Trixie FriganzaFilmography

Born:: November 29, 1870 in Grenola, KS
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Hefty vaudeville performer Trixie Friganza (born Delia O'Callahan) enjoyed some success in films in the 1920s. Once describing herself a "perfect 46," Friganza rose from the chorus to headlining at the New York Palace, mainly by delivering an endless stream of self-deprecating "fat girl" jokes....Read More

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If I Had My Way

Actors: Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed. She and he head to New York to look for her uncle, a vaudevillian. With the help of a good pal, they soon find the uncle. The three searchers encounter trouble when the pal Read More

1940
A Star Is Born

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine

Synopsis: A Star is Born came into being when producer David O. Selznick decided to tell a "true behind-the-scenes" story of Hollywood. The truth, of course, was filtered a bit for box-office purposes, although Selznick and an army of screenwriters based much of their script on actual people and events. Janet Gaynor Read More

1937
Wanderer of the Wasteland

Actors: Dean Jagger, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, Ben Baker, Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: This Zane Grey adaptation stars Dean Jagger as Adam and Gail Patrick as Ruth, two rugged individuals heading to gold country by riverboat. The couple's burgeoning romance is interrupted when Adam inadvertently gets involved in a murder. On the lam from the authorities, he links up with grizzled Read More

1935
Myrt and Marge

Actors: Myrtle Vail, Trixie Friganza, Eddie Foy, Jr., John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: Were it not for the diligence of old-time radio buffs and Three Stooges fans, the 1933 Universal epic Myrt and Marge might have remained in (deserved) obscurity. The film was inspired by The Story of Myrt and Marge, a popular radio serial which ran from 1931 to 1946. Repeating their radio roles, Myrtle Vail Read More

12/4/33
Free and Easy

Actors: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery, Fred Niblo

Synopsis: Buster Keaton's talkie debut (discounting his non-speaking guest appearance in Hollywood Revue of 1929) was Free and Easy, an uneven but generally amusing comedy with a Hollywood setting. When pretty Elvira (Anita Page) of Gopher City, Kansas wins a beauty contest, her prize includes a trip to Read More

3/22/30
The Unholy Three

Actors: Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles, John Miljan

Synopsis: A remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly strengthened Hollywood censors, but is still quite entertaining in a macabre sort of way. Chaney reprises his role as Professor Echo, a sideshow ventriloquist who moonlights Read More

1930
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Actors: Ruth Taylor, Alice White, Ford Sterling, Holmes Herbert, Mack Swain

Synopsis: The present unavailability of 1928's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is especially frustrating for those who'd like to compare this first version of the classic Anita Loos comic novel to the 1953 Marilyn Monroe-Jane Russell remake. The blonde in question is Miss Lorelei Lee, a dumb-like-a-fox golddigger Read More

1928
Thanks for the Buggy Ride

Actors: Laura La Plante, Glenn Tryon, Richard Tucker, Lee Moran, Jack Raymond

Synopsis: "Thanks for the Buggy Ride" is the name of a tune penned by would-be songwriter Joe Hall (Glenn Tryon). On the verge of selling his song to an important music publisher, Joe loses his opportunity when the publisher is inadvertently insulted by the hero's sweetheart, nightclub chanteuse Jenny (Laura La Plante Read More

1928
Racing Romeo

Actors: Red Grange, Walter Hiers, Trixie Friganza, Jobyna Ralston, Ben Hendricks, Jr.

1927
Monte Carlo

Actors: Lew Cody, Gertrude Olmstead, Roy D'Arcy, Karl Dane, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: Lew Cody stars as Tony Townsend, a top-hatted "international adventurer" who gets into a heap of trouble when he runs out of money at the fancy French resort of Monte Carlo. Escaping the authorities, the dapper Tony -- who somewhere along the line has been forced to relinquish his trousers as a Read More

1926
Almost a Lady

Actors: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, George K. Arthur, Trixie Friganza, John Miljan

Synopsis: Mack Sennett veterans Marie Prevost and Trixie Friganza enliven the proceedings of Almost a Lady. Prevost plays a model who uses the fancy clothes that she's paid to wear to crash into society. She very nearly crashes out when her ruse is exposed, but love, in the form of handsome Harrison Ford Read More

1926
The Coming of Amos

Actors: Rod La Rocque, Jetta Goudal, Noah Beery, Sr., Richard Carle, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: Produced but not directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Coming of Amos nevertheless has many earmarks of a typical DeMille film, including a climax straight out of a gaslit melodrama. Rod LaRocque plays Amos Burden, a handsome Australian who takes a Riviera vacation. Here he falls in love with White Read More

1925
The Road to Yesterday

Actors: Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, Vera Reynolds, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Julia Faye, Trixie Friganza

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's century-hopping extravaganza The Road to Yesterday begins in the present (1925, that is). Wealthy Joseph Schildkraut can't understand why his wife Jetta Goudal is so cold to him. Goudal senses that Schildkraut had once done her dirt....in a previous life. Likewise unhappily Read More

1925
Borrowed Finery

Actors: Louise Lorraine, Ward Crane, Lou Tellegen, Taylor Holmes, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: Louise Lorraine stars as a fashion model who takes a job with government agent Lou Tellegen. At least, he says he's with the government; actually, he's a jewel thief who hopes to utilize Lorraine's charm to gain access to a valuable gem. Meanwhile, another crook, Ward Crane, has his eyes on the Read More

1925
The Charmer

Actors: Pola Negri, Wallace MacDonald, Robert W. Frazer, Trixie Friganza, Cesare Gravina

Synopsis: Mariposa (Pola Negri) is a dancer in a Spanish café who is discovered by theatrical manager Señor Sprotti (Cesare Gravina) around the same time that Ralph Bayne, a wealthy American (Wallace MacDonald), sees her. Bayne falls in love with her immediately, as does his chauffeur, Dan Murray (Robert W. Fraser Read More

1925
Proud Flesh

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Pat O'Malley, Harrison Ford, Trixie Friganza, William J. Kelly

Synopsis: King Vidor does a nice job of making an insignificant novel by Lawrence Rising into a pleasant light comedy. Fernanda (Eleanor Boardman, who would become Vidor's second wife) is born in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake and raised by aristocratic relatives in Spain. As a young woman she is Read More

1925
Mind over Motor

Actors: Trixie Friganza

Synopsis: Plus-size vaudeville star Trixie Friganza stars in this independently made comedy. Tish Carberry (Friganza) is a speed demon and car fanatic. A crooked racecar promoter convinces her to back his endeavor. Meanwhile, a relative calls her in to chaperone Bettina Bailey (Clara Horton), who is in love Read More

1923