Ena Gregory

Ena Gregory

Born: April 18, 1906
Died: June 13, 1993
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ena Gregory (1906–1993) was an Australian motion picture actress.

In Australia, Gregory was known as the child wonder of the vaudeville stage. Her first screen experience came at the age of four when she was shown in her mother's arms in a crowd which was welcoming British dignitaries.

She was first signed in Hollywood for ingenue roles by Universal Pictures in 1921. She also worked for Hal Roach Studios and First National Pictures. In all she spent five years in comic roles before going into dramatic work. By 1924 she was the leading lady of the Independent Pictures Corporation. She was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1925.

Gregory's film career started with comedy shorts like The Bull Thrower, Lion's Jaws and Kitten's Paws, and The Whizbang. After completing The Calgary Stampede and The Chip of the Flying U, she was promoted to leading lady for Jack Hoxie for two movies.

When Gregory failed to achieve stardom, she consulted a Hollywood seer. He suggested a new name which combined the syllables of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. It was Marian Douglas. Her first film using the new name was The Shepherd of the Hills. She took steps to become an American citizen beginning in October 1927.

Gregory continued to make movies as Marion Douglas until 1931. Her final films are Twisted Tales, Three Wise Clucks, Aloha, and Beach Pajamas.

Gregory divorced film director Alfred Rogell in August 1934. Gregory married Dr. Frank Nolan on 5 November 1937. The couple separated in May 1938 and Gregory obtained a divorce decree in July 1939.

Ena Gregory died in Laguna Beach, California in 1993, aged 87.

Movies for Ena Gregory...

Beach Pajamas
Title: Beach Pajamas
Released: September 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Beach Pajamas is a 1931 Comedy short
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Aloha
Title: Aloha
Character: Elaine Marvin
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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Sioux Blood
Title: Sioux Blood
Character: Barbara Ingram
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
One of John Waters' two Tim McCoy westerns made with MGM in the last years of the silent era. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in New York but it hasn't been made available to the public and there don't seem to be any plans for it.
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The Power of Silence
Title: The Power of Silence
Character: Gloria Wright
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Would An Innocent Woman Keep Silent? Would the fear of a murderer's death shake her from the Sphinx-like silence that shielded- who?
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The Upland Rider
Title: The Upland Rider
Character: Sally Graham
Released: June 3, 1928
Type: Movie
The honest John Graham and the crooked Ross Cheswick battle for supremacy. Despite Cheswick's unscrupulous methods, Dan and his handsome bronco Tarzan win the Big Race for Graham. Dan's prize: Graham's lovely daughter Sally.
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The Wagon Show
Title: The Wagon Show
Character: Sally Beldan
Released: February 19, 1928
Type: Movie
Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous competitor Vicarino, the young Bob Mason takes the opportunity to take over the job with his horse 'Tarzan'.
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The Shepherd of the Hills
Title: The Shepherd of the Hills
Character: Maggie
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways. Years earlier, his son betrayed a mountaineer's daughter, and The Shepherd hopes to atone for his error. When a continued drought threatens the people with starvation and ruin, they lose faith in the "miracle man" and mock him, though he begs them to keep the faith.
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The Jazz Singer
Title: The Jazz Singer
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1927
Type: Movie
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
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The Western Rover
Title: The Western Rover
Character: Millie Donlin
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Returning to the family ranch after a spell as a circus performer, Art Hayes finds that a crooked ranch foreman has forced his father into bankruptcy.
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Men of Daring
Title: Men of Daring
Character: Nancy Owen
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
The story is set in the Black Hills of South Dakota circa 1876. While making their way through the Badlands, a religious cult is terrorized by a bandit known only as Black Roger.
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Blazing Days
Title: Blazing Days
Character: Milly Morgan
Released: March 27, 1927
Type: Movie
While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to that of Dutton, known as "Dude".
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Rough and Ready
Title: Rough and Ready
Character: Beth Stone
Released: January 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Ned Raleigh, a cowboy on the Stone Ranch, is laughed at by his pal Rawhide Barton for emulating his chivalrous namesake, Sir Walter Raleigh. Manning, an eastern capitalist, agrees to make Stone a loan to pay off his mortgage if he surrenders 200 head of cattle as security; Manning, after he discovers oil on the property, conspires with Blake, Stone's foreman, to hide the stock, and thus secure the land for himself.
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Red Hot Leather
Title: Red Hot Leather
Character: Ellen Rand
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Jack Lane is returning from the East after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan to pay off the mortgage on his father's ranch. On the train, he meets Ellen Rand, who is smitten at the sight of her first real cowboy. Later he learns that she is the nurse who is to care for his paralytic father, growing weaker at the prospect of losing his ranch. Jack plans to enter the local rodeo to earn the money, though Morton Kane, who holds the mortgage and has secretly discovered oil on the ranch, plots with his son Ross to keep him from the events.
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The Better Man
Title: The Better Man
Character: Nancy Burton
Released: June 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American Nancy Burton from a brutal peddler. Interested in Nancy, Lord Hugh obtains passage as valet to her nouveau riche uncle, Phineas Ward.
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Sporting Life
Title: Sporting Life
Character: Peggy
Released: November 29, 1925
Type: Movie
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can save his fortunes.
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The Calgary Stampede
Title: The Calgary Stampede
Character: Trixie
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Real life rodeo champion Hoot Gibson plays Dan Molloy, an expert rider who wins the big one, the Calgary Stampede. When the father of his new French-Canadian girlfriend turns up dead, Molloy is the only suspect!
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The Desert Flower
Title: The Desert Flower
Character: Fay Knight
Released: June 21, 1925
Type: Movie
A mining camp girl attempts to reform a young derelict addicted to drink. Colleen Moore broke her neck in a fall from a moving handcar during the making of this rousing sagebrush melodrama. The pert Moore, an idol of her generation, quickly regained her mobility but was reportedly forced to sleep in a leather neck support for nearly ten years.
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Cold Nerve
Title: Cold Nerve
Released: June 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Not only is Cody cheated out of his valuable property, he also faces trial on a charge of robbery and murder.
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Riders of the Kitchen Range
Title: Riders of the Kitchen Range
Released: June 6, 1925
Type: Movie
An odd little one reel comedy starring Earl Mohan and Billy Engle, from the Hal Roach Studio. Directed by Tay Garnett.
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Folly of Vanity
Title: Folly of Vanity
Character: The Siren (fantasy sequence)
Released: December 21, 1924
Type: Movie
This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert are already having differences over money. He gets angry at her extravagances, especially when she spends more than they can afford on an imitation pearl necklace. Ridgeway, a client of Robert's, invites the couple to a party. Robert wants to decline, but Alice insists that they go. Ridgeway loans Alice a real pearl necklace, to "restore their lustre," and everyone heads for his yacht. Ridgeway pays Alice a lot of attention, while a young widow tries to vamp Robert.
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Accidental Accidents
Title: Accidental Accidents
Released: November 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmy Jump gets rather wet.
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The Man from Broadway
Title: The Man from Broadway
Released: October 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Tiring of Broadway, James Sanford "Jim" Richardson moves to Arizona, where he finds trouble of another sort when two woman fall in love with him.
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Short Kilts
Title: Short Kilts
Character: McGregor's Daughter
Released: August 3, 1924
Type: Movie
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.
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Seeing Nellie Home
Title: Seeing Nellie Home
Character: Nellie
Released: July 26, 1924
Type: Movie
The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by taking a pretty girl back home, wreaks havoc trying to get her in, then discovers that she's married.
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A Ten-Minute Egg
Title: A Ten-Minute Egg
Character: The Landlady's Daughter
Released: July 19, 1924
Type: Movie
The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe."
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The Golf Bug
Title: The Golf Bug
Character: Sally
Released: July 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Golf with Monty Banks and pals.
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Wide Open Spaces
Title: Wide Open Spaces
Released: July 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.
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Rupert of Hee-Haw
Title: Rupert of Hee-Haw
Character: Hee Haw's Maid
Released: June 7, 1924
Type: Movie
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Near Dublin
Title: Near Dublin
Character: Girl
Released: May 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Sir Patrick attempts to marry a young lady against her will. Nice guy Stan Laurel tries to help out but gets thrown in jail for his trouble.
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Brothers Under the Chin
Title: Brothers Under the Chin
Released: April 13, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 silent comedy.
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Pay or Move
Title: Pay or Move
Character: Betty Benson
Released: March 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Monty is trying to collect rent from a couple of tough deadbeats who have made a sport of beating rent collectors.
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Wedding Bells
Title: Wedding Bells
Character: The Bride
Released: March 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Monty Banks plays a groom who is about to get married. In fact, he has the marriage license just about in hand. Apparently, he's had a bachelor party the night before and when his fiancée rings him, he can't find the phone, but there's several other guys sleeping it off. The landlady suspects that some hijinks have gone on and looks to investigate. Monty figures things out pretty quickly. Luckily for him, one of the gentlemen sleeping it off is in a policeman's uniform and Monty has him pretend he's arrested everybody in the room.
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Zeb vs. Paprika
Title: Zeb vs. Paprika
Released: March 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
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Postage Due
Title: Postage Due
Character: Model
Released: February 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector that the absence of the stamp makes the card a criminal offense for the sender. In the course of his struggles he swims through "oceans" of mail, rides up and down chutes, gets tied up in a mail bag and finally finds himself locked in a delivery truck with two thieves.
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Jeffries Jr.
Title: Jeffries Jr.
Character: Pearl
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A man contacts a boxer in order to get in shape.
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Smithy
Title: Smithy
Character: Secretary
Released: January 19, 1924
Type: Movie
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amongst the other workers. The construction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
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Mother's Joy
Title: Mother's Joy
Character: Maid
Released: December 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Mother's Joy is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
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Uncensored Movies
Title: Uncensored Movies
Character: The Sheik's Favorite
Released: December 9, 1923
Type: Movie
A morals reformer returns from Hollywood to his small town, and shows his fellow citizens the results of his investigation.
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The Soilers
Title: The Soilers
Character: Girl
Released: November 24, 1923
Type: Movie
During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.
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The Smile Wins
Title: The Smile Wins
Released: April 8, 1923
Type: Movie
James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.
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Oils Well!
Title: Oils Well!
Character: The Boss's Daughter
Released: February 13, 1923
Type: Movie
Set in the oil-soaked country of “Chilitina”—shot on location in San Diego’s Balboa Park—Oils Well! follows the travails of Monty, an everyman office clerk, who thinks only of his boss’s daughter. When Herbert Hester, an oilman “so crooked he cheats when counting his pulse,” schemes to cover up the company’s new gusher so he can claim it himself and get the girl, Monty swings into action. He eludes the hapless Chilitinan army, sidesteps the General’s amorous wife, thwarts Herbert, and saves the day.
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Short Skirts
Title: Short Skirts
Released: June 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Natalie, whose mother is engaged to Wallace Brewster, the reform candidate for mayor, is seventeen years old and resents being treated as a little girl, particularly by her mother's fiancé. When she meets the opposition candidate's son, Lance Christie, he persuades her to secure some papers incriminating Brewster.
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Up in Mary's Attic
Title: Up in Mary's Attic
Character: The Vamp
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mary has married Jack Langdon , the physical instructor of the young ladies' seminary where she is being schooled. Because she is underage and risks losing the fortune her uncle has left her, Mary is compelled to keep the marriage a secret, but a baby adds to the complications. At first the young couple leaves it in the care of an Indian woman. Waldo Pennanink , the son of the school's headmaster, becomes suspicious of all the time the couple is spending with the Indian woman and the baby.
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Lion's Jaws and Kitten's Paws
Title: Lion's Jaws and Kitten's Paws
Released: June 14, 1920
Type: Movie