James Young

A Daughter of Two Worlds

James Young

Norma Talmadge, Jack Crosby

Half a Hero

James Young

Clara Kimball Young, Maurice Costello

Silent movie

Rose o' Paradise

James Young

Bessie Barriscale, Howard Hickman

Thomas Singleton broke down when his wife died giving birth to their daughter. He eventually recovered, but his half-brother Morse kept him locked up at the asylum. After seventeen years, Singleton escapes and tracks down his daughter, Virginia, who is due to inherit a fortune on her eighteenth birthday. Convinced that his half-brother will try to trick Virginia out of her inheritance, Singleton sends her to live with his former gardener......

Goodness Gracious

James Young

Sidney Drew, Clara Kimball Young

Clara Kimball Young, batting her eyelashes even faster than Bernadette Peters, plays Gwendoline, an innocent(?) heroine who seeks a livelihood in the big city. She's briefly employed in a 'bucket shop' (a crooked brokerage house) and arouses the attention of a moustache-twirling top-hatted villain (played by her real-life husband James Young). After temporarily escaping his clutches, she finds gainful employment in the firm of a dry-goods millionaire (James Lackaye). The millionaire's youthful son Cornelius (played by Sidney Drew, well into middle age) falls in love with her ... but his father disapproves of their marriage, and he cuts off Cornelius with only a shilling (24 cents, it says here in the titles). The villain arrives, murders Gwendoline's employer (just temporarily, mind you) and frames Cornelius for the crime. Will true love triumph?

Beau Brummel

James Young

James Young, Clara Kimball Young

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 personification of elegance and the most pretentious individual imaginable.

Midnight Rose

James Young

Lya De Putti, Kenneth Harlan

Silent crime movie

The Bells

James Young

Lionel Barrymore, Caroline Frances Cooke

A kindly but desperate Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Jewish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will not let him rest. Meanwhile, a mysterious Mesmerist has come to town, claiming he has made many criminals confess their crimes...

Curtain

James Young

Katherine MacDonald, Edwin B. Tilton

Nancy Bradshaw (Katherine MacDonald) is a popular stage star who quits her career to marry millionaire clubman Dick Cunningham (Charles Richman). But after a few years of marriage, he starts seeing other women. Figuring that her public was more faithful to her than her husband, Nancy returns to the stage.

Mickey

James Young, F. Richard Jones

Mabel Normand, George Nichols

Mickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live with her aunt.

The Old Guard

James Young

Charles Kent, Clara Kimball Young

A short film directed by James Young and starring Charles Kent & Clara Kimball Young.

The Devil

James Young

George Arliss, Sylvia Breamer

Dr. Muller, a friend to all, finds pleasure in turning the goodness in people to evil ends. He meets Marie Matin and her fiancée, Georges Roben, while viewing a new painting, "The Martyr--Truth Crucified by Evil." Marie declares that the picture was wrong--evil could never triumph over truth--and though Muller says he agrees with her, he plots to prove otherwise.

My Official Wife

James Young

Clara Kimball Young, Harry T. Morey

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 sensational success and launched her as the most popular star that year. Its Russian setting was drawn upon by Young for many more of her features. Two short clips of the film exists in Warner Brother's 1931 Vitaphone short "The Movie Album," and have been mounted on Internet Archive and Google Video. One scene shows the meeting of Helene's terrorist cell with an extra alleged to be Leon Trostky. The other clip appears to be when she and Lennox are visiting the Weletsky's. (cont. http://web.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/CKY/reviews/mow.htm)

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.

Without Benefit of Clergy

James Young

Nigel De Brulier, Virginia Brown Faire

A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.

Jerry's Mother-in-Law

James Young

Sidney Drew, Clara Kimball Young

Using hypnosis and two agents, Jerry manages to get rid of his mother in law.

The Picture Idol

James Young

Maurice Costello, Clara Kimball Young

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 parents want to teach her ​​a lesson, and invite the actor to their home.