Natalie Moorhead

Natalie Moorhead

Born: July 27, 1901
Died: October 6, 1992
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Natalie Moorhead...

That's Entertainment!
Title: That's Entertainment!
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Title: Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
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I Want a Divorce
Title: I Want a Divorce
Character: Mrs. Tyrell
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
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All This, and Heaven Too
Title: All This, and Heaven Too
Character: Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: May - Saleslady (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Old Hickory
Title: Old Hickory
Character: Mrs. Renoir
Released: December 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Four key incidents in the public life of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Woman at Modiste Salon (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Lady of the Tropics
Title: Lady of the Tropics
Character: Mrs. Hazlitt
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Letter of Introduction
Title: Letter of Introduction
Character: Maud Raleigh - Park Plaza Gossip (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
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The Beloved Brat
Title: The Beloved Brat
Character: Mrs. Morgan
Released: April 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
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Heart of Arizona
Title: Heart of Arizona
Character: Belle Starr
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Belle Starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by Hoppy and the Bar 20 gang.
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The Adventurous Blonde
Title: The Adventurous Blonde
Character: Theresa Gray
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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What Becomes of the Children?
Title: What Becomes of the Children?
Character: Edith Worthington
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!
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Two in a Crowd
Title: Two in a Crowd
Character: Mrs. Anthony (uncredited)
Released: October 3, 1936
Type: Movie
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: Katherine Scorsby
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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Fifteen Wives
Title: Fifteen Wives
Character: Carol Manning
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.
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The Thin Man
Title: The Thin Man
Character: Julia Wolf
Released: May 25, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Dancing Man
Title: Dancing Man
Character: Tamara Trevor
Released: February 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.
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Long Lost Father
Title: Long Lost Father
Character: Phyllis Mersey-Royds
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
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Git Along Little Wifie
Title: Git Along Little Wifie
Character: Wife
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Ex-wife Lena Malena wants her alimony, but Taylor Holmes pleads poverty. So she moves in on him and current wife Natalie Moorhead.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Lucy (Uncredited)
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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Secret Sinners
Title: Secret Sinners
Character: Mrs. Gilbert
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
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Gigolettes of Paris
Title: Gigolettes of Paris
Character: Diane Valraine
Released: October 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a rich customer, Count Albert Valraine (Theodore Von Eltz), salesgirl Suzanne Ricord accepts his engagement ring, but when she fails to understand "the rules of the game," as he puts it, the caddish Valraine demands that she return the bauble.
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Curtain at Eight
Title: Curtain at Eight
Character: Alma Jenkins Thornton
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
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The Big Chance
Title: The Big Chance
Character: Babe
Released: August 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
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Corruption
Title: Corruption
Character: Sylvia Gorman
Released: June 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
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Private Detective 62
Title: Private Detective 62
Character: Helen Burns
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
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The Mind Reader
Title: The Mind Reader
Character: Mrs. Austin
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of his marks, Sylvia, but their love is tested when he brings tragedy to other peoples' lives and she asks him to go straight.
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Forgotten
Title: Forgotten
Character: Myrtle Strauss
Released: February 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
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The King Murder
Title: The King Murder
Character: Elizabeth Hawthorn
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
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The Stoker
Title: The Stoker
Character: Vera Martin
Released: June 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
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Love Bound
Title: Love Bound
Character: Verna Wilson, alias Vera Wendall
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.
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Cross-Examination
Title: Cross-Examination
Character: Inez Wells
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.
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Three Wise Girls
Title: Three Wise Girls
Character: Ruth Dexter
Released: February 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
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The Menace
Title: The Menace
Character: Caroline Quayle
Released: January 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
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Discarded Lovers
Title: Discarded Lovers
Character: Irma Gladden
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free and easy lifestyle and messy romantic affairs. Among them are Grace Sibley the jealous wife of her director, Warren Sibley, her drunken actor husband, Andre Leighton, her screenwriter boyfriend, Rex Forsythe, and her first husband, Robert Worth. Also on hand to help solve the mystery are visiting reporter Bob Adair, Irma's secretary, Valerie Christine, and policemen Captain Sommers and Sergeant Delaney.
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Strictly Dishonorable
Title: Strictly Dishonorable
Character: Lilli
Released: December 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star, a man of experience.
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Morals for Women
Title: Morals for Women
Character: Flora
Released: October 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
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The Phantom of Paris
Title: The Phantom of Paris
Character: Vera Prokoff
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
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Maker of Men
Title: Maker of Men
Character: Mrs. Rhodes
Released: August 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
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My Past
Title: My Past
Character: Consuelo 'Connie' Byrne
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Title: Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Character: Leila Crofton
Released: February 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.
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Illicit
Title: Illicit
Character: Marjorie 'Margie' True
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
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Dance, Fools, Dance
Title: Dance, Fools, Dance
Character: Della
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
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Captain Thunder
Title: Captain Thunder
Character: Bonita
Released: December 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Title: Hook, Line and Sinker
Character: Duchess Bessie Von Essie
Released: December 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
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Divorce Among Friends
Title: Divorce Among Friends
Character: Joan Whitley
Released: December 13, 1930
Type: Movie
George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul Wilcox, who is in love with Helen. By the end of the party, however, George and Helen have reconciled yet again. Soon after, George meets Joan Whitley and loses a lighter which his wife has given him; Whitley drives off with it. When Helen throws a party, Joan, who is an old friend of Helen, arrives. When Helen introduces Joan to George, they pretend not to know each other. George pleads with Joan to return his lighter. She agrees to meet him later in the library and if he is nice to her she will give him back the lighter.
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The Office Wife
Title: The Office Wife
Character: Mrs. Fellowes
Released: August 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's duties creates a relationship approaching that of his wife. Little does Larry know that sometimes literature mirrors life.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Eleanor Bellington
Released: July 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before.
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Hot Curves
Title: Hot Curves
Character: Maizie
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Ethel Barry aka Ethel George
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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The Runaway Bride
Title: The Runaway Bride
Character: Clara Muldoon
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Title: Show Girl in Hollywood
Character: Frank Buelow's Premiere Guest
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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The Benson Murder Case
Title: The Benson Murder Case
Character: Fanny Del Roy
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.
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Spring Is Here
Title: Spring Is Here
Character: Rita Conway
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Musical about two sisters in love with the same man.
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The Furies
Title: The Furies
Character: Caroline Leigh
Released: March 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Fifi Sands, whose husband is constantly unfaithful, is prevented from obtaining a divorce by Bedlow, her husband's lawyer. At a dinner party given by Smith, a columnist, she announces that her husband has at last granted her freedom; but Owen McDonald, her childhood sweetheart, whom she still loves, is disappointed to learn that she is not asking for alimony or a settlement. When her young son, Alan, announces that his father has been murdered, he accuses his mother of trying to shield McDonald, whom he suspects of the crime. Fifi goes to Bedlow for aid, and learning that she no longer loves McDonald, he agrees to help; but Bedlow locks her in the apartment, then confesses his love for her and admits to the murder of her husband. Dr. Cummings and Alan come to her aid; and returning to the drawing room, they find that Bedlow has leaped to his death. Fifi finds happiness at last with the doctor.
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The Girl from Havana
Title: The Girl from Havana
Character: Lona Martin
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel thieves.
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The Unholy Night
Title: The Unholy Night
Character: Lady Vi
Released: September 13, 1929
Type: Movie
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
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Thru Different Eyes
Title: Thru Different Eyes
Character: Frances Thornton
Released: April 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward sharply different versions of the character of Manning and his wife, Viola, and of the events leading up to the murder. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, but a young girl then comes forward and confesses that she killed Winfield for having wronged her.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1928)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.