Dora Mills Adams
Also Known As: Dora M. Adams
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dora Mills Adams (October 24, 1874 – July 31, 1943) was an American film actress. She is best known for her appearance in the short film Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde as Mrs. Lanyon. Mills entered the New York film industry near its birth in 1914 and may have been in theatre or vaudeville beforehand. As one of the older and plumper actresses she usually played matriarchal roles. She was married to Lindsey Adams. Mills died of myocarditis on July 31, 1943, at 485 Rugby Road in Kings County in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 68. She is buried in the Locust Section of Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Birthday: October 24, 1874
Deathday: July 31, 1943
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Gender: Female
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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My Lady Incog.
Overview: Financial troubles force Nell Carroll, a thoroughbred, to seek employment in a detective agency which has just taken up the trail of a very baffling jewelry robbery in an exclusive summer colony. In order to work from the inside, she is sent to the place as the Baroness Du Vassey.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-16
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Runaway June
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-13
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Mighty Lak' a Rose
Overview: A blind orphan, Rose Duncan, who has a special talent with the violin. Jerome Trevor, a famed pianist, hears her playing and sends her to an uncle in New York so she can become educated. But the uncle is killed in an accident on his way to meet her and she is taken in by gang leader Bull Morgan. Morgan pretends to be her uncle to elude the police, and he sees the value of keeping her around as cover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-12
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How've You Bean?
Overview: Roscoe gets into a lot of wacky troubles, some involving a misplaced box of Mexican Jumping Beans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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The Moth and the Flame
Overview: A bride who discovers during her wedding ceremony that her husband-to-be has fathered a child out of wedlock with another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-13
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His Children's Children
Overview: Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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The Recoil
Overview: When Richard Cameron, a secret service agent tracking down international spies, is kidnapped by the enemy, Mirian Somerset, to whom Richard has been surreptitiously married, believes that he is dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-13
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Piccadilly Jim
Overview: American newspaper reporter Jim Crocker's madcap escapades in London earn him notoriety and the nickname "Piccadilly Jim." When he overhears his American cousin by marriage, Ann Chester, giving her candid opinion of him, he decides to return to America to try to reform. He meets Ann on the boat, using another name. Unable to find work in New York, he goes to his step aunt Mrs. Peter Pett's home to be near Ann. Jim then helps Ann kidnap pampered cousin Ogden Pett whose overindulgence has created disruption in the household.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-01
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You Find it Everywhere
Overview: Andrew Gibson inherits problems when his father dies and leaves shares of his piano manufacturing business to his workmen. To add to his troubles, Andrew's girl, Nora Gorodna, is being pursued by José Ferra, one of the workmen; and Lila Normand, a society girl, tricks Andrew into proposing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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Queen X
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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Flying Fists
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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Ashes of Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-15
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A Pasteboard Crown
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-16
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The Summer Girl
Overview: Heiress Mary Anderson feigns poverty during her romance with struggling artist Bruce Haldeman, however her status-conscious mother puts an end to the affair. Mary secretly goes to Bruce's studio, misconstrues the situation with one of his models and tells Bruce she hates him. Upset Bruce wants to destroy his portrait of Mary, but the model stops him, enters the painting in an art contest, and explains the mix-up to Mary's father. Mr. Anderson then meets with Bruce and Mary's persistent suitor Smythe Addison pretending he has lost his fortune. Smythe quickly drops out of contention for Mary's hand, but Bruce remains eager. Resolving their differences Bruce finds out during the planning of the wedding that he has won the art contest, finding overnight fame as a painter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-14
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Married in Name Only
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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