Kathryn McGuire

Kathryn McGuire

Born: December 6, 1903
Died: October 10, 1978
in Peoria, Illinois, USA
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Kathryn McGuire (December 6, 1903 – October 10, 1978) was an American silent-film actress and dancer.

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Title: The Thin Man
Released: September 20, 1957
Type: TV
Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.
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Here We Go Again
Title: Here We Go Again
Character: The Village Belle
Released: November 15, 1952
Type: Movie
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met. Edited and adapted from Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921).
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Title: Dragnet
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: TV
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
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Love a la Mode
Title: Love a la Mode
Released: November 2, 1930
Type: Movie
The setting is a posh party at some mansion. Mr. Saunders wants time with his girlfriend so he can propose to her, but her bratty younger sister is always getting in the way. When a bond salesman arrives, Saunders convinces him to woo the sister. If he agrees and keeps her away, Saunders promises to buy a fortune in bonds.
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The Lost Zeppelin
Title: The Lost Zeppelin
Character: Nancy
Released: December 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Explorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must struggle for survival in the land of eternal snow and ice.
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The Long, Long Trail
Title: The Long, Long Trail
Character: Ophelia
Released: October 26, 1929
Type: Movie
Its time for the big race and its the Rambling Kid riding Dynamite versus Wilson's horse Thunderbolt. When Gyp informs Wilson that Lightning is faster, Wilson has Gyp drug the Kid's coffee just before the race.
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The Big Diamond Robbery
Title: The Big Diamond Robbery
Character: Ellen Brooks
Released: May 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Tom Mix starred in this late-silent Wild West melodrama from poverty row company FBO as a ranch foreman assigned to escort his employer's daughter (Kathryn McGuire) from the big city back to the ranch. The girl, Ellen, is carrying the valuable Regent diamond, and the pair become the target of a gang of thieves led, it turns out, by Ellen's former fiancée Rodney (Ernest Hilliard).
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Synthetic Sin
Title: Synthetic Sin
Character: Margery, Betty's sister
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a role in his next production. Unfortunately the production is a disaster and her husband proclaims her unfit for the role. Rather then return home in defeat, she stays in New York and accidentally gets involved with some vicious gangsters.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Lilac Time
Title: Lilac Time
Character: Lady Iris Rankin
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
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There It Is
Title: There It Is
Character: The Nurse
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard that the Fuzz-Faced Phantom is at work. Soon, Charley MacNeesha and his assistant MacGregor are sent across the ocean to investigate.
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The Girl in the Pullman
Title: The Girl in the Pullman
Character: Dollie Jones
Released: October 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother they all take the train, including Irene and her lawyer, who will try to prevent him from committing bigamy, as the divorce won't be effective until midnight.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Alice Altewood
Released: June 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).
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Who’s Afraid?
Title: Who’s Afraid?
Character: Phyllis
Released: May 29, 1927
Type: Movie
1927 Lupino Lane short comedy.
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Naughty Boy
Title: Naughty Boy
Character: Mary Craig
Released: April 16, 1927
Type: Movie
This is a real corker. It starts off with a terrific routine with an erratic elevator. Lane's character, Johnny Jones, upon sight falls in love with Mary Craig (played by Kathryn McGuire who appears in a number of Lane comedies). The man who hopes to marry her is Henry Sharp played by Wallace Lupino; the title card introducing this character says" Henry Sharp – so mean he would steal a dead fly from a blind spider." Johnny agrees to do his father a favor by posing as his little boy of about 10 years old. The father had told the wealthy widow he hopes to marry that he was only 30 years old. Because of Lane's small stature this is more believable than most comedy routines that have an adult playing a child.
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The Draw-Back
Title: The Draw-Back
Released: April 10, 1927
Type: Movie
A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.
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Drama Deluxe
Title: Drama Deluxe
Character: The Girl
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show.
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Movieland
Title: Movieland
Character: Kathryn Mills
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
A wealthy man pretends to be a dummy on a movie set in order to meet to his favourite actress.
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With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Title: With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Character: Alice Blake
Released: August 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Silent film of the events of The Alamo
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Midnight Faces
Title: Midnight Faces
Character: Mary Bronson
Released: March 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the house to escape a knife-wielding psycho, the occupants realize they may be in danger from both outside and inside the house.
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With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Title: With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Character: Millie Connel
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
When Buffalo Bill Cody learns that the Union Pacific railroad is making its way through Kansas, he and other heroes of the Wild West join forces to build a town along the route.
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A String of Diamonds
Title: A String of Diamonds
Character: Vivian Van Den Akar
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A dog helps to recover a million dollars worth of diamonds.
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Easy Going Gordon
Title: Easy Going Gordon
Character: Aileen Merton
Released: August 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Gordon Palmer is a lazy and cowardly rich man's son. When he and his fiancée, Aileen Merton, are held up by two crooks, Slug Williams and Beef O'Connell, he passively allows them to take whatever they want. At least he comes to life when they try to steal Aileen's engagement ring -- he scares them into giving that back. Aileen, however, is pretty fed up with him.
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Tearing Through
Title: Tearing Through
Character: Constance Madison
Released: April 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.
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Giddap!
Title: Giddap!
Character: Mrs. Marblehead
Released: March 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Billy Bevan in a hell of a lot of chaos!
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Pioneer's Gold
Title: Pioneer's Gold
Character: Mary Marsden
Released: December 1, 1924
Type: Movie
An old pioneer wants his brother's children whom he has never met to inherit his wealth, but a villain substitutes ringers for them.
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The Navigator
Title: The Navigator
Character: Betsy O'Brien
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.
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Sherlock Jr.
Title: Sherlock Jr.
Character: Girl
Released: April 17, 1924
Type: Movie
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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The Printer's Devil
Title: The Printer's Devil
Character: Vivian Gates
Released: August 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Brick Hubbard, a "printer's devil", convinces his friend Sid Fletcher to invest in "The Gazette", a local newspaper. Sid pens an editorial that infuriates Ira Gates, a local banker and a power in the town--and who also happens to be the father of Vivian Gates, whom Sidney is in love with. To complicate matters, the bank is robbed and Sidney is suspected of the crime.
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The Shriek of Araby
Title: The Shriek of Araby
Character: The Heroine
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
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The Flame of Life
Title: The Flame of Life
Character: Alice Barholm
Released: February 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' lives more bearable but incurs Lowrie's wrath when he fires him for smoking in the mine. Bent on vengeance, Lowrie is beaten when he picks a fight with Fergus, then defiantly smokes in a mine tunnel. There is an explosion, Joan rescues Fergus, and their love triumphs over their class barriers. −
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The Crossroads of New York
Title: The Crossroads of New York
Character: Ruth Anthony
Released: June 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
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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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Playing with Fire
Title: Playing with Fire
Character: Janet Fenwick
Released: December 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
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The Silent Call
Title: The Silent Call
Character: Betty Houston
Released: November 7, 1921
Type: Movie
A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.
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Hard Knocks and Love Taps
Title: Hard Knocks and Love Taps
Character: The Village Belle
Released: July 24, 1921
Type: Movie
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Villager
Released: April 17, 1920
Type: Movie
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
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Up in Alf's Place
Title: Up in Alf's Place
Character: Bathing Girl (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.