
Dave Morris
Actor · 1884 – 1955 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Movies24
Movie6.6CrimeMysteryAn unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Fallen Angel
1945 · 135 votes
Movie6.3DramaHistoryAlexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 · 22 votes
Movie7.2DramaHistoryIn this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939 · 195 votes
Movie6.7ComedyMusicIn 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Greenwich Village
1944 · 6 votes
Movie6.5ComedyWoman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939 · 2 votes
Movie10.0ComedyThe Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
Too Busy to Work
1939 · 1 votes
Movie4.8MusicDramaIn 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
You're My Everything
1949 · 6 votes
Movie4.6DramaIn the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses after news of an unexpected inheritance lures them into a false sense of prosperity. Captain Boyle, a boastful idler, squanders their meager resources, while his wife Juno holds the household together. When the fortune proves illusory, the family faces ruin, betrayal, and tragedy.
Juno and the Paycock
1930 · 64 votes
Movie6.2ActionPilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
20,000 Men a Year
1939 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedyBill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
Musclebound Music
1926 · 1 votes
Movie6.4CrimeDramaA hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
Swamp Water
1941 · 46 votes
Movie8.0ComedyClyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the strong man of the circus scheming to beat him to it.
Skirts
1921 · 1 votes
- Movie5.0ComedyRomance
Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bambrick.
Liberty Belles
1914 · 1 votes
Movie7.1ComedyTacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
Sitting Pretty
1948 · 49 votes
Movie6.6DramaNew York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939 · 7 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
A Small Town Princess
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ActionAdventureThe Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
Tracked by the Police
1927 · 2 votes
Movie6.6DramaMusicAlice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Lillian Russell
1940 · 13 votes
- MovieComedy
First Pa said Theodore was a lizzy-nizzy. He let that go, but when Pa said he was too sporty because he spent a nickel for a ticket for a voting contest for the fairest girl in town, Pa's daughter, of course, then Theodore decided to settle Pa. He played at being a lady. Then Pa said he might not be as young as he used to be, but Ma came along. So Pa said all on the sly, "Go to it, Theodore."
Pa Says
1913
Movie6.2ComedyDramaStarting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 · 7 votes
- Movie
An eccentric American billionaire travels to Paris and Monte Carlo, where his lavish spending and impulsive adventures draw him into a series of comic misunderstandings, duels, and romantic entanglements.
The Billionaire
1914
- Movie4.8
It's love among the elite in this Keystone from 1915, in which normal-looking people in well-fitting clothes go through the same sort of hi-jinks that the hoi polloi do. It's a couple of minutes before the first weird mustache appears and it took me twice that to recognize that bright eyed, lanky girl with the snub nose as Louise Fazenda.
Crossed Love and Swords
1915 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Safety in Numbers
1938 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The husband is one of the players, and the instructor, not knowing who he is, shows her picture around the table. This prompts a round-table discussion in which none of the standard rules for civility is part of the discussion.
Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
1926 · 1 votes