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Mildred Davis is a Actor American born on 22 february 1901 at Philadelphia (USA)

Mildred Davis

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Birth name Mildred Hillary Davis
Nationality USA
Birth 22 february 1901 at Philadelphia (USA)
Death 18 august 1969 (at 68 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

For the suspense/mystery author see Mildred B. Davis

Mildred Hillary Davis (February 22, 1901 – August 18, 1969) was an American actress who appeared in many of Harold Lloyd's classic silent comedies and eventually became his wife.

Biography

Débuts et carrière

Mildred Hillary Davis est née à Philadelphie, en Pennsylvanie, où elle fréquente l'établissement Friends School. Après plusieurs années d'études, elle s'installe à Los Angeles dans l'espoir de décrocher un rôle. Après avoir obtenu quelques petits rôles, elle retint l'attention de Hal Roach, qui l'indiqua au comédien Harold Lloyd. Lloyd recherchait une grande actrice pour remplacer Bebe Daniels, et prit Davis pour sa comédie La Vertu récompensée (From Hand to Mouth) en 1919. Ce fut le premier d'une série de quinze films les mettant ensemble à l'affiche.

Le 10 février 1923, elle épousa Harold Lloyd. Après leur mariage, Lloyd annonça que Davis n'apparaîtrait plus dans aucun film. Après avoir longtemps argumenté avec son mari, Davis obtint son consentement pour son retour à l'écran dans Too Many Crooks, que Lloyd produisit avec sa société.


Vie privée et décès
Son frère, Jack Davis, d'abord acteur dans Our Gang devint plus tard un éminent physicien à Beverly Hills. Avec Lloyd, elle eut trois enfants, Gloria Lloyd (1923-2012), Harold Lloyd Jr. (1931-1971) et Marjorie Elisabeth Lloyd (1925-1986) adoptée. Davis fut très active à Beverly Hills, comme maîtresse de maison dans leur manoir de Greenacres, et où elle appréciait particulièrement l'entretien du parc. Le couple resta très lié toute leur vie conjugale. Davis trouva un appui dans sa grande amitié avec les actrices Marion Davies et Colleen Moore. Elle eut aussi une longue amitié avec Roy Brooks, l'assistant de Lloyd, qui vécut avec eux à Greenacres pendant plus de quarante ans.

Davis mourut d'un infarctus après une série d'accidents vasculaires cérébraux, à Santa Monica, en 1969. Elle est enterrée au Forest Lawn Memorial Park de Glendale.

Usually with

Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(15 films)
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
(16 films)
H. M. Walker
H. M. Walker
(14 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mildred Davis (21 films)

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Actress

Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy, 1h34
Directed by Harold Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Actors Harold Lloyd, Willie Best, Bebe Daniels, Mildred Davis
Roles (archive footage)
Rating69% 3.4774553.4774553.4774553.4774553.477455
Safety Last!, 1h10
Directed by Sam Taylor, Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke, Earl Mohan, Ray Erlenborn
Roles The Girl
Rating80% 4.045034.045034.045034.045034.04503
The film opens in 1922 with Harold Lloyd (the character has the same name as the actor) behind bars. His mother and his girlfriend, Mildred, are consoling him as a somber official and priest show up. The three of them walk toward what looks like a noose. It then becomes obvious they are at a train station and the "noose" is actually a trackside pickup hoop used by train crews to receive orders without stopping, and the bars are merely the ticket barrier. He promises to send for his girlfriend so they can get married once he has "made good" in the big city. Then he is off.
Grandma's Boy, 1h
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Sammy Brooks, Anna Townsend, Dick Sutherland, Charles Stevenson
Roles His Girl
Rating69% 3.490073.490073.490073.490073.49007
The grandma's boy is a timid coward who cannot muster courage to woo his girl and is afraid of his rival. His loving grandma gives him a magic charm from the Civil War that had been used by his grandfather, which gives him the courage to capture a town criminal and win the girl. The "magic charm" turns out to be the handle of her umbrella and his grandma was pretending it was magical all along.
Dr. Jack
Dr. Jack (1922)
, 1h
Directed by Sam Taylor, Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Charles Stevenson, Jackie Condon, William Gillespie, James T. Kelley
Roles The Sick-Little-Well-Girl
Rating70% 3.5428753.5428753.5428753.5428753.542875
The Sick-Little-Well-Girl (played by Mildred Davis) has been wrapped in cotton wool all her life. At the sign of the slightest sniffle or cough, she is packed off to bed and each time, the stuffy (and expensive) Dr Ludwig von Saulsbourg (Eric Mayne) is called to attend to her.
Among Those Present, 35minutes
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, James T. Kelley, Aggie Herring, William Gillespie, Harry Davenport
Roles Miss O'Brien, The Girl
Rating65% 3.2894353.2894353.2894353.2894353.289435
Mrs. O'Brien (Herring) is eager to be accepted as part of high society, and she is hosting a fox hunt as part of her plans. Her husband and daughter, though, have no interest in society affairs.
I Do
I Do (1921)
, 26minutes
Directed by Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Charles King, Lee Phelps
Roles The Girl
Rating61% 3.0945453.0945453.0945453.0945453.094545
The Boy meets and marries The Girl. A year later, the two walk down the street with a baby carriage carrying a bottle instead of a baby when they run into The Girl's brother who asks the couple to do him a favor and babysit his children. They accept and the remainder of the short consists of gags showcasing the difficulties of babysitting children. At the very end, The Boy discovers some knitted baby clothes in a drawer (implying that The Girl is pregnant).
Never Weaken, 19minutes
Directed by Sam Taylor, Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Mark Jones, Charles Stevenson, William Gillespie
Roles The Girl
Rating74% 3.7377253.7377253.7377253.7377253.737725
Harold works in an office on a tall building next to his girlfriend Mildred (Mildred Davis). He assumes they will be married, but overhears her talking to a man who says to her, "Of course I will marry you."
Now or Never, 36minutes
Directed by Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, William Gillespie, Noah Young, Sammy Brooks, Wallace Howe
Roles The Girl
Rating66% 3.3396353.3396353.3396353.3396353.339635
A young woman, who is employed as a nanny to a lonesome child named Dolly, is preparing to take a vacation which will include a long-awaited reunion with her childhood sweetheart. Her employers are a busy couple who have no time for their small daughter, so the nanny decides—without seeking their permission—to take Dolly with her on her vacation.
A Sailor-Made Man, 47minutes
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Fred Guiol, Dick Sutherland, Jobyna Ralston
Roles The Girl
Rating67% 3.393383.393383.393383.393383.39338
"The Boy" (Lloyd) is an idle playboy and heir to $20,000,000, relaxing at an exclusive resort. When he sees "The Girl" (Mildred Davis), surrounded by a flock of admirers, he suddenly asks her to marry him. Taken aback, she sends him to get the approval of her father, a tough, hardworking steel magnate. The girl's father knows and disapproves of the Boy's indolence, and demands that he first get a job to prove that he can do something. The Boy sees a recruiting poster and applies to join the United States Navy. When the magnate decides to take a long cruise on his yacht, he tells his daughter to bring along her friends. She invites the Boy, but he finds he cannot get out of his three year enlistment.
An Eastern Westerner, 20minutes
Directed by Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Sammy Brooks, James T. Kelley, Belle Mitchell
Roles The Girl
Rating67% 3.396443.396443.396443.396443.39644
Un jeune new-yorkais oisif fait le désespoir de son père qui l'envoie travailler dans le ranch de son oncle, quelque part dans l'ouest américain. Là-bas, il découvre que le petit village où vit son oncle est terrorisé par un gang de malfaiteurs. Il y rencontre aussi une jeune femme dont le père est retenu captif par Tompkins, le chef du gang. Il décide alors de l'aider…
Get Out and Get Under, 25minutes
Directed by Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Ernie Morrison, William Gillespie, Charles Stevenson
Roles The Girl
Rating65% 3.294413.294413.294413.294413.29441
Un jeune homme est réveillé d'un cauchemar par la sonnerie du téléphone. C'est sa petite amie et, par ailleurs, collègue dans une troupe de théâtre amateur qui l'appelle car tout le monde l'attend pour jouer dans la pièce qu'ils ont montée. S'il veut arriver à temps, et ne pas être remplacé par son rival, à la fois dans la distribution de la pièce et peut-être dans le cœur de sa dulcinée, il doit réussir à rejoindre le théâtre avec sa voiture, qui n'est pas décidée à bien rouler…
High and Dizzy, 26minutes
Directed by Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Charles Stevenson, Wallace Howe, William Gillespie
Roles The Girl
Rating67% 3.3941953.3941953.3941953.3941953.394195
The film revolves around a young woman who sleepwalks and the doctor who is attempting to treat her. The climactic scene involves the young woman sleepwalking precariously on the outside ledge of a tall building, anticipating Lloyd's more famous skyscraper-scaling scenes in Safety Last! (1923). A subplot has Lloyd and his friend getting inebriated on homemade liquor and then trying to avoid a prohibition-era policeman who pursues them for being drunk.
His Royal Slyness, 27minutes
Directed by Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Snub Pollard, Gus Leonard, Noah Young, Sammy Brooks
Roles Princess Florelle
Rating61% 3.0950853.0950853.0950853.0950853.095085
Un jeune aventurier échange sa place avec un prince européen et tombe amoureux au-dessus de sa station.
Number, Please?, 23minutes
Directed by Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Hal Roach, Ernie Morrison, Sammy Brooks, Charles Stevenson
Roles The Girl
Rating68% 3.442413.442413.442413.442413.44241
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man (Lloyd) sees the girl (Mildred Davis) with her new boyfriend (Roy Brooks). When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. The girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent. The girl's new boyfriend races to her house to get the mother's permission, while the young man tries to telephone her. The young man faces crowded phone booths, gossiping operators, a crying baby and other obstacles in his effort to reach the mother first. Racing back to the girl, the two suitors bump into one another and a pickpocket who has just robbed the girl of her purse. The boy is mistaken for the pickpocket and must elude various policemen on his way back to meet the girl.