Lilyan Tashman

Born: 1896-10-22

Lilyan Tashman (October 23, 1896 - March 21, 1934) was an American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses and the vindictive "other woman."


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That's Dancing!

as From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
Released: 1985-01-18

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the...

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Millie

as Helen Riley
Released: 1931-02-06

After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and...

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So This Is Paris

as Mme. Georgette Lalle, A Dancer
Released: 1926-07-31

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne...

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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1942-01-01

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of...

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Craig's Wife

as Mrs. Passmore
Released: 1928-09-16

Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in...

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Girls About Town

as Marie Bailey
Released: 1931-11-07

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in...

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The Matrimonial Bed

as Sylvaine
Released: 1930-08-01

Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with...

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Riptide

as Sylvia Wilson
Released: 1934-03-29

Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim....

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Bulldog Drummond

as Irma
Released: 1929-05-02

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the...

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The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)
Released: 1931-07-08

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount...

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Those We Love

as Valerie
Released: 1932-09-11

Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity...

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A Texas Steer

as Dixie Style
Released: 1927-12-04

Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't...

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Scarlet Dawn

as Vera Zimina
Released: 1932-11-12

During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to...

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New York Nights

as Peggy
Released: 1929-12-28

Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the...

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No, No, Nanette

as Lucille Early
Released: 1930-01-03

A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.

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Mama Loves Papa

as Mrs. McIntosh
Released: 1933-07-14

A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a...

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Manhandled

as Pinkie Doran
Released: 1924-07-21

Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught...

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Up Pops the Devil

as Polly Griscom
Released: 1931-05-19

The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's...

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The Trial of Mary Dugan

as Dagmar Lorne
Released: 1929-06-08

A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama...

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The Parasite

as Laura Randall
Released: 1925-01-20

Arthur Randall becomes prosperous after divorcing his wife, Laura, and she now attempts...

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The Marriage Playground

as Joyce Wheater
Released: 1929-12-12

A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several...

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A Broadway Butterfly

as Thelma Perry
Released: 1925-03-29

Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the...

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Gold Diggers of Broadway

as Eleanor Montgomery
Released: 1929-08-30

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

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I'll Show You the Town

as Fan Green
Released: 1925-06-07

British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and...

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Frankie and Johnnie

as Nellie Bly
Released: 1936-04-30

The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie.

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The Cat Creeps

as Cicily
Released: 1930-11-10

Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.

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Murder by the Clock

as Laura Endicott
Released: 1931-07-21

A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside...

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The Dark Swan

as Sybil Johnson
Released: 1924-11-26

An American drama based on a novel

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Happiness Ahead

as Kay Sears
Released: 1928-06-24

Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and...

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Too Much Harmony

as Lucille Watkins
Released: 1933-09-23

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

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Leathernecking

as Edna
Released: 1930-09-12

Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine...

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Finn and Hattie

as Bessie Chalmers (aka The 'Princess')
Released: 1931-02-04

The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the...

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Phyllis of the Follies

as Mrs. Decker
Released: 1928-06-01

As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter, Broadway dancer Phyllis Sherwood agrees to play a...

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French Dressing

as Peggy Nash
Released: 1927-12-10

Philip and Cynthia Grey are a pair of recently-wed Bostonians, and Cynthia is properly back-bay...

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The Mad Parade

as Lil Wheeler
Released: 1931-09-18

The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.

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The Woman Who Did Not Care

as Iris Carroll
Released: 1927-07-05

The daughter of a boarding house keeper, Iris Carroll (Tashman) is subjected to the unwanted...

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The Lone Wolf's Daughter

as Velma
Released: 1929-02-18

Michael Lanyard, a reformed cracks-man, adopts Adrienne, the daughter of an old friend, and goes...

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The Wiser Sex

as Claire Foster
Released: 1932-03-14

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been...

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Don't Tell the Wife

as Suzanna
Released: 1927-01-22

The Carters, a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in...

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Rocking Moon

as Sasha Larianoff
Released: 1926-01-10

Sasha Larianoff lives on Rocking Moon Island where she runs a blue fox farm with the help of...

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Bright Lights

as Gwen Gould
Released: 1925-11-15

Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an...

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Love's Blindness

as Alice, Duchess of Lincolnwood
Released: 1926-12-04

A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in...

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Pretty Ladies

as Selma Larson
Released: 1925-09-06

Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra...

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Siberia

as Beautiful Blonde
Released: 1926-03-28

Officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts...

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The Stolen Bride

as Ilona Taznadi
Released: 1927-08-10

The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As...

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Puttin' on the Ritz

as Goldie Devere
Released: 1930-02-19

A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.

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One Heavenly Night

as Fritzi Vajos
Released: 1930-12-25

A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.

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The Prince of Headwaiters

as Mae Morin
Released: 1927-07-09

Pierre, the maitre d' at the swanky Ritz Hotel in Paris, discovers that he has a son from his...

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The Road to Reno

as Jackie Millet
Released: 1931-09-25

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff -...

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On the Level

as Lynn Crawford
Released: 1930-05-18

An ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers...

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The Skyrocket

as Ruby Wright
Released: 1926-02-14

In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but...

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Manhattan Cocktail

as Mrs. Renov
Released: 1928-11-24

Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a...

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Hardboiled

as Minnie
Released: 1929-03-20

Chorus girl Teena Johnson may be "hard-boiled," but she's no golddigger. Thus, when the father...

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Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model

as Nita
Released: 1924-04-16

Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up...

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For Alimony Only

as Narcissa Williams
Released: 1926-09-20

A stormy marriage of 6 months between Narcissa and Peter Williams ends in a bitter quarrel, and...

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Head Over Heels

as Edith Penfield
Released: 1922-04-16

When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his...

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Experience

as Pleasure
Released: 1921-08-07

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city....

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Take Me Home

as Derelys Devore
Released: 1928-10-13

Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country...

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Ports of Call

as Lillie
Released: 1925-01-04

Rich club-man Kirk Rainsford, attends a charity bazaar at the home of Marjorie Vail, the society...

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The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

as Greta Verlaine
Released: 1925-08-18

Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she...

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Whispering Smith

as Marion Sinclair
Released: 1926-03-28

Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for...

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The Garden of Weeds

as Hazel
Released: 1924-11-02

The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs...

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Is Love Everything?

as Edythe Stanley
Released: 1924-11-30

Virginia Carter accedes to her family's pressures and marries Jordan Southwick, who comes from a...

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Camille

as Olympe
Released: 1927-09-04

Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.

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Winner Take All

as Felicity Brown
Released: 1924-10-12

Perry Blair starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down,...

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Déclassé

as Mrs. Leslie
Released: 1925-04-11

The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who...

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Evening Clothes

as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: 1927-03-19

Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more...

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Wine, Women and Song

as Frankie Arnette
Released: 1933-03-27

The story of aging chorus girl Frankie Arnette, who'll do anything for publicity. Fiercely...

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