Marie Prevost

Marie Prevost

Born: November 7, 1896
Died: January 23, 1937
in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
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Marie Prevost (born Marie Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 - January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her twenty-year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.

Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925).

After being let go by Warner Bros in early 1926, Prevost's career began to decline and she was relegated to secondary roles. She was also beset with personal problems, including the death of her mother in 1926 and the breakdown of her marriage to actor Kenneth Harlan in 1927, which fueled her depression. She began to abuse alcohol and binge eat, resulting in a weight gain that made it difficult for her to secure acting jobs. By 1935, Prevost was only able to secure bit parts in films. She made her last onscreen appearance in 1936.

After years of drinking, Prevost died of acute alcoholism at the age of 38 in January 1937. Prevost's estate was valued at $300 since she had squandered most of her earnings. Her death prompted the Hollywood community to create the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.

Movies for Marie Prevost...

Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Title: Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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Wedding Yells
Title: Wedding Yells
Character: Winifred Snood
Released: March 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
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A Small Town Idol
Title: A Small Town Idol
Character: Marcelle
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel, Jim Jones, wants Mary for himself. Jim uses a publicity still that Sam sent away for against him to show Sam the cad in the eyes of Mary. Disgraced and without Mary, Sam leaves town and heads for Hollywood to redeem himself. Despite not being typical leading man material, Sam is able to make a success of it in Hollywood, and wants to return to Sleepytown a new man and to get Mary back. But Jim will not give Mary up without a fight, he using any means, including lying, to turn the town, including Mary, against Sam, their newly beloved hometown son. This 1939 version was re-edited from a 1921 film with added sound.
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Ten Laps to Go
Title: Ten Laps to Go
Character: Elsie, Cafe Waitress
Released: December 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Larry Evans, champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva, who has more ambitions than merely winning the races; he has designs on the motor patent held by Corbett (Tom Moore), Larry's employer. Eddie also has a yen for Corbett's daughter, Norma, who prefers Larry. Eddie intentionally causes a race wreck that injures Larry and sends him to the hospital.
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13 Hours by Air
Title: 13 Hours by Air
Character: Waitress in Omaha
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
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Tango
Title: Tango
Character: Betty Barlow, Treasure's Roomate
Released: February 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
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Hands Across the Table
Title: Hands Across the Table
Character: Nona
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
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Keystone Hotel
Title: Keystone Hotel
Character: Mrs. Clarabelle Sterling
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Amy (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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The Eleventh Commandment
Title: The Eleventh Commandment
Character: Tessie Florin
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
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Parole Girl
Title: Parole Girl
Character: Jeanie Vance
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
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Slightly Married
Title: Slightly Married
Character: Nellie Gordon
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
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Carnival Boat
Title: Carnival Boat
Character: Babe
Released: March 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Buck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants Buck to take over when he retires. Buck is in love with Honey, a show-girl on the carnival boat, but she won't live in a lumberjack camp.
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Three Wise Girls
Title: Three Wise Girls
Character: Dot
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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Hell Divers
Title: Hell Divers
Character: Lulu
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Title: The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Character: Rosalie
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
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Reckless Living
Title: Reckless Living
Character: Alice
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.
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The Runaround
Title: The Runaround
Character: Margy
Released: August 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged in by her fellow chorines
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Sporting Blood
Title: Sporting Blood
Character: Angela 'Angie' Ludeking
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
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The Good Bad Girl
Title: The Good Bad Girl
Character: Trixie Barnes
Released: May 20, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
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It's a Wise Child
Title: It's a Wise Child
Character: Annie Ostrom
Released: April 10, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
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Gentleman's Fate
Title: Gentleman's Fate
Character: Mabel
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Paid
Title: Paid
Character: Agnes Lynch
Released: December 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
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War Nurse
Title: War Nurse
Character: Rosalie
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.
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Sweethearts on Parade
Title: Sweethearts on Parade
Character: Nita
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
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Ladies of Leisure
Title: Ladies of Leisure
Character: Dot Lamarr
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Diana Hoster
Released: January 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
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The Flying Fool
Title: The Flying Fool
Character: Pat Riley
Released: July 10, 1929
Type: Movie
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself.
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Divorce Made Easy
Title: Divorce Made Easy
Character: Mabel Deering
Released: July 6, 1929
Type: Movie
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All Faces West
Title: All Faces West
Character: Arleta Vance
Released: March 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Outlaw trio joins wagon train, planning to rob it.
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The Sideshow
Title: The Sideshow
Character: Queenie Parker
Released: December 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered him in bookings; what he doesn't know is that the competitor has also planted a saboteur who creates accidents in hopes of reducing the value of the circus. Meanwhile, he's also hired a beautiful young woman as the magician's assistant, with eyes toward more - but he realizes that, as a midget, she won't have him.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: Helen Hayes
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
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The Godless Girl
Title: The Godless Girl
Character: Mame
Released: August 20, 1928
Type: Movie
High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.
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A Blonde for a Night
Title: A Blonde for a Night
Character: Marie
Released: February 25, 1928
Type: Movie
After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.
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On to Reno
Title: On to Reno
Character: Vera
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
This is a farce, concerning itself with a young husband and a wife who are becoming stranged over money matters. A stenographer, Vera, overheats her bosses’ client say she cannot stay in Reno the necessary three months to get a divorce, offering $1,000 to the one who will impersonate her there. Vera takes the job - but the woman’s husband, not knowing, also comes...
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The Rush Hour
Title: The Rush Hour
Character: Margie Dolan
Released: December 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Margie Dolan dreams of endless pleasure and adventures abroad, while her sweetheart, Dan Morley, is devoted to his drugstore business and his eventual marriage to Margie. When the horrors of commuting become unendurable Margie boards an ocean liner on a business errand and decides to stowaway. She is soon discovered and is put to work in the linen room. Dunrock and Yvonne, an unscrupulous pair plan to relieve a millionaire called Finch of his fortune. They hire Margie to be an unwitting romantic companion to Finch to make their job that much easier!
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The Girl in the Pullman
Title: The Girl in the Pullman
Character: Irene Burton
Released: October 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother they all take the train, including Irene and her lawyer, who will try to prevent him from committing bigamy, as the divorce won't be effective until midnight.
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Title: Getting Gertie's Garter
Character: Gertie Darling
Released: February 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.
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Man Bait
Title: Man Bait
Character: Madge Dreyer
Released: January 18, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent romantic comedy...
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Almost a Lady
Title: Almost a Lady
Character: Marcia Blake
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Marcia, a pretty young girl, goes to work as a model for a lecherous dress-shop owner. She resists his advances, despite his giving her expensive gifts. One day Mrs. Reilly, a prominent society woman and a customer of the shop, invites Marcia to a party she's throwing. Marcia winds up impersonating a famous writer in order to impress a "duke" for Mrs. Reilly, who doesn't know the "duke" isn't really a duke. Complications ensue.
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Up in Mabel's Room
Title: Up in Mabel's Room
Character: Mabel Ainsworth
Released: June 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
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Other Women's Husbands
Title: Other Women's Husbands
Character: Kay Lambert
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
When his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old college friend, Jack Harding, with whom Kay has flirted on a previous dinner engagement; there he finds solace in the charms of Roxana, and he soon is making excuses to his wife for his frequent absences from home.
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The Cave Man
Title: The Cave Man
Character: Myra Gaylord
Released: February 6, 1926
Type: Movie
A bored society girl cuts a hundred dollar bill in half, writes a message on one half for whoever finds it and throws it out the window of her apartment. The person who finds it turns out to be the driver of a coal truck. So she decides to give him a complete makeover in order to make him presentable to her society friends.
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His Jazz Bride
Title: His Jazz Bride
Character: Gloria Gregory
Released: January 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Dick Gregory, is hard pressed to pay the bills of his wife, Gloria, and equally hard pressed to keep up with the frantic pace of her life. Edward Martindel, an attorney who represents a corporation against which Dick is litigating, attempts to bribe Dick with a substantial sum of money; Dick refuses, and Gloria develops a complaint against him on this account. After a particularly bitter argument, Gloria leaves Dick and joins some friends for a moonlight cruise. Alec Seymour, a friend of the Gregorys', tells Dick that the boat on which Gloria is sailing has not met safety standards, and Dick goes after her, saving her life when the boat sinks. Gloria repents of her wild and wicked ways, and she and Dick settle into calm domesticity.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Molly Brian
Released: November 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act. They all pretend to be members of the household when locked in by a well meaning police officer.
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Bobbed Hair
Title: Bobbed Hair
Character: Connemara Moore
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
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Kiss Me Again
Title: Kiss Me Again
Character: LouLou Fleury
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Gaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice.
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Recompense
Title: Recompense
Character: Julie Gmelyn
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A black-and-white melodrama where France, South Africa and England featured prominently in the narrative about Julie Gmelyn, a bright-eyed, single-minded Red Cross nurse and Peter Graham a clergyman who gives up his chaplaincy and goes to war.
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The Dark Swan
Title: The Dark Swan
Character: Eve Quinn
Released: November 26, 1924
Type: Movie
An American drama based on a novel
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The Lover of Camille
Title: The Lover of Camille
Character: Marie Duplessis
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
The Lover of Camille was a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont, and starring Monte Blue. The film was based on the French novel Deburau by Sacha Guitry, which was also adapted into a Broadway play by Harley Granville-Barker.
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Three Women
Title: Three Women
Character: Harriet
Released: August 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
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Tarnish
Title: Tarnish
Character: Nettie Dark
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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Cornered
Title: Cornered
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A pair of professional thieves discover that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer for wealthy heiress Margaret Waring. They wait until Margaret is absent from the house, then place Mary there to make their heist easier. Unfortunately, Margaret returns before they've finished the job and gets shot. When the police get there, both women claim to be Margaret Waring and accuse the other of being the thief--and they look so much alike that no one can tell the difference.
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Being Respectable
Title: Being Respectable
Character: Valerie Winship
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.
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Daughters of Pleasure
Title: Daughters of Pleasure
Character: Marjory Hadley
Released: June 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Newly rich Mark Hadley drifts from his old-fashioned wife into a secret liason with Lila Millas, a pretty French girl. At the same time, he advises his daughter, Marjory, to break her ties with Kent Merrill...
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How to Educate a Wife
Title: How to Educate a Wife
Character: Mabel Todd
Released: May 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as a means of winning customers.
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The Hollywood Kid
Title: The Hollywood Kid
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 1924
Type: Movie
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
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The Marriage Circle
Title: The Marriage Circle
Character: Mizzi Stock
Released: February 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are unhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife, hires a detective to spy on her in hopes of obtaining a divorce. Mizzi sets her sights on seducing Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Dr. Braun's colleague, Dr. Mueller, who has his eye on Charlotte, sees this as his opportunity. Through a misunderstanding, Charlotte thinks that her husband is interested in Miss Hofer, and asks Mizzi to keep him occupied... around and around the circle goes in Lubitsch's refined comedy of mistaken infidelity.
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The Wanters
Title: The Wanters
Character: Myra Hastings
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride. She is snubbed by his relatives and shocked by the hypocrisy of his wealthy friends. Disillusioned, she runs away: Elliot follows and saves her from being hit by a train when her foot gets caught in a switch.
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Red Lights
Title: Red Lights
Character: Ruth Carson
Released: September 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
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Brass
Title: Brass
Character: Marjorie Jones
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.
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Heroes of the Street
Title: Heroes of the Street
Character: Betty Benton
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mother, brothers, and sisters. He gets a job as an usher in a theater but really wants to become a policeman to avenge the death of his father. He soon finds himself involved in a fake kidnapping, real gangsters and a tip on the identity of the man who killed his dad.
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The Beautiful and Damned
Title: The Beautiful and Damned
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Gloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging themselves. Tony's wealthy grandfather Adam Patch dies, but to their surprise he leaves Tony nothing. The couple try their hands at actually working for a living, but they don't like it and return to their spendthrift ways. Something has to give, and it soon does.
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Her Night of Nights
Title: Her Night of Nights
Character: Molly May Mahone
Released: June 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Molly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the advances of her boss's son in favor of a shipping clerk, late of the backwoods.
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Kissed
Title: Kissed
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Constance Keener, who is betrothed to young millionaire Merton Torrey, confesses to him her desire for romance such as he does not give her. On the occasion of a masquerade ball, Torrey is unable to escort her; and while she is alone on the balcony, someone suddenly seizes and kisses her, then disappears. She attempts to discover her assailant's identity.
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A Parisian Scandal
Title: A Parisian Scandal
Released: December 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Without social or romantic interests, young Basil Hammond goes to Paris to study paleontology and to bring back a report to his guardian on the manners and moral character of her granddaughter, Liane. At first he is disgusted by her attempts to vamp him, but eventually, he falls in love with her.
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Nobody's Fool
Title: Nobody's Fool
Released: October 31, 1921
Type: Movie
Unattractive and poor Polly Gordon, is taken to the college dance by eligible Vincent DePuyster only as part of a fraternity initiation. Suitors flock to her, however, when she inherits half a million dollars from her aunt, but she grows cynical and dismisses them.
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Moonlight Follies
Title: Moonlight Follies
Character: Nan Rutledge
Released: September 24, 1921
Type: Movie
Vivacious Marie Prevost starred in this pleasant little Universal comedy about a flirt who stages moonlight dances at her father's country estate in order to provoke eligible men to fall in love with her.
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Call a Cop
Title: Call a Cop
Character: The Banker's Daughter
Released: June 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Call a Cop is a 1921 comedy short.
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She Sighed by the Seaside
Title: She Sighed by the Seaside
Character: The Beach Girl
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and a wild boat ride in this Mack Sennett two-reeler. Roughly only half of the film still exists.
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A Small Town Idol
Title: A Small Town Idol
Character: Marcelle Mansfield
Released: February 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: The Faithful Wife
Released: April 17, 1920
Type: Movie
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
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Why Beaches Are Popular
Title: Why Beaches Are Popular
Character: Bathing Girl
Released: May 10, 1919
Type: Movie
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Title: Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Character: A Daughter of Belgium
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
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Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement #6
Title: Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement #6
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Shows brief glimpses into the lives of movie stars of the time. Included is shots of Elsie Janis in her garden in Tarrytown, where she gives an impersonation of Mary Pickford. The film also shows the parts of the marriage ceremony between James Cruze and Marquerite Snow on January 28, 1913. The film claims this to be the first marriage to be captured on film. The film then moves on to some shots of Louise Glaum and her mother. This in turn is followed with a behind the scenes filming of a stunt involving a bathtub. The film then ends with some shots of Clara Kimball Young, Teddy (Mack Sennett's dog) and finally Marie Prevost.
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She Loved Him Plenty
Title: She Loved Him Plenty
Released: August 11, 1918
Type: Movie
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
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His Hidden Purpose
Title: His Hidden Purpose
Character: The Girl in the Case
Released: January 27, 1918
Type: Movie
The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.” But her dad wants her to marry someone else (Chester Conklin) and takes her away on vacation to get her away from Her Sweetheart. He follows them, disguised as a widow. There is a genuinely funny scene where Marie is disguised as a man to go meet her boyfriend disguised as a widow, and slapstick happens which results in Chester being found in his underpants with the widow in a barn.
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Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Title: Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Character: Lady Platt's Niece
Released: April 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Short comedy
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Her Nature Dance
Title: Her Nature Dance
Character: The Cashier
Released: April 8, 1917
Type: Movie
Unknown if lost.
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Sunshine
Title: Sunshine
Released: May 6, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 short starring Jack Cooper, Hank Mann & Bobby Dunn.
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Unto Those Who Sin
Title: Unto Those Who Sin
Character: Celeste
Released: March 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Nadia, a stenographer, must give her meager earnings to her drunken father. When he shoots his wife's lover, Nadia decides to move in with her flashy girl friend Mabel, who soon introduces her to the fast life.