
Acting
Merna Kennedy
Born — Died
1908-09-07 — 1944-12-20
Place of birth
Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
27 titles
Merna Kennedy (born Maude Kahler) was an American screen actress of the late silent and early talkies era.
Known for
7.9Charlie, 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
6.4An 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
6.0Harry 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
6.0A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Son of a Sailor
1933
6.2A 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
10.0Innocent 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
Film credits
1930s · 23 titles
6.4An 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
6.0Harry 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
6.0A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Son of a Sailor
1933
6.2A 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
10.0Innocent 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
10.0A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.
Embarrassing Moments
1930
3.7In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Laughter in Hell
1933
7.0A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
I Like it That Way
1934
6.5The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
The All-American
1932
6.3A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Emergency Call
1933
5.5A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.
Ghost Valley
1932
8.0A 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
4.9Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
The Big Chance
1933
7.0Wealthy 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
6.7After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
Stepping Out
1931
7.5A 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
9.0Rancher Clint Hale wants to marry Mildred Field, but so does very bad guy gambler Dave Dumont.
The Gay Buckaroo
1931
4.8A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
Red Haired Alibi
1932
6.0Pola 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
10.0A 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
5.8A businessman who has devoted his whole life to obtaining money and power finds that he can't buy the one thing he craves: love.
Worldly Goods
1930
6.7Ken 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
10.0A 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
1920s · 4 titles
7.9Charlie, 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
5.5A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Broadway
1929
7.5Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there's pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the building.
Barnum Was Right
1929
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
