Maude Turner Gordon
Actor · 1868 – 1940 · Franklin, Indiana, USA
Movies24
Movie7.3ComedyWarRufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Duck Soup
1933 · 888 votes
Movie6.6DramaHistoryThe young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Marie Antoinette
1938 · 37 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaA semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Mata Hari
1931 · 63 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceInnocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Careless Lady
1932 · 5 votes
Movie6.4RomanceComedyA longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
Personal Maid's Secret
1935 · 5 votes
Movie7.2A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
The Luckiest Girl in the World
1936 · 2 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeA cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
She Loves Me Not
1934 · 11 votes
Movie5.0DramaRomanceA New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
Sinners in the Sun
1932 · 12 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomanceA waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Shopworn
1932 · 14 votes
Movie6.4DramaRomanceA woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Back Street
1932 · 14 votes
Movie9.0DramaRomanceRosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents disapprove and want him to marry Barbara Royce, so he and Rosalie marry secretly. However, Hugh isn't quite the man he seems, as Rosalie is soon to find out.
Broadway Rose
1922 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman, to quit in protest of the hiring of a woman. The Mercury hires Scoop, and there begins a heated rivalry between him and Pat. Pat gets a few lucky breaks and manages to get a beat on Scoop during her brief career. After she exposes the theft of a jewel from the turban of a visiting maharajah, she and Scoop are kidnapped by Clayton, the thief, and taken aboard his yacht. Rescued, she and Scoop find love and happiness.
Hot News
1928 · 1 votes
Movie7.3DramaMusicA well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Gentlemen Are Born
1934 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaThere is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1929 · 15 votes
Movie6.5ComedyA PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
A Night at the Ritz
1935 · 2 votes
Movie5.8MusicRomanceA private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
Flirtation Walk
1934 · 16 votes
Movie5.5DramaRomanceA chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
The Florodora Girl
1930 · 6 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceJohn owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.
Five and Ten
1931 · 14 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaWhen Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from all his debt, Tom heads west and eventually strikes it rich with an oil well. Now wealthy, he hatches a plan to get even with his "friends" in his hometown--by pretending to return home broke but having a colleague secretly buy up as much property in town as he can.
Back Home and Broke
1922 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaSally Marrio, neglected wife of a prominent shoe designer, has three wishes: to be a millionaire's wife, to be famous, and to have a child.
Beyond Price
1921 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceMadame Vervier, a sophisticated woman, sends her daughter Alix to live with Owen Bradley's parents in London.
The Little French Girl
1925 · 1 votes
MovieDramaRomanceTwin sisters Rosetta and Lola Gelardi live happily with their aging father, Professor Gelardi, until their Sicilian village is destroyed by an earthquake. Unable to find Lola, the professor and Rosetta move to New York, where she obtains employment as a stenographer to author Aubrey Hapgood. Rosetta captivates Aubrey and his friends, but Mildred Sanders, who had hoped to win Aubrey for herself, tries to ruin Rosetta's reputation. On a drive with Aubrey, Rosetta relates her life story, whereupon Aubrey, claiming he loves her, takes her to an inn. Although he promises to marry her, she later reads of his engagement to Mildred. Rosetta shoots herself, after which Lola appears to avenge her death by causing the ruin of Aubrey's sister. Aubrey fires on Lola, but Rosetta awakens in his car and realizes that it was all a dream. While the chauffeur repairs the car, she and Aubrey walk into town to find a preacher.
Movie7.2RomanceDramaA man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Desirable
1934 · 5 votes
Movie7.0Drama"Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support himself and his wife, he soon craves the accustomed luxury and deserts his wife and child. On false information provided by the boy's mother and substantiated by himself the wife is sent to jail and the child kidnapped by the husband. This is where the drama kicks in.
Mismates
1926 · 1 votes