Clara Horton

Clara Horton

Born: July 29, 1904
Died: December 4, 1976
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
From Wikipedia

Clara Horton (July 29, 1904 – December 4, 1976) was an

American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 88 films between 1912 and

1942. She is buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park.

Movies for Clara Horton...

Girls on Probation
Title: Girls on Probation
Character: Prisoner
Released: October 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Sailor Izzy Murphy
Title: Sailor Izzy Murphy
Character: Cecile
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume) to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
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All Around Frying Pan
Title: All Around Frying Pan
Character: Jean Dawson
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Wondering cowboy Bart Andrews (played by Fred Thompson) gets arrested simply because a crooked sheriff is short on men for his chain gang. A chance visit to a rodeo on the way to jail, gives Bart a chance to demonstrate his bronco-busting skills, which results in the sheriff caving to pressure from a group of cowboys, to allow Bart to work on ranch, rather than joining the road gang. Finding himself in the right place at the right time, Bart is able to prevent the theft of a train full of cattle, but later ends up being accused of killing a station agent when he interrupts the ranch foreman robbing an express office. Bart is eventually able to bring the foreman to justice, and in a surprise twist, it turns out that he was in fact the real owner of the ranch he was working at!
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Fighting Blood
Title: Fighting Blood
Character: Judy Wilcox
Released: December 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is from the second series, 11th round, "Beauty and the Feast".
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Fighting Blood
Title: Fighting Blood
Character: Judy Wilcox
Released: April 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is the 4th round, "Two Sones with One Bird".
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Fighting Blood
Title: Fighting Blood
Character: Judy Wilcox
Released: March 18, 1923
Type: Movie
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is the 3rd round, "Six Second Smith".
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Action
Title: Action
Character: Molly Casey
Released: September 12, 1921
Type: Movie
Three Outlaws came across a stranded baby and must decide to save the child or escape from the law.
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Prisoners of Love
Title: Prisoners of Love
Character: Her Sister
Released: January 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.
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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Lucille Graham
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Title: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Character: Margaret
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan's raiders. He learns his real identity when he returns after the war.
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Everywoman
Title: Everywoman
Character: Youth
Released: December 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.
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In Wrong
Title: In Wrong
Character: Dolly Sheldon
Released: October 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't get her to look his way. Things get even worse when a city boy comes to town and boards at the Fields' home.
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Almost a Husband
Title: Almost a Husband
Character: Jane Sheldon
Released: October 11, 1919
Type: Movie
A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well. The teacher pretends to marry the girl to fool the unwanted suitor, but then finds that the marriage was inadvertently legal....
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The Winning Girl
Title: The Winning Girl
Character: Vivian 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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The Yellow Dog
Title: The Yellow Dog
Character: Kate Cummings
Released: November 4, 1918
Type: Movie
In the small shipbuilding town of Danforth, Albert Walker realizes, to his distress, that German sympathizers, spies and draft evaders, by voicing doubts about the United States' involvement in the war, are having a disastrous effect on the patriotic spirit of the townspeople.
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Huck and Tom
Title: Huck and Tom
Character: Becky Thatcher
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
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Tom Sawyer
Title: Tom Sawyer
Character: Becky Thatcher
Released: December 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).
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When Little Lindy Sang
Title: When Little Lindy Sang
Character: One of the Children
Released: October 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Lindy, the lone Black girl in her class, is mostly ostracized by her classmates. When Lindy emerges as a heroine during a school fire, attitudes change.