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Gladys McConnell

Born: 22nd Oct 1905 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA - Died 4th Mar 1979
Dept: Acting
From Wikipedia Gladys McConnell (October 22, 1905 – March 4, 1979) was an American film actress and aviator. She was born in Oklahoma City, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).[1] She was the daughter of William Marshall McConnell (born April 28, 1876, McNairy County, Tennessee) and his wife, Harriet (née Sharp; born October 10, 1882, Newbern, Tennessee), and had a sister, Hazel. Gladys McConnell attended Hollywood High School. Her film career was brief, about four years from the late silent to early sound era (1926 – 1930). She sometimes used the professional name Gladys Morrow. One of her first parts came in The Devil Horse (1926). The film featured Rex the Wonder Horse, a stallion featured in at least fifteen films. She starred with Harry Langdon in Three's A Crowd (1927). In The Chaser (1928), as Langdon's talkative wife. She broke ties with the Fox Film Company over differences over her roles, choosing to freelance instead. She was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1927. WAMPAS (Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers) was a Hollywood promotional campaign that selected thirteen baby stars (slang at the time for starlets) as most likely to gain success. Others in the 1927 group included Iris Stuart, Natalie Kingston, Sally Phipps, and Rita Carewe. McConnell married Arthur Q. Hazerman in 1926; they divorced three years later. In September 1931, she married Hollywood attorney, A. Ronald Button, at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. William Jennings Bryan Jr., a friend of the bridegroom, was best man at the wedding. McConnell was attended by her sister, Mrs. Harold O. Wright. They had a daughter, Mary Barbara Button (b. February 9, 1937, Los Angeles), now known as Barbara McAllister, a commercial real estate broker. McConnell became an aviator and began flying in Portland. Aside from Ruth Elder, she logged more air hours than any woman in the film colony. Gladys McConnell died in Fullerton, California in 1979, aged 73.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 17
Film: 17 (100%)
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Filmography

1930
Bud Rand, a cowboy who is charged with the care of Little Billy Rand, accepts an offer to appear with Copeland's Wild West Show to ride a horse called ... view
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Mary Owens
1929
Miss Miller, a dedicated teacher beloved by her students, loses her job when she protects a favorite pupil, Richard Atwell, who is accused of embezzli ... view
Character:
Sally
The Fire Detective Adventure
1929
The Fire Detective is a 1929 American adventure film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Storey. ... view
Character:
Gladys Samuels
Cheyenne Western
1929
Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all honors and meets a girl who races horses to help h ... view
Character:
Violet Wentworth
The Tiger's Shadow Action, Drama
1928
The Tiger's Shadow is a 1928 American drama film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet. ... view
Character:
Jane Barstow
1928
After a work crew stringing telegraph wires across the Great Plains is slaughtered by Indians, Pat O'Leary, the company superintendent, must take out ... view
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Alice Harper
The Perfect Crime Crime, Drama, Mystery
1928
A police inspector 'solves' a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Trevor
The Code of the Scarlet Action, Western
1928
Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang. Th ... view
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Helen Morgan
The Bullet Mark Drama, Western
1928
A recently appointed ranch foreman, falsely accused of taking part in a bank robbery, is forced to prove his innocence. ... view
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The Chaser Comedy
1928
A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take ... view
Character:
The Wife
1927
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children li ... view
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Gladys - the Girl
1927
Our crippled heroine inherits virtually nothing but debts upon the demise of her father. The one tangible asset in the estate is a racehorse which has ... view
Character:
Rose Randolph
Marriage Drama
1927
Marjorie Pope, who is engaged to Magnet, a wealthy suitor whom she does not love, elopes with Trafford, an inventor, after his airplane crashes on the ... view
Character:
Daphne Pope
1926
While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas fro ... view
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Lenore Hastings
Original title: The Devil Horse
1926
A boy's family is wiped out in an Indian massacre of a wagon train and he is captured. He befriends a wild colt. Years later, following his escape, he ... view
Character:
Marion Morrow
1926
Mark Winton is a wanderer who takes up the cause of a band of ragamuffin's bullied by nasty loan shark Bert Ridley. In between buying the youngsters B ... view
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June Savary
1926
A young hypochondriac who believes that he has only a week to live. His name, by the way, is Welland Strong. He decides to visit his uncle in the sho ... view
Character:
Marion Haste