May Allison

May Allison

Born: June 13, 1890
Died: March 27, 1989
in Rising Fawn, Georgia, USA

Movies for May Allison...

The Telephone Girl
Title: The Telephone Girl
Character: Grace Robinson
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake.
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One Increasing Purpose
Title: One Increasing Purpose
Character: Linda Travers Paris
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.
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The City
Title: The City
Character: Elinor Voorhees
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Roy William Neill and is based on Clyde Fitch's 1909 Broadway play. A previous film on Fitch's play appeared in 1916. This version has been updated to contemporary 1926
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Mismates
Title: Mismates
Character: Belle
Released: July 26, 1926
Type: Movie
"Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support himself and his wife, he soon craves the accustomed luxury and deserts his wife and child. On false information provided by the boy's mother and substantiated by himself the wife is sent to jail and the child kidnapped by the husband. This is where the drama kicks in.
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Men of Steel
Title: Men of Steel
Character: Clare Pitt
Released: July 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick -- simultaneously fall for Bokak. It later develops that Claire and Mary are actually sisters, the first of a series of surprising plot twists leading to Bokak being accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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The Greater Glory
Title: The Greater Glory
Character: Corinne
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
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Youth for Sale
Title: Youth for Sale
Character: Molly
Released: April 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Connie urges her friend Molly and Molly's boyfriend Tom to attend a party with her. Molly, who has never tried alcohol before, is temporarily blinded by her first drink. Connie, feeling Molly's blindness is her fault, agrees to marry a wealthy man in order to get the money to restore Molly's sight. Complications ensue.
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Flapper Wives
Title: Flapper Wives
Released: February 23, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Last Card
Title: The Last Card
Character: Elsie Kirkwood
Released: May 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Ralph Kirkwood is falsely tried for murder. He is found guilty after being represented by lawyer, Tom Gannell. Kirkwood's wife believes she knows the identity of the real killer and sets about trapping him.
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Extravagance
Title: Extravagance
Character: Nancy Vane
Released: March 7, 1921
Type: Movie
The marriage of Jim and Esther spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases a sable coat for herself. Hoping to live up to her expensive accessory, Esther soon is keeping company with caddish Morrell. Jim brings his wife's galavanting to an abrupt end by committing suicide. Esther as an object lesson for young Alice Kendall, returns the fur coat that she's bought on impulse.
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Are All Men Alike?
Title: Are All Men Alike?
Character: Teddy Hayden
Released: November 8, 1920
Type: Movie
In this comedy-drama, May Allison plays Teddy Hayden, a very independent society miss. When her childhood sweetheart, Gerry West (Wallace MacDonald) takes her to a Greenwich Village cafe, she thinks she's found where she belongs. So she spends all her time there and gets herself in a load of trouble.
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The Cheater
Title: The Cheater
Character: Lilly Meany, aka Vashti Dethic
Released: June 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Lilly Meany has grown up amongst charlatans, including her father. She decides to become a faith healer, and her first victim, a rich hypochondriac woman, is easy enough to "cure." In fact, the woman's so happy with Lilly, now calling herself Vashti Dethic, that she recommends her to her nephew, Judah, Lord Asgarby, who has a crippled sister, Eve. The little girl gives Lilly so much innocent trust and love that she actually is able to walk for the first time ever.
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The Walk-Offs
Title: The Walk-Offs
Character: Kathleen Rutherford
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
After the divorce of Schuyler Rutherford from his rich wife Caroline, who was his meal ticket, Schuyler's sister Kathleen is so humiliated by the fact that her penniless condition was brought to light during the court proceedings that she seeks solace in her friend, sculptress Mary Carter. Mary offers her friend a job as her secretary and, while working, she becomes acquainted with Mary's wealthy cousin Robert Winston when she overhears him denouncing parasitic girls like Kathleen. Vowing revenge, Kathleen assumes a false name and obtains a position as Robert's secretary, determined to make him fall in love with her.
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Social Hypocrites
Title: Social Hypocrites
Character: Leonore Fielding
Released: April 6, 1918
Type: Movie
While playing cards, Col. Francis Fielding is unjustly accused of cheating by the Earl of St. Albans. The charges are considered so serious in that strata of society that Fielding is disowned by his parents and held in contempt by "proper" society. Fleeing to Paris, Fielding marries and fathers a baby daughter he names Leonore. His wife soon dies and he is forced to raise the girl on his own, alone and broke. He soon dies, and Leonore is adopted by his sister Lady Mountstephen, but it's not much of an improvement: the "lady" hates Leonore, treats her badly and finally disowns her. Things look grim for Leonore until Lord Fitzmaurice loans her a sum of money. Unfortunately, that deed arouses the anger of the wildly jealous Lady Norton, who is secretly married to him. Complications ensue.
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The Promise
Title: The Promise
Character: Ethel Manton
Released: February 19, 1917
Type: Movie
After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His girlfriend Ethel is mad at him because of his carousing. So he heads out West, but he gets in a railroad accident and saves the life of Appleton, who owns a lumber mill. To reward Bill, Appleton gives him a job, and it doesn't take him long to discern that Buck Moncrossen, the camp boss, is crooked.
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Pidgin Island
Title: Pidgin Island
Character: Diana Wynne
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
John Cranford is a U.S. customs agent dedicated to stem the activities of a gang of opium smugglers. After successfully closing the case, Cranford takes a vacation on Pidgin Island, near Kingston, Ontario. Here he meets the beautiful Diana Wynne, whose mysterious behavior both fascinates and attracts him. It turns out that Diana is herself a secret service agent, bent on trapping notorious pearl smuggler Michael Smeed.
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The River of Romance
Title: The River of Romance
Released: July 17, 1916
Type: Movie
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David Harum
Title: David Harum
Character: Mary Blake
Released: February 22, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of David Harum, a small-town banker, and how what he does and who he is affects the lives of everyone in his town, whether they--or he--realize it.
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A Fool There Was
Title: A Fool There Was
Character: The Wife's Sister
Released: January 12, 1915
Type: Movie
John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come along with him. On the ship to England, Schuyler meets the notorious Vampire - a relentless gold digger who causes the moral degradation of those she seduces, first fascinating and then draining the very life from her victims.