William Collier, Jr.Filmography

All of Me

Actors: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, George Raft, Helen Mack, Nella Walker

Synopsis: In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking place near Boulder Dam. He decides to go and tries to convince his wealthy student/lover to go with him. They discuss this in a night club. She doesn't really want to go. Read More

Public Stenographer

Actors: Lola Lane, William Collier, Jr., Esther Muir, Jason Robards, Sr., Duncan Renaldo

Synopsis: Wisecracking Public Stenographer Ann McNair (Lola Lane) spends most of her time fending off the Roamin' Fingers and Rushin' Hands of her employers. En route to another job, Ann's car stalls on a lonely stretch of road. She is rescued by handsome Jim Martin (William Collier Jr.), who at first Read More

Mark It Paid

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Joan Marsh

Synopsis: When speedboat driver William Collier, Jr. declines to throw a race he gets into trouble. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Story of Temple Drake

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Jack LaRue, William Gargan, William Collier, Jr., Irving Pichel

Synopsis: William Faulkner's bestseller Sanctuary was so taboo in some circles that Hollywood couldn't even use the title when making the first film version. Thus, Paramount's adaptation of Sanctuary went out as The Story of Temple Drake, fooling no one who could read. Miriam Hopkins plays the title role Read More

Speed Demon

Behind Jury Doors

Actors: John Davidson, Walter Miller, Rychard Cramer, Jessie Arnold, Louis Natheaux

Synopsis: Action specialist B. Reeves Eason cools his jets as director of Behind Jury Doors. William Collier Jr. plays a hotshot reporter assigned to cover the murder trial of a prominent doctor. Once he meets the doc's pretty daughter Helen Chandler, Collier vows to prove the defendant's innocence. Problem Read More

Forgotten

Actors: Lee Kohlmar, June Clyde, William Collier, Jr., Selmar Jackson

The Fighting Gentleman

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Josephine Dunn, Natalie Moorhead, Crauford Kent, Lee Moran

The County Fair

Actors: Hobart Bosworth, Marion Shilling, Ralph Ince, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: A semi-remake of the 1920 silent film of the same name, County Fair stars William Collier Jr. as Jimmy Dolan, an ex-jockey. Falling in love with racetrack waitress Alice Ainsworth (Marion Shilling), Jimmy decides to enter an upcoming championship race for the sake of Alice's Read More

The Phantom Express

Synopsis: It is all but impossible to dislike a film as gloriously corny as The Phantom Express. The title is derived from an early scene in which veteran engineer Smokey North (J. Farrell McDonald) wrecks his own train while trying to avoid a head-on collision with another. Suddenly, the other train Read More

File 113

Actors: Lew Cody, Mary Nolan, Clara Kimball Young, George E. Stone, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: On something of a "literary binge" in the early 1930s, low-budget Monogram Pictures acquired the screen rights for the well-known Gaborieu detective yarn File 113. Lew Cody stars as urbane Parisian detective Le Coq, who must contend with a bank robbery and blackmail scheme. Le Coq is anxious to Read More

After Tomorrow

Actors: Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon, Minna Gombell, Josephine Hull

Synopsis: Peter Piper (Charles Farrell) and Sidney Taylor (Marian Nixon) are deeply in love, and saving to get married, but their mothers have other ideas. Mrs. Piper (Josephine Hull) is jealous of Sidney, refusing to allow the couple to move in with her after they marry. Elsie (Minna Gombell), Sidney's Read More

His Guiding Destiny

Dancers in the Dark

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Jack Oakie, William Collier, Jr., Eugene Pallette, Lyda Roberti

Synopsis: In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer. To protect the tender youth, the conductor sends him out of town.The bandleader soon finds himself wooing the lovely dancer. Unfortunately, a jealous gangster is also in love Read More

Exposed

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Barbara Kent, Raymond Hatton, Walter McGrail

Synopsis: William Collier Jr. stars as an ambulance surgeon, forced by circumstances to work for a gang of criminals. What the villains don't know is that Collier is in league with the police, informing the authorities of the crooks' every move. To rescue nurse Barbara Kent from harm, our hero is forced to Read More

Reducing

Actors: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: In this slapstick comedy set in a posh beauty salon, the owner asks her matronly sister, a postman's wife, to come and visit. She does, and brings her lovely daughter along with her. This creates problems when the fiancé of the owner's daughter falls in love with the daughter of her sister. Read More

The Big Gamble

Actors: Dorothy Sebastian, Warner Oland, William Collier, Jr., James Gleason

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1926 as Red Dice, The Big Gamble stars future "Hopalong Cassidy" Bill Boyd as a heavily-in-debt gambler. The suicidal Boyd makes a deal with mobster Warner Oland, whereby Oland will collect Boyd's huge insurance policy--provided he facilitates the gambler's entry into The Next Read More

Street Scene

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., Estelle Taylor, Max Montor, Louis Natheaux, David Landau, Russell Hopton

Synopsis: Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Street Scene was purchased for the screen by producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1931. The entire story takes place on the street in front of a foreboding old New York brownstone, between one evening and the next afternoon. The individual fates of eight neighboring Read More

Broadminded

Actors: Joe E. Brown, William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert

Synopsis: In this comedy, a carefree carouser creates trouble for his cousin the chaperone as they go 'round the world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sporting Chance

Actors: Mahlon Hamilton, Hedwig Reicher, William Collier, Jr., Claudia Dell, Eugene Jackson

Synopsis: Sporting Chance is a prime example of how once-prominent silent screen personalities ended up grasping at straws on Poverty Row. The story is built around a championship steeplechase, on which the futures of jockey Terry Nolan (Buster Collier), his sweetheart Mary Bascombe (Claudia Dell) and his Read More

The Secret Witness

Actors: Una Merkel, William Collier, Jr., ZaSu Pitts, Purnell Pratt, Clyde Cook

Synopsis: Rita La Roy has good reasons to hate her philandering husband, Hooper Atchley, in this low-budget but sumptuous-looking art deco mystery directed by comedy specialist Thornton Freeland. The cool and calculated Miss La Roy isn't the only person with a grudge against the nasty Atchley, however; in Read More

Mr. Lemon of Orange

Actors: El Brendel, Ruth Warren, Joan Castle

Synopsis: Mr. Lemon of Orange was advertised as comedian El Brendel's first starring feature, even though he'd previously dominated the proceedings in the lavish musical fantasy Just Imagine. This time, Brendel plays a dual role: in addition to his Dutch-dialect characterization as a dimwitted immigrant Read More

Movietone Follies of 1930

Actors: El Brendel, Marjorie White, Frank Richardson, Noel Francis, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: In the first years of the talkies, every studio drew up plans to release annual "all-star" musical spectacles, but only Fox Pictures truly stuck to the notion. A follow-up to Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, Movietone Follies of 1930 once again offers a maximum of production numbers and the barest Read More

Melody Man

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Alice Day, Johnny Walker, Mildred Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, a Viennese composer kills his wife and her lover in a jealous rage, and then heads for the US with his daughter where he becomes a successful musician in a Broadway restaurant. Eighteen years later, his grown daughter gets a job as an arranger for a jazz combo. The trouble begins Read More

Lummox

Actors: Winifred Westover, Ben Lyon, William Collier, Jr., Edna Murphy

Synopsis: Based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst, this dreary and primitive early talkie was unleashed on a derisive audience in January of 1930. Winifred Westover played the title-role, a downtrodden Swedish kitchen slavey seduced by the son (Ben Lyon) of her wealthy employer (Ida Darling). When she Read More

Cimarron

Actors: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: Cimarron was the first Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture--and, until Dances with Wolves in 1990, the only one. The film begins on April 22, 1889, the opening day of the great Oklahoma Land Rush on the Cherokee Strip. Boisterous Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix) is cheated out of his land claim Read More

Rain or Shine

Actors: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier, Jr., Tom Howard

Synopsis: Legendary Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who was capable of reducing audiences to paroxysms of helpless laughter by telling them what he wasn't going to do that evening, was invariably better than the shows in which he appeared. Fully aware of this, director Frank Capra brought Cook's 1928 Read More

A Royal Romance

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Pauline Starke

Synopsis: In this romance, an impoverished, struggling writer finally leaves his humble boarding house room after he is bequeathed a large inheritance. He becomes so wealthy, that he can help out a friend who is married to a philandering husband. To help her, he buys the castle in which she lives and wins Read More

Hardboiled Rose

Synopsis: In this essentially silent drama, a cultured Southern belle must work in a gambling house after her deeply indebted father kills himself. She does so in order to pay her father's debts. In this humble place, the woman meets a handsome, charming man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away Read More

New Orleans

Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Alma Bennett, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: Two friends, one of them a jockey, pursue a woman who must be wooed with money. The other friend steals cash from his employer and wins her, and the jockey tries to win a big race to help his friend replace it, but when the woman takes off with the winnings, his friend goes to jail. When he gets Read More

Red Sword

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Marian Nixon, Demetrius Alexis, Alan Roscoe

Synopsis: Another of RKO Radio's "leftovers" from its previous existence as FBO Pictures, The Red Sword is set in a backlot Russia. Lecherous Czarist officer Litvoski (Allan Roscoe) really "asks for it" when he blinds elderly innkeeper Fiveless (Charles Darvas) and rapes Catherine (Carmel Myers), the Read More

One Stolen Night

Actors: Betty Bronson, William Collier, Jr., Mitchell Lewis, Nina Quartero, Rose Dione

Synopsis: In this adventure, a remake of 1923's The Arab, a British cavalry soldier stationed in the Sudan takes the rap for his brother, who had been accused of stealing; the soldier subsequently joins a vaudeville troupe. There he falls in love with a lovely woman only to lose her when she is purchased by Read More

Two Men and a Maid

Synopsis: In this romance, a husband, believing that his wife had sexual relations before they were married, ends up leaving, joining the Foreign Legion and living in Algeria. There he falls for the lover of the cruel officer in charge. After the illicit romance is revealed, a gun goes off, and the woman is Read More

The Bachelor Girl

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Jacqueline Logan, Thelma Todd, Edward Hearn

Synopsis: This early sound-film only features three scenes with dialog as it tells the tale of an arrogant, egotistical salesman who messes up and loses his job. Fortunately, his girl friend, the personal secretary to the company president, helps him get hired by his former company's arch rival. He soon Read More

The College Coquette

Actors: Ruth Taylor, William Collier, Jr., Jobyna Ralston, John Holland, Adda Gleason

Synopsis: Demure college coed Doris Marlowe (Jobyna Ralston) wants desperately to be accepted by her peers, so she links up with campus "coquette" Betty Forrester (Ruth Taylor). Unfortunately, Betty plays fast and loose, keeping company with such unsavory types as lothario Tom Marion (William Collier Jr.) 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

A Night of Mystery

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Nora Lane, William Collier, Jr., Raoul Paoli, Evelyn Brent

Synopsis: A Night of Mystery was based on Ferreol, the famous crime novel by Victorien Sardou. While visiting the apartment of ex-lover Gilberte (Evelyn Brent), Captain Ferreol (Menjou) witnesses a murder. The crafty killer persuades Ferreol not to report the crime, lest Gilberte's indiscretions be revealed Read More

The Lion and the Mouse

Actors: May McAvoy, Lionel Barrymore, Alec B. Francis, Emmett Corrigan

Synopsis: The Lion and the Mouse was adapted from the well-worn stage play by Charles Klein. Lionel Barrymore stars as "Ready Money" Ryder, a ruthless businessman who destroys Judge Rossmore (Alec B. Francis), the father of heroine Shirley (May McAvoy). Soon thereafter, Ryder's weak-willed son Jefferson (William Collier Jr Read More

The Floating College

Actors: Sally O'Neil, William Collier, Jr., Georgia Hale, Harvey Clark

Synopsis: Two rich sisters become arch rivals when they fall in love with their swimming teacher in this silent adventure. The sneakier sister gets her sibling out of the way by sending her on a slow boat to China. Unfortunately, the handsome instructor was just hired to teach swimming on the same cruise. Read More

Beware of Bachelors

Actors: André Beranger, Clyde Cook, Audrey Ferris

Synopsis: The screenplay for Beware of Bachelors was credited to Mark Canfield, but it was penned pseudonymously by future movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck. Here again is the old saw about the young couple who stand to inherit oodles of money if they can stay married for an entire year. Both hero William Collier Jr Read More

So This Is Love?

Actors: Shirley Mason, William Collier, Jr., Johnnie Walker

Synopsis: No relation to the 1953 Grace Moore biopic of the same name, So This is Love was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes Read More

The Tragedy of Youth

Actors: Warner Baxter, Patsy Ruth Miller, Claire McDowell, Harvey Clark

Synopsis: Neglected by shallow husband Dick (William Collier Jr.), young bride Paula Wayne (Patsy Ruth Miller) seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature lover Frank Gordon (Warner Baxter). Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, Dick attempts suicide Read More

Women They Talk About

Actors: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: Advertised as a talking picture, the 6-reel Women They Talk About contains only 2 reels of sound. Widowed Irene Mervin Hughes (Irene Rich) has a daughter named Audrey (Audrey Ferris), of marriageable age. The same is true of widower John Harrison (Anders Randolph), whose son Steve (William Read More

Convoy

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Dorothy Mackaill, William Collier, Jr., Lawrence Gray, Ian Keith

Synopsis: The budget-minded "spectacular" Convoy was based on Song of the Dragon, a novel by John Taintor Foote. Lowell Sherman stars as a slick German spy during World War 1. Sherman matches wits with-and pitches woo to-American secret agent Dorothy Mackaill. Most of the footage is cosumed by newsreel and Read More

Dearie

Actors: Anders Randolph, Irene Rich, William Collier, Jr., Edna Murphy, Richard Tucker

Synopsis: Irene Rich heads the cast of this lachrymose "mother love" drama. Rich is cast as Sylvia "Dearie" Darling, a nightclub entertainer who willingly sacrifices her own health, wealth and happiness for the sake of her son Stephen (William Collier Jr.) Alas, the ungrateful boy grows up despising his Read More

Desired Woman

Actors: Irene Rich, William Russell, William Collier, Jr., John Miljan, Richard Tucker

Synopsis: Even in the early stages of his Warner Bros. career, director Michael Curtiz was eager and willing to tackle any sort of story tossed his way. Based on an original by Mark Canfield (a pseudonym for Darryl F. Zanuck), The Desired Woman is a standard stiff-upper-lip military drama set at a remote Read More

The Broken Gate

Actors: Dorothy Phillips, William Collier, Jr., Jean Arthur, Phillips Smalley, Florence Turner

Synopsis: The Broken Gate was based on a novel by Emerson Hough, of Covered Wagon fame. Dorothy Phillips stars as Aurora Lane, who has never acknowledged the existence of her illegitimate son. Aurora's past catches up with her when her now-grown son (William Collier Jr.) is arrested and falsely charged with Read More

The Sunset Derby

Actors: Ralph Lewis

Synopsis: Racehorse movies were a dime a dozen in 1927, meaning that the few good ones tended to be lumped together with the bad. One of the more tolerable entries in this genre was First National's Sunset Derby, starring Hollywood's favorite cocky jockey, William Collier Jr. After suffering a fall during a Read More

Stranded

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Shirley Mason, John Miljan, Gale Henry, Florence Turner

Synopsis: One would never guess that the idea for this maudlin exercise sprang from the mind of the usually reliable Anita Loos. Shirley Mason plays Sally Simpson, a small-town girl who heads to Hollywood in hopes of becoming a movie star. Failing in this enterprise, Sally finds herself alone and broke in Read More

College Widow

Actors: Dolores Costello, William Collier, Jr., Anders Randolf, Charles Hill Mailes, Douglas Gerrard

Synopsis: George Ade's barnstorming stage comedy The College Widow (which at one time boasted baseball great Ty Cobb as its leading man!) was transferred to the screen in 1927. Dolores Costello stars as Jane Witherspoon, the daughter of a college president (Charles Hill Mailes). Knowing that the school will Read More

Backstage

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Barbara Bedford, Eileen Percy, Shirley O'Hara

Synopsis: Chorus girl Barbara Bedford is left broke and stranded by a crooked producer in Backstage. Her good-hearted stage manager pal allows her and the other cast members to stay in his apartment until another job comes along. Unfortunately, our heroine's nerdish boyfriend William Collier Jr. doesn't Read More

The Rainmaker

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Georgia Hale, Ernest Torrence, Brandon Hurst, Joseph J. Dowling

Synopsis: Ever since he was wounded in WWI, jockey Bobby Robertson (William Collier Jr.) has been able to predict when it's going to rain. This turns out to be handy in the horse-racing business, with Bobby placing bets on horses he knows to be good "mudders." Out of love for pretty nurse Nell Wendell (Georgia Hale Read More

Lady of the Harem

Actors: Greta Nissen, William Collier, Jr., Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Lady of the Harem was based on Hassan, a play by James McElroy Flecker. It all begins when the Caliph of Kornassah (Sojin) sends his minions out to find him more gold and more women. His henchmen return with gorgeous blonde captive Pervannah (Greta Nissen), whose sweetheart Rafi (William Collier Jr Read More

Lucky Lady

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Greta Nissen, William Collier, Jr., Marc MacDermott

Synopsis: Another of Raoul Walsh's "lost" silent films, Lucky Lady stars Gretta Niessen as the title character. Convent-bred to assume her position of nobility when the time comes, Princess Antoinette (Niessen) plays hooky from school one day to attend a theatrical performance. Here she meets a handsome Read More

Girl From Coney Island

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, Louise Brooks, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: Also released as Just Another Blonde, The Girl From Coney Island stars Dorothy Mackaill as the title character. The star plays Jeanne Cavanaugh, one of the more popular hostesses at a Luna Park dance emporium. Gambling-hall employee Kid Scotty (William Collier Jr.) announces to one and all that he Read More

God Gave Me Twenty Cents

Actors: Lois Moran, Lya de Putti, Jack Mulhall, William Collier, Jr., Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Synopsis: The scene is New Orleans, during Mardi Gras week. The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren (Jack Mulhall), who tries his best to support his wife Mary (Lois Moran) on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when Read More

Verdict

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Lou Tellegen, Gertrude Astor, Louise Lorraine, Charles Clary

Synopsis: A minor mystery melodrama, producer Philip Goldstone's creaky The Verdict employed the oldest cliché of them all. Yes, the butler did indeed do it! Employers of a fashion emporium, Carol (Louise Lorraine), a sales girl, and Jimmy (William Collier Jr.), the young bookkeeper, find their innocent Read More

Playing With Souls

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Mary Astor, Belle Bennett, Clive Brook

Synopsis: This silent drama, based on the novel by the Countess de Chambrun, had quite a few unusual twists. Amy and Matthew Dale (Belle Bennett and Clive Brook) separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding school. The boy grows up without knowing his parents, and is taunted by Read More

The Reckless Sex

Actors: Madge Bellamy, William Collier, Jr., Wyndham Standing, Walter Long

Synopsis: A young Bostonian (Johnnie Walker) travels West to expect his father's New Mexico estate, which has become a target for gun runners. Along the way he mistakes travelling stock company actress Madge Bellamy for a child and brings her to the ranch. (The mistake is understandable as Bellamy was Read More

Eve's Secret

Actors: Betty Compson, Jack Holt, William Collier, Jr., Vera Lewis, Lionel Belmore

Synopsis: Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve (Betty Compson) is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion style, by European duke Poltava (Jack Holt). He has done this because he's fallen in love with her and wants her to be accepted by Read More

The Devil's Cargo

Actors: Wallace Beery, Pauline Starke, Claire Adams, William Collier, Jr., Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: The subject matter to this Victor Fleming-directed drama is typically virile -- it takes place in Sacramento during the Gold Rush days of 1849. And the star who stands out the most is also the most manly: big Wallace Beery. John Joyce (William Collier Jr.) arrives in Sacramento with his sister Read More

Wine of Youth

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, James Morrison, Johnny Walker, Niles Welch, Creighton Hale

Synopsis: Based on the play Mary the Third by Rachel Crothers, Wine of Youth concerns Mary (Eleanor Boardman), a flapper whose mother (Eulalie Jensen) and grandmother (Gertrude Claire) were also named Mary. The first two Marys worked all their feminine wiles to snare their husbands, but the youngest Mary Read More

Fools' Highway

Actors: Mary Philbin, Charlie Murray, Lincoln Plummer, Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: This rather trite romance was saved by its colorful backdrop; the setting is the New York Bowery of the early 1890s. Mamie Rose (Mary Philbin) works as a mender in the secondhand clothing shop run by Old Levi (Max Davidson). Levi's son, Max (William Collier Jr.) is a gentle, meek soul who loves Read More

Great Diamond Mystery

Actors: Shirley Mason, Harry Von Meter, Hardee Kirkland, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: This murder mystery certainly wasn't a typical Shirley Mason vehicle -- she was better known for her sunny, girlish portrayals. Here she is Ruth Wilson, a novelist whose latest book is a mystery based on the assumption that a murderer always returns to the scene of the crime. Her not-terribly Read More

The Lighthouse by the Sea

Actors: Louise Fazenda, William Collier, Jr., Matthew Betz

Synopsis: Based on a play by Owen Davis, Lighthouse By the Sea top-bills Warner Bros.' most successful male star of 1924: dauntless doggy Rin-Tin-Tin. The "human" plot involves the efforts by the daughter (Louise Fazenda) of an aged lighthouse keeper (Charles Hill Mailes) to hide the fact that her father Read More

The Mine with the Iron Door

Synopsis: This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove (Charlie Murray) and Bob Hill (Bert Woodruff) find an infant in the cabin belonging to Sonora Jack (Mitchell Lewis), a notorious bandit. The girl, Marta, grows to womanhood (to be Read More

Loyal Lives

Actors: Mary Carr, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: This drama glorified the lowly postman, which probably warmed the heart of Will H. Hays, the head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association -- he was a former postmaster general. Dan O'Brien (Brandon Tynan) loyally stays at his mailman job, even when his pal Michael O'Hara Read More

The Enemies of Women

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Alma Rubens, William Collier, Jr., Pedro de Cordoba, Gladys Hulette

Synopsis: This epic production was the last film that producer and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst produced for Paramount (after that, his production company, Cosmopolitan, went over to Goldwyn, which later merged with MGM). It was based on a novel by Vicenti Blasco Ibanez, who also wrote The Four Read More

Cardigan

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Betty Carpenter, Charles Graham

Synopsis: This middling period drama, based on the Robert W. Chambers novel, takes place in pre-Revolutionary War times and relied quite a lot on the audience's patriotism for its interest. Michael Cardigan (William "Buster" Collier, Jr.) is one of many American inhabitants who don't want to be under the Read More

Good Provider

Actors: Vera Gordon, Dore Davidson, Miriam Battista, Vivienne Osborne, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: After the success of 1920's Humoresque, it only made sense to put together all the same elements -- a story by Fanny Hurst, directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Dore Davidson and Vera Gordon as an old Jewish couple. But this time around, instead of concentrating on the mother, the father Read More

The Secrets of Paris

Actors: Lew Cody, Gladys Hulette, Montagu Love, Dolores Cassinelli, J. Barney Sherry

Synopsis: Lew Cody leads an excellent cast in this colorful romance. While visiting France, Prince Rudolph (Cody) falls in love with a peasant girl (Jane Thomas), but her parents force her to marry a man of their own choosing. Both the girl and her unwanted husband suffer early deaths, and her daughter Read More

The Heart of Maryland

Synopsis: That old David Belasco barnstorming play Heart of Maryland was given a worthwhile filmic treatment by Vitagraph in 1921. Crane Wilbur, later a prolific playwright/director, stars as a Maryland-born officer who casts his lot with the North upon the outbreak of the Civil War. This causes a rift Read More

At the Stage Door

Actors: Miriam Battista, Billie Dove

Synopsis: Billie Dove and Elizabeth North star as inseparable sisters who grow up to become chorus girls. Jealousy rears its ugly noggin when wealthy young William Collier Jr. comes visiting backstage. Since Dove is billed first, guess who wins the guy? (Dove would go through many of the same paces in the Read More

The Soul of Youth

Synopsis: After directing him as the title character in Huckleberry Finn, William Desmond Taylor again used boy actor Lewis Sargent in this picture. His character, known merely as "the boy," has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused as much trouble as possible. He finally can't stand living there Read More

Everybody's Sweetheart

Synopsis: This comedy-drama was Olive Thomas' last film before her tragic poisoning death. Mary (Thomas) is "everybody's sweetheart" at the ragged farm where she was raised, but she's the special sweetheart of John (William Collier Jr.). As very young children, they both were rescued from a train wreck and Read More

Bugle Call

Actors: William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: Even though his mother has been dead for three years, young Billy Andrews (a very young William Collier, Jr.) still worships her memory. So when his father (Wyndham Standing) -- the captain of a post in the untamed West -- remarries, Billy is naturally reluctant to accept the interloper, Mary (Anna Lehr Read More