Mai Wells

Mai Wells

Born: April 13, 1863
Died: August 1, 1941
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Mai Wells...

If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Blondes by Choice
Title: Blondes by Choice
Character: Miss Terwilliger
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Excuse Me
Title: Excuse Me
Character: Mrs. Job Wales
Released: January 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
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The Pilgrim
Title: The Pilgrim
Character: Little Boy's Mother
Released: February 19, 1923
Type: Movie
The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
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Opened Shutters
Title: Opened Shutters
Released: August 12, 1921
Type: Movie
When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her uncle, Judge Trent, in New England, where she is unwanted and humiliated. Though she and John Dunham, her uncle's young law partner, fall in love, she believes he intends to marry the daughter of a wealthy neighbor.
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The Breath of the Gods
Title: The Breath of the Gods
Character: Yuki's Mother
Released: July 25, 1920
Type: Movie
While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Australian ambassador. When Yuki's father discovers his daughter's romance with a foreigner, he becomes enraged and betroths her to Prince Hagane for political reasons.
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The Late Lamented
Title: The Late Lamented
Character: The Landlady
Released: September 23, 1917
Type: Movie
The Late Lamented is a 1917 Comedy short.
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Cactus Nell
Title: Cactus Nell
Character: Nell's Mother
Released: June 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Cactus Nell
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Honest Thieves
Title: Honest Thieves
Released: January 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Honest Thieves is a silent comedy
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Madcap Ambrose
Title: Madcap Ambrose
Character: Ambrose's Mother
Released: July 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.
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A Movie Star
Title: A Movie Star
Character: Jack's screen Mother
Released: January 26, 1916
Type: Movie
The star of a film attends a public showing.
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Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Title: Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Character: Mabel's Mother
Released: January 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Villains launch Fatty and Mabel's beachfront house into the ocean.
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Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Title: Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Character: Fatty's Mother-in-Law
Released: July 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
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His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
Title: His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
Character: Old Mombi
Released: October 14, 1914
Type: Movie
A wicked king has taken over the Emerald City, and wants his daughter, Princess Gloria to marry the horrid courtier Googly-Goo, though she loves Pon, the Gardener's Boy. The camera follows two farmers placing a Scarecrow upon a pole in a cornfield. Pon rescues a Kansas girl named Dorothy from the evil witch Mombi, whom Princess Gloria has been taken to by King Krewl to freeze her heart so she will no longer love Pon. An Indian princess has a ceremony to bring the Scarecrow to life. Pon rescues the cold-hearted princess and they flee for help, discovering the Scarecrow, who promptly falls in love with the princess, and Button-Bright, a lost boy from America. They come to the castle of the Tin Emperor, Nick Chopper, and after oiling him, he falls in love with Gloria. After a bit of a chase aided by the Sawhorse and the Wizard, Mombi turns Pon into a Kangaroo, and a slough of Fred Woodward's animals battle it out.
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The Magic Cloak of Oz
Title: The Magic Cloak of Oz
Character: Aunt Rivette (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1914
Type: Movie
The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen.
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Gentleman Burglar
Title: Gentleman Burglar
Character: Old Woman
Released: February 16, 1914
Type: Movie
Baffles, Gentleman Burglar
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Slim Becomes an Editor
Title: Slim Becomes an Editor
Character: Miss O'Reilly
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
The editor of the Bungleville Bugle posts a sign on the door, informing the citizens that he is going to a better town. On his way he meets Slim and sees him trading his horse for the Bungleville Bugle.
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The Gusher
Title: The Gusher
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1913
Type: Movie
Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
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A Muddy Romance
Title: A Muddy Romance
Character: Other Bride
Released: November 19, 1913
Type: Movie
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
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Lady Clare
Title: Lady Clare
Character: Old Alice - The Nurse
Released: December 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.
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The Skeleton
Title: The Skeleton
Released: October 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Naughty children steal an anatomy-class papier-mâché skeleton and use it to play pranks on people around town.