Show Boat was a part-silent, part-talkie adaptation of the book by Edna Ferber. The film traces the life of Magnolia Hawkes...
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1929
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In spite of its unbelievable storyline, She Goes to War manages to sustain interest from first reel to last. During WWI,...
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Rosie
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1929
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Masks of the Devil was director Victor Seastrom's final silent film for MGM -- and his next-to-last American film before his...
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Countess Zellner
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1928
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The "Salome" of this heavy-breathing melodrama is Helene (Alma Rubens), who is betrayed by her wealthy lover Monte Carroll...
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Helene
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1927
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That question mark in the film's title should provide a good clue as to the tenor of the storyline. Married to British...
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Wanda Heriot
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1926
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One of a cycle of late-1920s films dealing with the Russian Revolution, Siberia stars Alma Rubens as idealistic Russian...
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Sonia Vronsky
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1926
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Alma Rubens, a hauntingly beautiful silent screen actress whose career was cut short by drug addiction, stars in The Gilded...
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Linda Haverhill
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1926
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Adapted from a novel by Julian LaMothe, The Winding Stair stars Edmund Lowe as Paul, a fearless French Foreign Legion...
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Marguerite
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1925
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This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it...
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1925
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Maxine
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1925
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Fashions for Men was a satirical play by Franz Molnar. In the hands of film company First National, it became a sincere,...
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Paula
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1925
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Germaine (Alma Rubens) is unhappy when her parents force her into a marriage with the wealthy Lucien D'Artois (Jack Mulhall)....
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Germaine
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1925
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When Donovan Steele (Percy Marmont) discovers his fiancée with another man, he loses faith in both women and God. He...
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Neree Caron @ Jean Dubal
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1925
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1924
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than...
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Savina Grove
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1924
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This plodding melodrama fails to measure up to the original 1917 version directed by Charles Giblyn. Mildred Gower...
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Mildred Gower
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1924
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Virginia Carter (Alma Rubens) has two suitors -- the carefree Robert Whitney (Frank Mayo) and the more restrained, but far...
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Virginia Carter
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1924
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John Leslie (Conrad Nagel) and Craig Burnett (Antonio D'Algy) land their plane near a small Quebec town. Leslie becomes...
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Diane Du Prez
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1924
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This epic production was the last film that producer and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst produced for Paramount...
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Alicia
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1923
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An epic, 13-reel costume drama produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions -- and it doesn't star his...
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1923
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Although the silent screen of the early '20s was inundated with dramas of the Northwest, many of them based on the novels of...
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Marette Radison
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1922
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"The world and his wife" is a reference to those gossips who lurk in the background, talking about everyone else's affairs....
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1920
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It's hard to believe that this picture and the 1946 Humoresque were based on the same Fannie Hurst novel -- they're...
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1920
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Marion Gregory (Alma Rubens) is not happy with her life as the wife of a struggling inventor (Jack Conway). When Dr. Calvert...
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1919
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Kate Carewe (Alma Rubens) lords over the dancehall in a lawless gold rush town. When preacher Ralph Bowen (Albert Roscoe)...
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1919
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Alma Rubens, at the time still a fresh face in motion pictures, starred in this Triangle melodrama. French artistJules Mardon...
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1918
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While her sister Felicity (Peggy Pearce) remains back on the farm with her folks, footloose Judith (Alma Rubens) borrows $100...
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1918
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Socialism is given sympathetic, if unrealistic, treatment in this Triangle drama. John Warfield (Joe King) has been raised a...
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1918
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In this typically moralistic silent western, newspaperman "Truthful" Tulliver (William S. Hart) rescues sisters Grace...
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1917
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1917
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1916
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s splendid physique was seen in all its pristine glory in the 1916 western The Half-Breed. In what...
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1916
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