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Mrs. Thompson
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1931
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In this drama, a married woman's life is destroyed when her husband falls in love with a pretty chorine and divorces her. He...
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Helen Parr
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1930
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The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great...
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1930
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In this heartwarming drama, an amiable department store worker gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally slips a...
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1930
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Mary Colbrook
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1930
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1930
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In this early talkie, a burlesque team grows tired of playing rural gigs. When the fellow is offered a chance to do a solo...
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Molly Wilson
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1929
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The Queen Mother
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1929
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Not even Joe E. Brown's most fervent fans have much to say about his appearance in the 1929 part-talkie My Lady's Past --...
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Mamie Reynolds
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1929
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Yet another early talkie about love, jealousy and divorce among the upper classes, Their Own Desire remains a dramatically...
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Harriet Marlett
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1929
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A remake of a 1914 D.W. Griffith potboiler, The Battle of the Sexes is a highly entertaining, if cautionary, tale of a...
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Mrs. Judson
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1928
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1928
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The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type,...
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The Devil Skipper
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1928
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1928
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Belle Bennett once more goes the martyred "Stella Dallas" route in the aptly titled Power of Silence. To ensure the future...
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1928
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Technically, Mother Machree was director John Ford's first sound film -- even though the sound was limited to a Fox Movietone...
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Ellen McHugh
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1928
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Wild Geese is based on a novel by Martha Ostenso, originally serialized in the pages of The Pictorial Review. The story is...
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Amelia Gare
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1927
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Virginia
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1927
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Based on a story by Kathleen Norris, Mother stars Belle Bennett in the title role. In the tradition of her previous screen...
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1927
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This was Emil Jannings' first American-made picture, and his portrayal is reminiscent of his characters in his previous...
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Mrs. Schiller
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1927
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Belle Bennett stars as Odette, who early in life is forced to give up all dreams of love so that she can look after her...
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1926
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Mrs. Fleming
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1926
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1926
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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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This silent drama, based on the novel by the Countess de Chambrun, had quite a few unusual twists. Amy and Matthew Dale...
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Amy Dale
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1925
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Carla Light
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1925
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One of the silent era's most popular tearjerkers, this soapy melodrama was adapted by legendary screenwriter Frances Marion...
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Stella Dallas
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1925
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F.B.O. was primarily known for its Westerns and low-budget programmers, but the film company did make an attempt at creating...
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Eleanor Woodbury
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1925
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Most of the elements that made the first Potash and Perlmutter film so successful are brought back here: Frances Marion is...
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1924
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During the Victorian era and for quite a while afterwards -- in other words, before modern-day psychology put a darker spin...
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Aida, Robert's wife
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1922
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All the elements are here that one would expect from a picture based on a story by James Oliver Curwood: it takes place in...
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1920
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Maid Pauline Starke works in a theatrical boarding house. She calls herself "The Atom", because no one pays attention to her....
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1918
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Since Jane Whiting (Belle Bennett) has shown that she has both brains and street smarts, her boss at the DA's office assigns...
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1918
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1917
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The drudgery of the working class is conveyed in this drama, directed by Ida May Park. Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works...
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1917
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The name Roy Stewart might mean little today, but in the mid to late 1910s, Stewart was a close competitor to western stars...
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1917
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1916
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1916
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