Lillian Hall-Davis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lillian Hall-Davis (23 June 1898 – 25 October 1933) was an English actress during the silent film era, featured in major roles in English film and a number of German, French and Italian films. Born Lilian Hall Davis, the daughter of a London taxi driver, her films included a part-colour version of I Pagliacci (1923), The Passionate Adventure (1924), Blighty (1927), The Ring (1927), and The Farmer's Wife (1928), the latter two both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who at the time considered her his "favourite actress." She had a lead role in a "lavish production" of Quo Vadis (1924), an Italian film directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby. Hall-Davis also appeared in a comedy short film made in the Lee DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, As We Lie (1927), co-starring and directed by Miles Mander. Hall-Davis did not make the transition to talkies; in 1933 her "sharp career decline and health problems" prompted her to commit suicide by turning on the gas oven and cutting her own throat at home in the Golders Green area of London. She was 35.
The Farmer's Wife
as Araminta 'Minta' DenchSuccessful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and...
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The Ring
as MabelBoth Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their...
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Quo Vadis?
as Licia"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song,...
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The Unwanted
as Maraine DearsleyA colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.
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Little Women
as Beth MarchJo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo...
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Tommy Atkins
as RuthA cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is...
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The White Sheik
as Rosemary TregarthenIn the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
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Blighty
as Mrs. VilliersA chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
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The Prey of the Wind
as Countess ElisabethA pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
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The Passionate Adventure
as PamelaA rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
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Many Waters
as Mabel BarcaldineAn elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
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Roses of Picardy
as uncreditedIn France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
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Married Love
as Maisieaka Maisie's Marriage, based on Marie Stopes book, a fireman falls in love with a daughter from...
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Express Train of Love
as LissiSilent romantic comedy set on a train.
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