Seena Owen Filmography

Carnegie Hall

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Marsha Hunt, Emile Boreo, Joseph Buloff, William Prince, Frank McHugh, Martha O'Driscoll, Walter Damrosch, Hans Yaray, Olin Downes

Synopsis: Auteur theorists who've charted the career of "cult" director Edgar G. Ulmer have seldom mentioned Carnegie Hall, simply because it was more expensive than most of Ulmer's films and thus can't be regarded a "low-budget masterpiece." The wafer-thin plotline concerns a young immigrant woman (Marsha Hunt Read More

Rainbow Island

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan, Forrest Orr

Synopsis: Rainbow Island is a lavish Technicolor confection designed to show off the physical attributes of star Dorothy Lamour. This time Lamour is a white girl raised as native on a tropical isle. Barry Sullivan, Eddie Bracken and Gil Lamb play merchant-marine sailors hiding from Japanese troops on Read More

The Great Man's Lady

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Thurston Hall, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup, Barbara Stanwyck reminisces on her experiences in the American West. As a young woman, she is squired by gambler Brian Donlevy, but her heart belongs to dreamer Joel McCrea. She chooses Read More

Aloma of the South Seas

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Phillip Reed, Katherine de Mille

Synopsis: The South Seas romance is set on the scenic island of Tahiti where the island chief betroths his son to a woman and then ships him to the US to attend Harvard. During the return voyage the lad is befriended by the ship's captain who also protects the beautiful girl the boy meets, but doesn't know Read More

Thrill of a Lifetime

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Yacht Club Boys, Judy Canova, Ben Blue, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: "Camp Romance," a place for the romantically challenged, provides the setting of this musical. The story centers on a frumpy secretary's crush on her handsome boss, the camp manager. The manager has been working on a musical. Just as he is about to finish it, the secretary gives herself a Read More

This Way Please

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Betty Grable, Ned Sparks, Marian Jordan

Synopsis: This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The fact that Grable plays the new bride of Charles "Buddy" Rogers takes on special significance when one realizes that Betty was two months away from her first marriage, to former child star Jackie Coogan. Read More

Clarence

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eleanore Whitney, Eugene Pallette, Inez Courtney

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1921 with Wallace Reid, Booth Tarkington's stage comedy Clarence proved a worthwhile screen vehicle for Roscoe Karns. The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence Read More

Rumba

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: George Raft, Carole Lombard, Lynne Overman, Margo, Monroe Owsley

Synopsis: A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American dancer who lives and works in Havana with his lovely partner Goldie Allen until a bad case of varicose veins forces impacts his career. One night, the beauteous gringa heiress Read More

Officer 13

Actors: Charles Delaney, Robert Ellis, Frances Rich, Joseph W. Girard, Jackie Searl

Synopsis: Police officer Tom Malone is the only honest man left who can salvage his crooked city after his partner is killed on his motorcycle by a wealthy playboy on a careless joyride. With criminals and crooked city officials at every turn, it will take courage, duty, and decency for Tom to make right Read More

The Marriage Playground

Actors: Mary Brian, Fredric March, Huntly Gordon, Lilyan Tashman, Kay Francis

Synopsis: In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live life in the fast-lane. She is saved by an American who has come to Italy for vacation. He becomes her friend, and the children come to adore him. They eventually fall in Read More

Queen Kelly

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Walter Byron, William Von Brincken, Madge Hunt

Synopsis: Though filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim's notorious profligacy had made him virtually unhirable in the US by 1929, screen-star Gloria Swanson still had faith in him. She poured a great deal of her own money in Von Stroheim's last silent film, Queen Kelly, and agreed to play the leading role to insure Read More

His Last Haul

Actors: Tom Moore, Seena Owen

Synopsis: In his professional doldrums in 1929, director Marshal Neilan was forced to work for second-string FBO Pictures. Fortunately, FBO was in the process of transforming itself into RKO Radio, enabling Neilan's His Last Haul to play in several prestigious moviehouses along the Keith-Orpheum circuit. Seena Owen Read More

Man-Made Women

Actors: Leatrice Joy, H.B. Warner, Seena Owen

Synopsis: The piquant Leatrice Joy starred in this frothy marital comedy about a wife who leaves her boring husband (John Boles) to be the companion of a kept woman (Seena Owen). The latter, however, leaves in a huff when she suspects that her gentleman friend (H.B. Warner) may be paying a bit too much Read More

Blue Danube

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Joseph Schildkraut, Nils Asther, Seena Owen, Albert Gran

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille functioned as executive producer for the derivative romantic melodrama The Blue Danube. Leatrice Joy stars as Marguerite, a Budapest tavern girl, who falls in love with young baron Erich (Nils Asther). When WWI breaks out, Erich is called back to his regiment on the eve of his Read More

Sinners in Love

Actors: Olive Borden, Huntly Gordon, Seena Owen, Daphne Pollard

Synopsis: Virtuous Ann Hardy (Olive Borden) manages to land a job running the roulette wheel in a busy gambling emporium. Soon, however, Ann quits when she finds out the house -- and the wheel -- are crooked. Gambling boss Ted Wells (Huntley Gordon), impressed by Ann's integrity, falls in love with her Read More

The Rush Hour

Actors: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, Seena Owen, Ward Crane, David Butler

Synopsis: Previously teamed in such boudoir farces as Up in Mabel's Room and The Girl and the Pullman, Marie Prevost and the "original" Harrison Ford are again co-starred in The Rush Hour. Tired of the hustle and bustle of urban life, working girl Margie Dolan (Marie Prevost) stows away on a France-bound Read More

Shipwrecked

Actors: Seena Owen, Joseph Schildkraut, Matthew Betz, Clarence Burton, Laska Winter

Synopsis: Former D.W. Griffith associate Joseph Henaberry handled the directorial reins in Shipwrecked. Based on a popular stage play, the story takes place on board a ship bound for the South Seas. One of the passengers is escaped criminal Seena Owen, who falls in love with galley hand Joseph Schildkraut. Read More

Faint Perfume

Synopsis: A cuckolded husband discovers that he is in love with his ex-wife's cousin in this domestic melodrama from independent producer B. P. Schulberg. Although agreeing at first to give up custody of their child, the ex-wife changes her mind when she discovers the truth. But the child is almost killed Read More

For Woman's Favor

Actors: Elliott Dexter, Seena Owen, Wilton Lackaye, Irma Harrison, Henry Hull

Synopsis: June Paige (Seena Owen) is pressured by her parents to marry a millionaire in this romantic melodrama. Her old lover threatens to send him her old love letters if she does not come up with $10,000. The villain (Wilton Lackeye) tells June he will fill in new dates on the letters to make it appear Read More

I Am the Man

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Seena Owen, Gaston Glass, Flora Le Breton

Synopsis: Lionel Barrymore stars as an evil political boss in this heavy drama. James McQuade (Barrymore) is infatuated with Julia Calvert (Seena Owen), who is engaged to district attorney Daniel Harrington (Gaston Glass). To get her away from Harrington, McQuade frames her father for a crime. The only way Read More

The Go-Getter

Actors: T. Roy Barnes, Seena Owen, William Norris, Tom Lewis, Louis Wolheim

Synopsis: The title character of this comedy-drama suggests that archetype of the Roaring Twenties -- a brash, ambitious, and likable young man. After serving in the World War, Bill Peck T. Roy Barnes becomes a lumber salesman for the firm belonging to Cappy Ricks (William Norris). Peck also becomes Read More

Unseeing Eyes

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Seena Owen, Louis Wolheim, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Walter Miller

Synopsis: This predictable Northwest melodrama was one of the first made by William Randolph Hearst's film company, Cosmopolitan, for the Goldwyn studios. It was adapted from a story that appeared in Hearst's International Magazine and much of it was shot on-location in the Columbia Valley and around Quebec Read More

Sisters

Actors: Seena Owen, Gladys Leslie, Mildred Arden, Matt Moore, Joe King

Synopsis: This Albert Capellani-directed drama was based on the novel by Kathleen Norris. When Dr. Strickland (Tom Guise) dies, he divides his estate in thirds between his two daughters, Alix (Seena Owen) and Cherry (Gladys Leslie), and his niece, Anne Little (Mildred Arden). But Anne's husband Justin Read More

The Face in the Fog

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Seena Owen, Lowell Sherman, George Nash, Louis Wolheim

Synopsis: Writer Jack Boyle created a timely adventure for the character of Boston Blackie Dawson in this mystery (at least it was timely in 1922) -- here the reformed crook gets tangled up in the affairs of a Grand Duchess who has escaped from Soviet Russia with some of the Romanoff jewels. A blind beggar Read More

Back Pay

Actors: Seena Owen, Matt Moore, J. Barney Sherry, Charles Craig

Synopsis: Having enjoyed great success with Humoresque in 1920, director Frank Borzage tackled yet another Fannie Hurst tear-jerker less than a year later. Back Pay stars the elegant Seena Owen (Griffith's Princess Beloved in Intolerance) as Hester Blevins, who escapes her humdrum small town in favor of the Read More

The Cheater Reformed

Actors: William Russell, Seena Owen, Jack Brammall, Sam de Grasse

Synopsis: Silent matinee idol William Russell has a dual role in this drama. He plays twin brothers, minister Luther McCall and Lefty, a crook. Thomas Edinburgh (Sam de Grasse) wants to get rid of his wife and woo the minister's spouse, Carol (Seena Owen). He tries to convince Carol that her husband was Read More

The Woman God Changed

Actors: Seena Owen, E.K. Lincoln, Henry Sedley, Lillian Walker, H. Cooper Cliffe

Synopsis: This crime drama begins when Anna (Seena Owen) gives up her career as a dancer to become the mistress of the wealthy playboy Alastair De Vries (Henry Sedley), but he soon tires of her and takes up with another floozie. In a rage, Anna tracks the couple down at a local restaurant and shoots Read More

Lavender and Old Lace

Synopsis: This simple tearjerker, based on the novel by Myrtle Reed, was very much of its era. Mary Ainslie (Marguerite Snow) has a romance with Jimmy Ball, a sea captain (James Corrigan). He leaves and she promises to be true to him until his return. She holds to this for the next thirty years as life Read More

The Fall of Babylon

Actors: Tully Marshall, Constance Talmadge, Elmer Clifton, Alfred Paget, Carl Stockdale

Synopsis: Intolerance, D.W. Griffith's towering achievement interlocking four stories of intolerance throughout the ages, has been bowdlerized by the Master himself in this 1919 re-tread utilizing the Babylon sections of that mammoth film. In an effort to recoup some of his disastrous personal losses Read More

Victory

Synopsis: Axel Heyst (Jack Holt) is taught bitter lessons by his father -- that pity is contemptible and sympathy is useless. So the young man intends to exile himself to an island, but he winds up bringing along Alma (Seena Owen), who he has saved from unhappy circumstances. Even more complications arise Read More

Riders of Vengeance

Synopsis: Legendary director John Ford began his long, eventful screen career helming Harry Carey westerns for Universal. He got that job courtesy of big brother Francis Ford, but the youngster quickly established himself as the Ford to watch. He was not quite there yet, but Riders of Vengeance was a Read More

Fugitive from Matrimony

Synopsis: H.B. Warner takes a break from his usual heavy dramas to star in this light comedy. Stephan Van Courtlandt (Warner) belongs to the most exclusive of society circles and is the most eligible bachelor in New York. He is also the most elusive, having traveled all over Europe in an attempt to keep any Read More

Breed of Men

Synopsis: Boss rider "Careless" Carmody (William S. Hart) is made sheriff of an Arizona frontier town by Chicago swindler Prentice (Bert Sprotte). The naive Carmody actually believes Prentice to be on the up and up and vouches for him in a land deal with Ruth Fellowes (Seena Owen). Taken to the cleaners, so Read More

Branding Broadway

Synopsis: Drunk and disorderly cowpoke Robert Sands (William S. Hart) is banished from an Arizona frontier town and hops on a freight train heading for New York. Arriving in Manhattan, the rough-and-tumble cowboy obtains a position as "physical guardian" to a spoiled member of the social register (Arthur Shirley Read More

Intolerance

Actors: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Tully Marshall, Alfred Paget

Synopsis: Sometime during the shooting of the landmark The Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he showed how, with the awesome Intolerance. The film began humbly enough as a medium-budget feature entitled The Mother and the Law, wherein the lives Read More

Martha's Vindication

Synopsis: Norma Talmadge, already a star but not yet a STAR, played the eponymous heroine in 1916's Martha's Vindication. To protect the reputation of her best friend Dorothea (Seena Owen, Martha claims that she is the mother of the friend's illegitimate baby. Even though she is ostracized and condemned by Read More

Bred in the Bone

Synopsis: This Reliance feature bore a striking resemblance to the previous IMP release Driven By Fate. Deserted by her husband, a pregnant chorus girl finds herself stranded in a backwater town. She gives up her baby to a Quaker family then disappears into the night. Flash-forward several years: The child Read More

The Penitentes

Synopsis: Based on a controversial novel by Robert Ellis Wales, The Penitentes was inspired by a real-life religious cult which thrived in 17th-century Mexico. A group of fanatical Roman Catholics were so dedicated to their beliefs that they staged actual crucifixions on Good Friday. Not all of the victims Read More

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Yankee from the West

Synopsis: The ever-increasing popularity of Wallace Reid was given an additional boost with the four-reel Mutual production Yankee From the West. Reid plays Billy Milford, a Harvard graduate whose fondness for booze loses him several prestigious jobs. On the bum in the West, Milford reluctantly agrees to Read More

Craven

The Lamb

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks

Synopsis: Though its script is credited to D.W. Griffith, The Lamb is actually a film adaptation of Winchell Smith's Broadway play The New Henrietta. In his screen debut, Douglas Fairbanks plays a wealthy wastrel who is framed in a stock swindle. To prove his innocence, Fairbanks is plunked into several Read More