Acting

Naomi Childers

Born November 14, 1892 · Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA

Died May 9, 1964 · aged 71

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. Child…

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Mrs. Parkington

Mrs. Parkington · 1944

Mrs. Parkington

MovieDramaRomance

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

Undercurrent

Undercurrent · 1946

MovieDramaThriller

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.

Love Crazy

Love Crazy · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

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

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle · 1938

Too Hot to Handle

MovieComedyAdventure

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood · 1945

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Romance of Rosy Ridge · 1947

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

MovieComedyDrama

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

Blondie Johnson

Blondie Johnson · 1933

Blondie Johnson

MovieCrimeDrama

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

The Sea of Grass

The Sea of Grass · 1947

The Sea of Grass

MovieDramaWestern

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

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Mrs. Parkington

Mrs. Parkington · 1944

Mrs. Parkington

MovieDramaRomance

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

Hannah (uncredited)

Undercurrent

Undercurrent · 1946

MovieDramaThriller

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.

Party Guest (uncredited)

Love Crazy

Love Crazy · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

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

Party Guest (uncredited)

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle · 1938

Too Hot to Handle

MovieComedyAdventure

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.

Office Worker (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood · 1945

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

Dowager (uncredited)

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Romance of Rosy Ridge · 1947

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

MovieComedyDrama

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

Wife (uncredited)

Blondie Johnson

Blondie Johnson · 1933

Blondie Johnson

MovieCrimeDrama

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

Welfare Secretary (uncredited)

The Sea of Grass

The Sea of Grass · 1947

The Sea of Grass

MovieDramaWestern

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

Townswoman (uncredited)

Rio Rita

Rio Rita · 1942

MovieComedyMusic

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

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

Week-End at the Waldorf

Week-End at the Waldorf · 1945

Week-End at the Waldorf

MovieComedyDrama

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.

Night Maid (uncredited)

Gold Rush Maisie

Gold Rush Maisie · 1940

Gold Rush Maisie

MovieComedyDrama

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.

Mrs. Tyler (Uncredited)

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World · 1940

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

MovieDocumentary

An MGM short promoting the studio's impact on fashion through film through their chief of costume design, Adrian; in rural America, a mother and daughter are shopping and observe a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie.

Mary's Mother

Main Street on the March!

Main Street on the March! · 1941

Main Street on the March!

MovieDocumentary

This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is interspersed with contemporary newsreels and stock footage.

Window Shopper (uncredited)

Within the Law

Within the Law · 1939

MovieCrimeDrama

Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.

Camerawoman

Virtuous Liars

Virtuous Liars · 1924

MovieDramaRomance

A high-society woman, mingling with the artistic set in New York City, gets snared in a tangle of lies, and is forced to fight against overwhelming odds to care for her beloved child.

Julia Livingston

Lost Angel

Lost Angel · 1943

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.

Matron (uncredited)

Dial 1119

Dial 1119 · 1950

MovieThrillerCrime

A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution. Intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, he holds the patrons of a bar hostage.

Mother

Anselo Lee

Anselo Lee · 1915

The young gypsy Anselo, son of fortune teller Old Mrs. Lee, meets and instantly loves the wealthy but delicate Gertrude Carlton when she visits the gypsy camp with a party of her friends. Their love is shadowed however by strong objections on both sides. Mrs. Carlton objects because of social barriers and a desire for her to wed moneyed Van Buren, while Mrs. Lee has foretold that Gertrude will die young. The young lovers resist all efforts to separate them, but tragedy lies in their future.

Gertrude Carlton

Lord and Lady Algy

Lord and Lady Algy · 1919

Lord and Lady Algy

Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering elder brother, Algy tries to help his brother escape Tudway's wrath by hiding Mrs. Tudway in his apartments. Tudway discovers her there ....

Lady Algy

Fast and Loose

Fast and Loose · 1939

MovieMysteryComedy

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

Casino Patron (uncredited)

The Street Called Straight

The Street Called Straight · 1920

The Street Called Straight

Directed by Wallace Worsley.

Olivia Guion

Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl · 1953

Small Town Girl

MovieMusicRomance

Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.

Townswoman/Churchgoer

After His Own Heart

After His Own Heart · 1919

After His Own Heart

MovieComedyDrama

Socialite Thomas Wentworth Duncan reunites with his former lover, Sally Reeves, after a trustee absconds with his fortune. Realizing he cannot afford to support Sally in the manner to which she is accustomed, Duncan impulsively accepts an offer of $250,000, then discovers that he has sold his heart to Dr. Spleen, a surgeon who plans to exchange the organ with that of Sally's uncle, Judah P. Corpus, believing it will restore the old man's youth

Sally Reeves

Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation

Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation · 1917

Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation

When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and hidden booby traps, trick fortifications, and remote-controlled bombs...

Jane Strong