Alice Brady

Alice Brady

Born: November 1, 1892
Died: October 28, 1939
in New York City, New York, USA
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked up until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she played the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1938) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Alice Brady, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Movies for Alice Brady...

Young Mr. Lincoln
Title: Young Mr. Lincoln
Character: Abigail Clay
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
bee
Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Mrs. Carter
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
bee
Joy of Living
Title: Joy of Living
Character: Minerva Garrett
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
bee
In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Molly O'Leary
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
bee
Goodbye Broadway
Title: Goodbye Broadway
Character: Molly Malloy
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
bee
Breakdowns of 1937
Title: Breakdowns of 1937
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
bee
Merry Go Round of 1938
Title: Merry Go Round of 1938
Character: Aunt Hortense
Released: November 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
bee
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Title: One Hundred Men and a Girl
Character: Mrs. Frost
Released: September 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.
bee
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Title: Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Character: Mme. Sonia Moro
Released: August 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
bee
Call It a Day
Title: Call It a Day
Character: Muriel West
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
bee
Mama Steps Out
Title: Mama Steps Out
Character: Ada Cuppy
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
bee
Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Mrs. Lyons
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
bee
Mind Your Own Business
Title: Mind Your Own Business
Character: Melba Shanks
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
bee
Go West Young Man
Title: Go West Young Man
Character: Mrs. Addie Struthers
Released: November 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
bee
My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Angelica Bullock
Released: September 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
bee
The Harvester
Title: The Harvester
Character: Mrs. Biddle
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
bee
Metropolitan
Title: Metropolitan
Character: Ghita Galin
Released: October 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
bee
Lady Tubbs
Title: Lady Tubbs
Character: Henrietta Tubbs
Released: July 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.
bee
Let 'em Have It
Title: Let 'em Have It
Character: Aunt Ethel
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
bee
Gold Diggers of 1935
Title: Gold Diggers of 1935
Character: Matilda Prentiss
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
bee
The Gay Divorcee
Title: The Gay Divorcee
Character: Hortense
Released: October 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
bee
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Molly Prentiss
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
bee
Should Ladies Behave
Title: Should Ladies Behave
Character: Laura Merrick
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
bee
Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Kitty Lorraine
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
bee
Broadway to Hollywood
Title: Broadway to Hollywood
Character: Lulu Hackett
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
bee
Beauty for Sale
Title: Beauty for Sale
Character: Henrietta Sherwood
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
bee
When Ladies Meet
Title: When Ladies Meet
Character: Bridget
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
bee
Missing Millions
Title: Missing Millions
Character: Mary Dawson
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
A girl seeks revenge after a Wall Street broker had falsely accused her father and sent him unjustly to prison.
bee
A Trip to Paramountown
Title: A Trip to Paramountown
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
bee
Hush Money
Title: Hush Money
Character: Evelyn Murray
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
The only daughter of wealthy Wall Street banker, Evelyn Murray, while with her aristocratic fiancé, Bert Van Vliet, runs down and injures newsboy Terry McGuire. To avoid an embarrassing outcome, Bert persuades her to flee the scene of the accident. Evelyn is conscience-stricken and informs her father; he is then forced to pay "hush money" to a garage attendant who has witnessed the accident.
bee
Dawn of the East
Title: Dawn of the East
Character: Countess Natalya
Released: October 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Countess Natalya is a glamorous refugee from the Bolshevik revolution. Supporting herself and her ailing sister by dancing in a Shanghai dive, she's is talked into a marriage with a wealthy Chinese gentleman. She has been led to believe that this marriage of convenience is not binding, thus she sees no reason not to marry American diplomat Kenneth Harlan once she's arrived in the States.
bee
The Land of Hope
Title: The Land of Hope
Character: Marya Nisko
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabinoff. Arriving and discovering her sister's poverty, she fails as a lady's maid and then arranges an introduction to a theatrical manager, though Sascha is opposed to her becoming a professional dancer.
bee
Little Italy
Title: Little Italy
Character: Rosa Mascani
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Rosa is told by her father that she must marry a man from her own clan. She refuses, and vows to marry the first man she meets. That man is Antonio, who is from a hated clan. Antonio is in love with Rosa, although she hates him. Despite this, she keeps her vow and marries him.
bee
A Dark Lantern
Title: A Dark Lantern
Character: Katherine Dereham
Released: July 16, 1920
Type: Movie
Although loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true colours, she has a nervous breakdown and her faithful doctor restores her to health - and to himself.
bee
The Fear Market
Title: The Fear Market
Character: Sylvia Stone
Released: January 25, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to overcome a cabal of blackmailers, but learns that the boss of the blackmailers is none other than her own father. -from IMDB
bee
Marie, Ltd.
Title: Marie, Ltd.
Character: Drina Hilliard
Released: March 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When Drina Hilliard (Alice Brady) finishes college, she heads home to New York, where her mother Marie (Mrs. Gertrude Hillman) runs a millinery shop. On the way, she meets the handsome Blair Carson (Leslie Austen), but the budding love affair gets sidetracked as Drina begins working for her mother. Marie has been running a petty scam -- when a man buys a hat for his wife or sweetheart, she overcharges him and splits the difference with the woman. The Archives Du Film Du CNC holds a complete copy.
bee
The End of the Road
Title: The End of the Road
Released: February 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.
bee
The Indestructible Wife
Title: The Indestructible Wife
Character: Charlotte Ordway
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
bee
The Death Dance
Title: The Death Dance
Character: Flora Farnsworth
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Arnold Maitland is devastated when he finds out that his wife Cynthia is having an affair with a man named Boresky. He falls in love with Flora Farnsworth, a cabaret dancer, and sets out to divorce his wife and marry Flora. Unfortunately, Arnold is killed in an accident, and Flora turns for comfort to his business partner Philip Standish, and soon falls for him. Enter Cynthia, who has tired of Boresky and wants Philip for herself. She hatches a plan that will get rid of both Flora and Boresky and leave Philip for her.
bee
The Spurs of Sybil
Title: The Spurs of Sybil
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
bee
The Knife
Title: The Knife
Character: Kate Tarleton
Released: February 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Kate Tarleton grows up on a Southern plantation and becomes engaged to her guardian, Dr. Robert Manning, a famous surgeon. When Robert, Kate, and her younger sister Mary Lou visit New York, where the doctor wishes to conduct medical experiments, the superstitious Kate goes to the home of a fortune-teller named Stella Hill. Stella, whose principal business is white slave trafficking, drugs Kate and forces her to work in a "den of vice," run by Stella and her accomplice Jimmy Bristol, where she contracts syphilis and goes insane. Robert, Detective Ellis, and a lawyer named Billy Meredith rescue Kate, who recovers her sanity but remembers nothing of her bondage.
bee
Her Silent Sacrifice
Title: Her Silent Sacrifice
Character: Arlette
Released: November 14, 1917
Type: Movie
In Savenay, France, the beautiful Arlette runs the local inn with her grandfather, Chaupin. Starving artist Richard Vale comes to stay at the inn and takes a liking to Arlette, who falls madly in love with him after modeling for his sketches. But when Prince Boissard arrives in Savenay and also takes an interest in Arlette, he makes a deal with the starving artist: Hell make Richard famous is Arlette can be the Princes mistress.
bee
Betsy Ross
Title: Betsy Ross
Character: Betsy Griscom
Released: September 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.
bee
A Self-Made Widow
Title: A Self-Made Widow
Character: Sylvia
Released: July 23, 1917
Type: Movie
On the promise of marriage, Sylvia Smith, a simple girl from Lone Meadows, follows her lover to the city only to discover that he already has a wife.
bee
The Dancer's Peril
Title: The Dancer's Peril
Character: Mother / Daughter
Released: March 12, 1917
Type: Movie
The Grand Duke Alexis has been happy with his wife, Lola, formerly the queen of the St. Petersburg ballet, and their baby daughter, Vasta. But the lowering cloud that has always hung over them through the refusal of the Russian Court to recognize their marriage breaks when the Duke learns there is an intrigue against his wife's life.
bee
A Woman Alone
Title: A Woman Alone
Character: Nellie Waldron
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Alice Brady plays a farm girl who marries the son of her next-door neighbor. Her dreams of a gay social whirl are shattered when her husband takes a job as a railway station agent in a lonely prairie outpost. Desperate for companionship, she begins an affair with the railroad president's son, unaware at first that her lover is likewise married.
bee
The Gilded Cage
Title: The Gilded Cage
Character: Princess Honore
Released: October 9, 1916
Type: Movie
In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who doesn't know her true identity (nor does she know his).
bee
Miss Petticoats
Title: Miss Petticoats
Character: Miss Petticoats
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.
bee
La Vie de Bohème
Title: La Vie de Bohème
Character: Mimi
Released: June 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Mimi, an orphan, is taken in by a drunken innkeeper and becomes a domestic. She meets Rudolphe, scion of a well-to-do family, who rescues her from the unwanted advances of a drunken hotel guest. They fall madly in love, but Rudolphe's uncle, M. Durandin, wants Rudolphe to marry a family friend, Madame de Rouvre, and writes Mimi a letter, telling her that she is ruining Rudolphe's life. Musette and Marcel, friends of Mimi, also try to break up the romance by introducing Mimi to other men, and Rudolphe becomes jealous and leaves her. Brokenhearted, Mimi declines in health and eventually throws herself into the river but is rescued and taken to the hospital. Realizing it is only a matter of time before she dies, she drags herself back to the room where she and Rudolphe were happiest. Rudolphe is there and she dies knowing that he loves her.
bee
The Ballet Girl
Title: The Ballet Girl
Character: Jenny Pearl
Released: January 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Aerial dancer La Syrena, whose jealous husband kills her while she performs in midair. Her daughter, Jennie Raeburn, soon orphaned, grows up unaware of her mother's occupation, but nonetheless feels the urge to dance.
bee
The Lure of Woman
Title: The Lure of Woman
Character: Katie O'Day
Released: September 27, 1915
Type: Movie
John Found, a well-educated American Indian, works as an interpreter on an army post in the West. Although John Lane, a post officer, loves Katie O'Day, a rancher's daughter, he becomes the amorous target of the widowed Mrs. Van Allen. To rid herself of Katie, Mrs. Van Allen starts a rumor that Lane has a wife in an insane asylum.
bee
The Boss
Title: The Boss
Character: Emily Griswold
Released: May 24, 1915
Type: Movie
A man rises from rags to riches, first by boxing, then as a saloon owner, freight contractor, and eventually dockyard boss. However, the man's brother-in-law complicates things with his dockworker union activism. The film is presumed lost.