Mae Marsh Movies

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them....

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins leading a...

Jane Ridgeway, the daughter of retired Secret Service man Charles Ridgeway, has inherited her father's knack for solving crimes and puts her talent...

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.

An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the...

Wartime documentary propagandizing for greater participation in the U.S. war effort during the Second World War.

Cecelia Carne, dubbed "the little 'fraid lady" because she shuns society, seeks the solitude of the forest in order to perfect her talents as a...

Sadie Sullivan leaves Ireland to live with her married sister in New York. Troubled by her worthless brother-in-law, discouraged with her low-paying...

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.

The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.

A teenage girl lives with two grizzly bears in a cave in the California Sierras and plays with rabbits and birds. When gambler Jim Hamilton and his...

The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the little pretty things which her daughter liked....

Percy and Harold are rivals and both take the object of their affections for an outing.

A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness.

Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a...

Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called lovers of peace and kindness. But granddad dwelt in a...

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.