Ada May

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charlie Chaplin
CAST:  Charlie Chaplin  •  Mady Correll  •  Allison Roddan  •  Robert Lewis

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charlie Chaplin
CAST:  Charlie Chaplin  •  Mady Correll  •  Allison Roddan  •  Robert Lewis

The Dancing Town (1928)

Young kids face off in a dance competition.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edmund Lawrence
CAST:  Helen Hayes  •  Clarence Nordstrom  •  Ada May  •  Hal Skelly

Young kids face off in a dance competition.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edmund Lawrence
CAST:  Helen Hayes  •  Clarence Nordstrom  •  Ada May  •  Hal Skelly

Dance, Girl, Dance (1933)

Vaudevillian Joe Pitt sweeps young Sally Patter off of her feet and steals the lovestruck girl away from her small-town family to join his act. She winds up heartbroken, pregnant and broke when Joe runs off with the magician's sexy assistant. Sally bravely persists ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank R. Strayer
CAST:  Alan Dinehart  •  Evalyn Knapp  •  Edward Nugent  •  Ada May

Vaudevillian Joe Pitt sweeps young Sally Patter off of her feet and steals the lovestruck girl away from her small-town family to join his act. She winds up heartbroken, pregnant and broke when Joe runs off with the magician's sexy assistant. Sally bravely persists ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank R. Strayer
CAST:  Alan Dinehart  •  Evalyn Knapp  •  Edward Nugent  •  Ada May

The Shaming of the True: A Simple Tale of British Mother Love (1930)

Comedy skit shown as part of a theatrical revue. 'The picture is supposed to be a Hollywood drama of English life, wildly burlesqued, and in the middle of projection Maisie Gay stands up in the stalls, protests, argues with the players on the screen, and then ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Walter Creighton
CAST:  Maisie Gay  •  Roy Royston  •  Joan Clarkson  •  Douglas Byng

Comedy skit shown as part of a theatrical revue. 'The picture is supposed to be a Hollywood drama of English life, wildly burlesqued, and in the middle of projection Maisie Gay stands up in the stalls, protests, argues with the players on the screen, and then ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Walter Creighton
CAST:  Maisie Gay  •  Roy Royston  •  Joan Clarkson  •  Douglas Byng