Shirley Mason

Shirley Mason

Born: June 6, 1901
Died: July 27, 1979
in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Movies for Shirley Mason...

Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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The Flying Marine
Title: The Flying Marine
Character: Sally
Released: June 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Released in both a silent and a sound version: Mitch Moran, a veteran WWI pilot and now a commercial pilot, takes his young irresponsible brother, Steve, under his guidance. Steve heeds little of what Mitch is selling but does find time to steal Mitch's sweetheart Sally.
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Anne Against the World
Title: Anne Against the World
Character: Anne
Released: May 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Shirley Mason plays the title-role, a glamorous musical star having a hard time escaping the clutches of her lecherous producer (Tom Curran). The producer, however, refuses to leave well enough alone, and Anne is tempted to return to her glamorous life.
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Vultures of the Sea
Title: Vultures of the Sea
Character: Ruth Enright
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
When his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship, the man's son signs on as a crewman to discover the real killer and clear his father.
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So This Is Love
Title: So This Is Love
Character: Hilda Jenson
Released: February 6, 1928
Type: Movie
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
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Sally in Our Alley
Title: Sally in Our Alley
Character: Sally Williams
Released: September 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. However, this happy home is broken up when Sally wealthy aunt appears on the scene and takes Sally back to her luxurious penthouse in order to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Sally Simpson
Released: August 15, 1927
Type: Movie
When a pretty small-town girl with no talent goes to Hollywood, what could go wrong? She could get Stranded!
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Let It Rain
Title: Let It Rain
Character: The Girl
Released: February 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.
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Don Juan's 3 Nights
Title: Don Juan's 3 Nights
Character: Ninette Cavallar
Released: September 4, 1926
Type: Movie
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
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Desert Gold
Title: Desert Gold
Character: Mercedes Castanada
Released: March 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Desert Gold is a 1926 silent American Western film directed by George B. Seitz. According to silentera.com the film survives while Arne Andersen Lost Film Files has it as a lost film. Portions of the film were shot near Palm Springs, California.
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Lord Jim
Title: Lord Jim
Character: Jewel
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually works his way up to managing the business. He falls in love with the owner's daughter, and shares leadership of the local village with the son of the Rajah. One day, however, a band of pirates attacks the village, and the man is astonished to see that the pirates are none other than the tyrannical captain of his former ship and his crew.
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What Fools Men
Title: What Fools Men
Character: Beatrice Greer
Released: September 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Joseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a prim-and-proper secretary, Jenny McFarlan, who takes dictation during working hours and, at night, minus her eyeglasses, serves as his nightclub companion and mistress. Then his daughter,Beatrice, whom he has never seen, shows up and moves in with him. Beatrice is a grown-up flapper who loves jazz, pool parties, flaunting prohibition and carrying-on in general. Most of her carrying-on is with the family chauffeur and her father does not approve, says so, and fires the chauffeur. His parental-guidance technique backfires as Beatrice ups and elopes with the chauffeur. Later, the father has some problems with his business associates and loses his business and most of his fixtures and disappears. But Beatrice locates him and there is a happy reunion between father and daughter, especially since daughter has brought along Jenny to cheer him up.
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The Talker
Title: The Talker
Character: Ruth Lennox
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells and his wife, Maud, have several boarders, among them Barbara Farley, who is Lennox's stenographer, and Lonnie Whinston, who is in love with Lennox's little sister, Ruth. Kate claims that women need more independence and less duty, and flirts with Ned Hollister, a car salesman.
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Curlytop
Title: Curlytop
Character: Curlytop
Released: December 28, 1924
Type: Movie
Big Bill Branigan, one of the tough characters of London's Limehouse district, falls in love with Curlytop because of her sweet innocence. He leaves his sweetheart, Bessie, for her and resolves to go straight. When he sets out to find a job, the jealous Bessie gets Curlytop drunk and hacks off her long curls.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Evelyn Jefferson
Released: February 10, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Eleventh Hour
Title: The Eleventh Hour
Character: Barbara Hackett
Released: July 19, 1923
Type: Movie
An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.
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Lovebound
Title: Lovebound
Character: Bess Belwyn
Released: April 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Besse Belwin works as a stenographer for district attorney John Mobley. It doesn't take long for Mobley to fall in love with his cute little employee and he proposes. Besse doesn't reveal that her father has a criminal past which he has since renounced.
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The New Teacher
Title: The New Teacher
Released: August 20, 1922
Type: Movie
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Little Miss Smiles
Title: Little Miss Smiles
Character: Esther Aaronson
Released: January 15, 1922
Type: Movie
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Jackie
Title: Jackie
Character: Jackie
Released: November 27, 1921
Type: Movie
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Jim Hawkins
Released: January 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Caroline Mitford
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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The Winning Girl
Title: The Winning Girl
Character: Jemmy Milligan
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his daughter Jamesina, or Jemmy for short. With the birth of her second child, Mrs. Milligan dies, and several years later, when Jemmy is about eighteen, the Major marries a widow with three children. Soon the family is deeply in debt. Jemmy gets work at a textile factory, gets jobs for the other children, and even inspires the Major to work. She falls in love with Stanley Templeton, an aviator on furlough, but because his mother disapproves, Jemmy refuses to marry him. After Stanley returns to the war, Jemmy captures a German spy in the plant who was soaking cloth for airplanes in acid. She receives a reward which allows the Milligans to pay off their mortgage. Mrs. Templeton apologizes, and when Stanley returns, she warmly approves of their engagement.
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Come on In
Title: Come on In
Character: Emmy Little
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough for him to pass the height requirement. Meanwhile, his lady friend decides to become a Secret Service agent, though she is unable to keep the fact a secret, even from the German spies she hopes to apprehend.
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Cy Whittaker's Ward
Title: Cy Whittaker's Ward
Character: Emily Thomas
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Returning to the village of Bayport after twenty-two years, retired sea captain Cyrus Whittaker finds the community under the power of political boss Herman Atkins. Cy opposes Atkin's choice for the position of teacher and helps to elect Miss Daws instead, thus earning the enmity of the politician. One day, a young girl named Emily Thomas arrives with a note from Sarah Oliver, a relative of Cy, explaining that the girl is the daughter of his old sweetheart and that her father is in jail and her mother dead.
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The Apple Tree Girl
Title: The Apple Tree Girl
Character: Charlotte Marlin
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Shirley Mason stars as a young girl who leaves the farm to attend school with her snooty cousin. While struggling to fit in she decides the key to happiness is figuring out these three problems: how to be make everyone like her, how to become famous, and how to marry a millionaire
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The Awakening of Ruth
Title: The Awakening of Ruth
Character: Ruth Hoagland
Released: September 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return.
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The Light in Darkness
Title: The Light in Darkness
Character: Hilary Kenyon
Released: July 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Bank cashier Ramsey Latham is sentenced to prison for violation of the banking laws. On his way to the penitentiary, he encounters Hilary Kenyon, a young girl who speaks encouragingly to him. Later he is surprised to discover that Hilary is also a prisoner, having been found guilty of manslaughter for killing a man who attacked her.
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The Tell-Tale Step
Title: The Tell-Tale Step
Character: Lucia
Released: May 28, 1917
Type: Movie
Giovanni Pallazzi, a former member of the Black Hand, an Italian criminal organization, comes to America with his blind daughter Lucia and prospers. Hearing of his success, his former associates demand that he aid in their support
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The Law of the North
Title: The Law of the North
Character: Edith Graham
Released: April 2, 1917
Type: Movie
The Law of the North is a silent 1917 Adventure film.
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The Seventh Sin
Title: The Seventh Sin
Released: March 17, 1917
Type: Movie
One of seven films based on the Seven Deadly Sins.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath
Title: Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
One in a series of seven films dealing with the Seven Deadly Sins.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Passion
Title: Seven Deadly Sins: Passion
Released: February 26, 1917
Type: Movie
One in a series of seven films with the subject of the Seven Deadly Sins. The film makers decided not to use the title "Lust"
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Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
Title: Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
Released: February 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Eve Leslie and Adam Moore become interested in the stock market. Eve decides to try to add to her fortunes by plunging. Tempted by the sin of greed, Eve becomes reckless. At first she wins, then she begins to lose, and desperately tries to recover her losses.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
Title: Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
Released: February 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Eve Leslie is sent to boarding school. Proud of the fortune that has come to her she feels herself above Adam Moore, who loves her. Eugene D'Arcy, a powerful banker, who also suffers from pride and arrogance, meets Eve and wants her. In order that her pride may be further satisfied, she decides to marry a count.
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Where Love Is
Title: Where Love Is
Character: Aline Marden
Released: February 5, 1917
Type: Movie
A six-part adaptation of William J. Locke's novel "Where Love Is."
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Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
Title: Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
Eve Leslie is a poor country girl, who wishes she could have fine clothes, motors and wealthy friends. The person she envies most is Betty Howard, a famous actress. Eve does not know that Betty's life has been full of sorrow
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Becky Sharp - as a child
Released: October 5, 1915
Type: Movie
"Vanity Fair" is a historical drama, based on the classic English novel written by William Thackeray, featuring Shirley Mason. Shirley Mason was 15 y.o. and played the role of the young Becky Sharp. Directors obviously took notice of her performance, because in 1917 she appeared in 17 feature films, in many of them playing the star role.
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Nursery Favorites
Title: Nursery Favorites
Released: May 7, 1913
Type: Movie
Nursery Favourites is a marvel. Presented as a pre-recorded number (singers miming to a commercial record). One of the most fascinating film-sound documents of all times.
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The Musical Blacksmiths
Title: The Musical Blacksmiths
Released: February 7, 1913
Type: Movie
The Edison Quartet perform songs as blacksmiths. This was one of 200 projects produced using the Edison Kinetophone system. The Kinetophone was a fairly complex mechanical means of creating talking pictures. Unlike previous systems, in which actors would be required to lip sync to preexisting recordings on camera, the Kinetophone was one of the earliest film technologies to record sound at the same time as the image.
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Children Who Labor
Title: Children Who Labor
Released: February 22, 1912
Type: Movie
The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill is hiring only inexpensive child labor. Reluctantly, he allows his oldest daughter to work in the mill. Meanwhile, in New York, the wealthy businessman Hanscomb is being urged to speak out against child labor, but he declines to do so. Then, while Mrs. Hanscomb and her daughter are traveling, the young girl accidentally wanders away, gets lost, and is taken in by the working class family. To help them, she takes a job in the mill. While this is taking place, Hanscomb has initiated a search for the daughter even as he goes about building up his financial empire.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Released: December 23, 1910
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.