Lydia Yeamans Titus

Lydia Yeamans Titus

Born: December 11, 1857
Died: December 30, 1929
in Tasman Sea, Australia

Movies for Lydia Yeamans Titus...

Lummox
Title: Lummox
Character: Annie Wennerberg
Released: January 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Lummox is a 1930 American Pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon, released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst. The story of Bertha, a young immigrant woman who cleans the homes of the rich and is largely ignored by them, except for a young poet who considers her a muse.
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Shanghai Lady
Title: Shanghai Lady
Character: Polly Voo
Released: November 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.
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The Water Hole
Title: The Water Hole
Character: 'Ma' Bennett
Released: August 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Judith Endicott, the daughter of a wealthy eastern banker, vamps Philip Randolph, an Arizonan, when he comes east to talk business with her father. Philip proposes and discovers that Judith has only been kidding him along. He returns angrily to Arizona, and the elder Endicott, accompanied by his daughter, follows him west. With her father's permission, Richard "kidnaps" Judith and takes her to a deserted Indian cliff dwelling, where she must cook and care for him. Bert Durland, Judith's fiancé, follows after her, and his Indian guide steals all of the horses. Judith and Bert and Philip start back to civilization across the desert, and Bert goes berserk from the heat. They are rescued by cowboys, and Judith returns east, "kidnaping" Philip and taking him with her.
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Two Lovers
Title: Two Lovers
Character: Innkeeper's Wife
Released: March 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise of "Leatherface," a swashbuckling masked avenger, Van Ryke performs his derring-do on behalf of the Prince of Orange (Nigel de Brulier). Naturally, Van Ruke considers beautiful Spanish aristocrat Donna Leonora de Vargas (Vilma Banky) to be a bitter enemy, and the feeling is mutual. To no one's surprise, however, Van Ryke and Donna Leonara eventually fall in love (hence the title). The pulse-pounding climax finds Van Ryke riding hell-for-leather through a rainstorm to warn the Flemish troops about the Spaniards' plans to burn the city of Ghent to the ground. Two Lovers was based on Madame Orczy's novel Leatherface, and adapted for the screen by Alice Duer Miller.
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While the City Sleeps
Title: While the City Sleeps
Character: Mrs. Sullivan
Released: February 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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Upstream
Title: Upstream
Character: Hattie Breckenbridge Peyton
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.
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The Lily
Title: The Lily
Character: Housekeeper
Released: October 3, 1926
Type: Movie
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Irene
Title: Irene
Character: Mrs. Cheston
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New York City to seek fame and fortune. She gets a job as a dressmaker's model and becomes involved with Donald, the scion of a wealthy family. Donald's mother doesn't approve of Irene and sets out to discredit her in Donald's eyes.
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The Limited Mail
Title: The Limited Mail
Character: Mrs. O'Leary
Released: September 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Bob Wilson, who becomes a tramp after being jilted by his fiancée, prevents the Limited Mail from being wrecked during a mountain storm and becomes fast friends with Jim Fowler, a railway mail clerk. Jim gets Bob a job on the railroad, and Bob works himself up to the position of engineer on the Limited. Both of the men fall in love with Caroline Dale, but she prefers Bob.
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The Talker
Title: The Talker
Character: Mrs. Fells
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells and his wife, Maud, have several boarders, among them Barbara Farley, who is Lennox's stenographer, and Lonnie Whinston, who is in love with Lennox's little sister, Ruth. Kate claims that women need more independence and less duty, and flirts with Ned Hollister, a car salesman.
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Up the Ladder
Title: Up the Ladder
Character: Hannah, Jane's Old Nurse
Released: May 2, 1925
Type: Movie
An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.
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Head Winds
Title: Head Winds
Character: Nurse
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Peter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.
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The Rag Man
Title: The Rag Man
Character: Mrs. Malloy
Released: February 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York freely. He meets Max Ginsberg, an old Jewish junk dealer with rheumatism, and the two strike a partnership and a close friendship.
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The Arizona Romeo
Title: The Arizona Romeo
Character: Martha
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
To spite her domineering father, Eastern girl Lucy Fox pursues an unsuitable suitor to a small Western hamlet where she obtains a job as a manicurist. A local rancher (Buck Jones), who has fallen for the girl, does his best to persuade her not too marry the bounder.
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Tarnish
Title: Tarnish
Character: Mrs. Healy
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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In Fast Company
Title: In Fast Company
Character: Maid
Released: July 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Richard Talmadge as a man who loves to live the fast life which often results in him getting in trouble. Be it throwing wild parties, losing money, getting in the boxing ring and running from gangsters. There's always something.
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Young Ideas
Title: Young Ideas
Character: Aunt Minnie
Released: July 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has virtually become a drudge in order to support her sponging relatives -- flapper sister Eloise (Lucille Ricksen), hypochondriac Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus), and storytelling Uncle Eph (James O. Barrows). Only Octavia's frail grandmother (Jennie Lee) really needs help. When Octavia's sweetheart, photographer Pritchett Spence (T. Roy Barnes), discovers the toll these bloodsuckers are exacting, he plots with the family doctor to rescue her.
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Cytherea
Title: Cytherea
Character: Laundress
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris. When he meets her married aunt, Savina Grove, she appears to be the woman he imagines whenever he gazes at a doll he has christened Cytherea, goddess of love -----Cytherea features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.
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The Wanters
Title: The Wanters
Character: Landlady
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride. She is snubbed by his relatives and shocked by the hypocrisy of his wealthy friends. Disillusioned, she runs away: Elliot follows and saves her from being hit by a train when her foot gets caught in a switch.
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Big Dan
Title: Big Dan
Character: Aunt Kate Walsh
Released: October 13, 1923
Type: Movie
Dan O'Hara, known as "Big Dan," returns from the war, and finding that his wife has left him, turns his home into a boys' camp and begins to train boxers. He meets Dora Allen, rescues her from an unwanted suitor, and gives her shelter in the camp. For a time, their relationship, which has become serious, is complicated by the intrusion of another suitor and by a woman who informs Dora that O'Hara is already married. The wife dies, however, and O'Hara wins Dora.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Winter Has Came
Title: Winter Has Came
Character: Ma
Released: April 6, 1923
Type: Movie
A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time to defeat the cruel, cruel landlord, save the old homestead from a tragic foreclosure, and keep the aged folks from being driven out into the blinding snowstorm.
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The Famous Mrs. Fair
Title: The Famous Mrs. Fair
Character: Buddy
Released: February 19, 1923
Type: Movie
A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes..
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The Footlight Ranger
Title: The Footlight Ranger
Character: Miss Amelia
Released: January 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Cowboy Bill sells his prize dogs to pay Janet's way back to New York and, in love with the girl, follows her to Manhattan where he obtains a job as a construction worker.
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Aladdin
Title: Aladdin
Released: October 16, 1922
Type: Movie
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A Girl's Desire
Title: A Girl's Desire
Character: Cook
Released: September 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Browne is the daughter of nouveau riche parents, who became wealthy when they struck oil. While she attends finishing school, her folks travel to England in search of a family tree so that they can enter society. They encounter Lady Dysart, an adventuress who married Lord Dysart shortly before his death. Lady Dysart tries to convince the Brownes that Cecil, her son from a previous marriage, is the new Lord Dysart.
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Beauty's Worth
Title: Beauty's Worth
Character: Jane
Released: May 14, 1922
Type: Movie
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
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His Nibs
Title: His Nibs
Character: The Boy's Mother
Released: October 21, 1921
Type: Movie
Shenanigans at a small town movie theater.
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Beating the Game
Title: Beating the Game
Character: Angelica - the Bank President's Wife
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman then a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be quite as easy as he thought.
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The Freeze-Out
Title: The Freeze-Out
Character: Mrs. McGuire
Released: April 9, 1921
Type: Movie
Into the town of Broken Buckle rides a stranger who threatens to open a new gambling establishment to rival the one operated by Denver Red and Headlight Whipple. The latter's sister, Zoe, who disapproves of her brother's saloon and is the local schoolteacher and owner of a notions store, tries to interest The Stranger in reforming the vice-ridden community.
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All Dolled Up
Title: All Dolled Up
Character: Landlady
Released: March 28, 1921
Type: Movie
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prevent a million-dollar robbery of the same woman. With the man of her dreams, who helped her foil the robberies, she is "adopted" by Eva.
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Beau Revel
Title: Beau Revel
Character: Ma Steel
Released: March 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Lawrence Revel, celebrated in society circles for his success with women, is devoted to his son Dick and objects to his marrying Nellie, a cabaret dancer. To prove her unworthiness, Beau asks his son not to see her for 2 weeks. Unwittingly, Beau falls in love with the girl, but his attentions are refused.
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The Mistress of Shenstone
Title: The Mistress of Shenstone
Character: Susannah Murgatroyd
Released: February 27, 1921
Type: Movie
The husband of Lady Myra Ingleby is off fighting in the World War. She is devastated when Sir Derysk Brand tells her that her husband has been killed. The War Office gives her the details - Lord Ingleby was killed, not by enemy fire, but because of an error committed by one of his fellowmen, whose name is never to be disclosed. The grieving widow retreats to her Cornwall estate for a rest. Staying at the inn is a man known as Jim Airth, who carries a grief of his own.
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The Concert
Title: The Concert
Character: Mrs. Pollinger
Released: February 20, 1921
Type: Movie
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.
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The Mad Marriage
Title: The Mad Marriage
Character: Mrs. Boggs
Released: January 31, 1921
Type: Movie
Struggling Greenwich Village artist Jerry, marries studio helper, Jane Judd, who is an aspiring playwright, knowing that she will not interfere with his work. She takes part in a pageant for which Jerry designs the costumes and attracts the attention of Christiansen, a young playwright with whom she works secretly on a play. After the birth of their child, Jerry and Jane become closer, but he is violently jealous of her accompanying Christiansen to the successful opening of his play and offers her a divorce. However, the illness of their child brings them back together.
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Go and Get It
Title: Go and Get It
Character: Lilly Doody
Released: July 18, 1920
Type: Movie
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
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Water, Water, Everywhere
Title: Water, Water, Everywhere
Character: Mrs. Red McGee
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink. Hope's discontent is echoed by the town wives' public outcry against drink. To divert their interest, Billy is nominated to make love to their leader, widow Fay Bittinger, who has already disposed of four husbands....
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The Street Called Straight
Title: The Street Called Straight
Character: Mme. Victoria De Melcourt
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Title: A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Character: Helen's Aunt (as Lydia Titus)
Released: November 29, 1919
Type: Movie
Cheyenne Harry, owner of the biggest cattle ranch in his corner of the west, is having trouble with John Merritt, a land-grabbing Chicago meat-packer. By some artifice of shrewd legal aid, Merritt manages to seize Harry's ranch under a bogus writ of foreclosure. Failing to get justice by his many letters to Merritt, Cheyenne Harry goes east and calls at the millionaire's mansion. At first, Merritt refuses to see him. Then, to cause amusement for his daughter, Helen, and her guests, he invites the "uncouth" westerner into his dining hall. He is sure that he will make some grave error in table deportment and afford them all a laugh. To the amazement of Merrit and the guests Harry's table manners are faultless. Then, to trick him into an embarrassing position, Merritt eats with his knife. Harry, realizing that it is proper for the guest to follow the example of the host, does likewise. He leaves the house chagrined but more determined than ever to get justice from Merritt.
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The World and Its Woman
Title: The World and Its Woman
Character: Mamie Connors
Released: September 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and find their way to America.
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A Yankee Princess
Title: A Yankee Princess
Character: Molly McGuire
Released: April 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David Smith and stars Bessie Love, who also wrote the screenplay. It is a lost film.
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Partners Three
Title: Partners Three
Character: Gossip
Released: March 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Agnes Cuyler, a cabaret singer in New York who loathes her work, is fired for slapping Grant Haywood, a customer from the West who tries to kiss her. Haywood begs forgiveness and after glorifying the clean Western life, proposes. To escape her circumstances, Agnes accepts, but soon learns that Haywood is a brutal drunkard.
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A Romance of Happy Valley
Title: A Romance of Happy Valley
Character: Old Lady Smiles
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man. But his embittered father, not recognizing him for who he is, plans to murder the newly-arrived "stranger" for his money.
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All Night
Title: All Night
Character: Cook
Released: November 29, 1918
Type: Movie
A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants.
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A Society Sensation
Title: A Society Sensation
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Title cards tried to make up for the lost scenes.
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Bill's Opportunity
Title: Bill's Opportunity
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Bill Zuursnik works as a shop assistant in a department store. His wife wants him to go into the oil business. He convinces his wife that he is doing just that, while in fact he is working in the lingerie department while his boss is away. He does so well in this department that he is promoted. When his wife finds out, she is furious at first, but after the initial shock she is quite happy with his promotion.
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The Edge of the Law
Title: The Edge of the Law
Character: Mrs. Harding
Released: September 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Nancy Glenn is a pupil in Pop Hogland's school for crooks. When, attired as a boy named "Spider", Nancy fails at her lessons as a pickpocket, Pop decides to pair her with Pliny Drew, a graduate thief and swindler.
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When Damon Fell for Pythias
Title: When Damon Fell for Pythias
Character: Damon
Released: January 11, 1917
Type: Movie
The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both are spared.
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The Right to Be Happy
Title: The Right to Be Happy
Character: Mrs. Fezziwig
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Considered to be lost.
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The Mark of Cain
Title: The Mark of Cain
Character: Dick's Mother
Released: August 6, 1916
Type: Movie
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Davy Crockett
Title: Davy Crockett
Character: Widow Crockett
Released: July 16, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of the famous Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, scout, and Congressman who fought and died at the Alamo.
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David Garrick
Title: David Garrick
Character: Araminta
Released: April 30, 1916
Type: Movie
The true story of the famed British actor David Garrick and his love for Ada Ingot.
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He Fell in Love with His Wife
Title: He Fell in Love with His Wife
Character: Bridget Malony
Released: February 17, 1916
Type: Movie
A widowed farmer, failing in his efforts to find a woman capable of running his household, decides to marry a young woman he believes can fill the bill. Wat he doesn't know is that she is running away from a brutish and violent husband, whom she has discovered is also a bigamist, and that her angry and vengeful husband is looking for her.
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Madame la Presidente
Title: Madame la Presidente
Character: Madame Galipaux
Released: February 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Mademoiselle Gobette, a pretty young actress, visits the offices of the Minister of Justice, Cyprienne Gaudet. Simultaneously, Madame Galipaux arrives to speak to the Minister on behalf of her husband. Gaudet mistakes Madame Galipaux for the new cleaning woman, and Mademoiselle Gobette for Madame Galipaux, leading to farcical complications when Monsieur Galipaux arrives.
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Fatherhood
Title: Fatherhood
Character: Landlady
Released: October 4, 1915
Type: Movie
Arizona range rider Lon Gilchrist helps stagecoach passengers fight off attacking Apaches. After rescuing a baby and binding her bleeding forehead with his handkerchief, Lon receives a reward that allows him to buy a ranch. Many years later, the rescued child, Lizzie Mayberry, is a waitress in a cheap restaurant, where she meets Lon, who, now wealthy, courts and marries her. Because he is so busy, Lon has his friend Del Beasley look after her. After a misunderstanding, Lizzie has Del take her to the railway station. Thinking that they left together, Lon pursues them.
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Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Title: Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Character: Housekeeper
Released: September 27, 1915
Type: Movie
Impoverished Molly Hanlon is befriended by crooked gambler Lee Kirk, she marries him in a phony ceremony. While frequenting Kirk's gambling den, Molly meets Miles Rand, the dissolute son of Judge Rand, whose obvious attraction for her encourages Kirk to swindle him out of his money. Penniless, Miles accepts a loan from Molly and returns East to study law. On the day that Molly learns that her marriage is not legal, the gambling den burns down and Kirk is presumed dead. After escaping with Kirk's money, Molly goes East where she encounters Miles, now a district attorney. In spite of the objections of Judge Rand, Molly accepts Miles's proposal, but after Kirk arrives in town, she calls off the engagement. When Kirk enters her apartment through a window, Molly kills him in a panic and is arrested for murder. The still faithful Miles defends her in court, and after her acquittal, she confesses her past and reunites with her old love.
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Gene of the Northland
Title: Gene of the Northland
Character: Mother Morey
Released: August 7, 1915
Type: Movie
Jeanne La Roche lives alone with her brother in the great northwestern country. Jacques is a ne'er-do-well and has fallen under the suspicion of the mounted police, two of whom are dispatched to arrest him for robbery. The stolen goods are found in his home. Jeanne is too young to be left in their lonely cabin, so she is taken to the post, where the wife of the proprietor welcomes her and gives her a home. Several years later, Donald McLean wins her for his wife. Meantime Jacques escapes from prison, eludes his pursuers and takes refuge in McLean's home.
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Learning to Be a Father
Title: Learning to Be a Father
Character: The Baby's Nurse
Released: June 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Captain Silas Tugg, of the schooner Helen, is a hater of women and all their doings. He has forbidden his mate, Tom Burns, to marry.