Mildred Davis

Mildred Davis

Born: February 22, 1901
Died: August 18, 1969
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Mildred Hillary Davis (February 22, 1901 – August 18, 1969) was an American actress who appeared in many of Harold Lloyd's classic silent comedies and eventually married him.

The daughter of Howard Beckett Davis, she was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and educated at the Friends School in Philadelphia. After several years spent studying, she traveled to Los Angeles in the hopes of securing a role in a film. After appearing in several small roles, she caught the attention of Hal Roach, who pointed her out to comedian Lloyd. He was looking for a leading lady to replace Bebe Daniels, and cast Davis in his comedy short From Hand to Mouth in 1919. It would be the first of fifteen films they would star in together.

On February 10, 1923, she married Lloyd. After their marriage, Lloyd announced that Davis would not appear in any more motion pictures. After much persuasion on Davis' part, and much grief, she received Lloyd's consent for her return to the screen in Too Many Crooks, which Lloyd produced through his production company. It was the only acting role she undertook after her marriage.

Movies for Mildred Davis...

Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy
Title: Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Hilarious scenes from his silent and sound films as compiled and produced by Harold Lloyd himself.
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Too Many Crooks
Title: Too Many Crooks
Character: Ceia Mason
Released: April 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
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Condemned
Title: Condemned
Character: The Girl
Released: December 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Unable to pay train fare for a pet, a girl disguises her dog as a baby. It is later mistaken for a kidnapped baby.
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Temporary Marriage
Title: Temporary Marriage
Character: Hazel Manners
Released: June 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Temporary Marriage is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Kenneth Harlan, Mildred Davis, and Myrtle Stedman.
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Safety Last!
Title: Safety Last!
Character: The Girl
Released: April 1, 1923
Type: Movie
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
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Dr. Jack
Title: Dr. Jack
Character: The Sick-Little-Well-Girl
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
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Grandma's Boy
Title: Grandma's Boy
Character: His Girl
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
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A Sailor-Made Man
Title: A Sailor-Made Man
Character: The Girl
Released: December 25, 1921
Type: Movie
An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
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Never Weaken
Title: Never Weaken
Character: The Girl
Released: October 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.
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I Do
Title: I Do
Character: The Girl
Released: September 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.
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Among Those Present
Title: Among Those Present
Character: Miss O'Brien, The Girl
Released: May 29, 1921
Type: Movie
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
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Now or Never
Title: Now or Never
Character: The Girl
Released: March 27, 1921
Type: Movie
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
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Number, Please?
Title: Number, Please?
Character: The Girl
Released: December 26, 1920
Type: Movie
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.
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Get Out and Get Under
Title: Get Out and Get Under
Character: The Girl
Released: September 26, 1920
Type: Movie
The comic adventures of a new car owner.
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High and Dizzy
Title: High and Dizzy
Character: The Girl
Released: July 11, 1920
Type: Movie
A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
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An Eastern Westerner
Title: An Eastern Westerner
Character: The Girl
Released: May 2, 1920
Type: Movie
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.
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Haunted Spooks
Title: Haunted Spooks
Character: The Girl
Released: March 14, 1920
Type: Movie
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
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Getting His Goat
Title: Getting His Goat
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by Charley Chase.
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His Royal Slyness
Title: His Royal Slyness
Character: Princess Florelle
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
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Why Go Home?
Title: Why Go Home?
Released: January 11, 1920
Type: Movie
'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.
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Red Hot Hottentotts
Title: Red Hot Hottentotts
Released: January 4, 1920
Type: Movie
'Snub' Pollard stars in this 1920's comedy short.
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From Hand to Mouth
Title: From Hand to Mouth
Character: The Girl
Released: December 28, 1919
Type: Movie
As a penniless man worries about how he will manage to eat, he is joined by a young waif and her dog, who are in the same predicament. Meanwhile, across town a dishonest lawyer is working with a gang of criminals, trying to swindle an innocent young heiress out of her inheritance. As the heiress is on her way home from the lawyer's office, she notices the young man and the waif in the midst of their latest problem with the authorities, and she rescues them. Later on, the young man will have an unexpected opportunity to repay her for her kindness.
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The Floor Below
Title: The Floor Below
Released: December 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Snub Pollard and his friend are clearly under their wives thumbs. But his grandfather turns up and tells them to assert themselves, which they do. Her father is not impressed.
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Tough Luck
Title: Tough Luck
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison.
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Looking for Trouble
Title: Looking for Trouble
Released: December 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight definitely does not go anything like expected.
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How Dry I Am
Title: How Dry I Am
Released: December 7, 1919
Type: Movie
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It's a Hard Life
Title: It's a Hard Life
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
'Snub' Pollard, Mildred Davis, and Gaylord Lloyd in another comedy short.
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Order in the Court
Title: Order in the Court
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
A comedy short starring Mildred Davis & 'Snub' Pollard
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Call for Mr. Caveman
Title: Call for Mr. Caveman
Character: Adorable
Released: November 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.
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Giving the Bride Away
Title: Giving the Bride Away
Released: November 16, 1919
Type: Movie
A comedy short starring Mildred Davis & 'Snub' Pollard
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All at Sea
Title: All at Sea
Released: November 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Sailor 'Snub' Pollard on 'beach leave'.
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Start Something
Title: Start Something
Released: October 7, 1919
Type: Movie
A comedy short featuring Mildred Davis.
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All Wrong
Title: All Wrong
Character: Betty Thompson
Released: June 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.
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A Weaver of Dreams
Title: A Weaver of Dreams
Character: Margery Gordon
Released: March 2, 1918
Type: Movie
A Weaver of Dreams is a lost silent film directed by Edison's John H. Collins
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Bud's Recruit
Title: Bud's Recruit
Character: Edith's Sister
Released: January 18, 1918
Type: Movie
This WWI home-front comedy is the earliest surviving film of King Vidor, who would later go on to make such classics as The Big Parade and The Crowd. A two-reeler, it's a propaganda comedy involving a little boy who can't wait to go fight against the Kaiser, and who sets an unrelentingly patriotic (and militaristic) example for his draft-age, feminized brother and peace-lovin' mother.
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Fighting Mad
Title: Fighting Mad
Character: Lily Sawyer
Released: November 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and she comes back and dies giving birth to a baby girl. Lambert, out of his mind with rage, leaves the baby on a doorstep and vows to never have faith again. He returns to the mining town fifteen years later a drunkard. He meets young, kind Lily Sawyer and is greatly impressed by her compassionate nature. Meanwhile, the gambler has returned and decides to abduct Lily, but his partner recognizes Lambert and tells him Lily is his daughter. He kills the gambler before he can harm Lily and soon his faith returns.
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What'll We Do with Uncle?
Title: What'll We Do with Uncle?
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
A comedy short featuring Mildred Davis
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Her Fractured Voice
Title: Her Fractured Voice
Released: June 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Released June 11, 1917, Her Fractured Voice is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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Marriage a la Carte
Title: Marriage a la Carte
Released: April 1, 1916
Type: Movie
The first film featuring Mildred Davis