Margaret Seddon
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1872-11-17
Locus Natus: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Et ut: Margaret Sedden, Marguerite Sidden
House by the River
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his...
release : 1950.03.25popularis : 9.199
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
release : 1942.10.01popularis : 3.864
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...
release : 1936.04.09popularis : 13.826
A Broadway Butterfly
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly...
release : 1925.03.29popularis : 0.476
Headin' Home
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
release : 1920.09.18popularis : 1.71
The Dude Wrangler
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this...
release : 1930.07.01popularis : 2.001
The Land of Promise
Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
release : 1917.12.09popularis : 0.878
Three Desperate Men
When they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with train robbery, deputies Tom Denton and Fred Denton leave...
release : 1951.01.12popularis : 5.356
The Man Who Played God
En eminent pianist is made deaf by an anarchist's bomb during a command performance.
release : 1922.10.01popularis : 1.145
Driven from Home
A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by...
release : 1927.01.15popularis : 1.283
The Actress
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The...
release : 1928.04.27popularis : 1.942
Heroes for Sale
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his...
release : 1933.06.17popularis : 5.001
Smilin' Through
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally...
release : 1932.09.24popularis : 4.532
New Lives for Old
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence...
release : 1925.02.22popularis : 0.547
The Lights of New York
Silent drama with two different New York stories. One tells of a good man led astray until a dream causes him to change his ways. The other is about...
release : 1922.11.12popularis : 0.315
Lilly Turner
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young...
release : 1933.05.13popularis : 3.275
Take a Letter, Darling
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...
release : 1942.05.06popularis : 4.137
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The...
release : 1939.12.29popularis : 23.717
If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
release : 1932.11.18popularis : 5.504
Danger – Love at Work
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
release : 1937.09.30popularis : 2.687
The Confidence Man
Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down to the small Florida town of Fairfield to make a...
release : 1924.04.20popularis : 0.353
Silk Legs
Male and female sales agents, Phil and Ruth, for rival hosiery concerns try to land an order. For a while Phil succeeds and puts on an exhibition but...
release : 1927.12.18popularis : 1.179
Boomerang Bill
When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of crime by taking part in a robbery, he takes the...
release : 1922.01.15popularis : 1.304
Raffles
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in...
release : 1939.11.11popularis : 3.856
The Girl Friend
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
release : 1935.09.27popularis : 1.684
Dance Hall
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
release : 1929.12.13popularis : 2.552
Dancing Sweeties
Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the Waltz with Molly and wins first prize - and they...
release : 1930.07.19popularis : 2.423
College Holiday
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
release : 1936.12.19popularis : 2.206
The Flame Within
Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
release : 1935.05.17popularis : 1.727
After the Fog
Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager...
release : 1929.12.15popularis : 1.249
Breakfast for Two
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and...
release : 1937.10.22popularis : 3.089
The Old Homestead
When Josiah Whitcomb's son gets into trouble with bad companions in New York City, Josiah leaves the farm and goes into the city to find the boy....
release : 1915.12.16popularis : 1.295
Walls of Gold
A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.
release : 1933.10.21popularis : 0.955
She Goes to War
A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really...
release : 1929.06.07popularis : 1.381
Proud Flesh
The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but...
release : 1925.04.27popularis : 3.851
Wings of Pride
Olive Muir, a haughty society girl, objects when Alice Prentice, a girl of lower station, comes to visit her family. After Alice's drunken father...
release : 1920.08.01popularis : 1.425
Through the Dark
Through the Dark is a 1924 silent mystery drama produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. It is based on a short...
release : 1924.01.06popularis : 1.357
Two Sinners
An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but...
release : 1935.09.12popularis : 0.693
The Meanest Man in the World
Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and...
release : 1943.02.12popularis : 1.477
The Bellamy Trial
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
release : 1929.01.23popularis : 0.899
Quality Street
A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she...
release : 1927.11.01popularis : 1.289
Midshipman Jack
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
release : 1933.09.22popularis : 1.108
Shock
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob...
release : 1934.07.19popularis : 1.513
Just Around the Corner
A young woman attempts to find a good man to marry so that her mother may die in peace.
release : 1921.12.11popularis : 0.443
The Lady
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has...
release : 1925.02.08popularis : 3.905
Timothy's Quest
Timothy and Gay, orphans from the slums of Boston, escape to Maine in search of a home and manage to thaw Avilda's embittered, grief-stricken heart....
release : 1922.09.16popularis : 1.014
The Blasphemer
This rarely seen, silent religious feature was produced by the Catholic Art Association. After making it big on Wall Street, John Harden boasts that...
release : 1921.10.14popularis : 2.026
The Bank Dick
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...
release : 1940.11.29popularis : 7.288
It's in the Air
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife,...
release : 1935.10.10popularis : 1.859
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
release : 1940.04.12popularis : 5.314
Friendly Neighbors
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama...
release : 1940.11.17popularis : 0.852
Divorce Among Friends
George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul...
release : 1930.12.13popularis : 1.347
Sonny
Two men who bear a striking resemblance to each befriend each other while stationed in France during WWI. One is fatally fatally wounded and requests...
release : 1922.05.22popularis : 0.981
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as...
release : 1942.04.28popularis : 1.573
Little Church Around the Corner
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon...
release : 1923.03.09popularis : 0.692
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
A young girl who lives in the slums of London, is in love with a thief. She persuades him to give up his life of crime. Meanwhile, an eccentric...
release : 1915.06.07popularis : 0.865
The Snob
Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.
release : 1924.11.10popularis : 1.618
The Remarkable Andrew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he...
release : 1942.03.05popularis : 0.589
A Lady of Quality
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde....
release : 1924.01.14popularis : 0.971
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on...
release : 1943.03.24popularis : 6.644
Rolling Home
Nat Alden, a promoter, has had bad luck on his deal and is broke. He meets an old army pal who is now a chauffeur of the businessman who threw the...
release : 1926.06.07popularis : 1.429
The Big Game
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
release : 1936.10.09popularis : 4.235
Honeymoon Lodge
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...
release : 1943.07.23popularis : 1.099
Women Men Marry
When he loses both his wife and child, Montgomery Rogers adopts his servants' little girl and raises her as his own. Completely unaware of her...
release : 1922.12.27popularis : 2.839
Roxie Hart
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime...
release : 1942.02.20popularis : 4.928
The Golden Cocoon
The story of a much put-upon woman who becomes involved with a professor of political economy only to be thrown over by him for the daughter of a...
release : 1925.12.14popularis : 1.033
The Case of Becky
Itinerant magician Balzamo arrives in the town where Dr. Emerson and his pretty young wife live. Smitten with Mrs. Emerson, Balzamo places her under...
release : 1921.10.09popularis : 2.545
The Girl Without a Soul
The story of two young sisters, one a somewhat demure musician who is in love with a scoundrel who's no good for her, and the other a wild, free...
release : 1917.08.13popularis : 1.327
Little Johnny Jones
Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and...
release : 1923.08.12popularis : 0.848
A Regular Scout
Silent cowboy western about a man on a mission to exact revenge on the gang who, he feels, are responsible for his mother's death, after their raid. ...
release : 1926.12.26popularis : 1.14
Let's Make a Million
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
release : 1936.09.01popularis : 1.231
Blarney
Young Irish boxer James Carabine arrives in New York from Ireland, his way having been paid by Peggy Nolan, a girl from his hometown who's sweet on...
release : 1926.09.26popularis : 0.401
The Midshipman
Produced under the supervision of the U.S. Navy. James Randall, an upperclassman at the Naval Academy, falls in love with Patricia Lawrence, the...
release : 1925.10.04popularis : 1.341
The Return of Casey Jones
Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be a...
release : 1933.05.24popularis : 4.781