Biography: Jack Mulhall |
Elegant silent film leading man Jack Mulhall launched his career as a boy singer on the tent-show circuit, then moved up the ladder to vaudeville and stock companies. Appearing in his first film in 1913, Mulhall rose to full stardom in the 1920s,... more
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Cast: William Beaudine
Tags: Comedy
Length: 88min
Taking Two Weeks Off for the first time in his life, plumber Dave Pickett (Jack Mulhall) spends his savings on a posh hotel suite. During his vacation, he meets and falls in love with pretty Kitty Weaver (Dorothy Mackaill). Hoping to impress the girl,...
Length: 71min
Children of the Ritz was based on a serialized magazine story by future suspense specialist Cornell Woolrich. Spoiled heiress Angela Pennington (Dorothy Mackaill) falls in love with impoverished chauffeur Dewey Haines (Jack Mulhall). Subsequently,...
Length: 7rlmin
Unable to utilize the original George Gershwin score, this silent version of the Broadway musical Lady Be Good concentrates on the "book" by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, which in itself was pretty good. Vaudeville magicians Jack (Jack Mulhall) and...
Cast: Frank Lloyd
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime Romance Police Drama
Length: 55min
A love triangle between two twin brothers and a lovely young woman provides the framework for this drama (it was the first talkie to feature an actor in a dual role). One of the brothers is a policeman; the other belongs to a band of robbers working...
Cast: John Francis Dillon
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 7rlmin
The popular screen team of Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill were back again in Smile, Brother, Smile. The stars are cast respectively as hot-shot salesman Jack Lowery and sagacious secretary Mildred Marvin, employees both of a big-time cosmetics...
Length: 65min
Waterfront was the latest entry in First National's popular Jack Mulhall-Dorothy Mackaill series, and the first to qualify as a "sound" picture, even though its audibility was confined to a musical score and sound effects. Mulhall plays Breezy...
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)
Cast: James Finlayson Edward F. Cline
Length: 71min
Another of First National's successful Jack Mulhall-Dorothy Mackaill vehicles, Ladies' Night is a toned-down adaptation of the venerable stage farce -Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath. Womanizing ironworker Speed Dawson (Mulhall) promises to change his...
Cast: Mickey Rooney Colleen Moore
Length: 69min
One of the most accessible of the Colleen Moore silent vehicles, Orchids and Ermine also happens to be among Moore's best and most representative films. The star is cast as Pink Watson, whose craving for such luxuries as orchids and ermine lead her to...
Cast: Jean Arthur Glenn Tryon Jack Mulhall
Length: min
The Poor Nut was based on a stage comedy by the father-and-son team of J. C. and Elliot Nugent. Jack Mulhall assumes the role played by Elliot Nugent on Broadway, that of wimpish college student John Miller. Suffering from an inferiority complex,...
Cast: Dorothy Mackaill
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 6rlmin
Man Crazy is the rather blatant title of this cinemadaptation of ~Clarissa and the Post Road, a novel by Grace Sartwell Mason. Dorothy Mackaill stars as romantically reckless Clarissa Janeway, the bane of her conservative parents' existence. To keep...
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