Lillian Leighton

The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as MissionaryAn American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
Movie pageThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz
as Union EnforcerAn early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
Movie pageWhipsaw
as Aunt JaneHot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter,...
Movie pageJoan the Woman
as IsambeauA WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of...
Movie pageFeet First
as Mrs. TannerAn ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a...
Movie pageThe Man from Monterey
as JuanitaA cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers
Movie pageMale and Female
as uncreditedWhen an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
Movie pageThe Sphinx
as Mother WernerA man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene....
Movie pageParisian Love
as FrouchardArmand and Marie survive in the streets until charitable (and wealthy) scientist Pierre Marcel...
Movie pageOld Wives for New
as MaidCharles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest...
Movie pageThe Little American
as Angela's Great AuntA young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral...
Movie pageHollywood
as Lillian LeightonAngela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa....
Movie pagePeck's Bad Boy
as Mrs. George W. Peck - Henry's MaThis portrayal of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get...
Movie pageTorrent
as IsabellaA young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's...
Movie pageTumbleweeds
as Widow RileyWilliam S. Hart stars in this 1925 silent film as a cowboy intent on claiming land during the...
Movie pageThe Lost Romance
as MatildaDr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by...
Movie pageThe Jack-Knife Man
as Widow PotterA dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child...
Movie pageTwo-Fisted
as Mrs. MasonA fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a...
Movie pageThe Prison Without Walls
as uncreditedHelen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is...
Movie pageCastles for Two
as Brian's SisterAn American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid...
Movie pageThe Devil Stone
as BertheFishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed....
Movie pageThe Married Virgin
as Anne Mullins, the MaidIn order to save her wealthy father from disgrace and a possible prison sentence, a daughter...
Movie pageSweepstakes
as Ma ClancyA popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Movie pageSaturday Night
as Mrs. FergusonThough betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to...
Movie pageCrazy to Marry
as Sarah De MorganA doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.
Movie pageSecret Sinners
as Mrs. SimmonsA young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to...
Movie pageFreckles
as Bird WomanFreckles, a one-armed orphan tired of being tormented by others runs away eventually finding a...
Movie pageTill I Come Back to You
as MargotYvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry,...
Movie pageBe Your Age
as Mrs. SchwartzkoppleCharley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late...
Movie pageThe Three Valises
as Mrs. Reilly - the HousekeeperJim Allen accidentally finds a valise full of burglars' tools. At the same time he discovers...
Movie pageSecret Service
as MarthaLewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate...
Movie pageCode of the West
as Ma ThurmanCal Thurman, a timid fellow, thinking that the woman he is to meet at the train station is an...
Movie pageThere's Always Tomorrow
as Flower peddlerIgnored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a...
Movie pageLove Never Dies
as Mrs. CavanaughJohn and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous...
Movie pageOnly 38
as Mrs. PetersThe death of her clergyman husband causes Mrs. Stanley, young mother of teenage twins, to change...
Movie pageThe Grasp of Greed
as uncreditedEn route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a...
Movie pageA Detective's Strategy
as IzetteThis picture tells the very human story, or romance, of an unloved wife and mother, who,...
Movie pageThe Call of the Canyon
as Mrs. HutterReturning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a...
Movie pageThe Thundering Herd
as Mrs. Clark HudnallStory of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
Movie pageThe Hostage
as MarienkaThe Highlanders and Lowlanders are sworn enemies until Lieutenant Kemper, the son of Brigadier...
Movie pageCode of the Sea
as Mrs. McDowYoung Bruce McDow tries to live with the specter of his late Father's perceived folly as a...
Movie pageThe Grand Parade
as Madam StitchNo one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen...
Movie pageWhat Happened to Jones
as Matilda BrownHeeding the pleas of Bobbie Brown, Jimmie Jones packs his trunk full of liquor to present to his...
Movie pageSandy
as Isabel McNeilSandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents...
Movie pageSubway Express
as Mrs. Mary Mullins (as Julianne Leighton)Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder...
Movie pageThe Fair Co-Ed
as HousekeeperMarion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She...
Movie pageThe Awakening
as Mrs. Thomas WilliamsBill Williams, a poor inventor with a large family, suddenly comes into great wealth through the...
Movie pageFair and Muddy
as Mrs. Amanda SchultzLiving in an orphanage, the gang has to deal with Amanda, a child-hating spinster. To receive a...
Movie pageSweet Adeline
as Adeline's MaA shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes...
Movie pageCalifornia
as Duenna"The war with Mexico serves to bring together American officer and Mexican senorita, the former...
Movie pageThe Frontiersman
as Mrs. Andrew JacksonJohn Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make...
Movie page$50,000 Reward
as Mrs. MillerTex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by...
Movie pageThe Barbarian
as RedwingElliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his...
Movie pageA Lady's Name
as Mrs. HainesBright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when...
Movie pageRent Free
as Maria TebbsA penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its...
Movie pageThe Dancin' Fool
as Ma BuddSylvester Tibble is a clerk in his uncle's restaurant. Sylvester dreams of becoming a famous...
Movie pageMidsummer Madness
as Caretaker's WifeBecause Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson)...
Movie pageA City Sparrow
as Ma EnnisA drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on...
Movie pageTillie
as Sarah OberholtzzerTillie Getz, the eldest daughter of Jacob Getz, a brutal, driving father, lives in a...
Movie pageThe Fighting Sheriff
as Aunt Sally (as Lilliane Leighton)A dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob...
Movie pageUnder the Lash
as Tant Anna VanderbergThe wife of a tyrannical Boer husband discovers what life could be like when a handsome...
Movie pageThe Lane That Had No Turning
as MarieLouis Racine has inherited great wealth and married famed singer Madelinette, whom he...
Movie pageIn the Name of Love
as Mother DufrayneNaturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his...
Movie pageThe Grub Stake
as uncreditedA young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a...
Movie pageRuggles of Red Gap
as Ma PettingillAn English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Movie pageRed Hot Romance
as MammyAfter his father's death, Roland Stone learns that his will stipulates that he must go to the...
Movie pageFlaming Fathers
as Mama GimplewartPapa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.
Movie pageHeld by the Enemy
as ClarissaDuring the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her...
Movie pageThe Wheels of Justice
as Mrs. Allen CourtrightJames Hazen, one-time crook, now wealthy and reformed, is recognized on his wedding day, by a...
Movie pageGo Straight!
as Gilda's AuntGilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to...
Movie pageA Jolt for the Janitor
as HildaA comical story of the Flannigan Flats, showing how the janitor got the worst of it when,...
Movie pageThe Road Through the Dark
as Louise JardeeGabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John...
Movie pageThe Gold Brick
as Mrs. TillReporter Jones, a hustler, discovers a gold-brick displayed in a jeweler's window and sees a...
Movie pageSweeney's Dream
as Mrs. SweeneyWhile many men think they can manage a hotel, a theater, or a newspaper, they are in the...
Movie pageThe Fire Cop
as Maggy BranniganAndy Brannigan was a good-natured policeman, large of frame, but limited in nerve. He has,...
Movie pageThe Girl from God's Country
as NotawaA picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
Movie pageBread Upon the Waters
as Mrs. James PrestonTim Clancy, an ex-convict, on the day of his release, returns home and is welcomed by his mother...
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