Mabel Van Buren

Mabel Van Buren

Born: July 16, 1878
Died: November 4, 1947
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Mabel Van Buren...

Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Woman in auditorium
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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His First Command
Title: His First Command
Character: Mrs. Sargent
Released: December 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
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The Flyin' Buckaroo
Title: The Flyin' Buckaroo
Character: Mrs. Brown
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
A stirring story of western love and action! 
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Craig's Wife
Title: Craig's Wife
Character: Mrs. Frazer
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery for all concerned. Harriet's husband remains blind to his wife's selfishness-until his eyes are opened when he is implicated in a double murder...
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The Meddlin' Stranger
Title: The Meddlin' Stranger
Character: Mrs. Crawford
Released: June 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Popular B-Western hero Wally Wales (later known as Hal Taliaferro) went up against none other than Boris Karloff in this primitive silent oater from poverty row studio Action Pictures.
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His Secretary
Title: His Secretary
Character: Mrs. Sloden
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.
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Fighting Blood
Title: Fighting Blood
Character: Mrs. Wilcox - Judy's Mother
Released: December 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is from the second series, 11th round, "Beauty and the Feast".
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In Search of a Thrill
Title: In Search of a Thrill
Character: Lila Lavender
Released: November 20, 1923
Type: Movie
After she inherits a fortune, Ann Clemance travels to Paris to indulge herself in frivolity. She meets up with an old friend, writer Adrian Torrens, who disparages her lifestyle. Ann sees him befriend an Apache dancer and she believes he finds women in need of salvation more appealing.
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Lights Out
Title: Lights Out
Character: Mrs. Gallant
Released: November 12, 1923
Type: Movie
Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it is filled with scenarios. Its owner, Egbert Winslow, agrees to write a screenplay about the underworld with Sea Bass's help. Sea Bass, seeing a chance to expose a pal who has double-crossed him, describes "High-Shine" Joe and some of his underworld activities. Joe sees the film in a South American theater and recognizes himself. He goes to the motion picture studio determined to kill Egbert Winslow, but bank president Peyton, who has been robbed by Joe, appears simultaneously with the police and saves Winslow.
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The Light That Failed
Title: The Light That Failed
Character: Madame Binat
Released: October 25, 1923
Type: Movie
About Dick Heldar, an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Maisie Wells, his ambition drives him to faraway places. He meets Torpenhow, a war correspondent, at Port Said, and accompanies him into battle.
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Wandering Daughters
Title: Wandering Daughters
Character: Annie Bowden
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
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Fighting Blood
Title: Fighting Blood
Character: Judy's Mother
Released: March 18, 1923
Type: Movie
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is the 3rd round, "Six Second Smith".
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Prisoner
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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While Satan Sleeps
Title: While Satan Sleeps
Character: Sunflower Sadie
Released: June 25, 1922
Type: Movie
With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. He obtains a parson's outfit from a pawnshop and shortly thereafter winds up in a barroom brawl. One of the other brawlers is Chuckwalla Bill (J.P. Lockney), the newly elected mayor of the town of Panamint.
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For the Defense
Title: For the Defense
Character: Cousin Selma
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
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Beyond the Rocks
Title: Beyond the Rocks
Character: Jane McBride
Released: May 7, 1922
Type: Movie
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
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Miss Lulu Bett
Title: Miss Lulu Bett
Character: Ina Deacon
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Theodore Roberts (as Dwight Deacon); running the house with an iron fist, he is both a dentist and a Justice of the Peace. As the latter, he accidentally marries Ms. Wilson to his visiting brother Clarence Burton (as Ninian Deacon) while they are out for dinner. Schoolteacher Milton Sills (as Neil Cornish) is also interested in Wilson...
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A Wise Fool
Title: A Wise Fool
Character: Madame Langlois
Released: June 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Jean, a wealthy young Canadian back from a trip to Europe, meets and falls for Carmen, a pretty young Spanish girl. They marry and have a daughter, but soon afterward Jean discovers his wife is having an affair. She takes her daughter and leaves him, and Jean's luck gets even worse--he loses his business in a fire and his thieving father-in-law steals what little money he has left.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Character: Elena
Released: March 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
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The Sins of Rosanne
Title: The Sins of Rosanne
Character: Mrs. Ozanne
Released: November 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse, Rachel Bangat (Fontaine La Rue) promised to cure her. That she did, but she also worked some voodoo on the child, who, as a grown up now displays a powerful desire for diamonds and the ability to throw evil curses on those who displease her.
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Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Title: Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Character: Nina
Released: November 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
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Hearts of Men
Title: Hearts of Men
Character: Tina Ferronni
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Silent Italy immigrant family relationship romantic melodrama about a poor Italian flower seller whose mother gets sick. The doctor tells him to take his mother to Arizona, which he does with his wife and child. The railroad men in Arizona think he is the start of a wave of Italian immigrants coming to take away their jobs, but they meet his darling son, Beppo, who wins them over. But then, his wife dies, and he gets involved with an immigrant Italian woman who takes Beppo back to Italy, but the railroad men help him get Beppo back. It turns out his land has oil on it, so he's fabulously rich, and he shares the fortune with the railroad men!
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Riders of the Night
Title: Riders of the Night
Character: Sally's Aunt
Released: October 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was set in Kentucky hill country. Collins' wifeViola Dana stars as Sally Castleton, a country girl in love with a brooding and idealistic aristocrat. When her sweetheart joins a night-riding vigilante organization, Sally is temporarily dismayed but resolves to hide the man from the authorities.
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Breakers Ahead
Title: Breakers Ahead
Character: Aunt Agatha Pixley
Released: March 25, 1918
Type: Movie
After young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the girl falls in love with Agatha's son, Eric. While Eric is at sea with Captain Scudder on a boat owned by Jim and Hiram Hawley, a jealous villager spreads the tale that Ruth is illegitimate, and the townspeople inevitably snub her. Jim Hiram sets his boat on fire after its arrival in port so that he can collect insurance money, and Ruth, believing that Eric is on board, tries to rescue him. When Ruth and Eric escape safely, Captain Scudder reveals that he, Ruth's long-lost father, was legally married to her mother, which re-establishes Ruth's good name and enables her to marry Eric. - From IMDB
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The Devil Stone
Title: The Devil Stone
Character: Mrs. Rogers
Released: December 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her up for divorce. She kills him and weds his business manager Sterling, but a detective learns about Silas' death.
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The Countess Charming
Title: The Countess Charming
Character: Mrs. Vandergraft
Released: September 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Stanley Jordan, a wealthy young bachelor, attends a Red Cross Benefit at the country club where he meets and falls in love with Betty Lovering and unwittingly offends Mrs. Vandergraft, the social leader.
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The Squaw Man's Son
Title: The Squaw Man's Son
Character: Lady Stuckley
Released: July 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Hal, now fully grown, leaves his wife Edith and his estate in England to return to the land of his Indian mother.
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Those Without Sin
Title: Those Without Sin
Character: Estelle Wallace
Released: March 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls into the hands of her father's former superior who attempts to compromise her. She is saved by a successful Confederate attack.
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Lost and Won
Title: Lost and Won
Released: January 21, 1917
Type: Movie
A newswoman meets a man who has bet his colleagues he can make her beautiful.
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The Victoria Cross
Title: The Victoria Cross
Character: Princess Adala
Released: December 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Maj. Ralph Seton is a British army officer stationed in Cawnpore, India, when the Sepoy Rebellion--a mutiny of Indian soldiers in the Brtitish army in India--breaks out in 1857. He receives the prestigious Victoria Cross--the highest decoration that can be awarded to a British soldier--for his actions in battle. However, after a night of drunken debauchery, he is stripped of the honor and disgraced in front of his love, Joan Strathallen, the daughter of his commanding officer. When Indian rebel leader Azimoolah instigates an uprising by the natives and has Joan kidnapped, Seton sets out to redeem his honor and save the woman he loves.
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The House with the Golden Windows
Title: The House with the Golden Windows
Character: Mrs. Peabody
Released: August 10, 1916
Type: Movie
Tom Wells is dissatisfied with his lot in life. Wondering aloud whether he'd be happier if things were different, he soon gets his chance to find out. The rest of the story is an extension on the old proverb which begins "Be careful what you wish for."
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Released: April 5, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Woman
Title: The Woman
Character: Grace Robertson
Released: August 23, 1915
Type: Movie
William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry and David Belasco. The story is set in Washington D.C., courtesy of the Lasky Studio's scenic department. Lois Meredith plays the title character, a woman of questionable morals currently involved with young politician James Neill. Political boss Theodore Roberts hopes to ruin Neill by making public the young man's romantic entanglements.
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The Warrens of Virginia
Title: The Warrens of Virginia
Character: Mrs. Warren
Released: February 14, 1915
Type: Movie
As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: The Girl
Released: January 4, 1915
Type: Movie
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…
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The Ghost Breaker
Title: The Ghost Breaker
Character: Delores
Released: December 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
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The Circus Man
Title: The Circus Man
Character: Mary Braddock
Released: November 19, 1914
Type: Movie
David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling circus.
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The Man From Home
Title: The Man From Home
Character: Ethel Granger Simpson
Released: November 9, 1914
Type: Movie
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Brewster's Millions
Title: Brewster's Millions
Released: April 14, 1914
Type: Movie
The first movie adaptation of the famous novel where a young man has to spend a fortune on 60 days to inherit an even larger sum of money. Considered to be a lost film.
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Tested by Fire
Title: Tested by Fire
Character: Betty Carroll
Released: February 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Hal Arnold, a forest ranger in one of the California mountain reserves, in going the rounds, frequently passes old man Carroll's cabin, where Betty, a typical Sierran lassie, is a most magnetic attraction. Arnold frequently leaves the trail at this point and rides up the hill and makes visits with the quaint old woodcutter and his fond daughter. Algernon Fordham, scion of a wealthy New York family, comes into the west on a mining trip and makes arrangements to board at the Carroll's. His style soon attracts the unsophisticated country girl, and for the nonce she turns from the wholesome son of nature toward the man of the world.
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A Lively Affair
Title: A Lively Affair
Character: A Suffragette Club Meeting Attendee
Released: January 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Women attending a suffragette club meeting wear pants, boss their husbands, neglect their kids, play poker, and fight. Their husbands stay home to care for the children and run the household.
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The Usurer
Title: The Usurer
Character: At Luncheon
Released: August 15, 1910
Type: Movie
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
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The House with Closed Shutters
Title: The House with Closed Shutters
Character: On Porch / At Farewell
Released: August 8, 1910
Type: Movie
During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed. Their mother, not wanting the shameful truth to become known, closes all the shutters (hence the film's title) and keeps her son's presence a secret for many years, though two boyhood chums stumble upon the truth...