May Foster

The Docks of New York (1928)

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Josef von Sternberg
CAST:  George Bancroft  •  Betty Compson  •  Olga Baclanova  •  Clyde Cook

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Josef von Sternberg
CAST:  George Bancroft  •  Betty Compson  •  Olga Baclanova  •  Clyde Cook

A Woman of the World (1925)

A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Malcolm St. Clair
CAST:  Pola Negri  •  Charles Emmett Mack  •  Holmes Herbert  •  Blanche Mehaffey

A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Malcolm St. Clair
CAST:  Pola Negri  •  Charles Emmett Mack  •  Holmes Herbert  •  Blanche Mehaffey

Double Door (1934)

A domineering money-bags whose suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Vidor
CAST:  Evelyn Venable  •  Mary Morris  •  Anne Revere  •  Kent Taylor

A domineering money-bags whose suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Vidor
CAST:  Evelyn Venable  •  Mary Morris  •  Anne Revere  •  Kent Taylor

Milestones (1920)

1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Scardon
CAST:  Lewis Stone  •  Alice Hollister  •  Gertrude Robinson  •  Harvey Clark

1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Scardon
CAST:  Lewis Stone  •  Alice Hollister  •  Gertrude Robinson  •  Harvey Clark

45 Minutes from Broadway (1920)

Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his friend's housemaid.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph De Grasse
CAST:  Charles Ray  •  Dorothy Devore  •  Hazel Howell  •  Eugenie Besserer

Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his friend's housemaid.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph De Grasse
CAST:  Charles Ray  •  Dorothy Devore  •  Hazel Howell  •  Eugenie Besserer