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The Brute (1920)
Character: Mildred Carrison
The brute is a gambler, boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman. She is forced into marriage with him for money after her original fiance is thought dead. When that man returns, he attempts to rescue her.
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Deceit (1923)
Character: Doris Rutledge/Evelyn Bently
Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux. Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light. Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film. The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.
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Birthright (1924)
Character: Cissie Deldine
A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children. Considered a lost film.
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The Spider's Web (1927)
Character: Norma Shepard
A lost film. Remade by Micheaux as a sound film, The Girl from Chicago (1932).
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The Framing of the Shrew (1929)
Character: Clarry Robson
Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting divorce proceedings, pretending to have a new girlfriend and refusing to eat anything she cooks him.
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The Lady Fare (1929)
Character: N/A
"Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-bean "carrying on flirtatious flirtations with her." He gets madder and "badder" as the story gets "hummier" and funnier, while smooth, suave Florian Slappey gets mixed up in all kinds of complications.
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The Devil's Disciple (1925)
Character: N/A
Aileen Kennibrew, a charming and beautiful girl calls on one Richard Ellis, a motion picture producer, who is impressed by her modesty, refined personality and striking carriage and is persuaded to "try" her out in the movies. She makes good, and altho' elevated after a few pictures to stardom, becomes obsessed with an overwhelming desire to go on the stage. Finally securing a part with a dramatic stock company, she fall in love with a character man, who, unknown to her, is of degenerate character. Giving him all her love, however, she sets out to reform him with the usual result—but that's the story!
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Brown Gravy (1929)
Character: N/A
A musical short starring Sam McDaniel and Spencer Williams.
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The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
Character: Ida May Gilpin
When Arthur Gilpin, a black night watchman, finds young Myrtle Gunsaulus mysteriously murdered in the basement of a factory, he is charged with the crime. The film is now believed to be lost.
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Within Our Gates (1920)
Character: Sylvia Landry
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.
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Blonde Venus (1932)
Character: (uncredited)
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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Melancholy Dame (1929)
Character: Jonquil Williams
A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
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Ladies of the Big House (1931)
Character: Inmate
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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