Clara Horton

Acting

Clara Horton

Born — Died

1904-07-29 — 1976-12-04

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

From Wikipedia Clara Horton (July 29, 1904 – December 4, 1976) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 88 films between 1912 and 1942. She is buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park.

Known for

Film credits

1920s · 16 titles

Action poster
6.3

Three Outlaws came across a stranded baby and must decide to save the child or escape from the law.

Action

1921

Blind Youth poster
7.0

Maurie Monnier, a poor young American sculptor in Paris, marries Clarice, a gold-digging model who later abandons him. When Maurie's wealthy father dies, Maurie returns to the U.S., but his mother and brother will have nothing to do with him because of his poverty. At the end of his rope, he's about to kill himself when he meets Hope, a beautiful young girl who inspires him. Just when things are looking up for Maurie and his new love Hope, who should show up but his gold-digging wife Clarice.

Blind Youth

1920

No artwork available
9.0

A man goes to work at a curate's house who is in denial about his poor social background.

The Servant in the House

1921

The Broadway Gallant poster
9.0

Young heiress Helen Stuart is engaged to Monty Barnes, a restless young man. Since Helen is not yet 21, her estate is controlled by her guardian and uncle, Jack Peasley, who is not above using Helen's money for his own purposes. He takes a large chunk of her money to buy a block of railroad stock, that turns out to be worthless. Red Sweeney, who sold him the phony stock, assures him that if Helen marries before she turns 21, she'll never know the money's missing because the estate will revert to him, as her guardian. They force her to marry Monty, who is unaware of their scheme. Complications ensue.

The Broadway Gallant

1926

All Around Frying Pan poster
10.0

Wondering cowboy Bart Andrews (played by Fred Thompson) gets arrested simply because a crooked sheriff is short on men for his chain gang. A chance visit to a rodeo on the way to jail, gives Bart a chance to demonstrate his bronco-busting skills, which results in the sheriff caving to pressure from a group of cowboys, to allow Bart to work on ranch, rather than joining the road gang. Finding himself in the right place at the right time, Bart is able to prevent the theft of a train full of cattle, but later ends up being accused of killing a station agent when he interrupts the ranch foreman robbing an express office. Bart is eventually able to bring the foreman to justice, and in a surprise twist, it turns out that he was in fact the real owner of the ranch he was working at!

All Around Frying Pan

1925

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come poster
10.0

An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan's raiders. He learns his real identity when he returns after the war.

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

1920

The Light in the Clearing poster
7.0

When Barton Baynes's mother and father die, his Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody provide a home for him. He grows up with Amos Grimshaw, son of a miserly moneylender who holds the farmers of the area in his power, and falls in love with Sally Dunkelberg.

The Light in the Clearing

1921

It's a Great Life poster
10.0

At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.

It's a Great Life

1920

Sailor Izzy Murphy poster
7.0

Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.

Sailor Izzy Murphy

1927

No artwork available
NR

Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is the 4th round, "Two Sones with One Bird".

Fighting Blood

1923

No artwork available
NR

Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is the 3rd round, "Six Second Smith".

Fighting Blood

1923

No artwork available
NR

Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is from the second series, 11th round, "Beauty and the Feast".

Fighting Blood

1923

No artwork available
NR

Hector, who was reared by a maiden aunt, decides to leave his sheltered life and become a reporter. At the newspaper where he has works, Hector becomes friendly with a young female reporter, who uses the byline "Firefly" for a series of articles intended to expose a notorious café. At the same time, Hector's aunt, head of the local Purity League, gives a stirring speech to the membership about ridding their community of the café. The young woman enlists Hector's aid and together they gain enough evidence to close the café.

The Trouble Chaser

1926

The Fortune Hunter poster
8.0

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith. It was produced by Warner Brothers who released it with a Vitaphone soundtrack.

The Fortune Hunter

1927

Mind Over Motor poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mind Over Motor

1923

Prisoners of Love poster
8.0

Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.

Prisoners of Love

1921

1910s · 12 titles

Huck and Tom poster
NR

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.

Huck and Tom

1918

In Wrong poster
6.5

Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't get her to look his way. Things get even worse when a city boy comes to town and boards at the Fields' home.

In Wrong

1919

The Yellow Dog poster
NR

In the small shipbuilding town of Danforth, Albert Walker realizes, to his distress, that German sympathizers, spies and draft evaders, by voicing doubts about the United States' involvement in the war, are having a disastrous effect on the patriotic spirit of the townspeople.

The Yellow Dog

1918

When Little Lindy Sang poster
7.3

Lindy, the lone Black girl in her class, is mostly ostracized by her classmates. When Lindy emerges as a heroine during a school fire, attitudes change.

When Little Lindy Sang

1916

Tom Sawyer poster
5.0

Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).

Tom Sawyer

1917

No artwork available
7.0

John Sprague, a promising young minister, wins the love and hand of a simple country girl, Margaret. Her father does not view the match favorably because of Sprague's rather advanced ideas on social relations and pleasure. He had earlier encouraged an amateur theatrical performance in which Margaret had made a success as Juliet.

Coming Home

1914

The Greatest of These poster
10.0

Old shoemaker Peter is beloved by the children in his neighborhood. His daughter, Rose, elopes with an artist named Harmon after Peter forbids their relationship. Heartbroken, Peter becomes embittered and loses his fondness for the children. Later, Rose returns, having been mistreated by Harmon, and Peter is reconciled with her, rediscovering his kind nature.

The Greatest of These

1914

Everywoman poster
8.0

Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.

Everywoman

1919

No artwork available
NR

Despite loving Lois Lamay Grant Pearson marries his father’s ward Nadine because of a deathbed promise and they depart for South Africa. Eight years roll by Grant & Nadine have a child, Robert, and Lois arrives to teach at the mission. When Nadine is temporarily stricken blind Grant & Lois renew their passion. However, when Robert wanders into the jungle and Nadine in desperation follows him the trauma restores her sight. When a vengeful native incites the tribe to attack the mission Nadine fights beside Robert, despite learning of his infidelity, while Lois cowers in fear. Realizing his true love for her, Robert and Nadine reestablish their bond and reunite.

Nadine of Nowhere

1916

Almost a Husband poster
NR

A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well. The teacher pretends to marry the girl to fool the unwanted suitor, but then finds that the marriage was inadvertently legal....

Almost a Husband

1919

No artwork available
10.0

Little Sonny Brown returns to his wretched poverty-stricken home one day to find that his father has expired in his cups. Sonny trudges forth and falls by the wayside. Mr. and Mrs. Chatterton drive by in their auto with their little daughter Clara. They carry him home then place the boy in Clara's beautiful room, still fast asleep. The imaginative little fellow, who has never known the love and kindness for which he craves, dreams a most beautiful dream, in which he goes to the Court of Prince Make Believe.

At the Court of Prince Make Believe

1914

The Winning Girl poster
9.0

Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his daughter Jamesina, or Jemmy for short. With the birth of her second child, Mrs. Milligan dies, and several years later, when Jemmy is about eighteen, the Major marries a widow with three children. Soon the family is deeply in debt. Jemmy gets work at a textile factory, gets jobs for the other children, and even inspires the Major to work. She falls in love with Stanley Templeton, an aviator on furlough, but because his mother disapproves, Jemmy refuses to marry him. After Stanley returns to the war, Jemmy captures a German spy in the plant who was soaking cloth for airplanes in acid. She receives a reward which allows the Milligans to pay off their mortgage. Mrs. Templeton apologizes, and when Stanley returns, she warmly approves of their engagement.

The Winning Girl

1919