Nora Cecil Movies

After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.

Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred...

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemic will allow the school to be closed for a week,...

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the...

A woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy.

A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...

A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious...

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.

Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.

On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do...

Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.

The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible...

A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B....

A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted...

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.