Marcia Harris

Marcia Harris

Born: February 14, 1868
Died: June 18, 1947
in Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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Marcia Harris (born Lena Hill, February 14, 1868 – June 18, 1947) was an American actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1915 and 1932.

She was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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Three Wise Girls
Title: Three Wise Girls
Character: Landlady
Released: February 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
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Young as You Feel
Title: Young as You Feel
Character: Mrs. Denton
Released: August 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
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Aloha
Title: Aloha
Character: Governess
Released: April 26, 1931
Type: Movie
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
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The Greene Murder Case
Title: The Greene Murder Case
Character: Hemmings
Released: August 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.
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The Squall
Title: The Squall
Character: Aunt Anna
Released: May 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: Mrs. Gorlick
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
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Brotherly Love
Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Mrs. Coggswell
Released: December 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.
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Take Me Home
Title: Take Me Home
Character: Landlady
Released: October 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show's star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.
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So's Your Old Man
Title: So's Your Old Man
Character: Mrs. Bisbee
Released: October 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of his social-climbing daughter and nagging wife.
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The Sorrows of Satan
Title: The Sorrows of Satan
Character: The Landlady
Released: October 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
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Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Title: Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Character: Miss Streeter
Released: March 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister's, be it her clothes or her men - even the money entrusted to her by fellow employees at the store they work at. Regardless, Mame can't break her promise. So when it comes to getting Janie out of trouble, big sister comes to the rescue.
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The Reckless Lady
Title: The Reckless Lady
Character: Sophie
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
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The King On Main Street
Title: The King On Main Street
Character: Aunt Tabitha Young
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
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Isn't Life Wonderful
Title: Isn't Life Wonderful
Character: The Aunt
Released: December 5, 1924
Type: Movie
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.
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Sinners in Heaven
Title: Sinners in Heaven
Character: Barbara's Aunt
Released: September 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal island when their plane crashes on the way to Australia. The natives worship them, believing them to be gods, until a native girl discovers that the pilot is mortal. Giving up hope of rescue, they marry in the sight of God, but when they are found by a search plane Alan is wounded and left for dead. Barbara is spurned by her friends and family as having sinned, but Alan returns to claim her legally.
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A Bride for a Knight
Title: A Bride for a Knight
Released: December 15, 1923
Type: Movie
While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detective. He sets out to capture a gang of thieves who robbed Jean's uncle's bank.
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On the Banks of the Wabash
Title: On the Banks of the Wabash
Character: Tilda Spiffen
Released: October 22, 1923
Type: Movie
An inventor, David Hammond is the son of a ship's captain. He leaves his sweetheart, Lisbeth Bixler, and goes to the city to promote his invention. Lisbeth's father, an unsuccessful artist, deserts his family, secretly intending to commit suicide.
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The Fighting Blade
Title: The Fighting Blade
Character: Joan Laycock
Released: September 10, 1923
Type: Movie
In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine Musgrove, and prove his nettle, and that his blade is made of the finest metal.
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The Truth About Wives
Title: The Truth About Wives
Character: Maid
Released: February 3, 1923
Type: Movie
The Truth About Wives is a 1923 silent film.
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Orphans of the Storm
Title: Orphans of the Storm
Character: Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1921
Type: Movie
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
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Oh Mary Be Careful
Title: Oh Mary Be Careful
Character: Myra Meacham
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
"Mary Meacham, the most popular girl in college, goes to live with her maiden aunt, Miss Myra. Auntie is a man-hater who has various theories for testing the desirable qualities of the male sex. Mary sees a dreary man-less time before her and sends an S. O. S. to various sisters and their brothers to visit her while Auntie is away.
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A Heart to Let
Title: A Heart to Let
Character: Zaida Kent
Released: July 18, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Governess
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.
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The Flapper
Title: The Flapper
Character: Miss Paddles
Released: May 10, 1920
Type: Movie
A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.
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Anne of Green Gables
Title: Anne of Green Gables
Character: Marilla Cuthbert
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and much sought-after young lady.
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Title: Kathleen Mavourneen
Released: August 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Kathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence. The dream is interrupted when the Squire of the estate takes an interest in Kathleen and forces her father to allow him to marry her to forgive the father's debt.
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Prunella
Title: Prunella
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
When Tourneur adapted the allegorical plays The Blue Bird by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and Prunella by British playwrights Harley Granville Barker and Lawrence Housman in 1918, they had been successfully staged for many years, opening in Moscow and on Broadway and everywhere. Today, the saccharine charm of these anti-modern fairy tales doesn’t work any more. But undistracted by the meaning or action of the film, we can enjoy the surface of Prunella all the better, the dazzling sets and costumes, silhouettes and painted backdrops created by the great art director Ben Carré in a fashionable Art Déco Neo-Rococo style.
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: The Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: Miss Royale
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: The Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: Thomas
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Mrs. Gargery
Released: January 8, 1917
Type: Movie
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Susie Snowflake
Title: Susie Snowflake
Character: Martha
Released: June 25, 1916
Type: Movie
When a young girl who has grown up as a music hall entertainer is brought to live in a stodgy New England town, the quiet town life is changed forever.
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The Foundling
Title: The Foundling
Character: Julia Ember
Released: January 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Rich artist David King sends his infant daughter Molly to an orphanage, then years later regrets it and tries to find her. She's sent to slave at a boarding house,and the mistress of the orphanage passes her niece off as Molly.
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The Foundling
Title: The Foundling
Character: Julia Ember
Released: August 1, 1915
Type: Movie
This 1915 film was completed in August and reviewed by trade papers, but was destroyed by fire in a studio accident. It was immediately remade with a different director and a slightly different cast and release on 2 January 1916, only 6 days after the scheduled release date for the destroyed version.