Louise Lorraine

Acting

Louise Lorraine

Born — Died

1904-10-01 — 1981-02-02

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

From Wikipedia Louise Lorraine (October 1, 1904 – February 2, 1981) was an American film actress. Louise started out in two-reel comedies for independent studios, then spent time at MGM and Universal. She became very popular in action-filled serials such as The Radio King and With Stanley in Africa in 1922. She starred in 11 in all, showing much energy and charisma, not as much seen in many of her colleagues in that genre. Louise was selected one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922. She may be best-remembered for being the third actress to portray Jane, having portrayed the character in the 1921 movie serial The Adventures of Tarzan.[2] She starred in only five talkies in her film career, in…

Known for

With Stanley in Africa poster
8.0

A young lady reporter helps a newspaperman in his search throughout Africa for the famous Dr. Livingstone.

With Stanley in Africa

1922

The Verdict poster
8.0

Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, fall in love and are married. Victor Ronsard, the son of the owner, falls in love with Carol and designs to break up the Mason marriage. He falsely informs Carol that Jimmy, who is the Ronsard bookkeeper, is short in his accounts and that, if she will have dinner with him, he will give her the incriminating papers.

The Verdict

1925

The Frontiersman poster
9.0

John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.

The Frontiersman

1927

The Adventures of Tarzan poster
6.6

Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.

The Adventures of Tarzan

1921

Hard Fists poster
10.0

The story is about a fake army colonel who blackmails Alvord into doing his bidding, including smearing a rancher and his pretty daughter .

Hard Fists

1927

Legionnaires in Paris poster
8.0

Two American soldiers are on leave in Paris on Armistice Day and, due to a misunderstanding, believe that they've killed a man, although accidentally. When they discover that the police are looking for them, they're convinced that they're in big trouble and take off. Complications ensue.

Legionnaires in Paris

1927

Film credits

1930s · 5 titles

The Jade Box poster
6.0

Released in both sound and silent versions, this ten-chapter serial starred former cowboy ace Jack Perrin and chapterplay veteran Louise Lorraine. One of a group of Americans steals the Jade Box, which holds the secret of invisibility; a murderous Oriental cult wants it back and tracks them down.

The Jade Box

1930

Near the Rainbow's End poster
4.5

Despite past friendliness, cattle ranchers Tom and Jim Bledsoe, father and son, fence off their range to prevent its use by neighboring sheep ranchers Tug Wilson and Buck Rankin, suggesting that they hope to end their recent loss of cattle. Rankin (not Rankins) shoots Tug, who is unaware of Rankin's lawless activities, in an argument and Jim is accused of murder and also stampeding the sheep. Believing Jim is guilty, Tug's daughter, Ruth, aids Buck in capturing Jim, but he escapes. Ruth gets help from Sheriff Hank Bosley, and a sheepherder, Sanchez, reveals Rankin's responsibility for both the rustling of Bledsoe's cattle and the killing of Wilson.

Near the Rainbow's End

1930

The Mounted Stranger poster
9.0

A boy's father is murdered. As an adult, he tracks down the killers.

The Mounted Stranger

1930

No artwork available
9.0

The owner of a medicine show falls for a young beauty who is in love with someone else.

Moonlight and Cactus

1932

Beyond the Law poster
10.0

A saloon on the border between California and Nevada becomes the hideout for "Texas" Jack Slade's gang of rustlers. When the crooks start harassing the nearby ranchers, the town council calls the U.S. Cavalry for help. Two of their best men, Dan Wright and "Jack-Knife" Chandler are sent to wrangle the rustlers. But when they discover that Slade has assembled an army of thugs, Wright and Chandler must call in their fellow cavalrymen for an all-out war.

Beyond the Law

1930

1920s · 38 titles

With Stanley in Africa poster
8.0

A young lady reporter helps a newspaperman in his search throughout Africa for the famous Dr. Livingstone.

With Stanley in Africa

1922

The Verdict poster
8.0

Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, fall in love and are married. Victor Ronsard, the son of the owner, falls in love with Carol and designs to break up the Mason marriage. He falsely informs Carol that Jimmy, who is the Ronsard bookkeeper, is short in his accounts and that, if she will have dinner with him, he will give her the incriminating papers.

The Verdict

1925

The Frontiersman poster
9.0

John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.

The Frontiersman

1927

The Adventures of Tarzan poster
6.6

Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.

The Adventures of Tarzan

1921

Hard Fists poster
10.0

The story is about a fake army colonel who blackmails Alvord into doing his bidding, including smearing a rancher and his pretty daughter .

Hard Fists

1927

Legionnaires in Paris poster
8.0

Two American soldiers are on leave in Paris on Armistice Day and, due to a misunderstanding, believe that they've killed a man, although accidentally. When they discover that the police are looking for them, they're convinced that they're in big trouble and take off. Complications ensue.

Legionnaires in Paris

1927

The Altar Stairs poster
8.0

On an island in the South Seas, derelict Tony Heritage is rescued from savage natives by trader and ship captain Rod McLean, but repays him by stealing Rod’s money and fleeing to France. There, Heritage marries a young French woman named Joie Malet, but her father, Captain Jean Malet, having discovered his miscreant past, snatches Joie from the altar stairs and takes her to a South Sea island where he has been posted. Tony Heritage follows, but Capt. Malet keeps him away from Joie by giving him a job on another island, helping Rod McLean build a new trading post.

The Altar Stairs

1922

The Gentleman from America poster
7.0

Two Army buddies, Dennis O'Shane and Johnny Day, decide to take their furlough in Paris but instead end up in Spain.

The Gentleman from America

1923

Exit Smiling poster
7.9

The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.

Exit Smiling

1926

Pals poster
7.0

The dog, Rex, finds the baby abandoned in the mountains. Unfortunately, the nearest town has no orphanage and rough cowboy and wonder-dog owner Bruce is forced to care for the infant himself.

Pals

1925

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922 poster
NR

The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (15 in 1932) young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. 1922 was the first.

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

1922

Sweetie poster
7.0

A Baby Peggy two-reeler

Sweetie

1923

Baby Mine poster
8.0

Remake of the 1917 film of the same name. A young chiropractor is tricked by a tall, homely girl into marriage, but he ducks out the morning after the honeymoon. Months go by and he learns that his bride has become a mother. Obliged to his responsibilities, he returns. however, it's just another ruse, with three borrowed babies and a midget dressed as one standing in for his new children.

Baby Mine

1928

No artwork available
9.0

12 episode serial of a brother and sister searching Australia for a gold mine that their father had discovered before his death. Episodes: 1. A Treacherous Friend, 2. The Man Trap, 3. Trapped. 4. Face to Face, 5. Ambushed, 6. Unmasked, 7. In Wolf's Clothing, 8. An Attack in the Dark, 9. A Ride for Life, 10. The Blast of Death, 11. The Living Dead, 12. The Reward.

A Final Reckoning

1928

Winners of the Wilderness poster
7.7

During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.

Winners of the Wilderness

1927

The Stolen Ranch poster
6.1

Returning home from the Great War, "Breezy" Hart (Fred Humes) and his shell-shocked buddy Frank Wilcox (Ralph McCullough) discover the Wilcox property in the hands of evil Sam Hardy (William Norton Bailey). Frank, who is the rightful heir to the ranch, goes into hiding, while "Breezy" takes a job in the ranch kitchen. Learning of Frank's whereabouts, Hardy plots to have the young heir killed. Luckily, Breezy overhears the villain plotting with his henchmen and is able to rescue his friend. Hardy and his men are arrested, and Frank, now cured of his illness, is reunited with his girl, June Marston (Nita Cavalier). Breezy, meanwhile, is busy romancing his kitchen staff colleague, Mary Jane (Louise Lorraine).

The Stolen Ranch

1926

No artwork available
NR

Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is the 4th round, "Two Sones with One Bird".

Fighting Blood

1923

No artwork available
8.0

Joe Bonomo played circus acrobat Welles "Red" Landow, Louise Lorraine was the heroine, tightrope artist Trixie Tremaine, and such studio stalwarts as Slim Cole, Sam Polo, Monte Montague, and Albert Prisco

The Great Circus Mystery

1925

No artwork available
9.0

Teddy and Peggy are discovered working on the farm, but they are soon fired and leave for the city. Here a rich uncle is expecting his niece.

Get-Rich-Quick Peggy

1921

The Flaming Disk poster
10.0

Criminals steal a death ray that concentrates the rays of the sun. The inventor's daughter and a government agent try to retrieve it. 18 episode adventure serial.

The Flaming Disk

1920

McGuire of the Mounted poster
7.0

A film about a man named McGuire of the Royal Mounted Police.

McGuire of the Mounted

1923

Elmo the Fearless poster
8.0

Elmo finds himself in 18 different hair raising and dangerous adventures always escaping in the nick of time!

Elmo the Fearless

1920

Shadows of the Night poster
7.0

Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.

Shadows of the Night

1928

Sea Shore Shapes poster
9.0

The story of a bad organ grinder, a life saver, a pretty girl and her baby sister. A dog takes an active part in the final rescue and helps save the child from the fleeing kidnapper.

Sea Shore Shapes

1921

The Wright Idea poster
10.0

A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…

The Wright Idea

1928

The Silent Guardian poster
7.0

Lovely Jessie Stevens falls in love with Jim Sullivan, much to the dismay of Red Collins (L.J. O'Connor), who wants the girl for himself. Red blackmails Jessie's father, Job, into ordering his daughter to forget all about Jim, who takes to the bottle instead.

The Silent Guardian

1925

Headin' West poster
8.0

Bill Perkins, a war veteran bumming his way across the country with an airplane pilot, is forced to disembark via parachute when he arrives at a familiar spot. He lands in the midst of a cattlemen's dispute, gets a job as a dishwasher, and learns of a conspiracy to steal the ranch from its absent heir.

Headin' West

1922

No artwork available
NR

Dress model Sheila Conroy loses her job after ruining a gown she borrowed from her employer. Harlan, a criminal posing as a government agent, offers Sheila work as his assistant. She accepts for the sake of her brother-in-law, Billy, who embezzled money from his firm and is in danger of discovery. Her assignment is to obtain the necessary "evidence" on Mrs. Bordon, a wealthy widow who smuggled a valuable jewel into the country. Channing Maynard, a real government agent, reveals the truth to Sheila, and after they bring Harlan to justice, Channing takes Sheila for his bride.

Borrowed Finery

1925

The Diamond Master poster
7.0

1929 film serial directed by Jack Nelson.

The Diamond Master

1929

No artwork available
7.0

Incidental to the business of getting married and living scrappily ever after, Charlie and Louise are engaged on a flivver jaunt. Charlie has invited Louise along, never dreaming that she would invite the family. But the girl has asked dad, and dad asks mother, and mother invites grandpa and grandma, and they in turn invite the children.

A Family Affair

1921

The Fire Eater poster
8.0

Partners "Smilin' Bob" Corey and Jim O'Neil are forest rangers sent to peacefully "penetrate" Paradise Valley, which is scheduled to become part of a national park. Although the townspeople are sullen about their presence, they manage to befriend Marie Roselli, an Italian girl whose brother Wolf owns a cattle ranch and from they obtain supplies. Before they; know it, Bob and Jim get caught up in a kidnapping, an illegal logging ring, and a murder.

The Fire Eater

1921

The Wild Girl poster
7.0

Wonder dog and horse belong to Pattie, the "wild girl" of the title, who rejects a proposal from uncouth mountaineer Lige Blew in favor of romancing handsome photographer Billy Woodruff. Taking umbrage to the girl's decision, Lige frames Pattie's granddad for murder.

The Wild Girl

1925

The Blue Streak poster
8.0

A young man is sent by his father to Mexico to investigate his mine. On the way he meets a girl, whose life he has already once saved, who is traveling to the same place. He is kidnapped by some men who are misdirecting the mine shipments, and escapes in time to save the girl from death

The Blue Streak

1926

Chinatown Charlie poster
7.0

A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.

Chinatown Charlie

1928

The Oregon Trail poster
8.0

18 episode adventure serial. 1. Westward Ho!, 2. White Treachery, 3. Across the Continent, 4. Message of Death, 5. Wagon of Doom, 6. Secret Foes, 7. A Man of God, 8. Seeds of Civilization, 9. Justice, 10. The New Era, 11. A Game of Nations, 12. To Save an Empire, 13, Trail of Death, 14. On to Washington, 15. Santa Fe, 16. Fate of a Nation, 17. For High Stakes, 18. Victory

The Oregon Trail

1923

Three in Exile poster
8.0

In order to save lovely Lorraine from a gang of claim jumpers Art teams with his wonder dog and horse.

Three in Exile

1925

No artwork available
10.0

This movie was billed as a thriller with ice boats, dynamite, and a dog that saves the day. The original movie has been lost. It survives as a 90 second trailer. This trailer is also available on "More Treasures of the AFA" without the video game music.

The Silent Flyer

1926

No artwork available
8.0

Francis Byrd is in love with circus acrobat, and daughter of the show's owner, La Belle, and tries to join the show to be near her. However, his rival Oscar Thrust is the keeper of a "Man-Eating Gorilla" named Bimbo, who's a featured act.

Circus Rookies

1928