Bebe Daniels

Acting

Bebe Daniels

Born — Died

1901-01-14 — 1971-03-16

Place of birth

Dallas, Texas, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Bebe Daniels (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress, became a star in musicals such as 42nd Street (1933), and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain. Throughout her career, Daniels appeared in 230 films.

Known for

This Is Your Life poster
6.7

This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same name. It was hosted by Eamonn Andrews from 1955 until 1964, and then from 1969 until his death in 1987 aged 64. Michael Aspel then took up the role of host until the show ended in 2003. It returned in 2007 as a one-off special presented by Trevor McDonald, which to date was its most recent airing. In the show the host surprises a special guest, before taking them through their life with the assistance of the 'big red book'. Both celebrities and non-celebrities have been 'victims' of the show. The show was originally broadcast live, and over its run it has alternated between being broadcast on the BBC and on ITV.

This Is Your Life

1955

This Is Your Life poster
6.5

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.

This Is Your Life

1952

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 poster
4.0

In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master of ceremonies, Fredric March, brings on the various acts, starting with a pre-teen Mitzi Green), dressed as an adult and singing "Was That the Human Thing to Do?" , followed by Ginger Rogers and Jack Oakie singing-and-dancing to "The Girl Who Used to be You." Then the Three Brox Sisters do a triple imitation of Marlene Dietrich singing 'Falling in Love Again." 'Jack Duffy' does a drunken hillbilly bit involving a lamp post, the the finale has Eddie Peabody, playing a banjo for some chorus girls on a pedestal.

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

1932

42nd Street poster
6.9

Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.

42nd Street

1933

No artwork available
NR

Life with the Lyons is a British radio and television domestic sitcom dating from the 1950s.

Life with the Lyons

1955

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 poster
10.0

Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

1932

Film credits

1930s · 11 titles

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 poster
4.0

In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master of ceremonies, Fredric March, brings on the various acts, starting with a pre-teen Mitzi Green), dressed as an adult and singing "Was That the Human Thing to Do?" , followed by Ginger Rogers and Jack Oakie singing-and-dancing to "The Girl Who Used to be You." Then the Three Brox Sisters do a triple imitation of Marlene Dietrich singing 'Falling in Love Again." 'Jack Duffy' does a drunken hillbilly bit involving a lamp post, the the finale has Eddie Peabody, playing a banjo for some chorus girls on a pedestal.

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

1932

42nd Street poster
6.9

Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.

42nd Street

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 poster
10.0

Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

1932

The Maltese Falcon poster
6.4

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.

The Maltese Falcon

1931

Honor of the Family poster
7.0

Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.

Honor of the Family

1931

Reaching for the Moon poster
5.8

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.

Reaching for the Moon

1930

Counsellor at Law poster
6.5

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

Counsellor at Law

1933

Music Is Magic poster
5.3

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Music Is Magic

1935

The Stolen Jools poster
5.6

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

The Stolen Jools

1931

Cocktail Hour poster
5.3

Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.

Cocktail Hour

1933

A Southern Maid poster
NR

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.

A Southern Maid

1934

1920s · 15 titles

Argentine Love poster
10.0

While his daughter, Consuelo, is visiting the United States, Emanuel García, the Mayor of Alcorta in the Argentine, arranges for her marriage to Juan Martin, in return for Martin's financial assistance. On her return, Consuelo, who is in love with Philip Sears, an American engineer working in Argentina, refuses Juan but gives no reason. Juan is furious with outraged pride and soon kills Rafael Cornejo, the son of a senator, when he flirts with Consuelo.

Argentine Love

1924

The Affairs of Anatol poster
5.9

Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.

The Affairs of Anatol

1921

Hollywood poster
9.0

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...

Hollywood

1923

The Glimpses of the Moon poster
9.0

Although Susan Branch is herself without finances, she has many wealthy friends who supply her with clothes and gay times. She is in love with struggling author Nick Lansing, who also attracts the interests of Susan's chief patron, Ursula Gillow, and is persuaded by Ellie Vanderlyn to marry him for at least a year's happiness. Their marriage falls apart when their wedding gifts are spent; they become involved with the Vanderlyns' domestic affairs; and Ursula decides she wants Nick for herself. However, the lawyer handling the Lansings' divorce proceedings brings them back together, and Nick sells his novel. A lost film.

The Glimpses of the Moon

1923

Miss Bluebeard poster
6.7

Director Frank Tuttle's 1925 silent mistaken-identity comedy, adapted from the 1923 play "Little Miss Bluebeard", stars Bebe Daniels.

Miss Bluebeard

1925

Senorita poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Senorita

1927

North of the Rio Grande poster
10.0

Son of Colonel Haddington, Bob leads a posse against raiders in a settlement. During his absence, one of the prize horses is stolen and his father is killed. Bob swears revenge and becomes known as Velantrie, leader of a band of semi-outlaws, and befriends a priest, Father Hillaire. At a mission, he meets Val, daughter of John Hannon, a wealthy ranch-owner.

North of the Rio Grande

1922

Hot News poster
7.0

Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman, to quit in protest of the hiring of a woman. The Mercury hires Scoop, and there begins a heated rivalry between him and Pat. Pat gets a few lucky breaks and manages to get a beat on Scoop during her brief career. After she exposes the theft of a jewel from the turban of a visiting maharajah, she and Scoop are kidnapped by Clayton, the thief, and taken aboard his yacht. Rescued, she and Scoop find love and happiness.

Hot News

1928

Why Change Your Wife? poster
5.6

Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.

Why Change Your Wife?

1920

She's a Sheik poster
8.0

The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.

She's a Sheik

1927

Sinners in Heaven poster
8.0

Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal island when their plane crashes on the way to Australia. The natives worship them, believing them to be gods, until a native girl discovers that the pilot is mortal. Giving up hope of rescue, they marry in the sight of God, but when they are found by a search plane Alan is wounded and left for dead. Barbara is spurned by her friends and family as having sinned, but Alan returns to claim her legally.

Sinners in Heaven

1924

You Never Can Tell poster
9.0

Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.

You Never Can Tell

1920

His Children's Children poster
8.0

Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.

His Children's Children

1923

The Dancin' Fool poster
8.0

Sylvester Tibble is a clerk in his uncle's restaurant. Sylvester dreams of becoming a famous dancer and tries to inject a little of the jazz life into his uncle's old-fashioned establishment. When dancer Junie Budd shows up at the restaurant, Sylvester sees a chance to make his dream come true.

The Dancin' Fool

1920

The World's Applause poster
9.0

Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married to Elsa (Williams), the sister of John Elliott (Stone), the producer responsible for Corinne's rise to fame. The young woman's head is turned by the praise she receives and, despite John's warning against Robert, she permits the latter to paint her portrait and pay her a good deal of attention. John himself loves Corinne and believes that wisdom will come to her with time.

The World's Applause

1923

1910s · 34 titles

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz poster
5.3

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

1910

Ask Father poster
6.5

Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.

Ask Father

1919

Here Come the Girls poster
2.0

Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfully bashful.

Here Come the Girls

1918

Bumping Into Broadway poster
6.9

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.

Bumping Into Broadway

1919

Before Breakfast poster
NR

A young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He becomes a waiter in a restaurant, and has some funny adventures.

Before Breakfast

1919

Luke's Movie Muddle poster
4.9

Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.

Luke's Movie Muddle

1916

Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary poster
NR

Luke attempts to sell books to a businessman and his wife.

Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary

1916

Back to the Woods poster
4.1

Harold and Snub are self-proclaimed big-game hunters who stop at a remote outpost. They hire two native guides to lead them into the woods, but the guides run in terror when they see a rather tame bear in the distance. Harold is annoyed that he cannot find any bears to hunt--unaware that two timid bears are closely following him. Meanwhile Snub encounters an equally tame wildcat who eats his picnic lunch. Snub sprints away. Back at the outpost, Harold twice rescues Jeanne--once from the clutches of an unwanted suitor and once from one of the bears. The grateful, gun-toting Jeanne tells Harold she wants him to be her "sweetie."

Back to the Woods

1919

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients poster
NR

Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

1917

Birds of a Feather poster
NR

Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.

Birds of a Feather

1917

Male and Female poster
6.5

When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.

Male and Female

1919

Captain Kidd's Kids poster
6.2

After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.

Captain Kidd's Kids

1919

Just Dropped In poster
9.0

Harold and Snub take a trip on a runaway airplane and drop off on a native island. Here they have some amusing adventures with the fierce men and beautiful women of the place.

Just Dropped In

1919

Kicked Out poster
NR

Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party.

Kicked Out

1918

Bughouse Bellhops poster
NR

Lonesome Luke and his accessory, Moke Morpheus, are discovered in bellhop uniform, blissfully dozing on a bench in the lobby of the Bughouse Hotel. Comes a guest, and the desk clerk rings a bellhop. But, in the words of Aristotle, or Ted or someone, "you can ring and you can ring, but the house is boarded up."

Bughouse Bellhops

1915

I'm on My Way poster
6.3

Harold Lloyd's character loves Bebe Daniels' character and is about to marry her. But then he meets the clan of Snub Pollard where it's a riot all the time.

I'm on My Way

1919

Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle poster
NR

Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle

1917

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle poster
NR

Luke, working in a fireworks factory.

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

1916

Luke Locates the Loot poster
NR

As a detective, Luke is after a gang of crooks who are robbing party guests of their jewels.

Luke Locates the Loot

1916

Great While It Lasted poster
NR

Luke lives the life of a millionaire until it is discovered that a mistake has been made and his inheritance belongs to someone else.

Great While It Lasted

1915

Luke's Newsie Knockout poster
NR

Luke's Newsie Knockout is a 1916 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.

Luke's Newsie Knockout

1916

Luke's Washful Waiting poster
NR

Hi-jinx at a fire in a Chinese laundry.

Luke's Washful Waiting

1916

Luke Rides Roughshod poster
NR

Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.

Luke Rides Roughshod

1916

Them Was the Happy Days! poster
NR

Luke is a movie actor who falls asleep and dreams that he and his fellow actors are school children again.

Them Was the Happy Days!

1916

Si, Senor poster
9.0

Our hero is a barber in a small Mexican town, wooing a local senorita, against the wishes of her mother.

Si, Senor

1919

Lonesome Luke, Circus King poster
NR

Luke opens a circus, but when local officials discover that his side-show attractions are fakes, trouble ensues.

Lonesome Luke, Circus King

1916

Bees in His Bonnet poster
NR

Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.

Bees in His Bonnet

1918

The Lamb poster
NR

The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.

The Lamb

1918

Luke's Lost Lamb poster
NR

A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.

Luke's Lost Lamb

1916

Luke Lugs Luggage poster
NR

As a baggage handler at a terminal, Luke is led on a merry chase by a billy goat.

Luke Lugs Luggage

1916

Heap Big Chief poster
6.5

Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.

Heap Big Chief

1919

A Foozle at the Tee Party poster
NR

Luke lifts a wallet from a golfer and thereby gains entry to a golf course. Mayhem ensues.

A Foozle at the Tee Party

1915

Soft Money poster
8.0

Soft Money is a 1919 American short comedy film. The film is considered to be lost.

Soft Money

1919

Billy Blazes, Esq. poster
5.9

Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.

Billy Blazes, Esq.

1919

Series credits

Behind the camera