Lilyan Tashman
Acting
Biography
Lilyan Tashman (October 23, 1896 - March 21, 1934) was an American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses and the vindictive "other woman."
Born: October 22, 1896
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known For
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
The House That Shadows Built
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
That's Dancing!
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
Scarlet Dawn
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Manhandled
A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
Girls About Town
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
Riptide
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
So This Is Paris
Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.
Murder by the Clock
A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
Filmography
as From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Nellie Bly
as Sylvia Wilson
as Lucille Watkins
as Mrs. McIntosh
as Frankie Arnette
as Vera Zimina
as Valerie
as Claire Foster
as Marie Bailey
as Jackie Millet
as Lil Wheeler
as Laura Endicott
as (archive footage)
as Polly Griscom
as Helen Riley
as Bessie Chalmers (aka The 'Princess')
as Fritzi Vajos
as Cicily
as Edna
as Sylvaine
as Lynn Crawford
as Goldie Devere
as Lucille Early
as Peggy
as Joyce Wheater
as Eleanor Montgomery
as Dagmar Lorne
as Irma
as Minnie
as Velma
as Mrs. Renov
as Derelys Devore
as Mrs. Passmore
as Lillian
as Kay Sears
as Mrs. Decker
as Peggy Nash
as Dixie Style
as Olympe
as Ilona Taznadi
as Mae Morin
as Iris Carroll
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
as Suzanna
as Alice, Duchess of Lincolnwood
as Narcissa Williams
as Mme. Georgette Lalle, A Dancer
as Marion Sinclair
as Beautiful Blonde
as Ruby Wright
as Sasha Larianoff
as Gwen Gould
as Selma Larson
as Greta Verlaine
as Fan Green
as Mrs. Leslie
as Thelma Perry
as Laura Randall
as Lillie
as Edythe Stanley
as Sybil Johnson
as Hazel
as Felicity Brown
as Pinkie Doran
as Edith Penfield
as Pleasure