Barbara Kent
4 credits on HibingeTV
Canadian-born American actress, born in 1907. She began in silent films at Universal and moved to MGM, where she played the ingenue in Flesh and the Devil (1926) opposite John Gilbert and Greta Garbo. She made a few early sound pictures before retiring from the screen in the mid-1930s. She lived a long private life afterward. She died in 1996.
Acted In
Romance, Drama
Two childhood friends, Leo and Ulrich, return from military service and fall for the same alluring woman, Felicitas, with destructive consequences. Greta Garbo and John Gilbert's on-screen chemistry was matched by a real-life romance that began during filming, and the picture made them one of Hollywood's first great celebrity couples. Clarence Brown directs with a fluid, intimate camera that was advanced for its time, and the film's sensual love scenes pushed the boundaries of what censorship would allow. Based on Hermann Sudermann's novel The Undying Past, the film was a sensation at New York's Capitol Theatre, where it ran longer than any picture before it. It was selected for the National Film Registry in 2006. The film entered the public domain in the United States in 2022.
Romance · Drama · Silent
Flesh and the Devil
1926 - as Hertha von Eltz
Drama, Romance
Paul Fejos's lyrical tone poem about two lonely strangers in New York City who meet at Coney Island and fall in love over the course of a single day, only to be separated by the crowd and the city's relentless pace. Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent play the unnamed couple, whose brief connection stands in vivid contrast to the mechanized urban world around them. The film features early Technicolor sequences at Coney Island and brief synchronized sound dialogue scenes, making it a fascinating transitional work between the silent and sound eras. As a work published before 1930, it is in the public domain in the United States.
Drama · Romance · Silent
Lonesome
1928 - as The Girl
Drama, Sport
A college football hero is expelled after a scandal involving a vampish society woman and must redeem himself in the big game. Richard Barthelmess stars, with a young John Wayne among the gridiron extras, in this silent collegiate drama. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
Drama · Sport
The Drop Kick
1927 - as Cecily Graves
Comedy, Crime
A botanist with an expertise in fingerprints is mistaken for a detective and sent to San Francisco to investigate a Chinatown tong smuggling ring. Harold Lloyd's first talkie, directed by Clyde Bruckman. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
Comedy · Crime
Welcome Danger
1929 - as Billie Lee