Geneva Mitchell

Geneva Mitchell

Born: February 3, 1907
Died: March 10, 1949
in Medarysville, Indiana, USA
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Geneva Mitchell (February 3, 1907 – March 10, 1949) was an American film actress. She appeared in over 70 films between 1929 and 1946. Mitchell started her career on the stage in a musical comedy. At age 17, she was in the choruses of Sally and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921.

She signed a contract with Warner Brothers in October 1929, and with Columbia Pictures in June 1934. Modern viewers will recognize Mitchell from her appearances in the Three Stooges 1935 films Restless Knights, Pop Goes the Easel, and particularly Hoi Polloi. In Hoi Polloi, Mitchell plays a dance instructor who directs the Stooges to "do exactly as I do." Before she begins her dance, a bumblebee lands on her bare back, and then crawls under her dress. She becomes alarmed. Naturally, the Stooges mimic her every startled move. This hilarious footage was to be reused six years later in In the Sweet Pie and Pie.

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Andy Plays Hookey
Title: Andy Plays Hookey
Character: Mrs. Clyde
Released: December 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Andy makes elaborate plans to attend a prizefight, and they all backfire.
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The Cattle Thief
Title: The Cattle Thief
Character: Alice
Released: May 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night.
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The Crime Patrol
Title: The Crime Patrol
Character: Mary Prentiss
Released: May 12, 1936
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
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I Don't Remember
Title: I Don't Remember
Character: Mrs. Crump
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
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Lawless Riders
Title: Lawless Riders
Character: Edith Adams
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Edith overhears Bart's plan to rob the bank so she informs Ken. But she is also overheard and when Ken goes to investigate, Bart's Henchman Prod frames him for the robbery. Thrown in jail, Ken's pal Pedro arrives with a plan to get him out.
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Western Courage
Title: Western Courage
Character: Gloria Hanley
Released: October 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to stop the elopement. The outlaw Lacrosse and his henchman then catch Ken without his guns, take off with Gloria, and leave a tied up Ken in a burning shack.
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Honeymoon Bridge
Title: Honeymoon Bridge
Released: October 2, 1935
Type: Movie
His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.
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It Always Happens
Title: It Always Happens
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.
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Gobs of Trouble
Title: Gobs of Trouble
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
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The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Title: The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Character: Clara
Released: July 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.
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Air Hawks
Title: Air Hawks
Character: Gertie Dunlap
Released: May 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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Party Wire
Title: Party Wire
Character: Irene Sherman
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
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Fighting Shadows
Title: Fighting Shadows
Character: Martha Harrison
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.
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Pop Goes the Easel
Title: Pop Goes the Easel
Character: Model in Black Gown (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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His Bridal Sweet
Title: His Bridal Sweet
Character: Mrs.Harry Langdon
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.
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Night Life of the Gods
Title: Night Life of the Gods
Character: Hebe
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.
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Death Flies East
Title: Death Flies East
Character: Helen Gilbert
Released: February 28, 1935
Type: Movie
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon (Nagel), who is transporting a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. Another passenger, Baker (Robert Allen), complains of having been poisoned and leaves the plane during a stopover in Dallas. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard, Lieutenant O'Brien (Fred Kelsey), suffers the same fate, but this time the poison proves fatal. The plane returns to Dallas, where Police Captain Barrie (William B. Davidson) accused poor Evelyn of the crime. Happily, Gordon can prove otherwise and the real culprit is unmasked.
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Restless Knights
Title: Restless Knights
Character: Anne, Queen of Anesthesia
Released: February 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Nurse
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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His Old Flame
Title: His Old Flame
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Just as Charlie is running for mayor on a purity platform, an old flame threatens to show his torrid love letters to his wife if he does not withdraw from the campaign.
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Behind the Evidence
Title: Behind the Evidence
Character: Rita Sinclair
Released: January 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
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Girl in Danger
Title: Girl in Danger
Character: Thornton's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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Springtime for Henry
Title: Springtime for Henry
Character: Young Lady
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. The rake is tempted, but then decides he prefers the married woman, which is fine with her husband who has an eye for the secretary.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Dot
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Mitchell's Receptionist
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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A Man's Game
Title: A Man's Game
Character: Nurse
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
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The Hell Cat
Title: The Hell Cat
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
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This Side of Heaven
Title: This Side of Heaven
Character: Nurse Healy (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
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I Am Suzanne!
Title: I Am Suzanne!
Character: Fifi
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
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Above the Clouds
Title: Above the Clouds
Character: Mabel
Released: December 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Patty
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Leah Burbaum (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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A Man of Sentiment
Title: A Man of Sentiment
Character: Doris Russell
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
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Morning Glory
Title: Morning Glory
Character: Gwendolyn Hall
Released: August 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
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The World Gone Mad
Title: The World Gone Mad
Character: Evelyn Henderson
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
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Pleasure Cruise
Title: Pleasure Cruise
Character: Ship Passenger (Uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
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Bring 'Em Back a Wife
Title: Bring 'Em Back a Wife
Character: Daisy Orchid
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
When Billy must prove that he's married in order to keep his job, he disguises Ben in drag in an attempt to pass him off as the little woman.
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Madison Square Garden
Title: Madison Square Garden
Character: Girl at Training Camp (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
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The Girl from Calgary
Title: The Girl from Calgary
Character: Dolores Baker (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
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Faithless
Title: Faithless
Character: Party Guest
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: Florence Day
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Gossip at 55 Club (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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What Price Taxi
Title: What Price Taxi
Character: Jealous Husband's Wife
Released: August 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.
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Night World
Title: Night World
Character: Florabelle (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1932
Type: Movie
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
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Get That Girl
Title: Get That Girl
Character: Mme. Nedra Tito
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium where a crazed doctor is performing strange experiments.
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Disorderly Conduct
Title: Disorderly Conduct
Character: Phoebe Darnton
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
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House of Mystery
Title: House of Mystery
Character: Sharon Craig
Released: December 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.
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Good Sport
Title: Good Sport
Character: Party Girl
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.
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Working Girls
Title: Working Girls
Character: Maizie
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
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The All-American Kickback
Title: The All-American Kickback
Character: Helen Dover - Botany Teacher
Released: November 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
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The Big Gamble
Title: The Big Gamble
Character: Trixie, North's Companion
Released: September 4, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
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The Single Sin
Title: The Single Sin
Character: Marian
Released: February 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, she has not revealed her shady past to him, and when friends from her smuggling days suddenly show up as employees, mayhem ensues.
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Millie
Title: Millie
Character: Clara Roscoe (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1931
Type: Movie
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
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Her Wedding Night
Title: Her Wedding Night
Character: Gloria Marshall
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
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Follow Thru
Title: Follow Thru
Character: Woman in Ladies' Locker Room
Released: September 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
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Back Pay
Title: Back Pay
Character: Babe
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Cleo Carewe
Released: May 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.
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Son of the Gods
Title: Son of the Gods
Character: Connie (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1930
Type: Movie
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1930)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.