Lydia Knott

Movies23

• Movie6.7

  DramaRomance

  When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

  A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

  1923 · 204 votes

• Movie6.5

  DramaComedy

  An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

  If I Had a Million

  1932 · 51 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyRomance

  The Super-Sex is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Robert Gordon, Charlotte Pierce and Tully Marshall.

  The Super-Sex

  1922 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  DramaRomance

  When oil is discovered just outside a small New England town, the residents go wild at the prospect of newfound wealth, and they invest their money with the head of the venture, a young man named Bruce Merlin.

  Dollar Devils

  1923 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  Western

  Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, which will be in the path of a future railroad, Underwood (Charles K.French) hires Keno Creager (Albert Smith) to impersonate Jimmy Winters, not seen by his mother and sister for many years.

  Overland Bound

  1929 · 1 votes

• Movie5.8

  DramaMystery

  The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him

  The President's Mystery

  1936 · 8 votes

• Movie9.0

  ComedyRomance

  A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.

  I'll Fix It

  1934 · 1 votes

• Movie7.1

  DramaCrime

  A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

  The Defense Rests

  1934 · 10 votes

• Movie10.0

  Drama

  When rich Jack Talbot falls in love with not-rich Rose Kirby, he doesn't marry her, fearing his mother's disapproval. Rose later marries Clyde Bainbridge, a rotter who knows that under the terms of a secret contract, Rose will inherit the Talbot iron-works. Rose finds the contract but, mistrusting her husband, does not make use of it.

  Rose of the World

  1925 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  ComedyDrama

  Josephine Darchat lives with her Whipple grandparents in the country and loves Russ Prendergast, son of wealthy Calvin Prendergast, despite the dispute between the families over a spring between their properties.

  The Heart of Youth

  1919 · 1 votes

• Movie9.0

  Drama

  Gerald Cranston, a successful financier and industrialist who worked his way up through the ranks, enters into a marriage of convenience with Lady Hermione, from which he hopes to gain social prestige; Hermione, for her part, desires financial independence. Gordon Ibbotsleigh attempts to win Hermione's affection, while Hermione's cousin Angela directs her wiles toward Gerald. Both efforts fail, however, and the threat of financial ruin finally and firmly unites the Cranstons.

  Gerald Cranston's Lady

  1924 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  Drama

  St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misogynist, St. Elmo returns to home and hearth only to fall in love with the daughter of the local blacksmith. The film is based on the 1867 novel of the same name written by Augusta Jane Evans. Today, St. Elmo is a lost film.

  St. Elmo

  1923 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  Drama

  Because Amy Fortesque's dying grandfather advises her to get all the joys out of life, she marries Dick Gaylord because he is funny, rather than Walter Melrose, a staid young lawyer who loves her.

  What Every Woman Learns

  1919 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  ComedyDrama

  Teddy Harmon, a society girl preoccupied with pleasure, is persuaded by her father's serious-minded secretary that she is in love with him, but meeting his family, she becomes bored and seeks the society of Gary McVeigh, a wealthy neighbor. At a gambling house, she finds her father with a dashing young widow, and later, the proprietor, though ostensibly a friend, tries to force his attentions on her and she is taken to jail in a raid. She is rescued by Gary, and the secretary, learning of her father's financial difficulties, breaks the engagement.

  The Dangerous Little Demon

  1922 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  Drama

  Directed by B. Reeves Eason. With William Fairbanks, Eva Novak, Lydia Knott, Bob Rhodes.

  Women First

  1924 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  ComedyDrama

  Hosiah Howe struggles to earn his living on a farm that lies in the shadow of a wealthy summer resort. Visiting the resort are Dr. Rand, his daughter Virginia, and a scoundrel named Ward Andrews. One day Andrews stops at the Howe farm and discovers that the land contains water with a highly-exploitable medicinal value. Smelling money, Andrews convinces Dr. Rand to buy an option on the farm, then runs away to the city with Hosiah's innocent sister Martha.

  Peaceful Valley

  1920 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  Drama

  The film explores the journey of Nora Dowen as she rises to fame and stardom, facing the challenges and temptations that come with the industry.

  Life of an Actress

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie6.5

  ComedyDrama

  Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't get her to look his way. Things get even worse when a city boy comes to town and boards at the Fields' home.

  In Wrong

  1919 · 2 votes

• Movie7.4

  Drama

  A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.

  Home

  1919 · 5 votes

• Movie8.0

  Western

  Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.

  Across the Dead-Line

  1922 · 1 votes

• Movie3.0

  Drama

  Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his plans. Poverty and disappointment make him a derelict, but he forgives his enemy and finds happiness after Moore's daughters, Hope and Joy, befriend him.

  The Man Life Passed By

  1923 · 3 votes

• Movie7.0

  DramaComedy

  Filmed by Fred J. Balshofer in 1918 as the anti-German war drama Over the Rhine, the project was reshaped and released in 1920 as An Adventuress—a cross-dressing caper set in the fictional republic of Alpania and headlined by female-impersonation star Julian Eltinge, with early appearances by Rudolph Valentino and Virginia Rappe. The film was later re-edited and reissued in 1922 as The Isle of Love.

  An Adventuress

  1920 · 2 votes

• Movie7.0

  Crime

  A swift moving drama of ritzy crooks and the New York Police. Pitfalls and dangers in the love story of a beautiful girl who was a "come on" for a gang of crooks, and a young Irishman who was "rarin' to go" in the brass buttons of a policeman

  The House of Scandal

  1928 · 1 votes