Shirley Mason
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 6, 1901
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Jackie
Jacqueline, an orphaned daughter of a famous Russian dancer, has been raised by a French woman who runs a cheap dancing school. A lost film.
The Law of the North
When Edith Graham returns from school to live with her father, Lieutenant Graham, at a Northwest Mounted Police post in Hudson's Bay, she finds herself courted by two suitors, Corporal John Emerson and Reginald Annesley, the latter of whom is a wealthy purchasing agent for the post. Annesley however is also involved with the half-breed Marie. When Marie tells him she is carrying his child Annesley kills her and attempts to frame Emerson. However, Edith is suspicious and sets out to find the truth.
The Show of Shows
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
So This Is Love
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
Nursery Favorites
Nursery Favourites (1913) is an Edison Kinetophone short featuring performers miming to a pre-recorded nursery song, synchronized with a commercial phonograph record. It stands as an early example of Edison’s experiments with sound-film technology.
Children Who Labor
The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill is hiring only inexpensive child labor. Reluctantly, he allows his oldest daughter to work in the mill. Meanwhile, in New York, the wealthy businessman Hanscomb is being urged to speak out against child labor, but he declines to do so. Then, while Mrs. Hanscomb and her daughter are traveling, the young girl accidentally wanders away, gets lost, and is taken in by the working class family. To help them, she takes a job in the mill. While this is taking place, Hanscomb has initiated a search for the daughter even as he goes about building up his financial empire.
Little Miss Smiles
The Jewish Aaronson family lives in simple neighborhoods in the ghetto of a big city. Esther spreads the sun with her smile and when her mother goes blind and is taken to hospital, she takes on the role of head of the family.
Seven Deadly Sins: Passion
One in a series of seven films with the subject of the Seven Deadly Sins. The film makers decided not to use the title "Lust"
Don Juan's 3 Nights
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
Filmography
as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
as Sally
as Sue Hartley
as Ruth Enright
as Hilda Jenson
as Patricia Dodd
as Sally Williams
as Sally Simpson
as The Girl
as Ann
as Rosie Rosetti
as Eve Gibson
as Ninette Cavallar
as Mercedes Castanada
as Beatrice Greer
as Ruth Lennox
as Curlytop
as Sylvia Joy
as Vale Harvey
as Barbara Hackett
as Bess Belwyn
as Meg
as Nita
as Yvonne Laraby
as Marie Tyree
as Lucia Moreton
as Esther Aaronson
as Jackie
as Queenie Gurkin
as Célestine Le Farge
as Wing Toy
as Beebe
as Mary Ann
as Jane Day
as Molly / Shirley Brown
as Joan
as Jim Hawkins
as Caroline Mitford
as Mary Stacey
as Nora Nolan
as Jemmy Milligan
as Elsie Dresser
as Emmy Little
as Kiru-San
as Emily Thomas
as Charlotte Marlin
as Ruth Hoagland
as Hilary Kenyon
as Lucia
as Edith Graham
as Eve Leslie
as Eve Leslie
as Eve Leslie
as Aline Marden
as Eve Leslie
as Becky Sharp - as a child