Lois Wilson

Lois Wilson

Born: June 26, 1894
Died: March 3, 1988
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Lois Wilson...

The Girl from Jones Beach
Title: The Girl from Jones Beach
Character: Mrs. Wilson
Released: July 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl". What the world doesn't know is that his pin-up creation is really a composite of parts of the anatomy of 12 different models. In an effort to find one girl who possesses all the proper physical attributes, Randolph and PR man Chuck Donovan pursue Ruth Wilson, a beauteous schoolteacher who prefers to be admired for her brain rather than her curves. Ruth changes her tune, however, when a published photo of her in a swimsuit causes her to be fired by the uptight schoolboard. She sues for reinstatement and in the process learns that swimsuits and sex appeal do have a place in her world, after all. Written by Dan Navarro
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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For Beauty's Sake
Title: For Beauty's Sake
Character: Mrs. Lloyd Kennar
Released: June 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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Nobody's Children
Title: Nobody's Children
Character: Miss Jamieson
Released: December 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
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Bad Little Angel
Title: Bad Little Angel
Character: Mrs. Ellen Creighton
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Laughing at Trouble
Title: Laughing at Trouble
Character: Alice Mathews
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Character: Laura Dodacker
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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Your Uncle Dudley
Title: Your Uncle Dudley
Character: Christine Saunders
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.
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Cappy Ricks Returns
Title: Cappy Ricks Returns
Character: Florry Peasley
Released: September 25, 1935
Type: Movie
"Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals, that, if passed, would forbid the selling of wooden shingles for house-roofs. He also takes time, along the way, to smooth the rocky road to romance being traveled by Bill Peck and Barbara Blake.
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Society Fever
Title: Society Fever
Character: Portia Prouty
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
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Born to Gamble
Title: Born to Gamble
Character: Paula Mathews
Released: July 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
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Public Opinion
Title: Public Opinion
Character: Mona Trevor / Anne Trevor
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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Life Returns
Title: Life Returns
Character: Dr. Louise Stone
Released: January 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
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Bright Eyes
Title: Bright Eyes
Character: Mary Blake
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
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Ticket to a Crime
Title: Ticket to a Crime
Character: Elaine Purdy
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.
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There's Always Tomorrow
Title: There's Always Tomorrow
Character: Sophie White
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
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No Greater Glory
Title: No Greater Glory
Character: Mother
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
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School for Girls
Title: School for Girls
Character: Miss Cartwright
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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The Show-Off
Title: The Show-Off
Character: Clara Harling
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent for a good price and an old railroad deal comes through, he's back on top and ready to marry Amy again.
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Female
Title: Female
Character: Harriet Brown
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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In the Money
Title: In the Money
Character: Mary 'Lambie' Higginbottom
Released: November 6, 1933
Type: Movie
When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income. Levelheaded oldest daughter Lambie struggles to make ends meet but has trouble persuading her carefree, profligate siblings to cut down on their spending. Youngest brother Dick enters a motorcycle race to win $500, but crashes his bike on the speedway and is paralyzed. Shocked into reality by the tragedy, Lambie's younger sister Babs persuades ex-prizefighter Gunboat Bimms to enter the ring one last time in hopes of winning a purse that will pay for Dick's surgery.
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Deluge
Title: Deluge
Character: Helen Webster
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
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Obey the Law
Title: Obey the Law
Character: Grace Chester
Released: March 11, 1933
Type: Movie
In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights. He is a total supporter of the system, and when he is held-up, decides to reform the criminal by feeding him and finding him work. Later, a local politician attempts to tell people how to vote, but the barber is not swayed and becomes an example to others in his neighborhood.
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The Secrets of Wu Sin
Title: The Secrets of Wu Sin
Character: Nona Gould
Released: December 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
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The Devil Is Driving
Title: The Devil Is Driving
Character: Nancy Evans
Released: December 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.
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The Crash
Title: The Crash
Character: Marcia Peterson
Released: October 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
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Divorce In The Family
Title: Divorce In The Family
Character: Mrs. Grace Shumaker
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Jean Parker and Louise Beavers.
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Drifting Souls
Title: Drifting Souls
Character: Linda Lawrence
Released: August 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
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The Rider of Death Valley
Title: The Rider of Death Valley
Character: Helen Joyce
Released: April 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three plus Joyce's sister Helen head for the mine. An accident with a runaway horse carrying supplies leaves them stranded in the desert with very little water.
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The Expert
Title: The Expert
Character: Nettie Minick
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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The Age for Love
Title: The Age for Love
Character: Sylvia Pearson
Released: October 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
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Seed
Title: Seed
Character: Peggy Carter
Released: May 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is manager of the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of his beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy. Written by Ed Stephan
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Once a Gentleman
Title: Once a Gentleman
Released: September 1, 1930
Type: Movie
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Lovin' the Ladies
Title: Lovin' the Ladies
Character: Joan Bently
Released: April 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
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The Furies
Title: The Furies
Character: Fifi Sands
Released: March 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Fifi Sands, whose husband is constantly unfaithful, is prevented from obtaining a divorce by Bedlow, her husband's lawyer. At a dinner party given by Smith, a columnist, she announces that her husband has at last granted her freedom; but Owen McDonald, her childhood sweetheart, whom she still loves, is disappointed to learn that she is not asking for alimony or a settlement. When her young son, Alan, announces that his father has been murdered, he accuses his mother of trying to shield McDonald, whom he suspects of the crime. Fifi goes to Bedlow for aid, and learning that she no longer loves McDonald, he agrees to help; but Bedlow locks her in the apartment, then confesses his love for her and admits to the murder of her husband. Dr. Cummings and Alan come to her aid; and returning to the drawing room, they find that Bedlow has leaped to his death. Fifi finds happiness at last with the doctor.
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Wedding Rings
Title: Wedding Rings
Character: Cornelia Quinn
Released: December 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Two sisters battle for the love of a man.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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The Gamblers
Title: The Gamblers
Character: Catherine Darwin
Released: June 29, 1929
Type: Movie
A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart's husband. This situation gives the DA an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.
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Kid Gloves
Title: Kid Gloves
Character: Ruth
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl.
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Conquest
Title: Conquest
Character: Diane Holden
Released: December 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other leaves him to die, so he can have the girl all to himself. However, the injured pilot survives and when he recovers he vows vengeance on the man who left him to die--especially after he finds out that he married the girl they were both after.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: May Strickland
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: Joan Wellman
Released: January 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led by financial baron Hughey Cooper. Assisted by his sweetheart, Joan, and her father, Jingles Wellman, formerly a clown, Burke prepares for a sabotage of his machine by syndicate hirelings. In the midst of a great battle the riot squad arrives to arrest the troublemakers, and Burke and his sweetheart are left in happy possession of their roller coaster.
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French Dressing
Title: French Dressing
Character: Cynthia Grey
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Philip and Cynthia Grey are a pair of recently-wed Bostonians, and Cynthia is properly back-bay no-action quiet and dowdy, and Philip resigns himself to the quietness (no action) regularity of their home. But then along comes a blonde, Peggy Nash, who adds some action and outside-regularity to Philip's life. Cynthia is somewhat upset at this turn of events, and decides to go to Paris - the Wickedest City in the World - and get a quiet divorce. Cynthia soon finds out that Paris is a really gay city, especially after Henri de Briac, shows up and offers to be her guide to the delights of Paris (primarily him). Cynthia quickly sheds some of her dowdy ways and dowdy clothes, and is having herself what was once quaintly described as a gay old time. Philip then shows up in Paris, deciding he wants Cynthia back as his wife, and Peggy shows up right behind him and, soon, it is up to Henri to make the pairing-arrangements for the foursome.
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Alias the Lone Wolf
Title: Alias the Lone Wolf
Character: Eve de Montalais
Released: August 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, is sailing to America when he meets pretty Eve de Montalais. Eve wants to sneak her valuable necklace through U.S. customs so that she can use the money from its sale to help straighten out her brother. The only problem is that there is a gang of jewel thieves on board who are just as determined to steal the necklace.
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The Gingham Girl
Title: The Gingham Girl
Released: July 16, 1927
Type: Movie
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Broadway Nights
Title: Broadway Nights
Character: Fanny Franchette
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producers catch the act and offer Fannie a job on their latest show; however, they have no place for Johnny, so Fannie turns down the offer. (Film considered lost.)
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New York
Title: New York
Character: Marjorie Church
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (and Regan's lifelong pal) Mike Cassidy is about to marry Marjorie Church, pays a visit to Mike to offer congratulations. Convinced that Angie is fooling around behind his back, Regan accidentally kills her.
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Daisy Buchanan
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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The Show Off
Title: The Show Off
Character: Amy Fisher Piper
Released: August 16, 1926
Type: Movie
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
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North of 36
Title: North of 36
Character: Taisie Lockheart
Released: March 20, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas, 1000 miles away. The crooked State Treasurer plans to attack the cattle drive and steal all of the stock so he can gain control of her ranch.
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Lois Wilson
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
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Let's Get Married
Title: Let's Get Married
Character: Mary Corbin
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout old woman who deals in hymnals. She turns out to be devoutly drunk and a saloon brawler, leading to Billy's imprisonment. He tells his fiancée he's doing missionary work on a pacific island. He escapes and persuades her to marry him, all the while dodging the police who pursue him.
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Bluebeard's Seven Wives
Title: Bluebeard's Seven Wives
Character: Mary Kelly
Released: January 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache. The idea of that shakes him up so much that he gets distracted at work, comes up short in his accounts and gets fired. Unable to find another job, he begins to work as an extra at a nearby film studio to earn money. One day the leading man of a picture John is working on gets into an argument with the director and storms off the set. Angered, the director sees John and, deciding that he'll show his arrogant star that he can make a movie idol out of just about anybody, picks John to replace him. As it turns out, John has a real talent for acting and before he knows it he becomes a star. Unfortunately, "stardom" isn't what John thought it would be.
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Irish Luck
Title: Irish Luck
Character: Lady Gwendolyn
Released: December 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Tom Donahue, a New York traffic cop, wins a trip to Europe in a newspaper contest, and he decides to visit relatives in Ireland. Arriving in Dublin, he learns that he is an exact double for Lord Fitzhugh, a young Irish aristocrat with whom he becomes friends. The Earl of Killarney, Fitzhugh's uncle, who is on his deathbed, wishes to see his favorite nephew and wipe out past animosities. Fitzhugh, in the meantime, has disappeared, and his sister, Lady Gwendolyn, persuades Tom to take his place.
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The Vanishing American
Title: The Vanishing American
Character: Marion Warner
Released: October 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A tribe of Navajo live on a reservation overseen by an Indian-hating agent.
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Rugged Water
Title: Rugged Water
Character: Norma Bartlett
Released: August 17, 1925
Type: Movie
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: Nettie Prouty
Released: May 17, 1925
Type: Movie
Fred Prouty and his wife, Nettie, are living happily until the day that his aged father shows up on their doorstep. He immediately begins creating havoc, upsetting the once-orderly household and trying to force his opinions on everyone. Nettie does her best to be patient with the old man, but the day comes when he brings a group of his pals over while she is holding a meeting of a fashionable club.
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The Thundering Herd
Title: The Thundering Herd
Character: Milly Fayre
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
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The Man Who Fights Alone
Title: The Man Who Fights Alone
Character: Marion
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
John Marble, a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of love between his wife Marion and his best friend, Bob Alten. Bent on suicide, however, the shock of seeing his wife and child endangered on a broken bridge shakes him to recover from his illness and discover that his suspicions were all imaginary.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Title: Monsieur Beaucaire
Character: Queen Marie of France
Released: August 11, 1924
Type: Movie
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
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Icebound
Title: Icebound
Character: Jane Crosby
Released: March 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
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Pied Piper Malone
Title: Pied Piper Malone
Character: Patty Thomas
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
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The Call of the Canyon
Title: The Call of the Canyon
Character: Carley Burch
Released: December 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When Flo is badly hurt in an accident, Glenn decides to repay her for her help in bringing him back to health by proposing marriage.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Kate Kenner
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
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To the Last Man
Title: To the Last Man
Character: Ellen Jorth
Released: September 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Lois Wilson
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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Only 38
Title: Only 38
Character: Mrs. Stanley
Released: June 17, 1923
Type: Movie
The death of her clergyman husband causes Mrs. Stanley, young mother of teenage twins, to change her style of life.
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Bella Donna
Title: Bella Donna
Character: Patricia
Released: March 31, 1923
Type: Movie
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
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The Covered Wagon
Title: The Covered Wagon
Character: Molly Wingate
Released: March 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?
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Broad Daylight
Title: Broad Daylight
Character: Nora Fay
Released: October 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A young woman agrees to marry the son of a well-known man in order to get a chance to take revenge on her new father-in-law, who she believes framed her own father who is now in prison.
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Without Compromise
Title: Without Compromise
Character: Jean Ainsworth
Released: October 29, 1922
Type: Movie
When the ability of Dick Leighton (William Farnum), Sheriff of Randolph, Oregon, to enforce law and order is tested by the leader of the political opposition, he stands his ground and overpowers the unruly element.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Evans (Lydia's maid)
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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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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The World's Champion
Title: The World's Champion
Character: Lady Elizabeth
Released: March 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Young William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin but thrown out by his own father for the disgrace he has caused. He travels to the United States where he becomes a champion prizefighter. Upon his return to England, he finds circumstances quite changed for Lady Galton and he sets out to change her circumstances further.
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Miss Lulu Bett
Title: Miss Lulu Bett
Character: Lulu Bett
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Theodore Roberts (as Dwight Deacon); running the house with an iron fist, he is both a dentist and a Justice of the Peace. As the latter, he accidentally marries Ms. Wilson to his visiting brother Clarence Burton (as Ninian Deacon) while they are out for dinner. Schoolteacher Milton Sills (as Neil Cornish) is also interested in Wilson...
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The Hell Diggers
Title: The Hell Diggers
Character: Dora Wade
Released: September 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Teddy Darman is the construction superintendent for the Continental Gold Dredging Company. But the farmers of the valley where the firm is doing its dredging are upset because it is ruining their land. Led by John Wade, the farmers form a fierce opposition. This doesn't bother Darman until he realizes that Dora (Lois Wilson), his sweetheart -- who is also Wade's daughter -- is siding with the farmers. This turns him around and the farmers mortgage their farms so that Darman can build a dredging machine that resoils the land.
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The Lost Romance
Title: The Lost Romance
Character: Sylvia Hayes
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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What Every Woman Knows
Title: What Every Woman Knows
Character: Maggie Wylie
Released: April 24, 1921
Type: Movie
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
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Midsummer Madness
Title: Midsummer Madness
Character: Margaret Meredith
Released: January 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. One night, while Meredith is at the office, family friend Julian Osborn (Conrad Nagel) -- whose own spouse (Lila Lee) is out of town -takes Margaret to a dance. They wind up at a hunting lodge and begin to get carried away, but stop before things get out of hand. The pair agree to keep their encounter a secret, but unfortunately, they've been seen and word gets back to their spouses.
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What's Your Hurry?
Title: What's Your Hurry?
Character: Virginia MacMurran
Released: August 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Truckdriver Dusty Rhoades leads a team of truckers over dangerous roads to deliver emergency supplies before a crucial dam breaks.
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Who's Your Servant?
Title: Who's Your Servant?
Character: Madeline Bancroft
Released: February 22, 1920
Type: Movie
When Rear Admiral Bancroft discovers the plans missing for his new battleship, suspicion falls on Lt. Clifford Bruce, his daughter Madeline's suitor, who was seen climbing out of the Admiral's window. In reality, Bruce, attempting to keep his courtship with Madeline a secret, was retrieving a love letter that he had written the Admiral's daughter. Madeline, suspecting Ito, the house servant, of stealing the plans, takes advantage of the fact that the servant is in love with her and visits his room that night. He shows her the plans which he boasts will bring him a fortune so that the two can elope. Madeline then attempts to gain possession of the papers, and in the ensuing struggle, Ito is stabbed to death. The supposition that he has committed "hari kari" avoids any further investigation, the plans are returned, and the lieutenant wins the consent of the admiral to marry Madeline.
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Too Much Johnson
Title: Too Much Johnson
Character: Mrs. Billings
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he takes a trip, claiming that he is going off to check on Mexican oil investments. But he's really going on a cruise with Mrs. Dathis, who has purchased his yacht. To throw everyone off track, he uses the name Mr. Johnson. When he decides to repeat the trip, however, all hell breaks loose -- the jealous Mr. Dathis is out to get his hands on this Johnson character, while a real Mr. Johnson shows up in Mexico, and Mrs. Billings shows up with her mother, and the confusion continues from there.
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A Man's Fight
Title: A Man's Fight
Character: Mary Tompkins
Released: August 10, 1919
Type: Movie
An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when Evans assaulted her.
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The Best Man
Title: The Best Man
Character: Celia Hathaway
Released: May 4, 1919
Type: Movie
The Library of Congress lists this as a ‘lost’ film, however a copy exists in the UK. Gordon, disguised as Hayne, meets with the criminals and manages to purloin the stolen code but the real Hayne, who the police have failed to apprehend, gives chase. Gordon escapes in a taxi that had been pre-booked to take Hayne to church to marry Celia. Arriving at the church, and remembering his instructions ‘Let Nothing Hinder You’, Gordon allows himself to be married to Celia while planning how he will escape.
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The End of the Game
Title: The End of the Game
Character: Mary Miller
Released: March 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A love story that takes place at the time of the gold rush. Prospector Allister Burke is in love with Mary, but he believe the slanderous lies that are spread by Burke, his competitor.
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Prisoners of the Pines
Title: Prisoners of the Pines
Character: Rosalie Dufresne
Released: September 16, 1918
Type: Movie
Hillaire Latour, a warmhearted Canadian trapper, marries Rosalie Dufresne and then travels into the woods to seek his fortune as a lumberman. At the camp, he befriends "Spud" Lafferty, who for six years has tried unsuccessfully to return home with his money, each time falling prey to a beautiful woman who works in the saloon "down the hill." When Hillaire learns through a letter that he is a father, he asks for his money and begins the journey home, but on his first night away from camp, he enters the saloon, where he is robbed by the beautiful Louise.
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The Bells
Title: The Bells
Character: Annette
Released: September 15, 1918
Type: Movie
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Maid o' the Storm
Title: Maid o' the Storm
Character: Elaine Shackleford
Released: July 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Scottish fisherman Andy MacTavish rescues a baby whom he discovers washed up on the shore during a storm, and names her Ariel. As a girl, Ariel often dances on the beach and dreams of a man who will appear to her out of the mist. Her dream comes true when she witnesses an airplane crash in which the pilot, Franklin Shirley, is injured.
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Alimony
Title: Alimony
Character: Marjorie Lansing
Released: December 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Bernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her husband), associates herself intimately with a number of divorce attorneys who live well on their percentage from unscrupulously secured divorces carrying a large alimony.
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Treason
Title: Treason
Character: Floria Natarre
Released: May 14, 1917
Type: Movie
The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous position. The spy is intercepted and killed by Pettrus Baariot, the telegraph operator, who then succeeds in sending a message that saves the Stratiria forces from defeat. For his heroism, Pettrus is promised a promotion, but after his recovery from his severe wounds, he is humiliated through the treachery of Danick Rysson, a government official who desires to marry Floria Natarre, Pettrus' beloved. Bitter, Pettrus listens to the overtures of one of the enemy and steals the new telegraph code.
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The Morals of Hilda
Title: The Morals of Hilda
Character: Marion
Released: December 11, 1916
Type: Movie
Recent immigrants August and Hilda cannot understand the American emphasis on weddings, because in their country, couples never get married. Fearing that he will be arrested for living with a woman who is not his wife, August stows away on a ship and dies in a wreck at sea. Afterward, Hilda tries to commit suicide, but the wealthy Esther Grail saves her, and then adopts her infant son Stephen. Years later, Esther tells him the circumstances of his birth, and so Stephen goes on a crusade for the rights of illegitimate children.
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The Beckoning Trail
Title: The Beckoning Trail
Character: Mary Helton
Released: August 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Carter Raymond is a New York playboy who squanders his inherited fortune. All he has left is an abandoned mine in California, so Carter goes West to work it. "Big Jim" Helton and his daughter Mary have been squatters on the mine for years, and "Placer" Murray, from an adjoining camp, has been trying to run them off. When Carter arrives, Mary shoots him, thinking he works for Murray. Mary soon realizes her mistake, and she and her father agree to nurse Carter back to health.
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The Pool of Flame
Title: The Pool of Flame
Character: Princess Beatrix
Released: August 21, 1916
Type: Movie
J. Warren Kerrigan plays the standard Vance hero, a devil-may-care Irish mercenary named Terrence O'Rourke. While knocking about in India, O'Rourke comes into possession of the Pool of Flame, a valuable ruby stolen from a Hindu temple. Typically, whosoever possesses this gem is marked for death, but O'Rourke hopes to beat the odds by utilizing the Pool of Flame to insure, rather than impede, his good luck.
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The Silent Battle
Title: The Silent Battle
Character: Jane Loring
Released: July 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Inheriting his father's alcoholism, Lawyer Tom Gallatin goes into the woods to rehabilitate himself. Once there, he loses his way and then meets Jane Loring, who is also lost. They are attracted to each other, but when Jane offers him a drink from a flask, Tom takes more than just a few sips, and then tries to rape her.
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The Decoy
Title: The Decoy
Released: June 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Glory Moore, a young girl, finds herself left unprovided for after her father's death, as the farm has to be sold to pay his debts.
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A Son of the Immortals
Title: A Son of the Immortals
Character: Joan Cameron
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
A general ousts the king of Kosnovia, and makes the king's idle son ruler. Unexpectedly, the new ruler begins instituting democratic reforms, angering the General.
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The Gay Lord Waring
Title: The Gay Lord Waring
Character: Helen Von Gerold
Released: April 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Though a spendthrift and a layabout, Lord Arthur Waring (J. Warren Kerrigan) is universally loved by his tenants. The same cannot be said for Arthur's half-brother Mark (Bertram Grassby), a tyrannical tightwad. Disowned by his family, Arthur finds himself strapped for cash when he promises to finance the operation of Helene von Gerald (Lois Wilson), whom he accidentally crippled in a riding mishap.
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The Road to Paradise
Title: The Road to Paradise
Character: Beatrix
Released: December 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Third episode in the New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke series of 2-reel shorts.