MGM's musical extravaganza Meet the People top-bills two future powerful TV executives: Dick Powell and Lucille Ball. Ball...
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1944
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Our Gang member Janet Burston believes that her family is neglecting her, so she decides to run away from home. The other...
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1943
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This second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and...
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1943
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Future film star Stephen McNally (here billed as Horace McNally) appears in this Our Gang one-reeler as Bill Patterson, ace...
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1942
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The Our Gang kids are upset that WWII is causing them deprivations and inconveniences. Organizing a fact-finding committee,...
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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1942
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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1942
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This musical -- a concoction of comedy, songs, dancing, and war-time patriotism mixed together with a spy spoof plot -- opens...
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1942
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Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in...
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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Having read horror stories about wicked stepmothers, the Our Gang kids are determined to break up the marriage between...
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1941
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Strange Skirts is the TV title of the 1941 MGM film When Ladies Meet. The film was a remake of a 1933 production of the same...
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1941
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Of the many MGM Our Gang comedies focused on whiny child actor Robert Blake, the one-reel All About Hash is often cited as...
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1940
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The title of this one-reel Our Gang comedy is explained when Gang member Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer comes face to face with his...
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1940
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1940
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Wrongfully accused of stealing, an angry Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer decides to get even with his parents by embarking upon a life...
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1940
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In his final Our Gang appearance, Tommy Bond essays his usual role as the Gang's eternal nemesis Butch. This time, Butch wins...
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1940
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While recklessly playing baseball in a busy street, Our Gang member Mickey (Robert Blake) is struck by a car. Though he fully...
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series focuses on customs evasion. It shows how even wealthy people, not just...
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1940
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Lana Turner (a mere 19 years old at the time) stars in this lighthearted musical comedy as Patty Marlow, a dancer fighting...
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1939
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The MGM Our Gang series began its slow but steady decline with the sub-standard one-reel entry Tiny Troubles. On this...
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1939
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The gang's beloved teacher Miss Pipps (Sara Haden) is fired by crabby old school board chairman Mr. Pratt (Clarence Wilson),...
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1939
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Stronger Than Desire is a streamlined remake of 1934's Evelyn Prentice. Instead of the earlier film's William Powell and...
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1939
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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1939
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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Filmed on MGM's standing Dr. Kildare sets, the one-reel Our Gang comedy Men in Fright gets under way as Gang members Carl...
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1938
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Marie Blake, the real-life sister of Jeanette MacDonald, played the title role in the one-reel comedy Alfalfa's Aunt. Hoping...
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1938
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Though not the first Dr. Kildare film ever made, this is the first entry in MGM's long-running series set at Blair General...
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1938
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Directed by Richard Thorpe, this costume drama stars Luise Rainer as 16-year-old southern belle Gilberta, who, upon her...
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1938
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The Our Gang kids square off against "Butch's Assassins" in a crucial football game. Star player Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer...
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1938
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Fifteen thousand dollars may have been a fortune back in 1938, but to high-powered literary agent Lynn Conway...
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1938
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Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to...
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1938
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A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss is determined to stop him so he hires a pretty...
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1938
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In director Reinh Schunzel's film Rich Man, Poor Girl, the upper crust collides with the more financially unfortunate members...
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1938
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Fast Company was another attempt by MGM to match the success of its "Thin Man" films. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star...
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1938
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Scoutmaster Elmer Brown (Buster Keaton) loses his heart to the pretty carhop (Lona Andre) who works in a drive-in diner....
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1936
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Produced by Poverty Row company Beaumont Pictures, this obscure Western was the third of four oaters starring veteran leading...
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1936
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Novelist Ursula Parrott's biggest best-seller was 1928's Ex-Wife; less successful was her subsequent book Brilliant Marriage,...
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1936
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1924 by producer Sol Lesser, Harold Bell Wright's popular suspense novel The Mine with the Iron Door was...
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1936
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Ring Around the Moon was based on the once-popular novel by Vera Hobart. The story endeavors to invite comparisons between...
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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1936
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In this melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until...
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1936
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In this drama, two disparate brothers use radically different methods to raise their sons. The brothers co-own a successful...
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1935
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1935
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An overly verbose screenplay all but sinks this otherwise standard whodunit from Poverty Row company Reliable Pictures Corp....
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1935
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In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are...
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1935
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Fearing that her unsavory past will be revealed, a young girl is prepared to kill her erstwhile benefactor in this hectic...
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1935
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In early 1930s, Monogram pictures held a virtual monopoly on the bucolic novels of Gene Stratton Porter. When Monogram...
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1935
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Ellery Queen, the scholarly amateur detective created in 1928 by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who also used...
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1935
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In this crime drama, a woman loses custody of her baby boy after her rich husband dies. She later gets a job working in a...
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1935
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This melodramatic cheapie stars former silent-screen leading lady Barbara Bedford as a woman who loses her beloved son in a...
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Edith Roberts
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1934
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Set within the steamy Louisiana bayous, this melodrama chronicles the reconciliation between an embittered bereaved mother...
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1934
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While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
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1933
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As was often the case in the films of Chesterfield Studios, the title The Lady From Nowhere has little relevance to the film...
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1931
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In this western, the leader of an outlaw band gets conned on a steamship voyage. To get revenge he holds the con man's...
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Anne
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1931
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In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist...
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1930
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Broadway star Marilyn Miller's second starring film was an adaptation of her 1925 stage hit Sunny. Flashing her celebrated...
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1930
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"East is East, West is West, Never the Twain Shall Meet." That's the lesson to be learned in the low-budget exotic romance...
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Luane
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1930
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This simple tale of peace-loving hillbillies defeating a gang of outlaws was based on a story by Joseph Hergesheimer and was...
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1930
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When dignified silent-film leading man Conway Tearle appeared in a short series of "B" westerns in the 1930s, many of his...
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Joy Gastrell
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1929
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Doris La Rue
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1929
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Produced by ace stunt man Richard Talmadge, this low-budget comedy features a pair of bumbling vibrator salesmen, Leonard St....
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1929
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Far in the mysterious East there lies an island that exists under the radar of any law or authority. This haven for thieves...
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1928
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For a humble "B" picture, The Broken Mask was able to assemble an impressive cast. Cullen Landis stars as an Argentine dancer...
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1928
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In this silent crime drama, an innocent would-be gambler loses to card sharps and hands them a post-dated check for $50,000...
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Margaret
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1928
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Elinor
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1928
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This nonsensical comedy-melodrama was a vehicle for two relics from the dawn of cinema history, walrus-mustached...
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Nancy
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1928
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Silent-screen stunt man turned action-adventure star Richard Talmadge portrayed a masked rider coming to the rescue of an...
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Lucia D'Arquista
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1928
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1928
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Previously filmed in 1918, Edwin Baird's play City of Purple Dreams was given a second cinematic go-round in 1928....
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1928
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Chorus girl Barbara Bedford is left broke and stranded by a crooked producer in Backstage. Her good-hearted stage manager pal...
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Julia Joyce
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1927
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Life of an Actress was based on a play by Langdon McCormick. Farm girl Nora Dowen (Barbara Bedford) gets in trouble with her...
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Nora Dowen
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1927
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Mary Marlowe
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1927
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One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted...
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Tatiana
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1927
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Although the plot to this comedy seems forced and unnatural (even for a farce), it does have a stellar cast. Even the smaller...
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1927
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Yvonne Fontaine
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1927
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Betrayed by his wife and disillusioned by the world in general, British nobleman Lord Gervas Carew heads to Algeria, there to...
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Marcy
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1926
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The Sporting Lover was produced by Faultless Pictures Corporation, leaving the picture wide open for wisecracks from the...
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Lady Gwendolyn Cavens
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1926
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Paradise Alley is the ironic nickname for a rundown tenement district in the Lower East Side. Despite their shabby...
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1926
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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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1925
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This moralistic romance, based on the short story Here's How by Richard Washburn Child, was pretty typical for its era: jazz...
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Margie Taylor
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1925
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Edmund Lowe plays a writer whose efforts to seek out story material leads him into an exhilarating adventure. Lowe gets mixed...
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Beatrice Charles
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1925
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1925
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Molly Lassiter
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1925
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This light comedy had apparently been shelved for quite a while before it was released in 1926. The name of Edward Everett...
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1925
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This drama was based on the novel Joseph Greer and His Daughter by Henry Kitchell Webster. Inventor Joseph Greer (Lewis...
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Jenny McFarian
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1925
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1925
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Early silent-screen star Charles Ray's career was in a dramatic decline when he starred in this average western melodrama...
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1925
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A minor action melodrama from low-budget company Banner Productions, Before Midnight starred William Russell and...
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1925
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This romance, which has the Orient as its background, strongly reflects the racial prejudices of its day. When Frank and...
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1924
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This drama was based on the novel Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene. Jonathan Swift (Frank Keenan) is a wealthy fish...
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Emily Swift
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1924
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Even if the seal of the American Legion didn't appear at the beginning of this Monogram feature, it would be pretty obvious...
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1924
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Less a western than an attempt by Tom Mix to emulate Will Rogers, this silent action comedy features the star donning a suit...
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Nan Harvess
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1923
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Mary Ellen Gray
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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 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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Helen Chester
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1923
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Before hitting his stride at MGM later in the 1920s, director Clarence Brown was contracted to make five "Super-Jewels" for...
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Edith Craig
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1923
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While there wasn't much interest in 3-D films until the 1950s, even in the silent era filmmakers were taking an occasional...
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1922
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Tom Mix travels from the desert of the American West to the Sahara desert in this picture, which is as much farce as it is...
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1922
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Pleasant-looking British-born Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent comedy-drama as look-alike cousins Stuart Granger and...
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1922
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Florence Lawrence -- the original "Biograph Girl" -- attempted a comeback with this human interest drama. Katherine Nevin...
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1922
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This was yet another Northwoods drama released in the summer of 1922, supposedly to cool off sweaty theater patrons with its...
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Marcette Vallois
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1922
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On the whole, John Gilbert's starring vehicles at Fox were not as beneficial to him professionally as his films at MGM....
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Nadine Fortier
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1922
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Bumptuous Charles Ray is again a "victim of circumstance" (to quote the immortal Curly Howard) in Alias Julius Caesar. While...
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Helen
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1922
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Universal bragged that this standard crime melodrama was written by Louis Victor Eytinge, a "lifer" at the Arizona state...
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1922
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"Fox Introduces Unusually Promising Star in John Gilbert," proclaimed trade paper Moving Picture World in its review of this...
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Nini
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1922
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1922
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Hope Standish
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1921
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Although Fox pushed this drama as a vehicle for its new star, Barbara Bedford, far more interesting was another Barbara,...
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1921
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After being given the "Hollywood treatment," author Johan Bojer's famed novel changed from a story of breadth and scope into...
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Thora
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1921
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Cowboy star William S. Hart takes one of his rare vacations from Westerns in this picture to play a crook-turned-cop (at...
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1920
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While this drama has all the earmarks of director Maurice Tourneur, he had quite a bit of help from future silent idol John...
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1920
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This picture was based on the novel Dabney Todd by F.N. Westcott, and it was one of Leatrice Joy's better pre-Cecil B....
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1920
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Maurice Tourneur was the original director on the 1920 silent version of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, but he...
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Cora Munro
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1920
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