Claude Gillingwater
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1870-08-01
Locus Natus: Louisiana, Missouri, USA
Et ut: Claude Benton Gillingwater, Claude Gillingwater Sr.
Conquest
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence...
release : 1937.10.22popularis : 2.982
That's My Baby
On the eve of his wedding, businessman Alan Boyd gets a telegram notifying him that his "bride" has fallen in love with another man and eloped with...
release : 1926.04.19popularis : 1.245
Just Around the Corner
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
release : 1938.11.11popularis : 2.524
Fools First
Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he...
release : 1922.05.27popularis : 1.153
Together We Live
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement...
release : 1935.08.16popularis : 1.019
There Goes My Heart
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
release : 1938.10.14popularis : 2.808
My Boy
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
release : 1921.12.01popularis : 1.169
Stark Mad
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
release : 1929.02.02popularis : 1.225
The Prisoner of Shark Island
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14,...
release : 1936.02.28popularis : 5.707
Green Eyes
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to...
release : 1934.06.15popularis : 1.198
I Loved a Woman
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...
release : 1933.09.23popularis : 5.949
Illicit
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would...
release : 1931.02.14popularis : 5.472
The Great Divide
Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner....
release : 1929.09.15popularis : 4.712
Mississippi
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer,...
release : 1935.03.22popularis : 3.923
So Long Letty
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets...
release : 1929.10.16popularis : 2.514
Before Midnight
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
release : 1933.11.18popularis : 0.98
Little Lord Fauntleroy
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the...
release : 1921.09.15popularis : 4.025
In Love with Life
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that...
release : 1934.05.11popularis : 2.686
Back Page
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
release : 1933.11.07popularis : 3.147
Ticket to Paradise
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
release : 1936.06.24popularis : 2.004
Gold Dust Gertie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
release : 1931.06.27popularis : 1.09
Ann Carver's Profession
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
release : 1933.06.09popularis : 1.608
Winds of Chance
A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
release : 1925.08.15popularis : 1.424
Dumb-bells in Ermine
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though...
release : 1930.05.10popularis : 0.728
The Flirting Widow
An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
release : 1930.05.11popularis : 1.115
Daddy Long Legs
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds...
release : 1931.06.05popularis : 2.217
Running Hollywood
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
release : 1932.01.27popularis : 2.297
Little Miss Broadway
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and...
release : 1938.07.29popularis : 5.229
Tess of the Storm Country
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the...
release : 1932.11.20popularis : 0.866
Kiss Me Again
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl...
release : 1931.01.07popularis : 4.549
Daddies
A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for adopted orphans when six orphaned children are...
release : 1924.02.09popularis : 0.737
Calm Yourself
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
release : 1935.06.28popularis : 0.925
The Wide Open Spaces
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
release : 1931.12.28popularis : 1.507
Baby Face Harrington
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy...
release : 1935.04.12popularis : 2.561
The Captain Hates the Sea
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are...
release : 1934.11.02popularis : 2.673
Remembrance
Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a...
release : 1922.10.01popularis : 1.147
The Christian
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery....
release : 1923.01.14popularis : 2.251
Skyway
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
release : 1933.08.29popularis : 2.31
A Thief in Paradise
Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with...
release : 1925.06.18popularis : 0.783
Poor Little Rich Girl
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en...
release : 1936.07.18popularis : 5.187
How to Educate a Wife
Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as a means of winning customers.
release : 1924.05.01popularis : 0.996
Three Wise Fools
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor...
release : 1923.08.19popularis : 3.491
Strange Wives
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
release : 1934.11.30popularis : 2.386
Souls for Sale
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
release : 1923.04.22popularis : 4.647
The Strangers' Banquet
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John...
release : 1922.12.31popularis : 1.911
The Show-Off
Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent...
release : 1934.03.09popularis : 1.426
City Limits
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up...
release : 1934.04.14popularis : 4.845
Cafe Society
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
release : 1939.03.03popularis : 1.445
Florida Special
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in...
release : 1936.04.21popularis : 0.881
A Yank at Oxford
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
release : 1938.02.18popularis : 6.544
45 Minutes from Hollywood
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
release : 1926.12.26popularis : 3.192
Mexicali Rose
The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of...
release : 1929.12.26popularis : 2.221
Compromised
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through...
release : 1931.11.19popularis : 0.967
The Woman in Red
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
release : 1935.02.16popularis : 3.167
Counterfeit
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
release : 1936.05.25popularis : 1.025
Husbands for Rent
A newlywed couple, after six months of marriage, decides that they've made a mistake and plan to divorce. Her father, however, has other ideas and...
release : 1927.12.31popularis : 1.25
Barbed Wire
During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
release : 1927.09.09popularis : 1.035
Unknown Blonde
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
release : 1934.04.23popularis : 2.474
Top of the Town
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper....
release : 1937.04.17popularis : 1.673
Tiger Rose
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading...
release : 1923.12.09popularis : 1.637
Seven Sinners
Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act. They all pretend to be...
release : 1925.11.07popularis : 0.442
Naughty But Nice
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted...
release : 1927.06.25popularis : 1.454
We Moderns
A 1925 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
release : 1925.11.15popularis : 1.656
Women They Talk About
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon...
release : 1928.08.10popularis : 1.596
Stolen Kisses
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat...
release : 1929.02.23popularis : 0.981
Glad Rag Doll
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song...
release : 1929.05.04popularis : 2.54
The Gorilla
An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
release : 1927.11.13popularis : 0.982
The Avenger
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
release : 1933.08.10popularis : 2.075
You Can't Buy Everything
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
release : 1934.01.26popularis : 2.347
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
Bobby Jones teaches an angry old man how to use the Brassie, while simultaneously freeing his daughter from his oppressive clutches.
release : 1931.08.01popularis : 1.465
Oh Kay!
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound...
release : 1928.08.26popularis : 0.595
The Conquering Horde
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near...
release : 1931.03.01popularis : 1.885
Wives Never Know
Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital...
release : 1936.09.18popularis : 1.464
A Chapter in Her Life
Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and...
release : 1923.09.17popularis : 1.261
Into Her Kingdom
In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow...
release : 1926.08.08popularis : 1.037
Madonna of the Streets
Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherits a considerable fortune when his uncle dies....
release : 1924.10.19popularis : 1.96
Cheaper to Marry
Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married...
release : 1925.02.09popularis : 1.326
Fast and Furious
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield…...
release : 1927.06.12popularis : 1.731
Dulcy
Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner. Though...
release : 1923.08.27popularis : 0.755
A Tale of Two Cities
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on...
release : 1935.12.25popularis : 9.224
Can This Be Dixie?
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
release : 1936.11.13popularis : 0.612