Betty Ross Clarke

Betty Ross Clarke

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Betty Ross Clarke (born May Clarke, May 1, 1892 – January 24, 1970) was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1920 and 1940, including silent and sound films, in both credited and uncredited roles. During the 1920s, Clarke appeared in 14 silent films, including 11 U.S. films, two British films and one German film. In the United States, she worked for film companies that included Famous Players-Lasky, Thomas H. Ince, and Vitagraph Studios. She played the female lead in the film If I Were King opposite William Farnum and had other starring roles in silent films. Clarke's first screen role in a "talkie" was as the character Dot Aldrich in The Age for Love. During the 1930s, she appeared in more than 20 sound films, including both feature films and short films. She typically played character roles, both credited and uncredited. Of note, she replaced the actress Sara Haden as Aunt Millie in two feature length Andy Hardy films. Betty Ross Clarke was occasionally billed in screen credits as "Betsy Ross Clarke" or "Betty Ross Clark," and her name appears as "Betty Ross-Clarke" in some databases, such as the Internet Broadway Database. Throughout her career, Clarke often performed on both the theater stage and in films during the same time period. A newspaper advertisement in 1922 noted that audience members could "see her on stage and screen at the same time," because she was performing in the play The Morning Him and also starring in the film At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern. Commenting on the difference between stage and film acting, Clarke remarked that the "silent drama affords an easier life to those who choose it, for one has the nights free, to do as one likes. On the boards an actor's or actresses's time is always taken up." Most of the silent films in which Clarke appeared have not survived. However, the films If I Were King and Mother o' Mine are preserved in the silent film archive of the Library of Congress. A print of Mother o' Mine is also housed in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The silent film Traveling Salesman, with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in the leading role, can be found in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York. Many of the later sound films in which she appeared are still available, including Murders in the Rue Morgue, A Bride for Henry, Love Finds Andy Hardy, Judge Hardy's Children, and Four Wives.

  • Title: Betty Ross Clarke
  • Popularity: 0.815
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1892-05-01
  • Place of Birth: Langdon, North Dakota, USA
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  • Also Known As: Betsy Ross Clark, Betty Ross Clark, Betty Ross, May Clarke
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Betty Ross Clarke Movies

  • 1922
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    The Man from Downing Street

    The Man from Downing Street

    1 1922 HD

    Someone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing Street to the natives, so Captain Robert Kent comes down...

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  • 1932
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    Murders in the Rue Morgue

    Murders in the Rue Morgue

    6.1 1932 HD

    In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets...

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  • 1938
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    Love Finds Andy Hardy

    Love Finds Andy Hardy

    6.271 1938 HD

    Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

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  • 1921
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    The Fox

    The Fox

    1 1921 HD

    Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a...

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  • 1936
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    The Public Pays

    The Public Pays

    7 1936 HD

    In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement...

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  • 1937
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    A Night at the Movies

    A Night at the Movies

    5.182 1937 HD

    A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

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  • 1937
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    A Bride for Henry

    A Bride for Henry

    5.5 1937 HD

    On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party....

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  • 1936
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    Three Married Men

    Three Married Men

    1 1936 HD

    Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and...

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  • 1938
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    Judge Hardy's Children

    Judge Hardy's Children

    6.3 1938 HD

    Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.

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  • 1938
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    Too Hot to Handle

    Too Hot to Handle

    5.8 1938 HD

    While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he...

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  • 1931
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    The Age for Love

    The Age for Love

    1 1931 HD

    A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.

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  • 1938
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    Woman Against Woman

    Woman Against Woman

    6.5 1938 HD

    A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

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  • 1938
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    Hold That Kiss

    Hold That Kiss

    6.5 1938 HD

    Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.

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  • 1921
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    Traveling Salesman

    Traveling Salesman

    1 1921 HD

    A practical joke makes a man get off before his intended stop, leading to all sorts of trouble.

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  • 1939
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    Four Wives

    Four Wives

    5.1 1939 HD

    In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her...

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  • 1921
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    Her Social Value

    Her Social Value

    1 1921 HD

    A shop girl has ambitions of marrying up.

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  • 1940
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    Untamed

    Untamed

    4.3 1940 HD

    A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit...

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  • 1924
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    Straws in the Wind

    Straws in the Wind

    1 1924 HD

    A benefactor ejects a tramp who covets his wife and later adopts the child of the girl the tramp saved from suicide.

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  • 1924
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    The Cost of Beauty

    The Cost of Beauty

    1 1924 HD

    A rich woman refuses to bear her husband a child, but adopts a son by his mistress after his death.

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  • 1933
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    Headline Shooter

    Headline Shooter

    5.8 1933 HD

    A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

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  • 1938
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    The Chaser

    The Chaser

    6 1938 HD

    A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the...

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  • 1938
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    Another Romance of Celluloid

    Another Romance of Celluloid

    5 1938 HD

    This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of...

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  • 1937
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    Blossoms On Broadway

    Blossoms On Broadway

    4 1937 HD

    A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.

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  • 1920
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    If I Were King

    If I Were King

    1 1920 HD

    J. Gordon Edwards silent adventure melodrama about a famous poet who is allowed to rule France for a week!

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  • 1920
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    Romance

    Romance

    9 1920 HD

    A young man planning to marry receives a cautionary tale from his bishop based on the sad tale of the bishop's own early romance.

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  • 1921
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    Brewster's Millions

    Brewster's Millions

    6 1921 HD

    Monte Brewster learns that he has inherited $10 million from his late grandfather, but then learns that he must spend $2 million in less than a year...

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