Nora Cecil Movies

A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.

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

Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned...

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...

Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.

Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends...

The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the...

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.

After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The...

At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.

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

An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER...

When Tourneur adapted the allegorical plays The Blue Bird by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and Prunella by British playwrights Harley...

The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.

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

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.

Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie...