Alice Brady Movies

Arlette (Alice Brady), the granddaughter of a Brittany innkeeper, falls in love with Richard Vale (Henry Clive), an aspiring artist who has come to the village. Also visiting is Prince Boissard (R. Payton Gibbs), an old roué who lusts after Arlette. The Prince is a patron of the arts, and he offers to help Vale out if Arlette will come to Paris and become his mistress. She agrees, but only if he works his magic on Vale first. He does as promised and calls on Arlette to keep her end of the bargain. But the night she is supposed to give herself to the Prince, his mistreated servant Sarthe (Edmund Pardo) decides to protect the girl and murders him. Arlette is then free to marry Vale. This picture was adapted from a play, The Red Mouse, by Henry J.W. Dam. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Having spent several years at World Films, the studio owned by her Broadway-producer father William A. Brady, Alice Brady took a step upward in the film world when she signed on with Lewis J. Selznick's Select Pictures. One of Brady's first Select endeavors was Woman and Wife, a sporadically literal adaption of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. After enduring a miserable boarding-school childhood, Jane Eyre (Brady) becomes the governess for the daughter of the mysterious, brooding Edward Rochester (Elliot Dexter). Though at first put off by Rochester's sullen truculence, Jane eventually falls in love with him, and he with her. But on the day of their wedding, it is revealed that Rochester's first wife, whom Jane has been led to believe is dead, is alive, albeit hopelessly insane and locked up in her husband's attic. The spectacular fire which highlighted the original novel (and all subsequent film versions of Jane Eyre) was absent from this production. Here, the first Mrs. Rochester accidentally drowns, clearing the path for a happy reunion between Jane and Rochester -- who, unlike his literary counterpart, is not temporarily blinded as punishment for his past sins. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Alice Brady stars in this ordinary little programmer. Naive Doris Shaw (Brady) lives in a fishing village with her father, a religious fanatic. When artist Stuart Kendall (Crauford Kent) comes to the town, a romance develops between the two. But gossip forces Doris to leave home, so she goes to New York, where she and Kendall meet up once again. He puts her up in his studio so she can model for him and she goes along with it, not realizing that eventually there will be a price to pay. After seeing her picture in an advertisement, Westerner Jack Masterson (Curtis Cooksey) decides to meet her, and Doris falls in love with him. The jealous Kendall is determined to keep them apart so he surprises Doris with a wild party at the studio and tricks Masterson into showing up when it is at its rowdiest. Masterson walks out on Doris, who finally realizes that Kendall is a cad. She lets him have it verbally and Masterson overhears. She leaves town, but Masterson follows her onto the train and they are wed. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Even though Cynthia Maitland (Helen Montrose) throws wild parties and is having an affair with Boresky (Robert Cain), a cabaret dancer, her husband Arnold (H.E. Herbert) won't divorce her. He does go to the cabaret, however, intending to confront Boresky, who doesn't appear. But after a few glasses of wine, Maitland makes a cynical wager with his friend that every woman has her price. His friend suggests that he try dancer Flora Farnsworth (the film's star, Alice Brady, finally making her appearance), and Maitland puts her up in a nice apartment and pays for her singing lessons. Still, she won't succumb to him, and his admiration for her turns to love. He makes arrangements to desert his wife so that she will divorce him and he can marry Flora. But as he is about to depart, he is fatally wounded in a car crash. Before dying, however, he hands Flora evidence of his wife's unfaithfulness. Flora then becomes involved with Maitland's partner, Philip Standish (Mahlon Hamilton), who proposes marriage. Cynthia Maitland, who has discovered the wager and Flora's bills among her dead husband's effects, visits Flora and threatens her with exposure. Flora in turn brandishes the evidence of Cynthia's infidelity. Boresky has been dancing with Flora and is angry with her because her marriage will break up the act; with encouragement from Cynthia, he plans to replace the fake dagger in their dance with a real one that night. But before he can kill Flora, he is stopped by Standish. Defeated, Boresky stabs himself. This convoluted picture didn't do much for Alice Brady's film career. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Alice Brady was the biggest star on the World Studio lot, and small wonder: her father, theatrical impresario William H. Brady, owned the place. But Alice was talented enough to survive in showbiz without the added boost of nepotism, as she proves in 1917's The Divorce Game. As indicated by the flippant title, this is a comedy, revolving around the marital misadventures of airheaded Alice and her French nobleman husband John Bowers. When wifey spends every penny in the house and then some, Bowers is forced to make a few momentous decisions. Frances Marion, later MGM's top scenarist, adapted The Divorce Game from Leo Dietrichstein's Gallic farce Mlle. Fifi. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The "Maid of Belgium" is sad-eyed Adoree, played by Alice Brady. When her town is destroyed by the invading Germans during WWI, the shock causes Adoree to completely lose her memory. The girl is rescued from the rubble by Mr. and Mrs. Hudson (George MacQuarrie and Louise de Rigney), a wealthy American couple. Despite her newfound happiness, Adoree does not snap out of her near-catatonic amnesia and sits silently in her room pathetically clutching an old doll. It soon turns out that the heroine is expecting a baby. Upon the child's birth, it is promptly appropriated by the barren Mrs. Hudson, who claims that the baby is hers. Not wishing to be deprived of the only thing she genuinely loves, Adoree steals the baby and hides away on a remote island. Believing the child has been drowned, the grieving Hudsons arrange to dynamite the river in hopes of recovering the body. The sound of the explosion shocks Adoree back to her senses, and at long, long last she remembers that, just before the Germans marched in, she had been married to a prominent Belgian nobleman -- thereby "legitimizing" her baby and paving the way for a happy ending. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Compiled by the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry and distributed to theaters across the United States, National Association's All-Star Picture, features selected scenes from various popular films, offering glimpses of many of the biggest stars of the day. Included are clips of Charlie Chaplin, Francis X. Bushman, Douglas Fairbanks, and many others. ~ All Movie Guide

Alice Brady plays a farm girl who marries the son of her next-door neighbor. Her dreams of a gay social whirl are shattered when her husband takes a job as a railway station agent in a lonely prairie outpost. Desperate for companionship, she begins an affair with the railroad president's son, unaware at first that her lover is likewise married. Leaving her husband, Brady heads to Chicago, hoping that her new sweetheart will find her a job. He does, but only so he can keep her "in reserve" whenever his wife is out of town. Upon discovering that her protector is a philanderer, Brady tries to escape his clutches, but he refuses to let her go. The heroine is rescued by the unexpected appearance of her own husband, who thoroughly trounces the lover and forgives his wife all past indiscretions. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Alice Brady plays the lead in this adaptation of Frou Frou. Frou Frou (Brady) agrees to marry the man chosen by her father, the Marquis de Sartorys (George MacQuarrie), even though she knows her sister Louise (Gerda Holmes) loves him. But Frou Frou is a frivolous girl, and when Louise comes to visit, she ultimately takes her sister's place. Finally Frou Frou sees the error of her ways, but when her husband won't take her back, she runs off with the Comte de Valreas (Edward Langford). Eventually de Sartorys follows and kills de Valreas in a duel. Then Frou Frou comes back home to beg her husband's forgiveness before she dies. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

This comedy-drama, based on a popular play of the era by George Broadhurst, is the classic story of a poor girl who marries a millionaire. But the millionaire, Robert Stafford (Montagu Love), is an alcoholic who, after one of his nights of heavy drinking, asserts that he "bought and paid for" Virginia, his wife (Alice Brady). Virginia finds his inebriation unbearable and decides her comfortable life isn't worth the suffering, so she leaves him. It takes a lot of effort on the part of Virginia's brother-in-law James (Frank Conlan) and his wife Fanny (Josephine Drake) to get the couple back together. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Actress Alice Brady was the star player at the World Film Studios, which was as much due to her versatility as to the fact that her father William Brady ran the studio. In Ballet Girl, she plays a carnival performer who aspires to better things in life. Her big break in the ballet world finally arrives, but it's at the expense of her romance with Robert Frazer. Brady rises to fame as prima ballerina "La Syrena," and it isn't until the very last scene that we know the outcome of her "career vs. love" dilemma. Ballet Girl was based on Compton MacKenzie's novel Carnival; its director was George Irving, later a busy movie character actor of the 1930s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Long before she became a top character actress, Alice Brady was the in-house ingenue for the World Film Manufacturing Company. The fact that Brady's father, theatrical producer William H. Brady, was the head man at World might have been a contributing factor to the actress' prolific output for the studio. In The Gilded Cage, Alice plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who doesn't know her true identity (nor does she know his). Scripted by Frances Marion from a story by J. I. Clarke, the film was sort of a distaff version of The Prisoner of Zenda. If Gilded Cage ever becomes available again, it might be interesting to find out why Clara Whipple's character was named "Lesbia the Goose Girl"! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Taking the rap for her sister, who spent the night with a lecherous travelling salesman, Jane Lawson (Alice Brady) is booted out of her family home. She relocates to New York and takes a job at the very store where the troublesome salesman is employed. Catching the eye of the boss' son, Jane marries him, only to find out that her new husband is a drink-sodden jellyfish. He heads to Alaska for a "rest cure," with the salesman -- who turns out not to be such a bad guy -- financing the trip. Unable to straighten himself out, Jane's husband ends up as the guest of honor at a lynching party. Though understandably upset by her hubby's demise, our heroine is comforted by the fact that the salesman is now in love with her, an affection she willingly reciprocates. "Tangled" is right. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide