Mabel Van Buren
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 16, 1878
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For
Lost and Won
A newswoman meets a man who has bet his colleagues he can make her beautiful.
Riders of the Night
Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was set in Kentucky hill country. Collins' wifeViola Dana stars as Sally Castleton, a country girl in love with a brooding and idealistic aristocrat. When her sweetheart joins a night-riding vigilante organization, Sally is temporarily dismayed but resolves to hide the man from the authorities.
His First Command
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Mississippi
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
A Lively Affair
Women attending a suffragette club meeting wear pants, boss their husbands, neglect their kids, play poker, and fight. Their husbands stay home to care for the children and run the household.
Brewster's Millions
The first movie adaptation of the famous novel where a young man has to spend a fortune on 60 days to inherit an even larger sum of money. Considered to be a lost film.
Beyond the Rocks
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
Miss Lulu Bett
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Theodore Roberts (as Dwight Deacon); running the house with an iron fist, he is both a dentist and a Justice of the Peace. As the latter, he accidentally marries Ms. Wilson to his visiting brother Clarence Burton (as Ninian Deacon) while they are out for dinner. Schoolteacher Milton Sills (as Neil Cornish) is also interested in Wilson...
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
Filmography
as Woman in Auditorium (uncredited)
as Mrs. Lee
as Mrs. Sargent
as Mrs. Brown
as Mrs. Frazer
as Mrs. Crawford
as Mrs. Sloden
as Lila Lavender
as Mrs. Gallant
as Madame Binat
as Annie Bowden
as Mrs. Brookins
as Prisoner
as Sunflower Sadie
as Hannah Schriemann
as Cousin Selma
as Jane McBride
as Ina Deacon
as Mrs. Langley
as Madame Langlois
as Mrs. Ozanne
as Nina
as Mrs. Dunbar
as Tina Ferronni
as Sally's Aunt
as Aunt Agatha Pixley
as Lou
as Mrs. Rogers
as Mrs. Vandergraft
as Mrs. Reynolds
as Lady Stuckley
as Marie
as Mrs. Lenning
as Mrs. Airlie
as Estelle Wallace
as Princess Adala
as Mrs. Peabody
as Ramona Gonzaga - Sister of Señora Moreno
as Princess Tanya
as Grace Robertson
as Mrs. Warren
as The Girl
as Delores
as Mary Braddock
as Ethel Granger Simpson
as Lucine - 'Three-Arm Fanny'
as Mrs. Gray
as A Suffragette Club Meeting Attendee
as At Luncheon
as On Porch / At Farewell