Wanda Hawley

Wanda Hawley

Born: July 29, 1895
Died: March 18, 1963
in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
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Wanda Hawley (a.k.a. Wanda Petit), (July 30, 1895 – March 18, 1963) was a veteran of the silent screen films era. She entered the theatrical profession with an amateur group in Seattle, and later toured the U.S. and Canada as a singer. She co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in the 1922's The Young Rajah, and rose to stardom in a number of Cecil B. DeMille and director Sam Wood's films.

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The Eyes of the Totem
Title: The Eyes of the Totem
Character: Mariam Hardy
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma with her husband and young daughter to start a new life. Things don't go as planned when her husband is murdered by a mysterious sinister eyed stranger, leaving Ms. Hardy a destitute widow. With the police unable to help find the murderer, Ms. Hardy is rescued by a kindly elderly beggar and taken in by a beggar's society. Miriam enrolls her daughter in a private seminary and lives a double life as a street beggar and a member of polite society, until a chance encounter one day leads her back to the sinister eyed stranger she has been seeking for years.
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Flying Fool
Title: Flying Fool
Character: The Bride
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Adventures and romance in the initial era of aviation.
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Men of the Night
Title: Men of the Night
Released: July 19, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Midnight Message
Title: The Midnight Message
Character: Mary Macy
Released: July 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Johnny works as a Western Union messenger, while his mother earns a meager living with an old sewing machine. One day he interrupts a robbery, scares off the thieves, and rescues a beautiful young girl. Later he captures the robbers, and receives a $1,000 reward given him by the girl's father, Johnny happily buys his mother a new sewing machine.
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The Last Alarm
Title: The Last Alarm
Character: Tom's Sweetheart
Released: June 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Firemen Tom and Joe each loves the other's sister, although neither is able to support a wife. Tom's troubles are compounded by a rival for his sweetheart's hand. In a drawn out fight he bests the rival, who steals the revenue from the firemen's ball (of which Tom is treasurer) and hides the money in the storage warehouse in which Tom's sister works as a stenographer. While Tom, Joe, and their sweethearts search for the money, the villain also returns for his loot, and, in his haste, he sets the building afire--trapping the foursome behind a steel door. Their calls for help reach the street, an alarm is turned in, firemen come to the rescue, and the money is found in a blazing desk.
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Hearts and Spangles
Title: Hearts and Spangles
Character: Peg Palmer
Released: June 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Steve Carris, a medical student, is expelled from college, disowned by his father and joins a circus.
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The Combat
Title: The Combat
Character: Alice Childers
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Blaze Burke, rough-and-ready lumberjack, is promised the job of camp boss if he eliminates a gang of lumber poachers. He is doublecrossed and the job goes to Milton Symmons, the employer's nephew.
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Pirates of the Sky
Title: Pirates of the Sky
Character: Doris Reed
Released: February 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Daredevil pilot Bob Manning is pressed into service by the Government to track down a missing mail plane. He soon uncovers a gang of aerial hijackers, led by Bruce Mitchell. Exhibiting a repertoire of truly awe-inspiring flying stunts, Manning beats the villains at their own game.
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American Pluck
Title: American Pluck
Character: Princess Alicia
Released: October 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Blaze Derringer is a Texas cattle baron's son. He goes to a cabaret on his birthday, helps a pretty young woman and her guardian avoid a raid, but gets tossed from college for bad behavior. His disgusted father dispatches him to seek his fortune. Blaze jumps a freight, befriends a fake British duke and a sporting African-American, and is offered a prize fight in Galveston. He wins, but may have killed his opponent, so he takes the offer of the woman from the cabaret to accompany her to Begonia, where she's a princess about to be crowned. A court minister, the dastardly Count Verensky, has plans to share the throne and her affections. Can the plucky American help the Europeans sort things out?
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Graustark
Title: Graustark
Character: Dagmar
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
An American falls for the princess of the Kingdom of Graustark, and decides to her marriage to a dastardly prince.
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Stop Flirting
Title: Stop Flirting
Character: Vivian Marsden Reynolds
Released: March 30, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Released: February 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
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Smouldering Fires
Title: Smouldering Fires
Character: Lucy
Released: January 18, 1925
Type: Movie
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
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Let Women Alone
Title: Let Women Alone
Character: Beth Wylie
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore.
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The Man Who Played Square
Title: The Man Who Played Square
Character: Bertie
Released: November 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Rancher Matt Black is willed half of a Nevada gold mine. Arriving there, he learns that the heir of the other half is a young girl named "Bertie." Realizing that there may be some dirty work and theft going on at the mine, he conceals his identity and gets a job as a miner.
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Reckless Romance
Title: Reckless Romance
Released: November 9, 1924
Type: Movie
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Bread
Title: Bread
Character: Alice Sturgis
Released: August 4, 1924
Type: Movie
To relieve the burden placed on their mother, Alice Sturgis (Wanda Hawley) marries and has several children, while her independent sister, Jeanette (Mae Busch), goes to work as a stenographer. Eventually, she is forced to marry a persistent salesman to avoid a scandal. Becoming disillusioned with married life, Jeanette leaves the salesman, but after 3 years' separation she realizes her need for a family and returns to him.
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The Man from Brodney's
Title: The Man from Brodney's
Character: Lady Agnes Deppingham
Released: December 16, 1923
Type: Movie
A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance, a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl he loves, Princess Geneva
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Fires of Fate
Title: Fires of Fate
Character: Dorinne Adams
Released: July 27, 1923
Type: Movie
In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
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Mary of the Movies
Title: Mary of the Movies
Character: Wanda Hawley (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
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Brass Commandments
Title: Brass Commandments
Character: Gloria Hallowell
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria Hallowell, who has known him by reputation, falls in love with Lanning but believes that he loves Ellen Bosworth, an eastern "lady." Campan, the leader of the rustlers, hoping to lure Lanning into a trap, kidnaps both girls. Lanning rescues the girls, punishes Campan, and indicates to Gloria that she is the girl for him.
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Nobody's Money
Title: Nobody's Money
Character: Grace Kendall
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person when the book is a huge success. Ailing literary agent Jack Holt takes the job while his safe cracking friend tags along for the ride. Jack falls in love with the Governor's daughter just as the Governor is about to be blackmailed by the evil Drisco, who has planted $20,000 in the Governor's safe. -Written by PetersMoviePosters, from IMDB.com
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Thirty Days
Title: Thirty Days
Character: Lucille Ledyard
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
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The Young Rajah
Title: The Young Rajah
Character: Molly Cabot
Released: November 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
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A Trip to Paramountown
Title: A Trip to Paramountown
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
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Bobbed Hair
Title: Bobbed Hair
Character: Polly Heath
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A young woman spurns her too conventional fiancé and flees to an artists' colony.
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The Love Charm
Title: The Love Charm
Character: Ruth Sheldon
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Orphaned Ruth Sheldon reads an article on "Love Charms" on her way to live in the home of her Aunt Julia and Cousin Hattie Nast. Upon her arrival, Ruth is put to work as housekeeper, cook, and seamstress. When Thomas Morgan, a young banker, is invited to dinner, he focuses his attention on Ruth, prompting the envious Hattie to claim him as her own. To oblige her cousin, Ruth attempts to discourage Thomas by behaving like a frivolous society "vampire," rather than the old-fashioned girl he believes her to be.
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The Affairs of Anatol
Title: The Affairs of Anatol
Character: Emilie Dixon
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
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The House That Jazz Built
Title: The House That Jazz Built
Character: Cora Rodham
Released: April 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Cora and Frank Rodham are happily married until Frank lands a lucrative position. He doesn't want to see his pretty wife slaving away at domestic chores so he hires servants to do the work for her. As a result, Cora becomes fat and lazy. Frank is very unhappy with his wife's change in attitude and appearance and starts to take an interest in her friend, Lila Drake, who is secretly just as lazy.
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Her First Elopement
Title: Her First Elopement
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Held by the Enemy
Title: Held by the Enemy
Character: Emmy McCreery
Released: October 24, 1920
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.
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Miss Hobbs
Title: Miss Hobbs
Character: Miss Hobbs
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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Mrs. Temple's Telegram
Title: Mrs. Temple's Telegram
Released: May 9, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Six Best Cellars
Title: The Six Best Cellars
Character: Millicent Carpenter
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Henry Carpenter and his wife Millicent are the envy of their exclusive suburban set because of their abundant wine cellar, a blessing in the face of the recent prohibition against alcohol initiated by the Volstead Act. In reality, Henry is down to his last few bottles, and, faced with an impending dinner party, he decides to save face by denouncing the evils of drink. His impassioned speech earns him the support of the Prohibition party for a Congressional seat. Henry is relishing his popularity when his aunt discovers twenty-one cases of rare wine in the cellar, forcing the candidate to choose between political and social success.
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Double Speed
Title: Double Speed
Character: Sallie McPherson
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Auto racer Speed Carr enters a marathon race across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles. He encounters numerous obstacles not related to the race and must switch identities and vehicles before he can finish.
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Everywoman
Title: Everywoman
Character: Beauty
Released: December 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.
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The Lottery Man
Title: The Lottery Man
Character: Helen Heyer
Released: October 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Edith Varney
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.
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You're Fired
Title: You're Fired
Character: Helen Rogers
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Railroad magnate Gordon Rogers agrees to allow his daughter, Helen, to marry wealthy idler Billy Deering, Jr., but only if the latter can hold the same job for one month. Billy is hired for an array of jobs, including office clerk and xylophone player, but always quits just before being fired. He then finds work in a restaurant where he is required to dress as a knight in armor and pose as a statue. On one occasion, Gordon, Helen, and Billy's romantic rival, Tom, enter the restaurant, and Billy is nearly fired when Helen recognizes him. Meanwhile, Gordon plans to merge one of his railroads with a company that is in a dispute with Tom's uncle, an unprincipled financier. Acting on the promise of a generous cash reward, Tom is determined to steal documents relating to the merger.
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Virtuous Sinners
Title: Virtuous Sinners
Character: Dawn Emerson
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
A near-forgotten film, Virtuous Sinners tells the story of Dawn Emerson (Wanda Hawley), an abused wife cast out into the street by her uncaring husband. Rescued by a gang of down-and-out patrons of the “End of the Trail” mission, Dawn soon falls for a dapper mission benefactor, Hamilton Jones (Norman Kerry), who is also a high-end burglar. When a member of the mission gang, McGregor, is run over by a car while saving a child, Hamilton robs a home to pay his medical bills. Ratted out by a informant, Hamilton goes on trial, but Dawn and the rest of the gang – including a young Rudolph Valentino in a bit part – stand by his side.
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Greased Lightning
Title: Greased Lightning
Character: Alice Flint
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
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For Better, for Worse
Title: For Better, for Worse
Character: Betty Hoyt
Released: April 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
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The Border Wireless
Title: The Border Wireless
Character: Elsa Miller
Released: October 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Cowhand Steve Ransom discovers that German spies are operating along Mexican border, relaying their radio messages into Mexico and thus on to Germany. The spies learn that Steve is a fugitive from American justice.
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
Title: A Pair of Silk Stockings
Character: Pamela Bristowe
Released: July 19, 1918
Type: Movie
Molly is a wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill. Though devoutly loyal to her husband, the capricious Molly can't seem to avoid getting herself into compromising situations. The limit comes when a pair of Molly's stockings find their way into the boudoir of another man.
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We Can't Have Everything
Title: We Can't Have Everything
Character: Kedzie Thropp
Released: July 7, 1918
Type: Movie
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
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Old Wives for New
Title: Old Wives for New
Character: Sophy in Prologue
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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Mr. Fix-It
Title: Mr. Fix-It
Character: Mary McCullough
Released: April 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves the day.
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Cupid's Round Up
Title: Cupid's Round Up
Character: Helen Baldwin
Released: January 13, 1918
Type: Movie
The film's highlight was a scene in which Mix, hoping to escape a pursuing posse, jumps towards a moving train and crashes neatly through one of the passenger windows.