Mildred Harris
Acting
Biography
Mildred Harris was an American film actress during the early part of the 20th century. She was also the first wife of Charlie Chaplin. Harris began her career in the film industry as a child actress when she was 11 years old. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born: November 27, 1901
Place of Birth: Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
Known For
Polly of the Storm Country
Polly Hopkins belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at odds with the wealthy "hilltoppers," but Polly's grandmother has gone against popular opinion by teaching Polly to love everybody. Polly keeps the faith, even when her sister's husband is railroaded into jail.
The Real Charlie Chaplin
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.
The Cruise of the Jasper B
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday-- otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers claims Agatha as his own. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Hail the Conquering Hero
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Holiday Inn
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
Home
A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
The Matrimaniac
A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train, it leaves, carrying his bride-to- be away. Now the young man, minister in tow, pursues his bride while her father and a horde of lawmen pursue them both.
Reap the Wild Wind
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Enoch Arden
Seamen Enoch Arden returns home after a long absence marooned on a desert island. At home he finds his wife married to another, and though he loves her, he cannot bear to disrupt her current happiness.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Wife of Marine Colonel (uncredited)
as Maid (uncredited)
as Dancing Lady (uncredited)
as Leading Lady
as Marie Lloyd Hartley
as Self
as Betty
as Bunny
as Marie Weston
as Madelon
as Florine
as Helen Graham
as Kitty
as Claire Owens
as Maizie Udell
as Maxine
as Cynthia Kane
as Gwen
as Agatha Fairhaven
as Mrs. Kate Vandeerveer
as Helen Leonard
as Lenore Hardenworth
as Lolita - Charles' Wife
as Pet Darling
as Gale Norman
as Claire Bowdoin
as Molly Smith
as Joan McGregor
as Marie Nicholls
as Barbara Belden
as Polly Barnes
as The Girl
as Gillian Locke
as Susie LaMotte
as Madelaine Theddon
as Rosa Duchene
as Katherine Woods
as Irene Fletcher
as Daphne Bretton
as Polly (as Mildred Harris Chaplin)
as Allisa Randall
as 'Maddie' Irwin
as Millicent Rankin
as Bess
as Mary Kirk
as Toni Wilde
as Sidney Page
as Linnie
as Alice Leigh
as Olive - Kate's sister
as Eurydice
as Mary
as Stenographer
as (uncredited)
as Marjorie
as Favorite of the Harem (uncredited)
as Goldie
as A Child
as Button Bright
as Dorothy
as Fluff of the Golden Hair
as Child
as Mildred
as Mildred Brown