Edna Murphy

Edna Murphy

Born: November 16, 1899
Died: August 3, 1974
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Edna Murphy...

Cheating Blondes
Title: Cheating Blondes
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
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Girl of the Rio
Title: Girl of the Rio
Character: Madge
Released: January 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.
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Forgotten Women
Title: Forgotten Women
Character: Trixie de Forrester
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
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Anybody's Blonde
Title: Anybody's Blonde
Character: Myrtle Devoe
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.
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Dancing Sweeties
Title: Dancing Sweeties
Character: 'Jazzbo' Gans
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the Waltz with Molly and wins first prize - and they wind up being married that same night. Now they are free of their parents nagging and their own bosses. 24 hours - no dancing as in-laws are visiting. 24 days - the Apartment is finished so off to the Hoffman's Parisian Dance Palace. Molly can only dance the Waltz and not the hot new jazz dance so she leaves and Bill follows. They are both unhappy, Bill has two left feet when it comes to romance.
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Wide Open
Title: Wide Open
Character: Nell Martin
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
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Second Choice
Title: Second Choice
Character: Beth Randall
Released: January 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Vallery Grove is in love with Don Warren but her mother opposes the match because he is poor and has no social standing. Don decides to terminate his engagement to Vallery after attending a party where he meets a spoiled rich girl who is interested in him.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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Little Johnny Jones
Title: Little Johnny Jones
Character: Vivian Dale
Released: November 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Little Johnny Jones is a jockey who is in love with his all-American sweetheart, Mary Baker, and also his career as the rider of thoroughbred horses. But he almost loses both when he is tricked by a showgirl, Vivian Dale. His story of vindication swings from the racetracks of America to England and the historical National Derby, with plenty of red-white-and-blue bunting waving behind the little patriot.
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The Sap
Title: The Sap
Character: Jane
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
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The Unkissed Man
Title: The Unkissed Man
Released: April 27, 1929
Type: Movie
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Kid Gloves
Title: Kid Gloves
Character: Lou
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl.
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Stolen Kisses
Title: Stolen Kisses
Character: Fanchon La Vere
Released: February 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
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The Greyhound Limited
Title: The Greyhound Limited
Character: Edna
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A train engineer and his fireman are best friends until the engineer breaks up a romance between his pal and a trampy girl he knows is no good for him, which also breaks up their friendship.
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My Man
Title: My Man
Character: Edna Brand
Released: December 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young fellow who earns a precarious living demonstrating an elastic exerciser in a drugstore window. Fannie and Joe set a date to be married, but the wedding is called off when Fannie finds Joe making love to her unprincipled sister, Edna. Fannie auditions for Landau, a theatrical producer, and goes on the Broadway stage. Fannie is a great success, and she and Joe soon find their way back into each other's arms.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Sunset Legion
Title: The Sunset Legion
Character: Susan
Released: April 21, 1928
Type: Movie
The citizens and near-by ranchers of a western town are being besieged by a gang of rustlers and robbers, and a plea is made to the governor to send a troop of rangers. Shortly, thereafter a dude-costumed cowboy shows up but he only asks a lot of dumb questions and does a lot of stick-whittling as he wanders the streets and hangs out in the saloon with the regular barflies. The citizens mark him down as being 'tetched in the head.' Also, shortly after the whittler arrives, a mysterious black-masked rider begins to make life a bit tougher on them than it had been.
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The Valley of Hell
Title: The Valley of Hell
Character: Mary Calvert
Released: January 23, 1928
Type: Movie
In the Old West, a dashing hero saves a girl from bandits.
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Across the Atlantic
Title: Across the Atlantic
Character: Phyllis Jones
Released: January 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter pilot. He is shot down in a dogfight, crashes and loses his memory and drifts around Europe. Years go by, and Phyllis decides to try to find him in France before consenting to marry Dan, who still loves her. Complications ensue.
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The Cruise of the Hellion
Title: The Cruise of the Hellion
Character: Diana Drake
Released: September 10, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Silent Hero
Title: The Silent Hero
Character: Mary Stoddard
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade Burton is anxious to win Mary and her father's money. Later, Wade follows Bud to Alaska and attempts to claim-jump Bud's gold strike, but is foiled by Bud and "Phantom."
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The Black Diamond Express
Title: The Black Diamond Express
Character: Jeanne Harmon
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon, does not approve of the blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges Dan Foster as a suitable husband for Jeanne.
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Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Title: Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Character: Betty Greystoke
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan's African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lion Jad-bal-ja to save Haws from being sacrificed to a lion-god.
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Burnt Fingers
Title: Burnt Fingers
Character: Vera
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Burnt Fingers (1927)
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McFadden's Flats
Title: McFadden's Flats
Character: Marry Ellen McFadden
Released: February 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock, meets and falls in love with McFadden's daughter Mary Ellen. McFadden, having increased his store of worldly goods, sends his daughter to a finishing school, to young Jock's dismay. McFadden also provokes frequent outbursts from McTavish, whose outlook on life is the antithesis of his own. McFadden's ambition to complete a flat building is well underway when he suddenly finds himself in financial straits; when McTavish secretly helps him out, all eventually works out well for the friends and the young lovers.
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So This is Eden
Title: So This is Eden
Character: Eve Wendell
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
The film opens with an animated prologue about Adam and Eve, by Tony Sarg. The viewer is then introduced to a young couple, Eve and Jim, who are having troubles in their marriage. Eve is frustrated by housework and dreams of living a wealthier lifestyle. While out shopping, Eve runs into an old flame, Don, who has earned his fortune overseas.
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Title: 45 Minutes from Hollywood
Character: Em, Hotel Detective's Wife
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
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Obey the Law
Title: Obey the Law
Character: The Daughter
Released: November 5, 1926
Type: Movie
When his old prison-friend's daughter is about to wed a wealthy man, the friend steals a valuable pendant and gives it to the girl's father. The father, in turn and not realizing it is stolen goods, gives it to his daughter as a wedding present. But the law shows up looking for the pendant.
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Clothes Make the Pirate
Title: Clothes Make the Pirate
Character: Nancy Downs
Released: March 15, 1926
Type: Movie
A disgruntled 18th century Bostonian who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and play-acts the part. He is mistaken for the real pirate, Dixie Bull. More importantly, Errol "slays" the villain and puts his foot upon the pirate's head. This is more than enough and he heads back home to his unappreciated wife
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The Little Giant
Title: The Little Giant
Character: Myra Clinton
Released: January 3, 1926
Type: Movie
Having been brought up by his Uncle Clem, an itinerant peddler, Elmer Clinton has no trouble becoming the sales manager for a company that manufactures washing machines. Royce Enfield, the son of the company's president, wants his father to sell the business and therefore undermines Elmer's sales campaign. In a real effort to help Elmer, Uncle Clem obtains numerous orders for washing machines, but these are intercepted by Royce before they can be filled. Elmer is fired and, finding out the reason why, whips Royce in a fight.
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Ermine and Rhinestones
Title: Ermine and Rhinestones
Character: Minnette Christie
Released: October 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Long Island socialite Billy Kershaw (Niles Welch) is engaged to wealthy Peggy Rice (Ruth Stonehouse), but she prefers to "play the field" with other men. When Billy tires of Peggy's randy behavior and returns to his ex-sweetheart Minette (Edna Murphy), the suddenly possessive Peggy heads to Minette's home, hoping to bribe the girl into giving up the boy. At that very moment, one of Minette's jealous ex-boyfriends breaks into her house, ties and gags the poor girl, and turns on the gas. Library of Congress holds a complete negative.
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Lying Wives
Title: Lying Wives
Released: June 13, 1925
Type: Movie
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A Man Must Live
Title: A Man Must Live
Character: Eleanor Ross-Fayne
Released: January 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company. Job Hardcastle, the hardened city editor of the paper, sends Jeff to get a story on "Mops" Collins, a society divorcée who has been reduced to dancing in a cabaret. Jeff takes pity on Mops, who is dying of consumption, and takes her into his apartment, telling Hardcastle that he could not find her. Afraid of losing his job, Jeff hunts for a big story, finding it when he discovers that Clive Ross-Fayne, a friend he thought lost in the war, has been arraigned on charges of narcotics peddling. (Pamela Short)
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Into the Net
Title: Into the Net
Character: Natalie Van Cleef
Released: August 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Madge Clayton, a society girl, mysteriously disappears. The police suspect a master criminal is behind the girl's abduction, but her brother, Bob, and fiancé, Bert Moore, help with the search. They unearth a scheme to kidnap another girl, Natalie Van Cleef, and the evidence takes Bob and Bert to an estate on Long Island.
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The White Moth
Title: The White Moth
Character: Gwen
Released: May 11, 1924
Type: Movie
When a girl tries to drown herself in the Seine, she is rescued by dancer Gonzalo Montrez. She then becomes a famous dancer known as the White Moth.
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The King of the Wild Horses
Title: The King of the Wild Horses
Character: Mary Fielding
Released: April 6, 1924
Type: Movie
A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.
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Going Up
Title: Going Up
Character: Madeline Manners
Released: September 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Going Up (1923)
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Her Dangerous Path
Title: Her Dangerous Path
Character: Corinne Grant
Released: August 12, 1923
Type: Movie
Her Dangerous Path
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Ridin' Wild
Title: Ridin' Wild
Character: Grace Nolan
Released: November 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nolan, who is allowing Art Jordan, the town bully, to occupy her time so as to pique Cyril. The murder of Andrew McBride, who holds the mortgage on the Henderson's property, is blamed on the elder Henderson, and Cyril unsuccessfully tries to take the blame.
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The Galloping Kid
Title: The Galloping Kid
Character: Helen Arnett
Released: September 11, 1922
Type: Movie
Cowboy Simplex Cox, now a drifter and odd-job seeker, lands the assignment of chaperoning the pretty daughter of cattleman "Five-Notch" Arnett. Laura Arnett has a weakness of falling in love with every man she meets---Simplex Cox the exception---and it is Simp's job to keep her from meeting any. However, too late, as she has succumbed to the polished, oily charms of Hubert Bolston, who has dastardly designs upon Arnett's land and intends getting them by marrying the daughter.
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Paid Back
Title: Paid Back
Character: Eloise Hardy
Released: August 28, 1922
Type: Movie
Wealthy orphan Carol Gordon marries the executor of her estate, though she does not love him. Soon afterward, trying to help a friend who is being blackmailed, she is misunderstood by her husband to be herself compromised.
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Don't Shoot
Title: Don't Shoot
Character: Velma Gay
Released: August 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine suitor.
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The Ordeal
Title: The Ordeal
Character: Helen Brayshaw
Released: May 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil's attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies.
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Dynamite Allen
Title: Dynamite Allen
Character: Betty Reed
Released: February 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Betty, a blind girl, is the sole "witness" to the murder of a mine owner and whose mistaken testimony convicts Sid Allen her own benefactor. Years later, the adult Betty returns to the mining town, her sight restored. Fearing that she may remember the truth, the real murderer, "Bull" Snide has the girl kidnapped.
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The Branded Woman
Title: The Branded Woman
Character: Vivian Bolton
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
A 1920 film directed by Albert Parker.
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A Philistine in Bohemia
Title: A Philistine in Bohemia
Character: Kate
Released: March 19, 1920
Type: Movie
Mr. Brunelli, a roomer at a boarding house, has caught the eye of Kate, the daughter of the woman who owns the house. Kate knows her mother, who doesn't want her daughter to have anything to do with her tenants, will disapprove of Mr. Brunelli, but she soon discovers that Mr. Brunelli isn't quite who she thinks he is.