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Eugenie Besserer is a Actor American born on 24 december 1868 at Watertown (USA)
Eugenie Besserer (December 25, 1868 – May 28, 1934) was an American actress who starred in silent films and features of the early sound motion picture era, beginning in 1910.
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Nationality USA
Birth 24 december 1868 at Watertown (USA)
Death 28 may 1934 (at 65 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 24 december 1868 at Watertown (USA)
Death 28 may 1934 (at 65 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Eugenie Besserer (December 25, 1868 – May 28, 1934) was an American actress who starred in silent films and features of the early sound motion picture era, beginning in 1910.
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To the Last Man (1933)
, 1h10Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Buster Crabbe, Jack La Rue, Barton MacLane, Noah Beery Sr.
Roles Granny Spelvin
Rating62%
A feud between the Colby and the Hayden families, starts in the hills of Kentucky and continues in the West after the American Civil War. Also involved is the conflict between vigilantism and the law in a frontier environment, and lovers from the two feuding families. At one point, one of the villains shoots the head off Shirley Temple's character's doll.
Scarface (1932)
, 1h29Directed by Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Paul Muni, George Raft, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Boris Karloff, Osgood Perkins
Roles Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)
Rating76%
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant Antonio "Tony" Camonte (Paul Muni) acts on the orders of Italian mafioso John "Johnny" Lovo (Osgood Perkins) and kills "Big" Louis Costillo (Harry J. Vejar), the leading crime boss of the city's South Side. Johnny then takes control of the South Side with Tony as his key lieutenant, selling large amounts of illegal beer to speakeasies and muscling in on bars run by rival outfits. However, Johnny repeatedly warns Tony not to mess with the Irish gangs led by O'Hara who runs the North Side. Tony soon starts ignoring these orders, shooting up bars belonging to O'Hara, and attracting the attention of the police and rival gangsters. Johnny realizes that Tony is out of control and has ambitions to take his position.
Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
, 1h30Directed by Sam Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Norma Talmadge, William Farnum, Conrad Nagel, Hobart Bosworth, Ullrich Haupt, Ullrich Haupt
Roles Rosalie / Prison Matron
Rating55%
In Gay Madrid (1930)
, 1h22Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Ramón Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Eugenie Besserer, William V. Mong, Beryl Mercer, Claude King
Roles Doña Generosa
Rating52%
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
, 1h26Directed by Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lili Damita, Raquel Torres, Duncan Renaldo, Henry B. Walthall, Ernest Torrence, Don Alvarado
Roles A nun
Rating70%
Fast Company (1929)
, 1h10Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Actors Jack Oakie, Evelyn Brent, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Sam Hardy, Arthur Housman, Gwen Lee
Roles Mrs. Kane
Rating63%
Speedway (1929)
, 1h16Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors William Haines, Anita Page, Ernest Torrence, Karl Dane, John Miljan, Eugenie Besserer
Roles Mrs. MacDonald
Rating62%
Avant la course des 500 miles d'Indianapolis, un pilote se dispute avec son père adoptif, qui doit lui aussi prendre le départ.
Madame X (1929)
, 1h35Directed by Lionel Barrymore
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ruth Chatterton, Lewis Stone, Holmes Herbert, Carroll Nye, Raymond Hackett, Ullrich Haupt
Roles Rose, Floriot's Servant
Rating56%
Jacqueline Floriot (Ruth Chatterton) is thrown out into the street without any money by her jealous husband Louis (Lewis Stone) when he discovers she had been carrying on an affair. She is not even allowed to see their four-year-old son, and she sinks into depravity.
Thunderbolt (1929)
, 1h25Directed by William Wyler, Josef von Sternberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Fay Wray, George Bancroft, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall, Eugenie Besserer, George Irving
Roles Mrs. Moran
Rating64%
Thunderbolt Jim Lang, wanted on robbery and murder charges, ventures out with his girl, "Ritzy," to a Harlem nightclub, where she informs him that she is going straight. During a raid on the club, Thunderbolt escapes. His gang shadows Ritzy and reports that she is living with Mrs. Morgan, whose son, Bob, a bank clerk, is in love with Ritzy. Fearing for Bob's safety, Ritzy engineers a police trap for Thunderbolt; he escapes but is later captured, tried, and sentenced to be executed at Sing Sing. From the death house, he successfully plots to frame Bob in a bank robbery and killing. Bob is placed in the facing cell, and guards frustrate Thunderbolt's attempts to get to his rival. When Ritzy marries Bob in the death house, Thunderbolt confesses his part in Bob's conviction. He plots to kill the boy on the night of his execution, but instead at the last minute his hand falls on Bob's shoulder in a gesture of friendship.
Seven Faces (1929)
, 1h18Directed by Berthold Viertel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Eugenie Besserer, Russell Gleason, Salka Viertel
Roles Madame Vallon
Rating75%
A common convention in the early decades of newspaper and magazine film reviews was to describe in the write-up the entire storyline including, in a substantial number of instances, the ending, thus unintentionally enabling subsequent generations of readers to reconstruct a lost film's contents. True to form, those who evaluated Seven Faces, such as Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times, did go into considerable detail regarding plot twists, as related herein below.
Illusion (1929)
, 1h24Directed by Lothar Mendes
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Buddy Rogers, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey, Eugenie Besserer
Roles Mrs. Jacob Schmittlap
Rating70%
Mister Antonio (1929)
, 1h13Directed by Frank Reicher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Virginia Valli, Leo Carrillo, Gareth Hughes, Frank Reicher, Eugenie Besserer, Francis Ford
Roles Mrs. Jorny
Rating61%
The Jazz Singer (1928)
, 1h30Directed by Alan Crosland, Gordon Hollingshead
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Théâtre, Jazz films, Musical films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Myrna Loy, Otto Lederer
Roles Sara Rabinowitz
Rating63%
Cantor Rabinowitz wants his son to carry on the generations-old family tradition and become a cantor at the synagogue in the Jewish ghetto of Manhattan's Lower East Side. But down at the beer garden, thirteen-year-old Jakie Rabinowitz is performing so-called jazz tunes. Moisha Yudelson spots the boy and tells Jakie's father, who drags him home. Jakie clings to his mother, Sara, as his father declares, "I'll teach him better than to debase the voice God gave him!" Jakie threatens: "If you whip me again, I'll run away — and never come back!" After the whipping, Jakie kisses his mother goodbye and, true to his word, runs away. At the Yom Kippur service, Rabinowitz mournfully tells a fellow celebrant, "My son was to stand at my side and sing tonight – but now I have no son." As the sacred Kol Nidre is sung, Jakie sneaks back home to retrieve a picture of his loving mother.
Drums of Love (1928)
, 1h40Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Mary Philbin, Lionel Barrymore, Don Alvarado, Tully Marshall, William Austin, Eugenie Besserer
Roles Duchess de Alvia
Rating55%
After finding out her father and his estate is in danger, Princess Emanuella saves his life by marrying Duke Cathos de Alvia, a grotesque hunchback. She actually is in love with Leonardo, his attractive younger brother. They already had an affair before the marriage, but continue secretly meeting each other. In the end, Cathos finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and stabs both his wife and brother to death.
A Lady of Chance (1928)
, 1h20Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee, Charles K. French, John Mack Brown, Eugenie Besserer
Roles Mrs. Crandall
Rating68%
Dolly "Angel Face" Morgan is a parolee out to fleece any wealthy man who is taken in by her looks. She is recognized by two fellow con artists, Gwen and Brad. Since she needs some help, she allows them to help "pull a job," shaking down a wealthy man for $10,000 after her outraged "husband" (Brad) breaks in and finds them in a compromising situation. But when Brad has Gwen hide the money, and tells Dolly that their victim stopped payment on his check, Dolly takes all of the money and makes a quick getaway.