Evelyn Selbie
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Evelyn Selbie.
Born: July 6, 1871
Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Known For
A Night at the Opera
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
A Night at the Opera
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Wings
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
The Terror
Gunman Chuck Connelly is hired to silence the new district attorney who has been pounding the graft organizations. Chuck goes to the D. A.'s home to threaten him, but is taken off guard when his victim's little daughter leans trustfully on his knee and looks up at him with a smile. The D. A. ignores Chuck's warning, and the gang orders the gunman to execute him. Chuck breaks into the house, but sees the little girl again and is unable to complete his task. Instead, he seeks out his girl friend, Annie Mangan, a Salvation Army reformer, and swears to end his life of crime.
Paddy O'Day
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
The Prospector
On his way to file a claim, a lone prospector stops overnight with a settler and his family. The miner little suspects that his host plots to steal the gold. But the settler’s daughter overhears the plan and warns the visitor just in time. The couple escapes with the woman’s younger sister. In store-bought finery suggesting new wealth, they return to the scene of the attempted crime and make peace with the settler. “We’ll work the mine together,” promises the prospector.
The Devil-Doll
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
The Doolins of Oklahoma
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Faithless
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
The Grand Bounce
A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check was written on Friday afternoon, but cannot be cashed before the following Tuesday. The check is used to pay several debts until...
Filmography
as Birdie (uncredited)
as Fortune Teller (uncredited)
as Julia Bloem
as Bianca
as Jennie
as Beggar Woman
as Townswoman
as Mexican Fortune-Teller
as Restaurant Fortune Teller
as Child's Mother (uncredited)
as Old Slattern (uncredited)
as Flower Woman (uncredited)
as Immigrant Woman
as Fortune Teller
as Fortune Teller (uncredited)
as The Fortune Teller in 'Trovatore' (uncredited)
as Carlena
as Gypsy Fortune Teller
as Junkman's Wife
as Mother in Window (uncredited)
as Hungry Woman in Bread Line
as Fai Lu
as Mrs. Zangiacomo
as Bianca
as Fai Lu
as la mère de Pia
as Gypsy (Uncredited)
as Italian Mother
as Mrs. Klovatz
as Camille's Mother
as Dressing Room Attendant (uncredited)
as Mrs. Williams
as Sara Kaminsky
as Lillian Nicholson
as Martha Leseur
as Stepan's Mother
as Nana
as Mother Teresa
as Tessa
as Chiquita
as Hulda
as Lisa Collister
as Quichita
as Wananebish (prologue)
as Azun
as Zarah
as Fallie, Rosita's Maid
as Mary
as Tehama
as Witch
as Ameera's mother
as Julia Delafield
as Mrs. Roan
as Martha Ryerson
as Tiajuana
as Leah
as Boston Kate
as Hadji
as Hilda Hendricks
as Mrs. Barclay
as Sarah
as Arn Fun
as Pale Ida
as Mrs. Connelly
as Mrs. Musselwhite
as Jenny Cupps
as Mrs. Doe
as Indian Woman
as The Girl
as Broncho Billy's Mother
as Minister's Wife
as Billy's Sweetheart
as The Baby's Mother
as Pete's Wife
as The Prospector's Wife
as Broncho Billy's Mother
as Broncho Billy's Sweetheart
as Broncho Billy's Mother
as Broncho Billy's Wife
as The Sheriff's Wife
as Mrs. Sterling
as Louise Carew
as Harry's Wife
as Fred's Mother
as Mrs. John Bailey
as Mahtomee
as The Sheriff's Sister
as Lucy's Mother
as Martha Glen
as Mrs. Landers
as Gale - the Rustler's Step-Daughter
as White Feather
as The Navajo Maid
as Evelyn Courtney
as Evelyn
as Mrs. Alkali Ike
as Morgan's sick wife
as Mrs. John Harding
as Sheriff's Wife
as Mrs. Gregg
as Dunn's Daughter
as Manuel's Girlfriend