Lillian Langdon

Lillian Langdon

Born: November 24, 1860
Died: February 8, 1943
in Newark, New Jersey, USA

Movies for Lillian Langdon...

Scrambled Weddings
Title: Scrambled Weddings
Character: Billie's Mother
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Edward Everett Horton and Ruth Dwyer are in love and expect to get married as soon as one of them mentions it to the other. In the meantime, Lolita Lee accepts Horton's proposal, which he doesn't recall making, and Miss Dwyer is invited to be a bridesmaid. So he tells Miss Dwyer that it's Stanley Taylor she's marrying, and hopes no one spills the beans before Taylor shows up in a false beard to spike the proceedings.
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The Cheer Leader
Title: The Cheer Leader
Character: Mrs. Grant
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Blonde Saint
Title: The Blonde Saint
Character: Anne's Aunt
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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Fifth Avenue
Title: Fifth Avenue
Character: Mrs. Van Loon
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find work as a fashion designer, staying with Mrs. Kemp, a woman she meets on the northbound train. In Mrs. Kemp's house, Barbara encounters Peter Heffner, a wealthy stockbroker, and discovers from him that she has taken up residence in a whorehouse. There is a police raid, but Barbara escapes arrest and returns home. Heffner's son, Neil, goes south to inspect some family property and there meets Barbara, with whom he falls in love. They decide to be married, and she accompanies him to New York, where she meets the elder Heffner for a second time. He denounces her as a whore, but Barbara goes to Mrs. Kemp, who explains the misunderstanding to everyone's satisfaction.
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Joanna
Title: Joanna
Character: Mrs. Roxanna Adams
Released: December 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Joanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollars in cash. She falls in love with John Wilmore, a gut who hasn't got a dime nor a pot to put it in if he had a dime. There are those who object. Especially, the crowd of gold-digging gigolos and hustlers she knows.
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After Business Hours
Title: After Business Hours
Character: Mrs. Wentworth
Released: June 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a rich young man. However, he doesn't trust her with money and won't let her have any of her own. Desperate, she turns to gambling and finally forgery. Complications ensue.
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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Title: Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Character: Mrs. Tilliston
Released: May 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman." While sailing from India to England accompanied by his friend, Bunny Manners, it is rumored that the infamous cracksman is aboard ship. Raffles warns a lady passenger to keep an eye on her necklace, which is stolen soon afterward. Although a search reveals no evidence, the necklace is returned upon reaching London.
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Enticement
Title: Enticement
Character: Mrs. Edward Merley
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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Cobra
Title: Cobra
Character: Mrs. Huntington Palmer
Released: January 2, 1925
Type: Movie
Rodrigo, an impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer he met overseas. Swearing off women, Rodrigo focuses on his job. But complications arise when he falls in love with his friend's secretary-- and his friend's wife looks to make a date with him.
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Circe the Enchantress
Title: Circe the Enchantress
Character: Sister Agatha
Released: October 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Mae Murray as a Jazz Age baby who treats men like swine until she falls for the upright doctor living next door.
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Daring Youth
Title: Daring Youth
Character: Mrs. Allen
Released: February 1, 1924
Type: Movie
On the eve of the marriage of her daughter, Alita, Mrs. Allen, unhappily married for 25 years, advocates writer Fannie Hurst's widely publicized mode of living with her husband: only two breakfasts a week together and complete freedom otherwise.
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White Tiger
Title: White Tiger
Character: Party Hostess
Released: December 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
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The Wanters
Title: The Wanters
Character: Mrs. Worthington
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride. She is snubbed by his relatives and shocked by the hypocrisy of his wealthy friends. Disillusioned, she runs away: Elliot follows and saves her from being hit by a train when her foot gets caught in a switch.
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Going Up
Title: Going Up
Character: Mrs. Douglas
Released: September 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Going Up (1923)
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: Mrs. Garrison
Released: March 18, 1923
Type: Movie
While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli, whom Philip recognizes as the man wanted for a murder in Brazil.
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The Footlight Ranger
Title: The Footlight Ranger
Character: Nellie Andrews
Released: January 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Cowboy Bill sells his prize dogs to pay Janet's way back to New York and, in love with the girl, follows her to Manhattan where he obtains a job as a construction worker.
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The Strangers' Banquet
Title: The Strangers' Banquet
Character: Bride's Mother
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
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Another Man's Shoes
Title: Another Man's Shoes
Character: Mrs. Chetwell
Released: November 6, 1922
Type: Movie
To evade a gang conspiring to assassinate him, wealthy businessman Stuart Granger induces his unsuspecting, look-alike cousin, Jack Burton, to impersonate him for a month.
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Kissed
Title: Kissed
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Constance Keener, who is betrothed to young millionaire Merton Torrey, confesses to him her desire for romance such as he does not give her. On the occasion of a masquerade ball, Torrey is unable to escort her; and while she is alone on the balcony, someone suddenly seizes and kisses her, then disappears. She attempts to discover her assailant's identity.
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The Glorious Fool
Title: The Glorious Fool
Character: Mrs. Lindley Grant
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
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The Swamp
Title: The Swamp
Character: Mrs. Biddle
Released: October 30, 1921
Type: Movie
Mary and her son Buster live in a single room in the slums of the city, having been deserted by their husband and father, wealthy Spencer Wellington. While selling newspapers, Buster meets Wang.
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Oh, Lady, Lady
Title: Oh, Lady, Lady
Character: Mrs. Farringdon
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A silent film version of the Kern-Bolton-Wodehouse "Princess Theatre" musical. The story concerns an engaged young man, Bill, whose ex-fiancée arrives unexpectedly on his wedding day. Meanwhile, comic complications arise because of a couple of crooks, the bride's mother dislikes the groom, and the nuptials are called off. Bill works to convince his old flame that he was not worthy to marry her; but his clumsy efforts do not make him look good to his new fiancée.
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The Hope
Title: The Hope
Released: September 7, 1920
Type: Movie
An upper class melodrama.
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Water, Water, Everywhere
Title: Water, Water, Everywhere
Character: Fay Bittinger
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink. Hope's discontent is echoed by the town wives' public outcry against drink. To divert their interest, Billy is nominated to make love to their leader, widow Fay Bittinger, who has already disposed of four husbands....
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Luck in Pawn
Title: Luck in Pawn
Character: Mrs. Vance
Released: November 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her to go to the city so she can study. Annabel works hard, but she sells only one painting. She discovers that a renowned artist is spending the summer at a nearby resort, so she sends him her best work for a critique. A friend recommends that she see him in person, so Annabel pawns a piece of jewelry and heads for the resort. The artist informs her that she doesn't have enough talent to achieve much.
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His Majesty, the American
Title: His Majesty, the American
Character: Princess Marguerite
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A European prince is raised in America without knowing his true identity; he spends his time thrill-seeking, but his country needs him when a revolt threatens the crown.
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Prudence on Broadway
Title: Prudence on Broadway
Character: Mrs. Melbourne
Released: July 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
Title: Daddy-Long-Legs
Character: Mrs. Pendleton
Released: May 11, 1919
Type: Movie
Wealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
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The Millionaire Pirate
Title: The Millionaire Pirate
Character: Her Mother
Released: February 10, 1919
Type: Movie
In the early eighteenth century, pirate captain Jean Lafitte fights a rival pirate and wins a treasure and a beautiful female captive. Although the girl offers herself to Lafitte to save her English lover, Lafitte makes him walk the plank. The girl then places a curse on Lafitte and his descendants, preventing them from ever knowing the true love of woman. Two hundred years later, in the West Antilles, painter Paul Winthrop poses Joe, a pearl diver, as a pirate. Upon seeing the completed painting, each envisions the earlier situation. Later, Joe finds the buried treasure and sails to New York, where he learns that the portrait has also attracted wealthy Lily Demorest and her suitor, Robert Spurr, a "financial pirate."
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Shifting Sands
Title: Shifting Sands
Character: Mrs. Stanford
Released: August 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well.
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Every Woman's Husband
Title: Every Woman's Husband
Character: Mrs. Rhodes
Released: July 17, 1918
Type: Movie
A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits suicide.
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Marked Cards
Title: Marked Cards
Character: Mrs. J. De Barth Breslin
Released: July 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Ellen Shannon, the daughter of self-made Irish politician Pat Shannon, is engaged to Ted Breslin, but because Pat began his career as a menial laborer, Ted's mother, Mrs. J. De Barth Breslin, refuses to sanction the marriage. Heartbroken, Ted takes up drinking and gambling with "Poker" LeMoyne and Don Jackson, while Ellen attends a finishing school hoping to improve herself. While trying to elude her chaperone, Ellen unwittingly dashes into a man's hotel room, and from the window, she witnesses Don and "Poker" playing cards, while Ted lies unconscious from too much drink. When the two gamblers quarrel, Don kills "Poker," but Ted is accused of the crime.
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Society for Sale
Title: Society for Sale
Character: Lady Mary
Released: April 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in society as titled gentry. They fall in love and when it turns out that her late father actually was a lord, they decide they now can marry.
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Heiress For a Day
Title: Heiress For a Day
Character: Mrs. Standring
Released: March 3, 1918
Type: Movie
Working as a manicurist at the Ritz, Helen Thurston, is in love with her wealthy patron, Jack Standring, but the young man's mother wants him to marry a rich debutante. Helen is informed that she has inherited her grandfather's millions, and she proceeds as quickly as possible to acquire expensive clothing and jewelry on credit. Jack, however, is not impressed. Soon Helen learns that she has inherited only $1,000, the remainder of the fortune having gone to her cousin Spindrift. The creditors hound her for their money, and at a grand ball at the Standring home, a detective threatens to arrest her. Touched by her poverty, Jack decides to elope with her. Finally Spindrift violates the conditions of the will, and Helen inherits the entire fortune.
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Limousine Life
Title: Limousine Life
Character: Mrs. Kelts
Released: February 3, 1918
Type: Movie
After leaving her sweetheart Jed Bronson, and small country town life, Minnie Wills (Olive Thomas) obtains a job as a model in a stylish Chicago shop and soon attracts the attention of Moncure Kelts, a wealthy playboy. Enchanted by her beauty and innocence, Moncure proposes, but once she has accepted, he loses interest in her and soon becomes desperate to get rid of her. With her emotions very much under control, Minnie agrees to break off the engagement in exchange for a limousine, a large wardrobe, and a large check, and then returns to Three Oaks. Overjoyed to see her, Jed proposes, and after their marriage, Minnie convinces him to establish a business in Chicago. The plan proves highly successful, and later, when the couple encounters Moncure on the street, Minnie thanks him for giving them their start in life.
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Indiscreet Corinne
Title: Indiscreet Corinne
Character: Mrs. Chilvers
Released: November 11, 1917
Type: Movie
Bored with her life as the daughter of wealthy parents, Corinne Chilvers answers an ad in the paper for a woman with a lurid past. Hired to secure a declaration of marriage from South American millionaire Nicholas Fenwick, Corinne assumes the identity of a masked dancer to attract Fenwick's attention. Competing with Corinne for Fenwick's affections is Pansy Hartley, a woman who actually does have a shady past. After a series of misadventures, Fenwick falls in love with Corinne, whose parents, scandalized by their daughter's escapades, disown her. Reporting to her employers that Fenwick has proposed to her, Corinne discovers that the young man is not a millionaire, but rather the object of a publicity stunt, which is aborted when Corinne and Fenwick really do get married. Fenwick then approaches Corinne's parents and persuades them to forgive their daughter for her scandalous behavior.
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Might and the Man
Title: Might and the Man
Character: Mrs. Sloan
Released: May 5, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Edward Dillon.
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The Americano
Title: The Americano
Character: Senora de Castille
Released: December 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter, Juana. Valdez returns to Paragonia, but is deposed by Generals Sanchez and Garcia and locked in San Mateo Prison. The Americano arrives...
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Diane of the Follies
Title: Diane of the Follies
Character: Marcia Christy
Released: September 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Phillips Christy an amateur sociologist from a wealthy family, subscribes to the theory that people are shaped by their environment. When he falls in love with Diane, a showgirl from the follies, he sees a chance to prove his theory, but fate intervenes .......
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Mary, the Mother (Judean Story)
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Double Trouble
Title: Double Trouble
Character: Mrs. Waldron
Released: December 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabanne and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his third motion picture. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Herbert Quick. A print of the film is held by the Cohen Media Group.
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The Lamb
Title: The Lamb
Character: Mary's Mother
Released: November 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of Gerald's "yellow streak", leaves him and goes by train to visit some friends in Arizona, with Bill in tow. Gerald follows them, and before long he and Mary winds up captured by Yaqui Indians and Gerald must prove to Mary that he is not the "weakling" she thinks he is by coming up with a plan for them to escape their captors.
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A Girl of Yesterday
Title: A Girl of Yesterday
Character: Mrs. A.H. Monroe
Released: October 7, 1915
Type: Movie
A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.
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Kindling
Title: Kindling
Character: Mrs. Jane Burke-Smith
Released: July 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Pregnant tenement dweller Maggie Schultz is being used by burglars....
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Oil and Water
Title: Oil and Water
Character: Mother of the Two Brothers
Released: February 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh. The movie includes elaborate dance sequences.