Mary Philbin

Mary Philbin

Born: July 16, 1902
Died: May 7, 1993
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Mary Loretta Philbin (July 16, 1902 – May 7, 1993) was an American film actress of the silent film era, who is best known for playing the roles of Christine Daaé in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera opposite Lon Chaney, and as Dea in The Man Who Laughs. Both roles cast her as the beauty in Beauty and the Beast type stories.

Movies for Mary Philbin...

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Title: Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Character: Christine Daae (archive footage)
Released: August 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Grab the popcorn and take a deep breath as we conjure up the thrills, chills and magic of Monster Madness!
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Universal Horror
Title: Universal Horror
Character: (archive footage)
Released: October 8, 1998
Type: Movie
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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After the Fog
Title: After the Fog
Character: Faith Barker
Released: December 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Temple.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Christine
Released: November 27, 1929
Type: Movie
The sound version of the classic silent version.
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The Last Performance
Title: The Last Performance
Character: Julie
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
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Girl Overboard
Title: Girl Overboard
Character: Joan
Released: July 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he be forced to complete his sentence behind bars. He goes to live on an old ship in the harbor with an old sea captain. One day a homeless girl is fished out of the water and brought to live on the boat, soon marrying the young man. All is well until his parole officer finds out.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: Dea
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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Drums of Love
Title: Drums of Love
Character: Princess Emanuella
Released: January 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.
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Love Me and the World is Mine
Title: Love Me and the World is Mine
Character: Hannerl
Released: September 26, 1927
Type: Movie
In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security. The other is an older man, influential in the affairs of Austria, who could provide wealth...and tender devotion. Hannerl thinks about it.
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Life in Hollywood No. 3
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 3
Character: Self
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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Surrender
Title: Surrender
Character: Lea Lyon
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is overrun with the Imperial troops of the Russian Czar, with Constantine in Imperial command. He is attracted by the beauty of Lea and commands her to come to his quarters. She refuses and he is outraged. He orders the townspeople barred behind their doors and the village burned. Though she loves her honor above everything else, she can not bear to see the villagers suffer, and makes the lonely walk through the village to the Inn.
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Stella Maris
Title: Stella Maris
Character: Stella Maris / Unity Blake
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Christine Daaé
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Fifth Avenue Models
Title: Fifth Avenue Models
Character: Isobel Ludant
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
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The Rose of Paris
Title: The Rose of Paris
Character: Mitsi
Released: November 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.
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Fools Highway
Title: Fools Highway
Character: Mamie Rose
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
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The Thrill Chaser
Title: The Thrill Chaser
Character: Herself - Cameo
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills and is engaged to go to Arabia, where he becomes involved in warring and falls in love with a beautiful princess.
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The Temple of Venus
Title: The Temple of Venus
Character: Moira
Released: November 11, 1923
Type: Movie
Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.
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Merry-Go-Round
Title: Merry-Go-Round
Character: Agnes Urban
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Margaret Schofield
Released: June 18, 1923
Type: Movie
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Human Hearts
Title: Human Hearts
Character: Ruth
Released: August 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Innocent country boy Tom Logan is taken in by the scheming Barbara Kay, a city woman who knows Tom is set to inherit his fathers farm which sits on a rich coal field. Toms father sees through her plot and disinherits him when her marries Barbara. When Barbara tires of farm life, the ensuing events lead to death and misplaced guilt.
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The Trouper
Title: The Trouper
Character: Mary Lee
Released: July 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Working as a wardrobe girl in a cheap traveling stock company, Mamie Judd secretly loves Jenks, the leading man, who scarcely notices the young girl. She saves Neal Selden, son of a small-town banker, from being accused of robbery and murder, acts committed by the company's manager and leading lady.
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The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Title: The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Character: Self
Released: March 15, 1922
Type: Movie
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (15 in 1932) young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. 1922 was the first.
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Foolish Wives
Title: Foolish Wives
Character: Crippled Girl (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
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Sure Fire
Title: Sure Fire
Released: November 5, 1921
Type: Movie
The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and is defended by hired men with guns.
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Red Courage
Title: Red Courage
Character: Eliza Fay
Released: October 10, 1921
Type: Movie
Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by Joe Reedly. The pair give the editor $100 and get a bill of sale for the newspaper, only to find out later that Reedly holds a mortgage of $200 against it. This they pay off and start a campaign to clean up the town. They meet with considerable opposition until they enlist the services of Judge Fay.
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Danger Ahead!
Title: Danger Ahead!
Character: Tressie Harloow
Released: August 8, 1921
Type: Movie
The impoverished Harlow family of New England is forced to take in summer boarders. Teenaged niece Tressie welcomes the change and promptly falls in love with a wealthy young guest named Norman Minot. Although Norman returns Tressie’s affection, he is driven away by a fortune-hunting mother who wants him to marry her daughter. Robert Kitteridge, a scheming artist friend of Norman's, takes Tressie on a sailboat outing, during which they narrowly escape death when their boat is rammed by a steamship. After being put ashore the next morning in Boston, MA, Robert takes Tressie to his studio and attempts to seduce her.
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The Blazing Trail
Title: The Blazing Trail
Character: Talithy Millicuddy
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Young doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood poisoning, with no results. Exhausted, he takes a rest in the Blue Ridge Mountains and stays in a small mountain community. When a young schoolteacher comes to town a romance develops between her and Bradley, but the local gossips have spread rumors that he has seduced Talithy, a local girl, and will abandon her for the teacher. Complications ensue.