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Claire McDowell is a Actor American born on 31 october 1877 at New York City (USA)
Claire McDowell (November 2, 1877 – October 23, 1966) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 350 films between 1908 and 1945. Still something of a youthful beauty when she started in early silent films she appeared in numerous short, early feature films. She graduated to playing character and mother types. She appeared in Douglas Fairbanks's 1920 The Mark of Zorro. McDowell costarred in two of the biggest films of the silent era, The Big Parade and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in which she played mothers both times.
McDowell was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California, aged 88. She was married to silent screen character actor Charles Hill Mailes from 1906 to his 1937 death. The happy couple appeared in numerous silent films together including The Mark of Zorro. They had two sons, Robert and Eugene.
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Claire McDowell
Nationality USA
Birth 31 october 1877 at New York City (USA)
Death 23 october 1966 (at 88 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 31 october 1877 at New York City (USA)
Death 23 october 1966 (at 88 years) at Hollywood (USA)
McDowell was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California, aged 88. She was married to silent screen character actor Charles Hill Mailes from 1906 to his 1937 death. The happy couple appeared in numerous silent films together including The Mark of Zorro. They had two sons, Robert and Eugene.
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Filmography of Claire McDowell (188 films)
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Way Out (1967)
Directed by Anthony O'Sullivan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Harry Carey, L. M. Wells, Claire McDowell
Adventure (1945)
, 2h15Directed by Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Thomas Mitchell, Tom Tully, Harry Davenport
Roles Woman in Library (uncredited)
Rating61%
When his ship is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, Harry Patterson (Clark Gable), a World War II merchant marine boatswain, is cast adrift on a launch with a few of his shipmates. While Harry remains calm in the face of disaster, his friend Mudgin (Thomas Mitchell) prays desperately, promising to avoid women, liquor, and fighting and to donate money to the church if they are saved. Harry finds Mudgin's pleas ridiculous, but no sooner does Mudgin complete his pact with God than a rescue plane appears on the horizon and the men are saved.
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
, 1h47Directed by George B. Seitz, John E. Burch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Sara Haden, Herbert Marshall, Bonita Granville
Roles Dr. Standish's Servant (uncredited)
Rating64%
Blonde Trouble picks up from the previous installment of the Andy Hardy saga with Andy on a train to begin his college career at Wainwright College. While on the train, he meets Kay Wilson (Bonita Granville), and learns that Wainright College has just become a coeducational institution. The Dean of Wainwright College (and soon to be Andy's faculty advisor), Dr. Standish (Herbert Marshall) is also on the train. Dr. Standish's identity is not revealed to Andy until later.
Men on Her Mind (1944)
, 1h7Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Mary Beth Hughes, Edward Norris, Luis Alberni, Kay Linaker, Claire McDowell, Isabelle LaMal
Roles Mother Goodwin
Rating56%
Are These Our Parents? (1944)
, 1h13Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Helen Vinson, Lyle Talbot, Ivan Lebedeff, Noel Neill, Emma Dunn, Addison Richards
A mother's preference for partying, boozing, and running around with an assortment of sleazy characters results in her neglecting her nubile teenage daughter, who subsequently finds herself mixed up with teenage boys, nightclub owners, and murder.
This Land Is Mine (1943)
, 1h43Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Kent Smith, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Una O'Connor
Roles Woman in Bathroom
Rating74%
People in an unnamed Nazi-occupied country face various ethical dilemmas and react in different ways.
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
, 2h14Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Arno Frey, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Roles Counterwoman (uncredited)
Rating73%
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda (Brian Donlevy), a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski), but his getaway car is discovered and therefore his planned safe house must reject him. When a woman he doesn't know, named Mascha (Anna Lee), deliberately misdirects German soldiers close to finding him, he seeks her home as an alternative safe house. This turns out to be the home of her father, history professor Stephen Novotny (Walter Brennan), whom the Nazis have banned from teaching. This plan works. But because the assassin now can't be found, the Nazi leaders in Prague decide to create an incentive for him to turn himself in or for others to do so. They arrange–with the help of fifth-columnist Emil Czaka (Gene Lockhart), a wealthy brewer–for 400 citizens, including Professor Novotny, to be executed, forty at a time, until the assassin is named. Through a complex series of events, however, the resistance manages to frame Czaka himself for the murder, but not before the Nazis have executed many of the hostages.
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
, 1h44Directed by Norman Taurog, Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter, Richard Carlson, Bob Crosby, Spring Byington
Roles Dowager
Rating67%
Lily Mars (Judy Garland) is a small-town girl with big-city ambitions. She heads to Broadway hoping for stardom, but after a series of disappointments the best she can manage is an understudy job.
Du Barry was a Lady (1943)
, 1h41Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien, Zero Mostel, Rags Ragland
Roles Subway Passenger
Rating60%
May Daly, une danseuse, est aimée par deux hommes : Louis Blore et Alec Howe. Par rivalité, Louis verse une drogue dans le verre d'Alec, mais par erreur il boit lui-même le verre. Louis rêve alors qu'il est Louis XV et retrouve May en Madame du Barry.
Keeper of the Flame (1943)
, 1h40Directed by George Stevens, George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, Darryl Hickman
Rating66%
When national hero Robert Forrest is killed in an automobile accident, the entire United States goes into deep mourning. Admirer and renowned journalist Stephen O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) returns from Europe to write a biography of the great man. Among the throngs covering the funeral, he finds his old friends and fellow reporters, Jane Harding (Audrey Christie) and Freddie Ridges (Stephen McNally). They remain after the rest of the press leave.
The Youngest Profession (1943)
Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Virginia Weidler, Edward Arnold, John Carroll, Richard "Dick" Simmons, Agnes Moorehead, Ann Ayars
Roles une femme
Rating59%
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
, 2h3Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford
Rating65%
Au milieu du XIX siècle, seuls les grands voiliers ont la possibilité, avant l'arrivée du chemin de fer, d'assurer la liaison entre le Nord-Est des États-Unis et la vallée du Mississippi. Mais il faut tenir compte des récifs de Floride, où s'échouent les navires. Pilleurs d'épaves et sauveteurs s'affrontent...
Lady Scarface (1941)
, 1h6Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Crime
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Judith Anderson, Claire McDowell, Eric Blore, Charles Halton, Marc Lawrence
Roles Mrs. Tuckerman
Rating57%
The evil Chicago gangster Slade is on the loose. Lt. Mason and Ann Rogers are both vying to catch the criminal. The gang has come up with a scheme of contacting each other involving want ads and dogs as code names. It also involves leaving money at a hotel for a "Mary Jordan". The only problem occurs when someone who really is named Mary Jordan gets the money by mistake. A trap is set and villains are caught.
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
, 1h19Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Samuel S. Hinds, Gene Lockhart, Nat Pendleton
Roles Nurse for Mr. Winslow (uncredited)
Rating64%
Doctor James Kildare (Lew Ayres), just appointed resident assistant at the Byng State Hospital by his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), is forced to return to his hometown when his general-practitioner father (Samuel S. Hinds) collapses from overwork.
Young Tom Edison (1940)
, 1h26Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, Thomas Alva Edison, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler, Eugene Pallette
Roles Woman at Station
Rating66%
L'inventeur Thomas Edison enfance de est chronique et lui montre un jeune homme dont les premières inventions et expériences scientifiques finissent généralement causer des résultats désastreux. En conséquence, les gens pensent tous les villes Tom est fou, et la création d'une relation tendue entre Tom et son père. Toms seule consolation est sa mère qui croit comprendre qu'il est dirigé à faire de grandes choses.