Jay Belasco

Jay Belasco

Born: January 11, 1888
Died: May 1, 1949
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Jay Belasco...

Bonnie Scotland
Title: Bonnie Scotland
Character: British Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
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The Wedding Night
Title: The Wedding Night
Character: Party Guest
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Friend of Miss Fane
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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The Wrong Mr. Wright
Title: The Wrong Mr. Wright
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who creates a new kind of ladies' lingerie. When he goes to Atlantic City to meet his lost sweetheart, he discovers she has grown fat and ugly, so he pretends to be "Mr. Wright". All kinds of comic hilarity ensue. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Released: September 14, 1924
Type: Movie
A city chap, who as the result of a ducking, is forced to wear "rube" clothes. He meets a cabaret dancer who thinks to have fun by kidding him and keeping up the bluff he goes to the cabaret in this make-up. His action finally necessitates calling the police and in making a getaway he dons a ballet girl's costume.
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Hold Your Breath
Title: Hold Your Breath
Character: Customer
Released: May 24, 1924
Type: Movie
When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
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Nerve Tonic
Title: Nerve Tonic
Character: Eddie's Rival
Released: May 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmie Adams comedy produced by Al Christie.
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No Vacancies
Title: No Vacancies
Character: Jack
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Arrow comedy shot in 1921 but released 2 years later, with an ensemble cast including Jay Belasco, Blanche Payson, Billy Armstrong and Jack Duffy. The plot centers around Jack and his wife who are looking for a place to rent. But what to do when the housing situation is not exactly easy?
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Jenny Be Good
Title: Jenny Be Good
Character: Royal Renshaw
Released: April 30, 1920
Type: Movie
When a young woman's great romance is interrupted by the influence of her lover's parents, she turns to her art as a violinist to console herself. As she is about to achieve her highest triumph, she is suddenly confronted by the return of the man she loves, and she must make a choice.
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A Maid to Order
Title: A Maid to Order
Released: November 20, 1917
Type: Movie
A lady unable to get a maid for a house showing dresses up as the main herself.
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Mary's Merry Mix-Up
Title: Mary's Merry Mix-Up
Character: Jack, the husband
Released: November 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Father objects to Jack, Mary's new husband, believing him to be merely a flirtatious lifeguard. Mary's brother is in town and Jack believes her brother is something more-- that she may be 'false'. Jack disguises himself as the family's new butler to investigate.
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A Two Cylinder Courtship
Title: A Two Cylinder Courtship
Character: Jack
Released: June 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A young couple head to Mexico to elope, but as they get closer to the border they realize they're running out of gas.
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Her Wayward Parents
Title: Her Wayward Parents
Character: Billy Harrison
Released: April 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Father and Mother Lennox are a contented old couple, until daughter Jane comes home from college imbued with a passion for hygiene and an unswerving sense of duty toward them. With a book, "Old People and Their Care" as her guide, she puts them through a course of exercising "sprouts," orders hygienic meals, throws wide the windows to cold winds, and upsets their well-ordered comfort.
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The Clash of Steel
Title: The Clash of Steel
Character: Carson Huntley
Released: March 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Princess Seraphina, taking her small son, Paul, flees from Yulania to the village of Champ Fleury in Normandy, because of the debauchery of her husband, Prince Feodor. The agent of Saxonia, Count Stefan, calls to convince Feodor he should divorce his wife and marry Princess Sofia Anoria with her fifty million francs, for Saxonia needs Yulania as a buffer state in case of war. Prince Feodor consents and agrees to the conspiracy of the agent to gain reason for divorce.
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Perils of the Secret Service
Title: Perils of the Secret Service
Character: Carson Huntley
Released: March 9, 1917
Type: Movie
A 9-part movie serial
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The Price of Silence
Title: The Price of Silence
Character: Billy Cupps
Released: December 11, 1916
Type: Movie
A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child.
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The Grasp of Greed
Title: The Grasp of Greed
Character: Eustace
Released: July 17, 1916
Type: Movie
En route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a desert island in the company of wealthy book publisher John Meeson. Sensing that his days are numbered, and lacking pencil and paper, Meeson tattoos his last will and testament on Alice's lovely back.
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Bobbie of the Ballet
Title: Bobbie of the Ballet
Character: Jack Stimson
Released: June 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Wealthy Jack Stimson (Jay Belasco) falls in love with Broadway diva Velma Vrooman (Gretchen Lederer), and for her sake bankrolls the musical production in which she is currently starred. But when Velma proves to be fickle and unreliable, Jack shifts his affections to humble chorus girl Bobbie (Louise Lovely).
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The Gilded Spider
Title: The Gilded Spider
Character: Paul Winston
Released: May 8, 1916
Type: Movie
An unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of the sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and a reckless American millionaire, Cyrus Kirkham (Gilmore Hammond).
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Tangled Hearts
Title: Tangled Hearts
Character: Ernest Courtney
Released: April 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Montgomery Seaton, one of the idle rich, pays more attention to his friends' business than to his marital situation.
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The Grip of Jealousy
Title: The Grip of Jealousy
Character: Harry Grant
Released: February 28, 1916
Type: Movie
In pre-Civil War days, a woman dies in childbirth. Her sister, believing the child to be illegitimate, leaves the baby in the care of one of her sister's slaves.
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A Bargain with Chance
Title: A Bargain with Chance
Character: Antonio Tostini
Released: December 14, 1915
Type: Movie
First movie in the Lord John's Journal series. Detective novel author and war hero Lord John solves a mystery.
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Lord John in New York
Title: Lord John in New York
Released: December 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Lord John, a detective novelist and the Marquis of Haslemere's brother, receives word that the stage adaption of one of his stories will not be performed because Roger Odell, a millionaire, has spoken against him. After tracking him down, Lord John joins his foe on an ocean steamer along with Grace Callender, an heiress, and Dr. Rameses, a hypnotist and Egyptian cultist. While the evil Dr. Rameses tries to steal a gold-filled mummy from Maida, Odell's adopted sister, Lord John confronts Odell, who reveals that his anger stems from a disservice that the Marquis once committed against Maida.
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His Father's Footsteps
Title: His Father's Footsteps
Released: November 28, 1915
Type: Movie
About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.
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A Lover's Lost Control
Title: A Lover's Lost Control
Character: Shoe Clerk
Released: August 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.