Clara Horton
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Clara Horton (July 29, 1904 – December 4, 1976) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 88 films between 1912 and 1942. She is buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park.
Born: July 29, 1904
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
When Little Lindy Sang
Lindy, the lone Black girl in her class, is mostly ostracized by her classmates. When Lindy emerges as a heroine during a school fire, attitudes change.
Girls on Probation
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
In Wrong
Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't get her to look his way. Things get even worse when a city boy comes to town and boards at the Fields' home.
Tom Sawyer
Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).
Action
Three Outlaws came across a stranded baby and must decide to save the child or escape from the law.
Prisoners of Love
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.
Sailor Izzy Murphy
Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
Huck and Tom
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Almost a Husband
A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well. The teacher pretends to marry the girl to fool the unwanted suitor, but then finds that the marriage was inadvertently legal....
The Winning Girl
Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his daughter Jamesina, or Jemmy for short. With the birth of her second child, Mrs. Milligan dies, and several years later, when Jemmy is about eighteen, the Major marries a widow with three children. Soon the family is deeply in debt. Jemmy gets work at a textile factory, gets jobs for the other children, and even inspires the Major to work. She falls in love with Stanley Templeton, an aviator on furlough, but because his mother disapproves, Jemmy refuses to marry him. After Stanley returns to the war, Jemmy captures a German spy in the plant who was soaking cloth for airplanes in acid. She receives a reward which allows the Milligans to pay off their mortgage. Mrs. Templeton apologizes, and when Stanley returns, she warmly approves of their engagement.
Filmography
as Prisoner
as Cecile
as Betty Graham
as Jean Dawson
as Bettina Bailey
as Sally Dunkelberg
as Molly Casey
as Her Sister
as Lucille Graham
as Bobo
as Margaret
as Youth
as Dolly Sheldon
as Jane Sheldon
as Vivian Milligan
as Kate Cummings
as Becky Thatcher
as Becky Thatcher
as One of the Children
as Peter's Little Friend