Chrissie White
Actor · 1895 – 1989 · London, England, UK
From Wikipedia Chrissie White (23 May 1895 – 18 August 1989) was a British film actress of the silent era. She appeared in over 180 films between 1908 and 1933. White was married to actor and film director Henry Edwards, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most famous and newsworthy celebrity couples. She starred in the 1920 film The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss, which as of August 2010 is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.
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- Movie9.0Drama
Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878 Irish novel of the same name by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Molly Bawn the novel by M. W. Hungerford contains her most famous idiom: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." It is also referenced in chapter 8 of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Molly Bawn
1916 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA Cockney poses as his drowned double, who is saved and poses as a chauffeur.
The Kinsman
1919 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
A woman disapproves of her stepson's love for a girl who goes mad when her drunken father dies in a landslide.
Aylwin
1920 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.
- Movie7.0Comedy
A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.
The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss
1920 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceA poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.
The City of Beautiful Nonsense
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie
A ten-part series of comedies in which a man repeatedly gets into trouble with his wife.
Movie7.0AdventureLt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.
The Call of the Sea
1930 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Romance
A poor author has an engaged girl pose as his wife to please his dying father.
The World of Wonderful Reality
1924 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaBill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the security of his job and income prey on his mind and he frets over not being able to provide for Lily. With his worries heightened by the fear that he is about to go blind, he falls into a deep depression .....
Lily of the Alley
1924 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
A girl's beau poses as a burglar to fool her boastful father.
The Joke That Failed
1917 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyGirls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.
Tilly in a Boarding House
1912 · 4 votes
Movie5.8ComedyTwo young men help two girls escape.
Tilly's Party
1911 · 4 votes
- Movie5.3Comedy
Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.
Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor
1910 · 7 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Chrissie White, one of Hepworth Studios' biggest stars, heads up this feisty battle-of-the-sexes comedy about an independent young lady who, for the sake of a rich husband, poses as the epitome of Victorian femininity - weak, docile and submissive. But when he steps out of line the gloves come off to reveal 'Physical Culture Phyllis', who punches well above her weight!
Wife the Weaker Vessel
1915 · 1 votes
MovieDramaAfter his brother's suicide, Alec Dale is determined to get revenge on the woman that he believes drove him to his death.
- Movie9.0
A poet struggles to get her work accepted.
The Poet's Windfall
1918 · 1 votes
- Movie4.0MusicComedy
Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs.
Are We Down-Hearted?
1911 · 1 votes
Movie7.0'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)
Broken in the Wars
1919 · 2 votes
MovieComedyA professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.
- Movie4.6Comedy
Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.
Tilly and the Fire Engines
1911 · 8 votes
- MovieHorror
A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.
The Basilisk
1914