Sylvia Ashton

Sylvia Ashton

Born: January 25, 1880
Died: November 17, 1940
in Denver, Colorado, USA

Movies for Sylvia Ashton...

Queen Kelly
Title: Queen Kelly
Character: Kelly's Aunt
Released: October 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.
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The Crash
Title: The Crash
Character: Mrs. Carleton
Released: October 7, 1928
Type: Movie
The Crash (1928)
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The Barker
Title: The Barker
Character: Ma Benson
Released: October 2, 1928
Type: Movie
A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement with a showgirl, and his own jealous mistress.
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The Head Man
Title: The Head Man
Character: Mrs. Briggs
Released: July 8, 1928
Type: Movie
Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician in a mayoral campaign, Watts evokes the public's sympathy and is elected to the mayor's chair, again becoming a power in local politics.
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Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Title: Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Character: Ma Slocum
Released: March 31, 1928
Type: Movie
Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma's home cooking, Pa's packaging design, and pretty daughter Helen's salesmanship), and move 'uptown' to live the life of the idle rich on the proceeds.
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Mrs. Brockton
Released: December 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influence of Lazare ( Lucien Littlefield ), a crooked lawyer, who places her with a gang of crooks. Posing as the Brockton family, they move to a seaside home, where they plan to steal the jewel collection of the Palmers, their neighbours. Nan wins the confidence of the family by flirting with Tom ( Kenneth Harlan ), who becomes infatuated and wants to go away with her, but she refuses him. Tom is caught red-handed in the Brockton mansion attempting to steal their jewels while Nan is making a success of the Palmer robbery.
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Red Signals
Title: Red Signals
Character: Opal Summers
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.
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Dancing Days
Title: Dancing Days
Character: Katinka
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for her winsome wiles and ways. Ralph's wife, Alice, becomes suspicious when she sees them together at lunch one day. He asks for a divorce but Alice says she wants to keep the marriage going for at least a year, for appearances sake, and says she will agree to a divorce then if he still wants it. Alive stays home alone for three months while Ralph is living it up as a full member of the Jazz Age. He gets sick and Alice invites Lillian to come over and help get him well. Lillian decides that lots of saxophone playing and wild dancing is the best cure. Alice takes all she can stand, leaves a note for Ralph and departs the premises. Ralph also takes his own departure, after leaving a note for Alice. Lillian keeps on partying. Alice and Ralph, driving their respective cars into an intersection, have a collision.
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Greed
Title: Greed
Character: Mommer Sieppe
Released: December 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Mrs. Kale (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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The White Flower
Title: The White Flower
Character: Mrs. Gregory Bolton
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that the man who presents her with a perfect white flower will be her true love. When Bob Rutherford offers a gardenia to Konia at a banquet, David Panuahi, a rejected suitor, becomes even more jealous and persuades Konia to have the kahuna put a death curse on Bob's fiancee, Ethel Granville. Bob's devotion to a failing Ethel softens Konia, however, and she has the curse removed. She is about to jump into a volcano when Bob, now released by Ethel from their engagement, finds her and declares his love.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Prison Matron
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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While Satan Sleeps
Title: While Satan Sleeps
Character: Mrs. Bones
Released: June 25, 1922
Type: Movie
With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. He obtains a parson's outfit from a pawnshop and shortly thereafter winds up in a barroom brawl. One of the other brawlers is Chuckwalla Bill (J.P. Lockney), the newly elected mayor of the town of Panamint.
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For the Defense
Title: For the Defense
Character: Signora Bartoni
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
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Saturday Night
Title: Saturday Night
Character: Mrs. O'Day
Released: January 29, 1922
Type: Movie
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
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A Daughter of Luxury
Title: A Daughter of Luxury
Character: Mrs. Walford
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
When a lawsuit deprives a rich woman, Mary Fenton, of her wealth, she decides to impersonate another woman, Mary Cosgrove. The situation becomes sticky when Cosgroge turns up and demands Fenton be arrested.
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A Prince There Was
Title: A Prince There Was
Character: Mrs. Prouty
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A wealthy socialite poses as a magazine editor living in a boardinghouse to learn more about an intriguing woman who wants to publish her stories.
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The Love Charm
Title: The Love Charm
Character: Julia Nast
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Orphaned Ruth Sheldon reads an article on "Love Charms" on her way to live in the home of her Aunt Julia and Cousin Hattie Nast. Upon her arrival, Ruth is put to work as housekeeper, cook, and seamstress. When Thomas Morgan, a young banker, is invited to dinner, he focuses his attention on Ruth, prompting the envious Hattie to claim him as her own. To oblige her cousin, Ruth attempts to discourage Thomas by behaving like a frivolous society "vampire," rather than the old-fashioned girl he believes her to be.
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Sham
Title: Sham
Character: Aunt Bella
Released: May 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells this to Tom. Tom is about to leave town when Uncle James (Ricketts) steps in and pays off Katherine's debts, leaving the niece free to marry Tom.
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The Love Special
Title: The Love Special
Character: Mrs. Whitney
Released: March 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Jim Glover is an engineer in charge of constructing a railroad to the sea. He gives the company president Gage a tour of the area of land coveted for its use as a short cut that can save hours on the journey. After the officials visit a recently constructed dam, the train makes a stop in a dull town, and Gage's daughter Laura throws a charity bazaar to combat the boredom. Jim puts together a mock-holdup that saves the event from financial ruin, endearing Laura to him. Later, an accident traps three workers in a cave, and Jim is called away to rescue the victims.
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Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Title: Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Character: Mary Page
Released: November 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
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A City Sparrow
Title: A City Sparrow
Character: Mrs. Babb
Released: October 17, 1920
Type: Movie
A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walter Hiers), who lives in the same boarding house as she does, but she turns down his marriage proposal. During a performance, Milly is injured and can't get her strength back to get another gig. Hughie Ray (William Boyd), a pal of Tim's, comes to town and offers to take Milly back to the country to recuperate. She takes him up on his offer and after she has been there a while he proposes. But Milly has been told that her injury makes it impossible for her to bear children; since she knows that Ray loves kids she tries to leave him.
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The Fourteenth Man
Title: The Fourteenth Man
Character: Mrs. Tidmarsh
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Soul of Youth
Title: The Soul of Youth
Character: Mrs. Hodge
Released: August 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he finds a friend in newsboy Mike. Mike teaches him how to survive, but inevitably Ed gets hauled into court. The judge sees potential in him and hands him over to be adopted by a young politician.
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Why Change Your Wife?
Title: Why Change Your Wife?
Character: Aunt Kate
Released: May 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
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Mrs. Temple's Telegram
Title: Mrs. Temple's Telegram
Released: May 9, 1920
Type: Movie
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Jenny Be Good
Title: Jenny Be Good
Character: Sophia Shuttles
Released: April 30, 1920
Type: Movie
When a young woman's great romance is interrupted by the influence of her lover's parents, she turns to her art as a violinist to console herself. As she is about to achieve her highest triumph, she is suddenly confronted by the return of the man she loves, and she must make a choice.
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The Lottery Man
Title: The Lottery Man
Character: Mrs. Peyton
Released: October 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.
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For Better, for Worse
Title: For Better, for Worse
Character: Sylvia's Aunt
Released: April 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
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Don't Change Your Husband
Title: Don't Change Your Husband
Character: Mrs. Huckney
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
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Under the Top
Title: Under the Top
Character: Lotta Crust
Released: January 4, 1919
Type: Movie
Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with Pansy, the daughter of the circus' tightrope walker, after he saves her from a gang of thugs...
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
Title: A Pair of Silk Stockings
Character: Lady Gower
Released: July 19, 1918
Type: Movie
Molly is a wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill. Though devoutly loyal to her husband, the capricious Molly can't seem to avoid getting herself into compromising situations. The limit comes when a pair of Molly's stockings find their way into the boudoir of another man.
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We Can't Have Everything
Title: We Can't Have Everything
Character: Kedzie's Mother
Released: July 7, 1918
Type: Movie
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
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Old Wives for New
Title: Old Wives for New
Character: Sophy Murdock
Released: May 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
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Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Title: Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Character: Beauty Parlor Worker
Released: April 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Short comedy
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Her Fame and Shame
Title: Her Fame and Shame
Character: Carrie Little
Released: March 24, 1917
Type: Movie
A slapstick comedy with Charles Murray & Louise Fazenda.
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The Nick of Time Baby
Title: The Nick of Time Baby
Character: The Rival's Mother
Released: December 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The Nick of Time Baby is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Woman at Jenkins Employees Dance (uncredited)
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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Pretenses
Title: Pretenses
Character: Mrs. Guffy
Released: December 7, 1915
Type: Movie
Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
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Black and White
Title: Black and White
Character: Black Woman
Released: August 27, 1913
Type: Movie
They were two hobos, black and white, master and man, a regular slave driver white, while black went off for the eats. But Cleopatra and her sweet-potato pies ended the despotism. She saved the "lovin' man" of her race. Tabasco and an officer of the law did it, while white made a fast retreating speck up the track.
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The Suffragette Minstrels
Title: The Suffragette Minstrels
Character: Old Woman
Released: August 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Two wives of Jenksville at least did not intend their husbands should be corrupted by the arrival of these enticing ladies in town. That show should be investigated. It resulted in their becoming one of the sensations of the performance, while the husbands became an awful example.
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Father's Chicken Dinner
Title: Father's Chicken Dinner
Released: August 17, 1913
Type: Movie
Clarence Barr comes home to discover that Sylvia Ashton and Charles West are getting ready to butcher a chicken for his dinner… but he thinks they're talking about him and not a bird! Fortunately, Charles Murray has prepared his squad of policemen for rapid response by equipping them with roller skates…
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Papa's Baby
Title: Papa's Baby
Character: Mama Binks
Released: August 14, 1913
Type: Movie
To be a fond and devoted parent, and to be unable to play with the heaven of your heart is indeed a cruel decree. That was the case of Papa Binks, but he outwitted Mrs. Binks and the nurse in a very effective, yet unostentatious manner, while he and the baby had the time of their lives.
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Sharps and Chaps
Title: Sharps and Chaps
Character: Mrs. De Risque
Released: November 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Professor De Risque, anxious to escape for a time the too solicitous attention of Madame De Risque, arrives at Roaring Gulch and, noting that the town numbers some very pretty girls amongst its population, he hangs out his shingle announcing the fact that he teaches the piano and violin. The professor is charming and the young ladies are impressionable, they readily desert the constant cowboys for the professor. The cowboys get their heads together and plan a counter-move.
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The Cowboy Guardians
Title: The Cowboy Guardians
Character: The Widow
Released: October 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A pioneer caravan is attacked by Indians, who greatly outnumber the pale faces. The whole party are massacred, with the exception of a year-and-one-half old baby, who being hidden by its mother, escapes detection. Whitey is a big, bashful cowpuncher, who secretly worships at the shrine of the only eligible woman in camp, a buxom widow.
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Her Friend, the Doctor
Title: Her Friend, the Doctor
Character: Ma Carston
Released: October 18, 1912
Type: Movie
Jane Carston was to return tomorrow from Ohio, where she had been for the past three years in school, and the ranch was all agog with expectancy and cleanliness. Bob Evans, head cowboy, was most eager and most anxious of the lot. Tomorrow finally became today and Pa had gone to the station in his best linen duster and the buckboard to meet Jane. Finally, in a cloud of dust. Bob discerns them on the brow of the hill. Arriving at the house Jane greets mother with a rousing smack.
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Hearts and Skirts
Title: Hearts and Skirts
Character: Chaperone to Mabel
Released: October 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Mabel Russell, on her return from Europe, is informed by James Leonard, administrator of the Russell Estate, that it was her father's dying wish that she should marry Billy Jones, the son of William Jones, her father's schoolmate and lifelong friend. Mabel, however, has ideas of her own and rather resents being disposed of like a parcel of goods, so when Billy calls upon her, she takes advantage of the fact that he has not seen her since she was a child, and induces her maid (a young woman who has a good figure and passable manners, but is extremely homely), to impersonate her, while she dresses up as the maid.
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The Speed Demon
Title: The Speed Demon
Character: The Speed Demon's Wife's Friend
Released: July 14, 1912
Type: Movie
An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.
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A Dash Through the Clouds
Title: A Dash Through the Clouds
Character: Carmelita
Released: June 24, 1912
Type: Movie
Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.
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When the Fire-Bells Rang
Title: When the Fire-Bells Rang
Released: May 8, 1912
Type: Movie
They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company arrives, and. in putting on a Roman tragedy, needs twenty "supers" to play "Roman soldiers." "Props" engages the members of the fire company, who are rehearsed and dressed in Roman costumes. Everything goes fine until the fire-bells ring out an alarm, then, well...