Claire Windsor

Claire Windsor

Born: April 12, 1892
Died: October 23, 1972
in Glade, Kansas, USA

Movies for Claire Windsor...

Zelig
Title: Zelig
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
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How DOooo You Do
Title: How DOooo You Do
Character: Claire
Released: December 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
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Barefoot Boy
Title: Barefoot Boy
Character: Valerie Hale
Released: August 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Mrs. Simpkins (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.
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Cross Streets
Title: Cross Streets
Character: Anne Clement Grattan
Released: July 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
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Kiss of Araby
Title: Kiss of Araby
Character: Mrs. Courtney
Released: April 21, 1933
Type: Movie
While the commander of the British Army in Arabia, Major J. W. Courtney, is out in the desert chasing marauding tribesmen, his wife carries on an affair with Captain Randall. Courtney returns to the outpost ahead of time and the wife takes refuge in the quarters of Lieutenant W.B. Lawrence. Lawrence, maintaining the silence (and stiff upper lip) that his code of honor dictates is drummed out of the service. He joins the forces of El Rahman and becomes a sheik of the desert. Warfare, instigated by Randall, breaks out between the troops and the tribesmen and ends when the mortally wounded Randall confesses to his dastardly deeds, the least of which included making love to his commander's wife.
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The Constant Woman
Title: The Constant Woman
Character: Marlene Underwood
Released: March 12, 1933
Type: Movie
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
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Sister to Judas
Title: Sister to Judas
Character: Anne Fane aka Anne Ross
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love and marry, but their marriage faces some serious roadblocks.
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Self Defense
Title: Self Defense
Character: Alice
Released: December 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
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Midstream
Title: Midstream
Character: Helene Craig
Released: July 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Following a successful experimental operation to reverse age, a wealthy businessman stages his own death and assumes the identity of his nephew. His spurious pursuit of a very young woman eventually catches up with him, as does his age.
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Captain Lash
Title: Captain Lash
Character: Cora Nevins
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Lash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash somehow grabs the attention of society dame passenger Cora Nevins. Nevins is actually a jewel thief who's lifted diamonds from wealthy passenger Arthur Condrax. She needs Lash to aid in sneaking the "ice" ashore at Singapore. Cocky is Lash's concertina-playing buddy and uses it to signal Lash.
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Show People
Title: Show People
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Opening Night
Title: The Opening Night
Character: Carol Chandler
Released: November 14, 1927
Type: Movie
When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?
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Blondes by Choice
Title: Blondes by Choice
Character: Bonnie Clinton
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Foreign Devils
Title: Foreign Devils
Character: Lady Patricia Rutledge
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Capt. Robert Kelly holds off the foreign mob single-handed and makes good his escape during the Boxer rebellion.
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Life in Hollywood No. 7
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 7
Character: Herself
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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The Bugle Call
Title: The Bugle Call
Character: Alice Tremayne
Released: August 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Tale of a young bugler whose stepmother attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory.
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The Frontiersman
Title: The Frontiersman
Character: Lucy
Released: June 11, 1927
Type: Movie
John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.
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The Claw
Title: The Claw
Character: Dierdre Saurin
Released: May 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Based on the 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley, this is the story of Dierdre Saurin, whose infatuation with Major Kinsella takes her to Africa where native uprisings and the jealous connivings of Maurice Stair await her.
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A Little Journey
Title: A Little Journey
Character: Julia Rutherford
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A girl travelling by train to meet her boyfriend meets another young man and falls in love with him.
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Tin Hats
Title: Tin Hats
Character: Elsa von Bergen
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering overlords by a village... except for Lady Bountiful.
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Money Talks
Title: Money Talks
Character: Phoebe Starling
Released: May 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yacht and is wooed by the captain, Sam comes aboard as a woman and tries to seduce the captain (in fact, a liquor smuggler), away from his wife.
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Dance Madness
Title: Dance Madness
Character: Millicent Russell
Released: January 4, 1926
Type: Movie
May s married to Roger, an alcoholic hell-raiser. During one of their riotous parties, she tests his fidelity by impersonating a notorious masked dancer and trying to seduce him.
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The Lady Who Lied
Title: The Lady Who Lied
Released: July 12, 1925
Type: Movie
During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is derailed when she goes over to his apartment and finds the vampy Fifi (Nita Naldi) there. Fay goes down to Algiers, where she marries a former sweetheart, Dr. Alan Mortimer (Edward Earle).
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1925 Studio Tour
Title: 1925 Studio Tour
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1925
Type: Movie
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
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The Denial
Title: The Denial
Character: Mildred - the Mother
Released: March 22, 1925
Type: Movie
When Dorothy wants to marry Bob (Robert Agnew), her mother, Mildred, forbids the match. Dorothy angrily asserts that Mildred might reconsider if her own mother had forbid her marriage. The rest of the film is a flashback, as Mildred recalls her own youth, when her dictatorial mother did forbid her to marry Lyman. Lyman enlisted with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to fight in the Spanish-American War, but was killed in battle.
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Souls for Sables
Title: Souls for Sables
Character: Alice Garlan
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Dixie Handicap
Title: The Dixie Handicap
Character: The Daughter
Released: December 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Tale of a man and his horse.
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Born Rich
Title: Born Rich
Character: Chadyeane Fairfax
Released: December 7, 1924
Type: Movie
When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with a "flapper". When the wife returns home, she finds out about her husband's affair. In order to make him jealous, she leads him to believe she has fallen for a jazz musician. However, instead of making him jealous it drives him into depression and he takes refuge in booze and even more affairs.
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Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Title: Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Character: Nellie
Released: April 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the death of her benefactor, she becomes a model in a fashionable shop. There she falls into the hands of her mother's unscrupulous nephew, who contrives to do away with her in order to obtain her fortune. ....
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A Son of the Sahara
Title: A Son of the Sahara
Character: Barbara Barbier
Released: April 13, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Acquittal
Title: The Acquittal
Character: Madeline Ames
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
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The Eternal Three
Title: The Eternal Three
Character: Mrs. Frank R. Walters
Released: September 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secretary, and finally targets the doctor's wife, his own stepmother as his next conquest....
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Rupert of Hentzau
Title: Rupert of Hentzau
Character: Countess Helga
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania, to play the King once more. Lost Adaptation of the eponymous Anthony Hope nove, the sequel of the Prisoner of Zenda.
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Self - Celebrity Actress Directed by Marshall Neilan
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Little Church Around the Corner
Title: Little Church Around the Corner
Character: Leila Morton
Released: March 9, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.
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The Strangers' Banquet
Title: The Strangers' Banquet
Character: Derith
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
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Broken Chains
Title: Broken Chains
Character: Hortense Allen
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
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Fools First
Title: Fools First
Character: Ann Whittaker
Released: May 27, 1922
Type: Movie
Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he gets out of prison, he finds his girl, Ann Whittaker, waiting for him -- and she's got a scheme. She is working in a bank and wants to pull an inside heist.
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One Clear Call
Title: One Clear Call
Character: Faith
Released: May 20, 1922
Type: Movie
An outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only friend, a doctor, falls for a married woman.
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The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Title: The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Character: Self
Released: March 15, 1922
Type: Movie
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (15 in 1932) young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. 1922 was the first.
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Grand Larceny
Title: Grand Larceny
Character: Kathleen Vaughn
Released: February 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Dr. Jim
Title: Dr. Jim
Character: Helen Keene
Released: November 28, 1921
Type: Movie
Although renowned pediatrician Dr. Jim Keene loves his wife, Helen, she resents his devotion to his work and finds solace with other men. After the death of one of Jim’s young patients causes him to suffer a nervous collapse, the couple takes a sea voyage to restore his health.
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What Do Men Want?
Title: What Do Men Want?
Character: Hallie
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Hallie (the lovely Claire Windsor). Then he wants children. Then, when his inventions bring him financial success, he becomes restless, so he takes up with another woman. Eventually he figures out that the woman's reputation is less than squeaky clean, so he wants his wife back.
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The Blot
Title: The Blot
Character: Amelia Griggs
Released: September 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
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Too Wise Wives
Title: Too Wise Wives
Character: Marie, Mrs. David Graham
Released: May 22, 1921
Type: Movie
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
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The Raiders
Title: The Raiders
Character: 'Honey' Moore
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Northwest Mounted Policemen Fitzgerald and Herrick, who are later joined by Indian guide Uncas, have been detailed to track down a gang of whiskey-runners.
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What's Worth While?
Title: What's Worth While?
Character: Phoebe Jay Morrison
Released: February 27, 1921
Type: Movie
A rich woman and a poor man fall in love, but they face the opposition of her family.
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To Please One Woman
Title: To Please One Woman
Character: Alice Granville
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman, having lost interest in her soon to be bankrupt husband, decides to seduce a doctor.
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In the Heart of a Fool
Title: In the Heart of a Fool
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Laura Nesbit, daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, plans to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until she flirts with rising but unethical lawyer Tom VanDorn to arouse her beau's jealousy. A saddened Grant is drawn into an affair with town siren Margaret Muller, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, which breaks up both marriages. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home, where Laura's care restores his health. When Grant's little son is shot and killed during a strike, he becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the boy's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past and they begin a new life together.
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Eyes of Youth
Title: Eyes of Youth
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the options. After she sees her future along three of the roads, she makes her choice.