Polly Moran
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1883-06-28
Place of Birth:Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Also Known As:Pauline Theresa Moran

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.

Petticoat Politics (1941)
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.

Alice in Wonderland (1933)
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

Sheriff Nell's Tussle (1918)
A slick city crook arrives in the town and succeeds in making honest Nell fall in love with him. He then suggests an entertainment with local talent,...

Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a...

The Pullman Bride (1917)
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.

Are Brunettes Safe? (1927)
Are Brunettes Safe?

A Favorite Fool (1915)
Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her...

The Unknown (1927)
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he...

The Blackbird (1926)
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the...

The Passionate Plumber (1932)
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J....

Luck (1923)
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He...

Red River Range (1938)
The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as...

Way Out West (1930)
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He...

Politics (1931)
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.

Her Painted Hero (1915)
A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.

A Lady of Chance (1928)
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.

The Divine Woman (1928)
[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his...

The Girl Said No (1930)
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines...

So This Is College (1929)
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

Hollywood Party (1934)
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real...

Down to Their Last Yacht (1934)
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with...

The Yellow Cab Man (1950)
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

Reducing (1931)
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Remote Control (1930)
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he...

Prosperity (1932)
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

Way for a Sailor (1930)
A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.

The Unholy Night (1929)
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.

Chasing Rainbows (1930)
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is...

Crazy House (1930)
Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.

The Christmas Party (1931)
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

Caught Short (1930)
Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and...

Came the Dawn (1928)
Papa, Mama, Daughter and Son Gimplewort move into their new house. Two movers are talking to each other about the murder of a saxophone player that...

The Show (1927)
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of...

Hot for Paris (1929)
A romantic adventure musical film directed by Raoul Walsh....The film is believed to be lost.

Madcap Ambrose (1916)
Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.

Speedway (1929)
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son...

London After Midnight (2002)
A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney.

London After Midnight (1927)
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious...

Dangerous Females (1929)
Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.

While the City Sleeps (1928)
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though...

Honeymoon (1928)
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former...

China Bound (1929)
Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.

A Schoolhouse Scandal (1919)
A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold...

High & Dry (1921)
Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.

Their Social Splash (1915)
Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the...

The Trail of '98 (1928)
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

Bringing Up Father (1928)
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach...

The Rounder (1930)
A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the woman who lives there.

Two Wise Maids (1937)
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy...

Ladies in Distress (1938)
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid...

It's a Wise Child (1931)
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.

Show People (1928)
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

Guilty Hands (1931)
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

The Stolen Jools (1931)
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

Adam's Rib (1949)
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers...

Those Three French Girls (1930)
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) (1931)
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort;...

Beyond the Sierras (1928)
A masked avenger takes on claim jumpers.

Paid (1930)
Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934)
Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator...

Flesh and the Devil (1926)
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station...

Oh, Duchess! (1936)
A fish peddler is known to her customers as "The Duchess"; her fiance's father hears this and thinks she is a real duchess.

Sailor Maid (1937)
An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband.

Meet the Missus (1940)
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.

That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Telling the World (1928)
The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal...

The Scarlet Letter (1927)
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England,...

His Naughty Thought (1917)
Café ownder Mack Swain goes gaga over a gal.

The Enemy (1927)
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted....

Happy Times and Jolly Moments (1943)
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

Smith's Cook (1927)
The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest, decides to leave her employment in order to get...

The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)
The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

The Thirteenth Hour (1927)
A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.

Rose-Marie (1928)
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim...

Buttons (1927)
Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell...

Two Weeks with Pay (1921)
Pansy O'Donnell, a salesgirl, is given a two-week vacation at a summer resort, where she advertises clothing made by her company. The hotel clerk...

Ambush (1939)
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary,...

Shadows of the Night (1928)
Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.

She Loved Him Plenty (1918)
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben...