
Birthday:
11-14-1902
Deathday:
03-03-1996 (93 years)
Birthplace:
Paris, France
Biography
Alyce Ardell was born on November 14, 1902 in Paris, France as Marie Alice Pradel. She was an actress, known for Alice Blues (1926), Mummy Love (1926) and A Peaceful Riot (1925). She died on March 3, 1996 in Laguna Hills, California, USA.
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Alice Blues
event1926
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King Ferdinand of Sodonje (King Ferdinand Saronoff) is threatened with an attack. When a tourist who resembles him shows up at the palace, the king suggests that they switch clothes with each other. The fake king signs a document, and thereby signs his own death sentence. He manages to avoid the firing squad just in time, and asks for his own clothes back, but the real king refuses.
The bluffer
event1932
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Parallel French-speaking version of Warners' "High Pressure" (1932), a comedy satire on fast-talking promoters, crazy inventors, and stock market hype. The story line comes from Kandel's stage play "Hot Money," which had played on Broadway a month or two in 1931, before Warners bought screen rights and changed the title.
She's a Prince
Act like Alice
event1926
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Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper society full of bizarre rituals. This zany film again features cross-dressing, including men wearing girdles and donning lipstick.
Go West Young Man
Act like Jeanette (French maid)
event1936 star_border 5.3
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Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
Stingaree
Act like Shopgirl (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5.9
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A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
Camping Out
Act like Various (voices)
event1934 star_border 6.4
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The gang is sitting around their campsite when a mosquito spoils their fun. And then he gets hundreds of his friends and they really cause trouble. Horace squirts some with molasses, which helps a bit. Everyone retreats to the tent, where they still get stung but can fight back a bit, eventually trapping all the mosquitoes in a pair of bloomers and sending them on their way.
A Notorious Gentleman
event1935 star_border 6
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A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Magnificent Obsession
Act like Elise, Helen's Maid
event1935 star_border 7.4
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A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Paris in Spring
Act like Manicurist
event1935 star_border 5
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Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
We Have Our Moments
Act like Stewardess
event1937 star_border 5.8
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A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
I'll Tell the World
Act like French Telephone Operator
event1934
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Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
Every Night at Eight
Act like Fifi (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.5
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Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Songs and Bullets
Act like Jeanette Du Mont
event1938 star_border 6
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Melody arrives looking for the killer of his uncle and at the same time Dumont arrives looking for the murderer of her father. They both suspect Skelton and Dumont finds incriminating evidence in his office. But when Melody finds the murder weapon in Skelton's office he is arrested by Shelton's stooge Sheriff.
One Exciting Adventure
Act like French Maid
event1934
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One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
What! No Spinach?
event1926
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Horace Prune’s uncle died without any notice leaving his fortune to him, providing that he is married within forty-eight hours. Horace is a woman hater, to make matters more complicated.
Three Little Wolves
Act like Little Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.6
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Two little pigs cry wolf on their brother and then an actual wolf comes.
Hold Tight
event1925
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The baddies want Alyce Ardell's mine, which they know -- but she doesn't -- has just struck a rich vein. They will stick at naught, but she is protected by Bobby Dunn in this good thrill comedy directed by Marcel Perez.
Toby Tortoise Returns
Act like Girl Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.2
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Toby Tortoise is back, and this time he and Max Hare box instead of racing.
Broken Toys
Act like Aunt Jemima / ZaSu Pitts (voice)
event1935 star_border 6.5
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A sailor doll, thrown into a toy dump, rallies the demoralized dolls that were already there.
Here's to Romance
Act like French Maid
event1935
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Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Act like French Maid
event1937 star_border 6
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Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
The Lottery Lover
Act like French Midinette
event1935 star_border 3
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A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" have organized, an Frank wins the right to woo the star of the Folies Bergere, Gaby Aimee, with her garter serving as proof of conquest. Meanwhile Frank has found the one girl-of-his-heart, Patty, and this serves to complicate matters.
The Plot Thickens
Act like Josephine, Hildegarde's Maid
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Ruggles of Red Gap
Act like Lisette - French Maid
event1935 star_border 7.1
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In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
A Peaceful Riot
event1925
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Sailor Slim Summerville saves a lady from nasty men.
Salute
event1925
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Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms on.
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.4
Act like Girl Bunny (Toby Tortoise Returns)
event2003 star_border 8.3
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Six classic stories retold by the Disney team. 'The Tortoise and the Hare' features the race between Max Hare and Toby Tortoise. In 'The Pied Piper', rats have overrun Hamelin and only the Pied Piper can get rid of them, whilst 'King Midas Gets the Golden Touch' is a cautionary tale. 'Toby Tortoise Returns' features Max Hare and Toby Tortoise again, this time in a boxing ring. In 'Old King Cole', all the storybook friends are invited to the King's castle, whilst 'King Neptune' saves his subjects from pirates.
Million Dollar Ransom
Act like Marie (Uncredited)
event1934
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To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Imitation of Life
Act like French Maid (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7
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A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Vamping Babies
Act like Alice (as Alice Ardell)
event1926
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"Lewis Sargent of 'Huckleberry Finn" fame, now grown up, and Alice Ardell are the principal players in this Standard Comdy which deals with the attempts of a love-sick young couple to wed despite an irate father who shows his temper by demolishing straw hats. They finally elope, resulting in a chase scene. Slapstick comedy of average amusement value". - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World. Originally two reels, one survives.
A Fraternity Mixup
event1926
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A group of girls in al all-girl college dormitory spend a wild night among thieves, cross-dressing boys and wild animals like a man-eating gorilla.
Blue Ribbon comedy produced by Joe Rock, directed by Percy Pembroke, starring Alice Ardell and Gale Henry.
Mummy Love
event1926
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Comedy-horror hijinks ensue after the female member of a team of explorers is kidnapped by an Egyptian king for his harem.
Wives Never Know
Act like Sylvia
event1936
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Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
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