Natalie Kingston

Natalie Kingston

Born: May 19, 1905
Died: February 2, 1991
in Vallejo, California, USA
From Wikipedia

Natalie Kingston was born as Natalia Ringstrom in Sonoma County, California, and raised in San Francisco. She was of Spanish and Hungarian descent. She was a great-granddaughter of General Mariano Vallejo, who commanded the army which surrendered California to General John C. Fremont. Her mother was Natalia Haraszthy, granddaughter of Agoston Haraszthy, founder of California's wine industry. She was educated in San Rafael, California.

Starting her career as an actress on Broadway, she moved into films in the early 1920s. Her first movie appearance was in The Daredevil (1923). She joined the Mack Sennett studios in 1924, and co-starred with Harry Langdon in a series of comedy films including Remember When? (1925) and Her First Flame (1927). Kingston left the Sennett studio and comedies in 1926 to try for dramatic movie roles. She signed with Paramount Pictures and made three motion pictures in quick succession. All three were comedies: Miss Brewster's Millions (1926), The Cat's Pajamas (1926) and Wet Paint (1926).

Kingston's first dramatic role was in Street Angel (1928). She played the part of Lisetta. The same year she made Painted Post with Tom Mix. In this film she portrayed a magazine illustrator seeking western types. She becomes caught up in an exciting feud in her search for them. As Dona Beatriz, Kingston was given a great opportunity in The Night of Love (1927). The movie starred Ronald Colman and Vilma Bánky.

She appeared in two of the popular Tarzan films. She was Mary Trevor in Tarzan the Mighty (1928) and the fifth actress to play Jane in Tarzan the Tiger (1929). The Tarzan serial, which co-starred Frank Merrill, was produced by Universal Pictures. After a series of roles in B movies she made her last film, Only Yesterday (1933). She was uncredited in this movie.

Natalie Kingston died in West Hills, California, aged 85, in 1991.

Movies for Natalie Kingston...

His Private Secretary
Title: His Private Secretary
Character: Polly
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.
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Forgotten
Title: Forgotten
Character: May Strauss
Released: February 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
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Doctor's Orders
Title: Doctor's Orders
Released: June 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy
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Under Texas Skies
Title: Under Texas Skies
Character: Joan Prescott
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money.
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Her Wedding Night
Title: Her Wedding Night
Character: Eva
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
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The Last of the Duanes
Title: The Last of the Duanes
Character: Morgan's Moll
Released: August 31, 1930
Type: Movie
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of the outlaw Bland. In rescuing Ruth, he becomes entangled with Bland's amorous wife.
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Swellhead
Title: Swellhead
Character: Barbara Larkin
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And then he loses his friends, loses his girl-friend, loses his confidence and is all set-up to lose his title.
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Tarzan the Tiger
Title: Tarzan the Tiger
Character: Jane / Lady Jane
Released: December 8, 1929
Type: Movie
After Tarzan's estate is destroyed by Arabs Jane is sold into slavery by a man posing as a friendly scientist. Tarzan develops amnesia after a blow to the head. When he recovers his memory (from a later blow) he defeats the villain, recovers the fabulous jewels of Opar, and rescues Jane.
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River of Romance
Title: River of Romance
Character: Mexico
Released: June 28, 1929
Type: Movie
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Tarzan the Mighty
Title: Tarzan the Mighty
Character: Mary Trevor
Released: October 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Mary and Bobby Trevor are castaways befriended by Tarzan. When Lord arrives, looking for the family heir, Black John tries to fill that role and marry Mary in England. Tarzan shows up and marries her instead.
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Painted Post
Title: Painted Post
Character: Barbara Lane
Released: July 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Starring Tom Mix and Natalie Kingston
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Street Angel
Title: Street Angel
Character: Lisetta
Released: April 9, 1928
Type: Movie
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
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The Port of Missing Girls
Title: The Port of Missing Girls
Character: Catherine King
Released: March 19, 1928
Type: Movie
Neglected by her moneyed parents and disillusioned with her boyfriend Buddie Larkins, vocalist Ruth King joins a school for stage and fancy dancing, thus playing into the hands of DeLeon, ....
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A Girl in Every Port
Title: A Girl in Every Port
Character: Girl in South Sea Island (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?
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Figures Don't Lie
Title: Figures Don't Lie
Character: Dolores
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a fetching one-piece bathing suit. The main story concerns wise-guy insurance salesman Richard Arlen, who through a combination of hard work and sheer gall lands a job as sales manager. But he can't land heroine Ralston, who has remained cool to his charms ever since he tried to make a play for her on the street.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: Diane Laurens
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent film drama..
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His First Flame
Title: His First Flame
Character: Ethel Morgan
Released: May 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faithless gold-digger. Disillusioned, Harry spends the night in his uncle's fire house to try and forget his troubles... until the clamor of a fire alarm presents the bumbling Harry with a chance to be a hero.
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The Night of Love
Title: The Night of Love
Character: Donna Beatriz
Released: January 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal lord--to take the bride to his castle for a night. Rather than accede to the duke's advances, the girl chooses death by her own hand. Montero swears vengeance.....
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The Silent Lover
Title: The Silent Lover
Character: Vera Sherman
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.
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Kid Boots
Title: Kid Boots
Character: Carmen Mendoza
Released: October 3, 1926
Type: Movie
A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.
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Don Juan's 3 Nights
Title: Don Juan's 3 Nights
Character: Vilma Theodori
Released: September 4, 1926
Type: Movie
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
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Musclebound Music
Title: Musclebound Music
Character: The Landlady's Daughter
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
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Fight Night
Title: Fight Night
Character: Tessie McNab
Released: May 9, 1926
Type: Movie
While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.
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Soldier Man
Title: Soldier Man
Character: The Soldier's Wife / The Queen of Bomania
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on.
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Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Title: Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Character: Mrs. Noah Fish
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
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Lucky Stars
Title: Lucky Stars
Character: Miss Mazda
Released: August 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.
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Remember When?
Title: Remember When?
Character: Rosemary Lee
Released: April 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
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His Marriage Wow
Title: His Marriage Wow
Character: The Bride - Agnes Fisher
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed.
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Off His Trolley
Title: Off His Trolley
Character: Natalie Delys
Released: December 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're great"), Graves starts two-timing his girlfriend Marion (Alice Day) and spending money he cannot afford.
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Feet of Mud
Title: Feet of Mud
Character: Nina March - The Girl
Released: December 6, 1924
Type: Movie
As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before marrying his daughter. Harry's chance to prove himself comes with an "engineering" job with the city. But it's sanitary engineering, and while our street sweeping hero tries his best, he just can't avoid making enemies. When he stumbles into the midst of a lively Chinatown tong war, it's Harry's bravery that saves Natalie and wins the day.
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All Night Long
Title: All Night Long
Character: the Girl
Released: November 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France.
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Galloping Bungalows
Title: Galloping Bungalows
Character: Diana Palmer
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
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Wall Street Blues
Title: Wall Street Blues
Character: The Boss's Daughter
Released: August 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
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His New Mamma
Title: His New Mamma
Character: Bathing Girl
Released: June 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab. Through a fare, he meets a lovely lassie. His work takes him to the beach, where he sees dad's fiancée with another man. The lad and his lassie follow the woman and try to prevent her from marrying yet another rich man. Will our farm boy and his sweetie stop injustice from happening again?
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Yukon Jake
Title: Yukon Jake
Character: Nell
Released: June 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle.
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Black Oxfords
Title: Black Oxfords
Character: Lotta Waite
Released: May 18, 1924
Type: Movie
In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
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The Hollywood Kid
Title: The Hollywood Kid
Character: Bathing Girl
Released: April 19, 1924
Type: Movie
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
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The Dare-Devil
Title: The Dare-Devil
Character: Minor Role
Released: November 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.