The best Clara Kimball Young’s drama movies

Clara Kimball Young

Clara Kimball Young

06/09/1890- 15/10/1960
We present our ranking of the best Clara Kimball Young’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Clara Kimball Young.

Kept Husbands

Kept Husbands
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/02/1931
  • Character: Henrietta Post
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.

Dangerous Waters

Dangerous Waters
6.3/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 10/02/1936
  • Character: Kind Lady Passenger (uncredited)
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.

Probation

Probation
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1932
  • Character: Mrs. Humphries
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.

Trilby

Trilby
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/09/1915
  • Character: Trilby O'Ferral
This 1915 Maurice Tourneur film is a version of the famous duMaurier novel. It was later done in a more famous 1931 film named Svengali with John Barrymore. The later film obviously changed the title due to the huge presence of its' star.

Three on the Trail

Three on the Trail
6.7/10
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.

Fighting Youth

Fighting Youth
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/11/1935
  • Character: Mrs. Stewart, House Mother
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team.

The Claw

The Claw
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/06/1918
  • Character: Mary Saurin
Clara Kimball Young stars as Mary Saurin, a British gentlewoman who journeys to South Africa to visit her district-commissioner brother Dick (Henry Woodward). Upon arriving, she is introduced to Major Anthony "Kim" Kinsella (Milton Sills), the most important and influential Army officer in the region. Falling in love with Kinsella, Mary agrees to marry him, but he is apparently killed in a native uprising.

Magda

Magda
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1917
  • Character: Magda

For the Soul of Rafael

For the Soul of Rafael
5.2/10
Cinematheque Francais holds a copy.

Hearts in Exile

Hearts in Exile
5.4/10
In Czarist Russia, attractive Clara Kimball Young (as Hope aka Anna Ivanovna) has "consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor." She dispenses food, medicine, and funds to the needy, from a busy charity headquarters. Poor doctor Vernon Steele (as Paul Pavloff) helps as much as he can, and wealthy merchant Claude Fleming (as Serge) donates money. Both men are in love with Ms. Kimball Young. In fact, her "pretty face" attracts most men in Russia.

The Road Through the Dark

The Road Through the Dark
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/11/1918
  • Character: Gabrielle Jardee
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent away from Paris to a small village, where her aunt lives with her sister and brother. The war comes and the Germans enter the town. She becomes the mistress of a German Kommandant.

The Common Law

The Common Law
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/10/1916
  • Character: Valerie West
Based on the Novel by Robert W. Chambers of New York City life among the upper-crust, Valerie West , artist/model and philosopher, undergoes much sorrow and joy, many trials and tribulations, and final triumph on her journey to become the living personification of sweet and noble womanhood.

The Rise of Susan

The Rise of Susan
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/12/1916
  • Character: Susan
Susan takes the place of model and shows the clothes so well that she is asked to impersonate a Countess at a reception given by a customer.

The Foolish Virgin

The Foolish Virgin
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/09/1916
  • Character: Mary Adams
A 1916 film.

The Forbidden Woman

The Forbidden Woman
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/02/1920
  • Character: Diane Sorel
A beautiful French actress is the unwitting force behind the suicide of one of her admirers. A scandal erupts, threatening to destroy her reputation.

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