Clara Kimball Young
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1890-09-05
Locus Natus: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Et ut: Clara Kimball
Flicker Flashbacks #2
A collection of old-time silent movies, re-scored and narrated, featuring the most popular silent film stars. Includes: 1. Pathé 1900...
release : 1943.06.01popularis : 1.135
The Claw
Clara Kimball Young stars as Mary Saurin, a British gentlewoman who journeys to South Africa to visit her district-commissioner brother Dick (Henry...
release : 1918.06.10popularis : 2.014
The Road Through the Dark
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent...
release : 1918.11.01popularis : 1.352
Cheating Cheaters
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
release : 1919.01.26popularis : 2.443
The Rogues' Tavern
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
release : 1936.06.04popularis : 3.637
Stars of Yesterday
Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
release : 1931.12.31popularis : 1.617
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
release : 1961.05.24popularis : 1.172
The Return of Chandu
Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of...
release : 1934.10.01popularis : 3.754
The Violin of M'sieur
During the Franco-Prussian War, a violin teacher gets separated from his daughter. He spends years wandering across Europe looking for her.
release : 1914.08.11popularis : 1.264
Kept Husbands
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled...
release : 1931.02.22popularis : 5.092
Ants in the Pantry
The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must...
release : 1936.02.06popularis : 5.359
The Drunkard
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
release : 1935.04.03popularis : 1.749
Chandu on the Magic Island
On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to sacrifice so that their goddess Ossana, whose soul resides in...
release : 1935.01.01popularis : 4.479
Hearts in Exile
In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor. She dispenses food, medicine, and funds...
release : 1915.04.11popularis : 1.603
Trilby
The hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart. This 1915 Maurice Tourneur film is a version of...
release : 1915.09.19popularis : 2.206
Eyes of Youth
A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the...
release : 1919.11.29popularis : 1.858
Fellow Voyagers
Miss Marbury comes on deck and looks haughtily at Mrs. Cray, an attractive young widow, half suspecting that she has her steamer chair. When she...
release : 1913.11.26popularis : 1.28
A Midsummer Night's Dream
An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
release : 1909.12.25popularis : 3.855
Some Steamer Scooping
The Baron Lafitte is in love with and proposes to Adelaide Burton, daughter of Andrew Burton, a wealthy manufacturer. Clara Lane, a newspaper...
release : 1914.02.12popularis : 0.581
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls set out to make life as difficult as possible for...
release : 1912.07.06popularis : 2.433
Lady Godiva
The story of how Lady Godiva came to ride naked through the streets of Coventry.
release : 1911.10.20popularis : 1.613
The Money Kings
The Money Kings is a 1912 silent short film.
release : 1912.07.15popularis : 1.616
The Irony of Fate
Virginia Jameson, a girl of lovely disposition, is wooed by a man much older than herself whom she very much dislikes, but who stands very high in...
release : 1912.09.28popularis : 1.03
The Hindoo Charm
Advised by his friends to seek a second wife so that his children, Helen and Dolores, may know a mother's care, Sir Edward Tilbury marries Phyllis,...
release : 1913.09.17popularis : 1.988
Probation
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party....
release : 1932.03.15popularis : 2.374
Mr. Celebrity
A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
release : 1941.10.10popularis : 2.111
New News
Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and...
release : 1937.04.01popularis : 2.215
The Black Coin
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.
release : 1936.09.01popularis : 3.833
Rock of Ages
Madeline carves a cross in memory of her husband, lost at sea. A sculptor recognizes her skill and invites Madeline to leave her fishing village and...
release : 1912.07.20popularis : 1.709
Wanted, a Sister
In the college play, Tom and his room-mate, "Bunch," take prominent and successful parts, Tom as the hero and "Bunch" as the heroine, in which he is...
release : 1912.07.22popularis : 1.15
The Little Minister
To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by...
release : 1913.01.13popularis : 0.532
The Volunteer Strike Breakers
A strike among the hotel waiters is on. The papers are full of it. Chester Colton, and Harris Baldwin, young college chaps, read that waiters are...
release : 1913.01.22popularis : 0.827
Getting Up a Practice
Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his misery, his sweetheart's father, Mr. Irving,...
release : 1913.03.27popularis : 0.858
Up in a Balloon
The Simpsons go for a picnic in the woods. After luncheon, while mother and father enjoy a nap, Betty, their beautiful daughter, strolls away,...
release : 1913.12.16popularis : 1.971
The Worldly Madonna
Ms. Young portrays two roles. As Janet, a convent novitiate, she agrees to exchange places with her sister, Lucy, a cabaret dancer, who believes she...
release : 1922.05.01popularis : 1.204
Mid-Channel
The story has been adapted from the Sir Arthur Wing Pinero play. The title means nothing more than the mid-channel of married life, through a...
release : 1920.09.26popularis : 2.036
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...
release : 1942.01.01popularis : 1.194
The Easiest Way
A young actress seeks an engagement in New York but faces obstacles due to jealousy and politics. Her wealthy broker finances a production, demanding...
release : 1917.04.01popularis : 1.672
His Night Out
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by...
release : 1935.10.01popularis : 1.166
Cardinal Wolsey
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Laurence Trimble.
release : 1912.01.02popularis : 1.728
Ransomed; or, A Prisoner of War
Making his departure from home. Captain Jack of the Confederate army, leaves to rejoin his regiment, but before doing so promises his boy that he...
release : 1910.10.04popularis : 1.696
Gareth Hughes
Documentary about the Welsh silent movie actor.
release : 2000.01.01popularis : 1.232
My Official Wife
This LOST film was Clara Kimball Young's first feature, and her last film for Vitagraph, where she had made all of her short films. It was a...
release : 1914.07.12popularis : 5.419
The Wages of Sin
A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her...
release : 1938.07.14popularis : 2.302
The Picture Idol
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her...
release : 1912.05.31popularis : 0.964
Lola
A scientist resurrects his dead daughter, only to realize she now lacks a soul.
release : 1914.11.23popularis : 1.411
Mother and Son
A woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a...
release : 1931.07.31popularis : 1.819
Goodness Gracious
Clara Kimball Young, batting her eyelashes even faster than Bernadette Peters, plays Gwendoline, an innocent(?) heroine who seeks a livelihood in the...
release : 1914.02.07popularis : 2.082
The Rise of Susan
Susan takes the place of model and shows the clothes so well that she is asked to impersonate a Countess at a reception given by a customer.
release : 1916.12.18popularis : 0.898
I Can't Escape
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
release : 1934.07.04popularis : 2.717
She Married Her Boss
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his...
release : 1935.09.19popularis : 7.55
Hills of Old Wyoming
An evil deputy is using Indian half-breeds to rustle cattle. This causes trouble between the cattlemen and Indians. Hoppy, Windy and Lucky see that...
release : 1937.04.16popularis : 3.633
Dr. LaFleur's Theory
Dr. Lafleur is convinced that crime is an illness and can be treated like that.
release : 1912.05.05popularis : 1.296
The Haunted Rocker
An old rocking chair makes a story out of Old Boggs, his daughter Madge, and her boyfriend Jack.
release : 1912.03.29popularis : 1.481
Three on the Trail
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be...
release : 1936.04.14popularis : 3.184
Jerry's Mother-in-Law
Using hypnosis and two agents, Jerry manages to get rid of his mother in law.
release : 1913.11.15popularis : 2.719
The Frontiersmen
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and...
release : 1938.12.16popularis : 4.432
A Vitagraph Romance
After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the Vitagraph Company as an actress. After waiting...
release : 1912.09.17popularis : 2.076
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls set out to make life as difficult as possible for...
release : 1912.07.06popularis : 2.433
The Old Guard
A short film directed by James Young and starring Charles Kent & Clara Kimball Young.
release : 1913.02.28popularis : 2.393
Put Yourself in Their Place
A comedy short directed by James Young and starring Clara Kimball Young and himself.
release : 1913.06.09popularis : 0.59
Delayed Proposals
It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy almost reaches the proposal point with Marion Van...
release : 1913.06.19popularis : 1.932
A Lesson in Jealousy
A short comedy in which the husband concocts a jealousy story to make an impression on his wife.
release : 1913.12.05popularis : 1.35
The Lonely Princess
A young American millionaire in Venice falls in love with the beautiful princess Ione.
release : 1913.09.03popularis : 2.86
Stenographer Troubles
A comic one-act film featuring the character Bunny, which takes place in an office.
release : 1913.02.06popularis : 0.663
Lulu's Doctor
Magde leaves her fiancé Lewis in order to take care of Lulu, the child of her deceased sister, in New York. After some time, chance brings the...
release : 1912.06.09popularis : 0.559
Love Bound
A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the...
release : 1932.03.01popularis : 1.82
The Roundup
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty...
release : 1941.04.03popularis : 1.879
Dangerously Yours
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with...
release : 1937.09.21popularis : 3.511
The Better Wife
Charmian Page has developed a great affection for the child of Sir Richard. When the child is seriously hurt in a car crash that has killed his...
release : 1919.07.13popularis : 1.721
The Forbidden Woman
A beautiful French actress is the unwitting force behind the suicide of one of her admirers. A scandal erupts, threatening to destroy her reputation.
release : 1920.02.22popularis : 2.03
Hush
A woman finds her marriage on the rocks after she reveals to her husband some but not all the details of her one-time relationship with a current...
release : 1921.03.05popularis : 1.113
Charge It
A woman's excessive spending brings difficulty to her family.
release : 1921.06.11popularis : 2.36
The Common Law
Based on the Novel by Robert W. Chambers of New York City life among the upper-crust, Valerie West , artist/model and philosopher, undergoes much...
release : 1916.10.15popularis : 1.33
Fighting Youth
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even...
release : 1935.11.01popularis : 1.739
File 113
A Parisian cop sets out to solve a sudden series of crimes, including robbery and blackmail. Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.
release : 1933.01.05popularis : 0.938
Romance in the Rain
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
release : 1934.08.13popularis : 2.444
Camille
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...
release : 1915.12.27popularis : 0.865
Hollywood Extra Girl
A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
release : 1935.08.22popularis : 1.665
Beau Brummel
In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the world, the extreme of fashion, the...
release : 1913.02.19popularis : 1.229
Dangerous Waters
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
release : 1936.02.10popularis : 1.012
Oh, Susanna
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by...
release : 1936.08.19popularis : 5.439
Magda
Magda (Young) rebels against the harsh treatment she receives from her stern father (Edward Kimball). She ultimately escapes from home with...
release : 1917.10.01popularis : 0.782
Straight from Paris
A young man takes a trip to Europe, and when he returns home he brings along the woman he fell in love with and became engaged to. However, his...
release : 1921.04.09popularis : 1.235
What a Change of Clothes Did
Tired of being sought only for his money, a rich man goes on a fishing trip.
release : 1913.01.20popularis : 0.473
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
A glimpse of the life of a few lodgers in a boarding house, focusing on the young couple Mr and Mrs Edison.
release : 1912.10.15popularis : 0.682
Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement #6
Shows brief glimpses into the lives of movie stars of the time. Included is shots of Elsie Janis in her garden in Tarrytown, where she gives an...
release : 1919.01.01popularis : 1.75
Fixing Their Dads
Both deadly rivals for the hand of the Widow Hathaway, Kirkland and Livingston, gentleman farmers, are so bitter, they do all possible to break up...
release : 1914.11.18popularis : 0.588
Lessons in Courtship
A farce in which Dick Edna wants to learn the art of seduction, and takes lessons for this from the brother of his beloved.
release : 1912.12.01popularis : 1.023
Lying Wives
Duplicitous Patricia Chase schemes to break up the new marriage of Margery and Wallace Graham because she yearns for Wallace despite her marriage to...
release : 1925.06.13popularis : 1.983