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Lillian Worth is a Actor American born on 24 june 1884 at New York City (USA)
Lillian Worth (stage name), born Lillian Burgher Murphy, (June 24, 1884 – February 23, 1952) was an American actress. She appeared in 58 films between 1913 and 1937.
Lillian Murphy was born on June 24, 1884 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of John B. Murphy and Katherine Stahler.
Lillian Murphy married Benjamin Platt Wiggins on May 3, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York. The couple separated after a couple of years. She filed for divorce in Reno, Nevada in 1911, but did not obtain the divorce. She filed for divorce again in Los Angeles, California in 1914.
She married Erville Alderson, an American actor, on January 14, 1918 in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. By 1925, the couple were divorced.
Lillian Wiggins first came to public notice in 1909 in a theatrical production titled "The Beauty Spot."
By early 1913, Wiggins was a leading actress at Pathé's West Coast studio in Edendale, California, where she starred in Western films. By mid-1913 she was transferred to Pathé's East Coast studio in Jersey City, New Jersey, and in Oct 1913 to their newly opened Southern studio in St. Augustine, Florida.
In March 1914, Wiggins sailed for Europe to make films at Pathé's Paris studio. Two months later she went to London, where she made films first for British and Colonial Kinematography Company and then for Motograph Film Company. She returned to the United States in September 1914.
In 1915 Wiggins made films for Deer Film Company.
After her marriage to Alderson in 1918, Wiggins took the stage name Lillian Worth. She made movies under this name until 1937.
Lillian Alderson died in Los Angeles, California on February 23, 1952.
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Lillian Worth
Birth name Lillian Burgher Murphy
Nationality USA
Birth 24 june 1884 at New York City (USA)
Death 23 february 1952 (at 67 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 24 june 1884 at New York City (USA)
Death 23 february 1952 (at 67 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Lillian Worth (stage name), born Lillian Burgher Murphy, (June 24, 1884 – February 23, 1952) was an American actress. She appeared in 58 films between 1913 and 1937.
Lillian Murphy was born on June 24, 1884 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of John B. Murphy and Katherine Stahler.
Lillian Murphy married Benjamin Platt Wiggins on May 3, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York. The couple separated after a couple of years. She filed for divorce in Reno, Nevada in 1911, but did not obtain the divorce. She filed for divorce again in Los Angeles, California in 1914.
She married Erville Alderson, an American actor, on January 14, 1918 in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. By 1925, the couple were divorced.
Lillian Wiggins first came to public notice in 1909 in a theatrical production titled "The Beauty Spot."
By early 1913, Wiggins was a leading actress at Pathé's West Coast studio in Edendale, California, where she starred in Western films. By mid-1913 she was transferred to Pathé's East Coast studio in Jersey City, New Jersey, and in Oct 1913 to their newly opened Southern studio in St. Augustine, Florida.
In March 1914, Wiggins sailed for Europe to make films at Pathé's Paris studio. Two months later she went to London, where she made films first for British and Colonial Kinematography Company and then for Motograph Film Company. She returned to the United States in September 1914.
In 1915 Wiggins made films for Deer Film Company.
After her marriage to Alderson in 1918, Wiggins took the stage name Lillian Worth. She made movies under this name until 1937.
Lillian Alderson died in Los Angeles, California on February 23, 1952.
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Big City (1937)
, 1h20Directed by George B. Seitz, Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Charley Grapewin, Victor Varconi, Janet Beecher, William Demarest
Rating63%
Joe Benton (Spencer Tracy) and his wife Anna (Luise Rainer) are suspected of starting a taxi war. Although innocent, they are blamed for everything that has happened and the officials demand that Anna be deported from the United States. While trying to prove their innocence, the couple feels forced to hide.
Private Number (1936)
, 1h20Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Loretta Young, Robert Taylor, Basil Rathbone, Patsy Kelly, Jane Darwell, Marjorie Gateson
Roles Maud
Rating66%
Ellen Neal is hired as servant in the house of the wealthy Winfield family by the butler, Thomas Wroxton, who covets her romantically. Wroxton rules the household staff like a tyrant, demanding a large cut of their weekly wages as his "commission". To his great irritation, Neal resists his advances. Instead, during the family's vacation in New England she becomes romantically involved with the Winfields' son, Richard, who is a college student. They secretly marry and she falls pregnant by him before he returns to college. When the Winfields are told by a vengeful Wroxton that she is pregnant they are initially sympathetic until discovering that the child is their own grandson. A prolonged divorce suit then follows until the couple are finally reconciled.
The White Angel (1936)
, 1h32Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Poésie, Political films, Adaptation d'un poème
Actors Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Donald Woods, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, Henry O'Neill
Roles Woman Donating Bandages (uncredited)
Rating65%
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale (Kay Francis) decides to become a nurse, puzzling her upper-class family. She travels to Germany to the only nursing school. The training is arduous, but she endures and graduates. When she returns home, however, no one is willing to employ her.
Stranded (1935)
, 1h15Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis, Barton MacLane, Donald Woods, Robert Barrat
Roles Blonde (uncredited)
Rating64%
Un mélodrame de 1935, tourné à San Francisco, mettant en vedette Kay Francis en tant qu'assistante de voyageurs qui s'implique dans la vie personnelle de ses clients.
Carnival (1935)
, 1h17Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jimmy Durante, Florence Rice, Lee Tracy, Sally Eilers, Thomas E. Jackson, John Aasen
Roles Half Man-Half Woman
Rating62%
Maybe It's Love (1935)
, 1h3Directed by William C. McGann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Gloria Stuart, Ross Alexander, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly, Helen Lowell, Henry Travers
Roles First Complaining Wife (uncredited)
Rating57%
Stars Over Broadway (1935)
, 1h29Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Pat O'Brien, Jane Froman, Jean Muir, Frank McHugh, Marie Wilson, Frank Fay
Roles Buxom Singer
Rating58%
Other Men's Women (1931)
, 1h10Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Grant Withers, Regis Toomey, James Cagney, Mary Astor, Fred Kohler, Joan Blondell
Roles Waitress
Rating63%
The film is about Bill (Grant Withers), a railroad engineer, who falls in love with Lily (Mary Astor), the wife of his co-worker Jack (Regis Toomey). When the two men fight over Lily, Jack is blinded. He dies in a violent storm saving Bill's life.
Dangerous Paradise (1930)
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Actors Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Francis McDonald, Dorothea Wolbert
Roles Myrtle
Rating55%
Stairs of Sand (1929)
Directed by Otto Brower
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Jean Arthur, Phillips Holmes, Fred Kohler, Chester Conklin, Guy Oliver
Roles Babe
Rating66%
Tarzan the Tiger (1929)
Directed by Henry MacRae
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Tarzan films
Actors Natalie Kingston, Al Ferguson, Sheldon Lewis, Paul Panzer, Lillian Worth, Charles Gemora
Roles Queen La of Opar
Rating54%
Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) returns to Africa, with Lady Jane and friend Albert Werper, in order to return to Opar. He needs the treasure of Opar in order to secure his estates in England. Werper, however, is actually interested in the gold himself. He is in league with Arab slave trader Achmet Zek who wishes revenge on Tarzan and Lady Jane for himself.
The Docks of New York (1928)
, 1h16Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Betty Compson, George Bancroft, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Wilfred Cook, Mitchell Lewis, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Roles Steve's Girl
Rating74%
The story involves an incredibly strong ship stoker named Bill (Bancroft) and the beautiful prostitute Mae (Compson), whom he saves from drowning during his one night of shore leave. She was attempting suicide as she had no money, almost no clothes and felt remorse about her life up to then. He steals some clothes for her and invites her out for a "good night". They go to a bustling wharf pub and that evening they spontaneously get married by a minister invited to the pub.
Upstream (1927)
, 1hDirected by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Earle Foxe, Grant Withers, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Raymond Hitchcock, Émile Chautard, Francis Ford
Roles Sister Team
Rating61%
Un jeune homme, Eric Brasingham, rêve d'être un acteur mondialement reconnu. Passionné de William Shakespeare, il décide d'aller jouer Hamlet à Londres. Rejeton d'une célèbre famille d'acteurs, Eric est malheureusement pas doué pour la comédie et il est également imbu de sa personne mais il parvient à se glisser dans les coulisses du monde du spectacle et espère qu'on lui donnera bientôt sa chance. C'est alors qu'il fait la connaissance d'une ravissante femme spécialiste du lancer de couteaux, Gertie Ryan, qui tombe amoureuse de lui. Mais Eric, obsédé par sa probable réussite, ne voit pas l'amour qu'elle lui porte. Elle est également convoitée par Juan, son collègue également lanceur de couteaux. Lorsqu'il part pour Londres, Gertie n'a plus de nouvelles d'Eric, qui accède enfin au succès grâce à la pièce de Shakespeare. Lorsqu'Eric rentre à New York, il découvre que Juan et Gertie, toujours amoureuse de lui secrètement, vont se marier. Il est surpris avec la mariée par Juan qui le frappe et le vire de la cérémonie. Eric, dont le narcissisme a gâché l'histoire d'amour avec Gertie, finit seul.
The Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
Directed by Robert Hill, Scott Sidney
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Tarzan films
Actors Elmo Lincoln, Louise Lorraine, Scott Pembroke, Frank Whitson, Lillian Worth, Charles Inslee
Roles Queen La of Opar
Rating56%
Tarzan rescues Jane from Arab slave-traders after they have been marooned in Africa. They return to the cabin where his parents lived before their death. Jane is captured by Queen La of Opar, taken to that hidden city, and is to be made a sacrifice. Tarzan rescues her and they escape. Nikolas Rokoff and William Cecil Clayton, the usurper to Tarzan's title of Lord Greystoke, learn that Jane has a map to the city (which contains fabulous riches in exotic jewels), tattooed onto her back. They kidnap her and attempt to loot the city.