
Merna Kennedy
Acting
Biography
Merna Kennedy (born Maude Kahler) was an American screen actress of the late silent and early talkies era.
Known For

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
The Circus

A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.
Arizona to Broadway

A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.
Embarrassing Moments

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
Jimmy the Gent

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
The All-American

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Wonder Bar

A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Emergency Call

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Broadway

A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Lady with a Past

A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
Red Haired Alibi

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Son of a Sailor

Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers horses for slaughter, whose meat is sold to pet food manufacturers. The wild horse Tarzan frees the doomed horses from their corrals, and Frazer convinces the Sheriff that Tarzan is a threat and can be shot on sight. Local cowboy Ken Benson (Maynard) and rancher Pat Riley (Kennedy) work together to clear Tarzan's good name and put Frazier behind bars for his evil deeds.
Come On, Tarzan

After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
Stepping Out

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
I Love That Man

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
Don't Bet on Love

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
The Big Chance

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
I Like it That Way

A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister has gotten mixed up with gangsters.
Police Call

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Laughter in Hell

A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.