Phyllis Haver
Actor · 1899 – 1960 · Douglass, Kansas, USA
From Wikipedia Phyllis Haver (January 6, 1899 – November 19, 1960) was an American actress of the silent film era. Haver auditioned for comedy producer Mack Sennett on a whim. Sennett hired her as one of his original Sennett Bathing Beauties. Within a few years, she appeared as a leading lady in two-reelers for Sennett Studios. Later, while signed with DeMille-Pathé, Haver played the part of Roxie Hart in the first film adaptation of Chicago in 1927, opposite Hungarian film actor Victor Varconi. One reviewer called her performance "astoundingly fine," and added that Haver "makes this combination of tragedy and comedy a most entertaining piece of work." She performed in the comedy film The Battle of the Sexes (1928), directed by D. W. Griffith, and appeared with Lon Chaney in his last silent film, Thunder (1929). Haver retired from the industry with two 'sound' films to her credit. In 1929, she married millionaire William Seeman with a service performed by New York Mayor James J. Walker at the home of Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist. The couple divorced in 1945. Haver retired in Sharon, Connecticut. She died at age 61 from an overdose of barbiturates in 1960, a suspected suicide. Haver left no survivors.
Movies24
Movie9.0ComedyBen Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.
Married Life
1920 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.
Love, Honor and Behave
1920 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyNancy Flood, whose father Noah operates a one-ring circus, decides to take a business job to earn extra money.
No Control
1927 · 1 votes
Movie5.8ComedyThe day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
Down on the Farm
1920 · 8 votes
Movie5.7ComedyWarBehind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
1919 · 9 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceAs her first wedding anniversary approaches, a young wife begins to believe that her husband doesn't love her anymore, and she turns to a former suitor for comfort. Soon she makes up her mind to leave her husband, but when he is seriously injured she must decide if she really wants to end her marriage.
Single Wives
1924 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyHistoryThis film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.
Down Memory Lane
1949 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyThis short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaWarGulian Eyre, an American soldier blinded in action during the World War, remains in France after the cessation of hostilities and marries his nurse, Vida. Gulian is later operated on by a skilled French surgeon and recovers his sight, only to find that Vida has left him and obtained a divorce. Gulian returns to his family in the United States and becomes engaged to Lael, a girl he had known before the war. During this time, Vida has also come to the United States and has become the companion of Gulian's mother. Gulian does not recognize Vida, whom he has never seen; in any event, she had told him that she was terribly disfigured in order to make him believe that she did not pity him. Gulian's wedding to Lael is halted when his brother-in-law kills himself after squandering the Eyre fortune. Lael soon breaks her engagement to the impoverished Gulian, who declares his love to Vida. Vida involuntarily reveals her identity, and Gulian's happiness is complete.
I Want My Man
1925 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
Lilies of the Field
1924 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyFilm was released on August 8th, 1927
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaWhen Charles Hale is visiting his mistress, Sybil Russell, he is shot in the arm by Sybil's estranged and outraged husband. Hale's daughter, Marjorie, is so shocked to discover in this abrupt fashion her father's philandering that she leaves her wealthy home and goes to the slums to do settlement work. Marjorie, who is engaged to the district attorney, is there placed in a compromising position by her father's assailant, who intends to revenge himself upon the entire Hale family.
The Breath of Scandal
1924 · 1 votes
Movie6.9RomanceWesternThree outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
3 Bad Men
1926 · 49 votes
Movie6.8ComedySam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
A Small Town Idol
1921 · 4 votes
Movie6.5DramaThe story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
The Way of All Flesh
1927 · 9 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThis short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Why Beaches Are Popular
1919 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DramaComedyAfter the wealthy and married William Judson meets young, attractive Marie Skinner, he's flattered by her attention. What he fails to realize is that Marie has plotted with her lover to seduce Judson for his money. When his family points out her motives, Judson quarrels with them and moves out. Desperate for a solution, Judson's daughter Ruth takes a gun with intentions of shooting Marie – unless her lover can talk her out of it.
The Battle of the Sexes
1928 · 13 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
It Pays to Exercise
1918 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaThe Shady Lady is a 1928 sound part-talkie American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith.
The Shady Lady
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceA night club singer falls for a gangster.
She Couldn't Say No
1930 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaA young couple's future is put in jeopardy by both the past and present actions of their parents.
Her Husband's Secret
1925 · 1 votes
Movie7.2ComedyMabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
Up in Mabel's Room
1926 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyWhen his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old college friend, Jack Harding, with whom Kay has flirted on a previous dinner engagement; there he finds solace in the charms of Roxana, and he soon is making excuses to his wife for his frequent absences from home.
Other Women's Husbands
1926 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyIn Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel, Jim Jones, wants Mary for himself. Jim uses a publicity still that Sam sent away for against him to show Sam the cad in the eyes of Mary. Disgraced and without Mary, Sam leaves town and heads for Hollywood to redeem himself. Despite not being typical leading man material, Sam is able to make a success of it in Hollywood, and wants to return to Sleepytown a new man and to get Mary back. But Jim will not give Mary up without a fight, he using any means, including lying, to turn the town, including Mary, against Sam, their newly beloved hometown son. This 1939 version was re-edited from a 1921 film with added sound.
A Small Town Idol
1939 · 1 votes