Mary McAllister
Also Known As: Little Mary McAllister, Mary McAlister
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 27, 1909
Age: 115 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 01, 1991
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On the Level
Overview: An ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New York City skyscraper. This arouses the ire of his Cajun girlfriend who promptly shoots at him as he walks away and then follows him to the Big Apple where she becomes a nightclub performer.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-18
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Singed
Overview: Dance-hall girl Dolly Wall invests her life savings in an oil well. A gusher comes in, enriching not only Dolly but her ne'er-do-well socialite sweetheart Royce Wingate. While Wingate hobnobs with the Upper Crust, poor Dolly is left home alone, stigmatized by her "scandalous" past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-23
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The Red Rider
Overview: White Elk, a light-skinned Indian chief, incurs the enmity of Chief Black Panther, whom he prevents from looting a westbound wagon train. Although White Elk is betrothed to an Indian princess, he falls in love with Lucille Cavanagh, a white woman from the East. After her father, John Cavanagh, tricks White Elk into signing away the lands of his tribe, the young chief is condemned to be burned alive by Black Panther.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-02
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The Waning Sex
Overview: Nina Duane is a criminal lawyer whose gender was professionally resented by Philip Barry, the District Attorney. She wins acquittal for man-chasing widow Mary Booth, then defeats her in romancing the D.A.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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Pants
Overview: Little Betty has a luxurious home, an army of servants and the costliest of toys. But she hasn't what a child wants most of all, other children to play with. The result is that she runs away and joins a group of children from the ghetto district on the beach. In play she exchanges clothing with a little boy. That evening Betty doesn't return home. Her maiden aunt, an over-zealous guardian, is frantic. She notifies the police. The same evening the father of the boy, who has lost his position and is facing starvation, decides to turn burglar. He steals into the home of Betty's father. The household is awakened and the intruder captured.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-10
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On Trial
Overview: Robert Strickland, the self-confessed murderer of Gerald Trask, refuses to defend himself on the witness stand. His attorney, however, cross-examines Strickland's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-23
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Loves of an Actress
Overview: Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-08-18
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Ashes of Vengeance
Overview: This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-06
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Young Mother Hubbard
Overview: Forced by the death of her mother to care for her three brothers and sisters, little Mona Fairfax is known to farmers of her district as Young Mother Hubbard. The children's step-father, heavily in debt and tired of the burden imposed by the little family, abandons his farm, leaving the children, penniless, to shift for themselves. The following day Daniel Banning, a wealthy "country gentleman" and owner of the Fairfax farm, calls to collect back rent. He finds Mona and her children panic-stricken over a note left by their step-father, telling of his decision to leave. Banning turns a deaf ear to Mona's pleas that she be allowed to remain on the farm with her wards. He notifies the Children's Welfare Society. Directors of the society go to the farm, load them into an automobile, and take them to the society's headquarters. At headquarters the chairman calls for volunteers to take the children into their homes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-29
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Do Children Count?
Overview: "Do Children Count?" was a series of 12 films, each completely independent of the other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-06
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The Devil's Skipper
Overview: The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-01
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One Minute to Play
Overview: "Red" Wade, a star high-school football player, has intentions of going to Claxton College, which has a powerhouse football team, but changes his mind when he meets the sister of the pitiful Paramlee team and goes to college there, just as his father, an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Wade, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton. This puts "Red" between a rock and a hard place.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-12
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The Boomerang
Overview: Lacking patients, Dr. Sumner sets himself up as a psychologist and opens a sanitarium, becoming quite successful. Virginia Zelva, a clairvoyant who wants to get into what she regards as a racket, signs on as his nurse. Sumner falls in love with Virginia and, after numerous complications, wins her for his bride.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-28
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Madam Satan
Overview: A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
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Into No Man's Land
Overview: A refined criminal keeps his life secret from his daughter. When he gets trouble from the police after shooting one of his underworld associates, he enlists in the US Army and goes to fight in France during World War I. While in France, he serves alongside a young man who is in love with his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-15
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Wickedness Preferred
Overview: He couldn't help it if the girls all fell for him. But his wife certainly cramped his romantic style!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-28
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Fire and Steel
Overview: Terry O'Farrell pulls off several rescues in the course of the plot, whose locale is a steel mill, and Ann McGreagor uses her common sense to expose the villain's trickery and save the day for her sweetheart.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-12
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The Midnight Watch
Overview: The Everlasting Conflict Between Law and Order and the Underworld.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-01
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The Man in the Shadow
Overview: Better by far that ten Guilty men escape than that one Innocent man die for another's crime-Upon this is built the most thrilling melodrama of the season.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-15
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The Sap
Overview: Barry Weston is raised by his widowed mother and is, at best, a "mama's boy," and, at worst, a bit of a coward. He is drafted into the A.E.F. when World War I breaks out, and accidentally captures a nest of German snipers, and is decorated for bravery. He returns home as a hero but Vance, the town bully, challenges him to a fight but Barry refuses and the townsmen mock him and consider him a coward. His girlfriend Janet is none too impressed, either. He heads for the tall timber with suicide as his intent.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-20
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The Ace of Spades
Overview: 15 chapter serial. Gideon Trask and his henchmen at the saloon in Arkansas City covet the mineral survey of the Louisiana Territory made for Napoleon before the sale of the Territory to the United States. This is in possession of the Heath Brothers, who seek to use it in staking their land when the Oklahoma territory, last of the Louisiana tract to be released by the Government, is opened to Homesteaders.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-19
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A Roaring Adventure
Overview: Duffy Burns returns from college in the East and discovers that his father's cattle are being systematically stolen by a band of unknown outlaws. Duffy resolves to catch the culprits, conceals his identity, and goes to work on his father's ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-08
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The Measure of a Man
Overview: Overcoming his addiction to drink, John Fairmeadow leaves the Bowery for a western logging camp posing as a minister. His fistic ability and his gentle manner reform the town drinkers and put the saloon out of business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-14
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All's Swell on the Ocean
Overview: Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke considerable mirth among the passengers by their efforts. Jack arouses the jealousy of a Frenchman, who is keen on a young French girl, and is challenged to a fight. The Frenchman fights a la Savatte (the French method, including kicking, bucking, etc.) and is getting the better of Jack, until the latter dons a pair of hobnailed brogans. He consents to remove these if his adversary will put boxing gloves on his feet. The Frenchman gets seasick and is counted out as he leans over the rail, where he is soon joined by Jack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-18
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Half a Chance
Overview: A convict being transported to Australia from England in the 1800's saves the life of a young girl during a shipwreck. Ten years later in England, she meets a brilliant attorney with secrets in his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-24
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Sadie Goes to Heaven
Overview: Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of the tenement district, has a vision of heaven awakened within her by the teaching of a settlement worker, so when she sees a handsome limousine in front of the settlement laundry near her home she thinks it is a heavenly chariot, climbs into a clothes hamper in the interior of the car and is whisked away to the home of Mrs. Welland Riche.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-24
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