Martha Mattox
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 16, 1879
Place of Birth: Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Known For
The Rainmaker
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.
Christine of the Big Tops
When her circus-performer parents die in an accident, Christine (Pauline Garon) is raised by other circus-performers, including Hagan, a balloon-vender, and Pete Barman as her guardians. When she grows up, she asks to also become a performer, and Barman agrees. Bob Hastings (Cullen Landis) joins the traveling circus as its doctor, and he and Christine fall in love. This angers Barman, who is also in love with her.
The Cat and the Canary
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
Liliom
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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.
Everybody's Sweetheart
When the benign headmistress of the county poor farm is discharged and replaced with a tyrant, John and Mary, two orphans who have lived there since infancy, decide to run away. Accompanied by a feeble old corporal from the farm, they are forced to seek refuge at the home of General Phillip Bingham when the old soldier becomes ill. After the corporal's death, the general promises to care for the two waifs. Mary becomes his protegee, and John his gardener. Friction develops between the two newcomers and Willing and his wife Jessica, a couple living with the general who hope to inherit his wealth, until one day the general notices a close resemblance between a portrait of his deceased son and John. It is discovered then that John is actually the general's grandson. Thus legitimized, John weds Mary, and the general is pleased with his newly acquired family.
Maytime
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
Night Work
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
The Family Secret
The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.
Filmography
as Saunders' Sister-in-Law
as Miss Avery
as Mrs. Herman
as Mrs. Winters
as Aunt Sarah Collins
as Spinster Train Passenger (uncredited)
as Aunt Martha
as Investigator
as Matron
as Aunt Della
as Hotel Ansonia Maid
as The Housekeeper
as Mrs. Krug
as Miss Roberts
as Head Nurse (uncredited)
as Mrs. Twitchell
as Bridge Playing Guest (uncredited)
as Housekeeper
as Mrs. McEvoy
as Wedding Guest
as Wife of Justice of the Peace
as Aunt Effie
as Mrs. Charles Peterson
as Twin
as Mrs. Simpson
as Maw Turner
as Dowager
as The Housekeeper
as Isabel
as Mrs. Thule
as Mother - in Prologue
as Mammy Pleasant
as Aunt Amelia Foley
as Mother Malone
as Mrs. Calhoun
as Ellen B. Armstrong
as Mrs. Hastings
as Miss Bell
as Head Nurse
as Doña Bernarda Brull
as Aunt Abigail
as Mrs. Pritchard
as Mrs. Anderson
as Mrs. Cameron
as Luella Van Buren
as Bendetta
as Aunt Sarah
as Aunt
as Death Watch Mary Schultz
as Mrs. Farwell
as President of the United States (uncredited)
as Nurse Sneed
as Mathilda
as Wistful Wooer
as Aunt Cordelia
as Saunders
as Piplette
as Mrs. Blitz
as Aunty May
as Sarah Lane
as Nurse
as Mrs. Miller
as Aunt Elizabeth Whitney
as Camilla Hastings
as Miss Labo
as Mrs. Reese
as Aunt Agatha
as Ma Hicks
as Sarah Jane
as Anna Blynn
as Miss Watson
as Mrs. Musk
as Alvira Evans
as Mrs. Lickel
as Aunt Mary
as Shocked Customer in Store (uncredited)
as Cynthia M. Perkins
as Miss Richards
as Miss Johanna Webb