Marie Day Movies
- 1944
Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by Republic instead of Warner Bros. This wartime meller reunites the cast and director of the successful Republic melodrama Lady and the Monster, with less than successful results. Skating star Vera Hruba Ralston plays Maritza, a woman of mystery operating in neutral Lisbon. Maritza is somehow connected with sinister café owner Deresco (Erich Von Stroheim), who seems to have a more than a cozy relationship with the Nazis. Deresco tries to prevent American journalist John Craig (Richard Arlen) from leaving Lisbon with a cache of top-secret microfilm (what, no Letters of Transit?) With the whole world crumbling, Vera Ralston manages to work in an ice-ballet number. Few have ever had the urge to shout "Play it again" after watching Storm Over Lisbon. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, (more)
- 1923
This average South Seas romance -- based on a novel by Harold McGrath -- was the second film featuring stage star Alfred Lunt. Playing opposite him is fashion model Mimi Palmeri in her acting debut (and, possibly, swan song -- after this film, she was apparently never heard from again). Lunt plays Howard Spurlock, who takes money from his uncle which he believes to rightfully be his. Fearing that the police are on his trail, he travels to the South Seas, where he takes to drink out of guilt. In Canton he becomes so ill that he requires attention, which is provided by Ruth Enschede (Palmeri), the naive daughter of a missionary (Charles Kent). Spurlock, believing that circumstances have compromised Ruth, marries her and only later does he learn to love her. He finds work through a doctor (Wallace Erskine), and straightens himself out. Spurlock's aunt (Marie Day) tracks him to the South Seas and informs him that his uncle never pressed charges and that he was never in trouble in the first place. ~ Janiss Garza, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alfred Lunt, Mimi Palmeri, (more)
- 1922
A picture featuring orphans was always a good box-office bet in the early '20s, so it's no surprise that the novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin found its way to the screen. Eleven-year-old Joseph Depew (who grew up to direct The Beverly Hillbillies) is Timothy, who lives in an orphanage and takes care of a little girl he calls Lady Gay (Helen Rowland). He runs away with the girl and they set out in search of a mother. Their travels lead them to a ride on a freight train headed out to the country. The children pick out a house that they think would be nice to live in, but its resident, spinster Avida Cummins (Marie Day), has no intention whatsoever of being a "mother" to anyone and refuses to take them in. Needless to say, it's only a matter of a few days before she changes her mind and allows the orphans to become part of her life. Eventually, she is given the opportunity to let Timothy go, but by then she has come to love the little boy. Wiggin's story was filmed as a talkie in 1935. ~ Janiss Garza, Rovi
- Starring:
- Joseph Depew, Marie Day, (more)
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