Polly Moran
Birthday: 1883-06-28
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: Pauline Theresa Moran (June 28, 1883 – January 24, 1952) billed as Polly Moran, was an American actress of vaudeville, stage and screen and a comedian.
Movies
Petticoat Politics
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend ...
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Alice in Wonderland
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla...
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Sheriff Nell's Tussle
A slick city crook arrives in the town and succeeds in making honest Nell fall in love with him. He ...
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Tom Brown's School Days
When private tutor Thomas Arnold becomes headmaster at an English preparatory school for boys, he pu...
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The Pullman Bride
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring ...
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A Favorite Fool
Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sy...
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The Unknown
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his fee...
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The Blackbird
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub ...
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The Passionate Plumber
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagor...
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Luck
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's...
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Red River Range
The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Rile...
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Way Out West
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is force...
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Politics
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town....
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Her Painted Hero
A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fa...
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A Lady of Chance
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama....
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The Divine Woman
[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that e...
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The Girl Said No
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams...
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Hollywood Party
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lio...
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Down to Their Last Yacht
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sai...
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The Yellow Cab Man
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is alway...
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Reducing
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out...
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Remote Control
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves....
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The Affairs of Anatol
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excit...
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The Unholy Night
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an E...
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Chasing Rainbows
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the ...
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Crazy House
Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients....
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The Christmas Party
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his footbal...
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Caught Short
Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, a...
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Came the Dawn
Papa, Mama, Daughter and Son Gimplewort move into their new house. Two movers are talking to each ot...
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The Show
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. ...
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Hot for Paris
Rough sea dog John Patrick Duke has a weakness for women and strong drink. Little does he know that ...
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Madcap Ambrose
Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relati...
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Speedway
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest dr...
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London After Midnight
A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midni...
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London After Midnight
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to li...
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Dangerous Females
Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood....
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While the City Sleeps
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi ...
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Honeymoon
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to ...
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A Schoolhouse Scandal
A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was r...
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High & Dry
Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational....
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Their Social Splash
Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with ba...
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The Trail of '98
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in ...
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Bringing Up Father
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wif...
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The Rounder
A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the...
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Two Wise Maids
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an...
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Ladies in Distress
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her tow...
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It's a Wise Child
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pr...
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Show People
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic s...
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Guilty Hands
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and th...
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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Adam's Rib
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam...
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Those Three French Girls
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and lea...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxin...
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Paid
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plot...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of thei...
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Flesh and the Devil
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo ...
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Sailor Maid
An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes l...
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Oh, Duchess!
A fish peddler is known to her customers as "The Duchess"; her fiance's father hears this and thinks...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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Telling the World
The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Dav...
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The Scarlet Letter
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. Afte...
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The Enemy
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. W...
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era....
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Smith's Cook
The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest,...
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The Callahans and the Murphys
The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement....
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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The Thirteenth Hour
A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder....
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Rose-Marie
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but s...
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Buttons
Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong s...
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Two Weeks with Pay
Pansy O'Donnell, a salesgirl, is given a two-week vacation at a summer resort, where she advertises ...
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Ambush
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue...
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Shadows of the Night
Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroi...
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She Loved Him Plenty
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Char...
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Roping Her Romeo
The whimsical adventures of the impetuous Sheriff Nell (Polly Moran), who keeps Triggerville in line...
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Skirts
Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is ...
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