Merna Kennedy

Acting

Merna Kennedy

Born 1908-09-07 · Kankakee, Illinois, USA

Merna Kennedy (born Maude Kahler) was an American screen actress of the late silent and early talkies era.

Acting credits

The Circus poster
7.9

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

The Circus

1928

Son of a Sailor poster
6.0

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

Son of a Sailor

1933

Embarrassing Moments poster
10.0

A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.

Embarrassing Moments

1930

Wonder Bar poster
6.0

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

Wonder Bar

1934

Emergency Call poster
6.3

A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.

Emergency Call

1933

The All-American poster
6.5

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

The All-American

1932

Jimmy the Gent poster
6.4

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Jimmy the Gent

1934

The Big Chance poster
4.9

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.

The Big Chance

1933

Don't Bet on Love poster
8.0

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.

Don't Bet on Love

1933

The Gay Buckaroo poster
9.0

Rancher Clint Hale wants to marry Mildred Field, but so does very bad guy gambler Dave Dumont.

The Gay Buckaroo

1931

Lady with a Past poster
6.3

A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.

Lady with a Past

1932

Police Call poster
10.0

A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister has gotten mixed up with gangsters.

Police Call

1933

The Midnight Special poster
10.0

A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel in safety. (Print ad- Evening News, Tonawanda, N.Y. 4 February 1931)

The Midnight Special

1930

The Rampant Age poster
7.0

Wealthy playboy Sandy Benton falls for pretty but decidedly less wealthy neighbor Doris Lawrence. She rebuffs his attentions, but scheming golddigger Estelle has her own plans for Sandy. When Doris hears about Sandy's wild times with Estelle, she sets out to show him that she, too, can be a "modern" woman.

The Rampant Age

1930

Laughter in Hell poster
3.7

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.

Laughter in Hell

1933

I Love That Man poster
10.0

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.

I Love That Man

1933

Broadway poster
5.7

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Broadway

1929

I Like it That Way poster
7.0

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.

I Like it That Way

1934

Stepping Out poster
6.7

After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.

Stepping Out

1931

Come On, Tarzan poster
6.7

Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers horses for slaughter, whose meat is sold to pet food manufacturers. The wild horse Tarzan frees the doomed horses from their corrals, and Frazer convinces the Sheriff that Tarzan is a threat and can be shot on sight. Local cowboy Ken Benson (Maynard) and rancher Pat Riley (Kennedy) work together to clear Tarzan's good name and put Frazier behind bars for his evil deeds.

Come On, Tarzan

1932

Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) poster
6.0

Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.

Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

1931

Ghost Valley poster
5.5

A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.

Ghost Valley

1932

Arizona to Broadway poster
7.5

A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.

Arizona to Broadway

1933

No artwork available
10.0

William Henry Skinner's young wife has great confidence in her husband's abilities and is ambitious for his success. He informs her of his importance at the office; but in reality he is an insignificant employee on a small salary, and when refused a raise, he hasn't the courage to tell his wife. Distressed at her husband's shabby appearance, "Honey" persuades him to buy a dress suit, and at a charity bazaar she pushes him to the front so that he dominates the affair and comes to the attention of the dignitaries. Skinner forces himself upon the attention of his employer and the employer's chief rival, whose admiration he wins when he bluffs him out of a poker pot. In spite of Skinner's efforts to prevent it, the rival companies are consolidated; and impressed by his spirit and enthusiasm, his superiors promote him to sales manager.

Skinner Steps Out

1929