Mary Philbin

Born: 1902-07-16

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Loretta Philbin (July 16, 1902 – May 7, 1993) was an American film actress of the silent film era, who is best known for playing the roles of Christine Daaé in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera opposite Lon Chaney, and as Dea in The Man Who Laughs. Both roles cast her as the beauty in Beauty and the Beast type stories.


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The Phantom of the Opera

as Christine Daaé
Released: 1925-09-22

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to...

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The Man Who Laughs

as Dea
Released: 1928-04-27

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in...

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Foolish Wives

as Crippled Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1922-01-11

A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American...

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Merry-Go-Round

as Agnes Urban
Released: 1923-07-01

A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer,...

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Universal Horror

as (archive footage)
Released: 1998-10-08

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during...

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Stella Maris

as Stella Maris / Unity Blake
Released: 1925-12-13

Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle...

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Red Courage

as Eliza Fay
Released: 1921-10-10

Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local...

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The Rose of Paris

as Mitsi
Released: 1924-11-09

A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the...

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The Last Performance

as Julie
Released: 1929-10-13

A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is...

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Human Hearts

as Ruth
Released: 1922-08-19

Innocent country boy Tom Logan is taken in by the scheming Barbara Kay, a city woman who knows...

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Fools Highway

as Mamie Rose
Released: 1924-03-01

Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes...

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Life in Hollywood No. 3

as Self
Released: 1927-08-25

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

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The Trouper

as Mary Lee
Released: 1922-07-23

Working as a wardrobe girl in a cheap traveling stock company, Mamie Judd secretly loves Jenks,...

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The Temple of Venus

as Moira
Released: 1923-11-11

Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.

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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

as Christine Daae (archive footage)
Released: 2014-08-01

Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat,...

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Fifth Avenue Models

as Isobel Ludant
Released: 1925-04-26

A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is...

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Love Me and the World is Mine

as Hannerl
Released: 1927-09-26

In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of...

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The Thrill Chaser

as Herself - Cameo
Released: 1923-11-26

In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood...

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The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

as Self
Released: 1922-03-15

The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western...

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Surrender

as Lea Lyon
Released: 1927-01-02

Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but...

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Sure Fire

as uncredited
Released: 1921-11-05

The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and...

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The Blazing Trail

as Talithy Millicuddy
Released: 1921-05-01

Young doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood...

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Girl Overboard

as Joan
Released: 1929-07-28

A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he...

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Penrod and Sam

as Margaret Schofield
Released: 1923-06-18

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Drums of Love

as Princess Emanuella
Released: 1928-01-24

A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.

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The Phantom of the Opera

as Christine
Released: 1929-11-27

The sound version of the classic silent version.

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After the Fog

as Faith Barker
Released: 1929-12-15

Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man...

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Danger Ahead!

as Tressie Harloow
Released: 1921-08-08

The impoverished Harlow family of New England is forced to take in summer boarders. Teenaged...

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