey Ferris, Hallam Cooley

Synopsis: Released in both silent and part-talkie versions, The Little Wildcat starred James Murray, late of The Crowd, as barnstorming pilot Conrad Burton. While touring the provinces, Burton finds time to romance both Audrey (Audrey Ferris) and Sue (Doris Dawson). Hoping to force Burton into marriage, Sue Read More

His Dog

Actors: Joseph Schildkraut, Julia Faye, Robert Edeson, Sally Rand

Synopsis: Former D.W. Griffith cameraman Karl Brown held the directorial reins for His Dog. Joseph Schildkraut stars as a roughneck gardener who squanders his monthly pay at the local tavern. While weaving his way home one night, Schildkraut rescues a wounded collie then takes the dog home with him, despite Read More

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary

Actors: May Robson, Phyllis Haver, Harrison Ford, Arthur Hoyt, Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1914, the popular turn-of-the-century stage farce Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary was remade in 1927. This time, the title character was played by May Robson, repeating her original Broadway role. A priggish spinster, Aunt Mary (Robson) kicks up her heels when she is reunited with Read More

The Night Ride

Actors: Robert Edeson, Franklin Pangborn

The King of Kings

Actors: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill

Synopsis: Having scored big-time box office with his first Biblical epic, The Ten Commandments (1923), Cecil B. DeMille hoped to top this success with his 1927 The King of Kings. Inasmuch as he was now dealing with the life of Christ, DeMille had to be careful to serve up equal amounts of showmanship and Read More

Altars of Desire

Actors: Mae Murray, Conway Tearle, Robert Edeson, Maude George, André Beranger

Synopsis: Filmed through mounds of gauze, silent movie queen Mae Murray stars in MGM's Altars of Desire. Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a Read More

The Night Bride

Synopsis: Flamboyant flapper Cynthia Stockton (Marie Prevost) and misogynistic author Stanley Warrington (the "original" Harrison Ford) "meet cute" when their cars collide. Hoping to escape Warrington's wrath, Cynthia hitches a ride on a milk truck and returns home earlier than expected. Upon finding her Read More

Chicago

Actors: Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Bradford, T. Roy Barnes

Synopsis: Based on a real-life incident, Maurine Watkins' semi-satirical novel and play Chicago was first brought to the screen in 1927. Phyllis Haver was ideally cast as gum-chewing dance-hall girl Roxie Hart, who shoots her lover full of holes and then is forgiven by her faithful -- if not entirely honest Read More

Eve's Leaves

Actors: Robert Edeson, Richard Carle, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Leatrice Joy

Synopsis: If Eve's Leaves has the "look" of a Cecil B. DeMille production, it's because DeMille himself functioned as producer. Salty sea captain Robert Edeson tries to keep his daughter Leatrice Joy away from men, but the rambunctious Joy yearns to experience such forbidden pleasures as kissing. When Read More

Walking Back

Actors: Jane Keckley, Arthur Rankin, Sue Carol, Richard Walling

Synopsis: This lively outing chronicles the adventures of a daring young buck who defies his father, who grounded the lad for getting bad grades, and swipes his neighbor's car so he can take his girl to the dance. Afterward, he and his buddies begin playing "chicken" and the lad destroys his neighbor's rig. Read More

Blue Eagle

The Volga Boatmen

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Elinor Fair, Robert Edeson, Victor Varconi, Julia Faye

Synopsis: One feels that if Cecil B. DeMille had been assigned to direct the one-character play Krapp's Last Tape, he'd have added 15,000 extras and a flood. A typically overbaked (and immensely entertaining) DeMille effort, The Volga Boatman was "inspired" by a Konrad Bercovici novel. Set in the months Read More

Her Man O'war

Actors: Jimmie Adams, Jetta Goudal, Robert Edeson, Frank Reicher

Synopsis: During WWI, two American doughboys, William Boyd and Jimmie Adams, volunteer to pose as deserters for a top-secret espionage mission. Making their way into enemy territory, our heroes are able to secure jobs at two neighboring farmhouses. Farm girl Jetta Goudal, of French-German parentage Read More

Whispering Smith

Actors: H.B. Warner, Lillian Rich, John Bowers, Lilyan Tashman, Will R. Walling

Synopsis: Gaunt, aristocratic-looking character-actor H.B. Warner was slightly miscast as author Frank Hamilton Spearman's popular railroad detective Whispering Smith. The detective had earlier been played by J.P. McGowan in a 1916 serial version starring McGowan's wife Helen Holmes which was itself remade Read More

The Clinging Vine

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Tom Moore, Robert Edeson, Dell Henderson

Synopsis: One of the few surviving films of Leatrice Joy, the wife of screen heartthrob John Gilbert, The Clinging Vine is a typically frothy '20s comedy: Mannish and efficient executive secretary Antoinette Allen (Joy), known colloquially as A.B., is the real power behind Bancroft Paint ("the kind that Read More

Men and Women

Actors: Richard Dix, Claire Adams, Neil Hamilton, Robert Edeson, Henry Stephenson

Synopsis: Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock market. With his newfound riches, Seabury proceeds to woo Prescott's wife, Agnes (Claire Adams), by buying her luxurious items that her husband can not afford. Seabury makes Read More

Hell's Highroad

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Edmund Burns, Robert Edeson, Julia Faye, Helene Sullivan

Synopsis: Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald McKane, a struggling civil engineer (Edmund Burns), is encouraging her to join him in New York, but she only goes when she is bequeathed an inheritance. Unfortunately, the Read More

The Rag Man

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Max Davidson, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Robert Edeson, William Conklin

Synopsis: Although Jackie Coogan is dressed up (or rather, down) for this comedy in much the same way he was for Charles Chaplin's The Kid, there are two big differences -- he's four years older than when he made the Chaplin film and starting to lose his childish charm. A fire breaks out at an orphanage in Read More

Scarlet West

Actors: Robert Edeson, Clara Bow, Johnnie Walker, Walter McGrail

Synopsis: Financed to a great extent by local businessmen and historical societies, this Colorado-lensed silent western once again portrayed a highly fictionalized nine-reel account of General George Armstrong Custer's last stand. Former serial hero Robert Frazer starred as a college-educated Native Read More

Danger Signal

Actors: Eva Novak, Dorothy Revier, Robert Gordon, Gaston Glass, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: This programmer came out of Columbia, which, during the 1920s, was just another Poverty Row studio. Cyrus Browning (Robert Edeson) disowns his son because he disapproves of his marriage. When the wife, Mary Browning (Jane Novak), is widowed, she hands one of her sons over to Browning. In his Read More

Blood and Steel

Actors: Mack Wright, Albert J. Smith, Ruth Stonehouse, Robert Edeson, Helen Holmes

Synopsis: Jesse J. Goldburg's small-scale Independent Pictures scooped the competition when they managed to hire such proven box-office attractions as William Desmond, Ruth Stonehouse and Robert Edeson. The result was a rousing Western melodrama starring Helen Holmes (of Hazards of Helen fame) as the Read More

Golden Bed

Actors: Lillian Rich, Vera Reynolds, Henry B. Walthall, Rod La Rocque, Theodore Kosloff

Synopsis: This was Cecil B. De Mille's last film for Paramount (at least for a few years). Irene Rich plays Flora Lee Peake, a cool beauty who, like Lorelei, lures men to death and destruction. Flora Lee weds the Marquis De San Pilar (Theodore Kosloff) and saves the old homestead. The Marquis finds her with Read More

Keep Smiling

Actors: Monty Banks, Robert Edeson, Anne Cornwall, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Glen Cavender

Synopsis: Dapper, diminutive screen comedian Monty Banks stars in Keep Smiling. The inventor of an automatically inflatable life jacket, Banks gets an opportunity to demonstrate his invention after saving the life of Rose (Anne Cornwall), the daughter of steamboat executive Ryan (Robert Edeson). Through a Read More

Locked Doors

Actors: Betty Compson, Theodore Roberts, Kathlyn Williams, Theodore Von Eltz, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: Because of a trite story, this drama isn't up to director William C. De Mille's usual high standards. Mary (Betty Compson) weds wealthy Norman Carter (Robert Edeson) only to provide a home for her invalid father (the always entertaining Theodore Roberts). When she visits friends at a mountain Read More

The Bedroom Window

Actors: May McAvoy, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Edeson, George Fawcett

Synopsis: William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collaborator, scenarist Clara Beranger, for the 7-reel silent The Bedroom Window. Essentially a by-the-book mystery tale, the film is lifted from the ordinary by the expertise of DeMille and the charm of Read More

Thy Name Is Woman

Actors: William V. Mong, Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, Wallace MacDonald, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr, the featured players who made such an impression in The Prisoner of Zenda, reunite in this drama as stars. Juan Ricardo (Novarro) is a soldier in the Spanish army. He is offered a promotion to sergeant if he will seduce Guerrita (LaMarr), the young wife of Pedro Read More

Men

Actors: Pola Negri, Robert W. Frazer, Robert Edeson, Josef Swickard, Monte Collins

Synopsis: After her brilliant career in Europe, Pola Negri, came to America to make films for Paramount. Her first few pictures for the studio were disappointing, so they imported Russian director Dmitri Buchowetzki to work with her again (the two had made films together overseas). Buchowetzki wrote the Read More

Triumph

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Rod La Rocque, Victor Varconi, Charles Ogle, Theodore Kosloff

Synopsis: After the spectacular epic The Ten Commandments, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille returns to the drawing room for this pleasingly straightforward drama. King Garnet (Rod La Rocque) is the idle son of factory owner David Garnet (George Fawcett). He is in love with Ann Land (Leatrice Joy), the factory's Read More

Mademoiselle Midnight

Actors: Mae Murray, Monte Blue, Robert McKim, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: This melodrama was the first collaborative effort between MGM and the husband-wife/director-actress team Robert Z. Leonard and Mae Murray. Murray has two roles, in the prologue as Renee de Gontran, who scandalized the court of Napoleon III and who was banished to Mexico by the Empress Eugenie (Clarissa Selwynne Read More

Welcome Stranger

Actors: Dore Davidson, Florence Vidor, Virginia Brown Faire, Noah Beery, Sr., Lloyd Hughes

Synopsis: Elderly Isadore Solomon (Dore Davidson) arrives in the small New England town of Valley Falls, but is run out of the hotel because he is Jewish. Also driven out is Mary Clark (Florence Vidor), who arrives the same night. They are taken in by Clem Beemis, a handyman and electrician (William V. Read More

Feet of Clay

Actors: Vera Reynolds, Rod La Rocque, Victor Varconi, Ricardo Cortez, Julia Faye

Synopsis: While this Cecil B. DeMille production has many of the elements common to his pictures -- lavish, expensive sets and costumes, a high falutin' society background, and domestic turmoil -- it doesn't quite hit its mark. Part of the reason for this is the dream sequence. Instead of something Read More

The Spoilers

Actors: Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson, Ford Sterling

Synopsis: This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister (Milton Sills) and his partner, Joe Dextry (Robert Edeson), are tricked out of their Alaskan gold mines by a pair of crooked politicians. Alex McNamara (Noah Beery Sr.) and Read More

You Are Guilty

Actors: James Kirkwood, William A. Williams, Mary Carr, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: Actor James Kirkwood, who had taken a break from film for a stint on Broadway in The Fool, stands out in this drama. His performance eclipses most of the cast, including strong support from Mary Carr and Doris Kenyon; only child actor Russell Griffin is able to steal a scene or two for himself. Read More

To the Last Man

Actors: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr., Robert Edeson, Frank Campeau

Synopsis: Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man Richard Dix. (The others were The Call of the Canyon, 1923, Icebound, 1924, The Vanishing American, 1925, Let's Get Married, 1926, and the talkie Lovin' the Ladies, 1930.) Read More

The Tie That Binds

Actors: Robert Edeson, Walter Miller, Barbara Bedford, Marian Swayne

Synopsis: Mary Ellen Grey (Barbara Bedford) is the secretary to toy-manufacturer Daniel Kenyon (William P. Carleton). After Mary Ellen turns down a marriage proposal from Daniel and instead marries fellow-worker David Winthrop (Walter Miller), David is fired and Mary Ellen leaves her position three weeks Read More

Luck

Actors: Johnny Hines, Violet Mersereau, Edmund Breese, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: Light comedian Johnny Hines specialized in entertaining, action-packed films, and this is one of the snappiest of the bunch. Hines has the support of some of the best comic talent of the era, including Charlie Murray, Polly Moran, and Flora Finch. The story is built on a slippery foundation of Read More

The Ten Commandments

Actors: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Estelle Taylor, Richard Dix, Julia Faye, Rod La Rocque

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45 minutes recaps the struggle between Moses (Theodore Roberts) and Rameses (Charles de Roche) over the liberation of the Hebrews. Only after the Lord has imposed a series of Read More

The Silent Partner

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Owen Moore, Robert Edeson, Robert Schable, Patterson Dial

Synopsis: Leatrice Joy outshines the trite material and the rest of the cast in this Paramount release. Although it was adapted from Maximillian Foster's Saturday Evening Post serial, it's hard to tell how the author dragged the story on for more than a couple of installments (it was certainly a stretch to Read More

Has the World Gone Mad

Actors: Robert Edeson, Hedda Hopper, Vincent Coleman, Charles Richman, Mary Alden

Synopsis: Has the World Gone Mad? answers its own question by detailing the sinful excesses of the "Jazz Age." Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper stars as Mrs. Adams, a sedate housewife who decides to kick up her heels and sample the wilder side of life. Walking out on her husband (Robert Adams), Mrs. Read More

Souls for Sale

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Richard Dix, Frank Mayo

Synopsis: This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story of a young woman's rise in Hollywood; the film uses real stars and productions (even Charles Chaplin filming A Woman of Paris) as its backdrop. Eleanor Boardman plays Read More

Sure Fire Flint

Actors: Johnny Hines, Doris Kenyon, Edmund Breese, Robert Edeson, Effie Shannon

Synopsis: This is Johnny Hines' second starring feature -- the first was called Burn 'Em Up Barnes, so there seems to be a little theme going. As for the plot, The Film Daily, a trade paper of the era, said "Don't bother about it," and true, it is a bit of fluff. Basically it's just an excuse for Hines to Read More

Worldly Madonna

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Clara Kimball Young, William P. Carleton, Richard Tucker, George Hackathorne

Synopsis: Clara Kimball Young plays twin sisters, one a cabaret entertainer, the other a nun, in this melodrama produced and directed by her husband Harry Garson. Convent novitiate Janet Trevor agrees to exchange places with her worldly sister Lucy, who mistakenly believes that she has killed her longtime Read More

Any Night

Synopsis: A couple of old-timers -- character actor Tully Marshall and director Gilbert M. "Bronco Billy" Anderson --bring out the best in this corny crime drama. While Jim Barlow (Robert Edeson) is hiding from the cops, his wife Ann (Lilie Leslie) goes to a mission The minister, Reverend John Matthews Read More

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson, Stuart Holmes, Barbara La Marr

Synopsis: This epic-scale silent adaptation of the popular novel by Anthony Hope concerns Rudolph (Lewis S. Stone), a member of the royal family of Ruritania who is about to be crowned King. However, his conniving and ill-tempered brother has designs on the throne, and he drugs his sibling shortly before Read More

Foolish Wives

Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, Miss Du Pont, Maude George, Mae Busch

Synopsis: Actor/ writer/ director Erich Von Stroheim stars as a fraudulent count, living high on the hog in Monte Carlo. He supports himself by extorting huge sums of money from silly married ladies who are dumb enough to fall for his romantic charms. Von Stroheim's partners in crime, phony princesses Mae Busch Read More

Sealed Hearts

Synopsis: In an attempt to keep gold diggers away from his son Jack (Eugene O'Brien), Frank Prentiss (Robert Edeson) tells him he must keep his mind on business if he wants to be successful. Jack, rather naively, swallows this line. So when Frank falls in love with Kate Gray (Lucille Lee Stewart), the young Read More

The Public Defender

Synopsis: Idealistic young lawyer Robert Edeson goes to work for district attorney Frank Keenan, little realizing that his new boss is an unregenerate "letch." Keenan's true nature surfaces when he steals Edeson's pretty but fickle wife Alma Hanlon away from the poor lad. Seeking a divorce, Hanlon names Edeson Read More

On the Night Stage

Synopsis: Reverend Austin (Robert Edeson) and the strapping "Silent" Tex (William S. Hart) fight over the beautiful Belle Shields (Rhea Mitchell) with the reverend emerging the winner. But after she becomes Mrs. Austin, Belle's thoughts frequently center on handsome Tex, now a trusted friend of the family. Read More

The Absentee

Synopsis: Former D. W. Griffith assistant William "Christy" Cabanne, in collaboration with Frank E. Woods, called the shots in The Absentee-NRA. Robert Edeson, another Griffith alumnus, stars in this tale of labor unrest. When a justifiable strike goes on indefinitely, the owners call in the militia, with Read More

A Man's Prerogative

Synopsis: According to this film, Man's Prerogative would seem to be to cheat upon his sweetheart whenever and wherever he pleases. This, at least, is the philosophy of one Oliver Rand (Robert Edeson). Though promised in marriage to Elizabeth Town (Mary Alden, Oliver dallies with a pretty artist's model Read More

How Molly Made Good

Synopsis: Marguerite Gale plays Molly, an Irish colleen who lands a job as a newspaper reporter. Molly's editor assigns her the task of interviewing as many New York theatrical celebrities as possible. She not only accomplishes this task, but takes a record-breaking airplane flight from Connecticut to New Read More

Where the Trail Divides

Synopsis: Produced at the famous Lasky barn near Hollywood and Vine, Where the Trail Divides was a sober depiction of the relationship between a white girl (Winifred Kingston) and a college-educated Native American (Robert Edeson). Their marriage breaks up when she cannot face being called a "squaw," but Read More

The Master Mind

Synopsis: Oscar Apfel, the man who collaborated with Cecil B. DeMille on the direction of the pioneering feature film The Squaw Man, wielded the megaphone for the Jesse L. Lasky production The Master Mind. Repeating his stage role, Edmund Breese plays Henry Allen, a revenge-driven ex-convict who hopes to Read More

The Call of the North

Synopsis: This is the first film in which budding filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille received full credit as a director. Set in the wild Canadian North, the adventure yarn centers upon a brave young trader who is one of the few to work independently from the monopolizing Hudson Bay Company. The young trader is Read More