Frances Raymond

Frances Raymond

Born: May 23, 1869
Died: June 18, 1961
in Salem, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Frances Raymond...

West Point Widow
Title: West Point Widow
Character: Old Lady at Beach
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Old Lady on Ship (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Life with Henry
Title: Life with Henry
Character: Elderly Woman (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
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Cafe Society
Title: Cafe Society
Character: Justice of the Peace's Wife
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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Champagne Waltz
Title: Champagne Waltz
Character: Concert Attendee
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: Woman
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Illusion
Title: Illusion
Character: Mrs. Y
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudeville partner, Claire, has chosen a new partner, but her "heart isn't in it" because she is disconsolate over Carlee. Curious about her new act, Carlee attends a performance and sees Claire nearly killed when she fails to substitute fake bullets for real ones. Rushing to her aid, Carlee realizes how much Claire means to him.
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The Gay Defender
Title: The Gay Defender
Character: Aunt Emily
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.
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Get Your Man
Title: Get Your Man
Character: Mrs. Worthington
Released: December 6, 1927
Type: Movie
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
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Three's a Crowd
Title: Three's a Crowd
Released: August 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his telescope and sends her by carrier pigeon a note that, alas, is received by the wrong party. The Girl marries and, poverty-striken, leaves her husband during a snowstorm. Harry takes her in, and minutes later her child is born. He works like a slave for the mother and child, pretending they are his own. Meanwhile, the husband finds her and comes to the shack on Christmas Eve as Harry is preparing to play Santa Claus. Not realizing the unhappiness she is causing him, The Girl thanks him profusely and leaves with her husband. Overcome, Harry sits overnight on the doorstep and the next morning is found frozen stiff except for his eyes--with amusing results.
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Behind the Front
Title: Behind the Front
Character: Mrs. Bartlett-Cooper
Released: February 22, 1926
Type: Movie
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his watch. After finishing basic training, the two are sent to the front lines in France, where they wind up in trouble with the MPs, getting involved with some cute French girls and "volunteering" for a dangerous front-line mission, and their antics result in their endangering the armistice.
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What Happened to Jones
Title: What Happened to Jones
Character: Mrs. Bigbee
Released: February 8, 1926
Type: Movie
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
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Satan in Sables
Title: Satan in Sables
Character: Sophia
Released: October 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
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California Straight Ahead
Title: California Straight Ahead
Character: Mrs. Hayden
Released: September 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.
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Seven Chances
Title: Seven Chances
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
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Flirting with Love
Title: Flirting with Love
Character: Mrs. Cameron
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
When Wade Cameron, chairman of the Better Plays Society, stops the production of actress Gilda Lamont's first stage success, she attempts to revenge herself by affecting another personality and earning his confidence. He assigns her a role in an improvised production of a new play as an unknown actress, derails her attempt to expose him, and ends by winning her heart.
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Title: The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Character: Scott's mother
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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A Chapter in Her Life
Title: A Chapter in Her Life
Character: Madge Everingham
Released: September 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love. Complete copies are held by many film archives in Europe and the United States.
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Money, Money, Money
Title: Money, Money, Money
Character: Mrs. Hobbs
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Money, Money, Money is a 1923 silent film.
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The Ghost Breaker
Title: The Ghost Breaker
Character: Aunt Mary Jarvis
Released: September 10, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man and his manservant, escaping from a backwoods family feud, are persuaded by a beautiful young heiress to help her rid her newly-gained Spanish castle of ghosts.
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Hurricane's Gal
Title: Hurricane's Gal
Character: Mrs. Fairfield
Released: July 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Allen Holubar silent seafaring pirate ship adventure thriller
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One a Minute
Title: One a Minute
Character: Granma Knight
Released: June 19, 1921
Type: Movie
An excellent silent comedy starring unjustly forgotten star Douglas MacLean. Its indictment of pharmaceutical entrepreneurs is far sharper than Side Effects'.
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The Midlanders
Title: The Midlanders
Character: Mrs. Van Hart
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Aurelie, an orphan, escapes from a New Orleans convent and is adopted by Mississippi riverboat captain Lindstrom. So that she can have a more settled life, he sends her to live with his brother, John Lindstrom, a squatter in a small river valley town. There she develops into a beautiful woman and wins a newspaper's beauty contest, attracting an offer from a theatrical producer, which she accepts. She rapidly achieves success, but when she returns to town, she is spurned.
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A Light Woman
Title: A Light Woman
Character: The Mother
Released: September 20, 1920
Type: Movie
Young Doris Kane suspects that her fiance, Paul Evans, doesn't love her anymore. She finds out that he is now infatuated with a "vamp", Jeanne DuPre. Paul's father is appalled at his son's behavior, and devises a plan to break up the romance between his son and the vamp by making her fall for him and exposing her perfidy to his son.
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Li Ting Lang
Title: Li Ting Lang
Character: Priscilla Mayhew
Released: July 24, 1920
Type: Movie
In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of prejudice is broached here -- and Hayakawa still doesn't get the girl, who in this case is society girl Marion Halstead (Doris Pawn).
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The Best of Luck
Title: The Best of Luck
Character: The Countess of Strathcaird
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial affairs with Lord Glenayr (Jack Holt), whom she has never met. She encounters Duke Lanzana (Fred Malatesta), who sees her as a way to pay off his mounting debts. He captures her and then heads to a nearby cape to steal a buried treasure that actually should belong to the MacLeods.
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Miss Hobbs
Title: Miss Hobbs
Character: Mrs. Kingsearl
Released: May 19, 1920
Type: Movie
She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brutes. But love has a way of smashing such an idea. Then she went in for barefoot dancing, futurist art and other advanced notions. Well, the upshot of it was the young man took upon himself to tame her, to make her a regular girl.
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The Last of the Duanes
Title: The Last of the Duanes
Character: Buck's mother (as Frankie Raymond)
Released: September 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Buck Duane guns down the man who killed his father and flees from the law. He rescues a girl he once loved from outlaws, but the wife of outlaw chief has her own designs on him.
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The Other Half
Title: The Other Half
Character: Mrs. Boone
Released: August 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
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The Best Man
Title: The Best Man
Character: Mrs. Hathaway
Released: May 4, 1919
Type: Movie
The Library of Congress lists this as a ‘lost’ film, however a copy exists in the UK. Gordon, disguised as Hayne, meets with the criminals and manages to purloin the stolen code but the real Hayne, who the police have failed to apprehend, gives chase. Gordon escapes in a taxi that had been pre-booked to take Hayne to church to marry Celia. Arriving at the church, and remembering his instructions ‘Let Nothing Hinder You’, Gordon allows himself to be married to Celia while planning how he will escape.
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Fools For Luck
Title: Fools For Luck
Character: Mama (as Frankie Raymond)
Released: October 8, 1917
Type: Movie
Philander has embraced every superstition imaginable, from hoarding rabbit's foots and horseshoes to avoiding the third light on a match. But his luck manages to run out anyway -- he loses his girl, Brunhilda and his job.
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The Chaperon
Title: The Chaperon
Character: Mrs. Hemingway
Released: November 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Jim Ogden, secretly engaged to Madge Hemmingway, wealthy heiress, becomes sensitive over his lack of money and breaks the engagement. In a moment of pique she marries Count Van Tuyle. After six months she returns from Europe, minus her husband. Trying to forget her error, she goes to the country.
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The Strange Case of Mary Page
Title: The Strange Case of Mary Page
Character: Mrs. Page
Released: January 24, 1916
Type: Movie
A 15-episode movie serial.
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The Misleading Lady
Title: The Misleading Lady
Character: Mrs. Cannell
Released: January 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her.