Julanne Johnston

Julanne Johnston

Born: April 30, 1900
Died: December 26, 1988
in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Julanne Johnston (May 1, 1900 - December 26, 1988) was an American silent film actress born in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Johnston is known for being on William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida during the weekend in November 1924 when film director and producer Thomas Ince later died of heart failure. She was also the female lead in the Douglas Fairbanks film The Thief of Bagdad, with Anna May Wong, that same year.

She died in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, at the age of 88. Her remains were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.

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The Scarlet Empress
Title: The Scarlet Empress
Released: May 9, 1934
Type: Movie
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
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Madam Satan
Title: Madam Satan
Character: Miss Conning Tower
Released: September 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
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Golden Dawn
Title: Golden Dawn
Character: Sister Hedwig
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.
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Prisoners
Title: Prisoners
Character: Lenke
Released: May 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief. When she is caught in the act, a young lawyer offers to defend her. Unfortunately, he loses the case, causing her to spend several months in jail. Fortunately, the two have fallen in love, and he promises to wait for her.
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Irma Striker
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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Oh Kay!
Title: Oh Kay!
Character: Constance Appleton
Released: August 26, 1928
Type: Movie
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.
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The Whip Woman
Title: The Whip Woman
Character: Mme. Haldane
Released: February 5, 1928
Type: Movie
A different kind of a story about a different kind of a girl---a modern, young cavewoman who whipped her way into the heart of a man who wanted to forget about love!
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Her Wild Oat
Title: Her Wild Oat
Character: Miss Whitley
Released: December 25, 1927
Type: Movie
In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, who is pretending to be his own chauffeur. With her savings, she pursues him to a resort hotel, only to be mistaken for a duchess. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Národní filmový archív in 2007.
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Good Time Charley
Title: Good Time Charley
Character: Elaine Keene - Mother
Released: November 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Song-and-dance man Charles Edward Keene (Good Time Charley) is bereft when his wife, Elaine, dies as a result of a fall incurred trying to evade the advances of Hartwell, her manager. Years later, his daughter, Rosita, becomes an overnight sensation as a result of her cafe act under Hartwell's management, and Charley is given a bit part in the show at her request.
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Venus of Venice
Title: Venus of Venice
Character: Jean
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
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Twinkletoes
Title: Twinkletoes
Character: Lilac
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
"Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck, whose wife, Cissie, is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful. Meanwhile, Twink has secured a job in a singing-dancing act in a Limehouse theater, under the auspices of Roseleaf, who has more than just a protective interest in the girl. The jealous Cissie discovers that Twink's sign-painting father also has a night job as a burglar, and she turns him into the police. While a big success dancing on the stage, the arrest of her father has left her somewhat down in the dumps, and she decides to toss herself into the Thames. Possibly, the now-free Chuck, since Cissie has been killed in an accident, might come along and rescue her.
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Aloma of the South Seas
Title: Aloma of the South Seas
Character: Sylvia
Released: May 15, 1926
Type: Movie
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
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The Prude's Fall
Title: The Prude's Fall
Character: Sonia Roubetsky
Released: November 23, 1925
Type: Movie
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
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The Big Parade
Title: The Big Parade
Character: Justine Devereux (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1925
Type: Movie
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
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Big Pal
Title: Big Pal
Character: Helen Truscott
Released: September 29, 1925
Type: Movie
A judge's daughter spurns his wealthy lifestyle and goes to do social work in poorer neighborhoods. There she meets a boxer contending for a championship.
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Die Stadt der Versuchung
Title: Die Stadt der Versuchung
Character: Wanda Menkoff
Released: April 8, 1925
Type: Movie
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Garragan
Title: Garragan
Released: October 20, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Thief of Bagdad
Title: The Thief of Bagdad
Character: The Princess
Released: March 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
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The Brass Bottle
Title: The Brass Bottle
Released: July 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom. Horace accepts the genie's offer but finds out that things aren't working out quite as well as he thought they would.
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The Young Rajah
Title: The Young Rajah
Character: Dancing Girl
Released: November 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
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Fickle Women
Title: Fickle Women
Released: August 9, 1920
Type: Movie
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Miss Hobbs
Title: Miss Hobbs
Character: Millicent Farey
Released: May 19, 1920
Type: Movie
She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brutes. But love has a way of smashing such an idea. Then she went in for barefoot dancing, futurist art and other advanced notions. Well, the upshot of it was the young man took upon himself to tame her, to make her a regular girl.
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Seeing It Through
Title: Seeing It Through
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Better Times
Title: Better Times
Released: July 13, 1919
Type: Movie
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.