Mayme Kelso
1867 - 1946Mayme Kelso (February 28, 1867 – June 5, 1946) was an
American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 79 films between 1911 and
1927. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and died in South Pasadena, California
from a heart attack.
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
William C. de Mille
Thomas Meighan, Mabel Van Buren
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Why Change Your Wife?
Cecil B. DeMille
Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
Why Change Your Wife?
Ducks and Drakes
Maurice Campbell
Bebe Daniels, Jack Holt
A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men that she calls up randomly on the telephone. When her fiancée and his friends get word of this, they hatch a plan to teach her a valuable lesson.
Ducks and Drakes
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Marshall Neilan
Mary Pickford, Eugene O'Brien
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education. When spoiled girls at school mock the spirited Rebecca as "missy poor-house," she soon makes them come to eat their words. Despite many difficulties, Rebecca manages to help the less fortunate and spread joy in Riverboro, dreaming that her reward will come when she is "all growed up." This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Secret Game
William C. de Mille
Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Holt
In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovered which may endanger the safety of American transports that are secretly carrying troops across the Pacific. Nara-Nara, a Japanese detective, is assigned to the case because his country has guaranteed safety to these transport ships. Nara-Nara believes that Northfield is guilty, although in reality it is Northfield's secretary Kitty Little, a girl of German ancestry, who is passing information to Dr. Ebell Smith, a German agent. Nara-Nara falls in love with Kitty, but soon after discovers that she is the leak in the quartermaster's office.
The Secret Game
The Lost Romance
William C. de Mille
Jack Holt, Lois Wilson
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
The Lost Romance
The Unchastened Woman
James Young
Theda Bara, Wyndham Standing
When she goes to tell her husband Hubert that she is expecting a child, Caroline Knollys finds him in the arms of another woman. Caroline leaves him and, not telling him of her pregnancy, runs off to Europe where she has her child and becomes the toast of European society. Then she returns to settle with her husband once and for all.
The Unchastened Woman
The March Hare
Maurice Campbell
Bebe Daniels, Grace Morse
Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire, comes to New York with a chaperon to visit her aunt. After betting the chaperon that she can live on 75c for an entire week, she assumes the part of a flower girl in a restaurant and there makes a hit with young millionaire Tod Rollins, who invites her to his home.
The March Hare
The Marriage Market
Edward LeSaint
Pauline Garon, Jack Mulhall
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
The Marriage Market
