
Writing
Bess Meredyth
Born 1890-02-12 · Buffalo, New York, USA
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.6If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
Don Juan
1926
5.6Gerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Gerry is determined to remain practical. As she mothers her wounded, heartbroken friends, she stalwartly but foolishly resists the advances of the good-hearted and affluent Tony Jardine.
Our Blushing Brides
1930
6.0Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in a train wreck in which another woman is killed. Katherine finds the woman's purse and, among its contents, discovers an invitation for the woman to spend 6 months in an unoccupied luxury apartment in Manhattan. Katherine seizes this opportunity and sets up housekeeping in the elegant suite, living well and dressing in the newest fashions.
A Slave of Fashion
1925
6.0An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
Folies Bergère de Paris
1935
6.5A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
Romance
1930
6.7Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
The Sea Beast
1926
4.4The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
The Sea Bat
1930
7.5Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
Half Angel
1936
6.3An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.
That Night in Rio
1941
8.0Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.
Sailors' Wives
1928
6.3A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
When a Man Loves
1927
5.3Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.
Laughing Sinners
1931
6.5Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
A Woman of Affairs
1928
8.0A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when two Russian thieves, Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
Strangers of the Night
1923
6.0A girl, suffering from amnesia, shows up in a logging-camp in the northwest. There are those who know more about who she is than she does, including why she is there, and the helpless girl is soon at the mercy of the lawlessness in this far-flung frontier. Will some gentleman come to her aid?
The Girl from Nowhere
1919
7.0An outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only friend, a doctor, falls for a married woman.
One Clear Call
1922
NRSmilin' Billy Parsons comedy distributed by National.
A Pair of Pink Pajamas
1918
6.2Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
The Red Lily
1924
NRAfter 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 to shout to make himself heard. An inventor, Gerald Staples, gives Arathea an auriphone, a device to restore her hearing, but one of her problem pupils, in a fit of rage, breaks it. Gerald asks Arathea, whom he calls "The Big Little Person -- small in size, but big in ideas," to be the secretary of his new company marketing the invention. He falls in love with her and plays the piano for her even though she hears only rumblings.
The Big Little Person
1919
6.6Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
Looking Forward
1933
8.0The Duke of Wellington’s attempt to restore peace to France is threatened by a French Duchess.
The Iron Duke
1934
5.5A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
The Great Hospital Mystery
1937
4.0An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
The Prodigal
1931
7.0A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
Thy Name Is Woman
1924

