Eugenie Besserer
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Filmography
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Lilac Time
(1928)In this love story set against the backdrop of the World War I, a British flying ace and a local farm girl fall in love in rural France.

The Jazz Singer
(1927)The son of a Jewish cantor is forced to defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a secular musician.

The Circle
(1925)It's déjà vu all over again in this scandalous comedy about marital infidelity directed by two-time Academy Award-winner Frank Borzage and based on the hit stage play by W. Somerset Maugham. Bored with her marriage to stuffy aristocrat Arnold Cheney (Creighton Hale), Elizabeth (Eleanor Boardman) is planning to trade him in for a new model (Malcolm McGregor), just as Arnold's mother (Eugenie Besserer) did to his father (Alec Francis) 30 years before. To help her decide if she's made the right choice, Elizabeth invites her mother-in-law and her husband (George Fawcett) to pay them a visit, while Arnold takes measures to save his marriage with a hard-hitting plan of his own. The first film to feature Lucille LeSueur acting under the name Joan Crawford (playing the young Lady Catherine).

Madame X
(1929)The wife of a French diplomat, forcibly separated from her young son, will meet him again in 20 years as his client when she stands trial for murder.

Flesh and the Devil
(1926)Leo and Ulrich are childhood friends. But their lifelong friendship begins to fracture when Ulrich marries Felicitas, the woman Leo loves.