Anne Cornwall
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Anne Cornwall (January 17, 1897 – March 2, 1980), was an American actress. She performed for forty years in many early silent film productions starting in 1918, and later in talkies, until 1959. She was first married to writer/director Charles Maigne, then later to Los Angeles Engineer Ellis Wing Taylor. Taylor fathered her only child, Peter. In 1925, Anne was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anne Cornwall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: January 16, 1897
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known For
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Men O' War
Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a boat to cruise on a lake. They soon tangle with other boaters and everyone ends up in the water.
College
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.
The Southerner
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
They Won't Believe Me
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
The Search for Bridey Murphy
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
The Seventh Day
A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs. The engaged couple Reggie and Patricia are taken with the quaint town and its quainter ways, but also with two locals, Betty Alden and her brother John. Patricia begins to fall for John while her fiancé takes a seemingly unworthy liking to Betty. The new infatuations lead to disharmony.
The Widow from Chicago
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
The Knife
Kate Tarleton grows up on a Southern plantation and becomes engaged to her guardian, Dr. Robert Manning, a famous surgeon. When Robert, Kate, and her younger sister Mary Lou visit New York, where the doctor wishes to conduct medical experiments, the superstitious Kate goes to the home of a fortune-teller named Stella Hill. Stella, whose principal business is white slave trafficking, drugs Kate and forces her to work in a "den of vice," run by Stella and her accomplice Jimmy Bristol, where she contracts syphilis and goes insane. Robert, Detective Ellis, and a lawyer named Billy Meredith rescue Kate, who recovers her sanity but remembers nothing of her bondage.
Filmography
as Mrs. Jennings (uncredited)
as Mother (Uncredited)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
as Audience Member (Uncredited)
as Wedding Guest
as Senate Reporter (uncredited)
as Miss Jones - Blakely's Secretary (uncredited)
as Alternate Juror (uncredited)
as Mazie (uncredited)
as Girl
as The Girl
as Mary Haynes, The Girl
as Betty Hardy
as Betty Stanwood
as Ella Parkhurst
as Rose Ryan
as Helen Warren
as Fay Larkin
as Betty Perry
as Zelle
as Mary Darling
as Florence Brown
as Violet Dayne
as Angela Forbes
as Mary Hedley
as Lady Jane Carr
as Jacqueline Ornoff
as Betty Alden
as Lucille Smith
as Judith
as Annabelle Elton
as Cecile Cardross
as Toots Brooks
as (uncredited)