Aileen Manning
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Aileen Manning.
Born: January 20, 1886
Place of Birth: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Known For
Rags to Riches
A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him.
Vacation Waves
Eddie and his wife rent a boat and plan a relaxing weekend fishing. Unfortunately, her mother and bratty kid brother show up and insist on coming along, sending relaxation right to the bottom of the ocean.
Call Again
Edward Everett Horton is scheduled to go on a date with Duane Thompson. She, being only 25, is a schoolgirl at Aileen Manning's girl's school. Horton becomes trapped in the school, trying to avoid headmistress and cops.
No Publicity
Cameraman Eddie is sent to photograph a socialite at a private lecture on morals. The young woman's guardian will have none of it however, and Eddie resorts to a number of deceptions in order to get a picture.
Huckleberry Finn
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her son, Harry, after learning the Shelbys plan to hand them over to a crooked creditor to prevent foreclosure. George also escapes and goes on the run while Eliza and Harry are captured and brought back home. Mother and son are separated as George tries to find them both.
Everybody's Sweetheart
When the benign headmistress of the county poor farm is discharged and replaced with a tyrant, John and Mary, two orphans who have lived there since infancy, decide to run away. Accompanied by a feeble old corporal from the farm, they are forced to seek refuge at the home of General Phillip Bingham when the old soldier becomes ill. After the corporal's death, the general promises to care for the two waifs. Mary becomes his protegee, and John his gardener. Friction develops between the two newcomers and Willing and his wife Jessica, a couple living with the general who hope to inherit his wealth, until one day the general notices a close resemblance between a portrait of his deceased son and John. It is discovered then that John is actually the general's grandson. Thus legitimized, John weds Mary, and the general is pleased with his newly acquired family.
Stella Maris
Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name.
Beauty's Worth
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
Sweetie
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
Filmography
as Ruth's attendant
as Abigail Martin
as Mrs. Craig - Orphanage Matron
as Ester Quinn
as Miss Twill
as Mrs. Farley
as Mrs. Elliot
as His Mother-in-law
as Aunt Meta
as Queen Elizabeth
as Mrs. Tuttle
as Aunt Ophelia
as Miss Delilah Blue
as Mrs. Van Loon
as Mary Heaton
as Mrs. Fleck
as Hannah
as The Old Maid
as Mrs. Smithers
as Lottie
as Aunt Maggie Endicott
as Spinster
as Mrs. Stowbody
as Prue Kimball
as Mrs. Molly Crutcher
as Ysabel Almeda
as Purist League member
as Miss Shayn
as Aunt Cynthia Whitney
as Mrs. 'Pat'
as Sophia Treadwell
as Cousin Lucy
as Mrs. JHoratio Grimm