Norman Selby

Norman Selby

Born: December 21, 1906
Died: October 10, 1961
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Norman Selby...

Loose Ankles
Title: Loose Ankles
Character: Terry Todd
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
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Paris' Girls
Title: Paris' Girls
Character: Billy Wood
Released: August 16, 1929
Type: Movie
This French film confection directed by Henry Roussell concerns two young Parisian beauties in love with same fellow (Fernand Fabre). When one of the girls (Suzy Vernon) goes to America, the one who stays home (Esther Kiss) thinks shes triumphed. But when the traveler returns and the guy goes for her new-found sophistication, the competition continues- including the hilariously mock-heroic duel we see in this four-sheet design.
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Sherlock's Home
Title: Sherlock's Home
Released: May 13, 1924
Type: Movie
Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.
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Arabia
Title: Arabia
Character: Pussy Foot Bogs
Released: November 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Tom Mix travels from the desert of the American West to the Sahara desert in this picture, which is as much farce as it is Western
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To a Finish
Title: To a Finish
Character: Wolf Gary
Released: August 21, 1921
Type: Movie
A small Western community is terrorized by an unscrupulous empire-builder.
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Straight from the Shoulder
Title: Straight from the Shoulder
Character: Bill Higgins
Released: June 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Played mostly for laughs, this silent Western featured the"The Mediator," a drifter who manages to restore peace both within a family and between miners and their powerful employer.
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The Fourteenth Man
Title: The Fourteenth Man
Character: Dwight Sylvester
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Eyes of Youth
Title: Eyes of Youth
Character: Dick Brownell
Released: November 29, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the options. After she sees her future along three of the roads, she makes her choice.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Lieutenant Foray
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 Hushed Hour
Title: The Hushed Hour
Character: Kid McCoy (as Kid McCoy)
Released: May 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Judge Robert Appleton (Winter Hall) has led an exemplary life. His four children, however, fell short once they grew up and had to fend for themselves. When Appleton dies, his widow (Lydia Knott) explains that his last request was that each child spend one hour of contemplation with his body. The first is the youngest daughter, Daisy (Rosemary Theby), an artist of note who was betrayed and left with a son to raise out of wedlock. Next is Luke (Milton Sills), a wild young man who ran away at 19, and even though he is now married and a father, he still can't quite settle down. The eldest son, Bob (Wilfred Lucas), is next -- he wed a wealthy woman, but the marriage has no love.
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Broken Blossoms
Title: Broken Blossoms
Character: A Prizefighter
Released: May 13, 1919
Type: Movie
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
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Betty of Greystone
Title: Betty of Greystone
Character: Weed's Son
Released: February 20, 1916
Type: Movie
After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there. She meets David Chandler, Graystone's owner, who is attracted to her and tells her to come back whenever she wants to. Betty's mother soon remarries, but her new stepfather is not the same kind of man that her father was