Hallam Cooley
Actor · 1895 – 1971 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hallam Cooley (February 8, 1895 – March 20, 1971) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 106 films between 1913 and 1936. He was born in Brooklyn, and died in Tiburon, California.
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Movie7.0ComedyDramaMinnie, the village tomboy, meets a handsome Stranger after playing ball one afternoon. She invites him to see a bridge model her father has designed; but finding her intoxicated father in the act of destroying the model, she swears vengeance on the local bootleggers and joins a newspaper as sportswriter so as to expose their activities. Pike, the station agent, leader of the bootleggers, spreads a scandal about Minnie when she rejects him, but through the help of the Stranger everything is cleared up.
The Tomboy
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaRichard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.
Trumpet Island
1920 · 2 votes
Movie7.2ComedyRomanceDavid Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.
An Old Fashioned Boy
1920 · 3 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceWhen 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
Movie8.0Two sisters battle for the love of a man.
Wedding Rings
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceJoe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talking of this and breaks with him. Then, with the help of her friend, Mazie, she metamorphoses into a ravishing beauty. Joe is remorseful, but the situation is made more complex when he suspects Eve of questionable relations with her boss.
Ladies Must Dress
1927 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceBob Beemis comes to New York City hoping to get his family entrenched in the high-society circuit, but only succeeds in making friends with one person in the social whirl, Archie de Rennsaler. They party with a couple of chorus girls and Bob falls in love with one of them. His uncle arrives from the West to check out his progress, finds there has been none, and closes out his bank account. What's a poor rich-boy do do? Well, he could enter his horse in a really, really Big Race.
The Thoroughbred
1925 · 1 votes
Movie8.0CrimeMysteryA mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
Black Waters
1929 · 1 votes
Movie6.2RomanceDramaA young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Holiday
1930 · 24 votes
MovieActionAdventureRosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial
The Brass Bullet
1918
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceMr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
Soup to Nuts
1930 · 16 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceA horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
Sporting Blood
1931 · 10 votes
Movie8.0ComedyThe best man at an upcoming wedding goes to a jeweler to pick up the wedding ring and is also given a bracelet, on approval, worth $25,000. On his way home, a pigeon swoops down and snags the bracelet. The man must track down the pigeon and get the bracelet back so he won't have to pay for it--but that's easier said than done.
Wedding Bills
1927 · 1 votes
Movie3.3DramaRomanceA playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
What Men Want
1930 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedyIn this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, who is pretending to be his own chauffeur. With her savings, she pursues him to a resort hotel, only to be mistaken for a duchess. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Národní filmový archív in 2007.
Her Wild Oat
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaA young woman is released from the reformatory where she was unjustly sent. She starts a new life with the help of a judge and an idealistic young minister. But a gang of criminals have made plans that could destroy the new life that she has built.
Free to Love
1925 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA lowly office worker suffers the abuses of his cruel boss, until fate gives him enough wealth to buy out his boss and reverse their positions.
The Ten Dollar Raise
1921 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaSpoiled society girl Beth Wynn agrees to stake her marriage to Francis Fraser on the outcome of an airplane race with him.
One Week of Love
1922 · 1 votes
Movie4.9DramaRomanceBored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
Back Pay
1930 · 7 votes
Movie5.7ComedyHorrorA general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
The Monster
1925 · 28 votes
Movie10.0ComedyThe very wealthy and very idle Dickey Derrickson is scorned by his fiancée Madge Earle because of his refusal to work. To counter her criticism, he buys a detective agency that has no cases, but Madge discovers the ruse. To create a demand for his services, Dickey hires a group of thugs to steal valuables from his rich friends.
Leave It to Me
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceMolly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the advances of her boss's son in favor of a shipping clerk, late of the backwoods.
Her Night of Nights
1922 · 1 votes
Movie4.3RomanceComedyA young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
Too Many Cooks
1931 · 3 votes
Movie6.0MusicComedyBased on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
Oh, Sailor, Behave!
1930 · 4 votes