Clarissa Selwynne

AKA:
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1886-02-26

London, England, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {74}

Lady Falkland

1918-05-06 0

The White Man's Law

Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership with Sir Harry Falkland (Jack Holt), a notorious roue, ...
Genre :Drama

Marie

1915-09-27 8

The Flash of an Emerald

The picture starts with Robert Warwick walking into the office of director Albert Capellani (the film's actual director). Capellani offers him the role of a heavy and hands him the script. The next fo ...
Genre :Drama

Jeanette Duval

1922-12-01 0

The Woman Conquers

Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay area to inspect trapping holdings inherited from her uncle. ...
Genre :Drama

Claire

1916-11-14 0

The Woman He Feared

Henry Clive, a wealthy widower, placed his small daughter, May, in a convent when she was a mere child, and now that her education is completed takes her home. Clive, alone, has amused himself accordi ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Perryam (as Clarissa Selwyn)

1926-03-14 0

High Steppers

Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a r ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Manning

1919-05-12 0

The Big Little Person

After Arathea Manning loses her hearing during an epidemic of scarlet fever among the children she teaches, her fiancé Arthur Endicott, who is involved with another woman, complains of always having t ...
Genre :Drama

Princess Olga Ivanovitch Nekhludof

1927-03-19 0

Resurrection

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He fo ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Aunt Prissy

1924-10-19 0

The Dangerous Flirt

The naïve Sheila Fairfax (Brent) plays with men’s emotions without fully comprehending the risks leading to several dangerous situations from which she and the man she loves to barely escape with thei ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance

Marie

1917-10-10 0

The Curse of Eve

When young Eva Stanley comes home from college, she finds that her mother is deeply involved in the movement to rescue "wayward" girls. Eva's boyfriend John Gilbert is sent west on a government job, a ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. James

1924-12-01 0

One Glorious Night

A 1924 silent drama. ...
Genre :Drama

Harriet Houston

1929-06-30 0

Come Across

Mary, a high society girl, wants to see how the other half lives, so she becomes a cabaret dancer in a New York nightclub. The owner of the nightclub, Pop Hanson, and his criminal friends, Harry and C ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

Onslow

1932-12-24 4.692

Cynara

A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs. O'Dell Carney

1924-10-25 0

The Fast Worker

Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and their daughter. When Terry falls in love with Edith's sister, a scandal erupts at the resort. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Sardis

1921-05-22 0

Sacred and Profane Love

Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Madame Lizette

1917-10-15 0

The Calendar Girl

Mildred Manning, known as Middy, is an apprentice in Madame Lizette's fashionable shop. Her beauty is discovered by Madame's brother, George Martin, and she is made a model. One afternoon, she tries o ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Peyton

1927-02-28 0

Quarantined Rivals

Elsie Peyton’s parents favor two different men for her. Dad likes Bruce Farney, as does Elsie while Mom prefers Bob Howard. The domineering Mrs. Peyton sees to it that football player Bruce is discour ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mrs. Martin

1932-10-15 5.5

Slightly Married

Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Lady Clifton-Wyatt

1920-01-01 0

The Cup of Fury

Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in league with Verrinder, a German spy. When their work against England is discovered, they commit suicide. Mari ...
Genre :Drama

Dowager Queen

1932-04-03 0

My Pal, the King

The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus. ...
Genre :Western

Empress Eugénie - Prologue

1924-04-14 5.4

Mademoiselle Midnight

Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by ...
Genre :Drama

Natalie Spencer

1920-03-14 5.3

Dangerous Days

Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodr ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Prodwell

1924-11-02 6

The Last Man on Earth

An epidemic has killed off all of the fertile men on earth, except for Elmer Smith, a hillbilly who lives out in a cabin in the Ozarks, when he is discovered, every woman on the planet begins fighting ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy, Fantasy

Annoyed Woman in Theater (uncredited)

1937-04-17 5

Call It a Day

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Cartright

1932-07-16 4.5

The Man Called Back

Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Co ...
Genre :Drama

Woman (uncredited)

1937-03-09 5

Women of Glamour

A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Aunt Mary

1928-04-25 5.778

Glorious Betsy

Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone ...
Genre :Drama, History

Miss Mimms

1936-06-11 6

Everything Is Rhythm

Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader. ...
Genre :Music

Mrs. Brandon

1918-06-09 0

Smashing Through

Claim jumper Dave Marco and his boss Earl Foster, a crooked investment broker, hire chemist Ralph Brandon to falsify papers that a certain worthless mine is valuable then convince Ralph's mother to in ...
Genre :Thriller, Western

Landlady

1928-12-15 0

My Man

Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young fellow who earns a precarious living demonstratin ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Mrs. Ostberg

1928-11-18 0

Jazz Mad

A composer and his daughter emigrate to America in the hope that he can sell his symphony. But he meets with little success and begins to give up hope. His daughter and her friends, however, never giv ...
Genre :Drama

Lady Kitty Sundale

1925-11-15 0

We Moderns

Mary Sundale is a young woman who spurns her childhood sweetheart to attach herself to a large group of riotous, semi-artistic young people and becomes infatuated with a superficial poet and critic. O ...
Genre :Comedy

Miss Perkins

1927-06-25 0

Naughty But Nice

Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McInt ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Mrs. Hamilton (as Clarissa Selwyn)

1923-07-22 0

The Brass Bottle

Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange ...
Genre :Comedy

Matilda Tewkes

1936-11-01 0

Everything in Life

An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Ma Pearson

1936-10-11 7

One Good Turn

In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Wertham

1924-03-30 6.8

Beau Brummel

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanl ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Adams

1928-09-14 0

Sinners' Parade

In order to support her sister and her sister's small child, Mary Tracy leads a double life: by day, she works as a schoolteacher; nights, she dances in a cabaret show. Mary becomes interested in Bill ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mrs. Westbrook

1925-11-15 0

A Broadway Lady

Chorus girl Rosalie Ryan catches the eye of Bob Westbrook, a wealthy playboy. He proposes to her but she refuses, mainly because of his heavy drinking. However, after being brazenly insulted by his fa ...
Genre :Drama

Miss Curtis

1925-03-22 0

Sackcloth and Scarlet

Silent Drama ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Pleyden

1927-10-16 0

The Crystal Cup

A beautiful young girl has been raised by her bitter mother to hate all men, but her beauty means that men are constantly after her. She rejects them all, leading some to believe that she may be a les ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs. Harrington

1929-08-04 5.2

The Love Trap

A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mrs. Webster

1928-09-26 0

The Baby Cyclone

A woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Winthrop Forrest

1928-04-07 1

Broadway Daddies

Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Robert, a poor but ambitious young man. What Eve doesn't know is that Robert is the son of a wealthy bu ...
Genre :Comedy

1916-11-06 0

Gloriana

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother. ...
Genre :Drama

Countess Oudoff

1917-11-12 0

Princess Virtue

The daughter of a disowned upper class Bostonian finds acceptance in Parisian society. ...
Genre :Drama

1918-01-01 0

The Bride's Awakening

A husband orders his wife to keep their marriage a secret, in order to better continue his affair with a married woman. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Van Twiller (as Clarissa Selwyn)

1918-01-19 0

Face Value

A runaway becomes a thief and is sentenced to a reformatory. ...
Genre :Drama

1918-08-05 0

The Love Swindle

A wealthy woman attempts to win over a man who hates the rich. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Lady Ethridge

1925-12-27 0

Infatuation

Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional soldier Sir Arthur Little at a dinner party. The two ...
Genre :Drama

1918-09-01 0

Mother, I Need You

A young woman who became pregnant from an assault faces legal trouble and scandal after having an abortion. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Deering

1919-08-31 7

Home

A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends. ...
Genre :Drama

Aunt

1921-02-18 0

Society Secrets

Amos Kerran and his wife live a traditional, old-fashioned life on a Connecticut farm, while their son and daughter, Arthur and Maybelle, are successes in New York society. The children want to invite ...
Genre :Comedy

The Buyer (as Clarissa Selwyn)

1919-02-10 0

Creaking Stairs

Dearie Lane refuses to marry Fred Millard, whom she loves, because of her previous affair with roué Mark Winfield. When she confesses, Fred forgives her, and they marry and live happily in a modest ho ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Aunt Harriet

1918-09-28 1

The Talk of the Town

Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newl ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Edith Presby

1919-03-10 0

The Scarlet Shadow

Elena Evans is raised by her puritanical Aunt Elvira, who believes that because of Elena's mother, Elena possesses "the scarlet strain." ...
Genre :

Mrs. Van Austen

1921-04-09 0

Straight from Paris

A young man takes a trip to Europe, and when he returns home he brings along the woman he fell in love with and became engaged to. However, his snooty mother finds out that she doesn't come from a "go ...
Genre :

Cynthia Bancroft

1918-03-02 0

A Weaver of Dreams

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. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Grace Fairbrother (as Clarissa Selwyn)

1917-07-23 0

The Double Standard

Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises equal justice for all. ...
Genre :Drama

Second Maid

1930-01-05 2.667

Lilies of the Field

Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Aunt Emma / Mrs. Renwick

1929-10-16 0

The Isle of Lost Ships

The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. It was produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by Warner Bro ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Romance

Madeline Braine

1915-07-15 0

The Running Fight

Crooked banker Peter V. Wilkinson intentionally drives his own company into bankruptcy and puts the bank's deposits into a secret account he has set up using his daughter Leslie's name. A series of ev ...
Genre :Drama

Alida Corey

1921-11-13 0

The Lure of Jade

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Sheldon

1915-08-30 0

Her Great Match

While vacationing in America, Prince Adolph of Syravia meets Jo Sheldon and they fall in love. Wealthy Mr. Bote, a friend of Jo's family whose ambition is to become a baron, gives Jo's stepmother mone ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Lady Mary Lyster

1921-01-17 0

The Marriage of William Ashe

Genre :Drama, Romance

Alice Warner

1916-03-01 0

Driftwood

Genre :Drama

Dr. Lane

1915-08-23 0

The Master Hand

James Rallston, facing financial hardship, marries a wealthy invalid widow with a daughter, Jean, and plots to control her fortune. He orchestrates her confinement in a sanitarium by drugging her and ...
Genre :Drama

Jane Jackson

1922-08-06 0

Up and at 'Em

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Aunt Louise Burgess

1925-11-15 0

The Fate of a Flirt

Sir James Gilbert, a British peer, wagers that he can win the love of a particular young American woman for whom he has his heart set. Disguised as a chauffeur, James shows his love to Mary Burgess, n ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1919-10-13 0

Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie

Alisa Graeme journeys from Scotland to the U.S. to visit Jeremiah Wishart, an old wealthy friend of her grandfather. The invalid Jeremiah is charmed by Alisa and decides she would make a good wife for ...
Genre :Comedy

Caroline Winthrop

1928-03-18 0

The Heart of a Follies Girl

A clerk falls in love with a beautiful dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies. Not being able to support the girl in the manner to which she is accustomed, he commits forgery in order to get the money to bu ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Dennett

1919-06-29 0

Girls

Man-haters Pamela Gordon, Violet and Kate West, each disappointed in love, vow never to marry, and room together with a sign above their door reading "No man shall cross this threshold." When Edgar Ho ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Rebecca Morgan

1926-05-23 0

A Poor Girl's Romance

A Poor Girl's Romance is a 1926 silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight. ...
Genre :Drama

Lady Rosamond

1920-06-14 0

Out of the Storm

Impressed with Margaret Hill's singing ability, Al Levering takes her from the notorious dive in which she is performing and pays for her musical education. Just as she is about to join an opera compa ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mlle. de Suchet

1919-03-31 0

The Parisian Tigress

The invalid Count de Suchet, nearing death, tells his friend, artist Henri Dutray, about the tragic events of his early life. He secretly married a dancer, and after she gave birth to a daughter, his ...
Genre :Drama