Lillian Leighton

Lillian Leighton

Born: May 14, 1874
Died: March 19, 1956
in Auroraville, Wisconsin, USA

Movies for Lillian Leighton...

Whipsaw
Title: Whipsaw
Character: Aunt Jane
Released: December 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
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Two-Fisted
Title: Two-Fisted
Character: Mrs. Mason
Released: October 3, 1935
Type: Movie
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
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There's Always Tomorrow
Title: There's Always Tomorrow
Character: Flower peddler
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
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Secret Sinners
Title: Secret Sinners
Character: Mrs. Simmons
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
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The Man from Monterey
Title: The Man from Monterey
Character: Juanita
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers
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The Sphinx
Title: The Sphinx
Character: Mother Werner
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
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Sweepstakes
Title: Sweepstakes
Character: Ma Clancy
Released: July 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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The Fighting Sheriff
Title: The Fighting Sheriff
Character: Aunt Sally (as Lilliane Leighton)
Released: May 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob confronts Flash with his muffler found at the stage holdup, Flash tells Mary that Bob killed her brother. Believing he can now marry Mary, he plans one more robbery. But the jealous Tiana overhears and runs for the Sheriff.
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Subway Express
Title: Subway Express
Character: Mrs. Mary Mullins (as Julianne Leighton)
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
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Feet First
Title: Feet First
Character: Mrs. Tanner
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
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The Grand Parade
Title: The Grand Parade
Character: Madam Stitch
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
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Flaming Fathers
Title: Flaming Fathers
Character: Mama Gimplewart
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.
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The Fair Co-Ed
Title: The Fair Co-Ed
Character: Housekeeper
Released: October 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Marion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She instantly makes a rival of Betty, who's also interested in Bob.
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The Frontiersman
Title: The Frontiersman
Character: Mrs. Andrew Jackson
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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California
Title: California
Character: Duenna
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
"The war with Mexico serves to bring together American officer and Mexican senorita, the former all ardent and the latter defiant because of the fact that their countries are at war. Coincident with the American victory is the successful conquest by the 'gringo' of the girl's heart."
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Be Your Age
Title: Be Your Age
Character: Mrs. Schwartzkopple
Released: November 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their problems, and keep control of her $2 million.
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Sandy
Title: Sandy
Character: Isabel McNeil
Released: April 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set. An auto breakdown after a party places her in a compromising situation, and she grudgingly marries a wealthy suitor of her father's choice. When her husband's cruelty results in the death of her child, she leaves him and meets Ramon, an architect with whom she becomes infatuated. The return of his former mistress causes her to seek refuge with her cousin Judith, where she falls in love with Douglas, Judith's sweetheart. As Sandy refuses to return to Ramon, he shoots her and then kills himself. Douglas, taking the blame for her sake, is tried for murder, but Sandy rises from her sickbed and confesses in court; she succumbs after restoring Judith to Douglas.
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Torrent
Title: Torrent
Character: Isabella
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
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Sweet Adeline
Title: Sweet Adeline
Character: Adeline's Ma
Released: January 14, 1926
Type: Movie
A shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes jealous and schemes to send his brother away when Ben wins the affections of pretty neighbor Adeline. Ben wins out when the trip on which Bill has sent him becomes a great success.
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Tumbleweeds
Title: Tumbleweeds
Character: Widow Riley
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
William S. Hart stars in this 1925 silent film as a cowboy intent on claiming land during the 1889 land rush in the Oklahoma Territory. Though hardened from years of taming the new frontier, he falls in love with a beautiful woman. Before he settles down, however, he must contend with men who wish to bring him harm. In the prologue of the 1939 Astor Pictures revival of this film, Hart gives a moving eight-minute introduction-- the first and only time he appeared in a film accompanied by his striking voice.
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In the Name of Love
Title: In the Name of Love
Character: Mother Dufrayne
Released: August 10, 1925
Type: Movie
Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood sweetheart, Marie Dufrayne.
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Parisian Love
Title: Parisian Love
Character: Frouchard
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Armand and Marie survive in the streets until charitable (and wealthy) scientist Pierre Marcel takes Armand in after a botched robbery. Marie, a fiery Apache, swears revenge on Marcel for taking her lover away from her.
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Go Straight!
Title: Go Straight!
Character: Gilda's Aunt
Released: April 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywood to begin anew but the old gang follows behind. Can she stop them from ruining her new life?
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Code of the West
Title: Code of the West
Character: Ma Thurman
Released: April 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Code of the West (1925)
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The Thundering Herd
Title: The Thundering Herd
Character: Mrs. Clark Hudnall
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
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$50,000 Reward
Title: $50,000 Reward
Character: Mrs. Miller
Released: December 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture.
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Code of the Sea
Title: Code of the Sea
Character: Mrs. McDow
Released: June 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Young Bruce McDow tries to live with the specter of his late Father's perceived folly as a Sailor. That led to the loss of a ship and its crew many years earlier. Struggling with his personal demons in a town that doesn't seem to want to forgive or forget.
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The Call of the Canyon
Title: The Call of the Canyon
Character: Mrs. Hutter
Released: December 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When Flo is badly hurt in an accident, Glenn decides to repay her for her help in bringing him back to health by proposing marriage.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Ma Pettingill
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Lillian Leighton
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Only 38
Title: Only 38
Character: Mrs. Peters
Released: June 17, 1923
Type: Movie
The death of her clergyman husband causes Mrs. Stanley, young mother of teenage twins, to change her style of life.
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The Grub Stake
Title: The Grub Stake
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
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Crinoline and Romance
Title: Crinoline and Romance
Character: Abigail
Released: February 5, 1923
Type: Movie
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Red Hot Romance
Title: Red Hot Romance
Character: Mammy
Released: February 13, 1922
Type: Movie
After his father's death, Roland Stone learns that his will stipulates that he must go to the South American country of Bunkonia and sell life insurance.
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Tillie
Title: Tillie
Character: Sarah Oberholtzzer
Released: January 30, 1922
Type: Movie
Tillie Getz, the eldest daughter of Jacob Getz, a brutal, driving father, lives in a Pennsylvania Mennonite village. Her Mennonite aunt leaves a will by the terms of which Tillie will inherit a small fortune if she has joined the Mennonite church by age eighteen. A plot is hatched by the lawyer who drew up the will and an attempt is made to force Tillie into a marriage with Absalom Puntz, an undesirable young man, sharing her fortune being its end.
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Saturday Night
Title: Saturday Night
Character: Mrs. Ferguson
Released: January 29, 1922
Type: Movie
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
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Rent Free
Title: Rent Free
Character: Maria Tebbs
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.
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Love Never Dies
Title: Love Never Dies
Character: Mrs. Cavanaugh
Released: November 11, 1921
Type: Movie
John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him, and he leaves town. Her father leads Tilly to believe that John has died in an accident, and he pushes her to marry someone else.
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Under the Lash
Title: Under the Lash
Character: Tant Anna Vanderberg
Released: October 16, 1921
Type: Movie
The wife of a tyrannical Boer husband discovers what life could be like when a handsome Englishmen visits their home.
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The Girl from God's Country
Title: The Girl from God's Country
Character: Notawa
Released: September 18, 1921
Type: Movie
A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
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Crazy to Marry
Title: Crazy to Marry
Character: Sarah De Morgan
Released: August 28, 1921
Type: Movie
A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.
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The Lost Romance
Title: The Lost Romance
Character: Matilda
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
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The Barbarian
Title: The Barbarian
Character: Redwing
Released: April 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign.
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Peck's Bad Boy
Title: Peck's Bad Boy
Character: Mrs. George W. Peck - Henry's Ma
Released: April 21, 1921
Type: Movie
This portrayal of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get to see the circus, over all obstacles. Escaped lions, lightheaded blackmail of his father, and playfully planting stolen papers on his sisters boyfriend are all in a days work for little Henry Peck.
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Midsummer Madness
Title: Midsummer Madness
Character: Caretaker's Wife
Released: January 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. One night, while Meredith is at the office, family friend Julian Osborn (Conrad Nagel) -- whose own spouse (Lila Lee) is out of town -takes Margaret to a dance. They wind up at a hunting lodge and begin to get carried away, but stop before things get out of hand. The pair agree to keep their encounter a secret, but unfortunately, they've been seen and word gets back to their spouses.
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Held by the Enemy
Title: Held by the Enemy
Character: Clarissa
Released: October 24, 1920
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.
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A City Sparrow
Title: A City Sparrow
Character: Ma Ennis
Released: October 17, 1920
Type: Movie
A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walter Hiers), who lives in the same boarding house as she does, but she turns down his marriage proposal. During a performance, Milly is injured and can't get her strength back to get another gig. Hughie Ray (William Boyd), a pal of Tim's, comes to town and offers to take Milly back to the country to recuperate. She takes him up on his offer and after she has been there a while he proposes. But Milly has been told that her injury makes it impossible for her to bear children; since she knows that Ray loves kids she tries to leave him.
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What Happened to Jones
Title: What Happened to Jones
Character: Matilda Brown
Released: August 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Heeding the pleas of Bobbie Brown, Jimmie Jones packs his trunk full of liquor to present to his desperate friend and hops on a train. Upon his arrival, Jones discovers that his cargo has been purloined in transit, and while attempting to replenish his supplies by bargaining with the local bootlegger, is detected by the local sheriff.
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The Jack-Knife Man
Title: The Jack-Knife Man
Character: Widow Potter
Released: July 31, 1920
Type: Movie
A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.
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The Dancin' Fool
Title: The Dancin' Fool
Character: Ma Budd
Released: May 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Sylvester Tibble is a clerk in his uncle's restaurant. Sylvester dreams of becoming a famous dancer and tries to inject a little of the jazz life into his uncle's old-fashioned establishment. When dancer Junie Budd shows up at the restaurant, Sylvester sees a chance to make his dream come true.
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Male and Female
Title: Male and Female
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Martha
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.
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A Lady's Name
Title: A Lady's Name
Character: Mrs. Haines
Released: December 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures.
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The Married Virgin
Title: The Married Virgin
Character: Anne Mullins, the Maid
Released: December 1, 1918
Type: Movie
In order to save her wealthy father from disgrace and a possible prison sentence, a daughter agrees to marry the gigolo who's been blackmailing him...
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The Road Through the Dark
Title: The Road Through the Dark
Character: Louise Jardee
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent away from Paris to a small village, where her aunt lives with her sister and brother. The war comes and the Germans enter the town. She becomes the mistress of a German Kommandant.
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Her Country First
Title: Her Country First
Character: Lena - the Cook
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, young Dorothy Grant comes home from finishing school and informs her parents that she is going to contribute to the war effort by organizing a "Girls Aviation Corps". She has uniforms made and hires a veteran of the Spanish-American War to teach her "cadets" military routines and drills. Her father owns a munitions factory and is always telling her to be on the lookout for spies. She convinces herself that the family butler, Williams, is a spy because he cuts his grapefruit in an odd way. It turns out that Williams isn't a spy but the people whom Dorothy least suspects are in fact spies, and they discover that Dorothy knows the password to get into the factory after hours.
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Till I Come Back to You
Title: Till I Come Back to You
Character: Margot
Released: August 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and her spirited little brother Jacques in a farmhouse on the Belgian countryside. With the German invasion of Belgium, Karl joins the German forces, and Jacques is taken to a reformatory to be trained as a munitions worker. When Karl is taken prisoner, Capt. Jefferson Strong, an American engineer, assumes the German's identity and discovers an underground supply of explosives near the von Krutz farm. By means of a tunnel, the Americans plan to mine the explosives. To save Jacques and a group of children from the munitions factory, however, Jefferson sends them across the American lines through the tunnel, but they lose their way, and he is forced to disable the mine. Jefferson is court-martialed, but King Albert of Belgium, who has befriended little Jacques, intercedes on his behalf. Learning that Karl has been killed, Jefferson pursues his budding romance with Yvonne.
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Old Wives for New
Title: Old Wives for New
Character: Maid
Released: May 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
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The Devil Stone
Title: The Devil Stone
Character: Berthe
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 Hostage
Title: The Hostage
Character: Marienka
Released: September 10, 1917
Type: Movie
The Highlanders and Lowlanders are sworn enemies until Lieutenant Kemper, the son of Brigadier Kemper, the leader of the militaristic Lowlanders, is held hostage by the Highlanders until his father's army has retreated to its own boundaries. Much to his surprise, the lieutenant is treated with kindness and consideration by his captors, especially by Boyadi and his beautiful daughter Nathalia, whom he learns to love. Thus, instead of obeying his father's command to escape at an appointed time when the Lowlanders plan to violate their pledge and storm the fortress, he keeps his promise to his captors and remains a prisoner.
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The Little American
Title: The Little American
Character: Angela's Great Aunt
Released: July 12, 1917
Type: Movie
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
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Freckles
Title: Freckles
Released: May 28, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Prison Without Walls
Title: The Prison Without Walls
Released: March 15, 1917
Type: Movie
Helen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is engaged to Norman Morris, administrator of the Ainsworth millions and the undiscovered "man higher up," grafting through his influence with prison wardens. He is also having an "affair" with Felice, Helen's maid, an ex-convict.
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Castles for Two
Title: Castles for Two
Character: Brian's Sister
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to avoid fortune hunters.
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Joan the Woman
Title: Joan the Woman
Character: Isambeau
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
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The Grasp of Greed
Title: The Grasp of Greed
Released: July 17, 1916
Type: Movie
En route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a desert island in the company of wealthy book publisher John Meeson. Sensing that his days are numbered, and lacking pencil and paper, Meeson tattoos his last will and testament on Alice's lovely back.
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Napoleon and Sally
Title: Napoleon and Sally
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Short animal comedy starring chimpanzees as Napoleon and Sally.
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The Awful Adventures of an Aviator
Title: The Awful Adventures of an Aviator
Released: September 3, 1915
Type: Movie
Amateur aviator Harold McNutt's hopes of taking flight result in an escalating series of high jinks.
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The Cipher Message
Title: The Cipher Message
Character: Mrs. Kent
Released: December 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Two English crooks, Lionel Verker and his sister, Marie, come to America, where at a seaside resort Lionel makes a heroic rescue by saving Bob Kent, the son of a millionaire, from drowning. He is introduced to the Kent family. Learning that there is a position of lady's maid open in the house, he wires his sister to come at once. With the aid of false references she obtains the position. At a lawn fete Muriel, the daughter of the millionaire, wears a lot of jewelry. Lionel notices this and after a dance with him she misses one of her diamonds.
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Sweeney's Dream
Title: Sweeney's Dream
Character: Mrs. Sweeney
Released: July 16, 1913
Type: Movie
While many men think they can manage a hotel, a theater, or a newspaper, they are in the minority compared with those low-browed addle-pates who believe they could run the government.
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The Gold Brick
Title: The Gold Brick
Character: Mrs. Till
Released: June 19, 1913
Type: Movie
Reporter Jones, a hustler, discovers a gold-brick displayed in a jeweler's window and sees a fine "feature story" in trying to sell this real gold-brick to farmers at $2.00 per.
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A Jolt for the Janitor
Title: A Jolt for the Janitor
Character: Hilda
Released: June 8, 1913
Type: Movie
A comical story of the Flannigan Flats, showing how the janitor got the worst of it when, through his carelessness, water came in through the roof and leaked from one flat to another
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The Fire Cop
Title: The Fire Cop
Character: Maggy Brannigan
Released: December 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Andy Brannigan was a good-natured policeman, large of frame, but limited in nerve. He has, however, been very successful in posing as a hero, and deceives all but his wife, who laughs at him when he tells her that he has been awarded a medal for bravery.
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Character: Mrs. Thomas Williams
Released: October 24, 1912
Type: Movie
Bill Williams, a poor inventor with a large family, suddenly comes into great wealth through the sale of an invention. Sudden affluence turns his head, and he changes at once from the plodding mechanic of the dingy shop into an ultra-fashionable man of the town.
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Tempted by Necessity
Title: Tempted by Necessity
Character: Mrs. Tubbs
Released: October 23, 1912
Type: Movie
No good deed goes unpunished.
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Bread Upon the Waters
Title: Bread Upon the Waters
Character: Mrs. James Preston
Released: September 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Tim Clancy, an ex-convict, on the day of his release, returns home and is welcomed by his mother and sweetheart. He decides to turn over a new leaf. He applies and secures work at the Ganes shoe factory. Here he is recognized by a detective and when his record is made known to the management he is discharged. The inevitable follows.
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A Detective's Strategy
Title: A Detective's Strategy
Character: Izette
Released: September 23, 1912
Type: Movie
This picture tells the very human story, or romance, of an unloved wife and mother, who, although possessing wealth and social position, craved the love of her husband.
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The Three Valises
Title: The Three Valises
Character: Mrs. Reilly - the Housekeeper
Released: July 29, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Allen accidentally finds a valise full of burglars' tools. At the same time he discovers that he has fallen heir to a $10,000 legacy. In order to secure the legacy he must be in a distant city on the following day. Being hard up, he decides to borrow the necessary carfare from his double, an unscrupulous broker named Harrington.
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The Wheels of Justice
Title: The Wheels of Justice
Character: Mrs. Allen Courtright
Released: September 14, 1911
Type: Movie
James Hazen, one-time crook, now wealthy and reformed, is recognized on his wedding day, by a former pal, Florrie Cook, who follows the young couple to Hazen's new home in the country. Hazen has isolated himself here in the hope of finding security in complete loneliness.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Character: Union Enforcer
Released: March 24, 1910
Type: Movie
An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.