Billie Rhodes
Actor · 1894 – 1988 · San Francisco, California, USA
Movies22
Movie10.0ComedyHoop-La, the beautiful star of Minor's Mammoth Circus, a one-ring affair which tours county fairs and small towns, delights crowds with her bare-back riding, trapeze acts, and clowning. Reared in the confines of the circus by Old Toodles the clown, in accordance with her father's dying request, Hoop-La naively accepts the attentions of good-looking Joe McGee, a cheap horseman, after winning a race for him as a jockey. Tony Barrows, the foppish scion of a wealthy family, falls in love with Hoop-La, but she resents his snobbery and makes faces at him. When Hoop-La learns that her father was wealthy, she secretly marries McGee to save herself from a dull society life, but when she discovers McGee's true character, she promises to keep him supplied with money if he leaves.
Hoop-La
1919 · 1 votes
Movie5.5AdventureDramaA raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, a band of thieves and smugglers name the girl Rose Marie, though she grows up as "nobody's girl."
Miss Nobody
1920 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyAn evil tailor uses a dog to tear men's clothes to boost his business. When he pulls this stunt on a Moorish Prince, a feud erupts as they both compete for the same girl. The Prince traps the tailor in a dungeon, but the tailor escapes using a magic lamp and endures wild adventures to ultimately win the girl's heart.
Aladdin
1922 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaA girl known as "Boots," who keeps house for a band of crooks led by her kind guardian, Uncle Ben, called "The Lion," demands that she be allowed to accompany them on a burglary. Dressed in boy's clothes, Boots is caught by Mrs. Kathryn Sylvester, a rich society widow, who, upon learning that Boots is a girl, resolves to avenge herself on James Graham, who refused to marry her stating that he wanted no stain on his lineage.
The Lamb and the Lion
1919 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyPlanning to fleece wealthy Henry Dodd, Blackie Blaisdell and his band of crooks convince the millionaire that they have located the deposed president of San Salvador, a country in which Dodd holds mining interests.
His Pajama Girl
1920 · 1 votes
- MovieWestern
Miller conceives a bitter hatred for Howard, his successful rival for the hand of Ruth, daughter of Colonel Cameron, commandant of a western array post. A party of immigrants, ignorant of Indian customs, destroy some burial scaffolds. The desecration is witnessed by the red men and a desperate battle ensues.
Movie10.0ComedyFather objects to Jack, Mary's new husband, believing him to be merely a flirtatious lifeguard. Mary's brother is in town and Jack believes her brother is something more-- that she may be 'false'. Jack disguises himself as the family's new butler to investigate.
Mary's Merry Mix-Up
1917 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaThe dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dwellers and the Shell People.
The Cave Men's War
1913 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyA woman passes a construction site and gets dirt in her eye, which causes her to wink involuntarily. Soon she has a trail of suitors.
Something in Her Eye
1915 · 4 votes
- Movie
A Billie Rhodes comedy produced by Strand. Billy Bevan plays the farmer's son.
Her Rustic Romeo
1918
- Movie7.0Comedy
Billie is waiting up for her husband, who has gone to the lodge. She is growing very impatient. Meanwhile hubby is having a great time. He has met some of the Gaiety Theater bunch and invites one to have a little supper with him. Just as things are going nicely, the wife's brother discovers them. The next morning, Billie finds a woman's glove, and, as Eddie can make no satisfactory explanation, she decides to leave him and go back to mother.
Never Again Eddie!
1916 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
Neal, while sitting in his room, notices an accident in the street and kindly goes to the man's rescue with his car and takes him to the hospital. The nurse assigned to the case, Billie, makes a great hit with Neal.
Good Night, Nurse
1916 · 1 votes
MovieComedyRomanceA comedy in which the widow Mary makes a bet with her friends that she can win over a writer named Jack.
Somebody's Widow
1918
- Movie7.5
A short comic film in which a young man has himself admitted to the hospital so as to see more of his girlfriend (who is a nurse there), to the displeasure of the surgeon.
Operating on Cupid
1915 · 2 votes
Movie5.9ComedyA young couple head to Mexico to elope, but as they get closer to the border they realize they're running out of gas.
A Two Cylinder Courtship
1917 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaTo escape the title-hunting suitors with whom her mother and aunt have surrounded her, Barbara Chichester disguises herself as a gypsy, and after buying a gypsy wagon, roams the countryside "in search of Arcady."
In Search of Arcady
1919 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA girl nicknamed "The Weed" lives with her foster parents in their mountain cabin and frequently visits a nearby health resort to sell milk and eggs. On one of her excursions, she befriends a cantankerous old millionaire, George Bassett, who later bequeaths to her his entire estate. Ralph Long's car plunges down an embankment, and he is dragged from the wreckage and looked after by the Weed, who soon captivates him with her charm and ingenuousness. While he is in the hospital, however, the lecherous Kenneth Stewart snaps a photo of the girl swimming in the nude in a mountain pool and hangs an enlargement of it in his club.
The Girl of My Dreams
1918 · 1 votes
MovieDramaAs an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a young woman joins the Salvation Army in order to help the kinds of people she has seen--and was--growing up. When war breaks out in Europe, she volunteers to go to France
The Blue Bonnet
1919
- Movie10.0
Billie went up the "Angel's Flight" in Los Angeles and hubby went after, for he was jealous of the music "professor," who was teaching her the latest livery stable "blues" on the saxophone. Hubby threw the "professor" out of the house and the saxophone followed after.
Up She Goes
1918 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaMysteryThis episodic melodrama was adapted from the novel The Mysterious Mr. Trent, by Wyndham Martyn.
The Star Reporter
1921 · 1 votes
MovieComedyMary's sweetheart, Jack, is in the village jail for speeding, and Mary's dad, who didn't like Jack, saw that he was kept there. Mary captured two burglars and forced them to liberate Jack and put dad in jail. They then proceed to smoke out father with a smudge-pot until he consents to the wedding.
- Movie10.0Comedy
Joe Rock short comedy, also featuring Billie Rhodes and Frank Alexander.
Chop Suey Louie
1923 · 1 votes