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1935
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Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story...
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1934
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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1934
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1934
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Adapted from an earlier European film, Wharf Angel stars Dorothy Dell as Toy, a golden-hearted prostitute stranded in San...
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1934
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Monogram's Skyway stars Ray Walker in his usual role as a brash troublemaker who can't hold down a job. This time he's a...
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1933
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Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband...
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1931
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Released in both silent and sound versions, this lurid melodrama from Universal was based on the 1924 play Carnival by...
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1930
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The 1929 comedy Twin Beds was the second of three versions of the 1914 stage farce by Margaret Mayo and Salisbury Field. The...
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1929
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Lucy Bishop
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1929
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In this melodrama, set in the Far North, a half-Eskimo woman leaves her tribe and her husband to find adventure with a...
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1929
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Runaway Girls was the first directorial credit for Mark Sandrich, who would still have to serve a long apprenticeship in...
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Agnes Brady
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1928
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Spider Webs is one of the few American films directed by British filmmaker Wilfred Noy. Niles Welch stars as Bert Grantland,...
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Flora Benham
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1927
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The Haunted Ship was adapted from the Jack London story White and Yellow. Villainous schooner captain Montague Love casts his...
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1927
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Miles and miles of stock "tenement fire" footage are expended in this inexpensive actioner. Alice Lake stars as a wealthy...
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1927
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Glamorous Broadway actress Babe (Leatrice Joy) is cast as a Salvation Army lass in her latest musical. For research purposes,...
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Goldie
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1927
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Silent-movie ingenue Alice Lake was well past her prime when she headed the cast of this second-string drama. Lake is cast as...
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The Wife
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1926
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Even though films up until the late '20s were silent, it doesn't mean they were devoid of musical devices. This sentimental...
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1925
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When Alice Lake switched from comedy to dramatic roles, it was not necessarily a wise career move. Today, if Lake is...
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1925
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This melodrama, the first release from a small-time independent company called Gotham, is an old-fashioned thriller. David...
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Violet Colton
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1925
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Poppy
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1924
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This romantic drama of love and revenge is taken from the Spanish ballad by Julio Sabello. David Kent (Kenneth Harlan)...
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1924
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Herbert Rawlinson is the star of this mediocre crime drama from Universal. When his father's business fails, Jimmy Nevins...
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Mary Butler
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1923
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Patricia Flynn
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1923
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This mystery-melodrama had a lot of action and featured a good cast. Railroad magnate Luke Carson (William Worthington) has...
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Norah O'Neill
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1923
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Bubbles Revere
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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For this tale of old California, producer Benjamin F. Zeidman put together an all-star cast. The governor of California...
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Paula
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1923
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Roland West, who directed this mystery, also co-wrote the stage play on which it was based. Inventor Peter Marchmont (Henry...
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Jewell Marchmont
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1923
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Although she came from a comedy background, Alice Lake preferred to concentrate on dramas during most of the 1920s. The...
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Betty Ellen Estabrook
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1922
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Having served her apprenticeship as leading lady to Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, Alice Lake graduated to stardom in the...
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Nita Gordon
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1922
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Alice Lake plays a con artist who reforms in this melodrama. She's Sally Dolan, better known as Chicago Sal, and one night,...
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Sally DolanIChicago Sal
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1922
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Those who see the title to this picture and think it must be based on a hoary old melodrama are absolutely correct. The play,...
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Viola Lorraine
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1922
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Alice Lake stars in this clever crime drama, which had a script written by June Mathis. When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is...
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Jean Oliver
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1922
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While he was working as a supporting character in this film, Rudolph Valentino had no idea that stardom was imminent....
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Lucretia Eastman
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1921
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Although Alice Lake's work with comedy filmmakers like Mack Sennett and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is better known now than her...
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Julien/Paula Revell
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1921
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Kathleen Dexter (Alice Lake) and her brother Terry (George Stewart) are orphans who are living on a fixed income, received...
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Kathleen Dexter
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1921
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There is a shipwreck near a small fishing village, and one of the survivors is the wealthy Clarissa Sedgwick (Lydia Knott)....
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1920
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1918
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Long believed lost, the Fatty Arbuckle two-reeler Good Night, Nurse resurfaced in fragmentary form in the late 1970s. Seeking...
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1918
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1918
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Filmed in late December of 1917 and early January of 1918, the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle two-reeler The Bellboy was shipped to...
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1918
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Having shot his fist five Comique Film Corporation comedies in New York, star-director Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle moved his unit...
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1918
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1917
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1917
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1917
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Velma Gay (Alice Lake) gets engaged to Buck Linsay (Roy Stewart), a rich Westerner, even though she loves someone else. Buck...
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1917
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