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Ethel Clayton is a Actor American born on 8 november 1882 at Champaign (USA)
Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 – June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Marriages
Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931.
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Ethel Clayton
Nationality USA
Birth 8 november 1882 at Champaign (USA)
Death 6 june 1966 (at 83 years) at Oxnard (USA)
Birth 8 november 1882 at Champaign (USA)
Death 6 june 1966 (at 83 years) at Oxnard (USA)
Biography
In 1931, Clayton obtained a California Superior Court order enjoining her former business partner, W.L. Rucker, from disposing of 316 pearls. Clayton and Rucker agreed to purchase a cosmetics business and the pearls had been entrusted to Rucker to raise money. The deal fell through and he refused to return the jewels. Rucker admitted to possessing the pearls but claimed they had been pledged as security for a $125 loan. The pearls were valued at $20,000.Marriages
Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931.
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The Perils of Pauline (1947)
, 1h36Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest, Constance Collier, Frank Faylen
Roles Lady Montague
Rating63%
Pearl White (Betty Hutton) is a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become a dramatic actress. She joins a touring theatrical troupe managed by handsome but pompous Mike (John Lund), but fame and fortune elude her because she's unable to suppress her natural rambunctiousness. In desperation, White takes a job at a movie studio, where she promptly finds herself in the middle of a slapstick pie fight. With the help of bombastic director Mac (William Demarest), top-hatted villain portrayer Timmy (Billy De Wolfe), and imperious dramatics coach Julia (Constance Collier), Pearl soon becomes world-famous as the star of such cliffhanging, tied-to-the-railroad-tracks serials as The Perils of Pauline.
Dixie (1943)
, 1h29Directed by A. Edward Sutherland, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Billy De Wolfe, Marjorie Reynolds, Lynne Overman, Eddie Foy, Jr.
Roles Woman (uncredited)
Rating60%
True to Life (1943)
, 1h34Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mary Martin, Franchot Tone, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, William Demarest, Mabel Paige
Roles Woman (uncredited)
Rating65%
Mardi Gras (1943)
, 19minutesOrigin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Ethel Clayton, Bert Roach, Douglas Wood, Don Wilson
Roles Mardi Gras Woman
Rating65%
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
, 1h16Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Richard Denning, Jack Haley, Patricia Morison, Walter Abel, Ann Doran
Roles Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited)
Rating65%
The Major and the Minor (1942)
, 1h40Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn, Edward Fielding
Roles Ball Guest (uncredited)
Rating73%
After her client Albert Osborne (Robert Benchley) makes a pass at her, Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) quits her job as a scalp massager for the Revigorous System and decides to leave New York City and return home to Stevenson, Iowa. Upon arriving at the train station, she discovers she has only enough money to cover a child's fare, so she disguises herself as a twelve-year-old girl named Su-Su. When a suspicious conductor catches her smoking, Su-Su takes refuge in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland) who, believing she is a frightened child, agrees to let her stay with him until they reach his stop.
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
, 1h16Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Richard Denning, Jack Haley, Patricia Morison, Walter Abel, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited)
Rating65%
West Point Widow (1941)
, 1h3Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Anne Shirley, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Frances Gifford, Ethel Clayton, Maude Eburne
Roles Nurse
Rating66%
Nancy Hull, une infirmière repousse les demandes en mariage de deux médecins pour l'amour d'un champion de football.
New York Town (1941)
, 1h34Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Eric Blore
Roles (uncredited)
Rating62%
Victor Ballard (Fred MacMurray) is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski (Akim Tamiroff). When Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis (Mary Martin), he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money. Alexandra moves in as a third roommate and helps out with Victor's street photography Victoria attempts to help her by getting her hooked up with a rich Park Avenue swell, but Alexandra accidentally meets his handsome son, Paul Bryson Jr. (Robert Preston) instead, and Victor, to his own surprise, becomes jealous. Before Victor and Alexandra come together as a couple, there are (of course) further misunderstandings and fisticuffs and the like.
Boy Trouble (1939)
Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee, Andrew Tombes, Dick Elliott
Rating64%
In the story, Sybil Fitch (Boland) adopts two orphan boys (O'Connor, Lee). Her husband (Ruggles) is infuriated. However, when the boys catch scarlet fever, he finds that he really does love them.
Cafe Society (1939)
, 1h33Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Jessie Ralph, Allyn Joslyn, Paul Hurst
Roles Woman
Rating64%
King of Chinatown (1939)
Directed by Nick Grinde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Noir, Crime
Actors Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Sidney Toler, Philip Ahn, Anthony Quinn
Rating62%
Dans une grande ville américaine, le gangster Frank Baturin (Akim Tamiroff) dirige un racket dans un quartier chinois. La docteur Mary Ling (Anna May Wong) et son père le docteur Chang Ling (Sidney Toler) entre en résistance.
You and Me (1938)
, 1h30Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey, Roscoe Karns, Robert Cummings
Roles Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
Rating67%
Au sortir de prison, Joe Dennis, gangster repenti, est engagé dans un grand magasin dont le directeur recrute une partie de son personnel chez les anciens détenus afin d’aider à leur réinsertion professionnelle et morale. Joe épouse une vendeuse, Helen Roberts, qui par peur de le décevoir lui cache qu’elle est elle-même libérée sur parole, ce qui selon la loi américaine d’alors est un motif d’interdiction de mariage. Aussi fait-elle tout pour tenir cette union secrète. Quand Joe découvre la vérité, il revient auprès de ses anciens complices, avec lesquels il avait rompu, et se prépare à cambrioler le magasin. Mais Helen parvient à convaincre la bande de renoncer à son projet, en expliquant, craie en main au tableau noir, que « le crime ne paie pas ». Un enfant scellera bientôt l’amour d’Helen et de Joe, en présence de tous leurs amis réunis à la maternité.
The Buccaneer (1938)
, 2h4Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Walter Brennan, Ian Keith
Roles une femme choisissant des parfums
Rating65%
Installé dans les bayous de La Nouvelle-Orléans, le pirate français Jean Laffite contrôle le commerce de toute la région tout en tentant de rester neutre dans le conflit qui oppose Américains et Britanniques. Les circonstances vont l'obliger à prendre parti et à s'engager au côté du général américain Andrew Jackson...
Men with Wings (1938)
, 1h45Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Andy Devine, Lynne Overman, Porter Hall, Walter Abel
Roles Woman
Rating62%
In 1903, the Wright Brothers set the scene for aviation's advances and influence barnstormer, Pat Falconer (Fred MacMurray) and his friend, engineer Scott Barnes (Ray Milland). Falconer marries childhood sweetheart Peggy Ransom (Louise Campbell) although Barnes also loves her, but is unwilling to jeopardize his relationship with his friend.