Virginia Brown Faire Filmography

West of the Divide

Actors: John Wayne, Virginia Brown Faire, Lloyd Whitlock, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt

Synopsis: Assigned to write and direct the John Wayne western West of the Divide, Robert N. Bradbury dug out the plotline he'd used so often and to such good effect in his son Bob Steele's vehicles. Wayne plays frontiersman Ted Hayden, who spends most of the picture searching for the man who killed his Read More

African Incident

The Last Ride

Actors: Charles Morton, Dorothy Revier, Virginia Brown Faire, Frank Mayo, Tom Santschi

Synopsis: Former silent-screen star Frank Mayo plays a big-city bootlegger at odds with gangster chieftain Tom Santschi, the man who's been hijacking his shipments. The cops decide not to get involved but instead remain on the sidelines, hoping that Mayo and Santschi will knock each other off. But young Read More

Tex Takes a Holiday

Actors: Wallace MacDonald, Virginia Brown Faire, James Dillon, Claude Payton, Sheldon Lewis

Synopsis: Future producer Wallace MacDonald earned a starring role in this low-budget western based on an original story by veteran screen villain Robert Walker. Stopping at a hacienda for rest and food, Tex (MacDonald) falls in love with the pretty owner, Dolores (Virginia Brown Faire), despite the fact Read More

The Lone Trail

Actors: Rex Lease, Edmund Cobb, Billy O'Brien, Virginia Brown Faire, Jack Mower

Synopsis: A Texas Ranger (Rex Lease) searches for the killer of his sister in this cheap and often incomprehensible Western produced by Harry S. Webb and Flora E. Douglas, the latter being one of Hollywood's few women executives at the time. In tracking down the mysterious killer -- a villain known only as Read More

Secret Menace

Actors: Glenn Tryon, Virginia Brown Faire, Arthur Stone, Margaret Mann, Edward Cecil

Synopsis: This little cheapie tries to pass itself off as a contemporary actioner, but at heart it's still a western. An old prospector strikes gold on the dude ranch owned by John Elliot, only to be promptly murdered by the villains. Despite several entreaties, Elliot refuses to sell his property, so the Read More

Alias the Bad Man

Actors: Ken Maynard, Virginia Brown Faire, Frank Mayo, Charles King, Robert E. Homans

Synopsis: In his third Western for low-budget company Tiffany, Ken Maynard plays Ken Neville, a cowboy returning to the old homestead to find his father (Lafe McKee) and a fellow rancher (Robert Homans) killed. The dead neighbor's daughter, Mary Warner (Virginia Brown Faire), blames Ken, whom she believes Read More

Sign of the Wolf [Serial]

Synopsis: King, the clever pooch publicized as "Emperor of All Dogs" (played by Muro), starred in this very low-budget serial produced by Harry S. Webb's Metropolitan Pictures. Muro had earlier appeared in Webb's Untamed Justice and Phantoms of the North, both cheap action features, but in The Sign of the Read More

Hell's Valley

Actors: Wally Wales, Virginia Brown Faire, Walter Miller, Franklin Farnum, Edmund Cobb

Synopsis: A remake of the silent When a Man Rides Alone (1919), this low-budget oater from the Big 4 Film Corp. stars Wally Wales as Wally Madison, a ranger investigating the robbery of a shipment of gold bullion. In a shootout with the gang, one of the robbers, José Valdez (Jack Phipps, is shot and killed. Read More

Trail of Peril

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Jack Perrin, Frank Ellis, Lew Meehan, Joe Rickson

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's few women producers, Flora E. Douglas, produced this minor western starring former silent screen cowboy Wally Wales as a war veteran accused of being a notorious outlaw upon his return from the front. Managing to escape the law, Wales tracks down the real outlaw who, to nobody's Read More

The Lonesome Trail

Actors: Jimmy Aubrey, Virginia Brown Faire, Yakima Canutt, Art Mix, Charles Delaney

Synopsis: An innocent cowboy is once again suspected of a crime he didn't commit in The Lonesome Trail, an obscure early talkie western from low-budget producer Syndicate that wasted the talents of silent western stars Yakima Canutt, Bob Reeves, Art Mix, and Monte Montague. The accuser (Montague), as it Read More

Murder on the Roof

Actors: Dorothy Revier, Raymond Hatton, Margaret Livingston, David Newell, Paul Porcasi

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a down-on-his-luck attorney with connections to a diamond thief is framed for the thief's murder by the owner of the night club whose roof the body was found on. The attorney's daughter sets out to prove her father's innocence and gets a job singing at the club, becoming a Read More

Breed of the West

Actors: Wally Wales, Buzz Barton, Virginia Brown Faire, Robert Walker, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: From Big 4 Film Corp., Breed of the West stars former silent cowboy Wally Wales, in his second talkie, as Wally Weldon, a young cowboy who encounters a lost youth searching for his father. Wally takes the boy, Jim Bradley (Buzz Barton), back to the ranch where the kid obtains the job of cook's Read More

Untamed Justice

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Gaston Glass, David Torrence, Philo McCullough, Sheldon Lewis

Synopsis: A horse and a dog play the lead roles in this inexpensive silent Western produced and directed by Harry S. Webb. Virginia Browne Faire is falsely accused of bond theft and is cleared by a handsome air mail pilot (Gaston Glass) and the aforementioned four-legged thespians. The premiere production Read More

Devil's Chaplain

Actors: Josef Swickard, Virginia Brown Faire, Cornelius Keefe, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: Escaping from a revolution, the King (Joseph Swickard) of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray (Cornelius Keefe). With Norray's help, the King is restored to his throne, and the rascally Read More

The Donovan Affair

Actors: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, William Collier, Jr., Fred Kelsey

Synopsis: This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector who tries to re-enact a murder scene with disastrous results. The first killing occurred within a darkened dining room. Unfortunately, when the inspector resets the scene Read More

Burning the Wind

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Virginia Brown Faire, Cesare Gravina

Synopsis: Universal's ruffled cowboy star Hoot Gibson and brunette Virginia Browne Faire played feuding ranchers in this average silent Western co-directed by Henry McRae and Herbert Blaché. The two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy, however, and fall in love. Based on William McLeod Raine's A Read More

Handcuffed

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Wheeler Oakman, Jimmy Harrison

Synopsis: Directed by action specialist Duke Worne and starring Worne's wife Virginia Brown Faire, this minor murder mystery featured newcomer Dean Jagger as a young man framed for the murder of his late father's enemy (Broderick O'Farrell). Convicted of the killing, Jagger is saved in the nick of time by Read More

House of Shame

Actors: Creighton Hale, Virginia Brown Faire, Lloyd Whitlock, Florence Dudley, Fred Walton

Synopsis: Bespectacled Creighton Hale and 1923 Wampas Baby Star Virginia Brown Faire headlined this domestic drama from low-budget Chesterfield. Maintaining that Harvey Baremore (Hale) is stealing from his company, his employer John Kimball (Lloyd Whitlock) suggests that Mrs. Baremore (Faire) pays her Read More

Race for Life

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Carroll Nye, Bobby Gordon, James Mason, Pat Hartigan

Synopsis: Canine star Rin Tin Tin topped the cast of Warner Bros.' A Race for Life. The combination of star and title was in itself enough to pack theaters, but Warners insisted upon adding a plot, if only to appease the critics. In this one, Rinty becomes the best pal of juvenile "human" hero Danny O'Shea (Bobby Gordon Read More

Canyon of Adventure

Actors: Ken Maynard, Virginia Brown Faire

Synopsis: Ken Maynard played a land agent in this fine Western from Maynard's silent heyday. A greedy land baron (Theodore Lorch) plans not only to take over farmer Eric Mayne's possibly profitable ranch but also has designs on the man's lovely daughter, Virginia Browne Faire. Happily, agent Maynard is on Read More

Body Punch

Actors: Jack Daugherty, Virginia Brown Faire, George Kotsonaros, Monte Montague, Wilbur Mack

Synopsis: A prize-fighter and a professional wrestler meet in a benefit match in this routine comedy-drama. Believing boxer Jack Townsend (Jack Daugherty) is his romantic rival, fortune hunter Peyson Turner (Wilbur Mack) places a stolen bracelet in his dressing-room during the match. Townsend escapes the Read More

Danger Patrol

Actors: William Russell, Virginia Brown Faire

Synopsis: Under the mistaken assumption that her father (Wheeler Oakman) is guilty of murder, Virginia Browne Faire runs away from home. Lost and helpless in snow country, the girl is rescued by a gallant mountie (William Russell), who then goes in search of the real killer. Released from his contract with Read More

Chorus Kid

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Sheldon Lewis, Thelma Hill, Hedda Hopper, Tom O'Brien, John Batten, Bryant Washburn

Synopsis: Having been in show biz since infancy, Broadway chorus girl Beatrice (Virginia Brown Faire) regrets her lack of formal education. Upon unexpectedly falling heir to a huge sum of money, Beatrice decides to make up for lost time by enrolling in a fancy girl's school. Though many of her snooty Read More

Pleasure Before Business

Actors: Max Davidson, Virginia Brown Faire, Pat O'Malley, Rosa Rosanova

Synopsis: According to the original studio press releases, contentious Columbia president Harry Cohn not only produced Pleasure Before Business but directed it as well. In truth, Frank Strayer was the director, though he undoubtedly danced to the crack of Mr. Cohn's whip. Jewish comedian Max Davidson stars Read More

White Flannels

Actors: Louise Dresser, Jason Robards, Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Warner P. Richmond, George Nichols

Synopsis: Its title notwithstanding, White Flannels starts out in a grimy coal-mining town. Mrs. Jacob Politz (Louise Dresser) scrimps, saves and sacrifices to send her son Frank (Jason Robards Sr.) to a fancy New England college. He soon becomes Big Man on Campus, adored by everyone -- but all this comes Read More

The Devil's Masterpiece

Synopsis: Produced on the very cheap by Sanford F. Arnold, this minor silent Northwest melodrama featured 1922 WAMPAS Baby Star Virginia Brown Faire as a Northwoods girl suspecting her boyfriend (Gordon Brinkley) of being a dope smuggler. Unbeknownst to the damsel, however, Brinkley is really a Northwest Read More

Tracked by the Police

Actors: Jason Robards, Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Tom Santschi

Synopsis: This lively Rin Tin Tin drama throws in everything but the kitchen sink. This time Rinty finds himself on the site of a dam project, where the villains intend to destroy the huge structure for their own gain. Our canine hero not only prevents the sabotaging of the dam but also participates in a Read More

Hazardous Valley

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, David Torrence, Sheldon Lewis, Burr McIntosh

Synopsis: The forgotten Vincent Brownell stars in this low-budgeter as the son of a wealthy lumber camp owner. Brownell arrives at the camp early in the film to make sure that nothing goes wrong with an important log shipment. But something does, thanks to his father's wicked rival David Torrence. Dismissed Read More

Gun Gospel

Actors: Ken Maynard, Virginia Brown Faire, J.P. McGowan, Noah Young, Romaine Fielding

Synopsis: It's too bad that most of Ken Maynard's silent westerns for First National apparently no longer exist. From all accounts, Gun Gospel was one of the best of the batch. Maynard plays one of a trio of mountaineers who've been falsely accused of rustling. Fatally wounded in a skirmish with the actual Read More

The Temptress

Actors: Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Roy D'Arcy, Marc MacDermott, Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis: The Temptress was Greta Garbo's second American film, and while it may strike modern viewers as excessively melodramatic, Garbo is always worth watching. The star plays Elena, the wife of Monsieur Canterac (Lionel Barrymore) -- and the mistress of rich Parisian banker Monsieur Fontenoy (Marc MacDermott Read More

Racing Romance

Actors: Reed Howes

Synopsis: Admittedly, gridiron flash Harold "Red" Grange was more at home on the football field than before the cameras, but he was an agreeable screen presence in his handful of starring films. In Racing Romeo, his second movie vehicle, Grange is cast as auto mechanic and aspiring racer Red Walden. For the Read More

Desert Valley

Actors: Buck Jones, Virginia Brown Faire, J.W. Johnston, Charles Brinley

Synopsis: Based on a 1921 story by Jackson Gregory, this silent Western starred Buck Jones as Montgomery Wilson Fitzsmith, a roaming cowboy who comes to the aid of a beleaguered group of Desert Valley ranchers who are fighting an unscrupulous capitalist, Jefferson Hoades (Malcolm Waite). Hoades has cornered Read More

Chip of the Flying U

Actors: Hoot Gibson, DeWitt Jennings, Harry Todd, Virginia Brown Faire, Philo McCullough

Synopsis: A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Hoot Gibson starred as Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, who despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Read More

Broadway Billy

Synopsis: Billy Sullivan, a nephew of turn-of-the-century boxing champ John L. Sullivan, starred in this low-budget prize-fight melodrama as Billy Brookes, a boxer whose spendthrift wife Phyliss (Virginia Brown Faire) considers him a loser. But when Phyliss is severely injured in an automobile accident and Read More

Mile-A-Minute Man

Actors: William Fairbanks, Virginia Brown Faire, George Periolat

Synopsis: The "mile-a-minute man" in this action quickie is one "Speedy" Rockett, played by William Fairbanks. Speedy's dad O. I. Rocket (George Periolat) is a car manufacturer, so it stands to reason that Rocket's top racecar driver is his own son. The plot thickens when Speedy falls in love with Paula Read More

Wings of the Storm

Actors: William Russell, Reed Howes, Virginia Brown Faire

Synopsis: Thunder the Dog, one of the worthier rivals of canine star Rin Tin Tin, heads the cast of Wings of the Storm. Curiously, the plot is quite "human," with a cowardly, pampered German Shepherd becoming a hero when he's adopted by a rugged forest ranger (Reed Howes). The daring doggie not only rescues Read More

Wolf Hunters

Actors: Alan Roscoe, Virginia Brown Faire, Mildred Harris, Robert McKim, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: A James Oliver Curwood story was the source for this rugged Canadian Mountie melodrama. Alan Roscoe plays Sgt. Steve Drew, the "lone rider" of the Mounties, at present on the prowl for illegal wolf trappers. Before he's able to get his man, Sgt. Steve spends a lot of time in the company of two Read More

Proud Heart

Actors: Rudolph Schildkraut, Rosa Rosanova, George Lewis, Bobby Gordon, Arthur Lubin

Synopsis: This drama about a Jewish family on New York's Lower East side marked the screen debut of respected stage actor Rudolph Schildkraut (whose son, Joseph Schildkraut, would also become a stage and screen star). Rabbi Cominsky (Schildkraut) has been reduced to working as a pushcart peddler, but he and Read More

Friendly Enemies

Actors: Lew Fields, Joe Weber, Virginia Brown Faire, Jack Mulhall, Lucille Lee Stewart

Synopsis: The comedy duo of Lew Fields and Joe Weber had parted ways for several years when they teamed up once again for this picture, based on the 1917 play by Samuel Shipman and Aaron Hoffman. As youths, Carl Pfeiffer (Fields) and Henry Block (Weber) came to America from Germany. Pfeiffer became a Read More

Recompense

Actors: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, John Roche, George Siegmann, Charles Stevens

Synopsis: This romance is based on the best-selling novel by Robert Keable, which was a sequel to yet another novel, Simon Called Peter. Monte Blue stars as clergyman Peter Graham, who is in love with Julie, a nurse (Marie Prevost). Julie, however, refuses to marry him. When World War I breaks out, they Read More

The Lost World

Actors: Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: This adventure virtually butchers its source, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. But with stop-motion photography and special effects that were incredibly innovative in 1924 and 1925, who cared? These effects were the whole film, and Wallace Beery's inspired performance was a bonus. The tale Read More

Peter Pan

Actors: Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, Cyril Chadwick, Virginia Brown Faire, Anna May Wong

Synopsis: When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter Pan, made famous on the stage by Maude Adams. Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and even Gloria Swanson thought they were perfect for the role, but Barrie's own choice was Betty Bronson Read More

Welcome Stranger

Actors: Dore Davidson, Florence Vidor, Virginia Brown Faire, Noah Beery, Sr., Lloyd Hughes

Synopsis: Elderly Isadore Solomon (Dore Davidson) arrives in the small New England town of Valley Falls, but is run out of the hotel because he is Jewish. Also driven out is Mary Clark (Florence Vidor), who arrives the same night. They are taken in by Clem Beemis, a handyman and electrician (William V. Read More

The Air Hawk

Synopsis: Famed stunt flyer Al Wilson was handsome and personable enough to successfully star in a series of fast-moving silent actioners in the 1920s. In The Air Hawk, Wilson plays the titular character, a secret service agent posing as a "regular Joe" flyboy. It is Wilson's task to track down some Read More

Romance Ranch

Actors: John Gilbert, Bernard Siegel, Frank Beal, John Miljan

Synopsis: This very average silent western starred John Gilbert right before MGM made him an international superstar as the doughboy in King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925). Gilbert had already come a long way, from travelling stock companies to playing western villains and starring opposite Mary Pickford in Heart o' the Hills Read More

Cricket on the Hearth

Actors: Paul Gerson, Virginia Brown Faire, Josef Swickard, Fritzi Ridgeway, Paul Moore

Synopsis: Although its popularity didn't endure, The Cricket on the Hearth was originally the favorite of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books (the most well-known today is, of course, A Christmas Carol. Director Lorimar Johnston makes an imposing Josiah Tackleton (also known as "Old Gruff"), and producer Paul Read More

Shadows of the North

Synopsis: Edison Marshall's 1922 novel about prospectors in Northern Canada, The Skyline of Spruce, came to the screen the following year courtesy of Universal. Veteran action star William Desmond played "Wolf" Darby, who -- with his father "Pancake" (James O. Barrows) -- is prospecting in Canada when he is 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

Stormswept

Actors: Noah Beery, Sr., Wallace Beery

Synopsis: Brothers Wallace and Noah Beery star together in this awkward melodrama. Wallace Beery -- who was known at the time for his villainous roles -- was miscast as the romantic hero, William McCabe, who saves the life of ship captain Shark Moran (Noah Beery). Moran returns the favor when he finds Read More

Vengeance of the Deep

Actors: Ralph Lewis, Virginia Brown Faire, William Anderson

Synopsis: This tale of the South Seas featured underwater photography which looked credible enough even though it was shot on the back lot. Captain Musgrove (Ralph Lewis), the ruthless lord of an island, harvests pearls from the surrounding waters while keeping the native divers away. Frederico, a white Read More

Omar the Tentmaker

Synopsis: A beautiful woman is imprisoned when she refuses to join a Shah's harem because she loves another. Shireen (Virginia Brown Faire) is thrown into solitary confinement and has a child in captivity fathered by Omar the tentmaker (Guy Bates Post). The Shah (Noah Beery) orders the Persian henchmen to Read More

Monte Cristo

Actors: John Gilbert, Estelle Taylor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim, Ralph Cloninger

Synopsis: aka The Count of Monte Cristo Much of John Gilbert's early work as a leading man was done at the Fox Studios. He made nineteen pictures for the company, but only two are still in existence -- this adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel, and 1923's Cameo Kirby. As Edmond Danton, and later as the Read More

Omar, the Tent-Maker

Actors: Guy Bates Post, Virginia Brown Faire, Nigel de Brulier, Rose Dione, Patsy Ruth Miller

Synopsis: This film about Omar Khayyam, author of The Rubaiyat, was adapted from the stage play by Richard Walton Tully with mixed results. It shows Omar (Guy Bates Post, who also played the role on stage) as a student in love with Shireen (Virginia Brown Faire), the daughter of his teacher. The couple Read More

The Count of Monte Cristo

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

Without Benefit of Clergy

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Thomas Holding, Evelyn Selbie, Otto Lederer, Boris Karloff

Synopsis: John Holden, an English engineer living in Lahore, India, (Thomas Holding) sees pretty Ameera (Virginia Brown Faire) being mistreated by a money-lender (Otto Lederer). He rescues her and finds out that she and her mother (Evelyn Selbie) are very poor. It seems like the only way for them to keep Read More

Fightin' Mad

Actors: William Desmond, Virginia Brown Faire, Doris Pawn, Rosemary Thebv, Joseph J. Dowling

Synopsis: Manly William Desmond stars in this virile, low-budget Western. When Bud McGraw (Desmond) returns from the Great War, he is bored with living on the ranch belonging to his father (Joseph J. Dowling). He leaves and heads south, where he applies for a job as a ranger at a border camp. When a group Read More

Under Northern Lights

Synopsis: In this Universal programmer, Mountie Douglas MacLeod (William Buckley, not to be confused with conservative political commentator William F. Buckley, Jr.) has to decide between love and duty. His romance with Suzanne Foucharde (Virginia Faire) is threatened when her brother Jacques (Leonard Clapham Read More