Shirley PalmerFilmography

Born:: December 25, 1908 in Chicago, IL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A blond leading lady of low-budget melodramas of the late '20s, Chicago-born Shirley Palmer also played supporting roles in more upscale surroundings, such as Sam Goldwyn's Ronald Colman-Vilma Banky vehicle The Magic Flame (1927), in which she played the unfaithful wife of a nobleman. She was much...Read More

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Somewhere in Sonora

Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Shirley Palmer, Ann Fay, Frank Rice

Synopsis: In this western, John Wayne plays a bronc buster who flees to Mexico after he is falsely accused of rigging a stagecoach race. Living as an outlaw, he joins a gang and finds that the son of his old rodeo boss has been roped into joining them. While trying to save the youth from a life of crime Read More

1933
This Sporting Age

Actors: Jack Holt, Evelyn Knapp, Hardie Albright, Walter Byron, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: The fast-paced world of polo provides the backdrop for this sports drama that centers upon John Steele, a US Army captain obsessed with polo. The trouble begins when he tries to get revenge upon the polo player who took liberties with his daughter Mickey. The vengeful captain causes Charles, the Read More

1932
Ladies Must Play

Actors: Dorothy Sebastian, Neil Hamilton, Natalie Moorhead, Shirley Palmer

Synopsis: Norma (Dorothy Sebastian) is in love with her boss Bill (Neil Hamilton). Everyone is aware of this -- except for Norma and Bill. Left penniless by several bonehead business transactions, Bill concocts a scheme to make a great deal of money in a hurry. The plan hinges on Norma's marriage to a Read More

1930
Campus Knights

Actors: Shirley Palmer, Raymond McKee

Synopsis: Audrey Scott (Shirley Palmer) is a fun-loving but basically proper college coed, who manages to escape the clutches of one over-eager freshman on a date, only to cross paths with Earl Hastings (Raymond McKee), another young woman-chaser on campus. She vows never to look at another man, except to Read More

1929
Prowlers of the Sea

Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Carmel Myers, George Fawcett

1928
The Scarlet Dove

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Margaret Livingston, Robert W. Frazer, Shirley Palmer

Synopsis: Raised in a convent, pretty young heiress Mara (Josephine Boro) has been slated from birth to wed Russian officer Ivan Orloff (Lowell Sherman). Though she doesn't know much about men, Mara does know that she isn't fond of Orloff, and she begins formulating plans to avoid her wedding. She escapes Read More

1928
Stormy Waters

Actors: Eve Southern, Roy Stewart, Shirley Palmer

1928
Beautiful But Dumb

Actors: Patsy Ruth Miller, Charles Byer, Greta Yoltz, George E. Stone

Synopsis: After achieving stardom as Esmerelda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), Patsy Ruth Miller developed into a first-rate comedienne. In Beautiful but Dumb, she plays a mousy secretary who couldn't attract a man if she removed all her clothes. Instead, she merely removes her glasses Read More

1928
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

1928
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre

Actors: Bryant Washburn, Chief Yowlachie, Bob Steele

Synopsis: As helmed by Robert North Bradbury, the silent feature With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre was produced in 1925 but went unreleased until 1927, and was then considered lost for another 80 years. It stars a Native American thespian, Chief Yowlachie, as the famous 19th Century Sioux Indian Read More

1927
Yours to Command

Actors: George O'Hara, Dot Farley, Shirley Palmer, Jack Luden, Vin Moore

Synopsis: Yours to Command would seem to owe a lot to the popular George McManus comic strip Bringing Up Father. The story gets under way when a shanty Irish family suddenly strikes it rich and relocates to New York. As the father tries to maintain contact with his old drinking buddies, the mother goes Read More

1927
Spirit Lake Massacre

Actors: Bryant Washburn, Anne Schaefer, Jay Morley, Shirley Palmer, Thomas G. Lingham

Synopsis: This cheapjack historical film also carried the grandiose title With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre. It was produced by the redoubtable Anthony J. Xydias, whose western "epics" always promised much but delivered little. Spirit Lake Massacre, in fact, may well represent the Xydias product Read More

1927
Burning Gold

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Mildred Harris, Shirley Palmer

Synopsis: Herbert Rawlinson, a star on the downgrade, headed the cast of the independently produced Burning Gold. Most of the action is set amidst the oil wells of Oklahoma, as courageous digger Rawlinson races against the clock to bring in a gusher. Complicating matters are Rawlinson's romantic Read More

1927
Magic Flame

Actors: Ronald Colman, Vilma Banky, Agostino Borgato, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis: The Magic Flame is little more than a showcase for Samuel Goldwyn's "hottest" screen team, Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky. Based on King Harlequin, a novel and play by Rudolph Lothar, the film casts Colman as a travelling circus clown who happens to bear a startling resemblance to the no-good King Read More

1927
Exclusive Rights

Actors: Gayne Whitman, Lillian Rich, Gloria Gordon, Raymond McKee, Gaston Glass

Synopsis: Exclusive Rights was inspired by Invisible Government, a story by Jerome N. Wilson. The central character is a crooked political boss who sets about to destroy an honest governor. The villain frames one of the governor's most trusted assistants on a murder charge. The price for the assistant's Read More

1926
Winning Wallop

Actors: William Fairbanks, Shirley Palmer, Charles French, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Former serial star Charles Hutchison warmed the director's chair for The Winning Wallop. Hero Rex Burton (William Fairbanks) wants to become a professional athlete, but his wealthy father has other ideas. To prove that he's made a good career choice, Rex hires himself out as a gym instructor at a Read More

1926