Neely Edwards

Acting

Neely Edwards

Born 1883-09-16 · Delphos, Ohio, USA

Neely Edwards (born Cornelius Limbach; September 16, 1883 – July 10, 1965) was an American vaudeville performer and film actor.

Acting credits

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A Warner Bros Vitaphone short that promoted "Girls...Songs....Laughs." No full print exists but the Library of Congress has acquired one musical sequence.

Pleasure Island

1933

The Jazz Singer poster
6.1

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

The Jazz Singer

1927

The Solid Gold Cadillac poster
6.2

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.

The Solid Gold Cadillac

1956

Sutter's Gold poster
7.0

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Sutter's Gold

1936

Show Boat poster
6.8

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel

Show Boat

1929

Fun on a Weekend poster
7.2

Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.

Fun on a Weekend

1947

You Never Can Tell poster
9.0

Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.

You Never Can Tell

1920

Okay, America! poster
5.8

A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

Okay, America!

1932

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NR

Comedy-horror hijinks ensue after the female member of a team of explorers is kidnapped by an Egyptian king for his harem.

Mummy Love

1926

The Death Kiss poster
5.3

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.

The Death Kiss

1932

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7.0

This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.

Dangerous Pleasure

1925

Mr. Moto in Danger Island poster
6.7

In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.

Mr. Moto in Danger Island

1939

Gold Diggers of Broadway poster
7.7

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

Gold Diggers of Broadway

1929

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant poster
5.4

A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

1942

Dynamite poster
6.4

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.

Dynamite

1929

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7.0

Musical short showcasing Jarrett and Nearing

Roamin' Thru The Roses

1933

Under a Spell poster
10.0

When Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs things he wouldn't ordinarily and throws lots of things.

Under a Spell

1925

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! poster
8.0

A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!

1933

Hollywood Bound poster
7.0

A hotel clerk from Iowa believes he's destined to collect first prize in a contest: a movie contract at a Hollywood studio.

Hollywood Bound

1928

Scarlet Pages poster
7.0

Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does not know can find a way to save her.

Scarlet Pages

1930

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7.0

A slapstick comedy short with Neely Edwards.

The Little Pest

1927

I'll Show You the Town poster
10.0

British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and needs to make a choice.

I'll Show You the Town

1925

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9.0

Bedroom farce centering on a chaotic domestic misunderstanding.

A Pajama Marriage

1920

Made for Love poster
6.7

A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.

Made for Love

1926