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Julanne Johnston

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Julanne Johnston

Born April 30, 1900 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USADied December 26, 198831 films

Julanne Johnston (May 1, 1900 - December 26, 1988) was an American silent film actress born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is known for being on William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida during the weekend in November 1924 when film director and producer Thomas Ince later died of heart failure. She was also the female lead in the Douglas Fairbanks film The Thief of Bagdad, with Anna May Wong, that same year.

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Johnston died in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, at the age of 88. Her remains were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.

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The Big Parade posterFirst watchThe Big Parade19257.6as Justine Devereux (uncredited)The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of…View film

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Filmography

31 films as actor
  1. 1934CleopatraUndetermined Role (uncredited)
  2. 1934The Scarlet Empress
  3. 1930Madam SatanMiss Conning Tower
  4. 1930Golden DawnSister Hedwig
  5. 1930Strictly ModernAimee Spencer
  6. 1929Smiling Irish EyesGoldie Devore
  7. 1929PrisonersLenke
  8. 1929The Younger GenerationIrma Striker
  9. 1928Oh Kay!Constance Appleton
  10. 1928The Olympic HeroMary Brown
  11. 1928Name the WomanNina Palmer
  12. 1928The Whip WomanMme. Haldane
  13. 1927Her Wild OatMiss Whitley
  14. 1927Good Time CharleyElaine Keene - Mother
  15. 1927His Late ExcellencyVanda Mekoff
  16. 1927Venus of VeniceJean
  17. 1926TwinkletoesLilac
  18. 1926Aloma of the South SeasSylvia
  19. 1926Pleasures of the RichPhyliss Worthing
  20. 1925The Prude's FallSonia Roubetsky
  21. 1925The Big ParadeJustine Devereux (uncredited)
  22. 1925Big PalHelen Truscott
  23. 1925The City of TemptationWanda Menkoff
  24. 1924Garragan
  25. 1924The Thief of BagdadThe Princess
  26. 1923The Brass Bottle
  27. 1922The Young RajahDancing Girl
  28. 1920Fickle WomenJanie Cullison
  29. 1920Miss HobbsMillicent Farey
  30. 1920Seeing It ThroughJanice Wilson
  31. 1919Better Times