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Edna Murphy is a Actor American born on 16 november 1899 at New York City (USA)

Edna Murphy

Edna Murphy
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Birth name Elizabeth Edna Murphy
Nationality USA
Birth 16 november 1899 at New York City (USA)
Death 3 august 1974 (at 74 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Edna Murphy (November 17, 1899 – August 3, 1974) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 80 films between 1918 and 1933. Murphy was voted "Most Photographed Movie Star of 1925" by ScreenLand Magazine. She was born in New York, New York and died in Santa Monica, California.

Biography

Durant la période du muet, Edna Murphy contribue à soixante-quatorze films américains, le premier étant To the Highest Bidder de Tom Terriss (avec Alice Joyce et Walter McGrail), sorti en 1918. Parmi ses autres films muets, mentionnons le serial Fantômas d'Edward Sedgwick (1920, avec Henry Armetta, réputé perdu), deux films de Maurice Tourneur, La Phalène blanche (1924, avec Barbara La Marr et Conway Tearle) et Le Corsaire aux jambes molles (1926, avec Leon Errol et Dorothy Gish), ainsi que le court métrage Scandale à Hollywood de Fred Guiol (1926, où elle est l'épouse d'Oliver Hardy). Signalons aussi sept westerns, dont The Galloping Kid de Nat Ross (1922, avec Hoot Gibson) et The Sunset Legion de Lloyd Ingraham et Alfred L. Werker (1928, avec Fred Thomson).

Elle apparaît également dans dix-huit films parlants, dont le musical The Show of Shows de John G. Adolfi (1929, avec Frank Fay en maître de cérémonie), Little Johnny Jones de Mervyn LeRoy (1929, avec Edward Buzzell) et Behind Office Doors de Melville W. Brown (1931, avec Mary Astor et Ricardo Cortez). Son dernier film sort en 1933, après lequel elle se retire définitivement.

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Filmography of Edna Murphy (38 films)

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Actress

Girl of the Rio, 1h10
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Dolores del Río, Leo Carrillo, Norman Foster, Ralph Ince, Lucile Gleason, Stanley Fields
Roles Madge
Rating59% 2.9950752.9950752.9950752.9950752.995075
South of the U.S. border, Don José Tostado, a Mexican cabellero, falls in love with Dolores Romero, a dance-hall girl. Owning one of the larger ranches in the area, Tostado is not used to people telling him no. When Romero resists his advances, using a fictional boyfriend as her excuse, this only increases his interest in her, and his attempts to win her favor. As part of that attempt, he plans to throw a gala in her honor.
Finger Prints (serial)
Directed by Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Kenneth Harlan, Edna Murphy, Gayne Whitman, Gertrude Astor, William Worthington, William L. Thorne
Roles Lola Mackey, Gordon's girlfriend
Rating39% 1.9888551.9888551.9888551.9888551.988855
Secret Service agent Gary Gordon is working on shutting down the River Gang, a smuggling ring that his girlfriend's father is secretly a member. Soon after, events are complicated when Kent Martin blackmails the father unsuccessfully for the hand of his daughter in marriage.
Behind Office Doors, 1h22
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mary Astor, Robert Downing Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Catherine Dale Owen, Kitty Kelly, Edna Murphy
Roles Daisy Presby
Rating60% 3.043093.043093.043093.043093.04309
Mary Linden (Mary Astor) is a receptionist at a paper milling company, who is secretly in love with one of the salesmen, James Duneen (Robert Ames). Her extensive knowledge of the paper industry, the mill and its clients allows her to have input in company operations far outweighing her level as a receptionist. As the current president of the company, Ritter (Charles Sellon), approaches retirement, Mary uses her knowledge and skill of company politics to enable James to make some important sales coups, after which she begins a fifth-column attempt to get him named as the next president. James, for his part, is grateful to her for her help, but is completely oblivious to her romantic interest in him, preferring more of the party girl type.
Forgotten Women, 1h7
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Marion Shilling, Beryl Mercer, Rex Bell, Virginia Lee Corbin, Carmelita Geraghty, Edna Murphy
Roles Trixie de Forrester
Rating51% 2.557172.557172.557172.557172.55717
À la suite d'un tuyau que lui a fourni Fern Madden, une figurante, Jimmy Burke publie un article révélant les relations d'un producteur avec la pègre. Grâce à cet article, il est promu rédacteur en chef des pages locales. Alors qu'il est presque fiancé à Patricia Young, une autre figurante qui vit en colocation avec Fern, il tombe amoureux de la fille de son éditeur et voit Patricia de moins en moins. Un soir, il demande à Patricia de passer la nuit avec lui, mais au matin elle trouve un mot lui apprenant son autre liaison. Désespérée, elle accepte la proposition d'un gangster de partir en croisière. Alerté par Fern, Jimmy la retrouve avant qu'elle ne parte.
Second Choice, 1h7
Directed by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dolores Costello, Chester Morris, Jack Mulhall, Edna Murphy, Ethlyne Clair, Charlotte Merriam
Roles Beth Randall
Rating21% 1.081691.081691.081691.081691.08169
Vallery Grove (Costello) is in love with Don Warren (Morris), but her mother opposes the match because he is poor and has no social standing. Don decides to terminate his engagement to Vallery after attending a party where he meets a spoiled rich girl who is interested in him.
Wide Open
Wide Open (1930)
, 1h9
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Edward Everett Horton, Louise Fazenda, Patsy Ruth Miller, Vera Lewis, Louise Beavers, Edna Murphy
Roles Nell Martin
Rating60% 3.0006053.0006053.0006053.0006053.000605
Unassertive bookkeeper Simon Haldane (Horton) is the butt of everyone's jokes at work. Co-worker Agatha (Louise Fazenda) is desperately in love with him. One rainy night, Agatha's mother, with Agatha in tow, visits him at home to insist that he marry her. Outside, two detectives chase a mysterious young woman (Miller), who eludes them by slipping unnoticed into Simon's house and hiding in a closet. When the detectives enter the premises, Simon manages to get rid of them and Agatha and her mother.
Dancing Sweeties, 1h2
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Grant Withers, Sue Carol, Tully Marshall, Edna Murphy, Eddie Phillips, Margaret Seddon
Roles 'Jazzbo' Gans
Rating54% 2.725842.725842.725842.725842.72584
Grant Withers is a conceited dancer who spends all his free time dancing. He leaves his partner Edna Murphy, after seeing Sue Carol in the dance hall. He enters the waltz contest with Carol and ends up winning the first prize. Soon after they are convinced to marry by Sid Silvers (the dance hall manager), who needs a new couple to marry in a live ceremony in the dance-hall after another couple cancelled. He convinces them when he offers them a free furnished apartment which the other couple forfeited by not showing up. Withers' and Carol's parents are shocked by news of the marriage. Withers soon gets bored of home-life and the in-laws and yearns for dancing again. He convinces Carol to join him in a dance contest, but when she is unable to perform the dance steps of a new fox-trot, they fight. The fighting continues until they split up. After a while, Grant realizes what he has lost but thinks it may be too late to patch things up.
Show of Shows, 2h8
Directed by John G. Adolfi
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Frank Fay, Anthony Bushell, John Barrymore, William Courtenay, William Bakewell, Richard Barthelmess
Roles Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Rating58% 2.903132.903132.903132.903132.90313
The Unkissed Man, 20minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bryant Washburn, Jean Harlow, Edna Murphy, Marion Byron
Rating15% 0.7970350.7970350.7970350.7970350.797035
The Valley of Hell, 50minutes
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Francis McDonald, Edna Murphy, William Steele
Roles Mary Calvert

In the Old West, a dashing hero saves a girl from bandits.
My Man
My Man (1928)
, 1h39
Directed by Archie Mayo
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Fanny Brice, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Edna Murphy, Andres de Segurola, Richard Tucker, Arthur Hoyt
Roles Edna Brand
Rating71% 3.59323.59323.59323.59323.5932
Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young fellow who earns a precarious living demonstrating an elastic exerciser in a drugstore window. Fannie and Joe set a date to be married, but the wedding is called off when Fannie finds Joe making love to her unprincipled sister, Edna. Fannie auditions for Landau, a theatrical producer, and goes on the Broadway stage. Fannie is a great success, and she and Joe soon find their way back into each other's arms.
The Sunset Legion, 1h10
Directed by Lloyd Ingraham, Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Fred Thomson, Edna Murphy, William Courtright, Harry Woods, Slim Whitaker
Roles Susan
Rating60% 3.0095753.0095753.0095753.0095753.009575
Le héros, marchand d'armes ambulant le jour, se transforme la nuit en justicier. Il rétabli l'ordre dans la ville et séduit l'héroïne.