Millard Webb

Directing

Millard Webb

Born 1893-12-05

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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7.0

An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Oliver Twist, Jr.

1921

The Sea Beast poster
6.7

Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."

The Sea Beast

1926

The Love Thrill poster
7.0

Joyce Brandon is in love with Jack Sturdevant, but he doesn't even know she's alive.

The Love Thrill

1927

The Love Thrill poster
7.0

Joyce Brandon is in love with Jack Sturdevant, but he doesn't even know she's alive.

The Love Thrill

1927

The Golden Cocoon poster
10.0

The story of a much put-upon woman who becomes involved with a professor of political economy only to be thrown over by him for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.

The Golden Cocoon

1925

The Painted Angel poster
10.0

The story of Mamie Hudler, aka Rodeo West, from her days as a New Orleans singer to a California Western movie cowgirl, star to the queen of the New York City nightclubs and speakeasies. Considered a lost film.

The Painted Angel

1929

My Wife and I poster
8.0

In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.

My Wife and I

1925

My Wife and I poster
8.0

In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.

My Wife and I

1925

Naughty But Nice poster
9.0

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 McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).

Naughty But Nice

1927

The Woman Who Dared poster
8.0

A young woman inherits a textile plant, and finds that she's expected to pay protection money to gangsters who have their own men among the plant's employees.

The Woman Who Dared

1933

The Drop Kick poster
5.3

College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.

The Drop Kick

1927

Where the North Begins poster
5.3

A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the man from certain death, and begins to feel a kinship with him that is stronger than the one he has with his adopted pack.

Where the North Begins

1923

Glorifying the American Girl poster
5.6

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend, who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.

Glorifying the American Girl

1929

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7.0

Garry Beecher, forgetting his mother and sweetheart, Lorna, falls in love with Veronica, a chorus girl, and heads for the city; finding her with a millionaire, he returns home and robs his former employer, then returns to Veronica and begins a career of reckless spending. When he is unable to pay for a diamond necklace, Garry is threatened with arrest and is betrayed by Veronica.

Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?

1922

Her Marriage Vow poster
10.0

A man sees his wife flirting with a former boyfriend. Enraged, he decides to end the marriage. After cooling down, though, he begins to have second thoughts about the separation, especially since there are children involved.

Her Marriage Vow

1924

An Affair of the Follies poster
9.0

Young husband Jerry, a clerk, loses his job, and in order to bring money into the house, his wife Tamara goes back to her old job as a dancer in the Follies. The husband doesn't like the idea at all, and they wind up separating. One night the clerk and his friend, an inventor, are dining at a restaurant, and the inventor is lamenting that he has a great invention but can't get in to see a millionaire named Hammersley in order get get financial backing. They don't know that Hammersley happens to be sitting at the next table. The three strike up a conversation and become friends. However, there's another thing Jerry also doesn't know--Hammersley is in love with Tamara and, in fact, she is going to his house that night to see him.

An Affair of the Follies

1927

Gentlemen of the Press poster
6.7

A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.

Gentlemen of the Press

1929

Honeymoon Flats poster
10.0

Disappointed that her daughter has not married into money, a mother meddles trying to make the girl unhappy with life in her new home, the economical housing development known as Honeymoon Flats.

Honeymoon Flats

1928

Tiger Rose poster
5.4

Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading post In the peaceful Loon River Valley, deep in the Canadian Northwest comes a story of love, vengeance and sacrifice. Having lived at the trading post following the death of her father, Rose will soon fall in love. But when her new love is in trouble, Rose will discover that she is capable of much more than she thought in order to keep him safe.

Tiger Rose

1923

The Happy Ending poster
9.0

A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero.

The Happy Ending

1931

The Dark Swan poster
8.0

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. Immediately after her wedding Eve beings a series of dangerous adventures with Wilfred Meadows. Lewis learns of them and endeavors to reason with his wife, but she will not listen. As Cornelia is sailing for Europe, Lewis meets her at the dock, tells her that he made a mistake in marrying Eve and that they will be divorced--and that he loves Cornelia. They part with mutual assurances of a future meeting. A lost film.

The Dark Swan

1924

The Golden Calf poster
4.0

In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes. The friend begins a total make-over upon her friend. First she slathers her in mud-packs, and then she encases her in lovely silk dresses. Soon the plain woman is transformed into an extraordinary beauty. It is no surprise that her boss, not knowing her true identity, falls hopelessly in love with her. Singing, dancing and romancing ensues. Songs include: "A Picture No Artist Can Paint," "You Gotta Be Modernistic," "I'm Telling the World About You," "Maybe Someday," and "Can I Help It."

The Golden Calf

1930

The Fighting Shepherdess poster
10.0

A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranchers.

The Fighting Shepherdess

1920

The Fighting Shepherdess poster
10.0

A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranchers.

The Fighting Shepherdess

1920