Alice White

Alice White

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alice White (born Alva White, August 25, 1904 – February 19, 1983) was an American film actress. Her career spanned late silent films and early sound films. After leaving school, White became a secretary and "script girl" for director Josef Von Sternberg. She also worked as a switchboard operator at the Hollywood Writers' Club. After clashing with Von Sternberg, White left to work for Charlie Chaplin, who decided before long to place her in front of the camera. Her bubbly and vivacious persona led to comparisons with Clara Bow, but White's career was slow to progress. In his book, Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies, Robert K. Klepper wrote: "Some critics have said that Ms. White was a second-string Clara Bow. In actuality, Ms. White had her own type of charm, and was a delightful actress in her own, unique way. Whereas Clara Bow played the quintessential, flaming redheaded flapper, Alice White was more of a bubbly, vivacious blonde." After playing a succession of flappers and gold diggers, she attracted the attention of director and producer Mervyn LeRoy, who saw potential in her. Her screen debut was in The Sea Tiger (1927). Her early films included Show Girl (1928), which had Vitaphone musical accompaniment but no dialog, and its "talkie" musical sequel Show Girl in Hollywood (1930), both released by Warner Brothers and both based on novels by J. P. McEvoy. In these two films, White appeared as "Dixie Dugan". In October 1929, McAvoy started the comic strip Dixie Dugan with the character Dixie having a "helmet" hairstyle and appearance similar to actress Louise Brooks. White also used the services of Hollywood 'beauty sculptor' Sylvia of Hollywood to stay in shape. White was featured in The Girl from Woolworth's (1929), having the role of a singing clerk in the music department of a Woolworth's store. Karen Plunkett-Powell wrote in her book, Remembering Woolworth's: A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime: "First National Pictures produced this 60-minute musical as a showcase for up-and-coming actress Alice White." She left films in 1931 to improve her acting abilities, returning in 1933 only to have her career hurt by a scandal that erupted over her involvement with boyfriend actor Jack Warburton and future husband Sy Bartlett. Although she later married Bartlett, her reputation was tarnished and she appeared only in supporting roles after this. By 1937 and 1938, her name was at the bottom of the cast lists. She made her final film appearance in Flamingo Road (1949) and eventually resumed working as a secretary.

  • Title: Alice White
  • Popularity: 1.91
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1904-08-25
  • Place of Birth: Paterson, New Jersey, USA
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  • Also Known As: Элис Уайт, Alva White
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Alice White Movies

  • 1928
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    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    1 1928 HD

    Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ruth Taylor

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  • 1949
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    Flamingo Road

    Flamingo Road

    7 1949 HD

    A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joan Crawford

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  • 1933
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    Employees' Entrance

    Employees' Entrance

    6.295 1933 HD

    Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Warren William

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  • 1933
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    Picture Snatcher

    Picture Snatcher

    6.8 1933 HD

    An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Cagney

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  • 1934
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    Jimmy the Gent

    Jimmy the Gent

    6.2 1934 HD

    An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Cagney

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  • 1934
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    Secret of the Chateau

    Secret of the Chateau

    6 1934 HD

    Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Claire Dodd

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  • 1933
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    Luxury Liner

    Luxury Liner

    6.3 1933 HD

    This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: George Brent

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  • 1930
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    The Naughty Flirt

    The Naughty Flirt

    5.7 1930 HD

    A coquettish socialite falls for a straight-laced associate in her father's law firm. But she must also fend off the advances of a greedy...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1931
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    Murder at Midnight

    Murder at Midnight

    5.273 1931 HD

    Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily,...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Aileen Pringle

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  • 1930
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    The Widow from Chicago

    The Widow from Chicago

    6.1 1930 HD

    A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1935
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    Sweet Music

    Sweet Music

    5.7 1935 HD

    A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Rudy Vallee

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  • 1935
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    Coronado

    Coronado

    3 1935 HD

    Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Johnny Downs

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  • 1929
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    Broadway Babies

    Broadway Babies

    5.3 1929 HD

    Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1930
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    Show Girl in Hollywood

    Show Girl in Hollywood

    5.8 1930 HD

    Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1937
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    Telephone Operator

    Telephone Operator

    4.7 1937 HD

    A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judith Allen

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  • 1934
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    A Very Honorable Guy

    A Very Honorable Guy

    2 1934 HD

    Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joe E. Brown

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  • 1938
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    King of the Newsboys

    King of the Newsboys

    6 1938 HD

    A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lew Ayres

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  • 1927
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    The Private Life of Helen of Troy

    The Private Life of Helen of Troy

    1 1927 HD

    Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lewis Stone

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  • 1930
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    Playing Around

    Playing Around

    4.7 1930 HD

    New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1930
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    Sweethearts on Parade

    Sweethearts on Parade

    1 1930 HD

    Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1934
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    Cross Country Cruise

    Cross Country Cruise

    6 1934 HD

    A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lew Ayres

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  • 1938
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    Annabel Takes a Tour

    Annabel Takes a Tour

    5 1938 HD

    Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jack Oakie

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  • 1942
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    Girls' Town

    Girls' Town

    1 1942 HD

    A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Edith Fellows

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  • 1929
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    Show of Shows

    Show of Shows

    5.5 1929 HD

    Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Frank Fay

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  • 1927
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    The Sea Tiger

    The Sea Tiger

    1 1927 HD

    Silent Film drama...now a lost film. Julian Ramos is a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Milton Sills

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  • 1928
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    Harold Teen

    Harold Teen

    7 1928 HD

    Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Arthur Lake

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  • 1933
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    King for a Night

    King for a Night

    6.2 1933 HD

    A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Chester Morris

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  • 1934
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    Gift of Gab

    Gift of Gab

    1 1934 HD

    Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Edmund Lowe

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  • 1930
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    Sweet Mama

    Sweet Mama

    1 1930 HD

    A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1941
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    The Night of January 16th

    The Night of January 16th

    5 1941 HD

    Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Robert Preston

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  • 1937
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    Big City

    Big City

    7.4 1937 HD

    Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Luise Rainer

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  • 1927
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    The Satin Woman

    The Satin Woman

    1 1927 HD

    Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dorothy Davenport

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  • 1935
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    A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

    A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

    5.2 1935 HD

    This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: William Ray

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  • 1929
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    Hot Stuff

    Hot Stuff

    1 1929 HD

    An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1928
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    Naughty Baby

    Naughty Baby

    4.5 1928 HD

    A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.

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    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1934
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    The Hollywood Gad-About

    The Hollywood Gad-About

    4 1934 HD

    A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Walter Winchell

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  • 1929
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    The Girl from Woolworth's

    The Girl from Woolworth's

    1 1929 HD

    Daisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party and they're both attracted to each other, but each...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1928
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    Fashion News

    Fashion News

    5 1928 HD

    Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Raquel Torres

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  • 1928
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    3-Ring Marriage

    3-Ring Marriage

    1 1928 HD

    Anna runs away from her wealthy father's ranch and becomes a trick rider in a circus to be with her sweetheart, Cal Coney, a circus cowboy, when her...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Mary Astor

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  • 1927
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    American Beauty

    American Beauty

    1 1927 HD

    American Beauty (1927)

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Billie Dove

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  • 1928
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    The Big Noise

    The Big Noise

    1 1928 HD

    John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Chester Conklin

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  • 1927
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    Breakfast at Sunrise

    Breakfast at Sunrise

    1 1927 HD

    While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Constance Talmadge

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  • 1928
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    Mad Hour

    Mad Hour

    1 1928 HD

    Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a...

    Genre:

    Cast: Sally O'Neil

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  • 1928
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    Show Girl

    Show Girl

    1 1928 HD

    An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1926
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    A Woman of the Sea

    A Woman of the Sea

    6 1926 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Edna Purviance

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  • 2023
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    The Crown

    The Crown

    8.219 2023 HD

    The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Imelda Staunton

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