Ella Margaret Gibson
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Ella Margaret "Gibby" Gibson (September 14, 1894 - October 21, 1964), generally known as Margaret Gibson or Patricia Palmer, was an American stage and silent film
actress who had leading roles in Vitagraph westerns, often opposite William Clifford. She also appeared with Charles Ray in The Coward (1915) and later worked in two Westerns with William S. Hart
: The Money Corral and Sand!. In 1999 it was reported that on the afternoon of October 21, 1964 she made a dying confession to the murder of director William Desmond Taylor
.
Gibson was sometimes credited or otherwise identified under at least seven other names, such as Patsy Palmer, Margie Gibson, Marguerite Gibson, Helen Gibson, Ella Margaret Lewis, Ella Margaret Arce or Pat Lewis. She appeared in 147 movies between 1913 and 1929.
. An article in Variety
magazine the following year noted that the 19 year old, budding film star had purchased a cliffside bungalow overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica. In 1915 she left Vitagraph and went to the Thomas Ince
Film Company where she played a small supporting role in The Coward, the film which made Charles Ray a star. She subsequently had supporting roles in many comedy shorts and was the subject of several promotional articles in fan magazines.
Her first starring role after Vitagraph was in Mutual Masterpicture
's The Soul's Cycle
(1916) in which she played both an attractive Roman maiden and a modern New York heiress. Other noted roles included leads in The Riders of Petersham, Back to Eden and The Outlaw.
In 1917 Gibson was arrested for vagrancy
under circumstances which included allegations of drug (opium
) dealing. After a "largely attended" public trial the popular actress, who "during intermissions... was the center of a bevy of young women," was acquitted but the publicity forced her to quietly change her screen name to Patricia Palmer (among other names). She continued to work in movies but had few leading roles. Gibson obtained many bit parts including a brief appearance in King of Kings.
on federal felony charges involving an alleged nation-wide blackmail and extortion ring. She was subsequently charged with extortion
and violation of Section 145 of the Federal Criminal Code. George W. Lasher told authorities he had paid Gibson $1155 to avoid prosecution for a reputed violation of the Mann Act
. Gibson was also said to be connected to two convicted blackmailers who had pleaded guilty the preceding week to extorting $10,000 from Ohio
banker John L. Bushnell. Amid all the publicity following her arrest she was mentioned as both Margaret Gibson and Patricia Palmer. The charges were later dropped by the district attorney's office. Over the next six years she worked sporadically in bit parts and minor supporting roles but the industry's transition to sound film
saw the end of Gibson's already thwarted career.
where she married Elbert Lewis, an auditor for Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (later merged with Mobil Oil). How they met is unknown. From the available documentation, the assumption would be they met on the dock when she arrived in Singapore. However, in a letter to her dated 8 February 1942, Elbert wrote, "Do you remember, dearest, the morning of your first arrival in Singapore, seven sweet years ago, when I pushed all the boats out of the harbor so your ship could come in?" which could be either romantic metaphor, or a hint he was waiting for her there (the same letter mentions a clearly metaphorical female character he calls "Elfin," to which Elbert attributes much "good luck" he apparently thinks they had in the past).
Surviving letters indicate the marriage was stable and she had no intention of ever returning to the United States. The middle-aged couple discussed retiring in either South Africa or Australia. Meanwhile they moved about constantly in the Bay of Bengal
area in the Indian Ocean
, staying in Ceylon, India
, Burma, Straits Settlements
, and Java
. In 1940, at the age of 45, Gibson was stricken by a bladder infection, medical treatment for which was not available in the region. With Europe overwhelmed by war and passage to South Africa and Australia threatened by German naval operations, she reluctantly returned without her spouse to Los Angeles and underwent surgery twice at Hollywood Hospital. Her husband Elbert Lewis died when the Japanese bombed Socony-Vacuum's oil facility at Penang
, Straits Settlements
(now Malaysia) on 15 March 1942.
In 1949, Gibson moved to a small, sparsely furnished house in the Hollywood Hills
near Beachwood Village, very close to where she had owned residential property during the 1920s. Living very modestly on a widow's pension
under the name Pat Lewis, she reportedly almost never left the house (which was behind thick vegetation), limited her activities mostly to gardening, had a dark grey cat named "Rajah" and even had her groceries delivered.
, on October 21, 1964, while still living in Hollywood, Gibson suffered a heart attack
. Sensing that she was dying, a highly distraught Gibson—a recently converted
Roman Catholic -- asked for a priest and then confessed to neighbors the February 1, 1922 murder of Hollywood film director William Desmond Taylor
. She may have made statements about a motive but in 1999, the only surviving witness to this incident wrote that at the time, he was young, distracted by the immediate crisis of her heart attack, had no knowledge of who William Desmond Taylor was or what she was talking about. As a result, he could not remember many further details about what Gibson said as she lay dying on the kitchen floor of her small house. The witness did recall Gibson also said she had been "nearly caught" and had "fled the country".
Gibson had apparently made similar remarks once before during the early 1960s. While watching a local television program, Ralph Story's Los Angeles, which featured a short segment about the unsolved murder of Taylor 40 years earlier, Gibson "became hysterical and blurted out that she'd killed him and thought it was long forgotten".
In the aftermath of Taylor's murder newspapers had speculated wildly about possible suspects, and rumors circulated that his death was related to a blackmail attempt. Taylor's neighbor Faith MacLean likely saw the murderer leaving Taylor's bungalow, and said the person she made eye contact with (and who smiled at her) may have been a woman dressed as a man, in clothes which were "like my idea of a motion picture burglar".
During the spring and summer seasons of 1910 Gibson worked as a stage performer in Denver, Colorado at a vaudeville theater owned by Alex Pantages
. That same June, Taylor also worked as an actor nearby on the same street at the Tabor Grand Theater. By the age of 18, she had appeared opposite William Desmond Taylor in four films for Vitagraph, including The Kiss
. Gibson and Taylor both left Vitagraph in 1915 (Taylor was fired for unknown reasons).
Gibson was in Los Angeles at the time of the murder, but her name was never mentioned during the investigation and no surviving documentation refers to any association between her and Taylor after 1914. Soon after the murder, however, Gibson (using the name Patricia Palmer) got work in a number of films produced by Paramount-Lasky
, Taylor's studio at the time of his death. Moreover, one of these films was among the last made by Mary Miles Minter
, with whom Taylor had been involved romantically.
Gibson's reported confession does not conflict with the known historical record. Given her documented arrest record along with Taylor's reportedly odd remarks in the weeks leading to his murder, the inferred motive would have been somehow related to blackmail in the wake of the Roscoe Arbuckle scandal, during which the private lives of most Hollywood celebrities could easily fall under highly sensationalized public scrutiny (the evening after Taylor's body was found, the Los Angeles Evening Herald carried news of Taylor's murder as a banner headline with an article about the ongoing Arbuckle trial immediately below).
All of the police files and physical evidence relating to Taylor's murder had disappeared by 1940, and aside from circumstantial evidence, no independent confirmation of Gibson's involvement in it has since emerged. Margaret Gibson is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery
in Culver City, California.
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
actress who had leading roles in Vitagraph westerns, often opposite William Clifford. She also appeared with Charles Ray in The Coward (1915) and later worked in two Westerns with William S. Hart
William S. Hart
William Surrey Hart was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He is remembered for having "imbued all of his characters with honor and integrity."-Biography:...
: The Money Corral and Sand!. In 1999 it was reported that on the afternoon of October 21, 1964 she made a dying confession to the murder of director William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s...
.
Gibson was sometimes credited or otherwise identified under at least seven other names, such as Patsy Palmer, Margie Gibson, Marguerite Gibson, Helen Gibson, Ella Margaret Lewis, Ella Margaret Arce or Pat Lewis. She appeared in 147 movies between 1913 and 1929.
Career
By her own account Gibson's parents had worked in show business. She began her stage career at the age of 12, apparently when her father left and she remained as the sole means of support for her mother. Gibson appeared on the Pantages Vaudeville Circuit for over two years. In 1909 she became a member of the Theodore Lorch Stock Company in Denver where she was cast in a wide variety of roles. She entered the film industry in 1912, getting a job with Vitagraph in Santa Monica where she stayed for three years. For six months during this period Taylor was acting in the same studio and they made four films together: The Love of Tokiwa, The Riders of Petersham, The Kiss and A Little MadonnaA Little Madonna
A Little Madonna is a 1914 silent drama film, directed by Ulysses Davis.-Cast:* William Desmond Taylor* Patricia Palmer * Charles Bennett * Jane Novak * Loyola O'Connor * Anne Schaefer...
. An article in Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
magazine the following year noted that the 19 year old, budding film star had purchased a cliffside bungalow overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica. In 1915 she left Vitagraph and went to the Thomas Ince
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line"...
Film Company where she played a small supporting role in The Coward, the film which made Charles Ray a star. She subsequently had supporting roles in many comedy shorts and was the subject of several promotional articles in fan magazines.
Her first starring role after Vitagraph was in Mutual Masterpicture
Mutual Film
Mutual Film Corporation was an early American motion picture conglomerate best remembered today as the producers of some of Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedies....
's The Soul's Cycle
The Soul's Cycle
The Soul's Cycle is a six-reels, 1916, drama-genre film, directed by Ulysses Davis.-Plot:Nadia, the daughter of a nobleman, rejects ancient Greece's senator Therons love; so he has her and her lover, Lucian thrown into a burning crater. As punishment for this sin, the gods decree that he will roam...
(1916) in which she played both an attractive Roman maiden and a modern New York heiress. Other noted roles included leads in The Riders of Petersham, Back to Eden and The Outlaw.
In 1917 Gibson was arrested for vagrancy
Prostitution
Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...
under circumstances which included allegations of drug (opium
Opium
Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy . Opium contains up to 12% morphine, an alkaloid, which is frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade. The latex also includes codeine and non-narcotic alkaloids such as papaverine, thebaine and noscapine...
) dealing. After a "largely attended" public trial the popular actress, who "during intermissions... was the center of a bevy of young women," was acquitted but the publicity forced her to quietly change her screen name to Patricia Palmer (among other names). She continued to work in movies but had few leading roles. Gibson obtained many bit parts including a brief appearance in King of Kings.
1923 arrest
On November 2, 1923 (21 months after Taylor's murder) Gibson was arrested at her home at 2324 North Beachwood Drive, Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
on federal felony charges involving an alleged nation-wide blackmail and extortion ring. She was subsequently charged with extortion
Extortion
Extortion is a criminal offence which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime...
and violation of Section 145 of the Federal Criminal Code. George W. Lasher told authorities he had paid Gibson $1155 to avoid prosecution for a reputed violation of the Mann Act
Mann Act
The White-Slave Traffic Act, better known as the Mann Act, is a United States law, passed June 25, 1910 . It is named after Congressman James Robert Mann, and in its original form prohibited white slavery and the interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”...
. Gibson was also said to be connected to two convicted blackmailers who had pleaded guilty the preceding week to extorting $10,000 from Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
banker John L. Bushnell. Amid all the publicity following her arrest she was mentioned as both Margaret Gibson and Patricia Palmer. The charges were later dropped by the district attorney's office. Over the next six years she worked sporadically in bit parts and minor supporting roles but the industry's transition to sound film
Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...
saw the end of Gibson's already thwarted career.
Marriage and later life
In 1935, for unknown reasons, she "fled" to SingaporeSingapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
where she married Elbert Lewis, an auditor for Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (later merged with Mobil Oil). How they met is unknown. From the available documentation, the assumption would be they met on the dock when she arrived in Singapore. However, in a letter to her dated 8 February 1942, Elbert wrote, "Do you remember, dearest, the morning of your first arrival in Singapore, seven sweet years ago, when I pushed all the boats out of the harbor so your ship could come in?" which could be either romantic metaphor, or a hint he was waiting for her there (the same letter mentions a clearly metaphorical female character he calls "Elfin," to which Elbert attributes much "good luck" he apparently thinks they had in the past).
Surviving letters indicate the marriage was stable and she had no intention of ever returning to the United States. The middle-aged couple discussed retiring in either South Africa or Australia. Meanwhile they moved about constantly in the Bay of Bengal
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal , the largest bay in the world, forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It resembles a triangle in shape, and is bordered mostly by the Eastern Coast of India, southern coast of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to the west and Burma and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the...
area in the Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
, staying in Ceylon, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Burma, Straits Settlements
Straits Settlements
The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia.Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under direct British control as a crown colony on 1 April 1867...
, and Java
Java
Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
. In 1940, at the age of 45, Gibson was stricken by a bladder infection, medical treatment for which was not available in the region. With Europe overwhelmed by war and passage to South Africa and Australia threatened by German naval operations, she reluctantly returned without her spouse to Los Angeles and underwent surgery twice at Hollywood Hospital. Her husband Elbert Lewis died when the Japanese bombed Socony-Vacuum's oil facility at Penang
Penang
Penang is a state in Malaysia and the name of its constituent island, located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca. It is bordered by Kedah in the north and east, and Perak in the south. Penang is the second smallest Malaysian state in area after Perlis, and the...
, Straits Settlements
Straits Settlements
The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia.Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under direct British control as a crown colony on 1 April 1867...
(now Malaysia) on 15 March 1942.
In 1949, Gibson moved to a small, sparsely furnished house in the Hollywood Hills
Hollywood Hills
The Hollywood Hills is an affluent and exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the southeastern Santa Monica Mountains. It is bound by Laurel Canyon Boulevard to the west, Vermont Avenue to the east, Mulholland Drive to the north, and Sunset Boulevard to the south.-Hollywood Hills...
near Beachwood Village, very close to where she had owned residential property during the 1920s. Living very modestly on a widow's pension
Widow's pension
A widow's pension is a payment from the government of a country to a person whose spouse has died.Generally, such payments are made to a widow whose late spouse has satisfied the country's requirements, including contribution, cohabitation, and length of marriage.-United States:In the United...
under the name Pat Lewis, she reportedly almost never left the house (which was behind thick vegetation), limited her activities mostly to gardening, had a dark grey cat named "Rajah" and even had her groceries delivered.
Confession and death
According to an account first published in 1999 by the widely cited newsletter TaylorologyTaylorology
Taylorology was a fanzine centered on the unsolved 1922 murder of Hollywood silent film director William Desmond Taylor. The editor was Bruce Long, a staff member at Arizona State University....
, on October 21, 1964, while still living in Hollywood, Gibson suffered a heart attack
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
. Sensing that she was dying, a highly distraught Gibson—a recently converted
Religious conversion
Religious conversion is the adoption of a new religion that differs from the convert's previous religion. Changing from one denomination to another within the same religion is usually described as reaffiliation rather than conversion.People convert to a different religion for various reasons,...
Roman Catholic -- asked for a priest and then confessed to neighbors the February 1, 1922 murder of Hollywood film director William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s...
. She may have made statements about a motive but in 1999, the only surviving witness to this incident wrote that at the time, he was young, distracted by the immediate crisis of her heart attack, had no knowledge of who William Desmond Taylor was or what she was talking about. As a result, he could not remember many further details about what Gibson said as she lay dying on the kitchen floor of her small house. The witness did recall Gibson also said she had been "nearly caught" and had "fled the country".
Gibson had apparently made similar remarks once before during the early 1960s. While watching a local television program, Ralph Story's Los Angeles, which featured a short segment about the unsolved murder of Taylor 40 years earlier, Gibson "became hysterical and blurted out that she'd killed him and thought it was long forgotten".
In the aftermath of Taylor's murder newspapers had speculated wildly about possible suspects, and rumors circulated that his death was related to a blackmail attempt. Taylor's neighbor Faith MacLean likely saw the murderer leaving Taylor's bungalow, and said the person she made eye contact with (and who smiled at her) may have been a woman dressed as a man, in clothes which were "like my idea of a motion picture burglar".
During the spring and summer seasons of 1910 Gibson worked as a stage performer in Denver, Colorado at a vaudeville theater owned by Alex Pantages
Alexander Pantages
Alexander Pantages was an American vaudeville and early motion picture producer and impresario who created a large and powerful circuit of theatres across the western United States and Canada.-Early life:...
. That same June, Taylor also worked as an actor nearby on the same street at the Tabor Grand Theater. By the age of 18, she had appeared opposite William Desmond Taylor in four films for Vitagraph, including The Kiss
The Kiss (1914 film)
The Kiss is a 1914 Vitagraph silent drama short motion picture starring Margaret Gibson, George Holt, William Desmond Taylor, and Myrtle Gonzalez....
. Gibson and Taylor both left Vitagraph in 1915 (Taylor was fired for unknown reasons).
Gibson was in Los Angeles at the time of the murder, but her name was never mentioned during the investigation and no surviving documentation refers to any association between her and Taylor after 1914. Soon after the murder, however, Gibson (using the name Patricia Palmer) got work in a number of films produced by Paramount-Lasky
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
, Taylor's studio at the time of his death. Moreover, one of these films was among the last made by Mary Miles Minter
Mary Miles Minter
Mary Miles Minter was an American film actress of the silent film era.-Early life and rise to stardom:Born Juliet Reilly in Shreveport, Louisiana, Minter was the daughter of Broadway actress Charlotte Shelby...
, with whom Taylor had been involved romantically.
Gibson's reported confession does not conflict with the known historical record. Given her documented arrest record along with Taylor's reportedly odd remarks in the weeks leading to his murder, the inferred motive would have been somehow related to blackmail in the wake of the Roscoe Arbuckle scandal, during which the private lives of most Hollywood celebrities could easily fall under highly sensationalized public scrutiny (the evening after Taylor's body was found, the Los Angeles Evening Herald carried news of Taylor's murder as a banner headline with an article about the ongoing Arbuckle trial immediately below).
All of the police files and physical evidence relating to Taylor's murder had disappeared by 1940, and aside from circumstantial evidence, no independent confirmation of Gibson's involvement in it has since emerged. Margaret Gibson is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
Holy Cross Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery at 5835 West Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California, operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles....
in Culver City, California.
Filmography
Throughout her career Gibson's many movie appearances were credited under at least six different names. However, overwhelmingly she was credited under only two, first as Margaret Gibson and later as Patricia Palmer.As Margaret Gibson
- The Sea Maiden (1913)
- The Wrong Pair (1913)
- The Yellow Streak (1913)
- The Spell (1913)
- Old Moddington's Daughters (1913)
- Sunny; or, The Cattle Thief (1913)
- The Race (1913)
- The Outlaw (1913)
- BiancaBianca (1913 film)Bianca is a 1913 silent American short film, written by Hanson Durham, and directed by Robert Thornby....
(1913) - Any Port in a Storm (1913)
- Francine (1914)
- The Love of Tokiwa (1914)
- The Old Oak's Secret (1914)
- Ginger's Reign (1914)
- Auntie (1914)
- The Ghosts (1914)
- The Night Riders of Petersham (1914)
- The KissThe Kiss (1914 film)The Kiss is a 1914 Vitagraph silent drama short motion picture starring Margaret Gibson, George Holt, William Desmond Taylor, and Myrtle Gonzalez....
(1914) - A Little MadonnaA Little MadonnaA Little Madonna is a 1914 silent drama film, directed by Ulysses Davis.-Cast:* William Desmond Taylor* Patricia Palmer * Charles Bennett * Jane Novak * Loyola O'Connor * Anne Schaefer...
(1914) - Tony, the Greaser (1914)
- Mareea the Half-Breed (1914)
- Out in Happy Hollow (1914)
- The Mystery of the Hidden House (1914)
- The Last Will (1914)
- Only a Sister (1914)
- Prosecution (1914)
- His Kid Sister (1914)
- Detective and Matchmaker (1914)
- The Horse Thief (1914)
- Brandon's Last Ride (1914)
- When the Gods Forgive (1914)
- Mareea, the Foster Mother (1914)
- Anne of the Mines (1914)
- Kidding the Boss (1914)
- Sisters (1914)
- Love Will Out (1914)
- The Navajo Ring (1915)
- The Girl at Nolan's (1915)
- The Taming of Rita (1915)
- A Child of the North (1915)
- Almost a Hero (1915)
- An Intercepted Vengeance (1915)
- The Sea Ghost (1915)
- His Mother's Portrait (1915)
- The Hammer (1915)
- All on Account of Towser (1915)
- The Golden Trail (1915)
- A City Rube (1915)
- The Siren (1915)
- The Protest (1915)
- The Coward (1915)
- Could a Man Do More? (1915)
- The Arab's Vengeance (1915)
- The Winning of Jess (1915)
- The Homesteaders (1916)
- Marta of the Jungles (1916)
- The Bait (1916)
- A Soul Enslaved (1916)
- The Soul's CycleThe Soul's CycleThe Soul's Cycle is a six-reels, 1916, drama-genre film, directed by Ulysses Davis.-Plot:Nadia, the daughter of a nobleman, rejects ancient Greece's senator Therons love; so he has her and her lover, Lucian thrown into a burning crater. As punishment for this sin, the gods decree that he will roam...
(1916) - The Heart of Tara (1916)
- The Hidden Law (1916)
- Public Approval (1916)
- The Leopard's Bride aka Nadje's Sacrifice (1916)
- Avenged by Lions (1916)
- Highlights and Shadows (1916)
- A Kaffir's Gratitude (1916)
- Clouds in Sunshine Valley (1916)
- The Lion's Nemesis (1916)
- The Star of India (1916)
- A Siren of the Jungle (1916)
- The Good-for-Nothing Brat (1916)
- The Ostrich Tip (1916)
- Fate's Decision (1916)
- Destiny's Boomerang (1916)
- The Island of Desire (1917)
- With the Mummies' Help (1917)
- The Milky Way (1917)
- A Lucky Slip (1917)
- The Fourteenth Man (1917)
- He Fell on the Beach (1917)
- Skirts (1917)
- The Honeymooners (1917)
- Her Merry Mix-Up (1917)
- Green Eyes and Bullets (1917)
- Hearts and Clubs (1917)
- Local Color (1917)
- Almost Divorced (1917)
- Betty Wakes Up (1917)
- Their Seaside Tangle (1917)
- Rowdy Ann (1919)
As Patricia Palmer
- The Fifth Wheel (1918)
- The Moment of Victory (1918)
- Dismissal of Silver Phil (1918)
- The Home Trail (1918)
- By Injunction (1918)
- A Woman in the WebA Woman in the WebA Woman in the Web is a 1918 drama film serial directed by Paul Hurst and David Smith. It was the 9th of 17 serials released by The Vitagraph Company of America. This world war one period serial about a Russian princess and the otherthrow of the Tsar introduced the concept of the Red Menace to...
(1918) - The Girl from Beyond (1918)
- The Coming of Faro Nell (1918)
- A Gentleman's Agreement (1918)
- The Marquis and Miss Sally (1918)
- The Wooing of Riley (1918)
- By the World Forgot (1918)
- You Couldn't Blame Her (1919)
- Sea Sirens (1919)
- The Money Corral (1919)
- Sally's Blighted Career (1919)
- Tell Your Wife Everything (1919)
- Oh, My Dear! (1919)
- Mary Moves In (1919)
- The Faith of the Strong (1919)
- Into the Light (1920)
- Sand! (1920)
- Blondes (1921)
- His Bitter Half (1921)
- Mixed Bedrooms (1921)
- The Desert Wolf (1921)
- Turkey Dressing (1921)
- Greater Than LoveGreater Than LoveGreater Than Love is a 1921 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Louise Glaum - Grace Merrill* Patricia Palmer - Elsie Brown* Rose Cade - Maizie* Eve Southern - Clairice* Willie Mae Carson - Pinkie* Betty Francisco - Helen Wellington...
(1921) - Across the Border (1922)
- Rounding Up the Law (1922)
- Cold Feet (1922)
- The Cowboy King (1922)
- The Cowboy and the Lady (1922)
- The Web of the Law (1923)
- Mr. Billings Spends His Dime (1923)
- A Perfect 36 (1923)
- To the Ladies (1923)
- A Pair of HellionsA Pair of HellionsA Pair of Hellions is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Walter Willis. It was produced by Max O. Miller and written by Peter Clark MacFarlane.-Plot:...
(1924) - Hold Your Breath (1924)
- The Part Time Wife (1925)
- Without Mercy (1925)
- Who's Your Friend (1925)
- The Waster (1926)
- Naughty Nanette (1927)
- The Little Savage (1929)
Uncredited
- The King of Kings (1927)
- The Godless GirlThe Godless GirlThe Godless Girl is a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shown for years as his last completely silent film.-Production background:...
(1929)