Adele Farrington

Adele Farrington

Born: January 1, 1867
Died: December 19, 1936
in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA

Movies for Adele Farrington...

Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Aunt
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman is framed and sent to prison for a crime she didn't commit. When she is released, she sets out to take her revenge on those responsible. -from IMDB.com
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Bag and Baggage
Title: Bag and Baggage
Released: November 1, 1923
Type: Movie
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A Gentleman of Leisure
Title: A Gentleman of Leisure
Character: Lady Blount
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London. While at a restaurant, he notices pretty Molly Creedon (Sigrid Holmquist). He sees that she has a photograph inscribed "with love" and as a joke, he makes a bet with his pals that he will obtain an autographed picture from the girl within 24 hours. But getting the photo is harder than it seemed at first, and he finally asks a burglar to help him out by stealing it.
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The Man Next Door
Title: The Man Next Door
Character: Mrs. Wisner
Released: May 28, 1923
Type: Movie
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon had recently been made into a hit film. Ranchman Colonel Wright sends his daughter Bonnie to an Eastern college to receive an education. She decides to stay in the city and sends for her father, who arrives with his foreman Curly. Even though they live in the midst of society, they are snubbed by the Easterners as uncouth.
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One Stolen Night
Title: One Stolen Night
Character: Mrs. Ebberly
Released: January 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Diantha Ebberly travels with her parents to the edge of the Sahara to meet her longtime betrothed, Herbert Medford, whom she has never seen. She is rescued from a swarm of beggars by an "Arab," then meets him again when she slips out at night in native dress. They fall in love, but Diantha is abducted by Sheik Amud, then returned safely home by the "Arab." The next morning Diantha discovers her fiancé and lover to be one and the same.
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Little Wildcat
Title: Little Wildcat
Character: Mrs. Wilding
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Robert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, when Arnold is in the war, he meets a pretty nurse who greatly impresses him. Back home he recalls the pleasant encounter to Robert, telling him of the gentle beauty he never forgot. Mag, now Margaret, overhears the story and reveals to Arnold, she was the nurse. The surprised Arnold now has to admit that Robert was right about gentling the little wild cat.
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The Ordeal
Title: The Ordeal
Character: Madame St. Levis
Released: May 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil's attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies.
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The Cradle
Title: The Cradle
Character: Mrs. Mason
Released: March 4, 1922
Type: Movie
A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they divorce and marry others (several times). The person who suffers most from their cavalier outlook on life is their cute little daughter Mary Jane Irving.
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Bobbed Hair
Title: Bobbed Hair
Character: Aunt Emily
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A young woman spurns her too conventional fiancé and flees to an artists' colony.
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Her Mad Bargain
Title: Her Mad Bargain
Character: Mrs. Gordon Howe
Released: December 12, 1921
Type: Movie
After the death of her benefactress, Mrs. Beresford, Alice Lambert is evicted by Ruth, Mrs. Beresford's jealous niece; and in despair Alice seeks employment as a model. Her refusal to accept the attentions of Monsieur Armand ends in her dismissal
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The Child Thou Gavest Me
Title: The Child Thou Gavest Me
Character: Her Mother
Released: August 20, 1921
Type: Movie
On her wedding day, Norma Huntley wants to tell Edward Berkley, her husband-to-be, her secret -- that she mothered a child out of wedlock which subsequently died. Her mother forbids her to reveal this. Only moments after the ceremony, it is discovered that the child, now three, is actually alive. Berkley, incensed at this turn of events, agrees to adopt the child and remain married for appearance's sake -- but when he finds the father, he will kill him.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Lady Wynwaring
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.
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The Charm School
Title: The Charm School
Character: Mrs. Rolles
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Austin Bevans, a lively car-salesman, suddenly finds himself heir to the Bevans School for Girls. Since Austin feels that acquiring grace and charm are more important to a young girl than acquiring knowledge, academic courses are dropped, and a charm school emerges. He submits to the charms of Elsie, a student at the school, whose grandfather takes him into his employ after a newly discovered will dispossesses him of the school. Elsie resents Austin for accepting a job with those who formerly thought him undesirable, but later she relents and takes him back.
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Girl in the Web
Title: Girl in the Web
Character: Mrs. Janney
Released: August 5, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman decides to take money from her wealthy mother to pay her gambling debts, but discovers that the contents of her mother's safe has already been stolen.
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Rio Grande
Title: Rio Grande
Character: Alice Lopez
Released: April 25, 1920
Type: Movie
Maria Lopez is the daughter of an American mother and a Mexican father, who is the head of a band of insurgents. As a child, she was kidnapped by her father and raised south of the border to hate gringos. She begins to like them a lot better when, during an escape from some Mexican "Rurals," she crosses the border and is captured by Texas Ranger Danny O'Neil. He lets her go, and they fall in love, but their romance is interrupted when she hears that her father has been captured by Americans.
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In Old Kentucky
Title: In Old Kentucky
Character: Aunt Aleathea
Released: December 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Illiterate Blue Ridge Mountain girl Madge Brierly falls in love with vacationing Blue Grass aristocrat Frank Layson, when he stops Horace Holten from defrauding her of her coal-rich lands. For revenge, Holten tells moonshiner Joe Lorey, who loves Madge, that Frank is a revenue officer. After Madge rescues Frank from Joe's attack, they go to Frank's home, where he teaches her reading and writing, and she rescues his racehorse, Queen Bess, from a fire set by Holten. Because Frank has nearly all of his family's money riding on the big Kentucky race, Holten gets Frank's jockey drunk. Madge, discovering this, disguises herself and rides Queen Bess to victory. She leaves for home unnoticed, and comes across the Night Riders chasing Lorey. After she persuades them that Holten killed her father years earlier, and was responsible for Lorey's attack, they chase Holten who falls from a mountain and dies. Years later, Madge's and Frank's children play at feuding.
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Too Much Johnson
Title: Too Much Johnson
Character: Mrs. Batterson
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he takes a trip, claiming that he is going off to check on Mexican oil investments. But he's really going on a cruise with Mrs. Dathis, who has purchased his yacht. To throw everyone off track, he uses the name Mr. Johnson. When he decides to repeat the trip, however, all hell breaks loose -- the jealous Mr. Dathis is out to get his hands on this Johnson character, while a real Mr. Johnson shows up in Mexico, and Mrs. Billings shows up with her mother, and the confusion continues from there.
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Honor's Cross
Title: Honor's Cross
Character: Marion Cabot
Released: May 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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The House of Silence
Title: The House of Silence
Character: Mrs. Clifton
Released: April 8, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy young criminologist Marcel Leviget is seen forcibly dragging his fellow clubman Dr. Rogers into a House of Ill Repute. In one of the back bedrooms of the bawdy house, an old friend of Marcel's, a prominent attorney, lies near death. Dr. Rogers is also acquainted with the dying attorney, and while Marcel's back is turned, Rogers discovers a distinctively designed hatpin embedded in the patient's heart.
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The Mate of the Sally Ann
Title: The Mate of the Sally Ann
Character: Mrs. Schuyler
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A crusty old sea captain, who hates society, lives in the hulk of his ship with his granddaughter whom he prevents from meeting people.
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The Price of a Good Time
Title: The Price of a Good Time
Character: His Mother
Released: November 4, 1917
Type: Movie
A poor shopgirl is offered a "good time" for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the girl's parents of her "fling."
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The Price Mark
Title: The Price Mark
Character: Marie
Released: October 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Broke and stranded in the Big City, Paula Lee (Dorothy Dalton) willingly becomes the mistress of "love 'em and leave 'em" playboy Fielding Powell (William Conklin). In spite of himself, Powell falls in love with Paula, and just before leaving on a business trip, he promises to marry her upon his return. In the meantime, however, Paula falls in love with dedicated charity doctor D. Melfi (Thurston Hall).
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The Inner Shrine
Title: The Inner Shrine
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: June 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Bad woman turns good, but as a recent widow finds her past a roadblock in terms of accepting remarriage.
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The Marcellini Millions
Title: The Marcellini Millions
Character: Mrs. Murray
Released: May 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Guido and his wife Antoinetta wind up with the estate of Leo Marcellini, a wealthy oil and wine merchant who has died intestate. They move into the mansion but are at a loss when it comes to dealing with servants and other trappings of the rich.
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Little Partner
Title: Little Partner
Character: Mrs. Beacon
Released: December 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Agnes Vernon is the daughter of an old prospector whose hard luck leads him to turn holdup. The father is hanged and the girl, unknowing the real truth, becomes the ward of two young and successful miners.
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The Morals of Hilda
Title: The Morals of Hilda
Character: Esther Grail
Released: December 11, 1916
Type: Movie
Recent immigrants August and Hilda cannot understand the American emphasis on weddings, because in their country, couples never get married. Fearing that he will be arrested for living with a woman who is not his wife, August stows away on a ship and dies in a wreck at sea. Afterward, Hilda tries to commit suicide, but the wealthy Esther Grail saves her, and then adopts her infant son Stephen. Years later, Esther tells him the circumstances of his birth, and so Stephen goes on a crusade for the rights of illegitimate children.
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The Devil's Bondwoman
Title: The Devil's Bondwoman
Character: Doria Manners
Released: November 20, 1916
Type: Movie
After a prologue that takes place in Hell, young millionaire Mason Van Horton becomes involved with Doria, the vampish wife of influential businessman John Manners. When Mason falls in love with Beverly Hope, however, he rejects Doria, who, out of revenge, tells John that Mason tried to seduce her and then begs her husband to ruin him.
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The Woman He Feared
Title: The Woman He Feared
Character: Myrtle Andrews
Released: November 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Henry Clive, a wealthy widower, placed his small daughter, May, in a convent when she was a mere child, and now that her education is completed takes her home. Clive, alone, has amused himself according to his fancy, but now that his daughter has come to live with him he decides to reform.
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The Love Girl
Title: The Love Girl
Character: Her Aunt Betty
Released: July 9, 1916
Type: Movie
A girl is hypnotized and kidnapped by the swami her aunt is devoted to.
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The Way of the World
Title: The Way of the World
Character: Mrs. Lake
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Gubernatorial candidate Walter Croyden is in love with Beatrice, but he acts obnoxiously when he drinks, so she flees to Europe to re-evaluate the relationship.
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What Love Can Do
Title: What Love Can Do
Character: Lil Magill
Released: June 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Widower Calvert Paige leaves his baby daughter Johnnie in New York and goes West where he becomes wealthy as a mine owner and newspaperman. Lil Magill, who came to work on his newspaper, becomes infatuated with Paige, as he is with her, and they become lovers. After several years Lil has become a successful author but Paige has tired of her. Their estrangement grows when Lil takes the side of striking miners against him.
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Doctor Neighbor
Title: Doctor Neighbor
Character: Mrs. Preston
Released: May 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Against the wishes of Doctor Neighbor, the guardian who also loves her, Hazel, who is due to inherit a fortune when she turns 21, marries district attorney Hamilton Rogers, a man more devoted to Hazel's future bank account than to her.
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Her Bitter Cup
Title: Her Bitter Cup
Character: Mary McDougal
Released: April 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Rethna works hard to organize her fellow factory employees against the miserly, uncaring owner, Henry Burke. Then, realizing that she needs money to fight Burke, she begins an affair with his unscrupulous son Harry.
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Her Defiance
Title: Her Defiance
Character: Mrs. Warren
Released: January 14, 1916
Type: Movie
A woman is deserted by her wealthy young lover.
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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Character: Susan
Released: July 10, 1915
Type: Movie
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
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Sunshine Molly
Title: Sunshine Molly
Character: Widow Budd
Released: March 18, 1915
Type: Movie
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull" Forrest. (Note: multiple reels of this film were damaged beyond repair. Only three reels remain, two of which are also heavily damaged.)
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Hypocrites
Title: Hypocrites
Character: The Queen (as Miss Adele Farrington)
Released: January 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
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It's No Laughing Matter
Title: It's No Laughing Matter
Character: Widow Wilkins
Released: January 14, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of a ruddy-cheeked rural postman who dabbles in poetry-writing on the side. He utilizes his hobby to spread a bit of sunshine throughout the village, at one point reuniting a long-estranged family.
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The Country Mouse
Title: The Country Mouse
Character: Addie Balderson
Released: November 23, 1914
Type: Movie
A small-town politician is elected to congress. As he fights for his constituents' rights, his plain-Jane wife sits quietly at home. Only when Billy Bladerson seems to be on the verge of succumbing to the charms of adventuress Myrtle Marshall (actually in the employ of his political rivals) does Adele take a crash course in social graces-and cosmetics.