Fritzi Ridgeway

Acting

Fritzi Ridgeway

Born — Died

1898-04-08 — 1961-03-29

Place of birth

Butte, Montana, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

From Wikipedia Fritzi Ridgeway (April 8, 1898 – March 29, 1961) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1934. She married film composer Constantin Bakaleinikoff. In 1928 she built the Hotel del Tahquitz in Palm Springs, California. She was born in Butte, Montana and died in Lancaster, California from a heart attack.

Known for

Hollywood poster
9.0

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...

Hollywood

1923

Cricket on the Hearth poster
7.0

Tells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbour May Fielding. May's friend Dot weds John Peerybingle; they find a lucky cricket in their cottage. A mortgage and house on fire figure in the story.

Cricket on the Hearth

1923

High Speed poster
NR

“Speed” Cannon, an ambitious young businessman is determined to win the affections of a boarding-school girl whose father made millions in the pork industry. He must use his wit and "speedy" business acumen to navigate the social demands of the girl's father, ultimately trying to win her hand in marriage.

High Speed

1917

We Live Again poster
6.8

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.

We Live Again

1934

Ladies of the Big House poster
6.0

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.

Ladies of the Big House

1931

House of Mystery poster
5.1

Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.

House of Mystery

1934

Film credits

1930s · 6 titles

We Live Again poster
6.8

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.

We Live Again

1934

Ladies of the Big House poster
6.0

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.

Ladies of the Big House

1931

House of Mystery poster
5.1

Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.

House of Mystery

1934

The Mad Parade poster
7.0

The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.

The Mad Parade

1931

No artwork available
8.0

In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.

No Ransom

1934

Prince of Diamonds poster
6.5

Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith), from being unjustly arrested as a thief. Rupert, unaware of the reason his sweetheart married his rival, goes to the Far East where he grows rich after discovering a diamond mine. He breaks Eve's husband by underselling him and then returns to England to exact his revenge on the woman he thinks did him wrong.

Prince of Diamonds

1930

1920s · 19 titles

Hollywood poster
9.0

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...

Hollywood

1923

Cricket on the Hearth poster
7.0

Tells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbour May Fielding. May's friend Dot weds John Peerybingle; they find a lucky cricket in their cottage. A mortgage and house on fire figure in the story.

Cricket on the Hearth

1923

Getting Gertie's Garter poster
8.0

Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.

Getting Gertie's Garter

1927

The Enemy poster
6.3

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.

The Enemy

1927

Hell's Heroes poster
7.1

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).

Hell's Heroes

1929

Trifling with Honor poster
7.0

Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living,

Trifling with Honor

1923

Ruggles of Red Gap poster
7.0

An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.

Ruggles of Red Gap

1923

The Son of the Golden West poster
9.0

Tom Hardy (Tom Mix), a pony express rider, is carrying government gold in a coach to Wassatch accompanied by Alice Calhoun (Sharon Lynn) , the daughter of the US telegraph survey station. The gold is to pay for the US Telegraph Survey and it is to be delivered to the survey chief, Jim Calhoun (Thomas Lingham). The coach is attacked by bandits led by the Slade (Duke Lee) and Kane (Mark Hamilton).

The Son of the Golden West

1928

Judy of Rogues' Harbor poster
8.0

Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is forced to accept the attentions of Jim Shuckles, whom she abhors and who has compromised her sister Olive.

Judy of Rogues' Harbor

1920

Red Hot Speed poster
7.0

A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.

Red Hot Speed

1929

Lonesome Ladies poster
7.0

Released on July 3, 1927

Lonesome Ladies

1927

Nobody's Widow poster
10.0

Roxanna is married to British official John Clayton, but when she catches John in the apparent embrace of another woman, Roxanna leaves England and goes to visit her friend Betty in America. There she tells people that her 'beloved' husband is dead. Betty's friends take to Roxanna, especially Ned, for whom Betty has strong feelings. Further complications arrive in the presence of John Clayton, who has followed Roxanna and now pretends to be the Duke of Morebay and another potential suitor for 'widowed' Roxanna.

Nobody's Widow

1927

This Is Heaven poster
9.0

This film was released in both silent and sound versions.

This Is Heaven

1929

The Old Homestead poster
8.0

Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.

The Old Homestead

1922

Face Value poster
9.0

Howard Crandall Jr., who comes from a wealthy family, has suffered a disfiguring facial injury during World War I, and at war's end stays in Paris rather than return home to his family and sweetheart Muriel looking the way he does. While in Paris he forms a secret society of men who are in a similar position. When he finally does decide to return home, his family and Muriel are at first shocked by his appearance, but they recover and try to make him feel comfortable and accepted. However, it's not before Howard begins to feel their actions are motivated more by pity than love, and when Arthur Wells, who was once Muriel's suitor, shows up one day and is greeted warmly and intimately by Muriel, Howard starts to think that his suspicions are justified.

Face Value

1927

No artwork available
NR

A doctor dreams that he has shot and killed a local gambler. Awakened by a sudden noise, he discovers that the gambler is lying on his living-room floor, shot to death. Unnerved, he flees to Canada, but the RCMP finds out he's there and sets out to track him down.

Bring Him In

1921

A Woman's Vengeance poster
NR

A young girl has to prove her skillness with the gun against a gang outlaws, revealing herself as the real heroine of a Western town.

A Woman's Vengeance

1920

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Menacing Past

1922

No artwork available
8.0

Branded Man is an obscure silent Western.

Branded Man

1922

1910s · 12 titles

High Speed poster
NR

“Speed” Cannon, an ambitious young businessman is determined to win the affections of a boarding-school girl whose father made millions in the pork industry. He must use his wit and "speedy" business acumen to navigate the social demands of the girl's father, ultimately trying to win her hand in marriage.

High Speed

1917

The Fire Flingers poster
7.0

A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in love him.

The Fire Flingers

1919

The Hero of the Hour poster
NR

Billy Brooks, who exhibits an effeminate personality, leaves his Wall Street magnate father and goes on the road as a perfume salesman. In an effort to cure his son of his womanly ways, Brooks, Sr. wires Nebeker, an old rancher friend, to kidnap Billy from the train and "make a man of him."

The Hero of the Hour

1917

Real Folks poster
NR

Pat Dugan puts his last penny into oil prospecting and finds the oil. He deserts the old shack for his idea of what a palace should be and sends Jimmie to college. Jimmie promptly thrashes three of the students and polishes off the policeman who interferes. Then he leaves college for a partnership in a nursery business with a young Italian. Pat moves east and settles next door to Lady Blessington, but supposes the placid old lady who fraternizes with his wife to be the house- keeper. Jimmy turns up and falls in love with Joyce, Lady Blessington's god-daughter and marries her in spite of his father's commands, but when Pat sees how it all comes out he takes the full credit to himself.

Real Folks

1918

The Unpainted Woman poster
8.0

Gudrun works in the American wheat country as a hired girl to Mrs. Hawes. Charley Holt, the son of a rich family, takes the Swedish girl to a dance where she is snubbed by his mother and sister. Furious by his elitist relatives, Charley marries Gudrun and gets a menial job as a mill worker.

The Unpainted Woman

1919

Winning a Bride poster
NR

A ranch foreman wins a series of events at a frontier day rodeo.

Winning a Bride

1919

A Petal on the Current poster
9.0

A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.

A Petal on the Current

1919

The Soul Herder poster
4.5

Harry is thrown out of town and on his way across the desert meets a minister and his family; when the man is killed in an Indian raid, Harry takes care of his little daughter, later puts on the minister's frock and reforms a town.

The Soul Herder

1917

The Calendar Girl poster
NR

Mildred Manning, known as Middy, is an apprentice in Madame Lizette's fashionable shop. Her beauty is discovered by Madame's brother, George Martin, and she is made a model. One afternoon, she tries on a rejected bathing suit and by adding a touch here and there, makes it into a beautiful creation. Madame then sends her to the beach to carry out a clever advertising scheme. At the shore, Middy is pursued by a reporter and photographer, who have been commissioned by Madame to photograph the girl for calendar advertising. In her flight from the publicity men, Mildred takes refuge in a car owned by lawyer Philip Gordon, who gets into the vehicle and drives off with Middy. Middy has him drop her off where she doesn't live, and he ends up having to try to track her down.

The Calendar Girl

1917

The Law's Outlaw poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Law's Outlaw

1918

No artwork available
NR

A stagecoach robbery leads to a desperate attempt to round up the bandits.

The Wrong Man

1917

When Doctors Disagree poster
7.0

Millie Martin falls for falsely accused Joe Turner on a train where he is masquerading as a doctor. When Millie feigns illness to get closer to Joe things get complicated.

When Doctors Disagree

1919