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Claire McDowell

Claire McDowell

Claire McDowell (2 November 1877 – 23 October 1966) was an American actress. She appeared in 360 films between 1908 and 1945.

Still somewhat of a youthful beauty when she started in early silent films, McDowell appeared in numerous films, eventually graduating to playing character and mother types. She can be seen to good advantage in Douglas Fairbanks's 1920 The Mark of Zorro. McDowell appeared in two of the biggest films of the silent era, The Big Parade (1925) and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), both in which she played mothers.

She was married to silent screen character actor Charles Hill Mailes from 1906 to his 1937 death. The couple appeared in numerous silent films together, including The Mark of Zorro. They had two sons, Robert Mailes and Eugene Mailes.

Claire McDowell died, aged 88, in Hollywood, California.

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Adventure (1945)

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian. ...

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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)

Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright ...

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Men on Her Mind (1944)

A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan to her fame as a singer, as she tries to decide which of her three suitors she will choose. ...

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Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. S ...

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This Land Is Mine (1943)

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage. ...

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Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant. ...

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Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history p ...

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Keeper of the Flame (1943)

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero. ...

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Lady Scarface (1941)

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't ...

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Whispers (1941)

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation. ...

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Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)

A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic. ...

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The Golden Fleecing (1940)

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters. ...

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A Failure at Fifty (1940)

The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man. ...

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Young Tom Edison (1940)

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship betw ...

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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself. ...

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Thunder Afloat (1939)

A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I. ...

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One Against the World (1939)

This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices. ...

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Miracles for Sale (1939)

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered. ...

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Angel of Mercy (1939)

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross. ...

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Idiot's Delight (1939)

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII. ...

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Stand Up and Fight (1939)

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom. ...

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Boys Town (1938)

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed p ...

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The Man on the Rock (1938)

A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821. ...

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They're Always Caught (1938)

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue. ...

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Three Comrades (1938)

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis. ...

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Test Pilot (1938)

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe. ...

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A Night at the Movies (1937)

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through ...

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Two-Fisted Sheriff (1937)

This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later nea ...

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Song of Revolt (1937)

This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution. ...

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Small Town Girl (1936)

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay ...

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August Week End (1936)

At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy man. ...

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Murder by Television (1935)

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of hi ...

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Imitation of Life (1934)

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way. ...

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Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)

A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife. ...

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British Agent (1934)

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy. ...

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Dr. Monica (1934)

A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend. ...

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Journal of a Crime (1934)

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime. ...

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It Happened One Night (1934)

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind. ...

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Bedside (1934)

Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses. ...

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Wild Boys of the Road (1933)

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work. ...

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By Appointment Only (1933)

When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it. After he r ...

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The Working Man (1933)

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon hi ...

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Central Airport (1933)

Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins. ...

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Lawyer Man (1932)

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become ...

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A Successful Calamity (1932)

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, ...

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The Phantom Express (1932)

Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train. ...

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Cornered (1932)

Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as Sheriff, Tim goes after the real kiler and this leads him to the town controlled by Red Slavins. ...

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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting. ...

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The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwa ...

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Union Depot (1932)

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a bre ...

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Under Eighteen (1932)

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the p ...

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Manhattan Parade (1931)

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop. ...

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An American Tragedy (1931)

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder. ...

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