Betty Blythe

Betty Blythe

Born: August 31, 1893
Died: April 7, 1972
in Los Angeles, California, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Betty Blythe (born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter, September 1, 1893 – April 7, 1972) was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba (1921). She appeared in 63 silent films and 56 talking pictures (known as talkies) over the course of her career.

She is famous for being one of the first actresses to appear on film in the nude, or nearly so, during the Roaring Twenties.

She is reported to have said, "A director is the only man besides your husband who can tell you how much of your clothes to take off."

Blythe began her stage work in such theatrical pieces as So Long Letty and The Peacock Princess. She worked in vaudeville as the "California Nightingale" singing songs such as "Love Tales from Hoffman".

After touring Europe and the States, she entered films in 1918 at the Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, then she was brought to Hollywood's Fox studio as a replacement for actress Theda Bara.

As famous for her revealing costumes as for her dramatic skills, she became a star in such exotic films as The Queen of Sheba (1921) (in which she wore nothing above the waist except a string of beads), Chu-Chin-Chow (made in 1923; released by MGM in the US 1925) and She (1925).

She was also seen to good advantage in less revealing films like Nomads of the North (1920) with Lon Chaney and In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924), produced by Samuel Goldwyn.

Other roles were as an opera star, unbilled in Garbo's The Mysterious Lady. She continued to work as a character actress. One of her last roles was a small uncredited role in a crowd scene in 1964's My Fair Lady.

Betty Blythe's name lives on through the Betty Blythe Vintage TeaRoom in West Kensington.

Movies for Betty Blythe...

My Fair Lady
Title: My Fair Lady
Character: Lady at Ball (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
bee
Runaway Daughters
Title: Runaway Daughters
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
bee
Hollywood Story
Title: Hollywood Story
Character: Herself
Released: June 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
bee
Luxury Liner
Title: Luxury Liner
Character: Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de Janeiro. Anxious to become a singer herself, Bradford's young daughter, Polly, decides to skip out on school and sneak onto the ship before it departs. Angry that his daughter disobeyed him, Bradford puts her to work on the ship for punishment, but Polly has her own ideas about how to spend the trip.
bee
Shed No Tears
Title: Shed No Tears
Character: Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
bee
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Title: Letter from an Unknown Woman
Character: Frau Kohner (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.
bee
Madonna of the Desert
Title: Madonna of the Desert
Character: Mrs. Brown
Released: February 23, 1948
Type: Movie
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
bee
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Title: Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Character: Mrs. Vacuum
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
bee
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Character: Floor Manager (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
bee
Something in the Wind
Title: Something in the Wind
Character: Society Matron (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1947
Type: Movie
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
bee
Undercurrent
Title: Undercurrent
Character: Saleslady (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
bee
Joe Palooka, Champ
Title: Joe Palooka, Champ
Character: Mrs. Stafford
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
bee
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
bee
The Undercover Woman
Title: The Undercover Woman
Character: Cissy Van Horn
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Two women private detectives arrive at a dude ranch in time to investigate the murder of their client's philandering husband.
bee
Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
bee
They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
bee
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Title: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Character: Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1945
Type: Movie
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
bee
Docks of New York
Title: Docks of New York
Character: Mrs. Darcy
Released: February 24, 1945
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.
bee
A Fig Leaf for Eve
Title: A Fig Leaf for Eve
Character: Lavinia Sardham
Released: July 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
bee
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Title: Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Character: Mrs. Manning
Released: May 20, 1944
Type: Movie
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
bee
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Title: Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Released: October 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help.
bee
Bar 20
Title: Bar 20
Character: Mrs. Stevens
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.
bee
Spotlight Scandals
Title: Spotlight Scandals
Character: Mrs. Baker
Released: September 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
bee
Crime Doctor
Title: Crime Doctor
Character: Mrs. Harrington
Released: June 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
bee
Sarong Girl
Title: Sarong Girl
Character: Miss Ellsworth
Released: June 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
bee
Girls in Chains
Title: Girls in Chains
Character: Mrs. Grey
Released: May 17, 1943
Type: Movie
A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
bee
Presenting Lily Mars
Title: Presenting Lily Mars
Character: Dowager
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
bee
Dawn on the Great Divide
Title: Dawn on the Great Divide
Character: Mrs. Elmira Corkle
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
bee
Piano Mooner
Title: Piano Mooner
Character: Society Woman
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment involves a socialite and a pesky French maid hounding him constantly.
bee
House of Errors
Title: House of Errors
Character: Mrs. Martha Randall
Released: April 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
bee
Freckles Comes Home
Title: Freckles Comes Home
Character: Minerva Potter
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
bee
Inflation
Title: Inflation
Character: Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
bee
Tuxedo Junction
Title: Tuxedo Junction
Character: Miss Hornblower
Released: November 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
bee
The Miracle Kid
Title: The Miracle Kid
Character: Madame Gloria
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
bee
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Title: Top Sergeant Mulligan
Character: Mrs. Lewis
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape the wrath of bill collector Mulligan
bee
Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Mrs. Wilson
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
bee
Our Wife
Title: Our Wife
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
bee
Puddin' Head
Title: Puddin' Head
Character: Mrs. Bowser
Released: June 25, 1941
Type: Movie
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
bee
Sis Hopkins
Title: Sis Hopkins
Character: Mrs. Farnsworth
Released: April 12, 1941
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
bee
Federal Fugitives
Title: Federal Fugitives
Character: Marcia
Released: March 29, 1941
Type: Movie
A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.
bee
Misbehaving Husbands
Title: Misbehaving Husbands
Character: Effie Butler
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".
bee
Earl of Puddlestone
Title: Earl of Puddlestone
Character: Millicent Potter-Potter
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
bee
The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Mrs. South (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
bee
Gangster's Boy
Title: Gangster's Boy
Character: Mrs. Davis
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
bee
Delinquent Parents
Title: Delinquent Parents
Character: Mrs. Wharton
Released: July 15, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
bee
Romance of the Limberlost
Title: Romance of the Limberlost
Character: Mrs. Parker
Released: June 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The girl's existence is close to being servitude bondage, and her only companions are the birds and the animals of the forest. She meets and falls in love with a young man whose ambition is to be a lawyer. But her aunt is arranging for her to be married to the wealthiest man in the Limberlost, a drunken, coarse bully.
bee
Hold That Kiss
Title: Hold That Kiss
Character: Wedding Guest at Piermont's
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
bee
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Title: Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Character: Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.
bee
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
Title: What Do You Think? (Number Two)
Released: December 25, 1937
Type: Movie
This short presents the possibility that a dead person's spirit can intervene in the lives of the living.
bee
Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
bee
Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Train Passenger
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
bee
Rainbow on the River
Title: Rainbow on the River
Character: Flower Buyer (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
bee
The Gorgeous Hussy
Title: The Gorgeous Hussy
Character: Mrs. Wainwright
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
bee
Yours for the Asking
Title: Yours for the Asking
Character: May
Released: July 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
bee
Murder at Glen Athol
Title: Murder at Glen Athol
Character: Ann Randel
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
bee
Western Courage
Title: Western Courage
Character: Mrs. Hanley
Released: October 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to stop the elopement. The outlaw Lacrosse and his henchman then catch Ken without his guns, take off with Gloria, and leave a tied up Ken in a burning shack.
bee
The Spanish Cape Mystery
Title: The Spanish Cape Mystery
Character: Mrs. Godfrey
Released: October 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
bee
Cheers of the Crowd
Title: Cheers of the Crowd
Character: Lil Langdon Walton
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
bee
The Perfect Clue
Title: The Perfect Clue
Character: Ursula Chesebrough
Released: March 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
bee
I've Been Around
Title: I've Been Around
Released: March 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
bee
Night Alarm
Title: Night Alarm
Character: Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
bee
A Girl of the Limberlost
Title: A Girl of the Limberlost
Character: Mrs. Parker
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
bee
Two Heads on a Pillow
Title: Two Heads on a Pillow
Character: Mrs. Agnes Walker
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
bee
The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Innkeeper
Released: September 18, 1934
Type: Movie
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
bee
Money Means Nothing
Title: Money Means Nothing
Character: Mrs. Ferris
Released: June 14, 1934
Type: Movie
At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.
bee
Badge of Honor
Title: Badge of Honor
Character: Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.
bee
Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Mrs. Vandergrift
Released: March 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls in love with the rather wild Elizabeth Vandegrift.
bee
Before Midnight
Title: Before Midnight
Character: Mavis Fry
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
bee
Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
bee
Pilgrimage
Title: Pilgrimage
Character: Janet Prescot
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
bee
Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Gossip (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
bee
Tom Brown of Culver
Title: Tom Brown of Culver
Character: Dolores Delight
Released: June 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
bee
Lena Rivers
Title: Lena Rivers
Character: Mathilda Nichols
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
bee
Stars of Yesterday
Title: Stars of Yesterday
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
bee
Stolen Love
Title: Stolen Love
Character: Modiste
Released: December 2, 1928
Type: Movie
The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. How much of her past must a girl tell the man she wants to marry?
bee
Sisters of Eve
Title: Sisters of Eve
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
bee
Glorious Betsy
Title: Glorious Betsy
Character: Princess Fredericka
Released: April 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
bee
Domestic Troubles
Title: Domestic Troubles
Character: Carrie
Released: March 28, 1928
Type: Movie
A Silent film comedy directed by Ray Enright.
bee
A Million Bid
Title: A Million Bid
Character: Mrs. Gordon
Released: May 27, 1927
Type: Movie
To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years later, after she has uncovered and overcome her mother's deceptions and manipulations, her newfound happiness is threatened with the appearance of a mysterious "man from the sea."
bee
Snowbound
Title: Snowbound
Character: Julia Barry
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Assuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail, Julia Barry poses as his wife. Peter is actually in love with Alice Blake. He encounters complications with motorcycle cop Bull, who is engaged to Julia. A friend of Alice adds to the mix-up. All wind up snowbound together in a mountain lodge.
bee
She
Title: She
Character: Ayesha
Released: June 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.
bee
Percy
Title: Percy
Character: Lolita
Released: April 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
bee
Folly of Vanity
Title: Folly of Vanity
Character: Mrs. Ridgeway (modern 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.
bee
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Title: In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Character: Rita Sismondi
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
bee
Chu-Chin-Chow
Title: Chu-Chin-Chow
Character: Zahrat
Released: May 15, 1924
Type: Movie
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
bee
Southern Love
Title: Southern Love
Released: January 1, 1924
Type: Movie
bee
The Truth About Wives
Title: The Truth About Wives
Character: Helen Frazer
Released: February 3, 1923
Type: Movie
The Truth About Wives is a 1923 silent film.
bee
How Women Love
Title: How Women Love
Character: Rosa Roma
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
bee
Fair Lady
Title: Fair Lady
Character: Countess Margherita
Released: March 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arranges to have the bridegroom assassinated, and Norvin Blake, a young American (Robert Elliott), almost loses his life in his attempt to save him.
bee
Disraeli
Title: Disraeli
Released: August 21, 1921
Type: Movie
The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.
bee
Charge It
Title: Charge It
Character: Mille Garreth
Released: June 11, 1921
Type: Movie
A woman's excessive spending brings difficulty to her family.
bee
The Queen of Sheba
Title: The Queen of Sheba
Character: Queen of Sheba
Released: April 10, 1921
Type: Movie
The story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.
bee
Nomads of the North
Title: Nomads of the North
Character: Nanette
Released: September 25, 1920
Type: Movie
A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.
bee
The Silver Horde
Title: The Silver Horde
Character: Mildred Wayland
Released: May 9, 1920
Type: Movie
A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
bee
Burnt Wings
Title: Burnt Wings
Character: Helen
Released: March 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Struggling artist Ned Templeton and his wife Joan are leading a poverty-stricken life in Paris. Threatened by starvation and eviction, Joan is forced to become a prostitute. After some time, Ned becomes successful, and he and Joan move to New York. There he meets Helen, daughter of wealthy art patron James Cartwright. Cartwright was the man who "bought" Joan in Paris, and when he learns that his daughter's happiness depends upon Ned's divorce, he threatens to expose Joan.
bee
The Undercurrent
Title: The Undercurrent
Character: Mariska
Released: November 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Jack Duncan returns from the war in France to his wife and baby and learns that his job as a draftsman at the Loring Steel Mills has been taken. Given work in the machine shop, Jack becomes the prey of Red agitators who want him because of his popularity with soldiers. The Reds cause Jack's discharge just when his house payments come due, and when they convince him of the injustice of his situation, he joins their ranks. After learning of plans to burn the factory and Loring's home, and start a riot in the town, Jack is won over by a socialist's arguments advocating mild reforms. At a meeting of workingmen, Jack praises Americanism. He warns Loring and, with soldiers at a nearby camp, quells the riot. After a woman agitator kills her comrades and then shoots herself, Jack arrives home to save his wife from an attack by a Red ringleader. Jack is then made a foreman at the mill.
bee
Beating the Odds
Title: Beating the Odds
Character: Hebe Norse
Released: May 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Beating the Odds
bee
Over the Top
Title: Over the Top
Character: Madame Arnot
Released: March 31, 1918
Type: Movie
The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an American volunteer with the British Army on the Western Front.
bee
Slander
Title: Slander
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
The wife of attorney John Blair (T. Jerome Lawler), heroine Helene (Kalich) finds herself in an untenable position when two of Blair's clients, Harry Carson (Robert Rendel)) and Richard Tremaine (Eugene Ormonde), both fall in love with her.