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Milla Davenport
Born February 3, 1871 · Zürich, Switzerland
Died May 17, 1936 · aged 65
Milla Davenport was a stage and film actress, born in Zurich, Switzerland. Davenport was educated in Switzerland. She appeared with her husband actor Harry J. Davenport's (not the more famous Harry Davenport) repertory company for fifteen years. She began her career in motion pictures in the silent film Trapping the Bachelor (1916). She was in Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) with Mary Pickford, The Brat (…
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Merrily We Go to Hell · 1932Merrily We Go to Hell
★ 6.51932
MovieComedyDrama
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
In Mizzoura · 1919In Mizzoura
★ 8.01919
MovieDramaWestern
Kate Vernon returns to "Mizzoura," after attending a fashionable seminary and looks down on her former suitor, sheriff Jim Radburn, who, unknown to Kate, paid for her education. When a highwayman robs the train, Sam Fowler, an express messenger, is arrested as being an accomplice. After Kate gently refuses Jim's marriage proposal, she plans to elope with handsome Robert Travers from St. Louis, whom she met at school.
The Defense Rests · 1934The Defense Rests
★ 7.11934
MovieDramaCrime
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
The Wedding Night · 1935The Wedding Night
★ 5.91935
MovieDramaRomance
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik Sobieski. After a snowstorm, Tony and Manya get trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists that her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
You Never Can Tell · 1920You Never Can Tell
★ 9.01920
MovieComedyRomance
Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.
Why Trust Your Husband? · 1921Why Trust Your Husband?
★ 8.01921
MovieComedy
Elmer Day and his wife, Eunice, are visiting Gilbert and Maud Stone, and the two husbands, wishing to attend a masquerade, plead business engagements to escape from their wives. But the wives, discovering the invitation, also attend, and matters are complicated by changes and substitutions of costumes and the appearance of Mrs. Day's aunt and uncle. After a police raid there are general explanations and reconciliations at the police court.
The Right of the Strongest · 1924The Right of the Strongest
★ 8.01924
MovieDrama
John Marshall, young engineer, goes to Bullis Valley in the Alabama hills to secure lands for a big power project. The hill folks think he is a revenue spy and plans are laid against his life.
Crazy Like a Fox · 1926Crazy Like a Fox
★ 6.21926
MovieComedy
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Merrily We Go to Hell · 1932Merrily We Go to Hell
★ 6.51932
MovieComedyDrama
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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