Claire McDowell Movies

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.

An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her...

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process...

At the suggestion of his sons Horace and Henry, aging Ebenezer Boyce turns over control of his pistol factory to Martin. However, when Ebenezer...

A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.

Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A...

At the assay office in town, Jim Bevins turned his gold into dollars, then sat into a game because he felt lucky, and broke the gambler. On the way...

A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.

In this picture it is shown how a convict's life still remains under the ban of the law, even after the expiration of his term. With the detective...

Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Facing a prison term, James Moreton makes provision for the care of his motherless daughter, Lucia, by his brother and sister-in-law; she is cruelly...

Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected...

The brother at cards failed to make up the shortage at the express office, but the gambler determined to save him. His intention, however, was...

While packing her trunk preparatory to leaving home for the adjoining county, where she has been called to teach, the young schoolteacher discovers...

A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.

Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping...

Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.

A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she is adopted and cared for until her marriage,...

A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.