Katherine MacDonald

Katherine MacDonald

Born: December 13, 1891
Died: June 4, 1956
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Katherine MacDonald...

Old Loves and New
Title: Old Loves and New
Character: Elinor Carew / Lady Geraldine
Released: April 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass, Marny. Marny has no idea of Geraldine's past nor his brutal nature.
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Chastity
Title: Chastity
Character: Norma O'Neill
Released: December 31, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman trying to make it in Hollywood decides that the only way she can attain stardom is to go the "vamp" route, although in her private life she's nothing like her on-screen character. She gets the recognition she wants, but for the wrong reason--she finds herself in the middle of a notorious society scandal. - From IMDB
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The Scarlet Lily
Title: The Scarlet Lily
Character: Dora Mason
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Silent feature directed by Victor Schertzinger
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Refuge
Title: Refuge
Character: Nadia
Released: March 12, 1923
Type: Movie
Hoping to gain favor with the people of Moravia and destroy evidence of the rightful prince's claim to the throne, Prince Ferdinand makes plans to marry Countess Nadia. She thwarts Ferdinand's efforts, running off with Gustav Kenski, only to marry Gene, a soldier who she meets on the road. Ferdinand has her found and abducted, but Gene rescues her, and it is revealed that he is the rightful prince of Moravia.
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Money, Money, Money
Title: Money, Money, Money
Character: Priscilla Hobbs
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Money, Money, Money is a 1923 silent film.
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The Woman Conquers
Title: The Woman Conquers
Character: Ninon Le Compte
Released: December 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay area to inspect trapping holdings inherited from her uncle.
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Heroes and Husbands
Title: Heroes and Husbands
Character: Susanne Danbury
Released: August 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Susanne Danbury and Walter Gaylord, the man she loves, are among the weekend guests of her publisher, Hugh Bemis, and his wife Agatha, who also loves Walter. Lost film.
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The Infidel
Title: The Infidel
Character: Lola Daintry
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her mother out of the house. When Bully Haynes (Melbourne MacDonald) wants her help in showing up a group of South Seas missionaries, she's more than happy to assist. But Lola doesn't realize she's being used so that Haynes can gain control over the copra trade from his rival, Cyrus Flint (Robert Ellis).
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The Beautiful Liar
Title: The Beautiful Liar
Character: Helen Haynes / Elsie Parmelee
Released: December 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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My Lady's Latchkey
Title: My Lady's Latchkey
Character: Annesley Grayle
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Young Annesley Grayle, weary of a gloomy, uneventful existence with her aunt, accepts the proposal of a young American that she pose as his wife. Later, they are actually married. When, at a ball, she hears her husband accused of stealing a valuable diamond and realizes that he is indeed a thief, she hides the jewel to save him.
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Curtain
Title: Curtain
Character: Nancy Bradshaw
Released: September 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Nancy Bradshaw (Katherine MacDonald) is a popular stage star who quits her career to marry millionaire clubman Dick Cunningham (Charles Richman). But after a few years of marriage, he starts seeing other women. Figuring that her public was more faithful to her than her husband, Nancy returns to the stage.
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Passion's Playground
Title: Passion's Playground
Character: Mary Grant
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mary Grant has a gambling father and a mother who has disappeared. Even though she has been raised in a convent she proves true to her ancestry by running away to Monte Carlo and spending her small inheritance at the gambling table.
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QuaidE-Azam Zindahbad
Title: QuaidE-Azam Zindahbad
Character: Diana Tennant
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Upon finding themselves in financial difficulties because of the failure of the Edgerton-Tennant Company, New York socialites Diana and Silvette Tennant decide to work as society hostesses.
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The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Title: The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Character: Mary MacNeill
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (Jack Holt) in order to satisfy an old grudge. But Mary wants nothing to do with the dissolute Lord and tells him so on their wedding night. So he takes his mistress, Alma Lier (Fritzi Brunette), to India and passes her off as Lady Raa, while Mary disappears to a French village, where she spends time with the man she loved all along, explorer Martin Conrad (Milton Sills).
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Diana, Henry's Wife
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
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Battling Jane
Title: Battling Jane
Character: Poliet's daughter
Released: September 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, however, leads to great conflict with the child's vicious outlaw father.
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Riddle Gawne
Title: Riddle Gawne
Character: Kathleen Harkness
Released: August 3, 1918
Type: Movie
When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he swears revenge.
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Shark Monroe
Title: Shark Monroe
Character: Marjorie Hilton
Released: June 30, 1918
Type: Movie
In this 1918 film, newly restored by MoMA, Hart is a ship's captain in the Pacific Northwest who abandons his post to pursue a woman who does not love him (MacDonald) across the Klondike, eventually rescuing her from the grip of a white slaver.
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His Own Home Town
Title: His Own Home Town
Character: Carol Landis
Released: May 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manager. He takes on the criminal element in town with great vigor, until he realizes that his own father is in league with those devils. - From IMDB
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Mr. Fix-It
Title: Mr. Fix-It
Character: Georgiana Burroughs
Released: April 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves the day.
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Headin' South
Title: Headin' South
Character: The Girl
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican responsible for most of the treachery and outlawry along the U.S.-Mexican boarder. Headin' South gains quite a reputation as he goes along and finally believes himself worthy of joining Joe's band. in a whirlwind finish in which Joe is captured, Headin' South meets one of Joe's near victims (MacDonald) and falls in love with her."
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The Spirit of '17
Title: The Spirit of '17
Character: Flora Edwards
Released: January 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Davy Glidden is the son of the adjutant general in charge of an old soldier's home in a small town near the Top Copper mine. Davy idolizes Capt. Jerico Norton, an aged veteran of the home who entertains the boy with stories of his exploits in the Civil War. When Mrs. Edward and her daughter Flora come to visit Mrs. Glidden, Davy is smitten by Flora but she ignores him. Davy is bursting with patriotism by the stories told to him by the captain and is eager of doing something noble to attract Flora's attention. He finds the opportunity to accomplish both goals when he overhears two German spies, Carl Bender and Frank Schmale, plotting to create havoc in the mine by calling a strike and then dynamiting the mine. Enlisting the aid of his friend Capt. Norton, Davy provides the means for the old soldiers to serve their country once again.