Vera Lewis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vera Lewis (June 10, 1873 – February 8, 1956) was an American film and stage actress, beginning in the silent film era. She appeared in 183 films between 1915 and 1947. She was married to actor Ralph Lewis. She was born in Manhattan, where she began acting in stage productions. Her film career started in 1915 with the film Hypocrites, which starred Myrtle Stedman and Courtenay Foote. From 1915 to 1929 she appeared in 63 silent films, including the film classic Intolerance (1916) where she played the "old maid" Miss Jenkins. Unlike many silent film stars, she made a smooth transition to "talking films", starting with her 1930 appearance in Wide Open, starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Edward Everett Horton. Though never what is referred to as a "premier star", she appeared in 58 films during the 1930s, and another 60 during the 1940s. She retired after 1947, and resided at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, California at the time of her death on February 8, 1956.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his...
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
as Woman in Chauffeured Car (uncredited)A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house...
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Mary T. Jenkins (Modern Story)The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven...
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The Killers
as Ma Hirsch (uncredited)Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the...
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They Died with Their Boots On
as Head Nurse (uncredited)The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his...
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Dodge City
as League Member in Polka-Dot Dress (uncredited)In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of...
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The Roaring Twenties
as Mrs. GrayAfter World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George...
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The Hard Way
as 'Aunt Vera Elliott' in 'Morning Melody' (Uncredited)Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their...
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They Drive by Night
as Landlady (uncredited)Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small...
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All This, and Heaven Too
as Queen Amélia of France (uncredited)When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the...
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Mr. Skeffington
as Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her...
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Juror (uncredited)A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by...
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Night Nurse
as Miss DillonLora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her...
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The Iron Mask
as Madame PeronneKing Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But...
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The Suspect
as Hannah Barlow (uncredited)Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly...
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The Return of Doctor X
as Miss SweetmanWhen news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova...
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Lady Gangster
as Ma SilsbyAn actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery....
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In Old Chicago
as Wedding Witness (uncredited)The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually...
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Four Daughters
as Mrs. RidgefieldMusician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live...
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Adventure in Diamonds
as Mrs. MacPhersonA government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John...
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Hold Your Man
as Mrs. Gargan (uncredited)Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie...
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Espionage Agent
as American Tourist Going to DesertWhen Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the...
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Bad Men of Missouri
as Mrs. JordanThe Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds...
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Paddy O'Day
as Aunt FloraA wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to...
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Coquette
as Miss JenkinsA Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
as Miss Rosemary TurnbullNancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the...
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Boy Meets Girl
as Studio Cleaning WomanTwo lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to...
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It Had to Be You
as Mrs. Brown (uncredited)A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
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Hypocrites
as Parishioner (uncredited)The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue...
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Devil's Island
as Gaudet's HousekeeperA French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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Ella Cinders
as Ma CindersPoor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local...
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Strictly Unconventional
as Duchess of BrocklehurstAn adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic...
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It's a Joke, Son!
as Hortense DimwittyClaghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to...
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Nancy Drew… Detective
as Miss Van Deering (uncredited)After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly...
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Four Mothers
as Mrs. RidgefieldFour married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Moontide
as Mrs. SimpsonAfter a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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The Courageous Dr. Christian
as Mrs. Norma StewartA doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the...
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Someone to Remember
as Aggressive Miss GreenAn elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building...
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Manpower
as Wife of the Justice of the Peace (uncredited)Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident...
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Private Detective
as Mrs. WidnerA female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder...
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Three Girls About Town
as ClubwomanFaith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next...
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Blackwell's Island
as Hospital Desk Nurse (uncredited)A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Women in the Wind
as Farmer's WifeA famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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Spook Busters
as Mrs. GrimmThe Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service,...
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Hell's Kitchen
as Sarah KrispanA paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's...
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Racket Busters
as Jordan's Neighbor (uncredited)A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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Bullet Scars
as Indignant Woman in CarDr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe...
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Way Down East
as Mrs. PooleA family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that...
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Command Performance
as Queen ElizabethPrince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor...
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Four Wives
as Mrs. RidgefieldIn this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as...
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One Foot in Heaven
as Mrs. Simpson (uncredited)Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Maid of Salem
as Townswoman (Uncredited)When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
as The GiantessJack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which...
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Man on the Flying Trapeze
as Mrs. Cordelia NeselrodeHard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match...
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Stella Dallas
as Mrs. TibbetsAn eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a...
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Princess O'Rourke
as Matilda (uncredited)A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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The Blooming Angel
as Floss's AuntFloss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a...
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Wide Open
as Mrs. HathawayAn eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
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Meet the Baron
as Head Housekeeper (uncredited)A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
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Naughty But Nice
as Aunt Annabella HardwickDonald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and...
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Dancing Pirate
as Orville's Mother (uncredited)Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives,...
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
as Mrs. SlocumA reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
as Dowager (uncredited)Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of...
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How to Educate a Wife
as Mrs. BancksBusiness failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms...
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On Trial
as Mrs. Leeds-Juror #8An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect...
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The Meanest Gal in Town
as Woman at Mayor's Outing (uncredited)A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
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Miss Polly
as Elvira PennywinkleA small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity...
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Nurse Marjorie
as Duchess of DonegalLady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic...
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Remember the Day
as TeacherElderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls...
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Ramona
as Señora MorenoBased on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American...
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The Only Thing
as Princess ErekThyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A...
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Hard to Get
as Mrs. Petewyler (uncredited)When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by...
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Torchy Gets Her Man
as Woman at Schmidt's Pet Store (uncredited)A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to...
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The Cat Creeps
as Cora WilliamsA black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
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The Marriage Market
as Aunt Agnes PiggottThe story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures...
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Girls on Probation
as Miss LewisA dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Missing Girls
as Ma BartonA couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this...
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The Mother and the Law
as Miss Mary JenkinsAfter the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his...
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Here Comes Happiness
as Mrs. JamesJessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a...
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Peg o' My Heart
as Mrs. ChichesterPEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J....
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The Broken Gate
as InvalidIn the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by...
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Broadway Musketeers
as Landlady (uncredited)Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a...
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Rhythm Round-Up
as Mrs. SquimpArriving in Arizona, the band members discover that the hotel is haunted and that it properly...
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The Gorilla Man
as Landlady (uncredited)A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
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Sweepstakes Winner
as Mrs. McCarthy, the LandladyA scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes...
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Father Is A Prince
as CarrieCarpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum...
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Kid Nightingale
as Woman Crashing Vase (uncredited)A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Granny Get Your Gun
as Carrie EllisAn elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
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The Home Towners
as Mrs. CalhounMan from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly...
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Never Too Late
as Mother HartleyA young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
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Eve's Secret
as DuchessEve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an...
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Comet Over Broadway
as Mrs. AppletonStory of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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She Couldn't Say No
as Pansy HawkinsTwo big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with...
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Busses Roar
as Mrs. DipperA sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
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Navy Wife
as Bridge PlayerA Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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Take It from Me
as Mrs. ForsytheTom Eggett, with the help of his pals, Dick and Van, loses the last cent of his inheritance, is...
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Broadway After Dark
as Mrs. SmithRalph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to...
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Resurrection
as Aunt MaryaKatusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself,...
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Hollywood and Vine
as FannyA young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that...
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Money and the Woman
as Mrs. Leslie, Depositor (uncredited)An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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An Angel from Texas
as Mrs. GatesA pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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The Daring Young Man
as Secretary to the DuchessThe Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl...
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
as Mrs. DibbleEllen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two...
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Enticement
as Mrs. BlakeRomantic complications and tragedy ensue when two former lovers, one of them now married to...
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Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
as Mrs. Marshall (uncredited)In this musical short, Cliff Edwards and his cowhands run a struggling dude ranch. When a pretty...
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The Pest
as HousekeeperNaive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge....
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The Glorious Fool
as Miss HartBilly Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid...
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Lombardi, Ltd.
as MollieTito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous...
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Sunshine Molly
as Mrs. O'BrienA woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent...
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Long Live the King
as Archduchess AnnuncitaA young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king...
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A Weaver of Dreams
as Aunt Hattie TaylorUnrequited love rules the day as both wealthy Judith Sylvester and her invalid aunt pine for men...
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Who Cares
as Grandmother LudlowWho Cares is a 1925 silent film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures and starring...
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