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1964
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In this western, the goodguys use bow and arrows instead of guns to foil the schemes of evil landgrabbers attempting to take...
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1955
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Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film...
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1951
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The Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as...
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1949
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Its poetic title aside, Republic's Madonna of the Desert is a formula murder mystery with an occasional surprise or two. The...
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Mrs. Brown
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1948
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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1948
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Perhaps the finest American film from the famed European director Max Ophüls, the film stars Joan Fontaine as a young woman...
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1948
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Monogram's Jiggs and Maggie in Society was the second entry in the series based on the George McManus comic strip "Bringing...
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Mrs. Vacuum
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1948
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Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine...
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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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In this first entry in the pugilistic comedy series based on Ham Fishers long-running comic strip, Joe Palooka is seen before...
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1946
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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1946
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James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers...
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1946
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1946
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A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann...
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1946
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This tender but fluffy romantic comedy centers on the romantic travails of a beautiful European princesss who goes to New...
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1945
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The East Side Kids have become so benign in Docks of New York that they actually go out of their way to help the cops! It all...
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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1945
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Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better...
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1944
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This socially conscious drama examines the causes of juvenile delinquency and centers on one girl who joins a gang of punks...
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1943
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In this unique murder mystery, that reveals the killer at the beginning of the film. The story concerns some women living in...
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1943
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian teams up with a barber and becomes a smash hit. The barber also finds himself falling...
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1943
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Moving slightly up the poverty-row ladder from PRC to Monogram, Burlesque queen Ann Corio starred in the musical comedy...
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1943
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The East Side Kids come face to face with High Society in Mr. Muggs Steps Out. Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs...
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1943
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1943
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1942
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In this musical comedy, a country bumpkin spends most of his free time watching movies and becomes such an expert that he can...
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1942
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The attractive physiques of Tom Neal and Carol Hughes are generously displayed in the PRC comedy The Miracle Kid. Neal is...
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Gloria
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1942
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Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn...
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1942
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The bucolic, down-home novels and short stories of Gene Stratton-Porter had been fodder for Monogram's screenwriting staff...
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Mrs. Potter
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1942
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Top Sergeant Mulligan was Monogram Pictures' attempt to cash in on the popularity of such service comedies as Abbott &...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Previously filmed with Mabel Normand in 1920, the old Rose Melville stage property Sis Hopkins was trotted out in 1941 for...
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1941
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Misbehaving Husbands was intended as a comeback vehicle for silent-film comedy great Harry Langdon, who after his fall from...
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1941
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Its sophisticated title notwithstanding, Tuxedo Junction is another heap o' cornpone from hillbilly-music favorites The...
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1941
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Silent film stalwart Neil Hamilton heads the cast of the PRC "special" Federal Fugitives. Hamilton plays secret service...
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1941
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Earl of Puddlestone was released minus a director credit out of respect for megger Gus Meins, who committed suicide shortly...
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1940
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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1939
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In this romance, a girl from the bayou falls in love with an aspiring lawyer who lives on the nicer side of the tracks. It...
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Mrs. Parker
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1938
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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1938
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Drawing heavily on both Madame X and Stella Dallas, this cheap exploitation-melodrama was produced by the ill-named...
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1938
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Too old to play the cute MGM urchin any longer, 16-year-old Jackie Cooper signed with Monogram for a group of above-average...
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1938
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The notorious Orient Express provides the setting for this romance involving two rival reporters in pursuit of a munitions...
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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1937
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The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such...
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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In this crime comedy, a street-savvy gangster involves himself with a Miami socialite. Together, they conspire to turn her...
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1936
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Although Monogram Pictures hadn't yet reorganized as a separate entity in 1936, a few of its releases still managed to make...
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Lil Langdon
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1936
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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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Poor Peggy Shannon goes from bad to worse in this ultra-cheap melodrama from one of Hollywood's few women executives, Fanchon...
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1935
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I've Been Around hinges on an unlikely case of mistaken identity. Society girl Drue Waring (Rochelle Hudson) mistakes...
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1935
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In this newspaper drama, a reporter known for criticizing the top city official has his column taken over by the man's...
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1935
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Still hanging on in 1935 despite several financial setbacks, brave little Majestic Pictures continued turning out such...
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1935
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Ken Maynard's western series for Columbia was a mixed bag indeed, with Western Courage neither the best nor worst of the...
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Mrs. Hanley
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1935
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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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Surprisingly original for an independent production, Two Heads on a Pillow is a fascinated precursor to the more celebrated...
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1934
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In the first of Columbia Pictures' "Inspector Trent" whodunits, the inspector (Ralph Bellamy) is called in to investigate the...
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Mavis
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1934
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George O'Brien trades his cowboy garb for a dinner jacket in Fox's Ever Since Eve. Raised by a couple of misogynistic old...
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1934
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Buster Crabbe plays one of his more offbeat roles in Mayfair's Badge of Honor. Crabbe is cast as Bob Gordon, a spoiled...
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Mrs. Van Alstyne
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1934
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Money Means Nothing to tire salesman Kenneth (Wallace Ford), mainly because he doesn't have any. But when Kenneth falls in...
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Mrs. Ferris
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1934
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John Ford directed this emotional drama, which was a considerable change of pace from the westerns and war pictures for which...
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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1932
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William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old...
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1932
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In this heart-tugging musical, a Southern boy loses his parents during the Civil War and is forcibly wrenched away from his...
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1930
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1928
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A young woman grows up innocent of the fact that her gentlemanly father is the head of a notorious ring of thieves. This...
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The Countess
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1928
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Having grown up under the thumbs of her two maiden aunts, 17-year-old Joan Hastings (Marceline Day) has never had a...
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1928
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The romance between Jerome Bonaparte and Baltimore debutante Elizabeth Patterson was given the full treatment by Warner...
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Princess Fredericka
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1928
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1928
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A Million Bid came about because Warner Bros. promised a film of that title to exhibitors in early 1927. Unable to deliver at...
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Mrs. Gordon
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1927
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British director Wilfred Noy did his best to make heads or tails of this poverty-row melodrama. Betty Blythe plays Coney...
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Paula
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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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Young Robert Agnew discovers that he's first in line to inherit three million dollars. But there's always a hitch; in this...
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1927
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Zahrat
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1925
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Previously filmed no fewer than six times, H. Rider Haggard's fantasy adventure She was committed to celluloid a seventh time...
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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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This jazzy comedy-drama was based on the Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Sartwell Mason. Wiletta Whipple (Pauline Garon)...
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Mary Whipple
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1925
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American leading lady Betty Blythe played the title character in the French-produced Daughter of Israel. The ever-maturing...
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Agar
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1925
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This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence (which was beautifully tinted)...
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Mrs. Ridgeway
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1924
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Douglas Kenyon (Elliott Dexter) is a confused bank clerk who wakes up the morning after a party to find chorus girl Marcia...
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Jean Bronson
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1924
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A lot of money was spent on this romantic melodrama -- enough so that part of it was actually filmed in France. Then again,...
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Norma Selbee
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1924
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1924
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This romantic drama is taken from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow entitled "The Spanish Student." Dolores...
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1924
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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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When her father dies, Charmion Winship (Betty Blythe) is left completely penniless. But she wants to live well so she travels...
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Chomrio Winship
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1923
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This melodrama was based on Rex Beach's novel The Net. Countess Margherita (Betty Blythe) is a Sicilian girl who is about to...
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Countess Margherita
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1922
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Although she had been Fox's replacement vamp after the exit of Theda Bara, Betty Blythe chose a far less exotic character...
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Rosa Roma
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1922
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This drama, based on the novel, The Mayor's Wife, by Anna Katherine Greene, was only a fair vehicle for Betty Blythe. Shortly...
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Olympia Brewster
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1922
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It is easy to imagine Theda Bara playing the lead in this Fox Biblical epic, especially since its credited director is J....
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Queen of Sheba
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1921
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Though made over seventy years ago, Charge It tells a story that will be all too familiar to the Yuppie generation....
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Millie Gareth
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1921
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Robert Sheldon (Lloyd Hughes) is raised alone by his mother (Claire McDowell), who years before had been deserted by his...
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Fan Baxter
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1921
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Gloria Wheaton
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1921
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Author James Oliver Curwood's tales of the Northwest were made into so many motion pictures that it seems like he alone is...
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1920
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Lew Cody plays yet another "male vamp" here -- Bruce Sands (Cody) is an artist who spends more time fooling around with his...
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1920
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A former lover returns to plague newlywed Beth Vinton (Rubye de Remer) and her husband. To prevent a scandal, Beth arranges a...
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1919
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Harry Morey, a longtime star with Vitagraph, had just renewed his contract with the company around the time he made this...
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1919
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1918
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The title All Man just had to refer to burly leading man Harry T. Morey. It isn't likely that the title alluded to Morey's...
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1918
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