Ethel Wales
Birthday: 1878-04-04
Place of Birth: Passaic, New Jersey, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 - February 15, 1952) was an American actress, who appeared in 130 films during her 30-year career. She was the first wife of Wellington E. Wales (1886–1954), Mary Pickford's business manager during the height of her popularity. The couple had one son, Wellington Charles Wales (1918–1966), an editorial writer for the New York Times who died of a heart attack shortly after his 19 year-old son Samuel was killed in a train mishap. Her second husband was actor Hal Taliaferro.
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Manslaughter
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of moto...
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out ...
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Bobbed Hair
A young woman spurns her too conventional fiancé and flees to an artists' colony....
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Subway Express
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a...
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The Doctor's Secret
Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man...
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The Donovan Affair
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney....
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The Dude Wrangler
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Stepping Fast
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The Satin Woman
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A Man's Land
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The Criminal Code
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The Racing Strain
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The Perfect Crime
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Let Women Alone
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The Crime Doctor
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Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
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Love Me Tonight
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The Old Homestead
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson....
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The Wedding Song
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Go Straight!
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Loving Lies
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Revelation
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Klondike
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient ...
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The Saturday Night Kid
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The Bedroom Window
William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collabora...
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My Friend from India
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith ...
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Honeymoon Lane
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Cradle Snatchers
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The Big Bluff
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The Eleventh Commandment
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, ...
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The Fighting Parson
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Take It from Me
Tom Eggett, with the help of his pals, Dick and Van, loses the last cent of his inheritance, is evic...
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Love in High Gear
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the s...
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Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma's home cooking, Pa's pack...
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The Masks of the Devil
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The Important Witness
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she ...
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Nice People
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Midsummer Madness
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels ...
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Icebound
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. H...
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Craig's Wife
Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery f...
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Tenth Avenue
Joe, a weakling gangster, and Bob, an ex-gambler, compete for Lyla Mason, a working girl who also ru...
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Loose Ankles
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The Country Doctor
A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happin...
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Beggar on Horseback
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he lo...
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Almost Human
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and...
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Made for Love
A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up an...
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Under Montana Skies
Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During th...
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Love Among the Millionaires
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich ...
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The Rag Man
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fi...
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We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente...
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Gold Dust Gertie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony....
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The Girl in the Show
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when th...
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The Covered Wagon
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon....
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Women Are Trouble
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang....
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Let Us Live
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentence...
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Frontier Pony Express
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In Old Caliente
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Saturday Night
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Days of Jesse James
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Bar 20 Rides Again
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Maker of Men
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject hi...
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Wyoming
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nic...
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Young Bill Hickok
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are tryi...
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Hidden Gold
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Dark Command
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Lumberjack
Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hoppy w...
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Tangled Destinies
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a ...
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Border Vigilantes
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante commit...
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Tom Sawyer
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pal...
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Sudden Money
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney a...
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Female
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of bu...
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The Marriage Maker
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Ladies at Play
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Miss Lulu Bett
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, w...
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The Girl in the Pullman
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turni...
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The White Sin
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lo...
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The Thirteenth Guest
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining gu...
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Blue Skies
Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances ...
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Blonde Alibi
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspic...
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On to Reno
This is a farce, concerning itself with a young husband and a wife who are becoming stranged over mo...
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Wandering Footsteps
Hal Whitney, an irresponsible young millionaire, befriends Timothy Payne, a wise old college profess...
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The Merry Frinks
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter....
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Another Face
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new ...
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The Overland Limited
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful ...
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The Bonded Woman
Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. ...
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Merton of the Movies
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lo...
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The Fog
Nathan Forge, romantic son of a cruel businessman, publishes in a local newspaper a poem about a gir...
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Tarnished
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a...
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After the Show
After the Show was adapted from Rita Weiman's story "The Stage Door." Lila Lee plays Eileen, a starr...
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The Monster
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place...
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The Grail
Texas Ranger Chic Shelby is sent to capture James Trammel and his son, John--two outlaws hiding in t...
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Is Matrimony a Failure?
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Saxby's silver wedding anniversary is interrupted by the surprise elopement of the...
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance....
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When Husbands Flirt
Directed by William A. Wellman. With Dorothy Revier, Forrest Stanley, Tom Ricketts, Ethel Wales....
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