Blanche Mehaffey

Acting

Blanche Mehaffey

Born — Died

1908-07-28 — 1968-03-31

Place of birth

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 22 titles

The Cowboy and the Bandit poster
7.0

Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes a job on the Barton ranch and joins in the fight against gang leader Larkin. Finding a wounded Scarface he helps him recover. Arrested by Larkin's stooge Sheriff, and with another lynch mob after him, he once again needs Scarface's help.

The Cowboy and the Bandit

1935

Soul of the Slums poster
6.7

A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.

Soul of the Slums

1931

The Wages of Sin poster
3.7

A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her working as a prostitute in a bordello.

The Wages of Sin

1938

Dynamite Denny poster
9.0

When a railroad engineer refuses to participate in a strike, the union drops him and he loses his job.

Dynamite Denny

1932

No artwork available
7.0

Mounted Fury is a 1931 American drama film directed by Stuart Paton and written by Betty Burbridge.

Mounted Fury

1931

Dugan of the Badlands poster
10.0

Bill Dugan befriends an orphaned boy; the pair help a sheriff bring his crooked deputy to justice.

Dugan of the Badlands

1931

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle poster
6.1

Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

1935

Is There Justice? poster
7.0

Stern district attorney John Raymond sentences innocent June Lawrence to prison along with her guilty husband Dan. After she dies in prison, her brother, reporter Jerry Heath, vows revenge. He gets his opportunity when he is sent to cover a police raid. His photographer takes a picture of Raymond's daughter Kay dancing on a table in her underwear. Jerry saves her from the raid in order to get her exclusive story for his paper.

Is There Justice?

1931

North of Arizona poster
5.4

Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs on as a ranch foreman, but learns the ranch is the home of the crooks.

North of Arizona

1935

Sally of the Subway poster
8.0

Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company.

Sally of the Subway

1932

Border Guns poster
9.0

A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he becomes friends and rivals with the chief smuggler.

Border Guns

1934

The Silent Code poster
6.5

Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-officer, and is puzzled as he had worked this district before and had been mysteriously transferred, disrupting his romance with Helen Brent, the niece of Peter Barkley, the Factor at the trading post. An accountant of the company Berkley works for threatens to expose him when his account is found $10,000 short. Barkley pleads for more time to raise the money. His opportunity arises when he learns that Helen's father and his brother-in-law, Nathan Brent, has struck it rich and is on his way to visit Helen. Barkley instructs his henchmen Carney and Breen to lie in wait and rob Brent of his gold. Brent has a premonition of trouble and buries his gold, making a map of the location. Barkley is disturbed by the arrival of Corporal Hale and goes to warn his men, and finds them already engaged in the attack on Brent. Brent's dog Wolfgang (played by a dog named Rex, or maybe the other way around)...

The Silent Code

1935

Riders of the North poster
7.0

In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of locating the killer.

Riders of the North

1931

The Outlaw Tamer poster
9.0

A masked bandit being chased by a posse is wounded but manages to lose them. He is taken in by a female saloon owner and nursed back to health.

The Outlaw Tamer

1935

Held For Ransom poster
6.0

A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

Held For Ransom

1938

The Sunrise Trail poster
5.5

Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang member Kansas. He plans to lead the gang into the Sheriff's trap, but hopes to spare his new friend.

The Sunrise Trail

1931

Alias Mary Smith poster
6.0

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.

Alias Mary Smith

1932

The Sky Spider poster
3.5

The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is shot down by Hugh Jeffries for the money it carries. Another flight is made by Buddy followed by Jeffries intending to shoot him down also...

The Sky Spider

1931

Passport to Paradise poster
10.0

To fulfill the requirements for obtaining a large inheritance, a man must travel around the world. In his travels he comes upon a deposed princess, and falls in love.

Passport to Paradise

1932

The Mystery Trooper poster
5.5

Jack Logan is the heir to half of a map to a hidden Indian mine. The trader and villain Jean Gregg sends his chief henchman Mack to make life difficult for Jack. Jack is aided in his quest by the heirs to the other half of the map: Helen Holt and her younger brother Billy, and by a uniformed mystery man known as "The Mystery Trooper".

The Mystery Trooper

1931

Wildcat Saunders poster
10.0

Perrin plays a boxer whose manager takes him out to a ranch for training, but Perrin soon discovers the ranch foreman is responsible for a $100,000 jewel heist.

Wildcat Saunders

1936

The Sea Fiend poster
5.0

The Sea Fiend, aka Devil Monster, is an American adventure film directed by S. Edwin Graham and it was shown in Great Britain as The Sea Fiend in 1938. An edited version of the film was released in 1946 as Devil Monster, a low-budget South Seas drama spiced up with stock footage inserts including half-dressed native girls that were also featured in the film's trailer.

The Sea Fiend

1936

1920s · 30 titles

A Woman of the World poster
5.5

A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.

A Woman of the World

1925

No artwork available
10.0

The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect.

His People

1925

The Air Mail Pilot poster
9.0

A high-flying action film involving a pilot battling air mail robberies.

The Air Mail Pilot

1928

No artwork available
8.0

Clyde Cook is a traveling handyman who whitewashes farm barns and he flirts with the wife of a jealous farmer. The husband sees this and takes off after Clyde who runs into an army recruiting station and enlists. The highly-offended farmer also enlists and the chase continues across several army posts.

He Forgot to Remember

1926

The Princess from Hoboken poster
8.0

To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.

The Princess from Hoboken

1927

Finnegan's Ball poster
9.0

The Finnegan family emigrate from Ireland to the United States, but get into a dispute with their neighbors the Flannigans.

Finnegan's Ball

1927

Smilin' Guns poster
8.0

After "Dirty Neck" Jack Purvin sees a newspaper photograph of Eastern socialite Helen Van Smythe, soon to arrive at the nearby dude ranch, he hightails it to San Francisco in order to learn how to become a gentleman. Returning to the ranch, the new but not necessarily improved Jack shreds his dandified image in order to save Helen from a lecherous but decidedly fake count and her mother from a jewel thief.

Smilin' Guns

1929

The White Sheep poster
10.0

A quiet, thoughtful soul runs up against the three roughneck sons of a small town's dictatorial mayor who all court an attractive redhead he likes. Who will she choose, and will the mayor be removed on a murder charge?

The White Sheep

1924

The Denver Dude poster
7.0

A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress a pretty young girl. He sees that a citified "dandy" is also after the girl, and the dude seems to be scoring some points with his "civilized" demeanor.

The Denver Dude

1927

One of the Family poster
5.0

Jimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous.

One of the Family

1924

Take It from Me poster
9.0

Tom Eggett, with the help of his pals, Dick and Van, loses the last cent of his inheritance, is evicted from his apartment, and is rejected by Gwen, his fiancée. A codicil to his uncle's will, however, stipulates that he shall inherit the Eggett department store provided that he operate it for 3 months at a profit. Cyrus Crabb, manager of the store, is determined to gain possession of the business and arranges for the company's credit to be canceled during Tom's management, though Grace Gordon, a stenographer, has evidence of his perfidy.

Take It from Me

1926

The Battling Orioles poster
4.7

A young barber's girlfriend falls into the clutches of a shady nightclub owner and his cohorts, who plan to get her involved in their nefarious schemes. When his efforts to rescue her prove futile, he enlists the help of his father, who was at one time a professional baseball player, and his former teammates to save her.

The Battling Orioles

1924

The Haunted Honeymoon poster
7.0

The Haunted Honeymoon is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey with Janet Gaynor in one of her first films. One of the first comedies to parody horror films, it was produced by Hal Roach and released by Pathé Exchange.

The Haunted Honeymoon

1925

No artwork available
NR

Charley looks for a job position but is not anxious to find one. He ends up getting into all sorts of trouble at a masquerade ball.

Position Wanted

1924

No artwork available
7.0

'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.

It's a Joy!

1923

The Silent Rider poster
10.0

Cowboy Jerry Alton is content with life on the Bar Z Ranch until Mrs. Randall hires pretty Marian Faer to assist in cooking. Marian explains that she is looking for a redheaded husband. All the men are smitten with her, and several, including Jerry, try to dye their hair red.

The Silent Rider

1927

The Goofy Age poster
8.0

The hero's loved one is threatened with marriage with a rival, due to the machinations of her mother. The simplest solution of the situation is to marry her, and upon being reminded of it, the hero lays plans for a hurried ceremony in the goldfish store where he works. But as it is a case of true love, things don't move smoothly. Customers interrupt and so forth, as the justice of the peace tries to spiel off the fateful words. The culminating disaster is when firemen smash in the door, but a simple solution presents itself and the lovers, justice of the peace and witnesses make off with the hook and ladder wagon and the knot is tied before they are caught.

The Goofy Age

1924

The Wages of Tin poster
8.0

aka Billy, the Ford Buster

The Wages of Tin

1925

No artwork available
8.0

Two young lovers (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) are at home when a policeman (James Finlayson) comes to the door and begins telling them his life story.

Tell It to a Policeman

1925

Marlie the Killer poster
8.0

1928 American silent action film directed by Noel M. Smith.

Marlie the Killer

1928

The Big Idea poster
8.0

Inventor Ignatius Pollard develops a new "Pavement Polisher" to clean the streets, but a demonstration of the device does not go as planned.

The Big Idea

1924

Powder and Smoke poster
6.2

A lightning rod salesman gets in the middle of a western shootout.

Powder and Smoke

1924

The Texas Streak poster
7.0

Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.

The Texas Streak

1926

April Fool poster
6.0

Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in love with the managing editor's daughter. It's Monday, April 1st and the paper's editorial staff has a great deal of trouble telling the difference between April Fool's jokes and real events.

April Fool

1924

No artwork available
8.0

When baby-care-book author Glenn Tryon has an abandoned baby dumped on him during a train trip, he discovers he should have read a book on the subject as well as having written one.

Whose Baby Are You?

1925

Just a Minute poster
6.3

A car salesman wants to get marreid but has to make one last sell first.

Just a Minute

1924

The Runaway Express poster
6.5

Joe Foley, charged to deliver a trainload of cattle to his employer, is forced to commandeer the engine when his engineer refuses to continue until he has observed union rest rules.

The Runaway Express

1926

No artwork available
6.5

A Hal Roach comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and James Finlayson.

Fully Insured

1923

At First Sight poster
6.5

A man falls in love with a woman he thinks is a rich lady when in fact she is her maid.

At First Sight

1924

Meet the Missus poster
NR

A young married couple (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) with no money and lots of time for fighting try to impress the husband's boss.

Meet the Missus

1924