Merna Kennedy

Merna Kennedy

Born: September 7, 1908
Died: December 20, 1944
in Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Merna Kennedy (born Maude Kahler) was an American screen actress of the late silent and early talkies era.

Movies for Merna Kennedy...

I Like it That Way
Title: I Like it That Way
Character: Telephone Company Information Girl
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
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Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Claire
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Jimmy the Gent
Title: Jimmy the Gent
Character: Jitters
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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Son of a Sailor
Title: Son of a Sailor
Character: Isabel
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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The Big Chance
Title: The Big Chance
Character: Mary Wilson
Released: August 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
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Police Call
Title: Police Call
Character: Evelyn Hume
Released: July 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister has gotten mixed up with gangsters.
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Arizona to Broadway
Title: Arizona to Broadway
Character: Flo Sandberg
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.
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I Love That Man
Title: I Love That Man
Character: Alice (scenes deleted)
Released: July 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
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Don't Bet on Love
Title: Don't Bet on Love
Character: "Babe" Norton
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
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Emergency Call
Title: Emergency Call
Character: Day File Clerk
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
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Laughter in Hell
Title: Laughter in Hell
Character: Marybelle Evans
Released: January 12, 1933
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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Red Haired Alibi
Title: Red Haired Alibi
Character: Lynn Monith
Released: October 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
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The All-American
Title: The All-American
Character: Gloria Neuchard
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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Come On, Tarzan
Title: Come On, Tarzan
Character: Pat Riley
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers horses for slaughter, whose meat is sold to pet food manufacturers. The wild horse Tarzan frees the doomed horses from their corrals, and Frazer convinces the Sheriff that Tarzan is a threat and can be shot on sight. Local cowboy Ken Benson (Maynard) and rancher Pat Riley (Kennedy) work together to clear Tarzan's good name and put Frazier behind bars for his evil deeds.
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Ghost Valley
Title: Ghost Valley
Character: Jane Worth
Released: May 13, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.
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Lady with a Past
Title: Lady with a Past
Character: Ann Duryea
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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The Gay Buckaroo
Title: The Gay Buckaroo
Character: Mildred Fields
Released: December 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Rancher Clint Hale wants to marry Mildred Field, but so does very bad guy gambler Dave Dumont.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
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Stepping Out
Title: Stepping Out
Character: Madge Horton
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
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Midnight Special
Title: Midnight Special
Character: Ellen Harboard
Released: December 7, 1930
Type: Movie
A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel in safety. (Print ad- Evening News, Tonawanda, N.Y. 4 February 1931)
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Worldly Goods
Title: Worldly Goods
Character: Mary Thurston
Released: July 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A businessman who has devoted his whole life to obtaining money and power finds that he can't buy the one thing he craves: love.
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Embarrassing Moments
Title: Embarrassing Moments
Character: Marion Fuller
Released: January 17, 1930
Type: Movie
A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.
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The Rampant Age
Title: The Rampant Age
Character: Doris Lawrence
Released: January 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Wealthy playboy Sandy Benton falls for pretty but decidedly less wealthy neighbor Doris Lawrence. She rebuffs his attentions, but scheming golddigger Estelle has her own plans for Sandy. When Doris hears about Sandy's wild times with Estelle, she sets out to show him that she, too, can be a "modern" woman.
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Skinner Steps Out
Title: Skinner Steps Out
Released: November 24, 1929
Type: Movie
William Henry Skinner's young wife has great confidence in her husband's abilities and is ambitious for his success. He informs her of his importance at the office; but in reality he is an insignificant employee on a small salary, and when refused a raise, he hasn't the courage to tell his wife. Distressed at her husband's shabby appearance, "Honey" persuades him to buy a dress suit, and at a charity bazaar she pushes him to the front so that he dominates the affair and comes to the attention of the dignitaries. Skinner forces himself upon the attention of his employer and the employer's chief rival, whose admiration he wins when he bluffs him out of a poker pot. In spite of Skinner's efforts to prevent it, the rival companies are consolidated; and impressed by his spirit and enthusiasm, his superiors promote him to sales manager.
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Barnum Was Right
Title: Barnum Was Right
Character: Miriam Locke
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there's pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the building.
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Broadway
Title: Broadway
Character: Billie Moore
Released: May 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929, 1930)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Circus
Title: The Circus
Character: Circus Proprietor's Stepdaughter, a Circus Rider
Released: January 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.