Based extremely loosely on the Stephen Vincent Benet story Sobbin' Women," Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is one of the best...
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1954
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Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving...
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1951
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1951
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Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek...
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1951
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1951
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1949
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1949
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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1948
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1948
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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1947
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1947
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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
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1947
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The Secret Heart is a psychological drama starring June Allyson as a disturbed teenager obsessed with the memory of her dead...
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1946
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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1945
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In this WW II-era drama, an over-ambitious beauty contestant's single-minded pursuit of movie stardom causes her to step...
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Mother
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1942
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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1942
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An innocent man is put on trial, but is he really as innocent as he claims? Diplomat David Talbot (William Powell) and his...
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1942
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I Live on Danger is a fast-moving thriller with strong performances and top-notch direction -- by former screenwriter...
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1942
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer...
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1941
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Riders of the Timberline was the 38th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. To keep things from getting stale, star...
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1941
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Dr. Jim Kildare (Lew Ayres) plays Good Samaritan with potentially disastrous results in The People vs. Dr. Kildare. Happening...
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1941
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1938
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Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The...
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1938
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In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The...
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1937
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1935
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1935
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This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great...
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1933
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Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." Anna Q. Nilsson stars as a dauntless female...
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Bess Maitland
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1929
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Iris d'Aquila
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1928
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The lonesomest of the titular lonesome ladies is Polly Fosdick (Anna Q. Nilsson), the wife of wealthy John Fosdick...
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Polly Fosdick
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1927
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Easy Pickings was one of a rash of "old dark house" comedies produced in the wake of 1926's The Bat. This time Mary Ryan...
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Mary Ryon
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1927
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Vernie
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1927
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Sorrell and Son, the best-selling (and frequently filmed) British novel by Warwick Deeping, was afforded its first screen...
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Dora Sorrell
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1927
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Francis X. Bushman, who had made a comeback two years previously as Messala in Ben Hur, was still trying to hang onto stardom...
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Helen Marsden
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1927
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The Masked Woman was one of the last screenwriting efforts by June Mathis, who died in 1927. Filmed on location in France,...
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1927
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The dignified Lewis Stone lets down his hair in a comedy role in the rollicking Too Much Money. Thanks to a series of...
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Annabel Broadley
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1926
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Fanny
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1926
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Proof that Anna Q. Nilsson had completely recovered from a recent injury was offered by her willingness to tackle a dual role...
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Constance Lee @ Caroline Logan
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1926
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In this romantic silent adventure, a beautiful heiress goes to California for a visit and while there learns that her New...
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Barbara Brown
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1926
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1926
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Sandra De Hoult
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1925
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A wealthy father turns his back on his son after he marries a woman whose mother is a bordello madame in this routine...
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Alicia Wingate
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1925
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Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The...
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Countess Courteau
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1925
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This drama, based on the play by Marion Fairfax, concerns a woman who talks big, but does not practice what she preaches....
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Kate Lennox
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1925
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This romantic drama was based on the novel by Ethel M. Dell, a very popular author of the day. Her work doesn't seem to...
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Sylvia Ingleton
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1925
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This drama was written by future MGM producer Paul Bern. The greatest ambition of actress Vanna Du Maurier (Anna Q. Nilsson)...
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1924
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Based on a 1914 novel by Robert William Chambers, this silent melodrama from the pioneering Vitagraph Company starred one of...
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Jessica Drene
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1924
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Inez Laranotta (Anna Q. Nilsson) is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But...
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Inez Laranetta
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1924
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Ellie Byrne (Colleen Moore) and Don Lane (Ben Lyon) are childhood pals -- their fathers (Charles Murray and Russell Simpson)...
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1924
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Because of the recent Tea Pot Dome scandal, oil fields were a big topic of discussion in early 1924. Even though this...
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Allegheny Briskow
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1924
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English orphan Andrew Lackaday (Ernest Torrence) grows up and becomes a clown for a French circus. After the circus becomes...
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Lady Auriol Dayne
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1924
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Ultra suave Adolph Menjou plays an urbane, filthy rich bachelor who finds himself falling for a socialite just as carefree as...
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Helen Tremaine
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1924
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This seafaring melodrama was based on the Harkins and Barber stage play by the same name. His ship capsized in a storm,...
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Mary Ferguson
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1924
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No, this society drama is not related in any way, shape or form to the 1949 Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy comedy. It's one...
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Mrs. Michael Ramsay
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1923
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When she is deserted by her husband, the Stranger (Anna Q. Nilsson) leaves her baby on a doorstep with half a dollar bill...
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Mrs. Webber
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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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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This old-fashioned drama was based on the novel Youth Triumphant by George Gibb. Patsy, a little slum girl (Virginia Lee...
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1923
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Helen Foraker
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1923
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Even though Universal Studios released this as a "Super-Jewel," it's really just the same old, tired South Seas tale with an...
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Mary Rogers
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1923
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Crittendon Mariott's vivid story formed a wonderful basis for the atmospheric filmmaking talents of Maurice Tourneur. The...
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Dorothy Fairfax
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1923
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Talented Anna Q. Nilsson overcomes hackneyed material in this society drama. Actress Fay Leslie (Nilsson) marries Don Hampton...
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1923
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This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister...
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Cherry Malotte
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1923
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The Booth Tarkington-Harry Leon Wilson play was filmed once previously, in 1914, by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. For the...
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Genevieve Granger-Simpson
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1922
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This comedy-melodrama was based on the hit Broadway play by Frederick S. Isham, and Cyril Chadwick repeats his stage...
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Ivis
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1922
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This melodrama, based on the novel Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley, wasted the talents of James Kirkwood,...
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Margot Cork
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1922
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Irene Lansing
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1921
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Director Marshall Neilan proved to be a little ahead of his time when he made this satirical comedy-drama, based on the book...
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Madge Vance
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1921
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Lily Gibbs (Anna Q. Nilsson), who has led a life outside of the law, works with fake spiritualist Dr. Joe (George Majeroni)....
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1921
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Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son...
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Ember Edwards
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1921
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William S. Hart added a bit more suspense and drama in this otherwise typical Hart western. The greatest western star of the...
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1920
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Author George Clayton (H.B. Warner) is a skeptic when it comes to hypnotism. Nevertheless, he allows mesmerist Norman Osgood...
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1920
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1919
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This picture began life as a Saturday Evening Post serial by Wallace Irwin. It involves the newly rich Buddy McNair...
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1919
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In spite of an all-star cast and the talents of director Marshall Neilan, there wasn't much that could be done with this...
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1919
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In order to rescue his brother, society boy David Strong (Wallace Reid) has to travel through the underworld. He disguises...
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1919
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1919
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Though not his motion picture debut as has often been claimed, Seven Keys to Baldpate was George M. Cohan's most popular...
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1917
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Eugene Strong plays an artist who suspects his wife of infidelity. He threatens to kill his wife's would-be lover, then is...
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1917
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Gladys Brockwell, who often played vamps during the 1910s, does a rare virtuous turn in this drama. Mabel Halloway...
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1916
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One of the finest films of the pre-1920 era, The Regeneration was the first truly important directorial effort by...
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1915
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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Released in 1912 amidst numerous 50th anniversary commemorations of the U.S. Civil War, The Confederate Ironclad is similar...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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