Rhea Mitchell

Rhea Mitchell

Born: December 10, 1890
Died: September 16, 1957
in Portland, Oregon, USA
From Wikipedia

Rhea Mitchell (December 10, 1890 – September 16, 1957) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. She earned the name of "the little stunt girl" because of her willingness to attempt thrilling scenes in motion pictures.

Mitchell began her career in 1909 playing in the Baker Theatre Stock Company in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She followed with a season in the Orpheum Circuit and a run at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. Mitchell made her film debut in 1912 with the New York Motion Picture Corporation  and would eventually appear in over 100 films during her career. She appeared a number of times with Western star William S. Hart playing a leading role in those films. In 1916 she played in The Brink with Forrest Winant and Arthur Maude.

After 1917, her roles became smaller and she appeared in a handful of films through the mid-30s and in several bit parts during the early 1950s which often went uncredited.

Movies for Rhea Mitchell...

The Unknown Man
Title: The Unknown Man
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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Bannerline
Title: Bannerline
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
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Dial 1119
Title: Dial 1119
Released: November 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of a bar hostage.
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The Next Voice You Hear...
Title: The Next Voice You Hear...
Character: Woman in Church (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1950
Type: Movie
The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
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Stars in My Crown
Title: Stars in My Crown
Character: Mrs. Backett (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.
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In the Good Old Summertime
Title: In the Good Old Summertime
Character: Woman at Window (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Mrs. Parkington
Title: Mrs. Parkington
Character: Mrs. Humphrey (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Decker's Secretary (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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The Ship That Died
Title: The Ship That Died
Character: Passenger on Mary Celeste
Released: February 19, 1938
Type: Movie
This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no discernible reason - of crew, passengers and captain. At "the famed nautical court of Gibraltar", investigators propose three hypotheses.
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Character: Passenger (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
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The Big Bluff
Title: The Big Bluff
Released: December 2, 1933
Type: Movie
In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be from British royalty who is an "old friend".
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Modern Youth
Title: Modern Youth
Released: April 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Modern Youth is a lost silent film.
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The Greatest Menace
Title: The Greatest Menace
Character: Mary Lewis
Released: May 19, 1923
Type: Movie
A DA's son gets involved in a drug-related murder, and it's up to his father and sister to get him out.
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A Ridin' Romeo
Title: A Ridin' Romeo
Character: Mabel Brentwood
Released: May 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Jim Rose is a young ranch hand in love with the boss' daughter, Mabel. The rancher, King Brentwood, who is being sued for breach of promise by a local widow, opposes the match. Learning that the annoying woman is coming to pay him a visit, Brentwood has his men fake a holdup of her stagecoach.
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The Scoffer
Title: The Scoffer
Character: Alice Porn
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Dr. Stannard Wayne -- like all "good" men of the times -- is a God-fearing soul. He marries the former mistress of his friend, Dr. Arthur Richards, without knowing her past. Richards, an abortionist, resumes his affair with the woman and runs off with her. But before he leaves, he frames Wayne for one of the illegal operations he has done, and the innocent man is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out, Wayne has become angry and cynical.
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The Devil's Claim
Title: The Devil's Claim
Character: Virginia Crosby
Released: May 2, 1920
Type: Movie
A Persian novelist living in New York throws aside the woman who loves him, and she gets an American woman to help get him back. Meanwhile, the novelist's current novel is in progress, and it's dramatized for us as he writes.
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The Sleeping Lion
Title: The Sleeping Lion
Character: Kate Billings
Released: June 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch.
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The Money Corral
Title: The Money Corral
Character: Janet Collins
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Cowhand Lem Beason wins a shooting contest at a Western rodeo, and as a result is hired by railroad president Gregory Collins to return to Chicago with Collins to take charge of security for Collins' vaults. Lem is reluctant to go, but Collins' pretty niece Rose changes his mind. In Chicago, Lem finds a great deal of criminal activity, but none of it can get the best of him.
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Unexpected Places
Title: Unexpected Places
Character: Ruth Penfield
Released: September 30, 1918
Type: Movie
The valet of Lord Harold Varden, on a secret mission to our Government, has been murdered. Dick Holloway, a reporter, detailed to the story, calls on Lord Varden just as the latter feels the effects of poison administered to him. He takes the place of the nobleman when his American cousins come for him, and not only saves his lordship's papers, but captures the spies detailed to get them.
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Boston Blackie's Little Pal
Title: Boston Blackie's Little Pal
Character: Mary
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
While burgling a mansion, Blackie is interrupted by little Joey, who has been awakened from his slumbers. Blackie gently orders the kid to return to bed, but Joey refuses to do so unless Blackie helps him say his prayers. Thus is formed a strong friendship between Blackie and his "little pal," inspiring our raffish hero to rescue Joey's mother Rosemary Theby from a scandalous situation.
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A Lion of the Hills
Title: A Lion of the Hills
Released: May 1, 1918
Type: Movie
The Lion of the Hills is a Western film.
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Honor's Cross
Title: Honor's Cross
Character: Jane Cabot
Released: May 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Social Ambition
Title: Social Ambition
Character: Rose
Released: May 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Whither Thou Goest
Title: Whither Thou Goest
Character: Maizie
Released: June 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Donald marries Maizie in order to save his brother. The couple go to Arizona where their love ripens, and through Maizie's prayers, Donald regains his health. Mrs. Van Wye then comes to visit and tells Maizie that she is preventing Donald from assuming his rightful place in society. Crushed, Maizie starts across the desert alone, and when Donald learns of his mother's dreadful behavior, he follows Maizie and begs her to stay.
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The Gilded Youth
Title: The Gilded Youth
Character: Mary
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Pinky Cochrane is one of a trio of starving artists: the other two are Sam Wellbridge and Mac MacTavish. When one of their favorite models dies, the three heroes take charge of the woman's infant son Victor. Once the boy has grown to manhood, his three foster fathers decide to choose a likely wife for their "shared" son.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Constance Bonacieux
Released: February 6, 1916
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan leaves home travelling to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court.
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The Phantom Extra
Title: The Phantom Extra
Character: Hazel Flemming
Released: July 28, 1915
Type: Movie
John Zeldon, the newly elected State senator and pledged to fight for the Miners' Bill, requiring the installation of new safety devices in the coal mines, in his speech to the miners the night before his departure, assures them that they can count on him to the last ditch.On his arrival in the capital he is taken up by Mr. Whalen, the brains of the lobby and secretly its chief, who flatters John and invites him out with a brilliant set of men and women who make a lion of him in order to gain his vote against the proposed bill. John's head is turned by their flattery and when Hazel Flemming, his fiancée and star reporter on his home paper, comes to the capitol for an interview with John, she is amazed to find him wavering and realizes the fight is lost unless she can make him realize the mistake he is making. To do this she has a phantom extra printed telling in thrilling headlines of a horrible accident in the coal mines, wherein 200 miners have lost their lives
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Tools of Providence
Title: Tools of Providence
Character: Daisy Austin
Released: June 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Dakota Dan, who runs the saloon and gambling hall, is refusing to take another drink with the boys, who commence to kid him, saying he's been scared to drink ever since he heard the new parson's daughter was going to convert him. Dakota flushes and replies half angrily that he has never seen the parson's girl and don't ever want to. However that afternoon Daisy goes to the saloon and invites Dakota to attend church. Dakota refuses her invitation. Daisy tells him she will make a bargain with him to tend his bar for five minutes if he will go to church the next day. Dakota is slightly startled, but he admires her grit and accepts the challenge. Daisy goes behind the bar. The men line up and she is about to serve a fresh guy when he suddenly reaches over and kisses her. Dakota immediately knocks him "cold," and, ashamed of his bargain with Daisy, grimly escorts her to the door. The next day he tells the men that if they don't accompany him to church he will close.
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The Diamond from the Sky
Title: The Diamond from the Sky
Released: May 3, 1915
Type: Movie
This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.
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On the Night Stage
Title: On the Night Stage
Character: Belle Shields
Released: April 15, 1915
Type: Movie
A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who converts her and she marries him. The robber is so impressed by this that he decides to turn over a new leaf. However, a shady gambler sets his sights on the former saloon girl, and the robber has to protect her from his advances.
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The Devil
Title: The Devil
Character: Milli
Released: April 1, 1915
Type: Movie
The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good. The Devil, taking this as a challenge, decides to bring about the couple's downfall.
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Mr. 'Silent' Haskins
Title: Mr. 'Silent' Haskins
Character: Priscilla Miller
Released: February 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Lon 'Silent' Haskins competes for the affection of a woman who recently inherited ownership of the local watering hole.
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The Scourge of the Desert
Title: The Scourge of the Desert
Character: Ellen Holt
Released: January 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Bill Evers, a gambling house keeper, is in reality the "Desert Scourge," an outlaw.
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In the Sage Brush Country
Title: In the Sage Brush Country
Character: Edith Wilding
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
In what scenarist C. Gardner Sullivan misleadingly called “The Romantic Adventures of a Woman of the ’50s,” this story has Hart play Jim Brandon, who has just robbed the Wolf Creek stage of a payroll meant for Frank Wilding’s Lost Hope Mine. Fearing another holdup, Wilding reluctantly entrusts his daughter Edith with the next payroll. Confident of his concealed identity, Brandon comes to town, orders drinks at the local saloon, and hears that this is “payday” for the mine. Outside, he realizes Edith will be carrying the payroll and follows her onto the stage. When it stops at the Mountain House Restaurant, Brandon protects Edith from a man forcing his attention on her, which forges an unacknowledged bond between them. strangely leaves her to barricade the door.