Monroe Owsley
Acting
Biography
Monroe Owsley was an American stage and screen actor, his film career beginning in 1928.
Born: August 11, 1900
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Known For
Free Love
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
Behold My Wife!
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
Ten Cents a Dance
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
Private Number
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
Unashamed
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.
Holiday
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Ex-Lady
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
Indiscreet
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Mister Cinderella
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
Hat Check Girl
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Teddy Leeds
as Count de Montaigne
as Aloysius P. Merriweather
as Marty Ryan / Jenkins
as James "Jimmy" Coakley
as Billy Arliss
as Fletcher Colton
as Hobart Fletcher
as Bob Prentice
as Jerry Couzins
as Bob Hayworth
as Walter Jordan
as Colton Drain
as Harold 'Sig' Sigrift
as Nick Malvyn
as Maurice Le Brun
as Lawrence Crosby
as Tod Reese
as Harry Swift
as Tony Girard
as Jim Woodward
as Philip Craig
as Eddie Miller
as Rush Begelow
as Ned Seton
as Leonard Sinclair
as Other suitor