Lilyan Tashman

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1896-10-22

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography

Lilyan Tashman (October 23, 1896 - March 21, 1934) was an American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses and the vindictive "other woman."

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {70}

Thelma Perry

1925-03-29 0

A Broadway Butterfly

Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene ...

Genre :Comedy

Laura Endicott

1931-07-21 6

Murder by the Clock

A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum. ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

Peggy Nash

1927-12-10 1

French Dressing

Philip and Cynthia Grey are a pair of recently-wed Bostonians, and Cynthia is properly back-bay no-action quiet and dowdy, and Philip resigns himself to the quietness (no action) regularity of their h ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Suzanna

1927-01-22 0

Don't Tell the Wife

The Carters, a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in the company of John Carter's best friend Henry. While in Paris, Henry begins squiring the coquettish Suzan ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Lynn Crawford

1930-05-18 0

On the Level

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 ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

Hazel

1924-11-02 0

The Garden of Weeds

The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them ...

Genre :Drama

Irma

1929-05-02 6.5

Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freei ...

Genre :Action, Thriller, Drama

Felicity Brown

1924-10-12 0

Winner Take All

Perry Blair starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down, manager Charles Dunham immediately sees his potential. He takes Blair to New York, where he meets pretty Ce ...

Genre :Western, Drama

Frankie Arnette

1933-03-27 0

Wine, Women and Song

The story of aging chorus girl Frankie Arnette, who'll do anything for publicity. Fiercely ambitious, Frankie even promises that if she is given a leading role in an upcoming Broadway musical, promine ...

Genre :Drama

Pleasure

1921-08-07 0

Experience

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of ...

Genre :Drama

Edythe Stanley

1924-11-30 0

Is Love Everything?

Virginia Carter accedes to her family's pressures and marries Jordan Southwick, who comes from a wealthy and socially prominent family. However, she soon regrets her actions because she still loves he ...

Genre :Drama

Lillie

1925-01-04 0

Ports of Call

Rich club-man Kirk Rainsford, attends a charity bazaar at the home of Marjorie Vail, the society girl he hopes to marry. A fire breaks out among the booths and everyone is pulled to safety except litt ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Leslie

1925-04-11 3.5

Déclassé

The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treats her shamefully. She falls in love with Ned Thayer, a young American, but refuses to divorce her hu ...

Genre :Drama

Bella Wilson

1925-09-20 0

Seven Days

Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is compelled to locate a temporary wife. His friend, Kit ...

Genre :Comedy

Ruby Wright

1926-02-14 0

The Skyrocket

In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood st ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Sasha Larianoff

1926-01-10 0

Rocking Moon

Sasha Larianoff lives on Rocking Moon Island where she runs a blue fox farm with the help of Gary Tynan. Nash, a trader, has a mortgage on the farm, and Sasha is hoping to pay it off with the season's ...

Genre :Drama

Marion Sinclair

1926-03-28 0

Whispering Smith

Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransacking wrecks. Sinclair along with his henchmen, retire to his ranch and forays against the railroad. ...

Genre :Western

Beautiful Blonde

1926-03-28 0

Siberia

Officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts her lot with revolutionaries. During a time of suppression, she is exiled with her brother to Siberia. T ...

Genre :Drama

Alice, Duchess of Lincolnwood

1926-12-04 0

Love's Blindness

A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know tha ...

Genre :Drama

Undetermined Role (uncredited)

1927-03-19 0

Evening Clothes

Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the city and learning the proper social graces. His new li ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Iris Carroll

1927-07-05 0

The Woman Who Did Not Care

The daughter of a boarding house keeper, Iris Carroll (Tashman) is subjected to the unwanted advances of her mother's boarders. When mom dies, Iris kicks over the traces, moves out of town, buys a gor ...

Genre :Drama

Dixie Style

1927-12-04 0

A Texas Steer

Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't really mean that much to him. The same can't be said for his social-climbing wife and his man-crazy dau ...

Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Decker

1928-06-01 0

Phyllis of the Follies

As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter, Broadway dancer Phyllis Sherwood agrees to play a joke on a client of Mrs. Dexter's lawyer husband. The client, a roving rogue named Clyde Thompson, has a ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Lillian

1928-07-15 0

Lady Raffles

Interrupted during a robbery, thief Lady Raffles hides in an adjacent mansion and is mistaken for a maid during a party thrown by Warren Blake, who plans to present his mother with a diamond necklace. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Minnie

1929-03-20 0

Hardboiled

Chorus girl Teena Johnson may be "hard-boiled," but she's no golddigger. Thus, when the father of her wealthy sweetheart Kyle Stannard tries to buy her off, Sally refuses the money. She sticks by Kyle ...

Genre :Drama

Eleanor Montgomery

1929-08-30 7

Gold Diggers of Broadway

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Olympe

1927-09-04 1

Camille

Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Marie Bailey

1931-11-07 6.4

Girls About Town

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan. ...

Genre :Comedy

Dagmar Lorne

1929-06-08 6

The Trial of Mary Dugan

A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner. ...

Genre :Drama

Valerie

1932-09-11 6

Those We Love

Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virgi ...

Genre :Drama

Helen Riley

1931-02-06 5.6

Millie

After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the atte ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Joyce Wheater

1929-12-12 5.8

The Marriage Playground

A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a m ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Peggy

1929-12-28 4.8

New York Nights

Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her husband ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Vera Zimina

1932-11-12 6.5

Scarlet Dawn

During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life. ...

Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Selma Larson

1925-09-06 4.7

Pretty Ladies

Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Self (archive footage)

1942-01-01 0

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to ...

Genre :Documentary

Bessie Chalmers (aka The 'Princess')

1931-02-04 5.3

Finn and Hattie

The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mi ...

Genre :Comedy

Sylvaine

1930-08-01 5.7

The Matrimonial Bed

Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarried and with children. ...

Genre :Comedy

Lucille Watkins

1933-09-23 5

Too Much Harmony

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one." ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Narcissa Williams

1926-09-20 0

For Alimony Only

A stormy marriage of 6 months between Narcissa and Peter Williams ends in a bitter quarrel, and to gain his freedom Peter offers her more alimony than he can afford. Then he meets Mary Martin, who res ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Passmore

1928-09-16 0

Craig's Wife

Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery for all concerned. Harriet's husband remains blind to his wife's selfishness-until his eyes are open ...

Genre :Drama

Fritzi Vajos

1930-12-25 5.2

One Heavenly Night

A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Edith Penfield

1922-04-16 0

Head Over Heels

When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip to Europe, he tells his more down-to-earth partner, ...

Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Renov

1928-11-24 0

Manhattan Cocktail

Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with her campus chums Fred (Richard Arlen) and Bob (Danny O'Shea), likewise aspiri ...

Genre :Drama

Sylvia Wilson

1934-03-29 6.2

Riptide

Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Rivie ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Nita

1924-04-16 0

Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model

Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the death of her ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. McIntosh

1933-07-14 0

Mama Loves Papa

A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance. ...

Genre :Comedy

Mme. Georgette Lalle, A Dancer

1926-07-31 6.6

So This Is Paris

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to the ...

Genre :Comedy

Lil Wheeler

1931-09-18 6

The Mad Parade

The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I. ...

Genre :Drama, War

Pinkie Doran

1924-07-21 6.5

Manhandled

Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Jackie Millet

1931-09-25 4

The Road to Reno

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good st ...

Genre :Drama

Polly Griscom

1931-05-19 4.2

Up Pops the Devil

The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is fo ...

Genre :Comedy

Lucille Early

1930-01-03 6

No, No, Nanette

A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Nellie Bly

1936-04-30 5

Frankie and Johnnie

The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie. ...

Genre :Drama

Cicily

1930-11-10 6

The Cat Creeps

Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion. ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

Goldie Devere

1930-02-19 5.2

Puttin' on the Ritz

A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are. ...

Genre :Music

Claire Foster

1932-03-14 6

The Wiser Sex

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Sybil Johnson

1924-11-26 0

The Dark Swan

Clever vamp Eve Quinn has generally had her way with men, while her quiet, deep-thinking sister Cornelia cannot bring herself to deliberately pursue them. So Eve wins Lewis Dike, whom Cornelia loves. ...

Genre :Drama

Edna

1930-09-12 0

Leathernecking

Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over. ...

Genre :Comedy

Greta Verlaine

1925-08-18 0

The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her fiancé, William Norworth, Mary takes off in Kent's ...

Genre :Drama

Gwen Gould

1925-11-15 0

Bright Lights

Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city. There he will show Patsy that he ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Ilona Taznadi

1927-08-10 0

The Stolen Bride

The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, dif ...

Genre :Drama

Mae Morin

1927-07-09 0

The Prince of Headwaiters

Pierre, the maitre d' at the swanky Ritz Hotel in Paris, discovers that he has a son from his former marriage, which was broken up by his wealthy wife's upper-class relatives. His son, now a young man ...

Genre :Drama

Laura Randall

1925-01-20 4

The Parasite

Arthur Randall becomes prosperous after divorcing his wife, Laura, and she now attempts unsuccessfully to win him back. Randall's son becomes ill, and he engages Joan Laird and her mother to care for ...

Genre :Drama

(archive footage)

1931-07-08 7

The House That Shadows Built

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional f ...

Genre :Documentary

From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)

1985-01-18 6.974

That's Dancing!

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the m ...

Genre :Documentary, Music

Velma

1929-02-18 0

The Lone Wolf's Daughter

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 soc ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

Fan Green

1925-06-07 0

I'll Show You the Town

British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and needs to make a choice. ...

Genre :Comedy

Kay Sears

1928-06-24 0

Happiness Ahead

Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and starring Colleen Moore and then husband and wife Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman. ...

Genre :Drama

Derelys Devore

1928-10-13 0

Take Me Home

Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show's star, and she quickly offers him a larger par ...