Vera Steadman
Oyuncu · 1900 – 1966 · Monterey, California, USA
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Film6.8KomediRomantikA best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 · 10 votes
Film7.0MaceraRomantikAfter a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Frisco Kid
1935 · 10 votes
- Film8.0Komedi
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
It Pays to Exercise
1918 · 1 votes
Film10.0DramDuring one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
A Man's Game
1934 · 1 votes
Film6.8DramSuçShirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Prison Farm
1938 · 4 votes
Film7.0DramJohn Steel is a poor boy with a gentle spirit, but he has a natural gift for fighting. His mother is a strict pacifist, so although he has opportunities to make a career as a boxer, he refuses--until hard times force him to enter the ring despite his mother's pleas.
Scrap Iron
1921 · 1 votes
Film5.0KomediParty-hearty college boys Bobby and Jimmy tone it down for Jimmy's dad when visiting, but when Jimmy's sister declares what she wants is a real cave man, Bobby jumps at the chance.
Why Wild Men Go Wild
1920 · 1 votes
Film6.3KomediGertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
Getting Gertie's Goat
1924 · 3 votes
- FilmKomedi
Short comedy
- FilmKomedi
At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duffy decrees that the winner of the race and his classmates get to go to the dance, while the losers are barred. To prevent Carlyle Moore Jr. From winning, the sophmores force him to torment beat cop Vernon Dent and get thrown in jail. Will their perfidy prevail, and 30-year-old student Vera Steadman have to dance with a sophmore?
- Film9.0Komedi
Billy Dooley meets a showgirl while on leave.
Happy Heels
1929 · 1 votes
Film5.4On a sailing trip, sweethearts Bobby and Gloria arrive in a very sinister-looking India, where an evil rajah attempts to force Gloria into his harem.
The Sultan's Wife
1917 · 4 votes
Film7.0WesternAn unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
The Drunkard
1935 · 1 votes
Film9.0KomediBobby is in love with a stage actress and hangs around backstage during the performance. He makes a mess of things from time to time.
A Home Spun Hero
1920 · 1 votes
FilmKomediAn entomologist and his wife head out into the countryside for his studies and happen upon a group of free-spirited young dancers.
Her Nature Dance
1917
Film5.8Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.
Scamps and Scandals
1919 · 3 votes
- Film10.0KomediDram
A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.
Elmer and Elsie
1934 · 1 votes
Film6.3RomantikMaceraHenry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
The Nervous Wreck
1926 · 5 votes
Film3.8DramSuçYoung girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
Gambling with Souls
1936 · 12 votes
FilmKomediHenry is expecting the new cook and when Sally, his wife's sister, appears, he immediately shows her the kitchen and orders her to serve food. When Henry's wife learns this she fears to present him as her husband, commands him to masquerade as the butler and calls in a friend to pose as her husband. The "butler" puts soap into the soup with the result that the sister-in-law and the other man become ill. When fire breaks out in the house the sister-in-law is trapped in her room and Bill thinks the terrible heat he feels is the result of fever from his illness. The fire brings on a climax in which the fire department performs and a series of hilarious gags are introduced.
Soup to Nuts
1925
Film8.0KomediWimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads, "Guinea Pig With Deadly Germs Roaming Our Streets". Billy causes havoc at the Yellow Cab stand when a cabbie catches sight of his cute little "piggy". Billy sets out to see his girl at her father's mansion. On the streetcar, he takes the guinea pig out of its box. Soon passengers and driver are diving off, and the runaway car is gaining on a dynamite truck!
Sailor Beware
1927 · 1 votes
Film9.0GizemRobert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans.
813
1920 · 1 votes
- Film7.0Komedi
Bobby Vernon tries to enter a house to court a lady, but keeps getting thrown out.
Exit Quietly
1921 · 1 votes
- Film10.0Komedi
In the story, Dr. Huff is beating up process servers. While he doesn't mind that his wife is divorcing him, he feels he's too busy to go to court. Additionally, he's informed the hospital staff to NOT allow any of these process servers in the place. Unfortunately, Bobby (Bobby Vernon) is instructed to serve this angry doc.
Sappy Service
1929 · 1 votes