Clarissa Selwynne

Born: 1886-02-26


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as Mrs. Van Twiller (as Clarissa Selwyn)
Released: 1918-01-19

A runaway becomes a thief and is sentenced to a reformatory.

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Infatuation

as Lady Ethridge
Released: 1925-12-27

Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite...

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Princess Virtue

as Countess Oudoff
Released: 1917-11-12

The daughter of a disowned upper class Bostonian finds acceptance in Parisian society.

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Creaking Stairs

as The Buyer (as Clarissa Selwyn)
Released: 1919-02-10

Dearie Lane refuses to marry Fred Millard, whom she loves, because of her previous affair with...

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The Isle of Lost Ships

as Aunt Emma / Mrs. Renwick
Released: 1929-10-16

The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a...

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Slightly Married

as Mrs. Martin
Released: 1932-10-15

Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for...

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Cynara

as Onslow
Released: 1932-12-24

A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to...

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Beau Brummel

as Mrs. Wertham
Released: 1924-03-30

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord...

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The Cup of Fury

as Lady Clifton-Wyatt
Released: 1920-01-01

Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in...

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Dangerous Days

as Natalie Spencer
Released: 1920-03-14

Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to...

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Sinners' Parade

as Mrs. Adams
Released: 1928-09-14

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The Bride's Awakening

as uncredited
Released: 1918-01-01

A husband orders his wife to keep their marriage a secret, in order to better continue his...

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Mademoiselle Midnight

as Empress Eugénie - Prologue
Released: 1924-04-14

Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her...

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Home

as Mrs. Deering
Released: 1919-08-31

A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding...

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My Man

as Landlady
Released: 1928-12-15

Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical...

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We Moderns

as Lady Kitty Sundale
Released: 1925-11-15

A 1925 film directed by John Francis Dillon.

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Come Across

as Harriet Houston
Released: 1929-06-30

Mary, a high society girl, wants to see how the other half lives, so she becomes a cabaret...

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Glorious Betsy

as Aunt Mary
Released: 1928-04-25

Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The...

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The Curse of Eve

as Marie
Released: 1917-10-10

When young Eva Stanley comes home from college, she finds that her mother is deeply involved in...

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Lilies of the Field

as Second Maid
Released: 1930-01-05

Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in...

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The Baby Cyclone

as Mrs. Webster
Released: 1928-09-26

A woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy.

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Resurrection

as Princess Olga Ivanovitch Nekhludof
Released: 1927-03-19

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself,...

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Call It a Day

as Annoyed Woman in Theater (uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-17

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures...

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Jazz Mad

as Mrs. Ostberg
Released: 1928-11-18

A composer and his daughter emigrate to America in the hope that he can sell his symphony. But...

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Sackcloth and Scarlet

as Miss Curtis
Released: 1925-03-22

Silent Drama

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The Crystal Cup

as Mrs. Pleyden
Released: 1927-10-16

A beautiful young girl has been raised by her bitter mother to hate all men, but her beauty...

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The Love Trap

as Mrs. Harrington
Released: 1929-08-04

A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued...

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Gloriana

as uncredited
Released: 1916-11-06

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted...

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Broadway Daddies

as Mrs. Winthrop Forrest
Released: 1928-04-07

Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for...

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Society Secrets

as Aunt
Released: 1921-02-18

Amos Kerran and his wife live a traditional, old-fashioned life on a Connecticut farm, while...

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The Scarlet Shadow

as Edith Presby
Released: 1919-03-10

Elena Evans is raised by her puritanical Aunt Elvira, who believes that because of Elena's...

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My Pal, the King

as Dowager Queen
Released: 1932-04-03

The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.

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Sacred and Profane Love

as Mrs. Sardis
Released: 1921-05-22

Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired...

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A Broadway Lady

as Mrs. Westbrook
Released: 1925-11-15

Chorus girl Rosalie Ryan catches the eye of Bob Westbrook, a wealthy playboy. He proposes to her...

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High Steppers

as Mrs. Perryam (as Clarissa Selwyn)
Released: 1926-03-14

Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In...

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The Flash of an Emerald

as Marie
Released: 1915-09-27

The picture starts with Robert Warwick walking into the office of director Albert Capellani (the...

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Mother, I Need You

as uncredited
Released: 1918-09-01

A young woman who became pregnant from an assault faces legal trouble and scandal after having...

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The Brass Bottle

as Mrs. Hamilton (as Clarissa Selwyn)
Released: 1923-07-22

Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks...

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The Talk of the Town

as Aunt Harriet
Released: 1918-09-28

Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her...

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Naughty But Nice

as Miss Perkins
Released: 1927-06-25

Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl...

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The Double Standard

as Grace Fairbrother (as Clarissa Selwyn)
Released: 1917-07-23

Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws...

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Straight from Paris

as Mrs. Van Austen
Released: 1921-04-09

A young man takes a trip to Europe, and when he returns home he brings along the woman he fell...

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The Man Called Back

as Mrs. Cartright
Released: 1932-07-16

Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert...

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The Woman Conquers

as Jeanette Duval
Released: 1922-12-01

Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay...

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The Last Man on Earth

as Dr. Prodwell
Released: 1924-11-02

An epidemic has killed off all of the fertile men on earth, except for Elmer Smith, a hillbilly...

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The Love Swindle

as uncredited
Released: 1918-08-05

A wealthy woman attempts to win over a man who hates the rich.

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Women of Glamour

as Woman
Released: 1937-03-09

A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.

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A Weaver of Dreams

as Cynthia Bancroft
Released: 1918-03-02

A Weaver of Dreams is a lost silent film directed by Edison's John H. Collins

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The Calendar Girl

as Madame Lizette
Released: 1917-10-15

Mildred Manning, known as Middy, is an apprentice in Madame Lizette's fashionable shop. Her...

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One Good Turn

as Ma Pearson
Released: 1936-10-11

In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while...

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The Big Little Person

as Mrs. Manning
Released: 1919-05-12

After Arathea Manning loses her hearing during an epidemic of scarlet fever among the children...

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The Fast Worker

as Mrs. O'Dell Carney
Released: 1924-10-25

Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith,...

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