Alma Tell
From Wikipedia Alma Tell (March 27, 1898 - December 29, 1937) was an American stage and motion picture actress whose career in cinema began in 1915 and lasted into the talkie era of the early 1930s. She began her career as an actress on the stages of New York before making her screen debut in the Edward José-directed drama Simon, the Jester, released in September 1915. Tell was most often cast in films as the second leading lady. Throughout the 1920s, she appeared opposite such leading silent film actresses as Mae Murray, Corinne Griffith and Madge Kennedy and would achieve leading lady status in 1923's J. Gordon Edwards-directed film The Silent Command, opposite actors Edmund Lowe, Martha Mansfield and Béla Lugosi. She made her last film appearance in the 1934 John M. Stahl-directed romantic-drama Imitation of Life, which starred Claudette Colbert. Tell died in 1937.
Imitation of Life
as Mrs. Craven (uncredited)A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter....
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as Mrs. Richard DecaturA distinguished young Naval officer from a celebrated military falls prey to a terrorist and his...
Movie pageThe Smugglers
as Mrs. WattsWhile honeymooning in Paris, wealthy John Battleby Watts is persuaded to purchase a $20,000...
Movie pageThe Right to Love
as Lady EdithAn adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.
Movie pageOn with the Dance
as Lady TremelynSonia, a Russian dancer, comes to New York seeking her fortune. She marries Peter Derwynt, a...
Movie pageLove Comes Along
as CarlottaAn American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl,...
Movie pageBroadway Rose
as Barbara RoyceRosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents...
Movie pageThe Iron Trail
as Eliza AppletonAlaskan railroad magnate Curtis Gordon hires engineer Dan Appleton to design a railroad route up...
Movie pageSaturday's Children
as FlorrieYouthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in...
Movie pageSan Francisco Nights
as RuthYoung lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
Movie pageNearly Married
as Gertrude RobinsonSilent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.
Movie pagePaying the Piper
as Marcia MarilloLarry and Barbara, both the products of rich but broken homes, plan a marriage of convenience....
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