The best Emory Johnson’s movies

Emory Johnson

Emory Johnson

16/03/1894- 08/04/1960
We present our ranking of the best Emory Johnson’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 Emory Johnson.
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Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas
7/10
Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Johanna Enlists

Johanna Enlists
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/09/1918
  • Character: Lt. Frank Le Roy
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

Doctor Neighbor

Doctor Neighbor
  • Release: 01/05/1916
Against the wishes of Doctor Neighbor, the guardian who also loves her, Hazel, who is due to inherit a fortune when she turns 21, marries district attorney Hamilton Rogers, a man more devoted to Hazel's future bank account than to her.

The Last Edition

The Last Edition
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/11/1925
  • Character: Newspaper Employee - Cameo Appearance
The hectic life of a seasoned journalist, who’s busy getting out the latest edition of The San Francisco Chronicle. The director follows the editor on his rambles through the city and offers a lively account of the din of the newspaper office – all the way from collecting information to going to press and distributing the newspaper. The historical images of San Francisco are something special: we see landmark buildings like the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, City Hall and the Pickwick Hotel.

Green Eyes

Green Eyes
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/08/1918
  • Character: Morgan Hunter
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her down to his home. There, she finds an acquaintance, Alexander Chapman (Robert McKim), and the fact that she knows him rouses her new husband's jealousy. This is fanned even further when Pearson's younger brother, Morgan (Emory Johnson) returns from college. His fiancee, Margery (Doris Lee), believes there is something going on between Shirley and Morgan and complains to Pearson.

The Unattainable

The Unattainable
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/09/1916
An actress falls in love with a shepherd, to the dismay of a wealthy suitor. One reel survives at the National Archives Of Canada and the Library of Congress.

A Lady's Name

A Lady's Name
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/12/1918
  • Character: Gerald Wantage

Two Men of Sandy Bar

Two Men of Sandy Bar
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/04/1916
John Oakhurst, a gentleman gambler, befriends Sandy Morton, who has dissipated his birthright through gambling and excessive drinking and dropped from his father's sight. Although Oakhurst soon takes Sandy's place in the affections of his father, he boards a train heading West and meets Pritchard, an alcoholic, and his wife, the Duchess. Pritchard is wanted by the law and Oakhurst helps him to escape detectives who are on his trail.

Beauty in Chains

Beauty in Chains
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/03/1918
Rosarita, a young relative of the powerful Doña Perfecta in the small Spanish village of Orbajosa, has been betrothed since infancy to her cousin, Pepe Rey Don Jose, although the two have never met. When Pepe comes to visit Rosarita, she immediately falls in love with him, but his offhand remark about the lack of enterprise in the small town alienates Doña Perfecta, and the old woman becomes determined to prevent the marriage.

The Devil's Bondwoman

The Devil's Bondwoman
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/11/1916
After a prologue that takes place in Hell, young millionaire Mason Van Horton becomes involved with Doria, the vampish wife of influential businessman John Manners. When Mason falls in love with Beverly Hope, however, he rejects Doria, who, out of revenge, tells John that Mason tried to seduce her and then begs her husband to ruin him.

My Little Boy

My Little Boy
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/12/1917
After Fred, an orphan raised by his wealthy Uncle Oliver marries Clara over his uncle's objections, the two men become estranged. When Fred and Clara's child Paul is six years old, Fred insists that his uncle pay them a visit over Christmas. Uncle Oliver, a very lonely old man, begrudgingly accepts but refuses to behave amicably towards Clara or Paul.

Polly of the Storm Country

Polly of the Storm Country
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/04/1920
  • Character: Robert Robertson
Polly Hopkins belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at odds with the wealthy "hilltoppers," but Polly's grandmother has gone against popular opinion by teaching Polly to love everybody. Polly keeps the faith, even when her sister's husband is railroaded into jail.

A Mother's Secret

A Mother's Secret
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/04/1918
Angela, a lovely young woman of eighteen, lives with her grandmother in Virginia but knows very little about her mother, Lady Eldone, who after the death of Angela's father, moved to Europe and married an English army captain. When Captain Eldone is reported dead, Lady Eldone returns to the United States determined to marry a wealthy man.

The Right to Be Happy

The Right to Be Happy
4.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1916
  • Character: Fred, Scrooge's Nephew
Considered to be lost.

Prisoners of Love

Prisoners of Love
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/01/1921
  • Character: James Randolph
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.

A Yoke of Gold

A Yoke of Gold
  • Release: 14/08/1916
During the days of the California missions, Jose Garcia becomes friends with Luis Lopez, a local Robin Hood determined to redistribute among the poor the loot of the rich. Inspired by Luis, Jose sets out to rob the home of wealthy landowner Don Ortega. On the way, however, Jose gets lost in the desert and is nearly dead when he is found by Don Ortega's aristocratic cousin, Castro Arrellanes, and Castro's daughter Carmen, who take him in and nurse him back to health. Jose quickly falls in love with Carmen, and as a result, renounces his plan of robbing the rich. Then, he learns that Luis has made plans to break into Don Ortega's house.

Put up Your Hands

Put up Your Hands

New Love for Old

New Love for Old
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/02/1918
At a mountain resort, Kenneth Scott falls in love with Marie Beauchamp, an older woman who merely amuses herself with him. When she deserts him to open a roadhouse, he sadly leaves the mountains and, in the company of an old wandering poet named "Doc" Podden, travels to a little village in the woods.

The Ghost Flower

The Ghost Flower
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/08/1918
Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's hot-headed musician lover Tony (Francis McDonald), whereupon the heroine takes refuge in the villa of French playwright La Farge. Under La Farge's careful tutelage, Giulia develops into a famous actress, capturing the heart of the Duke De Chaumont. Though LaFarge himself has fallen in love with the girl, he does not stand in her way when she accepts the Duke's proposal. But Giulia has not reckoned with Tony, who is still crazy about her and still willing to kill any man who stands in his way. Tony murders LaFarge, then sets his sights on the Duke, intending to kill the poor fellow during the wedding ceremony. Hoping to save the Duke's life, Giulia pretends to have fallen out of love with him and returns to Tony.

The Circus of Life

The Circus of Life
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/06/1917
A man is tormented by the thought that his wife's child might not be his. A nitrate positive is housed at the Library of Congress.

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