Gertrude Olmstead
Also Known As: Gertrude Olmsted
Biography: From Wikipedia Gertrude Olmstead (November 13, 1897 – January 18, 1975) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 56 films between 1920 and 1929. Olmstead was born in Chicago, Illinois, and appeared in her first credited film role in the 1921 film The Fox. She obtained several more roles that same year, appearing in nine films in 1921, and another five in 1922. She would appear in seventeen more films by the time she received what is today her best-known role, opposite Rudolph Valentino in the 1925 film Cobra. Throughout the silent film era her career thrived. From 1925 through 1929 she appeared in twenty eight films, most often portraying the heroine. With the advent of sound film her career stalled, and she retired from acting in 1929. In 1926 she met MGM director Robert Z. Leonard and they were married June 8 of that year. Leonard and Olmstead remained married until his death in 1968. After Leonard's death, Olmstead remained in the Los Angeles area, and died in Beverly Hills on January 18, 1975.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 12, 1897
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 18, 1975
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Sweet Adeline
Overview: A shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes jealous and schemes to send his brother away when Ben wins the affections of pretty neighbor Adeline. Ben wins out when the trip on which Bill has sent him becomes a great success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-14
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
Overview: A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a job as a Wall Street stock salesman. While poor at selling, he knows how to charm women and his boss has him concentrate his efforts on disposing of bad stock to gullible females, one of whom turns out to be the wife of his boss. The film is considered lost, with only its soundtrack remaining.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-07
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The Monster
Overview: A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-16
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Empty Hands
Overview: Claire Endicott throws a wild party and her father walks in to find her flirting with the very married Milt Bisnet. In an attempt to straighten her out, Endicott sends Claire to the Canadian northwoods, where his field engineer, Grimshaw, is working. While fishing, Claire is swept over the rapids and Grimshaw tries to rescue her. Both of them wind up in a remote gorge, and Grimshaw goes about building a hut as a shelter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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Ladies to Board
Overview: While traveling through the prarie, an elderly and cantankerous lady loses control of her car. One of the locals, Tom Faxton (Mix), comes to her rescue. He receives the full impact of the woman's gratitude a few years later when she dies and bequeaths him a rest home for elderly ladies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-03
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The Fox
Overview: Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a job as a porter in the bank. Santa Fe learns that the leading banker, Coulter, is in league with a band of outlaws, and when Coulter frames Dick Farwell, Annette's fiancé, Dick is suspected of robbery and is captured by the outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-24
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Sporting Goods
Overview: Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets Alice Elliott, who mistakes Shelby for millionaire sportsman Timothy Stanfield (Claude King). Forced to go through with the masquerade, Shelby ends up spending what little money he has, and then some.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-11
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Torrent
Overview: A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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The Loaded Door
Overview: Bert Lyons returns to the Grainger spread from the "outside world" to find his former employer dead and the ranch in the possession of Calvert, a narcotics smuggler, and Blackie Lopez, a rustler who has his eyes on Molly Grainger, Lyons' sweetheart.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-14
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Babbitt
Overview: A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-15
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Tipped Off
Overview: Ranchmen try to play a joke on one of their associates by signing his name to a letter addressed to Sarah Smith, who has advertised in a matrimonial journal. A mix-up occurs on the day of the arrival of the lady when a younger woman, sent to buy stock, also appears on the scene and is mistaken for the prospective bride.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-27
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The Driftin' Kid
Overview: A "drifting" cowpuncher tries to find a place where he can be happy, but never actually succeeding.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-08
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Sweet Revenge
Overview: Hoot is the only cattleman in the neighborhood and he is about to be run off the range by the wealthiest sheep man in the district. Hoot is in love with the sheep man's daughter, and refuses to be run off. The little son of the sheep herder strays away and wanders to Hoot's shanty, where Hoot keeps him, sending a note to the father to come after him. A villainous foreman intercepts the note and plots a kidnapping frame-up. After a near tragic climax, Hoot captures and unmasks the villain, winning the girl and the good will of her father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-13
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The Fightin' Fury
Overview: A villain robs a safe in the town bank and leaves evidence to convict the hero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-05
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Out o' Luck
Overview: While riding over the plains Hoot encounters some officers searching for two escaped lunatics. Later he reaches a camp where two girls are on vacation. Both Hoot and the girls mistake each other for the lunatics.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-19
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The Cactus Kid
Overview: A slicker sells a fake oil lease to Gertrude's father. Later the villain discovers that the lease is valuable, and to get it back he kidnaps the girl. Hoot rescues her in a thrilling fight on top of an oil derrick.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-26
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Kickaroo
Overview: Hoot is a cowpuncher, somewhat addicted to liquor (when he can get it). His sweetheart, the rancher's daughter, tells him that if he ever takes another drink, their engagement is at an end.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-22
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California Straight Ahead
Overview: Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-12
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The Boob
Overview: To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-17
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The Cheerful Fraud
Overview: A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-27
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Overview: An 18-part silent American adventure film serial now considered to be lost. Chapter Titles: 1. The Sea Raiders 2. Shipwrecked 3. The Cannibals' Captives 4. Hidden Gold 5. The Ship of Despair 6. Friday's Faith 7. The Swamp of Terror 8. Marooned 9. The Jaguar Trap 10. A Prisoner of the Sun 11. No Greater Love 12. The Island of Happiness 13. The Sword of Courage 14. The Buccaneers 15. The Jolly Roger 16. The Idol's Bride 17. When the Heart Calls 18. Back to the Primitive
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-27
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Cameo Kirby
Overview: Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1923-10-20
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Mr. Wu
Overview: When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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Cobra
Overview: Rodrigo, an impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer he met overseas. Swearing off women, Rodrigo focuses on his job. But complications arise when he falls in love with his friend's secretary-- and his friend's wife looks to make a date with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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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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Lovers' Lane
Overview: Silent film comedy drama...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-10
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Puppets
Overview: Nicola Riccobini, a puppet master in New York's Italian quarter, is an energetic and domineering man in the family, in contrast to his dreamy, poetic cousin Bruno.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Monte Carlo
Overview: Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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Bringing Up Father
Overview: The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-18
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Overview: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A Girl of the Limberlost is a 1924 American silent film, produced by Gene Stratton-Porter and directed by James Leo Meehan. It stars Gloria Grey, Emily Fitzroy, and Arthur Currier, and was released on April 28, 1924. The first adaptation of Stratton-Porter's famous novel, this silent film is considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-28
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Life in Hollywood No. 7
Overview: Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-25
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Becky
Overview: Becky (1927) film
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-12
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1925 Studio Tour
Overview: A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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Midnight Life
Overview: When his buddy is murdered a dedicated cop, goes after the gang responsible.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-28
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The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios
Overview: The City of Stars is structured as a "coming attractions" promo within the fictional framework of an Eastern editor (vaudeville actor Broderick O'Farrell) arriving in Los Angeles to meet with Universal's advertising manager. The sceneic resources of the studio are showcased throughout, with a "See America First" wagon visible in one scene, and a scattering of panoramic shots of Universal City and the Universal zoo.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-21
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The Cheer Leader
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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The Lone Wolf's Daughter
Overview: Michael Lanyard, a reformed cracks-man, adopts Adrienne, the daughter of an old friend, and goes to Southampton to attend a party celebrating her engagement to Bobby Crenshaw, the son of a wealthy society couple. The Count and Countess Polinac, international jewel thieves, also attend the party, and Count Polinac forces Lanyard to open the safe containing the jewelry of the guests by threatening to expose Lanyard's criminal past. Lanyard forestalls the count, however, and protects the valuables. The count and countess are arrested, and Michael's secret is kept safe.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-18
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Trilby
Overview: The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-29
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Buttons
Overview: Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-12-24
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Sonny Boy
Overview: Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-18
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The Big Adventure
Overview: Patches, a kind-hearted orphan of the slums, finds life unbearable under the cruel abuse of his stepfather, Old Whiskers, for whose support he is forced to steal. Stowing away in a freight car with his dog, he escapes to a neighboring town where he is given a home by Mrs. Lane, sister of the town judge.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-01
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The Fighting Lover
Overview: Andrew Forsdale bets his friend Ned Randolph $10,000 that Ned will fall in love with one of three girls within 30 days.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-13
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The Wandering Two
Overview: 13th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-28
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The Callahans and the Murphys
Overview: The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-18
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One of Three
Overview: An adventuress traps Norroy into her apartment, then, with the aid of several men, gets the new secret code from him. He turns the laugh on all of them by staging their capture and proving that he had only a fake code with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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