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Gertrude Howard is a Actor born on 13 october 1892
Gertrude Howard was an American actress of the silent and early sound film eras. She broke into films in 1925, appearing in The Circus Cyclone, directed by Albert Rogell. In 1927, she would play the wife of Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin. She appeared mostly in minor or supporting roles, such as Queenie in the original version of Show Boat (1929), and Martha in Christy Cabanne's Conspiracy. Her appearance as Beulah in the 1933 Wesley Ruggles film, I'm No Angel, led to her being forever linked to Mae West with the famous line, "Beulah, peel me a grape".
In Howard's short career she would appear in twenty-two films. That career was cut short by her untimely death in 1934 at the age of 41. Mae West was touched by the actress' death and helped raise the funds necessary for her funeral.
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Birth 13 october 1892
Death 30 september 1934 (at 41 years)
Death 30 september 1934 (at 41 years)
In Howard's short career she would appear in twenty-two films. That career was cut short by her untimely death in 1934 at the age of 41. Mae West was touched by the actress' death and helped raise the funds necessary for her funeral.
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Peck's Bad Boy (1934)
, 1h10Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jackie Cooper, Thomas Meighan, Dorothy Peterson, O. P. Heggie, Gertrude Howard, Larry Wheat
Roles Martha the Maid
Rating64%
I'm No Angel (1933)
, 1h27Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Circus films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Gregory Ratoff, Ralf Harolde, Mae West, Kent Taylor
Roles Beulah Thorndyke
Rating68%
Tira (Mae West) shimmies and sings in the sideshow of Big Bill Barton's Wonder Show, while her current boyfriend, pickpocket "Slick" (Ralf Harolde), relieves her distracted audience of their valuables for Big Bill (Edward Arnold). One of the rich customers arranges a private rendezvous, during which Slick barges in and attempts to run a badger game on the customer. The customer doesn't buy it and threatens to call the cops and Slick whacks him over the head with a bottle. Mistakenly thinking he has killed the man, Slick flees, but is caught and jailed.
The Wet Parade (1932)
, 1h58Directed by Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Jimmy Durante, Dorothy Jordan, Lewis Stone, Myrna Loy, Robert Young, Neil Hamilton
Roles Angelina
Rating61%
Strangers in Love (1932)
, 1h16Directed by Lothar Mendes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Fredric March, Kay Francis, Stuart Erwin, Juliette Compton, George Barbier, Sidney Toler
Roles Snowball
Rating66%
Consolation Marriage (1931)
, 1h21Directed by Paul Sloane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, John Halliday, Myrna Loy, Matt Moore, Lester Vail
Roles Kate - Mary's Maid (uncredited)
Rating60%
In prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Reporter Steve "Rollo" Porter has lost -his- childhood sweetheart, Elaine, who has also married another. Mary and Steve become friends, and make a marriage of convenience, based on a shared sense of whimsical humor as well as their mutual losses. When their old loves re-enter their lives a few years later, Mary and Steve must decide what is really important to them.
Father's Son (1931)
, 1h16Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Leon Janney, Lewis Stone, Irene Rich, John Halliday, George Reed, Gertrude Howard
Roles Dinah
Penrod and Sam (1931)
, 1h11Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Leon Janney, Frank Coghlan, Jr., Margaret Alice Marquis, Jimmy Robinson, Matt Moore, Dorothy Peterson
Roles Delia (uncredited)
Rating60%
Secret Service (1931)
, 1h8Directed by J. Walter Ruben, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Spy films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, Gavin Gordon, Nance O'Neil, Clarence Muse, Frederick Burton
Roles Martha Polk
Rating57%
Two Union officers, Captain Lewis Dumont and his younger brother, Lieutenant Henry Dumont, receive orders from General Ulysses S. Grant Grant to go behind enemy lines and become undercover agents to feed false information to the Confederate States Army. Lewis is tasked with becoming part of a Confederate telegraph office in Richmond, Virginia, under the guise of a deceased Confederate officer, Thorne. Meanwhile, Henry is ordered to allow himself to be captured by the enemy, during which he is supposed to pass incorrect information about Union positions.
Guilty? (1930)
, 1h7Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Virginia Valli, John St. Polis, John Holland, Lydia Knott, Erville Alderson, Clarence Muse
Roles Lucy
When the Wind Blows (1930)
Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Jackie Cooper, Bobby Hutchins, Allen Hoskins, Norman Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Julian Rivero
Roles Farina's Mother (uncredited)
Rating67%
It is a windy spring night. A man tells Kennedy the cop that it is a fine night for a murder or robbery. Farina is frightened, but his mother still has to do laundry, so he is left in a ramshackle house with windows so weak that the wind blows through a few doors down, Jackie is spanked by his father for refusing to do his homework; his little brother Wheezer is laughing at him. After being spanked, Jackie throws his school book out the window.
Conspiracy (1930)
, 1h9Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bessie Love, Ned Sparks, Ivan Lebedeff, Rita La Roy, Hugh Trevor, Otto Matieson
Roles Martha
Rating51%
After their father is killed, brother and sister Margaret and Victor Holt devote themselves to bringing down the drug gang responsible for his death. Victor rises to become an attorney in the district attorney's office, and eventually Margaret wangles her way into becoming the secretary for James (Marco) Morton, the head of the drug ring. When Morton discovers Margaret's true identity, he contrives a plot to lure her brother into a trap and kill him.
Hearts in Dixie (1929)
, 1h11Directed by Paul Sloane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Clarence Muse, Stepin Fetchit, Eugene Jackson, Dorothy Morrison Green, Gertrude Howard, Zack Williams
Roles Emmy
Rating63%
Hearts in Dixie unfolds as a series of sketches of life among American blacks. It featured characters with dignity, who took action on their own, and who were not slaves. The plot focuses on Grandfather Nappus (Clarence Muse), his daughter, Chloe (Bernice Pilot), her young son, Chinaquapin (Eugene Jackson), and her husband, Gummy (Stepin Fetchit). To make certain his grandson Chinaquapin does not end up like his father or become tainted by the superstitions that dominate the community, the grandfather decides to send the boy away. One particularly tender scene shows Nappus' love for his grandson, whom he sends North for schooling. The film ends with the youngster's departure aboard a riverboat.
Moan & Groan, Inc. (1929)
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Edgar Kennedy, Max Davidson, Allen Hoskins, Norman Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Jackie Cooper
Roles Farina's Mother (uncredited)
Rating60%
Friendly neighborhood policeman Kennedy the Cop (Edgar Kennedy) warns the gang to stay away from an old abandoned house in the neighborhood. Instead, he suggests the kids go dig for buried treasure, which they proceed to do—in the basement of the old abandoned house. The house is inhabited by a homeless lunatic (played by Jewish comedian Max Davidson in a rare, mostly non-ethnic role), who takes giddy delight in scaring the children, particularly Farina. Kennedy eventually turns up at the house to save the kids and apprehend the lunatic, but can hardly take care of himself.
Show Boat (1929)
, 2h9Directed by Harry A. Pollard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan, Stepin Fetchit, Alma Rubens
Roles Queenie
Rating60%
The eighteen-year-old Magnolia meets, falls in love with, and elopes with riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenal.
Synthetic Sin (1929)
, 1h12Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Colleen Moore, Antonio Moreno, Edythe Chapman, Kathryn McGuire, Gertrude Astor, Montagu Love
Roles Cassie / de: Mandy
Rating69%
Famed playwright Donald Anthony returns home to Magnolia Gap, Virginia, and proposes to Betty Fairfax. She accepts and he offers her the lead part in his next play, but the play is a disaster. Donald tells her that she is unsuited for the role, that it requires someone with more life experience. Rather than return home defeated, Betty stays in New York, in a bad neighborhood where local gangsters adopt her as their own. When Donald comes to visit her, they eject him. There is a gunfight, and in the resulting confusion Donald sweeps in and rescues Betty. After the excitement, Betty gives up her dreams of the stage and devotes herself to Donald.