Alberta Vaughn
Also Known As: Alberta F. Vaughn, Alberta Vaughan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alberta Vaughn (June 27, 1904 – April 26, 1992) was an American actress in silent motion pictures and early Western sound films. She appeared in some 130 motion pictures. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alberta Vaughn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ashland, Kentucky, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 27, 1904
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 26, 1992
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Randy Rides Alone
Overview: Bandits lead by Matt the Mute enter a bar and kill multiple people. Randy Bowers comes to town and is framed by Matt the Mute, who is working with the sheriff (who doesn't know Matt is really a criminal). Randy escapes with the help of the niece of the dead owner of the bar. Bowers ends up running from the sheriff, and ends up in the cave in which the bandits have their hide-out…
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-05
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Spell of the Circus
Overview: The manager of The Big Circus plots to marry the owner's daughter and gain control of the outfit.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-13
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The Arabian Fights
Overview: Third release in the "Racing Blood" 2-reel comedy series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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The Live Wire
Overview: A sailor (Richard Talmadge) journeys to a remote island in search of a rare urn. The film also stars Alberta Vaughn, Charles K. French and Martin Turner.
Genres: Romance Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Wild Horse
Overview: Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse. The Sheriff then arrests Jim for Skeeter's murder. But unknown to them, an outlaw witnessed the killing
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-02
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The Laramie Kid
Overview: When Morley has his own bank robbed, Tom tries to break it up. Mistaken for one of the gang, he is caught and sentenced to a chain gang. His girlfriend Peggy then sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Points West
Overview: Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-25
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The Drop Kick
Overview: College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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The Sleuth
Overview: Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-30
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Love in High Gear
Overview: A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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Working Girls
Overview: Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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Sherlock's Home
Overview: Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-13
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Show of Shows
Overview: Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
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Skyscraper
Overview: Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-08
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Faster Foster
Overview: Eleventh episode in 'The Telephone Girl' 2-reel comedy series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-19
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The Romantic Age
Overview: Engaged to middle-aged Eugene O'Brien, Alberta Vaughn develops a yen for O'Brien's handsome younger brother Stanley Taylor. But when Taylor succumbs to her charms, she spurns him with a severe tongue-lashing. Understandably confused, the mild-mannered Taylor turns nasty, causing a rift between himself and O'Brien. The two brothers are reconciled when one saves the other from a burning building.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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Picking Peaches
Overview: A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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Dancers in the Dark
Overview: A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-11
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Alimony Madness
Overview: A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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Midnight Morals
Overview: A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the relationship.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-01
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Emergency Call
Overview: A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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Smile Please
Overview: Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. First our hero must do a few heroic things, saving the lass from danger. He must also not move too quickly on the romantic front. Once she's willing to marry him, he must balance the duties of groom with that of sheriff, while Dudley tries to convince the lass that our hero is untrue to her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Forbidden Hours
Overview: Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-16
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Flip Flops
Overview: An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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Uneasy Payments
Overview: Bee Haven, a little country girl from Missouri, wins a Charleston contest and goes to New York to pursue a theatrical career, accompanied by Charlie Ross, a bucolic sheik. Her country attire merely amuses the stage managers, but Tom Gatesby, a backer, persuades Bozoni, a cabaret owner, to give her a job. She innocently accepts money from Bozoni to furnish a luxury apartment; and when disillusioned Bozoni cancels the payments for her furniture and new clothes, Bee tries to avoid the gown-collectors, but they retrieve her gown and fur coat. In desperation, she joins a revue chorus, doing a lingerie number that results in a fight with Valentia, the star of the show. Tom rescues Bee from her precarious position, and all ends happily.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-04
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Molly and Me
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-01
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Skylarking
Overview: The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the inventor's wife are in hot pursuit. What makes this interesting are the inventor's clever devices--such as a hot air balloon car!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-08
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Money to Burns
Overview: After having difficulty coming up with a new story idea, a writer pays a fellow to allow him to follow him around in hopes it will encourage his literary juices to flow. Unfortunately, he gets more than he bargained for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
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Backstage
Overview: Julia, Myrtle, Fanny, and Jane - all chorus girls, after weeks of rehearsing for a show, find themselves stranded when the manager is broke. Evicted for not paying the rent, they try various schemes to get food and lodging.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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Daring Danger
Overview: A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-22
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Nip and Tuck
Overview: Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-11
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Twins
Overview: Stan Laurel solo, playing doubles
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-28
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Crook's Tour
Overview: A down-and-out Englishman, mistaken for a duke, is invited (for $50.00) to meet the wife of a gangster who is a passenger on a boat chartered by gangsters. When he cannot initially find his wife, the gangster tells the "duke" to remain in his room with his daughter while he finds the wife. Crazy complications ensue!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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The Adorable Deceiver
Overview: Princess Sylvia is forced to flee her home country with her father King Nicholas to New York City, where they make their way as well-meaning con artists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-24
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