Priscilla Bonner

Acting

Priscilla Bonner

Born 1899-02-17 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Priscilla Bonner (February 17, 1899 – February 21, 1996) was an American silent film actress. Bonner made her screen debut in 1920 in the film Homer Comes Home. She went on to co-star with Jack Pickford in The Man Who Had Everything (1920), Lon Chaney in Shadows (1922), Colleen Moore in April Showers (1923), and comedian Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926). In 1925 she starred in the controversial independent film The Red Kimono, produced and directed by Dorothy Davenport. In 1927 she was loaned to Paramount Pictures to co-star in the box office hit It, starring Clara Bow. Bonner died in 1996 at the age of 97.

Acting credits

Home Stuff poster
8.0

Stranded in the small town of Buckeye Junction young actress Madge Joy crawls upon a load of hay and falls asleep. Knocked unconscious when young farmer Robert Deep hitches up the wagon not realizing she’s inside she awakes in the Deep living room. "Ma" Deep takes to her at once, but old “Pa” Deep looks at her sternly. Claiming to be a runaway orphan rather than an actress she becomes a member of the family. Falling for Madge Robert confesses he dreams of being a playwright, that night his sister Susan, who has run away to be an actress, reappears. Pa Deep is furious when he finds out his daughter has been on the stage, but Madge reveals that she is herself an actress threatening to go away with Robert unless he makes up with his daughter. Eventually Madge finds fame in New York with Robert following with a play he knows is right.

Home Stuff

1921

Proud Flesh poster
7.2

The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but he follows her. She is rescued from a wild taxi ride by a passerby who owns a huge plumbing company. Believing him to be a common plumber, she snubs him, but he pursues her and a romantic rivalry is born.

Proud Flesh

1925

3 Bad Men poster
6.9

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

3 Bad Men

1926

Honest Hutch poster
8.0

Ort Hutchins is a confirmed loafer who spends all of his time fishing while his wife toils over the washtub. One day, while digging for worms, Hutch uncovers a box containing $100,000 in bills, the loot of a bank robbed in the next town. Realizing that he cannot spend the money without arousing suspicion, Hutch resigns himself to taking a job for cover. ...

Honest Hutch

1920

No artwork available
8.0

Nurse Lucy Weston, seeks revenge and marries a young millionaire she believes is responsible for her father's death.

Golden Shackles

1928

Shadows poster
6.2

Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathen', only to reveal hypocrisy amid the self-righteous township.

Shadows

1922

Outcast Souls poster
7.0

Alice Davis and Charles Turner are arrested for petting in an automobile and marry on impulse.

Outcast Souls

1928

The False Alarm poster
10.0

Jim is torn between his family's legacy of bravery and his own fear, which leads to his disgrace. He works in a steel mill before overcoming his fear, eventually rescuing his treacherous brother and the woman he was harming.

The False Alarm

1926

It poster
6.9

A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism -- the captivating personal quality otherwise known as "it."

It

1927

The Strong Man poster
6.2

A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. After the war, the young Belgian journeys to America as assistant to a theatrical "strong man", Zandow the Great (Arthur Thalasso). While in America, he searches for Mary Brown... and he finds her, just as word comes that Zandow is incapacitated and the little nebbish must go on stage in his place.

The Strong Man

1926

The Son of Wallingford poster
7.0

A young man's journey into adulthood, love, and ambition, inspired by a serial by George Randolph Chester exploring themes of love, ambition, and self-discovery, set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties.

The Son of Wallingford

1921

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? poster
8.0

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?

1923

Charley's Aunt poster
NR

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.

Charley's Aunt

1925

No artwork available
8.0

Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating and finds himself accused of murder, on circumstantial evidence, of the owner's murder.

Paying the Price

1927

Bob Hampton of Placer poster
9.0

Former U.S. Army Capt. Bob Hampton joins a party of settlers and saves the life of a girl known as "The Kid" from a siege.

Bob Hampton of Placer

1921

The Earth Woman poster
8.0

The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine. A drink-benumbed hillbilly tries to rape heroine Sally Tilden (Priscilla Bonner), setting off a chain reaction of violence, murder, and false confessions.

The Earth Woman

1926

The Prince of Headwaiters poster
7.0

Pierre, the maitre d' at the swanky Ritz Hotel in Paris, discovers that he has a son from his former marriage, which was broken up by his wealthy wife's upper-class relatives. His son, now a young man and unaware that Pierre is is father, is in danger of becoming the victim of blackmailer Mae Morin. Pierre sets out to save him from the notorious Mae.

The Prince of Headwaiters

1927

The Red Kimona poster
5.8

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

The Red Kimona

1925

Broadway After Midnight poster
7.0

To protect her brother, a nightclub entertainer Queenie Morgan marries a gangster. She bears a resemblance to a society girl who has gotten involved with the underworld and wound up shooting her gangster boyfriend, and the gang forces Queenie to impersonate the woman in order to extort money from her wealthy parents. Unfortunately the society girl is killed by the gang, and the police arrest Queenie for the murders of both the society girl and her boyfriend.

Broadway After Midnight

1927

The Purple Dawn poster
8.0

The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and directed by Charles R. Seeling. Starring Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, and William E. Aldrich. The film is presumed lost.

The Purple Dawn

1923

Drusilla with a Million poster
8.0

Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. And someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always wanted a child of her, in now in charge of a large brood of children, and very happy about it. But there may be a problem; the real heir to the money shows up.

Drusilla with a Million

1925

The Man Who Had Everything poster
6.4

Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to his heartlessness, the beggar curses him, saying, "May you always have everything that you want."

The Man Who Had Everything

1920

No artwork available
9.0

Golden-hearted chorus girl Sally Casey is in love with wealthy Chet Randall and the feeling is mutual. Randall's snobbish father staunchly opposes the romance. Sally saves the day -- and her impending marriage -- when she reveals that Randall Sr. is himself carrying on with nightclub hostess "Alabam" Kenyon.

Girls Who Dare

1929

Long Pants poster
5.9

Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.

Long Pants

1927