T. Roy BarnesFilmography

Village Tale

Actors: Randolph Scott, Kay Johnson, Arthur Hohl, Robert H. Barrat, Janet Beecher

Synopsis: This drama presents a dim view of life in a small town populated by back-stabbing, narrow-minded, hypocritical and maliciously gossipy bigots who meet at the town general store to spread their vicious lies. The current slander centers upon a young man who has an innocent crush on another man's Read More

Doubting Thomas

Actors: Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Sterling Holloway, Andrew Tombes

Synopsis: Doubting Thomas is the 1935 film version of George Kelly's satirical comedy The Torch Bearers, tailored for the talents of Will Rogers. Billie Burke, Will's wife, becomes so involved in a local amateur theatre group that she has no time for her husband. In retaliation, Will pretends to "go Read More

Rip Tide

Actors: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Synopsis: A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip Tide is a standard-issue Norma Shearer soap opera. Shearer plays Mary, a footloose and fancy-free American heiress who weds British nobleman Lord Rexford (Herbert Marshall). Read More

It's a Gift

Actors: W.C. Fields, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Kathleen Howard, Baby Le Roy

Synopsis: W.C. Fields is in fine fettle as small-town grocer Harold Bissonette (pronounced Biss-o-NAY). Harold dreams of becoming a California orange farmer, but his gorgon wife (Kathleen Howard) will have none of it. After a grueling day at the store, during which his electric light stock is destroyed by a Read More

Kansas City Princess

Actors: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert, Osgood Perkins

Synopsis: Kansas City Princess came at the tail end of the "gold-digger" movie cycle. The inevitable Joan Blondell plays Rosie, a saucy-eyed manicurist who takes it on the lam when she loses a diamond entrusted to her by her gangster boyfriend Dynamite (Robert Armstrong). With nary a dime between them Read More

Women of All Nations

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Greta Nissen, El Brendel

Synopsis: Flagg and Quirt, the eternally bickering "friendly enemies" introduced in Lawrence Stallings' WWI play What Price Glory, were at it again in 1931's Women of All Nations. Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe reprise their screen characterizations as pugnacious, girl-crazy marine sergeants Flagg and Read More

Aloha

Actors: Ben Lyon, Raquel Torres, Robert Edeson, Alan Hale, Thelma Todd

Synopsis: In the South Seas, half-caste Ilanu (Raquel Torres) refuses to marry Kahea (Donald Reed), as she loves Jimmy Bradford (Ben Lyon), heir to an American fortune; her grandfather warns her that her own mother's marriage to a white man was so unhappy that she'd leaped into a volcano. Despite misgivings Read More

Wide Open

Actors: Edward Everett Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: In this sweet comedy, a meek and clumsy employee of a large firm is filled with useful ideas, but is too shy to present them. He gets involved with the boss's straight-forward daughter who helps get his ideas across. Mayhem ensues and the company's superintendent is fired. The employee's ideas are Read More

Caught Short

Actors: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Charles Morton

Synopsis: Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at their respective homes. Though outwardly jealous rivals, the women are actually best friends. The competition gets more intense when one woman's daughter falls for the Read More

Sally

Actors: Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray, Joe E. Brown, T. Roy Barnes, Pert Kelton

Synopsis: Recreating her famous Broadway role from 1920, former Ziegfeld star Marilyn Miller took to the Warner Bros. soundstages with the energy that had made her a household name. Miller is Sally Bowling Green, an orphan named after a telephone exchange. Slaving away in a New York coffee shop, she dreams Read More

Dangerous Curves

Actors: Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Kay Francis, David Newell

Synopsis: Circus life provides the framework of this drama that chronicles the love, life, and aspiration of a young circus waif. The aspiring star is learning to walk the high-wire with the young wire-walker she adores. He loves another, his partner, but she is untrue to him. As a result he is almost on Read More

The Gate Crasher

Actors: Glenn Tryon, Patsy Ruth Miller, T. Roy Barnes, Fred Malatesta

Synopsis: In this, at times, hilarious silent, romantic comedy, love blossoms after a posterhanger has an highway mishap with a Broadway star. Later the hard-working fellow finds out that someone has stolen the actress' jewels from her New York home. Still smitten, he heads for the Big Apple to get them Read More

Blonde for a Night

Actors: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, Franklin Pangborn, Lucien Littlefield, T. Roy Barnes

Synopsis: Previously teamed for a number of boudoir farces like Getting Gertie's Garter and Up in Mabel's Room, star Marie Prevost and director E. Mason Hopper once more pooled their talents in Blonde for a Night. Prevost plays the dowdy brunette wife of roving husband Harrison Ford, who prefers to spend Read More

The Tender Hour

Actors: Billie Dove, Ben Lyon, Montagu Love, Constantine Romanoff, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: Billie Dove stars as Marcia Kane, whose head is turned by the charming but sinister Grand Duke Sergei (Montague Love). Handsome and virtuous Wally McKenzie (Ben Lyon) is in love with Marcia, but how can he possibly compete with a "title"? Tricked into a marriage with the Grand Duke, Marcia soon 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

Smile, Brother, Smile

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Dorothy Mackaill, E.J. Ratcliffe

Synopsis: The popular screen team of Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill were back again in Smile, Brother, Smile. The stars are cast respectively as hot-shot salesman Jack Lowery and sagacious secretary Mildred Marvin, employees both of a big-time cosmetics company. Inexplicably, the company's sales are Read More

Body and Soul

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Norman Kerry, Lionel Barrymore, T. Roy Barnes

Synopsis: Body and Soul was a remake of the heavy-breathing 1920 melodrama The Branding Iron. Lionel Barrymore is shameless in his portrayal of double-dyed villain Dr. Leyden. After disgracing his profession, Leyden escapes to Switzerland, where he is smitten by inn servant Hilda (Aileen Pringle). Tricking Read More

The Unknown Cavalier

Actors: Ken Maynard, Kathleen Collins, T. Roy Barnes, Otis Harlan, James Mason

Synopsis: One of Ken Maynard's very best silent westerns, The Unknown Cavalier was filmed on locations in Death Valley, California. Maynard plays Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain, as it turns out, is none other than Henry Suggs Read More

A Regular Scout

Actors: Fred Thomson, Olive Hasbrouck, Robert McKim, T. Roy Barnes, William Courtwright, Margaret Seddon

Synopsis: In this silent Western, popular genre star Fred Thomson was given a new sidekick in six-year-old Billy Butts, a fair-haired boy actor who could ride with the best of them. Fred, as Fred Saunders, rescues little Buddy, an orphan, from being trampled to death by a runaway horse. Saunders soon Read More

Ladies of Leisure

Actors: Elaine Hammerstein, T. Roy Barnes, Gertrude Short

Synopsis: This early Columbia production stars Elaine Hammerstein as the best friend of Gertrude Short, a predatory society girl who intends to trap wealthy T. Roy Barnes into marriage. Instead, Hammerstein and Barnes fall in love with each other. The nonplused Short persists in trying to force Barnes to Read More

Dangerous Friends

Actors: T. Roy Barnes

Synopsis: T. Roy Barnes was a comedian whose most memorable appearances were as support to more illustrious comics such as Buster Keaton (in Seven Chances) and W.C. Fields (in It's a Gift). The pictures in which he himself was the star are pretty much forgettable, such as this low-budget light comedy. Read More

Seven Chances

Actors: Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Frankie Raymond

Synopsis: Buster Keaton plays a young lawyer who will inherit $7 million at 7 o'clock on his 27th birthday--provided he is married. Long before discovering this, Keaton has pursued a lifelong courtship of Ruth Dwyer, whose refusals have become ritualistic over the years (the passage of time is amusingly Read More

Re-Creation of Brian Kent

Synopsis: Harold Bell Wright, a popular author during the silent era, was known for his sentimental and unsophisticated stories. This film, based on one of his novels, was a good representation of his written work. Brian Kent (Kenneth Harlan) regrets stealing money from a Chicago bank and decides to kill Read More

The Price of Pleasure

Actors: Virginia Valli, Norman Kerry, Louise Fazenda, Kate Lester, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This ordinary romantic programmer starred Universal regulars Norman Kerry and Virginia Valli. Linnie Randall, a shopgirl (Valli), is bored with her humdrum life. Her complaints are overheard by the wealthy Garry Schuyler (Kerry), who is disguised as a mechanic. He asks her out to dinner and, to Read More

The Crowded Hour

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Kenneth Harlan, T. Roy Barnes, Frank Morgan, Helen Lee Worthing

Synopsis: When Billy Laidlaw (Kenneth Harlan) sees Peggy Laurence (Bebe Daniels) and her partner, Matt Wilde (T. Roy Barnes), performing at a Bowery amateur night, he resolves to help them. They do well on Broadway, thanks to Laidlaw, who begins falling in love with Peggy, even though he already has a wife Read More

Butterfly

Actors: Margaret Livingston, Kenneth Harlan, Norman Kerry, Ruth Clifford

Synopsis: Universal Studios star Laura LaPlante has a rather unsympathetic role in this drama, based on the novel by Kathleen Norris. Hillary Collier (Ruth Clifford) promises her dying mother that she will give her sister, Dora (LaPlante), every chance to develop her skills as a violinist. She goes to work Read More

Young Ideas

Actors: Laura La Plante, T. Roy Barnes, Lucille Ricksen, James O. Barrows, Lydia Yeamans Titus

Synopsis: Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has virtually become a drudge in order to support her sponging relatives -- flapper sister Eloise (Lucille Ricksen), hypochondriac Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus Read More

Great White Way

Actors: Anita Stewart, T. Roy Barnes, Oscar Shaw, Tom Lewis

Synopsis: If the Hearst newspapers seem to get a lot of attention in this comedy-drama, it only makes sense -- William Randolph Hearst's production company, Cosmopolitan, produced the picture, which blends a fictional story with real-life events. Press agent Jack Murray (T. Roy Barnes) is having trouble 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

Adam and Eva

Actors: Marion Davies, T. Roy Barnes, Tom Lewis, Percy Ames

Synopsis: Marion Davies, who'd coincidentally later star in Cain and Mabel, is top-billed in Adam and Eva. Adam Smith (T. Roy Barnes) is appointed head of the business owned by Eva's (Marion Davies) wealthy father. It is hoped that the personable Adam will be able to curb Eva's impulsiveness and tendency to 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

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

Hollywood

Actors: Luke Cosgrave, George K. Arthur, Ruby Lafayette, Eleanor Lawson

Synopsis: The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire gives it a number of unexpected turns. In addition, just about every star in Hollywood -- not just those at Paramount, the releasing studio -- has a cameo at one point or Read More

Trip To Paramountown

Actors: Wallace Reid, Marion Davies, Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson, May McAvoy

Is Matrimony a Failure?

Actors: T. Roy Barnes, Lois Wilson, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: This farce from Paramount was loosely adapted from the play The Open Door by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustave Kadelberg. Arthur Haviland (T. Roy Barnes) and Margaret Saxby (Lila Lee) elope on the very day that her parents (Lillian Leighton and Tully Marshall) are celebrating their silver wedding Read More

Don't Get Personal

Actors: Marie Prevost, Daisy Robinson, Roy Atwell, T. Roy Barnes

Synopsis: Mack Sennett graduates Marie Prevost (star) and Clarence Badger (director) were reunited in the 5-reel feature Don't Get Personal. Marie plays a chorus gal whose father hopes to remove her from the sinful temptations of Broadway. The girl is shipped off to the country estate of elderly George Read More

Old Homestead

Actors: Theodore Roberts, George Fawcett, T. Roy Barnes, Fritzi Ridgeway, Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Character actor Theodore Roberts was better known for his scene-stealing supporting roles than he was as a star in his own right. But he gets the opportunity to shine in this heart-warming drama based on the old play by Denman Thompson. Its small town theme was especially popular in an ever-more Read More

Too Much Wife

Actors: T. Roy Barnes, Wanda Hawley

Synopsis: This vehicle for Wanda Hawley proved to be an entertaining little programmer. John Coningsby (Arthur Hoyt) is constantly henpecked by his shrewish wife (Lillian Leighton), so when their daughter Myra (Hawley) weds Jack Morgan (T. Roy Barnes), she swears she will be different. Instead of forcing Read More

Her Face Value

Synopsis: Chorus girl Peggy Malone (Wanda Hawley) has a father (Lincoln Plumer) and brother (Dick Rosson) who sponge off her mercilessly. She also has a wealthy admirer, Martin Fox (Donald McDonald) who will do anything but marry her. So when Jimmy Parsons, the show's press agent (T. Roy Barnes) impulsively Read More

Exit the Vamp

Actors: Ethel Clayton, T. Roy Barnes, Theodore Roberts, Fontaine La Rue

Synopsis: Exit the Vamp stars the colorfully yclept Fontaine La Rue in the title role as Mrs. Willy Strong. The star of the proceedings, however, is Ethel Clayton, cast as Marion Shipley, the mousy bride of Mrs. Strong's latest victim, John Shipley (T. Roy Barnes). Apprised of hubby's infidelity, Marion Read More

A Kiss in Time

Actors: Wanda Hawley, T. Roy Barnes, Bertram Johns, Walter Hiers, Margaret Loomis

Synopsis: This frothy comedy was a lightweight vehicle for minor silent star Wanda Hawley. She is Sheila Athlone, an artist. When author Brian Moore (T. Roy Barnes) asks her to illustrate his book, she refuses because she thinks the plot is ridiculous -- no self-respecting girl would ever deign to kiss a Read More

See My Lawyer

Synopsis: When inventor Otto Trueman (J.P. Lockney) claims to have created a machine which makes artificial rubber, young promoter Robert Gardner (T. Roy Barnes) thinks he's found a great get-rich-quick scheme. He mails hundreds of thousands of letters touting this invention and searching for investors Read More

Scratch My Back

Synopsis: Madeline (Helene Chadwick) runs away from a convent and becomes a dancer. But when her partner, Jahoda (Cesare Gravina), makes a pass at her, she quits and marries the American Consul, Loton (Lloyd Whitlock). Complications arise when she is at a movie theater and meets the breezy Val Romney Read More

So Long Letty

Synopsis: In this farce comedy, two couples are next door neighbors. Although Harry Miller (T. Roy Barnes) loves his sweetly domestic wife Gracie (rising star Colleen Moore), sometimes he longs for somebody a little more festive. On the other hand, Tommy Robbins (the hefty Walter Hiers) wants nothing more Read More