Lillian Leighton
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 14, 1874
Place of Birth: Auroraville, Wisconsin, USA
Known For
Crazy to Marry
A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
There's Always Tomorrow
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
Two-Fisted
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
Torrent
A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
Feet First
An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
Old Wives for New
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
Male and Female
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
The Grub Stake
A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
The Little American
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
Filmography
as Aunt Jane
as Mrs. Mason
as Flower peddler
as Onlooker at Procession (uncredited)
as Mrs. Simmons
as Juanita
as Mother Werner
as Missionary
as Ma Clancy
as Aunt Sally (as Lilliane Leighton)
as Mrs. Mary Mullins (as Julianne Leighton)
as Mrs. Tanner
as Madam Stitch
as Mrs. Amanda Schultz
as Mama Gimplewart
as Housekeeper
as Mrs. Andrew Jackson
as Duenna
as Doña Mercedes
as Mrs. Schwartzkopple
as Mrs. Flannigan
as Isabel McNeil
as Isabella
as Adeline's Ma
as Widow Riley
as Mother Dufrayne
as Frouchard
as Gilda's Aunt
as Ma Thurman
as Mrs. Clark Hudnall
as Mrs. Churchill
as Mrs. Miller
as Mrs. McDow
as Mrs. Hutter
as Ma Pettingill
as Lillian Leighton
as Mrs. Peters
as Abigail
as Martha Saxby
as Mammy
as Sarah Oberholtzzer
as Mrs. Ferguson
as Marie
as Maria Tebbs
as Mrs. Cavanaugh
as Tant Anna Vanderberg
as Notawa
as Sarah De Morgan
as Matilda
as Redwing
as Mrs. George W. Peck - Henry's Ma
as Caretaker's Wife
as Madame Poulard
as Clarissa
as Mrs. Fleming
as Ma Ennis
as Matilda Brown
as Aunt
as Widow Potter
as Ma Budd
as Cook
as Mrs. O'Mara
as Hannah
as Ma Perkins
as Martha
as Mrs. Weeks
as Mrs. Haines
as Anne Mullins, the Maid
as Louise Jardee
as Lena - the Cook
as Margot
as Maid
as Berthe
as Mary Ellen Clancy
as Marienka
as Angela's Great Aunt
as Bird Woman
as Brian's Sister
as Constance Kenwood
as Isambeau
as Stoddard's Mother
as Nokomis
as Mrs. Sweeney
as Mrs. Till
as Hilda
as Maggy Brannigan
as Stepmother
as Mrs. Thomas Williams
as Mrs. James Preston
as Izette
as Mrs. Reilly - the Housekeeper
as Mrs. Allen Courtright
as Union Enforcer