Naomi Childers

Born: 1892-11-14

From Wikipedia Naomi Childers (November 15, 1892 – May 9, 1964) was an American silent film actress whose career lasted until the mid-20th century. She was born of English parentage in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Later in life she took pride in being descended from a long line of British ancestors. Her childhood was spent in St. Louis, Missouri where she was educated in the Maryville convent. Childers began acting at the age of three, reciting at a notable function. She played a Chopin number at an adult recital at the age of eight. When she was ten Childers performed the title roles, in both Red Riding Hood and Alice in Wonderland, at the Odeon Theater in St. Louis. In 1912 she played in The Great Name and Madame X. The theatrical presentations featured Henry Kolker and Dorothy Donnelly. On Broadway Childers appeared in Ready Money. Childers was in movies beginning in 1913. She appeared in The Turn of the Road (1915) and The Writing on the Wall (1916). She was associated with the Vitagraph company for four years. Her most popular role was in Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation. In this film she performed a most modern characterization of Joan of Arc. In 1917 she began working with the Commonwealth Company. Childers possessed a preference for comedy, yet she was in constant demand to play more serious roles. Her character work in motion pictures was a strong asset. In the 1919 Sam Goldwyn film Lord and Lady Algy, Childers was cast in the leading feminine role. She depicted the wife of the young Lord Algy, played by Tom Moore. As a titled Englishwoman she revealed a cold exterior, but retained a warm nature. When Louis B. Mayer discovered Childers had come into hard times in later years, he granted her a lifetime contract from MGM. She continued to play numerous, often uncredited, roles into the early 1950s. Childers died in Hollywood, California in 1964, age 71. She is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.


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The Story That Couldn't Be Printed

as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: 1939-07-22

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial...

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Love Crazy

as Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1941-05-23

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of...

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The Sea of Grass

as Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: 1947-04-25

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant...

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Fast and Loose

as Casino Patron
Released: 1939-02-17

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

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Rio Rita

as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-11

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican...

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You, the People

as Radio Broadcast Spectator
Released: 1940-11-30

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his...

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Undercurrent

as Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1946-11-11

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of...

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Mrs. Parkington

as Hannah (uncredited)
Released: 1944-10-12

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid...

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Blondie Johnson

as Welfare Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1933-02-25

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist...

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Downstairs

as Servant (uncredited)
Released: 1932-08-06

In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs...

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Dial 1119

as Mother
Released: 1950-11-03

A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose...

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Lost Angel

as Matron (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-23

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest...

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Hollywood: Style Center of the World

as Mary's Mother
Released: 1940-05-29

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them....

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The World and Its Woman

as Baroness Olga Amilahvari
Released: 1919-09-06

A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian...

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Gold Rush Maisie

as Mrs. Tyler (Uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-26

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet...

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Small Town Girl

as Townswoman/Churchgoer
Released: 1953-04-10

Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for...

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Dangerous Partners

as Lunch Room Cashier (uncredited)
Released: 1945-06-07

A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.

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Miracle Money

as Patient (uncredited)
Released: 1938-03-26

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.

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Women Are Trouble

as Society Woman
Released: 1936-07-31

A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

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Within the Law

as Camerawoman
Released: 1939-03-17

A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.

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The Man on the Rock

as Chambermaid (uncredited)
Released: 1938-09-03

A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.

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The Devil's Prize

as Adeline St. Clair
Released: 1916-11-06

Social-climbing Arnold St. Clair abandons his pregnant lover Myra to marry wealthy Adeline...

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

as Dowager (uncredited)
Released: 1945-10-05

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony...

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Earthbound

as Caroline Desborough
Released: 1920-08-10

When Jim Rittenshaw learns that his friend Richard Desborough is having an affair with Jim's...

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Trial Marriage

as Mrs. George Bannister, 1st
Released: 1929-03-10

Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds...

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A Failure at Fifty

as Partner (uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-01

The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an...

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The Divorcee

as Kitty Beresford
Released: 1919-01-20

Based on the 1907 play 'Lady Frederick' by W. Somerset Maugham, this tells the story of Betsy...

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The Street Called Straight

as Olivia Guion
Released: 1920-02-01

Directed by Wallace Worsley.

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Week-End at the Waldorf

as Night Maid (uncredited)
Released: 1945-10-04

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets...

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Mr. Barnes of New York

as Enid Anstruther
Released: 1922-05-22

An English naval officer and a Corsican youth have a duel, and the Corsican is killed. The young...

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White Heat

as Mrs. Cheney
Released: 1934-12-30

In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling...

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Main Street on the March!

as Window Shopper (uncredited)
Released: 1941-12-09

This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the...

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Human Desire

as Marguerite Hunt
Released: 1919-10-31

The orphan Bernice (Stewart) is raised almost to womanhood by the good sisters in an Italian...

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Lord and Lady Algy

as Lady Algy
Released: 1919-09-01

Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the...

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The Gay Lord Quex

as The Duchess of Strood
Released: 1919-12-21

Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with...

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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation

as Jane Strong
Released: 1917-04-09

When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades...

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Success

as Jane Randolph
Released: 1923-02-25

The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping...

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Writing on the Wall

as Muriel
Released: 1916-02-14

Irving Lawrence owns some of the most decrepit tenements in town and is an all-around bad guy....

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Shadows of Suspicion

as Doris Mathers
Released: 1919-02-03

When the Great War begins, English sportsman Cyril Hammersley is thought to be a slacker because...

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