Sam Hardy

Sam Hardy

Born: March 21, 1883
Died: October 16, 1935
in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Sam B. Hardy (March 21, 1883 – October 16, 1935) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in feature films during the silent and early sound eras. He died of intestinal problems. He was also known as Samuel Hardy.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Hardy attended Yale but left there to become an actor on stage. He entered the world of film with Biograph Studios.

Hardy became ill while he was working in the film Shoot the Chutes, starring Eddie Cantor. He did not survive emergency surgery at a hospital.

Movies for Sam Hardy...

Powdersmoke Range
Title: Powdersmoke Range
Character: Big Steve Ogden
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
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Break of Hearts
Title: Break of Hearts
Character: Marx
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: Daniel J. Dingle
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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Night Alarm
Title: Night Alarm
Character: Editor Stephen Caldwell
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Title: Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Character: Jack Summers
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
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The Hollywood Gad-About
Title: The Hollywood Gad-About
Character: Self - Weight Guesser (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
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I Give My Love
Title: I Give My Love
Character: Pogey
Released: July 17, 1934
Type: Movie
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
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Aunt Sally
Title: Aunt Sally
Character: Michael 'King' Kelly
Released: June 13, 1934
Type: Movie
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
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Little Miss Marker
Title: Little Miss Marker
Character: Bennie the Gouge
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
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Curtain at Eight
Title: Curtain at Eight
Character: Capt. Martin Gallagher
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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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Russell Spaulding
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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Three-Cornered Moon
Title: Three-Cornered Moon
Character: Hawkins
Released: August 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.
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The Big Brain
Title: The Big Brain
Character: Slick Ryan
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Title: Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Character: Sinclair Sable
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
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King Kong
Title: King Kong
Character: Charles Weston
Released: March 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
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Goldie Gets Along
Title: Goldie Gets Along
Character: Sam Muldoon
Released: January 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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Face in the Sky
Title: Face in the Sky
Character: Professor Triplett
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone she despises.
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Title: The Phantom of Crestwood
Character: Pete Harris
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
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Make Me a Star
Title: Make Me a Star
Character: Jeff Baird
Released: July 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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The Dark Horse
Title: The Dark Horse
Character: Mr. Black
Released: June 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
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Peach-o-Reno
Title: Peach-o-Reno
Character: Judge Jackson
Released: December 25, 1931
Type: Movie
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
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The Magnificent Lie
Title: The Magnificent Lie
Character: Larry
Released: July 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
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The Miracle Woman
Title: The Miracle Woman
Character: Bob Hornsby
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
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Annabelle's Affairs
Title: Annabelle's Affairs
Character: James Ludgate
Released: June 14, 1931
Type: Movie
After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks by her husband and told not to part with them. However she is an extravagant spender and is forced to give the stocks to her husband's millionaire rival.....
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The Millionaire
Title: The Millionaire
Character: McCoy
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
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June Moon
Title: June Moon
Character: Sam Hart
Released: March 21, 1931
Type: Movie
An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
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The Champion
Title: The Champion
Character: Rooney - Kane's Manager
Released: February 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Leather Pushers #10
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: J.B. Berkley
Released: September 30, 1930
Type: Movie
A film by George Crone
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Borrowed Wives
Title: Borrowed Wives
Character: G.W. Parker
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
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The Florodora Girl
Title: The Florodora Girl
Character: Harry Fontaine
Released: May 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
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True to the Navy
Title: True to the Navy
Character: Brady
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
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Song of the West
Title: Song of the West
Character: Davolo
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited for a court martial. As a scout, he is sent to escort a wagon train which is under military escort. It turns out that this escort is his own former regiment. When he meet Davolo, there is another fight and between Stanton and Davolo in which Davolo is killed.
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Burning Up
Title: Burning Up
Character: Windy 'Wally' Wallace
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.
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Mexicali Rose
Title: Mexicali Rose
Character: Happy Manning
Released: December 26, 1929
Type: Movie
The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
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Acquitted
Title: Acquitted
Character: Egan
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Released: September 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evelyn Corey, an attractive actress.
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Big News
Title: Big News
Character: Joe Reno
Released: September 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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On With the Show!
Title: On With the Show!
Character: Jerry
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
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A Man's Man
Title: A Man's Man
Character: Charlie
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
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Rainbow Man
Title: Rainbow Man
Character: Doc Hardy
Released: May 16, 1929
Type: Movie
The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.
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Give and Take
Title: Give and Take
Character: Industrialist
Released: December 23, 1928
Type: Movie
The owner of a fruit cannery is facing financial ruin as a result of a strike. Unbeknownst to him, his son is the person who is organizing it.
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Outcast
Title: Outcast
Character: Jack
Released: November 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era, the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.
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The Butter and Egg Man
Title: The Butter and Egg Man
Character: Joe Lehman
Released: September 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by Joe Lehman and Jack McClure into backing their play with a 49-percent stake. The play opens out-of-town in Syracuse and bombs. Lehman and McClure want out, and Jones buys them out
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The Night Bird
Title: The Night Bird
Character: Gleason
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
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Diamond Handcuffs
Title: Diamond Handcuffs
Character: Spike
Released: May 5, 1928
Type: Movie
German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
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The Big Noise
Title: The Big Noise
Character: Philip Hurd
Released: March 25, 1928
Type: Movie
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter Sophie. Sophie, however, has her sights set on Bill Hedges, the son of a wealthy farmer in upstate New York. Her father arranges for her to marry Hurd in exchange for a 25% interest in the concession, but matters come to a halt when John slips and falls off a subway platform and is injured.
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Turn Back the Hours
Title: Turn Back the Hours
Character: 'Ace' Kearney
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.
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A Texas Steer
Title: A Texas Steer
Character: Brassy Gall
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't really mean that much to him. The same can't be said for his social-climbing wife and his man-crazy daughter Bossy. His wife, with the help of some political bosses, helps Maverick get elected to Congress, where he manages to get in all sorts of trouble, including getting blackmailed by opponents of a bill he's trying to get passed.
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Broadway Nights
Title: Broadway Nights
Character: Johnny Fay
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producers catch the act and offer Fannie a job on their latest show; however, they have no place for Johnny, so Fannie turns down the offer. (Film considered lost.)
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Orchids and Ermine
Title: Orchids and Ermine
Character: Hank
Released: March 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams of marrying rich. Her constant daydreaming of wealth annoys her fellow workers, and ruins the heart of one of her worshiping colleagues.
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The Prince of Tempters
Title: The Prince of Tempters
Character: Apollo Beneventa
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Great Deception
Title: The Great Deception
Character: Handy
Released: July 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy in England but is loyal to British intelligence, of which he is a member. He is loved by Lois, an American whose favor is sought by Rizzio, also a double agent, who suspects Cyril's disloyalty to Germany. With the intention of conveying false information to the Imperial German Government, Cyril, accompanied by his faithful mechanic, Handy, and by Lois, escapes to Germany, though Lois is herself abducted by Rizzio and brought to headquarters in a U-boat. Innocently, she betrays Cyril, and they are both sentenced to death. On a pretense of aiding Cyril, Rizzio urges Lois to accompany him on a diplomatic mission, but Cyril and Handy overcome their captors; and Lois and Cyril escape to England in his aircraft.
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The Savage
Title: The Savage
Character: Managing Editor
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...
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When Love Grows Cold
Title: When Love Grows Cold
Character: William Graves
Released: January 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Margaret has given up her stage career to marry inventor Jerry Benson. Jerry fails to impress oil executive William Graves with his idea, but Margaret has better luck when she catches Graves' attention and she both makes the sale and becomes the object of Graves' obsession. Profits from the invention make the Bensons wealthy; however Graves schemes to steal Margaret from Jerry by swindling them out of their money and getting Broadway floozy Gloria to break up their marriage.
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Bluebeard's Seven Wives
Title: Bluebeard's Seven Wives
Character: Gindelheim
Released: January 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache. The idea of that shakes him up so much that he gets distracted at work, comes up short in his accounts and gets fired. Unable to find another job, he begins to work as an extra at a nearby film studio to earn money. One day the leading man of a picture John is working on gets into an argument with the director and storms off the set. Angered, the director sees John and, deciding that he'll show his arrogant star that he can make a movie idol out of just about anybody, picks John to replace him. As it turns out, John has a real talent for acting and before he knows it he becomes a star. Unfortunately, "stardom" isn't what John thought it would be.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: Cornelius Vanderbilt
Released: August 1, 1923
Type: Movie
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
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Mighty Lak' a Rose
Title: Mighty Lak' a Rose
Character: Jerome Trevor
Released: February 12, 1923
Type: Movie
A blind orphan, Rose Duncan, who has a special talent with the violin. Jerome Trevor, a famed pianist, hears her playing and sends her to an uncle in New York so she can become educated. But the uncle is killed in an accident on his way to meet her and she is taken in by gang leader Bull Morgan. Morgan pretends to be her uncle to elude the police, and he sees the value of keeping her around as cover.
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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Title: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Character: J. Rufus Wallingford
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.