Alyce Ardell

Alyce Ardell

Born: November 14, 1902
Died: March 3, 1996
in Paris, France
Alyce Ardell was born on November 14, 1902 in Paris, France as Marie Alice Pradel. She was an actress, known for Alice Blues (1926), Mummy Love (1926) and A Peaceful Riot (1925). She died on March 3, 1996 in Laguna Hills, California, USA.

Movies for Alyce Ardell...

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.4
Title: Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.4
Character: Girl Bunny (Toby Tortoise Returns)
Released: September 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Six classic stories retold by the Disney team. 'The Tortoise and the Hare' features the race between Max Hare and Toby Tortoise. In 'The Pied Piper', rats have overrun Hamelin and only the Pied Piper can get rid of them, whilst 'King Midas Gets the Golden Touch' is a cautionary tale. 'Toby Tortoise Returns' features Max Hare and Toby Tortoise again, this time in a boxing ring. In 'Old King Cole', all the storybook friends are invited to the King's castle, whilst 'King Neptune' saves his subjects from pirates.
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Songs and Bullets
Title: Songs and Bullets
Character: Jeanette Du Mont
Released: May 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Melody arrives looking for the killer of his uncle and at the same time Dumont arrives looking for the murderer of her father. They both suspect Skelton and Dumont finds incriminating evidence in his office. But when Melody finds the murder weapon in Skelton's office he is arrested by Shelton's stooge Sheriff.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Title: Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Character: French Maid
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Stewardess
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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The Plot Thickens
Title: The Plot Thickens
Character: Josephine, Hildegarde's Maid
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
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Go West Young Man
Title: Go West Young Man
Character: Jeanette (French maid)
Released: November 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
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Toby Tortoise Returns
Title: Toby Tortoise Returns
Character: Girl Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Toby Tortoise is back, and this time he and Max Hare box instead of racing.
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Three Little Wolves
Title: Three Little Wolves
Character: Little Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Two little pigs cry wolf on their brother and then an actual wolf comes.
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Magnificent Obsession
Title: Magnificent Obsession
Character: Elise, Helen's Maid
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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Broken Toys
Title: Broken Toys
Character: Aunt Jemima / ZaSu Pitts (voice)
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A sailor doll, thrown into a toy dump, rallies the demoralized dolls that were already there.
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Here's to Romance
Title: Here's to Romance
Character: French Maid
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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Every Night at Eight
Title: Every Night at Eight
Character: Fifi (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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Paris in Spring
Title: Paris in Spring
Character: Manicurist
Released: May 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Lisette - French Maid
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
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The Lottery Lover
Title: The Lottery Lover
Character: French Midinette
Released: February 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" have organized, an Frank wins the right to woo the star of the Folies Bergere, Gaby Aimee, with her garter serving as proof of conquest. Meanwhile Frank has found the one girl-of-his-heart, Patty, and this serves to complicate matters.
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A Notorious Gentleman
Title: A Notorious Gentleman
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: French Maid (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Million Dollar Ransom
Title: Million Dollar Ransom
Character: Marie (Uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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One Exciting Adventure
Title: One Exciting Adventure
Character: French Maid
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
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Stingaree
Title: Stingaree
Character: Shopgirl (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: French Telephone Operator
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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Camping Out
Title: Camping Out
Character: Various (voices)
Released: February 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The gang is sitting around their campsite when a mosquito spoils their fun. And then he gets hundreds of his friends and they really cause trouble. Horace squirts some with molasses, which helps a bit. Everyone retreats to the tent, where they still get stung but can fight back a bit, eventually trapping all the mosquitoes in a pair of bloomers and sending them on their way.
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The bluffer
Title: The bluffer
Released: November 3, 1932
Type: Movie
Parallel French-speaking version of Warners' "High Pressure" (1932), a comedy satire on fast-talking promoters, crazy inventors, and stock market hype. The story line comes from Kandel's stage play "Hot Money," which had played on Broadway a month or two in 1931, before Warners bought screen rights and changed the title.
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What! No Spinach?
Title: What! No Spinach?
Released: August 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Horace Prune’s uncle died without any notice leaving his fortune to him, providing that he is married within forty-eight hours. Horace is a woman hater, to make matters more complicated.
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Vamping Babies
Title: Vamping Babies
Character: Alice (as Alice Ardell)
Released: June 27, 1926
Type: Movie
"Lewis Sargent of 'Huckleberry Finn" fame, now grown up, and Alice Ardell are the principal players in this Standard Comdy which deals with the attempts of a love-sick young couple to wed despite an irate father who shows his temper by demolishing straw hats. They finally elope, resulting in a chase scene. Slapstick comedy of average amusement value". - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World. Originally two reels, one survives.
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She's a Prince
Title: She's a Prince
Character: Alice
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper society full of bizarre rituals. This zany film again features cross-dressing, including men wearing girdles and donning lipstick.
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A Fraternity Mixup
Title: A Fraternity Mixup
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
A group of girls in al all-girl college dormitory spend a wild night among thieves, cross-dressing boys and wild animals like a man-eating gorilla. Blue Ribbon comedy produced by Joe Rock, directed by Percy Pembroke, starring Alice Ardell and Gale Henry.
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Alice Blues
Title: Alice Blues
Released: February 8, 1926
Type: Movie
King Ferdinand of Sodonje (King Ferdinand Saronoff) is threatened with an attack. When a tourist who resembles him shows up at the palace, the king suggests that they switch clothes with each other. The fake king signs a document, and thereby signs his own death sentence. He manages to avoid the firing squad just in time, and asks for his own clothes back, but the real king refuses.
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Mummy Love
Title: Mummy Love
Released: January 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Comedy-horror hijinks ensue after the female member of a team of explorers is kidnapped by an Egyptian king for his harem.
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A Peaceful Riot
Title: A Peaceful Riot
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Sailor Slim Summerville saves a lady from nasty men.
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Hold Tight
Title: Hold Tight
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
The baddies want Alyce Ardell's mine, which they know -- but she doesn't -- has just struck a rich vein. They will stick at naught, but she is protected by Bobby Dunn in this good thrill comedy directed by Marcel Perez.
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Salute
Title: Salute
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms on.