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Vera Lewis (June 10, 1873 – February 8, 1956) was an American film and stage actress, beginning in the silent film era. She appeared in 183 films between 1915 and 1947. She was married to actor Ralph Lewis.
She was born in Manhattan, where she began acting in stage productions. Her film career started in 1915 with the film Hypocrites, which starred Myrtle Stedman and Courtenay Foote. From 1915 to 1929 she appeared in 63 silent films, including the film classic Intolerance (1916) where she played the "old maid" Miss Jenkins.
Unlike many silent film stars, she made a smooth transition to "talking films", starting with her 1930 appearance in Wide Open, starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Edward Everett Horton. Though never what is referred to as a "premier star", she appeared in 58 films during the 1930s, and another 60 during the 1940s. She retired after 1947, and resided at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, California at the time of her death on February 8, 1956.
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Total trailers found: 125
31 January 1945
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer.
17 April 1947
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him.
26 July 1941
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
16 July 1931
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
15 April 1939
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
04 January 1941
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
20 July 1938
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself.
23 November 1939
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds.
16 November 1925
An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy man, and the problem gets worse when their daughter starts growing up.
08 March 1940
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
30 March 1929
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
04 September 1916
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
18 November 1940
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners.
06 June 1926
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies.
09 December 1939
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
30 September 1939
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
17 December 1922
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead.
01 April 1942
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison.
08 March 1915
Orphaned heiress Katherine Bradley, known as "Kit," is an orphan and heiress is attending a fashionable and select seminary for young women.
20 September 1941
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
01 April 1939
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
30 June 1933
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up.
07 December 1940
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
07 March 1942
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison.
07 January 1939
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
01 November 1941
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
19 September 1942
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
09 August 1941
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang.
12 November 1938
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
18 August 1919
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage.
19 October 1939
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington.
09 September 1939
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
25 April 1945
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on.
14 November 1941
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets.
03 May 1930
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian.
10 September 1936
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
08 July 1939
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution.
24 August 1946
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night.
15 February 1927
In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a son by townsman Lucius Henderson, who refuses to marry her or even admit that he's the father.
22 March 1941
In this comedic short, a reporter wins a boxer's contract and decides to stage an exhibition fight for a society ladies' Milk Fund benefit bazaar.
11 May 1925
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion style, by European duke Poltava.
22 December 1939
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
19 March 1927
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to.
01 February 1930
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
17 May 1946
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
17 August 1940
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
23 October 1943
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
23 October 1941
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it.
23 June 1939
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset.
25 October 1935
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
16 July 1938
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
16 January 1943
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
30 August 1946
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight.
27 August 1938
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant.
04 April 1940
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
04 November 1939
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
10 February 1940
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
25 February 1939
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium.
21 August 1943
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day.
22 October 1938
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
