Priscilla Bonner
Actor · 1899 – 1996 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Priscilla Bonner (February 17, 1899 – February 21, 1996) was an American silent film actress. Bonner made her screen debut in 1920 in the film Homer Comes Home. She went on to co-star with Jack Pickford in The Man Who Had Everything (1920), Lon Chaney in Shadows (1922), Colleen Moore in April Showers (1923), and comedian Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926). In 1925 she starred in the controversial independent film The Red Kimono, produced and directed by Dorothy Davenport. In 1927 she was loaned to Paramount Pictures to co-star in the box office hit It, starring Clara Bow. Bonner died in 1996 at the age of 97.
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Movie9.0DramaFormer U.S. Army Capt. Bob Hampton joins a party of settlers and saves the life of a girl known as "The Kid" from a siege.
Bob Hampton of Placer
1921 · 1 votes
Movie6.9RomanceWesternThree outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
3 Bad Men
1926 · 49 votes
Movie7.0DramaAlice Davis and Charles Turner are arrested for petting in an automobile and marry on impulse.
Outcast Souls
1928
Movie6.9ComedyRomanceA flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism -- the captivating personal quality otherwise known as "it."
It
1927 · 78 votes
Movie8.0ComedyWhere's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923
Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?
1923 · 1 votes
Movie3.7DocumentaryA documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
1993 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaStranded in the small town of Buckeye Junction young actress Madge Joy crawls upon a load of hay and falls asleep. Knocked unconscious when young farmer Robert Deep hitches up the wagon not realizing she’s inside she awakes in the Deep living room. "Ma" Deep takes to her at once, but old “Pa” Deep looks at her sternly. Claiming to be a runaway orphan rather than an actress she becomes a member of the family. Falling for Madge Robert confesses he dreams of being a playwright, that night his sister Susan, who has run away to be an actress, reappears. Pa Deep is furious when he finds out his daughter has been on the stage, but Madge reveals that she is herself an actress threatening to go away with Robert unless he makes up with his daughter. Eventually Madge finds fame in New York with Robert following with a play he knows is right.
Home Stuff
1921 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaDrusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. And someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always wanted a child of her, in now in charge of a large brood of children, and very happy about it. But there may be a problem; the real heir to the money shows up.
Drusilla with a Million
1925 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaHarry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to his heartlessness, the beggar curses him, saying, "May you always have everything that you want."
The Man Who Had Everything
1920 · 4 votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaThe 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 he follows her. She is rescued from a wild taxi ride by a passerby who owns a huge plumbing company. Believing him to be a common plumber, she snubs him, but he pursues her and a romantic rivalry is born.
Proud Flesh
1925 · 4 votes
Movie8.0ComedyPitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy
Pitfalls of a Big City
1923 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Crime
Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating and finds himself accused of murder, on circumstantial evidence, of the owner's murder.
Paying the Price
1927 · 1 votes
Movie7.0CrimeComedyA young man's journey into adulthood, love, and ambition, inspired by a serial by George Randolph Chester exploring themes of love, ambition, and self-discovery, set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties.
The Son of Wallingford
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaPierre, the maitre d' at the swanky Ritz Hotel in Paris, discovers that he has a son from his former marriage, which was broken up by his wealthy wife's upper-class relatives. His son, now a young man and unaware that Pierre is is father, is in danger of becoming the victim of blackmailer Mae Morin. Pierre sets out to save him from the notorious Mae.
The Prince of Headwaiters
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.2DramaYen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathen', only to reveal hypocrisy amid the self-righteous township.
Shadows
1922 · 18 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
Nurse Lucy Weston, seeks revenge and marries a young millionaire she believes is responsible for her father's death.
Golden Shackles
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceThe story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine. A drink-benumbed hillbilly tries to rape heroine Sally Tilden (Priscilla Bonner), setting off a chain reaction of violence, murder, and false confessions.
The Earth Woman
1926 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyDramaNe'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.
Homer Comes Home
1920 · 1 votes
Movie5.9ComedyHarry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.
Long Pants
1927 · 15 votes
Movie5.8DramaA woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
The Red Kimona
1925 · 16 votes
MovieComedyCharley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
Charley's Aunt
1925
Movie7.0CrimeTo protect her brother, a nightclub entertainer Queenie Morgan marries a gangster. She bears a resemblance to a society girl who has gotten involved with the underworld and wound up shooting her gangster boyfriend, and the gang forces Queenie to impersonate the woman in order to extort money from her wealthy parents. Unfortunately the society girl is killed by the gang, and the police arrest Queenie for the murders of both the society girl and her boyfriend.
Broadway After Midnight
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceA meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. After the war, the young Belgian journeys to America as assistant to a theatrical "strong man", Zandow the Great (Arthur Thalasso). While in America, he searches for Mary Brown... and he finds her, just as word comes that Zandow is incapacitated and the little nebbish must go on stage in his place.
The Strong Man
1926 · 30 votes
Movie10.0ActionDramaJim is torn between his family's legacy of bravery and his own fear, which leads to his disgrace. He works in a steel mill before overcoming his fear, eventually rescuing his treacherous brother and the woman he was harming.
The False Alarm
1926 · 1 votes