Sylvia Breamer Filmography

Up in Mabel's Room

Actors: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, Phyllis Haver, Harry Myers, Sylvia Breamer

Synopsis: This first film version of the Otto Harbach-William Collison stage farce Up in Mabel's Room was released in 1926, the same year that the original play premiered on Broadway. Newlywed Garry Ainsworth (played by the "original" Harrison Ford) discovers that his ex-wife Mabel (Marie Prevost) is in an Read More

Lightning Reporter

Synopsis: Popular silent screen light leading man Johnny Walker starred in this low-budget melodrama about a cub reporter helping the president of an upstart railroad best a competitor. Does our hero win the heart of the railroad man's lovely but uppity daughter along the way? Why, of course he does. Burr Read More

Women and Gold

Actors: Sylvia Breamer, Frank Mayo

Synopsis: A typical outdoors melodrama from Poverty Row company Gotham, Women and Gold was set in a South American gold mine. Taking charge of the mine, Dan Barclay (Frank Mayo) has no time for his wife Myra (Sylvia Breamer) and child Dan Jr. (Frankie Darro). The bored Myra takes off with dapper Señor Read More

Too Much Youth

Actors: Eric Mayne, Sylvia Breamer, Richard Holt, Charles French

Synopsis: Jimmy Kenton (Richard Holt), an irresponsible young man, causes his father, Mark (Charles K. French), no small amount of grief. The elder Kenton even sends Pat Casey, a prohibition agent (Walter Perry), to follow Jimmy around. At a cabaret, Jimmy gets drunk, and, because he is flirting with Read More

Lilies of the Field

Actors: Conway Tearle, Alma Bennett, Sylvia Breamer, Myrtle Stedman, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Corinne Griffith stars in this emotional drama based on the stage play by William Hurlburt. Although Walter Harker (Crauford Kent claims to be working overtime he is actually seeing Doris, a young flapper (Alma Bennett). Harker's neglected wife, Mildred (Griffith), attends a ball with Ted Conroy Read More

Woman on the Jury

Actors: Sylvia Breamer, Frank Mayo, Bessie Love, Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis: Although the plot to this heavy-handed drama sounds like typical Hollywood hokum, it actually came from a very successful stage play by Bernard K. Burns. The conniving George Wayne (Lew Cody) entices Betty Brown (Sylvia Breamer) to accompany him to his cabin with promises of marriage. Only after Read More

Robes of Sin

Actors: Sylvia Breamer, Jack Mower, Bruce Gordon

Synopsis: The "Golden Age" of silent movies had its share of cheap potboilers, as witness Robes of Sin. Sylvia Breamer plays Ruth Rogens, the wife of detective John Rogens (Jack Mower). Bored by marriages, Ruth begins keeping time with bootlegger Cyler Bryson (Bruce Gordon). This puts John in quite a Read More

Reckless Romance

Actors: Harry Myers, T. Roy Barnes, Wanda Hawley, Tully Marshall, Sylvia Breamer

Synopsis: Judge Somers (Tully Marshall) refuses to let his daughter, Edith (Sylvia Bremer), marry Jerry Warner (T. Roy Barnes) because he does not believe that the young man has any business sense. To help him out, Jerry's Uncle Bellamy (Lincoln Plumer) gives him ten thousand dollars to get started. Judge Read More

Thundergate

Actors: Owen Moore, Sylvia Breamer, Robert McKim, Richard Cummings

Synopsis: Owen Moore has an unlikely dual role in this melodrama. Robert Wells (Moore) is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother (also Moore). Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams (Robert McKim) build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese Read More

Her Temporary Husband

Actors: Owen Moore, Sidney Chaplin, Sylvia Breamer, Tully Marshall, Charles Gerrard

Synopsis: Although he was completely eclipsed by his incredibly gifted relative, Sidney Chaplin was a fine farceur who could be almost as funny as brother Charles Chaplin. Here he just about steals the show from a group of other solid players. Blanche (Sylvia Breamer) will inherit her aunt's large estate Read More

Bavu

Actors: Wallace Beery, Estelle Taylor, Forrest Stanley, Sylvia Breamer, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: This adventurous drama of Russia's revolutionary days was based on the stage play by Earl Carroll. Wallace Beery -- at the time one of filmdom's most dependable villains -- has the title of role of Felix Bavu, an illiterate brute who has used the revolution to promote his own power-hungry aims. He Read More

First Degree

Actors: Frank Mayo, Sylvia Breamer, Philo McCullough, George A. Williams, Harry Carter

Synopsis: This Western features all the usual Universal Studios suspects: Frank Mayo as the manly hero, Philo McCullough as the slimy villain, and Sylvia Breamer as the pretty but less-than-distinctive love interest. The story is told in flashback as the Grand Jury calls in rancher Sam Bass (Mayo) to Read More

In Calvert's Valley

Actors: John Gilbert, Sylvia Breamer, Philo McCullough, Herschel Mayall, Lule Warrenton

Barefoot Boy

Actors: John Bowers, Marjorie Daw, Sylvia Breamer, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: This sentimental rural drama was based on the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Frankie Lee plays Dick Alden, the barefoot boy of the title. He is abused by his stepfather and his only friends in the village where he lives are his mother, a little girl named Mary Truesdale (Gertie Messinger), and Read More

Flaming Youth

Synopsis: This picture practically defined the Roaring Twenties and shot Colleen Moore to superstardom. Because she is neglected by her husband (Phillips Smalley), Mona Fentriss (Myrtle Steadman) begins living a frivolous, jazzy lifestyle. Two of her daughters, Connie (Betty Francisco) and Dee (Sylvia Read More

The Girl of the Golden West

Synopsis: A now forgotten star of the later silent era, Sylvia Breamer took on the old David Belasco stage chestnut in this remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 Western classic. Miss Breamer plays a saloon owner who becomes a pawn between two men, a swashbuckling bandit (played in his usual florid style by J. Warren Kerrigan Read More

Man Unconquerable

Actors: Jack Holt, Sylvia Breamer, Clarence Burton, Anne Schaefer, Jean de Briac

Synopsis: Virile Jack Holt was perfectly cast as the title character in this brawling South Seas drama. New Yorker Robert Kendall (Holt) inherits a pearl fishery from his uncle. It is located next to another fishing ground, and the men of both fisheries are constantly at odds. Kendall has to make a trip to Read More

Calvert's Valley

Synopsis: Considering the kind of material he was given, it's no wonder that John Gilbert was not very happy at the Fox studios. This humdrum Northwest melodrama was typical, and it seems especially tired coming right after the flashier Monte Cristo. Here, Gilbert portrays Page Emlyn, who accompanies Jim Read More

Man with Two Mothers

Synopsis: This comedy-drama, with its ethnic and mother love themes, was very much of its era. When Dennis O'Neill (Cullen Landis) inherits his uncle's junk business, he has to relocate from Ireland to the States. His uncle's wish is that he take care of his aunt, Delia Bryan (Laura Lavarnie), but Read More

Man Who Married His Own Wife

Actors: Frank Mayo, Sylvia Breamer

Synopsis: Although plastic surgery was still in its early stages when this drama was made, Frank Mayo's ultra-phony nose and beard makes it seem like film make-up was still in its infancy instead. He plays John Morton, a shipmaster who is horribly disfigured when his boat collides with another. The two Read More

Face Between

Actors: Bert Lytell, Sylvia Breamer, Hardee Kirkland, Gerard Alexander

Synopsis: Bert Lytell stars in a double role of father and son in this confusing drama about love and self-sacrifice. Tommy Carteret Jr. is wrongly accused by Hartwell (Hardee Kirkland) of making improper advances towards Hartwell's wife. In reality it was Tommy's own father who was the perpetrator. Not Read More

Wolf Law

Synopsis: This melodrama takes place in the Missouri of the 1860s -- a good place for Universal Studios to place their manly star, Frank Mayo. When the quick-tempered Jefferson De Croteau (Mayo) wins a horse race, the loser insults him. De Croteau knocks him down and, believing that he has killed him, heads Read More

Money to Burn

Actors: William Russell

Synopsis: This romantic comedy was an atypical vehicle for William Russell, who was more comfortable in action films. When it comes to finance, Lucky Garrity (Russell) lives up to his name. After making a fortune on Wall Street, he yearns for a quieter life and buys a country estate on Long Island. But the Read More

Unseen Forces

Actors: Sylvia Breamer, Rosemary Thebv, Conrad Nagel, Robert Cain, Sam de Grasse

Synopsis: Miriam Holt (Sylvia Breamer) is an innkeeper's daughter who is born with psychic abilities. She falls for a young hunter who lodges at the inn, but he goes away when he mistakenly believes she loves another man. Miriam moves to the city to make use of her unusual abilities for the benefit of Read More

Devil

Actors: George Arliss, Sylvia Breamer, Lucy Cotton, Edmund Lowe

Synopsis: Stage star George Arliss had been a huge success in the 1906 stage play on which this film was based. Other versions had already been filmed, but nothing could compare to Arliss when he decided to reprise his role on screen. His character, Dr. Mueller, is the devil incarnate, determined to ruin Read More

Doubling for Romeo

Actors: Will Rogers, Sylvia Breamer, Raymond Hatton, Al Hart

Synopsis: It is said that every actor wants to play Shakespeare. Will Rogers would seem a likely exception to that rule, but here he is in this silent, taking a stab (albeit comic) at Romeo. Slim (Rogers), of course, begins as a cowpuncher but his boss switches from cattle to sheep, throwing him out of Read More

Not Guilty

Synopsis: A man who believes he is a murderer travels the world to escape his past in this often confusing crime drama. Richard Dix stars in a double role of twin brothers Paul and Arthur Ellison. Arthur flees New York for South America for help from his brother Paul, an engineer by trade. Paul feels Read More

Sherlock Brown

Synopsis: Although this mystery-comedy came out mere weeks after John Barrymore portrayed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous character, it's not a spoof on Sherlock Holmes. Nevertheless, it's an amusing vehicle for Bert Lytell. The secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen Read More

Roof Tree

Actors: William Russell, Florence Deshon, Sylvia Breamer, William Robert Daly, Arthur Morrison

Synopsis: This mystery-melodrama stars William Russell. The husband of Sally McTurk (Florence Deshon, in her final film role) is murdered and her brother, Ken Thornton (Russell), goes hiding in the hills under the name of Cal Maggard. He is taken in by Dorothy Harper (Sylvia Breamer) and her father Caleb Read More

Poor Relation

Actors: Will Rogers, Sylvia Breamer, Wallace MacDonald, Sydney Ainsworth, George B. Williams

Synopsis: In spite of many attempts to bring Will Rogers superstardom in silent films (he was already one on Broadway), it wasn't until sound came in that he found his niche. Here, he and director Clarence G. Badger flounder as they try for pathos a la Charles Chaplin's The Kid. Rogers plays Noah Vale, a Read More

Missing

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Missing was co-adapted for the screen by James Young (who is sometimes erroneously credited as the film's director). Thomas Meighan stars as Sir William Farrell, who when WWI breaks out is barred from military services because of a crippled leg. Sir William Read More

We Can't Have Everything

Synopsis: We Can't Have Everything was at once a typical Cecil B. DeMille marital comedy and also a satire of the whole genre. Aware that her wealthy husband Peter (Thurston Hall) is cheating on her, socialite Charity Cheever (Kathlyn Williams) nonetheless remains faithful to him, spurning the affections of Read More

The Narrow Trail

Synopsis: William S. Hart plays (what else?) a "good badman" in his first production for Paramount release, The Narrow Trail. While holding up a stagecoach, Hart falls hopelessly in love with a gorgeous, stylishly clothed lady passenger. He follows her to San Francisco, where he discovers to his chagrin Read More

The Pinch Hitter

Synopsis: In this light comedy, Charles Ray does a typical turn as a country bumpkin who makes good. Ray plays Joel Parker, who is sent to college by his crabby farmer father (Joseph J. Dowling) only because it was his mother's dying wish that he get an education. At college, he's immediately pegged as a Read More