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1971
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Blackbeard's Ghost was one of the first Disney productions released after Walt's death. Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous...
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1968
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Kelly (Constance Towers), a prostitute who wants to transform her life, beats up her pimp, takes the 75 dollars he owes her,...
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1964
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1961
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The prolific Jack Natteford wrote this unusual Gene Autry Western -- or, to be accurate, "Eastern" -- which reportedly...
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Milly Baynum
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1937
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Upon her release from prison, Joyce Greeley (Edwina Booth) is promptly and mysteriously murdered. Fledgling crime reporter...
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Ellen Gray
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1932
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Vivan Marsh
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1931
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Mamie Goltz
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1930
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Popular silent-screen star Leatrice Joy made an adequate talking-picture debut in MGM's The Bellamy Trial. The film was based...
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Girl Reporter
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1929
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In this drama, which marks Barbara Stawyck's Hollywood film debut, a woman is taken to an illegal cabaret set aboard a...
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Helen Reagan
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1929
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In this adventure, a remake of 1923's The Arab, a British cavalry soldier stationed in the Sudan takes the rap for his...
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Jeanne
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1929
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A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are...
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Aunt Winifred Canfield
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1929
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1928
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Popular film lore has it that The Jazz Singer was the film that established the talkie as the pre-eminent film medium in...
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Grace
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1928
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It's a shame that so many of the silent directorial efforts of the innovational Gregory La Cava no longer exist. LaCava's...
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Sally Lane
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1927
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Brass Knuckles opens with a prison break, which is quelled by good-natured convict Monte Blue. As a reward, Blue is pardoned,...
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1927
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Paramount Pictures used the Zane Grey adaptation Open Range as a showcase for its newest western star (and potential...
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1927
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Hoping to change the winsome "Cinderella" image of actress Betty Bronson, Ritzy. Despite her name, Ritzy Brown (Bronson) is...
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Ritzy Brown
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1927
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As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated...
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The Girl Cinderella
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1926
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This sentimental comedy begins when four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage...
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Doris Poole
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1926
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Another triumph for the ever-popular Milton Sills, Paradise casts the star as Tony, a characteristically feisty stunt pilot....
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Chrissie
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1926
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One of the unfortunately "lost" films of silent-screen ingenue Betty Bronson, The Cat's Pajamas casts Bronson as a naïve...
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Sally Winton
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1926
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The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version...
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Virgin Mary
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1925
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Although trade paper Motion Picture News insisted no pun was intended, readers probably groaned anyhow when it stated that...
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Betty Dover
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1925
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Betty Bronson, who found overnight success when she played the title character in Peter Pan, has the ingenue lead in this...
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1925
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When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter...
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Peter Pan
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1924
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Louisiana-born Leatrice Joy plays Chinese princess Taou Yuen in Java Head. To save himself from being executed in a gruesome...
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1923
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Victor Fleming was still a relatively new director when he helmed this melodrama, an adaptation of the stage play by Harry...
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1922
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