Carmel Myers
Acting
Biography
Carmel Myers was an American actress successful in, particularly, Silent films. She is best remembered for her performance as Egyptian seductress Iras in the 1925 epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
Born: April 4, 1899
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Known For
Four Walls
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
The Devil's Circus
In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan, prompting a romance and a reevaluation.
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Dream of Love
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play resembling the sad story of their earlier relationship. He falls in love with her again. The jealous duchess and the duke arrange to have him shot by firing squad but revolutionaries save him and make him King.
The Understanding Heart
Two men in love with the same girl are trapped with her in a forest fire.
Beau Brummel
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
The Matrimaniac
A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train, it leaves, carrying his bride-to- be away. Now the young man, minister in tow, pursues his bride while her father and a horde of lawmen pursue them both.
Tell It to the Marines
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.
The Mad Genius
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
Filmography
as Self
as Woman Journalist
as Estelle
as Mrs. Errol
as Mrs. Dickson
as Flower Girl
as Emilia
as Dorothy Drew
as Madame Ying Su
as Sonya Preskoya
as Dorothy Whitney
as Madame Honorine
as Inez
as Sonia
as Viola Thorpe
as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
as Valeska
as Ray
as The Woman Mme. André
as Marie Haley
as Katherine
as The Countess
as Bertha
as Mercedes
as Mrs. Crutchley
as Flo Palfrey
as Lola
as Kelcey Dale
as Madame Girard
as Zaya
as Yonna
as Agatha
as Self
as Tanis Judique
as Lenore Vance
as Lady Hester Stanhope
as Mrs. Belmore
as Mrs. Dora Carson Tappan
as Ruby Le Maar
as Arvia
as Countess Fedora
as Carmel Myers (uncredited)
as Milly Amory
as Angy Brice
as Saidee McCall
as Jean McClelland
as Alice Torrance
as Nora Hayes
as Bettina Lowden
as Erolinda Vargas
as Sonya Schonema
as Sylvia Palprini
as Jane Judd
as Norine Lawton
as Leona
as Lita O'Farrell
as Minnie Lee
as Rosie Sanguinetti
as Elizabeth Lane
as Margaret Fairfax
as Rosamond Gilbert
as Rosa Carillo
as Nenette Bisson
as Eileen Orton
as Bona
as Lois Fox
as Janice Brieson
as Mary Cunningham
as Marion Sherwood
as Julie
as Frances Kirkland
as Winifred
as Hazel Fleming
as Toinette
as (uncredited)
as Favorite of the Harem (uncredited)