Priscilla Dean

Priscilla Dean

Born: November 25, 1896
Died: December 27, 1987
in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Priscilla Dean...

Klondike
Title: Klondike
Character: Miss Porter
Released: August 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, his trial is national news but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board is meeting to decide whether or not to take his medical license away from him. Before they do, Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by a fur trapper named Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong's Trading Post, where is is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong, and was engaged to marry Armstrong's son Jim. The latter is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had...
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Behind Stone Walls
Title: Behind Stone Walls
Character: Esther Clay
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to her defense and confesses to the shooting. The father prosecutes the son who receives a life imprisonment sentence. Jack Keene's butler Druggett knows the truth and blackmails Esther. Bob's girlfriend Peg Harper summons John Clay to the scene...
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Law of the Sea
Title: Law of the Sea
Character: Jane Andrews
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Bettina Moore
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A police captain investigating a ring of bank robbers falls in love with a nightclub entertainer suspected of being involved with the gang.
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All for Nothing
Title: All for Nothing
Released: January 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests. The two instead head to a theater. Charley's wife later follows to apologize and unbeknownst to her and the friend, Charley uses costumes from the theater to pretend to be other people.
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Slipping Wives
Title: Slipping Wives
Character: The Neglected Wife
Released: April 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.
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Birds of Prey
Title: Birds of Prey
Character: Helen Wayne
Released: March 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Helen Wayne and Archie Crossley, two clever pickpockets, rob J. Hamilton Smith, a well-known metropolitan banker, and he is later recognized by one of their gang as a former prisonmate; they demand a price for their silence, and he is forced to accede.
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West of Broadway
Title: West of Broadway
Character: 'Freddie' Hayden
Released: October 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Priscilla Dean starred in this comedy-Western as Eastern golf pro Freddy Hayden who is hired by a Western dude ranch. Assumed to be a man because of the name, Freddy creates a sensation appearing at a dance in the newest creation from Paris, and later incurs the ire of all when she accidentally causes a stampede. Ranch foreman Bruce Elwood (Arnold Gray) eventually wins the heart of the leading lady when he rescues Freddy from a villainous cattle rustler. A year after this light comedy, Dean began to wind down her career, and played a foil to Laurel and Hardy in Slipping Wives.
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The Dice Woman
Title: The Dice Woman
Character: Anita Gray
Released: June 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Anita Gray is the spoiled daughter of a millionaire. Returning home from a party, her car breaks down and she is picked up by a stranger, who sells her his car for a diamond bracelet. The car has been stolen and the police arrest her, but she escapes and takes refuge on a freighter bound for China. She has no money and has to work her way there. Her father learns of her destination and hires Hamlin to bring her safely home.
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A Cafe in Cairo
Title: A Cafe in Cairo
Character: Naida
Released: December 7, 1924
Type: Movie
When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought up as an Arab known as Nadia. The bandit who killed Nadia's parents wishes to marry her. She is ordered to steal some documents from a British secret service agent. Lost film.
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The Siren Of Seville
Title: The Siren Of Seville
Character: Dolores
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores (Priscilla Dean), does everything she can to help him and she wheedles Pedro, a renowned bullfighter (Matthew Betz), into helping him, too. Gallito becomes a success, but he is vamped by Ardita (Claire Delorez) after Pedro is killed in the ring.
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White Tiger
Title: White Tiger
Character: Sylvia Donovan
Released: December 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
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Drifting
Title: Drifting
Character: Cassie Cook / Lucille Preston
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine where her loyalties lie.
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The Flame of Life
Title: The Flame of Life
Character: Joan Lowrie
Released: February 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' lives more bearable but incurs Lowrie's wrath when he fires him for smoking in the mine. Bent on vengeance, Lowrie is beaten when he picks a fight with Fergus, then defiantly smokes in a mine tunnel. There is an explosion, Joan rescues Fergus, and their love triumphs over their class barriers. −
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Under Two Flags
Title: Under Two Flags
Character: Cigarette
Released: November 6, 1922
Type: Movie
On the run from punishment for a crime committed by his brother, Bertie Cecil (alias Lewis Victor) joins the French Foreign Legion. In Algeria, he becomes the hated rival of his commander, Chateauroy, who despises Victor's breeding and also competes for the same woman. Victor is beloved of Cigarette, an Algerian camp follower, who saves his life, though he loves another.
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Wild Honey
Title: Wild Honey
Character: Lady Vivienne
Released: March 6, 1922
Type: Movie
Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. Years later, in South Africa, she encounters the man she suspects of the murder.
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Conflict
Title: Conflict
Character: Dorcas Remalie
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
A society girl goes to live in the woods with her evil uncle and his wicked housekeeper.
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Outside the Law
Title: Outside the Law
Character: Molly Madden (Silky Moll)
Released: January 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…
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The Virgin of Stamboul
Title: The Virgin of Stamboul
Character: Sari - a beggar girl
Released: March 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.
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The Wicked Darling
Title: The Wicked Darling
Character: Mary Stevens
Released: December 25, 1919
Type: Movie
A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Character: An Adventuress
Released: September 8, 1919
Type: Movie
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Paid in Advance
Title: Paid in Advance
Character: Marie
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.
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The Exquisite Thief
Title: The Exquisite Thief
Character: Blue Jean Billie
Released: April 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael (De Grasse). Billie gains admission to the Vanderhoof dinner at which the engagement of their daughter to Lord Chesterton (Hall) will be announced. While the dinner is in progress, Billie gags and handcuffs special officer Detective Wood (Ross), and proceeds to make a wholesale robbery of the guests. She flees in an automobile and none succeed in tracking her save Lord Chesterton. She makes a prisoner of him, but a police raid follows and she must flee. Once more Lord Chesterton succeeds in following her and again she makes him her prisoner, but she learns to trust and love him. The special agent and Shaver Michael arrive at the scene with resulting complications, but a happy end results for all.
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The Silk Lined Burglar
Title: The Silk Lined Burglar
Character: Doris Macon
Released: March 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris Macon, who claims a moral right to the safe's contents. She hires Blackie, and they break into the house where the safe is kept. Blackie blows up the safe just as owner Captain von Hoffmeier returns home. Doris disappears with papers from inside the safe, while Blackie takes phonograph records, which, when played with a special needle, reveal secrets that implicate von Hoffmeier as a German political spy.
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The Wildcat of Paris
Title: The Wildcat of Paris
Character: Colette
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A girl from Paris' underworld fights for love and survival during a time of international turmoil.
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Kiss or Kill
Title: Kiss or Kill
Character: Ruth Orton
Released: October 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won't leave him alone about the rent. When he sees a wallet sticking out of a rich man's pocket, he's desperate enough to steal it. The police give pursuit, and Henry winds up in someone's study. The man who lives there, Middleton (Alfred Allen) has been looking for someone with Henry's nerve and offers him a job (along with an overcoat and some cash): He must steal back a will that Middleton's nephew, Craig (Harry Carter) stole from him.
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The Brazen Beauty
Title: The Brazen Beauty
Character: Jacala Auehli
Released: September 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Jacala, a strong-willed, temperamental ranch girl, inherits her father's millions and moves from Montana to New York, determined to earn a place in society.
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The Two-Soul Woman
Title: The Two-Soul Woman
Character: Joy Fielding / Edna
Released: May 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Two men, one of them a villainous hypnotist, contend for the same woman, unaware that she suffers from dual personality disorder.
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Title: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Character: Mrs. Graham
Released: May 13, 1917
Type: Movie
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
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Somebody Lied
Title: Somebody Lied
Character: Dolly
Released: April 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Perfect angel Willie declines to accompany his doting wife Dolly to a mask ball, but instead of a quiet evening at home among his books, Willie spends the night at an underground casino, and instead of being chaperoned at the party, Dolly is out flirting with another man.
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Even as You and I
Title: Even as You and I
Character: Artist's Wife
Released: April 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home. Carillo succumbs to lust and sells his honor to the Devil.
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Goin' Straight
Title: Goin' Straight
Character: Mary Carter
Released: March 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Billy Carter and two Mexicans, Cuteo and Estaban, are smugglers of opium which they bring across the border from Mexico into the United States. The authorities are unable to apprehend them, so "Pinnacle" Bill and "Cheyenne" Harry of the Arizona Ranger Service are sent to assist the sheriff, Dan Beckham, and the inspectors in their search.
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The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Title: The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Character: The Sheriff's Wife
Released: January 13, 1917
Type: Movie
Sheriff Crane's wife and child are preparing for a little journey with their wagon and team. On arriving at the store, the wife, on attempting to get out, stumbles and startles the horses, which causes them to run away, the child hanging on to the wagon. This is seen by Harry, who gives chase, captures the runaway horses, and returns the child, unhurt, to the mother
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Beer Must Go Down
Title: Beer Must Go Down
Character: June
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Because Reggie is prone to drink, father severely scores him, and his patience reaches a climax when he is presented with a bill for damages Reggie has inflicted on a poor, inoffensive restaurant.
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Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil
Title: Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil
Character: The Heroine
Released: February 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Nell leaves for the big city in search of her missing father, followed by a helpless boyfriend hoping to protect her.
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The Sunbeam
Title: The Sunbeam
Character: In Tenement Hallway
Released: February 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.