Doris Kenyon

Doris Kenyon

Born: September 3, 1897
Died: September 1, 1979
in Syracuse, New York, USA
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American actress of motion pictures and television.

Movies for Doris Kenyon...

Title: 77 Sunset Strip
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Iris Marlowe
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Queen Anne
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.
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Girls' School
Title: Girls' School
Character: Mrs. Simpson
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
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Along Came Love
Title: Along Came Love
Character: Mrs. Gould
Released: November 5, 1936
Type: Movie
The shop girl Emmy Grant meets the handsome doorman John Patrick O'Ryan outside of a theater and she is convinced that he is her true love. O'Ryan is a zealous medical student, soon to be a pediatrician, and is oblivious to Emmy's frantic attempts to gain his attention. O'Ryan is totally focused on babies. Undaunted, she 'borrows' a baby and a buggy, determined to catch O'Ryan.
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The Human Side
Title: The Human Side
Character: Vera Sheldon
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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Whom the Gods Destroy
Title: Whom the Gods Destroy
Character: Margaret Forrester
Released: July 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
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Counsellor at Law
Title: Counsellor at Law
Character: Cora Simon
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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No Marriage Ties
Title: No Marriage Ties
Character: Adrienne Deane
Released: August 11, 1933
Type: Movie
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
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Voltaire
Title: Voltaire
Character: Mme. Pompadour
Released: August 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.
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The Man Called Back
Title: The Man Called Back
Character: Diana St. Claire
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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Young America
Title: Young America
Character: Edith Doray
Released: April 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.
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Alexander Hamilton
Title: Alexander Hamilton
Character: Mrs. Betsy Hamilton
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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The Ruling Voice
Title: The Ruling Voice
Character: Mary Stanton
Released: September 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
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The Road to Singapore
Title: The Road to Singapore
Character: Philippa Crosby March
Released: September 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.
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The Bargain
Title: The Bargain
Character: Nancy
Released: July 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
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Beau Bandit
Title: Beau Bandit
Character: Helen Wardell
Released: March 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins, but is sidetracked by the attractions of singing-teacher Helen Wardell. He learns that Perkins has marital designs on Helen and holds the mortgage on her ranch. But Helen is in love with Bill Howard. Perkins offers Montero money to kill his rival.
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Interference
Title: Interference
Character: Faith Marlay
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
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The Home Towners
Title: The Home Towners
Character: Beth Calhoun
Released: November 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance.
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The Hawk's Nest
Title: The Hawk's Nest
Character: Madelon Arden
Released: May 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen
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Burning Daylight
Title: Burning Daylight
Character: Virgie
Released: March 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.
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The Circus: Premiere
Title: The Circus: Premiere
Character: Self
Released: January 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Shirley Pennington
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
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The Blonde Saint
Title: The Blonde Saint
Character: Ghirlaine Bellamy
Released: November 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy novelist Sebastian Maure falls for Ghiirlaine Bellamy, a product of a wealthy--and puritanical--society family, a girl so prim and proper that she's known as "The Blonde Saint". One night at a dinner party, she informs Maure that she is engaged to young VIncent Pamfort and is leaving for England the next day to marry him. Maure tricks her into meeting him onboard a boat going to Palermo, and before they get there she suddenly grabs her and jumps overboard. They wind up in a fishing village on a small island and before long find themselves caught up in a cholera epidemic and a local criminal gang.
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Ladies at Play
Title: Ladies at Play
Character: Ann Harper
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man she knows. Ann tries to get a bashful hotel clerk to marry her in name only, and then get a divorce, but he refuses to because he is in love with her. Her cousin then brings in another clerk and Ann now has two men on her hands. Ann now wants to marry the first clerk, having discovered she also loves him, but the aunts object. She then hires two gigolos to charm her aunts into a compromising situation.
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Mismates
Title: Mismates
Character: Judy Winslow
Released: July 26, 1926
Type: Movie
"Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support himself and his wife, he soon craves the accustomed luxury and deserts his wife and child. On false information provided by the boy's mother and substantiated by himself the wife is sent to jail and the child kidnapped by the husband. This is where the drama kicks in.
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Men of Steel
Title: Men of Steel
Character: Mary Berwick
Released: July 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick -- simultaneously fall for Bokak. It later develops that Claire and Mary are actually sisters, the first of a series of surprising plot twists leading to Bokak being accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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A Thief in Paradise
Title: A Thief in Paradise
Character: Helen Saville
Released: June 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San Francisco millionaire. When Philip is killed by a shark, his half caste common-law wife, Rosa, informs Maurice that Philip had been forgiven by his father, and she persuades him to assume Philip's identity and return to the States - The film is now considered a lost film.
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If I Marry Again
Title: If I Marry Again
Character: Jocelyn Margot
Released: February 15, 1925
Type: Movie
When his son marries a woman whose mother is the madame of a brothel, a wealthy father in San Francisco disowns him. The newlyweds travel to the South Seas, where he gets a job on a plantation. The father sends an agent to the plantation to try to buy off his son's bride, but she won't go for it.
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Born Rich
Title: Born Rich
Character: Frances Melrose
Released: December 7, 1924
Type: Movie
When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with a "flapper". When the wife returns home, she finds out about her husband's affair. In order to make him jealous, she leads him to believe she has fallen for a jazz musician. However, instead of making him jealous it drives him into depression and he takes refuge in booze and even more affairs.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Title: Monsieur Beaucaire
Character: Lady Mary
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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The New School Teacher
Title: The New School Teacher
Character: Diana Pope
Released: May 31, 1924
Type: Movie
The new teacher is brutally terrorized by the pupils and becomes the laughingstock of town. Then dramatic events occur which give him a chance for redemption.
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Restless Wives
Title: Restless Wives
Character: Polly Benson
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
1924 picture directed by Gregory La Cava.
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Bright Lights of Broadway
Title: Bright Lights of Broadway
Character: Irene Marley
Released: August 6, 1923
Type: Movie
An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled by the producer's surface charm as well as those bright lights the title refers to, but eventually gets a dose of reality
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The Last Moment
Title: The Last Moment
Character: Alice Winthrop
Released: June 7, 1923
Type: Movie
The Last Moment is a silent film now considered lost.
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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Title: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Character: Fannie Jasper
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
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The Conquest of Canaan
Title: The Conquest of Canaan
Character: Ariel Taber
Released: July 10, 1921
Type: Movie
Joe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike. There is one inhabitant, however, who is fond of Joe -- the pretty but poor Ariel Tabor. But she inherits some money and goes to Paris with her father.
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The Hidden Hand
Title: The Hidden Hand
Released: November 23, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Great White Trail
Title: The Great White Trail
Character: Prudence Carrington
Released: June 13, 1917
Type: Movie
A husband, mistakenly believing his wife has cheated on him and that he is now the father of their newborn son, throws both her and her child out of the house. Frantic to the point of madness, she abandons her baby, and when she gains her sanity she flees to Alaska to start a new life. However, her husband finds out and follows her there.
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The Empress
Title: The Empress
Character: Nedra
Released: March 11, 1917
Type: Movie
After the success of his painting "The Empress," artist DeBaudry (William Morse) takes his model, Nedra (Doris Kenyon), to a roadhouse and, unbeknownst to her, registers them as Mr. and Mrs. The roadhouse proprietor, who is also a part-time blackmailer, takes a photo of them together.
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A Girl's Folly
Title: A Girl's Folly
Character: Mary Baker
Released: February 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.
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The Ocean Waif
Title: The Ocean Waif
Character: Millie Jessop
Released: November 2, 1916
Type: Movie
An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.