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Merna Kennedy is a Actor American born on 7 september 1908 at Kankakee (USA)

Merna Kennedy

Merna Kennedy
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Birth name Maude Kahler
Nationality USA
Birth 7 september 1908 at Kankakee (USA)
Death 20 december 1944 (at 36 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Merna Kennedy (September 7, 1908 - December 20, 1944) was an American actress of the late silent era and the transitional period into talkies.

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Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
(1 films)
Glenn Tryon
Glenn Tryon
(4 films)
Edward L. Cahn
Edward L. Cahn
(3 films)
Orry-Kelly
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Harry Joe Brown
Harry Joe Brown
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Merna Kennedy (16 films)

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Actress

Jimmy the Gent
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
, 1h7
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Actors James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Alice White, Arthur Hohl
Roles Jitters
Rating65% 3.296253.296253.296253.296253.29625
The unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney), runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will, and often provides phony claimants in order to collect his fee. When his former girlfriend Joan Martin (Bette Davis), who left him to due his lack of ethics, accepts a position at the allegedly legitimate firm owned by Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart), Corrigan investigates Wallingham's background and discovers his rival is even more duplicitous than he is. He exposes Wallingham as a phony and promises to go straight if Joan will come back to him.
Wonder Bar
Wonder Bar (1934)
, 1h24
Directed by Busby Berkeley, Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Río, Ricardo Cortez, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee
Roles Claire
Rating65% 3.290963.290963.290963.290963.29096
Wonder Bar is set in a Parisian nightclub, with the stars playing the ‘regulars’ at the club. The movie revolves around two main story points, a romance and a more serious conflict with death, and several minor plots. All of the stories are enlivened from time to time by extravagant musical numbers. The more serious story revolves around Captain Von Ferring (Robert Barrat), a German military officer. Ferring has gambled on the stock market and lost, now broke after dozens of failed investments, he is at the Wonder Bar to try and pull a one night stand before killing himself the following day. Al Wonder (Al Jolson) knows about Ferring's plan.
Emergency Call
Emergency Call (1933)
, 1h10
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors William Boyd, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan, George E. Stone, Edwin Maxwell, Merna Kennedy
Roles Day File Clerk
Rating59% 2.9551452.9551452.9551452.9551452.955145
This script must be run from the command line
Laughter in Hell
Laughter in Hell (1933)
, 1h10
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Pat O'Brien, Merna Kennedy, Berton Churchill, Tom Ricketts, Gloria Stuart, Charles K. French
Roles Marybelle Evans
Rating69% 3.473013.473013.473013.473013.47301
O'Brien plays an Irish mine worker, Barney Slaney. Later Barney gets a job as a fireman on the local train for an engineer named Mileaway. He gets married, but finds his wife having an affair with Grover Perkins, a childhood nemesis. Barney loses control and kills them both. He turns himself in and receives a life sentence of hard labor. Barney quickly finds out that the brother of the man he killed, Ed Perkins, will be in charge of his chain gang, and the brother bullies him repeatedly. While the prisoners dig graves, Barney knocks Ed unconscious and drops him into one of the open graves. He then escapes during the ensuing meyhem, in which the warden is killed. He breaks out of the police dragnet, and hides at a farm which recently had a pestilence infection. He meets a woman named Lorraine, and they run away together.
Lady with a Past
Lady with a Past (1932)
, 1h20
Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners, Albert Conti, Don Alvarado, Nella Walker
Roles Ann Duryea
Rating61% 3.0960553.0960553.0960553.0960553.096055
Bien qu'elle soit une héritière et plutôt charmante, Venice Muir est très timide. Elle est flattée quand le flirt Donnie Wainwright la presse de s'enfuir à Paris avec lui, puis irrité quand il l'abandonne avant le départ de leur navire. Venise a une idée, engageant un type sans le sou, Guy Bryson, pour faire semblant d'être un gigolo et faire connaître l'effet de Venise sur les hommes. Bientôt, elle est le toast de Paris, des prétendants faisant la queue pour la courtiser, dont René, un homme de lignée noble. À son insu, René est très endetté. Lorsqu'elle rejette sa proposition, René se suicide, renforçant la réputation de Venise en tant que renarde déchirante. De retour à la maison, Venise est suivie de plus de commérages, dont certains sur Guy. Un Donnie ébloui recommence à la poursuivre, gagnant finalement Venise sans jamais connaître sa ruse.
Broadway
Broadway (1929)
, 1h44
Directed by Paul Fejos
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Robert Ellis, Thomas E. Jackson, Otis Harlan
Roles Billie Moore
Rating61% 3.0924153.0924153.0924153.0924153.092415
Roy Lane and Billie Moore, entertainers at the Paradise Nightclub, are in love and are rehearsing an act together. Late to work one evening, Billie is saved from dismissal by Nick Verdis, the club proprietor, through the intervention of Steve Crandall, a bootlegger, who desires a liaison with the girl. "Scar" Edwards, robbed of a truckload of contraband liquor by Steve's gang, arrives at the club for a showdown with Steve and is shot in the back. Steve gives Billie a bracelet to forget that she has seen him helping a "drunk" from the club. Though Roy is arrested by Dan McCorn, he is later released on Billie's testimony. Nick is murdered by Steve. Billie witnesses the killing, but keeps quiet about the dirty business until she finds out Steve's next target is Roy. Billie is determined to tell her story to the police before Roy winds up dead, but Steve isn't about to let that happen and kidnaps her. Steve, in his car, is fired at from a taxi, and overheard by Pearl, he confesses to killing Edwards. Pearl confronts Steve in Nick's office and kills him; and McCorn, finding Steve's body, insists that he committed suicide, exonerating Pearl and leaving Roy and Billie to the success of their act.