''The Taxi Mystery'' is a 1926 American silent

mystery film A mystery film is a genre of film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means of clues, i ...

directed by

Fred Windemere Fred Windemere (born Fritz Wintermeier, April 15, 1892 –March 18, 1970) was an American film actor, actor and film director of the silent era.Munden p.741 Selected filmography * ''Three in Exile'' (1925) * ''With This Ring (1925 film), With Thi ...

and starring Edith Roberts, Robert Agnew, and

Virginia Pearson Virginia Belle Pearson (March 7, 1886 – June 6, 1958) was an American stage and film actress. She made fifty-one films in a career which extended from 1910 until 1932. Career She was born on March 7, 1886, in Anchorage, Kentucky to paren ...

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, millionaire Harry Canby saves a young woman from thugs by acting as the driver of her taxi. The woman disappears and he meets her again at a party, and finds out that she is Vera Norris, a musical comedy star. She refuses to recognize him. He again saves her when the manager and the husband of a rival star has her kidnaped so that his wife can play her part and so he can produce someone to get the young woman’s money in her stead. Vera plays her part, and comes into her inheritance, and finds her father Fred Norris.

Cast

* Edith Roberts as Nancy Cornell / Vera Norris * Robert Agnew as Harry Canby *

as Mrs. Blaine Jameson *

Phillips Smalley Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the grandson of Wendell Phillips; he was the son of George Washburn Smalley, a war corres ...

as Willoughby Thomson *

Bertram Grassby Bertram Grassby (23 December 1880 – 7 December 1953) was an English actor. He appeared in more than 90 silent era films between 1914 and 1927. Grassby was married to American actress Gerard Alexander. He was born in Lincolnshire, England a ...

as Fred Norris

References

Bibliography

*Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1926 films 1926 mystery films American black-and-white films American mystery films American silent feature films Films directed by Fred Windemere 1920s English-language films 1920s American films Silent mystery films {{mystery-film-stub