Mayme Kelso

Mayme Kelso

Born: February 27, 1867
Died: June 5, 1946
in Columbus, Ohio, USA
From Wikipedia

Mayme Kelso (February 28, 1867 – June 5, 1946) was an

American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 79 films between 1911 and

1927. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and died in South Pasadena, California

from a heart attack.

Movies for Mayme Kelso...

The Drop Kick
Title: The Drop Kick
Character: Mrs. Graves
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
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Vanity
Title: Vanity
Character: Mrs. Fiske
Released: May 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a visit to a colorful steamship captain aboard his ship.
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Flaming Waters
Title: Flaming Waters
Character: Mrs. Rutherford
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
After several years' absence, the young sailor Dan O'Neill returns to his hometown. He quickly discovers that his mother has been cheated out of her life savings by slick oil speculator Jasper Thorne and is now working as a charwoman. Dan tries to avenge his mother's loss by swindling the swindler.
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The Unchastened Woman
Title: The Unchastened Woman
Character: Susan Amble
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
When she goes to tell her husband Hubert that she is expecting a child, Caroline Knollys finds him in the arms of another woman. Caroline leaves him and, not telling him of her pregnancy, runs off to Europe where she has her child and becomes the toast of European society. Then she returns to settle with her husband once and for all.
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Released: October 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
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Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Title: Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Character: Miss Drake
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 Marriage Market
Title: The Marriage Market
Character: Miss Blodgett (as Maym Kelso)
Released: October 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Mayme Kelso
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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The World's Applause
Title: The World's Applause
Character: Secretary to Corinne
Released: January 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married to Elsa (Williams), the sister of John Elliott (Stone), the producer responsible for Corinne's rise to fame. The young woman's head is turned by the praise she receives and, despite John's warning against Robert, she permits the latter to paint her portrait and pay her a good deal of attention. John himself loves Corinne and believes that wisdom will come to her with time.
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Kick In
Title: Kick In
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly. Hewes witnesses a car accident in which Jerry Brandon, the son of the district attorney, runs over a child. He also meets Molly, the D.A.'s daughter. Because he feels the child's mother was treated unfairly, Hewes decides to pull one last heist to square things.
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Clarence
Title: Clarence
Character: Mrs. Martin
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has overheard a family argument. And the Wheeler household is going through quite a bit of turmoil -- Mrs. Wheeler feels neglected by her husband and is jealous of Violet Pinney, the governess. Daughter Cora is planning to elope with her father's secretary, Hubert Stem. Son Bobby, meanwhile, has been making passes at the maid.
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For the Defense
Title: For the Defense
Character: Smith
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
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Glass Houses
Title: Glass Houses
Character: Aunt Harriet
Released: March 6, 1922
Type: Movie
Glass Houses is a 1922 film.
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The March Hare
Title: The March Hare
Character: Mrs. Curtis Palmer
Released: June 27, 1921
Type: Movie
Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire, comes to New York with a chaperon to visit her aunt. After betting the chaperon that she can live on 75c for an entire week, she assumes the part of a flower girl in a restaurant and there makes a hit with young millionaire Tod Rollins, who invites her to his home.
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The Lost Romance
Title: The Lost Romance
Character: Librarian
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
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Ducks and Drakes
Title: Ducks and Drakes
Character: Auntie Weeks
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men that she calls up randomly on the telephone. When her fiancée and his friends get word of this, they hatch a plan to teach her a valuable lesson.
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Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Title: Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Character: Gina
Released: November 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
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Why Change Your Wife?
Title: Why Change Your Wife?
Character: Harriette - the Couturière
Released: May 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
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Seeing It Through
Title: Seeing It Through
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Male and Female
Title: Male and Female
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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Experimental Marriage
Title: Experimental Marriage
Character: Mrs. Entwhisle (as Maym Kelso)
Released: March 10, 1919
Type: Movie
Suzanne Ercoll, a young widow who believes in women's suffrage. When the handsome Foxcroft Grey proposes marriage, Suzanne isn't sure she wants to give up her freedom, so she strikes a deal: From Saturday to Monday they will be husband and wife, but the rest of the week, she is single.
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Mrs. Brockton
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
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His Birthright
Title: His Birthright
Character: Mrs. Harland Smith
Released: September 8, 1918
Type: Movie
Yukio is illegal in the United States and is used by a gang of spies for their plans. Yukio must steal secret documents from an admiral. When he's submitting the documents to the gang, he realizes what he has done and claims the documents back. A struggle follows.
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Old Wives for New
Title: Old Wives for New
Character: Housekeeper
Released: May 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
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The White Man's Law
Title: The White Man's Law
Character: Mrs. Mayhew (as Maym Kelso)
Released: May 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership with Sir Harry Falkland (Jack Holt), a notorious roue, Ghengle relocates to Sierra Leone, where he falls in love with French-Sudanese girl Maida Verne (Florence Vidor.) Upon proposing marriage, Ghengle is turned down and hotly demands to know why.
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The Honor of His House
Title: The Honor of His House
Character: Mrs. Proudweather (as Maym Kelso)
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Marooned on a desert island, Dr. Robert Farlow and wealthy toxicologist Count Ito Onato both fall in love with Lora, a beautiful Japanese-American girl. Lora prefers Robert but decides to reject him because of his excessive fondness for drinking. After their rescue, Lora marries Count Ito, but Robert, still in love and resolving to win her, stops drinking, and soon attains a reputation in medicine matched only by the count's.
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The Thing We Love
Title: The Thing We Love
Character: Mrs. Kenwood
Released: February 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Just prior to America's declaration of war, Margaret Kenwood of the Kenwood Manufacturing Company determines that the plant should produce munitions to support the Allies. Rodney Sheridan, her sweetheart and a vice president of the company, remains unimpressed with Margaret's patriotism until he begins to suspect that the plant's president is involved with a group of German spies.
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The Widow's Might
Title: The Widow's Might
Character: Mrs. Pomeroy
Released: January 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is monotony as well. Then he falls in love with a girl on a calendar, and life takes on a new interest, particularly after he discovers who the girl is. The fact that her uncle swindled him on the ranch does not matter. He figures he can take care of the uncle, and he does, but not until he has been forced to masquerade as a woman, and have half the men at a fashionable resort fall in love with him.
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The Secret Game
Title: The Secret Game
Character: Miss Loring
Released: December 3, 1917
Type: Movie
In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovered which may endanger the safety of American transports that are secretly carrying troops across the Pacific. Nara-Nara, a Japanese detective, is assigned to the case because his country has guaranteed safety to these transport ships. Nara-Nara believes that Northfield is guilty, although in reality it is Northfield's secretary Kitty Little, a girl of German ancestry, who is passing information to Dr. Ebell Smith, a German agent. Nara-Nara falls in love with Kitty, but soon after discovers that she is the leak in the quartermaster's office.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Jane Sawyer
Released: September 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education. When spoiled girls at school mock the spirited Rebecca as "missy poor-house," she soon makes them come to eat their words. Despite many difficulties, Rebecca manages to help the less fortunate and spread joy in Riverboro, dreaming that her reward will come when she is "all growed up." This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.
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The Primrose Ring
Title: The Primrose Ring
Character: Miss Foote
Released: May 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Margaret MacLean, who has been saved from life in a wheelchair by the miracle of medicine, vows to devote her life to caring for crippled children. She becomes a nurse in the children's ward of Dr. MacLean's hospital, but after the beloved doctor's death, his son Bob returns home from abroad and decrees that he is closing the ward and that Margaret's little charges must leave the hospital. Furious, Margaret quits her job and storms out, with Bob in pursuit. As he rushes across the street, Bob is struck by a car and must be hospitalized. During his convalescence, he realizes that he is in love with Margaret and decides to have a home built for her and her patients. Unable to locate Margaret, Bob hires detectives, who find her and bring her to the home. There Margaret finds that all her dreams have come true as she sees her little charges happily living in their new home and gladly accepts Bob's proposal of marriage
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The Cost of Hatred
Title: The Cost of Hatred
Character: Elsie's Companion
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he returns home from a business trip, he finds his wife Elsie (Kathlyn Williams) in the arms of another man (J.W. Johnston). Graves shoots and wounds the man, then hides with his little daughter in Mexico.
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Castles for Two
Title: Castles for Two
Character: Patricia's Secretary
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to avoid fortune hunters.
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Those Without Sin
Title: Those Without Sin
Character: Mrs. Wallace
Released: March 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls into the hands of her father's former superior who attempts to compromise her. She is saved by a successful Confederate attack.
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Lost and Won
Title: Lost and Won
Character: Cleo Duvene
Released: January 21, 1917
Type: Movie
A newswoman meets a man who has bet his colleagues he can make her beautiful.
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Slander
Title: Slander
Character: Tremaine's Wife
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
The wife of attorney John Blair (T. Jerome Lawler), heroine Helene (Kalich) finds herself in an untenable position when two of Blair's clients, Harry Carson (Robert Rendel)) and Richard Tremaine (Eugene Ormonde), both fall in love with her.
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Samson
Title: Samson
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
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Our Mutual Girl
Title: Our Mutual Girl
Character: Mrs. James Knickerbocker - Margaret's Aunt
Released: January 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Our Mutual Girl was unique. Not quite a serial, not quite a newsreel and not strictly an advertisement, it combined elements of all three. In 52 weekly one-reel episodes, running from January 19, 1914 to January 11, 1915, the Mutual Girl outwitted villains, saw the sights of New York, met with theatrical and political celebrities (who frequently helped her out of trouble) and tried on fashionable outfits in chic stores. The fashions were an early example of product placement, although apparently not paid placement.
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Little Red Riding Hood
Title: Little Red Riding Hood
Character: The Mother
Released: December 17, 1911
Type: Movie
A little girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother, only to discover a wolf in her stead.