Alice Joyce – MRQE

The Green Goddess

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.

The Courage of Silence

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When Bradley (Harry T. Morey) travels from America to England, he meets and falls in love with Mercedes, the wife of the Spanish ambassador (Alice Joyce). The problem is that Bradley is married, which he doesn’t bother telling his inamorata. He returns to the States, but is compelled to return to Mercedes. The ambassador finds them together and thrashes his wife, who leaves him. She and Bradley set sail for the U.S., and then he finally tells her he already has a wife. They land in Calais and she escapes from him, later entering a convent. Mrs. Bradley, meanwhile, has gotten a letter from her husband explaining that he has eloped with Mercedes and eventually she goes to France with her father. While there, she and her two children become ill and are tended to by a nun, who turns out to be Mercedes. She manages to get husband and wife back together, and Bradley only discovers her identity at the end.

Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he foregoes his artistic calling and draws for magazines. Reaching his limits, Julian convinces his wife he could reach higher grounds if he were to go to Paris. He moves to Paris while his Edith works at a shop on Fifth Avenue. Each of their lives evolves differentlyEdith is courted by a wealthy suitor whom she ignores while pining for her husband, while Julian fails to meet his goals in Paris, returning defeated three years later. The meeting highlight how different their routes have been.

Stella Dallas

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy man, and the problem gets worse when their daughter starts growing up.

Song o’ My Heart

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman hes always loved. Marys aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man whos off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, hes nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?

13 Washington Square

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.

So’s Your Old Man

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of his social-climbing daughter and nagging wife.

The Ace of Cads

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An officer in the British Guards takes to drink when a friend and fellow officer convinces the woman they both love that he has another woman.

Dancing Mothers

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home. The mother rebels against her lonesome life and attempts to prevent a man from pursuing her daughter.

The Home Maker

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man’s life seems to be falling apart. He’s bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion and, when the pressures get to be too much, he tries to commit suicide, but he even fails at that and manages only to cripple himself instead of killing himself. Forced to stay at home, he finds the role of “househusband” enjoyable–until his wife takes a low-paying job with his old company, and rapidly rises up the corporate ladder.