Fanny Midgley

Fanny Midgley

Born: November 25, 1879
Died: January 4, 1932
in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Movies for Fanny Midgley...

An American Tragedy
Title: An American Tragedy
Character: Mrs. Titus Alden
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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Behind Closed Doors
Title: Behind Closed Doors
Character: Mother Schield
Released: February 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Behind the doors of a foreign government's embassy in Washington D. C., a group of royal loyalists is attempting to raise funds to aid a counter-revolution and restore the deposed emperor in a new republic. They are led by an unknown leader called 'The Eagle."
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Naughty Baby
Title: Naughty Baby
Character: Mary Ellen Toolen
Released: December 16, 1928
Type: Movie
A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.
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The Flyin' Buckaroo
Title: The Flyin' Buckaroo
Character: Mrs. Mathews
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
A stirring story of western love and action! 
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Ace of Action
Title: Ace of Action
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Two families feud over possession of a valuable waterhole.
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Mrs. Pryor
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor but meets opposition from her stern military father who has recently immigrated from England.
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The Fighting Cheat
Title: The Fighting Cheat
Character: Mrs. Wells
Released: February 11, 1926
Type: Movie
A drifter befriends wounded outlaw Lafe Wells. Having promised to deliver a sack of gold to the man's family, Wales promptly falls for the daughter of the house.
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Greed
Title: Greed
Character: Anastasia Baker (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Stephen Steps Out
Title: Stephen Steps Out
Character: Mrs. Gilman
Released: November 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Stephen Steps Out is a 1923 comedy short.
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When Love Comes
Title: When Love Comes
Character: Aunt Susie Coleridge
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and asks her to run away with him. Unfortunately, around the time Jane's supposed to meet him at the station her father dies and she has to take care of her brothers and sisters. Jamison believes she loves someone else and disappears for several years. When he finally returns, he has a three-year-old child in tow. But he explains that his wife has been unfaithful and he and Jane renew their romance. Then wife shows up and causes trouble by claiming that Jamison left her for Jane.
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The Young Rajah
Title: The Young Rajah
Character: Sarah Judd
Released: November 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Mrs. O'Donnell (as Fannie Midgley)
Released: December 1, 1921
Type: Movie
The O'Donnells are a typical, everyday family -- Tad (George Hernandez) is a sensible working man, his wife (Fannie Midgely) is a good mother and their daughter Kathleen (Constance Binney) is pretty and innocent to the point of naiveté. Kathleen works in a factory and its owner, Donald Holiday (Warner Baxter), has taken a shine to her. But instead she falls for slick cab driver Harry Stanton (George Webb), who insists, "Honest, kid, you're the only girl I ever loved." Kathleen falls for this, and when her perceptive father makes clear he doesn't approve of Stanton, she moves out on her own.
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Patsy
Title: Patsy
Character: Mrs. Vincent
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too accommodating to stand up for Patsy, although he knows she is picked on. When they are all at supper, Grace runs away on a motorboat with a millionaire playboy. During a deep talk with Grace's boyfriend, Patsy reveals that she is in love with somebody who doesn't know she exists.
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All Souls' Eve
Title: All Souls' Eve
Character: Mrs. O'Hallahan
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
The wife of sculptor Roger Heath is killed by a maniac because of Roger's madly jealous admirer Olivia Larkin. To care for his home and son Peter, Roger hires Irish immigrant Nora O'Hallahan as a nursemaid whom he realizes is possessed by the soul of his departed wife.
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Always Audacious
Title: Always Audacious
Character: Mrs. Rumson
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Reckless heir of an influential San Francisco family, Perry Danton must prove his worth by taking a job with the family lawyer before he is entrusted with the Danton fortune.
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The Corsican Brothers
Title: The Corsican Brothers
Character: Madame Savilia De Franchi
Released: February 22, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Lottery Man
Title: The Lottery Man
Character: Mrs. Wright
Released: October 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.
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The Man Beneath
Title: The Man Beneath
Released: July 5, 1919
Type: Movie
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college friend, James Bassett. Although Kate loves Ashutor, she says marriage would make them social outcasts.
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How Could You, Jean?
Title: How Could You, Jean?
Character: Mrs. Bonner
Released: June 29, 1918
Type: Movie
A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo and behold, is a slumming millionaire.
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Somewhere in France
Title: Somewhere in France
Character: Madame Benet
Released: October 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Wicked Frenchwoman Marie Chaumontel is the mistress of Captain Henry Ravignac. She steals some papers from him, which she gives to the Germans. Then she escapes to Berlin while her lover is tried for her wrongdoing. He is found guilty of neglect, and he commits suicide. His brother, Lieutenant Charles Ravignac swears revenge, and he becomes a counterspy by going to work for the Germans.
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Plain Jane
Title: Plain Jane
Character: Nora O'Grogan
Released: October 8, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Apostle of Vengeance
Title: The Apostle of Vengeance
Character: 'Marm' Hudson
Released: June 25, 1916
Type: Movie
1916 American silent drama film directed by Clifford Smith and starring William S. Hart, Nona Thomas and John Gilbert. A Kentucky-born preacher returns home from Vermont in order to settle a feud between two warring families.
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The Despoiler
Title: The Despoiler
Character: The Abbess
Released: December 15, 1915
Type: Movie
Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the credits; but since Ince was known far and wide as a glory-hogger, it's also possible that one of his talented lieutenants wielded the megaphone. A Civil War drama, The Despoiler refuses to take sides, demonstrating that there are heroes and villains in both camps. Capturing a small town, Colonel Charles K. French orders his men to reclaim the funds raised for the enemy by the townsfolk. French's drunken, lacivious second-in-command Frank Keenan intends to extort money from the citizens by threatening the virtue of the town's female population.
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The Ruse
Title: The Ruse
Character: Mrs. Dawson
Released: July 14, 1915
Type: Movie
"Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business deal with a mine promoter who turns out to be crooked.
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Bad Buck of Santa Ynez
Title: Bad Buck of Santa Ynez
Character: The Mother
Released: May 20, 1915
Type: Movie
An outlaw on the run comes upon a widow and her small child. When the child is bitten by a snake, the outlaw risks his life by riding into town to get a doctor.
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In the Tennessee Hills
Title: In the Tennessee Hills
Character: Mrs. Carson, Jim's Ma
Released: February 12, 1915
Type: Movie
In an impoverished Tennessee hill town, Jim cares for his dangerously ill mother in a run-down shack he rents from the ruthless landlord John Calhoun. When Calhoun comes for the rent, Jim goes out to borrow the money. While he is away, Calhoun forcibly evicts Mother from the shack and leaves her dying in the dusty road. Jim, on his return, takes up his gun and begins to track down John Calhoun. - Harpodeon
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The Italian
Title: The Italian
Released: January 1, 1915
Type: Movie
An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.
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Waifs
Title: Waifs
Released: January 17, 1914
Type: Movie
The waif came to live with the unsuspecting old shoemaker. Then a homeless newsboy followed. One friendly heart bred another. That was too much for the proud, wealthy widowed sister. She declared she would have no orphans wished on her. Stilling her conscience, she took the children's legacy, but one Sunday morning after the war, peace silenced all conflict.
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The Sign of the Snake
Title: The Sign of the Snake
Released: November 28, 1913
Type: Movie
Colonel Crewe, in charge of a fort near the Mexican border, receives word that some Chinese are about to be smuggled across the line. He details Lieutenant Hurd to attend to the matter. Hurd, with a few soldiers, succeeds in capturing the Chinese, among whom is a Christianized girl, Moon Chew. She falls in love with Hurd.
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The Immortal Alamo
Title: The Immortal Alamo
Released: May 25, 1911
Type: Movie
A lost silent film depicting the battle of the Alamo. Filmed in San Antonio.