Dorothy Cumming

Dorothy Cumming

Born: April 12, 1899
Died: December 10, 1983

Movies for Dorothy Cumming...

Applause
Title: Applause
Character: Mother Superior
Released: October 7, 1929
Type: Movie
This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Mrs. St. George
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
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The Divine Lady
Title: The Divine Lady
Character: Queen Maria Carolina
Released: December 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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The Wind
Title: The Wind
Character: Cora
Released: September 15, 1928
Type: Movie
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
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Our Dancing Daughters
Title: Our Dancing Daughters
Character: Diana's Mother
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.
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Forbidden Hours
Title: Forbidden Hours
Character: Queen Alexia
Released: June 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.
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The Divine Woman
Title: The Divine Woman
Character: Mmme. Zizi Rouck, Marianne's Mother
Released: January 13, 1928
Type: Movie
[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
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In Old Kentucky
Title: In Old Kentucky
Character: Mrs. Brierly
Released: November 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely with the Major at the front, for the Kentucky Derby.
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: Mary, the Mother
Released: April 19, 1927
Type: Movie
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
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Butterflies in the Rain
Title: Butterflies in the Rain
Character: Lady Pintar
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Tina, who is from an aristocratic English family, believes in the new freedom for women and is an ardent follower of a group of pseudo-bohemians. While riding through the neighboring estate of John Humphries, a wealthy commoner resented by the Carteret family, she is retrieved from a fall by John and blames him for the accident. The following day, she invites him to dinner, pretending repentance, but taking pleasure in ridiculing his old-fashioned dignity.
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Mademoiselle Modiste
Title: Mademoiselle Modiste
Character: Marianne
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Robert Z. Leonard directed Griffith in a story based on a popular 1905 Victor Herbert operetta on Broadway, Mlle. Modiste, with a libretto by Henry Martyn Blossom, which was similar to the MGM film The Merry Widow. The film is now considered a lost film. The story was refilmed in 1930 as the talkie Kiss Me Again.
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A Kiss for Cinderella
Title: A Kiss for Cinderella
Character: Queen
Released: December 22, 1925
Type: Movie
An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.
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The New Commandment
Title: The New Commandment
Character: Countess Stoll
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Billy Morrow (Ben Lyon), who comes from a wealthy family, is sailing to Europe with his father (Holbrook Blinn) on their yacht. Along for the ride is Mrs. Parr (Claire Eames) and her stepdaughter. Near the French coast, Billy discovers that Mrs. Parr wants to arrange a marriage between him and the girl, so he escapes and takes a lifeboat ashore.
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The Coast of Folly
Title: The Coast of Folly
Character: Constance Fay
Released: September 21, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent film drama...
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The Manicure Girl
Title: The Manicure Girl
Character: Flora
Released: July 6, 1925
Type: Movie
A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
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The Female
Title: The Female
Character: Clodah Harrison
Released: August 31, 1924
Type: Movie
A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melodrama, from the Cynthia Stocklet Story. Dalla (Betty Compson) is a pretty orphan who is adopted by a wealthy man. When she matures, he invites her to England (leaving her beau behind),and eventually marries her. After her husband is murdered, she is accused of the crime, because she has still been seeing her old beau Col. Valentia (Warner Baxter). After eventually being cleared of the crime Della maries her first love...Valentia.
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Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Title: Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Character: Mrs. Horton
Released: April 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the death of her benefactor, she becomes a model in a fashionable shop. There she falls into the hands of her mother's unscrupulous nephew, who contrives to do away with her in order to obtain her fortune. ....
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The Next Corner
Title: The Next Corner
Character: Paula Vrain
Released: February 18, 1924
Type: Movie
While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.
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Twenty-One
Title: Twenty-One
Character: Mrs. McCullough
Released: December 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Twenty-One is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson and starring Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill and Joe King.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Lucy Hodge
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.
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A Self Made Wife
Title: A Self Made Wife
Character: Elena Vincent
Released: July 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Eleanor Bellington
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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The Man From Home
Title: The Man From Home
Character: Princess Sabina
Released: April 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamorous prince in beautiful Italian surroundings.
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Don't Tell Everything
Title: Don't Tell Everything
Character: Jessica Ramsey
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Two men in love with the same woman are further complicated by the arrival of a second woman.
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The Thief
Title: The Thief
Character: Isabelle Lenwright
Released: December 11, 1920
Type: Movie
Silent film comedy drama..
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Idols of Clay
Title: Idols of Clay
Character: Lady Cray
Released: November 28, 1920
Type: Movie
A girl raised isolated from society in the South Seas falls in love with a visiting sculptor.
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Snow White
Title: Snow White
Character: Queen Brangomar, Snow White's Stepmother
Released: December 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarfs in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.