Vera Lewis
Date of birth: 1873-06-09
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Vera Mackey, Miss Lewis
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vera Lewis (June 10, 1873 – February 8, 1956) was an American film and stage actress, beginning in the silent film era. She appeared in 183 films between 1915 and 1947. She was married to actor Ralph Lewis. She was born in Manhattan, where she began acting in stage productions. Her film career started in 1915 with the film Hypocrites, which starred Myrtle Stedman and Courtenay Foote. From 1915 to 1929 she appeared in 63 silent films, including the film classic Intolerance (1916) where she played the "old maid" Miss Jenkins. Unlike many silent film stars, she made a smooth transition to "talking films", starting with her 1930 appearance in Wide Open, starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Edward Everett Horton. Though never what is referred to as a "premier star", she appeared in 58 films during the 1930s, and another 60 during the 1940s. She retired after 1947, and resided at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, California at the time of her death on February 8, 1956.
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Manpower
1941-08-09
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916-09-04
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit
The Return of Doctor X
1939-11-23
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to c
Lady Gangster
1942-04-01
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938-11-19
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, N
The Blooming Angel
1920-02-08
Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling yo
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938-07-20
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o
The Broken Gate
1927-02-15
In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a
The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally
The Glorious Fool
1922-01-01
Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that
The Suspect
1945-01-31
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yea
The Pest
1919-04-20
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
1939-09-09
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the mur
Four Daughters
1938-08-09
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily to
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947-04-17
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house wit
Lombardi, Ltd.
1919-10-01
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensat
Miss Polly
1941-11-14
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity Leagu
Wife to Spare
1947-11-20
Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with
Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935-08-03
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match wit
Spook Busters
1946-08-24
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and g
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941-09-20
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Missing Girls
1936-09-10
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty R
Four Mothers
1941-01-04
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
It's a Joke, Son!
1947-01-15
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a
She Couldn't Say No
1940-12-07
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the od
Hell's Kitchen
1939-07-08
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrup
Wide Open
1930-02-01
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
Take It from Me
1926-10-10
Tom Eggett, with the help of his pals, Dick and Van, loses the last cent of his inheritance, is evic
Never Too Late
1935-11-27
A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
Way Down East
1935-10-25
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the wo
Comet Over Broadway
1938-12-03
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Night Nurse
1931-07-16
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training sh
The Iron Mask
1929-02-21
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when th
Ramona
1928-03-27
Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent
The Small Bachelor
1927-11-06
What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature's whi
The Caprices of Kitty
1915-03-08
Orphaned heiress Katherine Bradley, known as "Kit," is an orphan and heiress is attending a fashiona
Betty in Search of a Thrill
1915-05-17
After graduating from a convent school, Betty travels to New York to visit her relatives, the Hastin
Strictly Unconventional
1930-05-03
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic Englis
Stella Dallas
1925-11-16
An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy ma
Command Performance
1931-01-19
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter
The Mother and the Law
1919-08-18
To recoup losses from the extravagant roadshow presentations of Intolerance (1916), Griffith would r
How to Educate a Wife
1924-05-01
Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as
Broadway After Dark
1924-05-19
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen
Ella Cinders
1926-06-06
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local bea
Racket Busters
1938-07-16
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Boy Meets Girl
1938-08-27
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be
Naughty But Nice
1939-06-23
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-to
The Only Thing
1925-11-22
Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution
Paddy O'Day
1936-01-17
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an
Girls on Probation
1938-10-22
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Four Wives
1939-12-22
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she fa
Devil's Island
1939-01-07
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
Blackwell's Island
1939-01-24
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Dodge City
1939-04-08
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a r
Women in the Wind
1939-04-15
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme
Kid Nightingale
1939-11-04
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees t
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo
Nurse Marjorie
1920-04-03
Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. Sh
The Daring Young Man
1935-07-17
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a
Hypocrites
1915-01-20
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Pu
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939-02-02
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chine
Busses Roar
1942-09-19
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
Coquette
1929-03-30
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
The Killers
1946-08-30
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede,
Moontide
1942-05-29
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
All This, and Heaven Too
1940-07-05
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Du
It Had to Be You
1947-12-07
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
They Drive by Night
1940-07-26
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b
The Courageous Dr. Christian
1940-04-04
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of
Father Is A Prince
1940-11-18
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaner
Mr. Skeffington
1944-05-25
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth
An Angel from Texas
1940-04-27
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Meet the Baron
1933-10-20
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Someone to Remember
1943-08-21
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is t
The Meanest Gal in Town
1934-01-12
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Broadway Musketeers
1938-10-08
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a youn
Private Detective
1939-12-09
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a
The Gilded Butterfly
1926-01-03
Left penniless after the death of her reprobate father Linda Haverhill procures a loan from John Con
The Dark Swan
1924-11-26
Clever vamp Eve Quinn has generally had her way with men, while her quiet, deep-thinking sister Corn
Three Girls About Town
1941-10-23
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo
Yes, My Darling Daughter
1939-02-25
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year j
Rhythm Round-Up
1945-09-06
Arriving in Arizona, the band members discover that the hotel is haunted and that it properly belong
Bad Men of Missouri
1941-07-26
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi
They Died with Their Boots On
1941-11-20
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death
Remember the Day
1941-12-25
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him
The Home Towners
1928-11-03
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly suppo
Peg o' My Heart
1922-12-17
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Ma
What Happened To Father
1927-06-25
William Bradberry, an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one
Enticement
1925-03-01
Romantic complications and tragedy ensue when two former lovers, one of them now married to another,
Sweepstakes Winner
1939-05-20
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes tick
Navy Wife
1935-09-17
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
On Trial
1939-04-01
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wi
In Old Chicago
1938-04-15
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually riva
Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
1941-03-08
In this musical short, Cliff Edwards and his cowhands run a struggling dude ranch. When a pretty gir
Long Live the King
1923-11-26
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies,
The Cat Creeps
1946-05-17
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
The Gorilla Man
1943-01-16
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
Sunshine Molly
1915-03-18
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938-11-12
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwi
Princess O'Rourke
1943-10-23
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Adventure in Diamonds
1940-03-08
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) s
Hard to Get
1938-11-05
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill
Here Comes Happiness
1941-03-15
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue
The Lily
1926-10-03
The Marriage Market
1923-10-25
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and
Money and the Woman
1940-08-17
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
The Lady and the Lug
1941-03-22
In this comedic short, a reporter wins a boxer's contract and decides to stage an exhibition fight f
Hollywood and Vine
1945-04-25
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining
Granny Get Your Gun
1940-02-10
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
Eve's Secret
1925-05-11
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt
The Hard Way
1943-01-13
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small
Maid of Salem
1937-02-12
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a sc
Dancing Pirate
1936-05-22
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jona
Resurrection
1927-03-19
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years
Bullet Scars
1942-03-07
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madi
A Weaver of Dreams
1918-03-02
Unrequited love rules the day as both wealthy Judith Sylvester and her invalid aunt pine for men who
She Couldn't Help It
1920-12-14
Removed from an orphanage, Nance Olden is taken to live at Mother Hogan's boarding-house for crooks.
Nancy from Nowhere
1922-01-22
Adopted by the Kellys from an orphanage, Nancy is reared in dreadful surroundings and mistreated as
One Foot in Heaven
1941-11-01
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Jack and the Beanstalk
1917-07-30
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack c
Who Cares
1925-02-01
Who Cares is a 1925 silent film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures and starring Dorothy D
Hold Your Man
1933-06-30
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidenta
Something Always Happens
1928-03-28
Brass
1923-03-04
With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her hus
The Long Lane's Turning
1919-02-10
When brilliant lawyer Harry Sevier, an alcoholic, cannot cope with the prosecution's tactics, his in
The Kid Magicians
1915-06-29
On a family outing to the golf course rich boy Georgie’s mother invites their poor caddy “Rags” to G
As the Sun Went Down
1919-02-10
Although a female, gunfighter "Colonel Billy" is feared by the men of Rattlesnake Gulch, a mining ca
Yvonne from Paris
1919-07-13
Successful Parisian dancer Yvonne Halbert grows tired of the overwatchfulness of her aunt and runs a
A Bit of Jade
1918-04-01
During lunch, Cuthbert King asks his sister Phyllis for a loan to pay off his gambling debts. Upon l
Desire
1923-10-01
Society children Madalyn Harlan and Bob Elkins separate the day they are to be married. Madalyn marr
The Poor Simp
1920-08-20
Melville Carruthers finally decides to propose to his girlfriend Grace and sets out for her house, b
In Every Woman's Life
1924-09-28
Sara Langford, an American girl in Paris, is courted by Count Desanges, who loves her but is conside
The Trouble Buster
1917-10-08
Soon after arriving in the U.S., Romanian immigrant Franz Libelt dies, leaving his daughter Michelna
Lost in Transit
1917-09-03
Mr. Kendall, a wealthy man who had sent his infant son to a home after the death of his mother at bi
The Lamb and the Lion
1919-03-24
A girl known as "Boots," who keeps house for a band of crooks led by her kind guardian, Uncle Ben, c
A Full House
1920-10-24
Lawyer George Howell leaves his bride Ottilie on their wedding day, having promised client Ned Pembr
The Devil's Riddle
1920-03-08
During a raging Montana snowstorm, Doctor Jim Barnes collapses at Esther Anderson's cabin door. Esth