Mildred Davis
Also Known As: Mildred Hillary Davis
Biography: 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 married him. The daughter of Howard Beckett Davis, she was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and educated at the Friends School in Philadelphia. After several years spent studying, she traveled to Los Angeles in the hopes of securing a role in a film. After appearing in several small roles, she caught the attention of Hal Roach, who pointed her out to comedian Lloyd. He was looking for a leading lady to replace Bebe Daniels, and cast Davis in his comedy short From Hand to Mouth in 1919. It would be the first of fifteen films they would star in together. On February 10, 1923, she married Lloyd. After their marriage, Lloyd announced that Davis would not appear in any more motion pictures. After much persuasion on Davis' part, and much grief, she received Lloyd's consent for her return to the screen in Too Many Crooks, which Lloyd produced through his production company. It was the only acting role she undertook after her marriage.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: February 22, 1901
Deathday: August 18, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Grandma's Boy
Overview: A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-03
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Safety Last!
Overview: When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-01
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An Eastern Westerner
Overview: A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-02
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From Hand to Mouth
Overview: As a penniless man worries about how he will manage to eat, he is joined by a young waif and her dog, who are in the same predicament. Meanwhile, across town a dishonest lawyer is working with a gang of criminals, trying to swindle an innocent young heiress out of her inheritance. As the heiress is on her way home from the lawyer's office, she notices the young man and the waif in the midst of their latest problem with the authorities, and she rescues them. Later on, the young man will have an unexpected opportunity to repay her for her kindness.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-28
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Dr. Jack
Overview: Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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Never Weaken
Overview: Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-22
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A Sailor-Made Man
Overview: An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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Number, Please?
Overview: While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-26
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Now or Never
Overview: A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-27
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High and Dizzy
Overview: A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-11
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Haunted Spooks
Overview: After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-14
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Get Out and Get Under
Overview: The comic adventures of a new car owner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-26
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Among Those Present
Overview: An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-29
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I Do
Overview: Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-11
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His Royal Slyness
Overview: A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-08
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Call for Mr. Caveman
Overview: A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-19
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Looking for Trouble
Overview: Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight definitely does not go anything like expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-14
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How Dry I Am
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-07
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Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy
Overview: Hilarious scenes from his silent and sound films as compiled and produced by Harold Lloyd himself.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-04
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Her Fractured Voice
Overview: Released June 11, 1917, Her Fractured Voice is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-06
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Bud's Recruit
Overview: This WWI home-front comedy is the earliest surviving film of King Vidor, who would later go on to make such classics as The Big Parade and The Crowd. A two-reeler, it's a propaganda comedy involving a little boy who can't wait to go fight against the Kaiser, and who sets an unrelentingly patriotic (and militaristic) example for his draft-age, feminized brother and peace-lovin' mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-01-18
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All Wrong
Overview: Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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All at Sea
Overview: Sailor 'Snub' Pollard on 'beach leave'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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Condemned
Overview: Unable to pay train fare for a pet, a girl disguises her dog as a baby. It is later mistaken for a kidnapped baby.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-01
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Marriage a la Carte
Overview: The first film featuring Mildred Davis
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1916-04-01
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What'll We Do with Uncle?
Overview: Artist Henry is wildly jealous of his girl Flossie so when he sees her in the arms of another man he overreacts and tries to end it all in a variety of over the top ways. Even when Flossie explains he still tries to end it all until word comes that his uncle has died and left him a million.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-10-22
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Fighting Mad
Overview: Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and she comes back and dies giving birth to a baby girl. Lambert, out of his mind with rage, leaves the baby on a doorstep and vows to never have faith again. He returns to the mining town fifteen years later a drunkard. He meets young, kind Lily Sawyer and is greatly impressed by her compassionate nature. Meanwhile, the gambler has returned and decides to abduct Lily, but his partner recognizes Lambert and tells him Lily is his daughter. He kills the gambler before he can harm Lily and soon his faith returns.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-11-18
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A Weaver of Dreams
Overview: Unrequited love rules the day as both wealthy Judith Sylvester and her invalid aunt pine for men who got away, but happiness lays ahead for one while hopeful dreams sustain the other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-03-02
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Start Something
Overview: Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl motorist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-10-07
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Giving the Bride Away
Overview: A comedy short starring Mildred Davis & 'Snub' Pollard
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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Order in the Court
Overview: Snub is confronted by his creditors who have joined the profiteers. He then escapes from them only to be pressed into jury service, which has its brighter side when he finds himself seated beside a fair member of the jury. The fun commences when all his creditors are marched into court charged with profiteering, and as foreman of the jury Snub gives out the verdict of "Guilty."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-11-23
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It's a Hard Life
Overview: A henpecked husband goes out on a series of adventures. He is pursued by cops and detectives and joins the Salvation Army in an effort to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-11-30
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Tough Luck
Overview: A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-12-21
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The Floor Below
Overview: Snub Pollard and his friend are clearly under their wives thumbs. But his grandfather turns up and tells them to assert themselves, which they do. Her father is not impressed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-27
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Red Hot Hottentotts
Overview: Rivalry over a girl in this country moves to the heart of Africa, where the principals get into difficulties with man-eating cannibals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-01-04
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Why Go Home?
Overview: 'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-01-11
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Getting His Goat
Overview: Snub's many humorous experiences in attempting to transport his goat home. Comedy short directed by Charley Chase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-02-08
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Temporary Marriage
Overview: Temporary Marriage is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Kenneth Harlan, Mildred Davis, and Myrtle Stedman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-06-30
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Too Many Crooks
Overview: Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-04-02
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