Movies: Polly Moran

The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy theories of "progressive" education, Prudence and Agatha stick to the reliable "Three R's," often teac...

Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble...

Are Brunettes Safe?...

Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her place as trapeze woman in the show and get other work. She sends her brood to the poorhouse, and Foy, i...

The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest, decides to leave her employment in order to get married. But when Mr Smith and his family set out to drive her across town to her bridegroom, everyth...

A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy....

A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town....

Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood....

A fish peddler is known to her customers as "The Duchess"; her fiance's father hears this and thinks she is a real duchess....

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era....

Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trap...

A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder....

Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks....

A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold Me Tight. (MoMA)...

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An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband....

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution....

Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine....

The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrives in China, Davis has to save her from an execution....

A masked avenger takes on claim jumpers....