Laura La Varnie

Laura La Varnie

Born: March 2, 1853
Died: September 18, 1939
in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA

Movies for Laura La Varnie...

The Mesmerist
Title: The Mesmerist
Character: (archive footage)
Released: November 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the film image while foreshadowing the Holocaust.
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The Devil's Holiday
Title: The Devil's Holiday
Character: Madame Bernstein
Released: May 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.
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The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Title: The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Released: April 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch.
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Raggedy Rose
Title: Raggedy Rose
Character: Janice's mother
Released: November 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
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The Bells
Title: The Bells
Character: Fortune Teller
Released: July 29, 1926
Type: Movie
A kindly but desperate Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Jewish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will not let him rest. Meanwhile, a mysterious Mesmerist has come to town, claiming he has made many criminals confess their crimes...
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The Goofy Age
Title: The Goofy Age
Released: December 10, 1924
Type: Movie
The hero's loved one is threatened with marriage with a rival, due to the machinations of her mother. The simplest solution of the situation is to marry her, and upon being reminded of it, the hero lays plans for a hurried ceremony in the goldfish store where he works. But as it is a case of true love, things don't move smoothly. Customers interrupt and so forth, as the justice of the peace tries to spiel off the fateful words. The culminating disaster is when firemen smash in the door, but a simple solution presents itself and the lovers, justice of the peace and witnesses make off with the hook and ladder wagon and the knot is tied before they are caught.
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Mine to Keep
Title: Mine to Keep
Character: Mrs. Joy
Released: August 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Former playboy Victor Olney becomes jealous of his wife's love soon after he and Constance are married. He is especially hostile toward Clint Mowbray, a former suitor. When Mowbray implies that there was an affair between Olney and a dancer who was injured at Olney's bachelor party, Constance leaves her husband to nurse the girl back to health. Olney's mother-in-law convinces him that Constance was not unfaithful. They are reconciled when Olney goes to Constance and it is ascertained that there was nothing between him and the dancer.
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A Self Made Wife
Title: A Self Made Wife
Character: Mrs. Satter
Released: July 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
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Head Over Heels
Title: Head Over Heels
Character: Mme. Rennée (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1922
Type: Movie
When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip to Europe, he tells his more down-to-earth partner, Lawson, that he has hired a beautiful Neopolitan acrobat he saw onstage in Italy. When the acrobat, Tina Bambinetti, arrives in their office, though, Sterling is shocked to find that, offstage, she is plain, unkempt and badly dressed. Crushed by Sterling's dismissive treatment, Tina performs some acrobatics that almost destroy the office...
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The Grim Comedian
Title: The Grim Comedian
Character: Gracie Moore
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her daughter, Dorothy (Gloria Hope) sequestered in a convent far, far away from her fast lifestyle. But when Dorothy leaves the convent to come live with her mother, Marie decides to reform. She gives up her fancy apartment and her latest lover, Harvey Martin (Jack Holt), to concentrate on her daughter and her career, in that order. But Martin has fallen for Dorothy, and Dorothy cares for him too, even though she is already promised to a young artist, Geoffrey Hutchins (John Harron).
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The Old Nest
Title: The Old Nest
Character: Mrs. Guthrie
Released: June 28, 1921
Type: Movie
A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely without them. Then when one of the children has a surprise to announce, they all return home to be with their mother.
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Her First Kiss
Title: Her First Kiss
Character: Her Hard-Headed Mother
Released: August 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Her First Kiss, where the glamorous Ethel Teare trades her fancy gowns for the rough attire of Minnie Spuds, the gawky farm girl who Chester tries to swindle. Whether dangling from a ladder, teetering over a cliff in a horse-and-buggy, or wielding a mop, Minnie may be from the sticks but never misses a beat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, New Zealand Project, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2013.
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Mickey
Title: Mickey
Character: Mrs. Geoffrey Drake
Released: August 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Mickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live with her aunt.
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It Pays to Exercise
Title: It Pays to Exercise
Character: Beauty Parlor Worker
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
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The Pullman Bride
Title: The Pullman Bride
Character: The Bride's Mother
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
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At the Road's End
Title: At the Road's End
Character: The Girl's Mother
Released: September 11, 1915
Type: Movie
The young contractor scrapes acquaintance with the girl by petting her dog, and, having met her mother, insinuates himself into the old lady's good graces. But he cannot fool the dog, and so aggressive does the animal become that the girl's mother gives it to a passing farmer. The girl is forced to accept the contractor's attentions, notwithstanding that she has a favored suitor, a young man of the town. In desperation she runs away, intending to join her lover, but on the road she is overtaken by the contractor, who brings word that the dog has been badly hurt and may not live. Anxiety over her pet disarms her suspicions, and she enters the schemer's motor car. Her suitor sees her struggling with the abductor, boards a trolley car, and overtaking the automobile, leaps into it to fight for his love.
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Toys of Destiny
Title: Toys of Destiny
Character: Villager
Released: May 2, 1915
Type: Movie
A romantic film in which the good-hearted Charles falls in love with Mary, a girl whom he has employed because she cannot pay her rent. When she receives an inheritance, she moves in with her aunt and uncle, and the man falls ill.
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The Americano
Title: The Americano
Character: Isabella's Mother
Released: March 30, 1915
Type: Movie
Isabella De Ortega rides over to the mission for her music lesson. While she is there, pirates attack the mission and loot its treasures. The monks hide her in the tower, but she is discovered by the ruffian crew and in grave peril until the Americano, leader of the pirate band, rescues her at his own risk.
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The Wife
Title: The Wife
Character: Mrs. Ferrant - Lucille's Mother
Released: May 28, 1914
Type: Movie
A 1914 film drama