Margaret Livingston – MRQE

The Best People

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

Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry “within their class”. They, however, have different plans–Bertie is in love with chorus girl Sally O’Neil and Marian loves Henry Morgan, the family chauffeur. The family finds out about the impending marriages and determines to stop them. Complications ensue.

Capital Punishment

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates a fairly serious melodrama to a timeless and profound social statement. Opening the film on death row where the handsome youth awaits the chair, a stirring test of the legal system evolves after two elite types conspire to expose its inadequacies. Elite, jaded society lawyer Gordon Harrington fabricates a murder, implicating an entirely “hired” fall-guy, one Dan O’Connor, while the bored playboy-type hides away on a yacht until the points are proven and the legal system has been disgraced. Naturally, something goes wrong, the playboy really turns up murdered, and O’Connor is now the accused, imprisoned murderer scheduled to be hanged.

Divorce

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The “shocking” (by 1923 standards) title to this picture was just a smokescreen — in reality, it was merely a domestic soap opera geared toward women film fans. Jane Novak and John Bowers star as Jane and Jim Parker, a happily wed couple with a little boy, Dickie (Philippe DeLacy). Jim works for Jane’s father, and when he earns a promotion, he insists on getting a big, impressive home so he can entertain his new friends and business associates. His extravagant lifestyle does not suit Jane, who begins to fall behind socially. Not surprisingly, Jim becomes easy prey for the most convenient vamp, Gloria Gayne (Margaret Livingston), and soon his marriage is on the rocks. Divorce proceedings begin and Jim loses his cushy job. Finally he realizes what he has sacrificed on the altar of ambition and regrets the choices he has made. He returns to the old cottage where he once knew happiness, and there are Jane and Dickie, waiting for him to come to his senses and return home.

Lying Lips

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A spoiled rich girl from England encounters a wonderful young man who, unfortunately, has no money. Will love or money win out?

Seven Keys to Baldpate

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

A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.

Broadminded

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

Jack’s father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack’s cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.

The Lady Refuses

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.

The Charlatan

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Shaken, she leaves and later tells her girlfriend about the incident. The girlfriend insists that she invite the fortune-teller to a party they’re having at her house. What the woman doesn’t realize is that the “fortune-teller” is actually the ex-husband she abandoned years ago, when she took their daughter and ran off with her lover. When the “charlatan” is invited to the party, he sees an opportunity to take his revenge on his faithless ex-wife.

Bellamy Trial

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

The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.

Innocents of Paris

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

Directed by Richard Wallace.