Clarissa Selwynne
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Clarissa Selwynne.
Born: February 26, 1886
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
The Flash of an Emerald
The picture starts with Robert Warwick walking into the office of director Albert Capellani (the film's actual director). Capellani offers him the role of a heavy and hands him the script. The next four reels show Warwick playing a Raffles-like character, an ingenious crook who moves through society, committing robberies and even murder.
One Good Turn
In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin.
Home
A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
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 Last Man on Earth
An epidemic has killed off all of the fertile men on earth, except for Elmer Smith, a hillbilly who lives out in a cabin in the Ozarks, when he is discovered, every woman on the planet begins fighting over him.
Everything Is Rhythm
Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
Glorious Betsy
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
Slightly Married
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
Mademoiselle Midnight
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
Dangerous Days
Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodrama.
Filmography
as Annoyed Woman in Theater (uncredited)
as Woman (uncredited)
as Ma Pearson
as Miss Mimms
as Onslow
as Mrs. Martin
as Mrs. Cartright
as Dowager Queen
as Second Maid
as Aunt Emma / Mrs. Renwick
as Mrs. Harrington
as Harriet Houston
as Landlady
as Mrs. Ostberg
as Mrs. Webster
as Mrs. Adams
as Aunt Mary
as Mrs. Winthrop Forrest
as Caroline Winthrop
as Mrs. Pleyden
as Miss Perkins
as Princess Olga Ivanovitch Nekhludof
as Rebecca Morgan
as Mrs. Perryam (as Clarissa Selwyn)
as Lady Ethridge
as Lady Kitty Sundale
as Mrs. Westbrook
as Aunt Louise Burgess
as Miss Curtis
as Dr. Prodwell
as Mrs. O'Dell Carney
as Empress Eugénie - Prologue
as Mrs. Wertham
as Gora Dwight
as Mrs. Hamilton (as Clarissa Selwyn)
as Jeanette Duval
as Jane Jackson
as Alida Corey
as Mrs. Torrence
as Mrs. Sardis
as Mrs. Van Austen
as Aunt
as Lady Mary Lyster
as Lady Rosamond
as Natalie Spencer
as Lady Clifton-Wyatt
as Mrs. Deering
as Mrs. Dennett
as Mrs. Manning
as Mlle. de Suchet
as Edith Presby
as The Buyer (as Clarissa Selwyn)
as Aunt Harriet
as Mrs. Brandon
as Cynthia Bancroft
as Mrs. Van Twiller (as Clarissa Selwyn)
as Countess Oudoff
as Madame Lizette
as Marie
as Grace Fairbrother (as Clarissa Selwyn)
as Mrs. Hart
as Donna Estelle
as Alice Warner
as Marie
as Mrs. Sheldon
as Dr. Lane
as Madeline Braine