Marceline Day

Acting

Marceline Day

Born — Died

1908-04-24 — 2000-02-16

Place of birth

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Marceline Day (born Marceline Newlin; April 24, 1908 – February 16, 2000) was an American actress who achieved stardom in the mid 1920s, appearing opposite diverse stars such as Harry Langdon, John Barrymore, Ramon Novarro, Lon Chaney, and Buster Keaton. Her career began as a child in the 1910s until it faltered in the early 1930s and she soon retired.

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 20 titles

Hot Curves poster
6.8

The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.

Hot Curves

1930

The Telegraph Trail poster
4.7

A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.

The Telegraph Trail

1933

Damaged Lives poster
4.7

An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

Damaged Lives

1933

Paradise Island poster
3.8

The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.

Paradise Island

1930

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

Broadway to Cheyenne poster
5.0

A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.

Broadway to Cheyenne

1932

The King Murder poster
4.9

A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.

The King Murder

1932

The Arm of the Law poster
5.2

A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.

The Arm of the Law

1932

By Appointment Only poster
6.5

When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her--even though she's engaged to his fiancé's brother.

By Appointment Only

1933

No artwork available
7.2

Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.

The Crusader

1932

The Flaming Signal poster
6.2

A pilot and his dog crash-land on an island run by a psycho who owns a motel--and most of the locals.

The Flaming Signal

1933

Via Pony Express poster
9.0

The Government has approved Betty Castelar's Spanish land grant and notification is sent via pony express. Porter is after her ranch and waylay's rider Buck Carson to get the letter. Left to die in the desert, he is saved by Castelar's horse and brought to her ranch. When Porter later arrives, a peculiar mannerism lets Buck identify him as the gang leader and he vows to get the letter back.

Via Pony Express

1933

The Sky Raiders poster
5.3

Bob Rogers ('Lloyd Hughes'), a former World War One flying ace, loses his license after crashing an airplane while drunk. He works his way back into the commercial airline service by tracking down the bandits who have been robbing the Air Express.

The Sky Raiders

1931

No artwork available
NR

Announced by Bert Wheeler and featuring Marceline Day, Wesley Barry, Dorothy Jordan, Sally Starr, Marjorie Kane, Ken Maynard with Tarzan the Wonder Horse, and radio evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.

The Voice of Hollywood No. 9

1930

The Fighting Parson poster
9.0

A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and the man who is being hanged knows his real identity.

The Fighting Parson

1933

Sunny Skies poster
4.9

Story of a football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic life. His naive comical roommate remains his steadfast supporter.

Sunny Skies

1930

The Fighting Fool poster
NR

A sheriff (Tim McCoy) flirts with a local girl (Marceline Day) and chases an outlaw called the Shadow.

The Fighting Fool

1932

The Pocatello Kid poster
6.0

Just after Pocatello's brother is killed, a wounded Pocatello arrives being chased by the Sheriff. Larkin switches the identity of the two brothers and then expects Pocatello to assume his brother's role in the outlaw gang.

The Pocatello Kid

1931

The Mystery Train poster
4.8

A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.

The Mystery Train

1931

Temple Tower poster
10.0

The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile. Bulldog Drummond goes up against a group of jewel thieves led by Blackton and a Masked Strangler they double-crossed who wants revenge.

Temple Tower

1930

1920s · 37 titles

The Cameraman poster
7.8

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

The Cameraman

1928

London After Midnight poster
6.6

The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants.

London After Midnight

1927

Under the Black Eagle poster
5.0

A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.

Under the Black Eagle

1928

The Show of Shows poster
6.6

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!

The Show of Shows

1929

College Days poster
10.0

Jim Gordon, the son of a proud and loving father, enters the University of California as a student. There he meets Mary Ward, a campus coed who captures his heart on the first day. He becomes close friends with Larry Powell, his roommate, but incurs the wrath of Kenneth Slade, who is unable to take a practical joke. Jim and Larry attend a campus dance with Bessie and Phyllis, two vamps, and through a series of romantic complications Jim tries to convince Mary of his love for her.

College Days

1926

No artwork available
9.0

A chorus girl breaks a deal with her boss by marrying the rich man she was supposed to ruin.

Hell's Four Hundred

1926

The Beloved Rogue poster
6.9

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

The Beloved Rogue

1927

The Wild Party poster
6.8

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.

The Wild Party

1929

Looking for Trouble poster
9.0

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement regarding Miss Tulip Hellier, and the sheriff goes after Jack. While hiding out, Jack finds a liquor cache on the Hellier ranch and knows it was placed there as a ruse to distract the sheriff while an outlaw gang runs dope across the border.

Looking for Trouble

1926

The One Woman Idea poster
3.0

He was a great Persian Prince. His Harem was filled with seductive beauties. Yet he loved one woman- a woman from another country-wife of another man.

The One Woman Idea

1929

Trent's Last Case poster
8.0

Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.

Trent's Last Case

1929

No artwork available
10.0

Greg, an arrogant entertainer, gets drafted into the army and runs up against tough drill sergeant Sgt. Diggs. Not wanting to stay in the army, Greg sets out to annoy and aggravate Sgt. Diggs so much that Diggs will have him thrown out. To make matters more complicated, they both have their sights set on pretty Betty Wayne. Complications ensue.

Rookies

1927

Detectives poster
10.0

Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellhop--who has always dreamed of being a detective--sees his chance to both solve the jewel robbery and impress the woman he loves. The house detective, however, has other ideas.

Detectives

1928

Captain Salvation poster
6.0

A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.

Captain Salvation

1927

That Model from Paris poster
5.1

A light hearted comedy romance involving a fake French woman and lots of 1920's fashions

That Model from Paris

1926

No artwork available
10.0

Rowdy Dyer, the weak but tough-acting son of wealthy rancher Dynamite Dyer, greets the stage in which his sister Clare is arriving by disguising himself as a bandit. He fires a shot that causes the horses to bolt. Cowpuncher Arizona Allen stops the horses but is shot at by passenger Dale Collins, the bank manager. Dynamite hires Arizona, and Clare asks him to look after Rowdy. Arizona saves Rowdy from being fleeced by gambler Buck Zaney, thus incurring Zaney's enmity.

Western Pluck

1926

No artwork available
10.0

The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtable José Armando arrives from Spain to effect her rescue.

The Road to Romance

1927

Freedom of the Press poster
8.0

When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.

Freedom of the Press

1928

The White Outlaw poster
6.3

Jack Lupton loves three things in the world, Buck his dog, Scout his horse and the lovely rancher's daughter Mary Gale. But his beloved horse Scout was driven off by man's cruelty and finding freedom, now leads a big herd of horses to run wild! And Jack has his own problems with the cruelty of his fellow man, in the form of James Hill his brutal and jealous rival for Mary's affections!

The White Outlaw

1925

A Single Man poster
9.0

Robin Worthington (Lew Cody), a middle-aged man attracted by a young woman, at first avoids her, then falls for her. He undergoes a profound change in temperament, but in the end he marries his secretary, Mary Hazeltine (Aileen Pringle), who had gone away plain and come back strikingly beautiful and wearing the latest new fashions.

A Single Man

1929

Picking Peaches poster
4.2

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...

Picking Peaches

1924

The Splendid Road poster
7.0

Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.

The Splendid Road

1925

The Boy Friend poster
8.0

A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.

The Boy Friend

1926

The Hansom Cabman poster
5.2

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?

The Hansom Cabman

1924

The Luck o' the Foolish poster
5.8

Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money Harry needed for his new job, so he has to go back to being a beat cop and Marcie works as a seamstress. One evening, she delivers a dress to a party; a Lothario asks the hostess to get Marcie to stay. Outside the same house, Harry the cop is investigating strange noises. Thieves, bombs, a wallet, a swimming pool, and misunderstandings figure in the luck of our foolish but winsome pair.

The Luck o' the Foolish

1924

A Certain Young Man poster
7.0

An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conquests, meets a young American lady on the train, and follows her to Biarritz.

A Certain Young Man

1928

The Barrier poster
7.0

Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter -- and revenge.

The Barrier

1926

Taming the West poster
10.0

John Carleton is living a carefree jazz lifestyle, much to the annoyance of his father. When he can take it no longer, Carleton senior sends John to his ranch in the West, hoping that the experience will make a man of him. John's ability to ride a bucking bronco wins the friendship of the cowhands, but trouble's a-brewin' when he falls in love with Beryl King.

Taming the West

1925

The Circus: Premiere poster
5.4

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

The Circus: Premiere

1928

Black Oxfords poster
5.7

In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.

Black Oxfords

1924

The Gay Deceiver poster
7.0

A deceiver leads the fast set in Paris and is involved in love affairs and blackmail. Will he mends his way for his daughter's sake.

The Gay Deceiver

1927

Stolen Love poster
7.0

The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. How much of her past must a girl tell the man she wants to marry?

Stolen Love

1928

Driftwood poster
9.0

Daisy Smith (Marceline Day), a floater and non-desirable citizen in most societies, seeks refuge on a tropical island in the South Seas. She meets Jim Curtis (Don Alvarado), another society-outcast and a piece of human driftwood, and a romance takes place that regenerates both and they sail back to the United States determined to start life anew.

Driftwood

1928

The Big City poster
8.0

Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plagued by a rival gang, led by deceptively boyish Curly, who has been stealing jewelry from the rich and famous. Collins tricks the other crooks into turning the gems over to him, intending to use them for his own profit. But sweet heroine Sunshine eventually persuades Collins and his cohorts to turn honest. Considered a lost film.

The Big City

1928

Restless Youth poster
8.0

Innocent co-ed Dixie is unjustly expelled for unladylike activities by college chairman John Neil, (who also happens to be the local District Attorney). Dixie uses an employment agency to unknowingly land a job with Neil's attorney son, Bruce. A romance develops between the two until they go to meet the old man, who promptly forces Dixie to break up with Bruce because of her 'sordid' past. Bruce will have none of it, so to get him to drop her she attempts to get 'caught' in an innocent date with her employment agency contact, Haines. Unfortunately, Haines has different ideas about their encounter and will not take "no" for an answer so Dixie is forced to clock him with an urn, killing him. Dixie's trial for murder leads to a courtroom confrontation between father and son, with her fate resting in the balance.

Restless Youth

1928

No artwork available
7.0

John Nisheto, a Native American, saves Senator's son Jack Burr during World War I. Upon returning to the United States, John begins a relationship with Jack's sister, Agnes, despite Jack's initial objections due to John's ethnicity and his ignorance of John's heroic act.

Red Clay

1925

No artwork available
9.0

Mary Young is a young wife who wants beautiful clothes. Her friend Enid invites her to shop at Madame Francine's, where she meets the Countess de Fragni, an artist, and Mr. Norris, an elderly roué and he invites her to a poker game. She wins and buys an expensive fur coat with the money but tells her husband she won it with a pawn ticket.

Fools of Fashion

1926