Emily Gerdes

Acting

Emily Gerdes

Born — Died

1890-12-29 — 1974-09-17

Place of birth

Jefferson, Kansas, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

16 titles

Known for

The Grapes of Wrath poster
7.8

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

Banjo on My Knee poster
5.8

A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.

Banjo on My Knee

1936

Puppy Love poster
7.0

Young Gloria O'Connell falls in love with her neighbor, James Oliver. She is sent to a small town to stay with her three spinster aunts, while James becomes a newspaper reporter and arranges to write a story on the town and its large old-maid population. James pursues overweight "Hippo" Harger, a rival for Gloria's affections, and challenges him to a duel. When James' newspaper story appears, the disgruntled old maids hunt down the author. In a fit of anger, Gloria decides to marry "Hippo," but James rescues her at the office of the justice of the peace. The youthful lovers continue their relationship with their parents' understanding.

Puppy Love

1919

Fiddlin' Around poster
5.5

A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.

Fiddlin' Around

1925

Whoozit poster
10.0

Whoozit, produced in 1928 by Bowers Comedy Corp, was considered totally missing. This unique 16 mm print was discovered in 2008 in the collections of the Eye Film Institute. It is incomplete, and only retains the second half of the original production. It was restored digitally by Lobster Films, Paris, in November 2013.

Whoozit

1928

How Could You, Jean? poster
NR

A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo and behold, is a slumming millionaire.

How Could You, Jean?

1918

Film credits

1920s · 11 titles

Fiddlin' Around poster
5.5

A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.

Fiddlin' Around

1925

Whoozit poster
10.0

Whoozit, produced in 1928 by Bowers Comedy Corp, was considered totally missing. This unique 16 mm print was discovered in 2008 in the collections of the Eye Film Institute. It is incomplete, and only retains the second half of the original production. It was restored digitally by Lobster Films, Paris, in November 2013.

Whoozit

1928

Ella Cinders poster
7.1

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Ella Cinders

1926

No artwork available
7.0

Billy West comes home and is greeted in so many ways.

Hello Bill

1923

Heroes of the Wild poster
8.0

The only key to a young woman's fortune lies in a marking on the leg of a horse called The Ghost of the Gauchos. But the woman's guardian, her uncle, plots to steal her wealth.

Heroes of the Wild

1927

With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness poster
9.0

In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This time Gerty kills the Chief's son saying it was a white man and this sends the Indians on the warpath.

With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness

1926

Bell Boy 13 poster
7.0

Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde. He causes so much confusion that Uncle Elrod buys the hotel so that he may fire Harry. But Harry induces the other employees to strike until Uncle Elrod consents to Harry's marriage to Kitty.

Bell Boy 13

1923

Behind Two Guns poster
7.5

Medicine Man Doctor Cutter and his Indian partner arrive in a town where mysterious stage robberies have occurred. Money goes out in a locked strongbox but at the destination the still locked strongbox is opened only to find the money missing and the stage was not held up. Using binoculars to watch the next stage carrying money, Cutter sees how the money is removed and he and his partner now set out to bring in the outlaws and recover the money.

Behind Two Guns

1924

No artwork available
7.0

Cliff presents his girl with a poodle at a party. His jealous rival plants bugs on both the dog and Cliff.

Pep Up

1929

Dynamite Dan poster
6.0

Dan (Kenneth MacDonald) knocks out the foreman (Boris Karloff) at his workplace so the foreman accuses him of stealing money from the company safe. Dan takes off to visit his girlfriend when they're attacked by a man who Dan eventually knocks out with a single punch. A boxing manager see this and signs him up.

Dynamite Dan

1924

The Amazing Vagabond poster
9.0

A wealthy scion toughens up in a rough-and-tumble lumber camp when he is forced to defend Phil Dunning and his daughter from the brutal George Hobbs

The Amazing Vagabond

1929

1910s · 3 titles