Virginia True Boardman

Virginia True Boardman

Born: May 23, 1889
Died: June 10, 1971
in Fort Davis, Texas, USA

Movies for Virginia True Boardman...

The Fugitive Sheriff
Title: The Fugitive Sheriff
Character: Mrs. Roberts
Released: October 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election. Dissatisfied with this, the villains contrive to frame Ken on a murder charge. He breaks out of jail and tracks down the genuine culprit,
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Brand of the Outlaws
Title: Brand of the Outlaws
Character: Mrs. Matlock, Verna's Mother
Released: August 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Gary Gray arrives only to be caught up in the rustling activities of Ben Holt and his gang. First Holt brands him for rustling and then frames him for murder. Proven innocent, Gary foils the gang's stage holdup and then heads after Holt whom he now knows to be the real killer. But Holt knows he is coming and waits unseen in ambush. Written by Maurice VanAuken
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The Crime Patrol
Title: The Crime Patrol
Character: Mrs. Kay Neal
Released: May 12, 1936
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
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The Road to Ruin
Title: The Road to Ruin
Character: Martha Dixon
Released: May 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
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Pardon My Pups
Title: Pardon My Pups
Character: Mrs. Rogers
Released: January 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead, mainly because he himself wants to have a dog that he can take hunting. After a dispute with his father, Sonny leaves home. As he walks along a railroad track, he finds a frightened lost dog, and soon he begins to feel differently about dogs.
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Sister to Judas
Title: Sister to Judas
Character: Helen Ross
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love and marry, but their marriage faces some serious roadblocks.
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The Penal Code
Title: The Penal Code
Character: Mrs. Sarah Palmer
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
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The Lady Lies
Title: The Lady Lies
Character: Amelia Tuttle
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
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The Test of Donald Norton
Title: The Test of Donald Norton
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
In the frozen north, a husky but not over-bright half-breed Indian seeks the identity of his white father. Any child in the audience could have told him this – despite the fact that the hissable hypocrite is actually presented as a man of character.
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The Home Maker
Title: The Home Maker
Character: Mrs. Prouty
Released: November 22, 1925
Type: Movie
A man's life seems to be falling apart. He's bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion and, when the pressures get to be too much, he tries to commit suicide, but he even fails at that and manages only to cripple himself instead of killing himself. Forced to stay at home, he finds the role of "househusband" enjoyable--until his wife takes a low-paying job with his old company, and rapidly rises up the corporate ladder.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Polly Fleming
Released: August 2, 1925
Type: Movie
White Elk, a light-skinned Indian chief, incurs the enmity of Chief Black Panther, whom he prevents from looting a westbound wagon train. Although White Elk is betrothed to an Indian princess, he falls in love with Lucille Cavanagh, a white woman from the East. After her father, John Cavanagh, tricks White Elk into signing away the lands of his tribe, the young chief is condemned to be burned alive by Black Panther.
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The Tomboy
Title: The Tomboy
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: December 26, 1924
Type: Movie
Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
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The Gunfighter
Title: The Gunfighter
Character: Marjorie Camp
Released: September 2, 1923
Type: Movie
Billy Buell (William Farnum), a stranger involving himself with a long-standing mountain feud. The Benchleys and the Camps have been feuding ever since Lew Camp (J. Morris Foster) learned that his daughter Nellie (Doris May) was stolen by Jacob Benchley (Arthur Morrison) to replace a dead Benchley baby. Buell, who has fallen in love with Nellie, returns her to her mother (Virginia True Boardman). That doesn't sit well with the Benchley clan, who arrive for a final shootout.
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Pioneer Trails
Title: Pioneer Trails
Character: Mrs. Salter
Released: May 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two fall in love, much to the displeasure of Blaney. To put him out of the way, Blaney kills Jack's adoptive mother and frames Jack for the crime.
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Three Jumps Ahead
Title: Three Jumps Ahead
Character: Mrs. Darrell
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
John Ford both directed and wrote the story (based on his published work The Hostage), a typical western romance in which Mix falls for the daughter of an imperiled rancher. This above-average Tom Mix western contains one of the star's more spectacular stunts -- a jump on horseback across the 20-foot Beale's Cut. Truth be told, the star, who frequently did his own stunt work, was forced to use a double this time
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A Blind Bargain
Title: A Blind Bargain
Character: Mrs. Sandell
Released: December 3, 1922
Type: Movie
Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's attempts to transplant animal glands into human beings.
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The Third Alarm
Title: The Third Alarm
Character: Mother McDowell
Released: December 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Because Dan McDowell is unable to operate the new mechanized fire equipment, he is retired with a small pension; his son, Johnny, quits school to work in the fire department; and his old horse, Bullet, is sold to a dirt-hauler. Dan is charged with stealing Bullet and is jailed, but he is cleared in time to give valuable aid in a fire that traps Johnny's sweetheart, June Rutherford.
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The Village Blacksmith
Title: The Village Blacksmith
Character: Mrs. John Hammond
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled. As adults, Anson and the blacksmith's daughter Alice (Valli) fall in love, which angers the blacksmith, who chastises his daughter. The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident. Anson steals $480 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession. Alice is struck by lightning. The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent.
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Where's my Wandering Boy Tonight?
Title: Where's my Wandering Boy Tonight?
Released: February 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Garry Beecher, forgetting his mother and sweetheart, Lorna, falls in love with Veronica, a chorus girl, and heads for the city; finding her with a millionaire, he returns home and robs his former employer, then returns to Veronica and begins a career of reckless spending. When he is unable to pay for a diamond necklace, Garry is threatened with arrest and is betrayed by Veronica.
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Across the Divide
Title: Across the Divide
Released: October 9, 1921
Type: Movie
Left in the care of his half-breed brother, Buck, by his dying mother, Wallace Layson has no knowledge of his family history. His father, knowing that his son will inherit a ranch on his 21st birthday, tries to secure the property for himself by persuading a dance hall girl to come between the boy and his fiancée. When Buck learns of the plan he decides to foil it without his half-brother knowing.
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: Bonita
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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Broncho Billy's Sentence
Title: Broncho Billy's Sentence
Character: Woman in Cabin
Released: February 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Billy commits a robbery but a preacher inspires him to have a change of heart.
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The Tomboy on Bar Z
Title: The Tomboy on Bar Z
Character: Letty King
Released: October 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A romantic Western in which John saves his beloved Mary when she is about to marry a criminal.