Fritzi Ridgeway

Fritzi Ridgeway

Born: April 8, 1898
Died: March 29, 1961
in Butte, Montana, USA
From Wikipedia

Fritzi Ridgeway (April 8, 1898 – March 29, 1961) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1934. She married film composer Constantin Bakaleinikoff. In 1928 she built the Hotel del Tahquitz in Palm Springs, California. She was born in Butte, Montana and died in Lancaster, California from a heart attack.

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We Live Again
Title: We Live Again
Character: The redhead
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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No Ransom
Title: No Ransom
Character: Miss Price
Released: October 7, 1934
Type: Movie
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
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House of Mystery
Title: House of Mystery
Character: Stella Walker
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
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Ladies of the Big House
Title: Ladies of the Big House
Character: Reno Maggie
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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The Mad Parade
Title: The Mad Parade
Character: Prudence Graham
Released: September 18, 1931
Type: Movie
The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.
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Prince of Diamonds
Title: Prince of Diamonds
Character: Lolah
Released: March 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith), from being unjustly arrested as a thief. Rupert, unaware of the reason his sweetheart married his rival, goes to the Far East where he grows rich after discovering a diamond mine. He breaks Eve's husband by underselling him and then returns to England to exact his revenge on the woman he thinks did him wrong.
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Hell's Heroes
Title: Hell's Heroes
Character: Mother
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
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This Is Heaven
Title: This Is Heaven
Character: Mamie Chase
Released: June 22, 1929
Type: Movie
This film was released in both silent and sound versions.
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Red Hot Speed
Title: Red Hot Speed
Character: Slavey
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.
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The Son of the Golden West
Title: The Son of the Golden West
Character: Rita
Released: September 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Tom Hardy (Tom Mix), a pony express rider, is carrying government gold in a coach to Wassatch accompanied by Alice Calhoun (Sharon Lynn) , the daughter of the US telegraph survey station. The gold is to pay for the US Telegraph Survey and it is to be delivered to the survey chief, Jim Calhoun (Thomas Lingham). The coach is attacked by bandits led by the Slade (Duke Lee) and Kane (Mark Hamilton).
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The Enemy
Title: The Enemy
Character: Mitzi Winkelmann
Released: December 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
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Face Value
Title: Face Value
Character: Muriel Stanley
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Howard Crandall Jr., who comes from a wealthy family, has suffered a disfiguring facial injury during World War I, and at war's end stays in Paris rather than return home to his family and sweetheart Muriel looking the way he does. While in Paris he forms a secret society of men who are in a similar position. When he finally does decide to return home, his family and Muriel are at first shocked by his appearance, but they recover and try to make him feel comfortable and accepted. However, it's not before Howard begins to feel their actions are motivated more by pity than love, and when Arthur Wells, who was once Muriel's suitor, shows up one day and is greeted warmly and intimately by Muriel, Howard starts to think that his suspicions are justified.
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Lonesome Ladies
Title: Lonesome Ladies
Character: Dorothy
Released: July 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Released on July 3, 1927
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Title: Getting Gertie's Garter
Character: Barbara Felton
Released: February 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Emily Judson
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Fritzi Ridgeway
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Branded Man
Title: Branded Man
Released: December 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Branded Man is an obscure silent Western.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Ann
Released: October 8, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
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A Woman's Vengeance
Title: A Woman's Vengeance
Character: Nell Burrows
Released: September 4, 1920
Type: Movie
A young girl has to prove her skillness with the gun against a gang outlaws, revealing herself as the real heroine of a Western town.
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Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Title: Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Character: Olive Ketchel
Released: February 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is forced to accept the attentions of Jim Shuckles, whom she abhors and who has compromised her sister Olive.
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Winning a Bride
Title: Winning a Bride
Character: Mary Pendleton
Released: October 11, 1919
Type: Movie
A ranch foreman wins a series of events at a frontier day rodeo.
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A Petal on the Current
Title: A Petal on the Current
Character: Cora Kinealy
Released: August 3, 1919
Type: Movie
A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.
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When Doctors Disagree
Title: When Doctors Disagree
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Fire Flingers
Title: The Fire Flingers
Character: Ellen
Released: April 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in love him.
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The Calendar Girl
Title: The Calendar Girl
Character: Mazie
Released: October 15, 1917
Type: Movie
Mildred Manning, known as Middy, is an apprentice in Madame Lizette's fashionable shop. Her beauty is discovered by Madame's brother, George Martin, and she is made a model. One afternoon, she tries on a rejected bathing suit and by adding a touch here and there, makes it into a beautiful creation. Madame then sends her to the beach to carry out a clever advertising scheme. At the shore, Middy is pursued by a reporter and photographer, who have been commissioned by Madame to photograph the girl for calendar advertising. In her flight from the publicity men, Mildred takes refuge in a car owned by lawyer Philip Gordon, who gets into the vehicle and drives off with Middy. Middy has him drop her off where she doesn't live, and he ends up having to try to track her down.
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The Soul Herder
Title: The Soul Herder
Character: Jane Brown
Released: August 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Harry is thrown out of town and on his way across the desert meets a minister and his family; when the man is killed in an Indian raid, Harry takes care of his little daughter, later puts on the minister's frock and reforms a town.
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The Wrong Man
Title: The Wrong Man
Character: Anice Malone
Released: July 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A stagecoach robbery leads to a desperate attempt to round up the bandits.
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The Hero of the Hour
Title: The Hero of the Hour
Character: Mildred Nebeker
Released: April 23, 1917
Type: Movie
Billy Brooks, who exhibits an effeminate personality, leaves his Wall Street magnate father and goes on the road as a perfume salesman. In an effort to cure his son of his womanly ways, Brooks, Sr. wires Nebeker, an old rancher friend, to kidnap Billy from the train and "make a man of him."