This installment in the Hollywood Singing and Dancing documentary series takes a look at the musicals of the 1920's,...
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2009
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Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy is a compilation film of the famed silent-comedy star's funniest screen scenes, lovingly...
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1962
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1961
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In this British comedy, based on a popular radio series, the Lyons family goes on a Parisian holiday. The father attempts to...
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1955
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1954
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1954
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1941
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In this musical, the on-air rivalry between a married pair of American radio stars, each hosting a different show heats to...
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1941
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In this crime drama, an insurance detective goes undercover to try to bring in a jewel thief. He poses as a gangster and...
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May Hardy
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1938
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A loving mother sacrifices all for her son in this drama. She is an artist's model who finds herself financially drained by...
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Carol Deane
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1938
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This British musical comedy boasts one of the most eclectic casts in film history. Brash Wallace Ford and smoothie Ben Lyon...
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1937
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Bebe Daniels, all of 34, portrays an ageing movie star who refuses to admit she's too old for the ingenue role in an upcoming...
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Diane De Valle
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1935
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In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband...
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Sylvia Benton
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1934
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Mitzi Hansen
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1934
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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Dorothy Brock
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1933
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This melodrama, with a few comic overtones, was not the finest moment for either star Bebe Daniels or director...
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Cynthia Warren
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1933
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Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon...
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Regina Gordon
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1933
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This musical chronicles the escapades of two Spanish couples. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1933
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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Lily Owens
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1932
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1931
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My Past is based on a novel called Ex-Mistress, a title that was rejected outright by the Hollywood censors. Even so, what...
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Doree
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1931
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In this swashbuckling melodrama, set in Budapest, a seductive gold-digger becomes the mistress of a wealthy old man. She,...
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Laura
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1931
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In this elaborate big-budget musical, a handsome businessman follows a beautiful woman aboard a luxury liner and begins to...
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Vivan Benton
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1931
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Ruth Wonderly
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1931
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Bebe Daniels plays a safecracker posing as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a...
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1930
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Love Comes Along was based on Conchita, a stage melodrama by Edward (Kismet) Knoblock. The story takes place on the mythical...
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Peggy
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1930
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Hoping to repeat the success of its 1929 musical spectacular Rio Rita, RKO Radio reteamed leading lady Bebe Daniels and the...
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Dixiana
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1930
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Marion Dorsey
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1930
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Rio Rita, an expensive filmization of the legendary Florenz Ziegfeld-produced Broadway musical of 1928, was the first major...
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Rita Ferguson
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1929
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Pat Clancy
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1928
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Kathleen O'Hara
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1928
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Barbara Manning
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1928
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Peggy Lane
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1928
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Bebe Daniels once again plays an intrepid -- and somewhat foolhardy -- girl reporter in Paramount's What a Night!. A spoiled...
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Dorothy Winston
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1928
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Bebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was really more slapstick than...
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1927
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Though she hadn't been a Hal Roach "bathing beauty" for nearly ten years, Bebe Daniels still cut quite a svelte figure in...
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Alice Smith
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1927
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Zaida
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1927
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One of the most frustrating items in the list of missing Bebe Daniels comedies, Senorita certainly sounds fascinating. When...
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Senorita Francesca Hernandez
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1927
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The Palm Beach Girl is Emily Bennett (Bebe Daniels), the poor Iowa relation of wealthy Florida dowager Aunt Jerry...
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Emily Bennett
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1926
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George Barr McCutcheon's novel had already been filmed a couple of times (and would be filmed several times more after the...
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Polly Brewster
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1926
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Though well into her twenties, Bebe Daniels effectively passes as a teenager in The Campus Flirt. Daniels plays the...
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Patricia Mansfield
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1926
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Julie Mcfadden
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1926
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Volcano takes forever to get to the climactic eruption. In the meantime, the audience is subjected to the travails of...
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Zabette de Chauvalons
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1926
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This nicely made Paramount feature benefits from the humanity and wit of writer/director William C. DeMille, and the spark of...
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Jenny
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1926
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Bebe Daniels is Colette Girard, a French actress who is traveling to London to visit her friend Gloria (Diana Kane). On the...
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Colette Girard
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1925
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Maria Maretti (Bebe Daniels) works as a manicurist at a posh hotel. She is in love with Tony Luca (Edmund Burns), and they...
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Maria Maretti
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1925
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When Billy Laidlaw (Kenneth Harlan) sees Peggy Laurence (Bebe Daniels) and her partner, Matt Wilde (T. Roy Barnes),...
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Peggy Laurence
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1925
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Bebe Daniels stars in this action-packed comedy -- one of Edward Sutherland's first directoral efforts. Susan Van Dusen...
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Susan Van Dusen
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1925
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After a few films that did not showcase her talent well, Bebe Daniels was able to redeem herself in this comedy based on the...
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Diana
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1925
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This Paramount drama was based on the novel Face, by Lucy Stone Terrill. It was a change of pace for light comedienne...
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Breta Banning
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1924
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Consuelo Garcia
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1924
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Bebe Daniels never let her public or her studio down. In Daring Youth, Daniels delivers her usual sprightly performance as...
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Anita Allen
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1924
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There is a dispute over the ownership of some valuable Long Island farmland -- the Clarks and the Sullivans both claim it. It...
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Adele Clark
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1924
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This South Seas tale, based on the novel by Clive Arden, very much reflects the morals of its era. Barbara Stockley...
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Barbara Stockley
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1924
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It seems like every word Zane Grey ever put to paper eventually wound up on screen during the silent days. Although there's a...
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Mescal
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1924
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The still photographs of this costume picture, showing Rudolph Valentino wearing foppish 18th century finery, are actually...
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Princess Henriette
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1924
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It was impossible for director Sam Wood to include all of Arthur Train's sprawling novel in this picture. Instead he seems to...
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Diane
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1923
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After Hollywood was rocked by several scandals, the specter of censorship reared its ugly head. To keep local community...
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Susan Branch
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1923
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The Exciters is the old one about a footloose heiress who must marry by the age of 21 or forfeit her fortune. The girl...
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Ronnie Rand
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1923
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The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly...
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Corinne d'Alys
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1923
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Although director Cecil B. DeMille was known for his Biblical spectaculars and florid comedy-dramas about domestic relations,...
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Theodora "Teddy" Gloucester
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1922
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Although the spirited Bebe Daniels was sorely miscast as a long-suffering orphan in this comedy-drama, she somehow managed to...
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Nancy
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1922
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A young cowboy turns vigilante after his father is killed in this fine silent Western filmed on location in blistering...
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Val Hannon
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1922
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What was Paramount thinking when it cast a capable comedienne like Bebe Daniels in this artificial tragedy? The funny moments...
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Bonita Della Guerda
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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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Lorraine Temple
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1922
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1922
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This lively comedy was well suited for Bebe Daniels' talents. Daniels plays Pauline Hathaway, just turned 18 years old, who...
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Pauline Hathaway
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1921
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Bebe Daniels stars in this adaptation of the Miriam Michelson novel (and play), In the Bishop's Carriage. Thief Tom Dorgan...
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nance Olden
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1921
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When Bebe Daniels spent a publicity-filled ten days in jail for speeding, her studio saw an even bigger way to cash in and...
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1921
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Lizbeth Ann Palmer (Bebe Daniels) is the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire who is traveling to New York to visit her...
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1921
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Bebe Daniels breezes through the comic complications of Ducks and Drakes. Daniels plays Teddy Simpson, the flirtatious...
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Teddy Simpson
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1921
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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1921
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Pansy O'Donnel (Bebe Daniels), a salesgirl at a modiste's shop, has earned -- as the film's title says -- two weeks' vacation...
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Pansy O'Donnell
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1921
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Bebe Daniels stars in this picture, based on the musical comedy by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Although May Barber...
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1920
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Sylvester Tibble (Wallace Reid) comes to New York City to work at the jug business run by his uncle, Enoch Jones...
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1920
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Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan. Rowena Jones...
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1920
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Reginald Jay (Wallace Reid) has taken to his bed to avoid testifying in a divorce case. He decides that feigning illness...
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1920
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One of the best of Cecil B. DeMille's sophisticated sex comedies of the silent era, Why Change Your Wife? hinges upon a...
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1920
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by...
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The King's Favorite
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1919
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1919
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Allegory is a storytelling form little used in cinema today, but it popped up frequently during the silent era, especially...
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1916
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Nearly thirty years before Victor Fleming took movie lovers "Over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz, filmmaker Otis Turner...
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Dorothy
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1910
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