Mary Odette
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Marie Odette Goimbault (10 August 1901 – 26 March 1987) was a French-born film actress. She acted during the silent era under the name Mary Odette. Odette starred in a number of films made by Astra Films. After the Slump of 1924 dramatically reduced the number of British films being made, she appeared in several Continental European productions. She retired from films in 1928, shortly before the arrival of sound films in Britain.
Known For
A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
Eugene Aram
Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.
She
Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.
Mr. Gilfil's Love Story
By 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearan actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of, particularly by the high society. Kean has fallen passionately in love with Countess Elena de Koefeld, the wife of the ambassador of Denmark. Elena loves him too but hesitates to give up her rank in society and follow Kean. On the other hand, Anna, a rich heiress who refuses to marry Lord Mewill, the husband chosen by her parents, confesses her love for Kean and decides to become an actress like him... The aristocrats, outraged by Edmund's profligate ways, decide to boycott his performances and his career is broken. Kean does not recover from such a blow and, on a stormy night, dies in Elena's arms.
Kean
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Crimson Circle
A young woman, with her naive lies, causes some troubles marrying into an aristocratic family. At the end, good-heartedness wins over snobbishness and class barriers.
As God Made Her
A son tries to overturn the disgrace of his father, who committed suicide.
Nets of Destiny
A usurer cancels a woman's debt in return for wresting a financial secret from a minister's wife.
John Heriot's Wife
Based on the novel by Allen Raine - In Wales, a girl loves a manager but weds her employer who dies in a fire lit by a jealous madwoman.
Torn Sails
Explores the ethics of a Berlin street during the Weimar era and the struggle for survival in a shady environment.
The Morals of the Alley
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The Breed of the Treshams
A Lord weds a Lady despite discovering that she is a substituted village child. Based on the poem Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The Lady Clare
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
Not For Sale
Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.
The Diamond Man
A British army unit sets out to rescue the son of a maharajah, who has been kidnapped by a rebel group.
Emerald of the East
A secret society kidnaps a man to force his sister to steal plans.
The Lion's Mouse
A soap factory heir poses as a worker to reform conditions, and is saved from an anarchist by a flower girl.