Hoping to start up where he left off before his studio was taken over by the government during WWII, Hal Roach turned out a...
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Martha Blake
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1948
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In this crime melodrama, two would-be jewel thieves conspire to pull a heist, but are frustrated because the police are able...
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1947
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One of the many Bowery Boys movies, in this one Slip and Sach are mistaken for two private investigators and risk their lives...
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1947
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1946
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Teenaged Junior (Scotty Beckett) gets into trouble when he tries to bring a gun to school. To explain why he's packing a rod,...
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1946
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A young woman and her two buddies team up to run her newly inherited trucking company. In this comedy, the trouble begins...
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1943
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Invisible Ghost is far from the best of Bela Lugosi's Monogram vehicles (if indeed there is such a thing), but with...
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1941
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Ace police reporter Wally Williams (Wallace Ford) is so devoted to his job that he even neglects his new bride Alice...
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1941
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1941
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Monogram's Laughing at Danger finds page-boy Frankie Kelly (Frankie Darro) trying to solve a murder at a fancy beauty salon....
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1940
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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1940
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"Exploitation" king Willis Kent was both producer and director of the deathless cautionary fable Mad Youth. Because she...
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Mrs. Morgan
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1940
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Newspaper editor Steve Drum (Preston Foster) is willing to pull any dirty trick in the book to boost his rag's circulation....
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1939
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Filmed on the very cheap, Mystic Circle Murder (aka Religious Racketeers) is distinguished by the presence of Mme. Harry...
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Ada Barnard
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1939
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In this episode of the Three Mesquiteers series of westerns the trio must help two rival sides involved in a range war settle...
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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1939
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Slight Case of Murder is a breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When...
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1938
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In Two Gun Justice, Tim McCoy indulges in one of his favorite cinematic pastimes: Posing as a suave Mexican bandit, complete...
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Kate
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1938
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Less lurid than its title, Port of Missing Grils was one of several directorial efforts by screenwriter/cinematographer...
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Chicago
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1938
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Blondes at Work is number four in Warner Bros.' lively "Torchy Blane" series. Glenda Farrell returns as girl reporter Torchy...
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1938
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Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's...
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1938
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With Glenda Farrell having temporarily taken leave of Warner Bros., the actress' signature role of fast-talking girl reporter...
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Kitty
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1938
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Two Minutes to Play is a cheap but energetic Sam Katzman-produced vehicle for Olympic champion Herman Brix. The star plays...
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Fluff Harding
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1937
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Carlotta
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1937
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The first of four Tom Keene westerns for Monogram release, God's Country and the Man is fine, virile stuff in the old...
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Roxy
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1937
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Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by...
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1937
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A small community is terrorized by an unknown serial killer, one "Mr. Zero," who has held the populace in thrall for several...
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Kate
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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Chesterfield Films, one of the busiest (though not necessarily one of the best) poverty-row operations of the 1930s, was...
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Ethel Ames
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1936
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Based on Danny Ahearn's short story "Back in Circulation", Republic's Bulldog Edition stars Ray Walker as Ken Dwyer,...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Now-forgotten actress Betty Compson largely made her mark in silent pictures, but like many performers of the era, found it...
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1936
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1936
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Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as...
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Clarissa
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1935
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A lover selflessly dumps her boy friend so that he will obey the wishes of his wealthy benefactor and marry someone more...
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Millie Sprague
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1934
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1934
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This film offers melodrama on the high-seas as it follows the miraculous salvation of a becalmed ship filled with bootleg...
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1933
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An oil rigger, laboring in the Singapore swamps, falls in love with an English socialite and causes all kinds of problems in...
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Lou
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1933
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1932
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This socially-conscious drama is set in a slum and centers on the events that lead a parsimonious slum lord to change her...
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Kate Flynn
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1932
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1931
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In this melodrama, a British aristocrat befriends a woman and hires her to begin distracting his son away from a conniving...
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1931
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The Gay Diplomat was an attempt by RKO Radio to make a movie star out of Ivan Lebedeff, a Russian actor better suited to...
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Baroness Alma Corri
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1931
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Virtuous Husband was adapted from Apron Strings, a play by Dorrance Davis. Though his mother has been dead several years,...
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Inez Wakefield
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1931
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Silent star Betty Compson takes on a Swedish accent in this romantic melodrama based on a story by Martin Flavin. She is...
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1931
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This war drama, set in WW I Germany, is based on a novel by Arnold Zwieg. The story follows the harrowing trials of an...
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Babka
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1930
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Though it eventually collapsed under the weight of mounting debts, the small firm of Sono Art-World Wide managed to turn out...
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Helen Williams
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1930
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"Boudoir Diplomat" was, of course, a 1930s euphemism for a wealthy man who slept around. Ian Keith plays Baron Valmi, who...
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Helene
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1930
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Ostensibly based of the life and violent death of glamorous New York mobster Arnold Rothstein, this early talkie from...
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Connie Colton
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1930
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Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, was responsible for the international-espionage yarn Inside the Lines. The...
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Jane Gershon
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1930
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In this melodramatic blend of romance and adventure set in the South Seas, Stella Blackney (Betty Compson) is married to Tom...
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Stella Blackney
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1930
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Mahyna
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1930
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Sally Wayne
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1930
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This third film version of Rex Beach's rugged Yukon novel The Spoilers was also the first talkie adaptation. This time,...
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Cherry Malotte
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1930
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Those Who Dance is not so much a film as a "class reunion" for several former silent-screen favorites. Monte Blue stars as...
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Kitty
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1930
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She Got What She Wanted was director James Cruze's second "special" for Tiffany Pictures in 1930. Betty Compson, previously...
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1930
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Mary
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1929
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The first official release from RKO Productions (previous films from this company had been produced by RKO antecedent FBO...
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Frederika "Freddie" Joyzelle
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1929
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Director Frank Lloyd was nominated for an Academy Award for this rather sappy gangster melodrama starring...
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Alice
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1929
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This three hanky melodrama follows the tragic love between a French ballerina and an Englishman during WW I. He is called to...
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Lola
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1929
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This early talkie antique is a backstage musical from Warner Bros. The plot involves the out-of-town tryout of a new musical...
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Nita French
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1929
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In this actioner, a sea captain saves a Shanghai whore who is being tossed out of town. He puts her on board and heads out...
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Rose McRay
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1929
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Sadie Rogers
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1929
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In this musical comedy, an egotistical ex-college football star had little time for a plain-jane coed while he was in...
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Doris Ward
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1929
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Based on the oft-filmed play by Kenyon Nicholson, The Barker represented the talking-picture debut of silent-screen favorite...
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Carrie
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1928
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Diane Duval
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1928
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Helen
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1928
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Though its title was inspired by a popular song, Love Me and the World is Mine was based on Die Geschichte von der Hannerl...
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Mitzel
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1928
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Betty Carlisle
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1928
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Based on a story by Elmer Harris, the above-average Columbia production Court Martial was set during the Civil War. Carrying...
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Belle Starr
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1928
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A prison melodrama with a heart, Life's Mockery starred Betty Compson as Kit Miller, the daughter of notorious gangster Wolf...
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1928
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The smokily erotic ambience of Josef Von Sternberg's silent Docks of New York is best appreciated on a big theatrical...
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Sadie
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1928
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Nan Carey
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1927
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Having found out that her husband Earle Williams has bought her a diamond-encrusted comb for her birthday, wife...
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1927
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John Gilbert was one of MGM's top stars when he appeared this melodrama. Playing against his usual matinee idol type, Gilbert...
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1927
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From all existing evidence, Temptations of a Shop Girl wasn't any better than its title. Heroine Betty Compson is saddled...
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1927
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The "Ladybirds" are a gang of crooks who prey upon the rich and famous. At present, the Ladybirds are at large in New Orleans...
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Diana Whymon
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1927
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George Marion Sr. plays a carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a...
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1926
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Set during the turn of the century, The Belle of Broadway starts out in Paris, where celebrated stage star Madame Adele...
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Marie Duval
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1926
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While this adventure tale, based on the play by Adolf Paul, was not true to the life of Lola Montez (in fact, the settings...
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1926
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Counsel for Defense is set in a graft-ridden town, where the crooked politicians railroad the local doctor (Jay Hunt) into...
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1925
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Having tackled a wagon train in the immensely popular The Covered Wagon (1922), James Cruze directed this would-be epic...
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Molly Jones
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1925
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This satirical film was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Neil McRae (Edward Everett Horton) is a...
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1925
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Mary Carter
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1925
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Though Betty Compson is top-billed in Paths to Paradise, the film's real star is the ever-dapper, ever-unflappable...
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Molly
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1925
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Olympe (Betty Compson) is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy...
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Olympe
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1925
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Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve (Betty Compson) is an unkempt country...
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Eue
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1925
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Tully Marshall plays "the Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering...
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Peggy Bowlin
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1924
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This drama was based on the play by Leon Gordon and Doris Marquette. The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg...
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Dorothy
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1924
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Betty Compson has solid support from some of the better character actors of the day in this adaptation of Owen Johnson's book...
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1924
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This breezy summer comedy-drama was shot on-location in Florida. It was typical fun 1920s fare, which Moving Picture World...
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Joan Bruce
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1924
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Don Counsel (Robert Lowing), a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever...
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Pen Broome
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1924
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Willful Nancy Brent (Betty Compson) is bored with life in the country so she runs away. Her father (A.B. Imeson) goes looking...
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1924
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Dalla (Betty Compson) is an untamed orphan of the South African veldt. She falls in love with Colonel Valentia, a noted...
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Dalla
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1924
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Margaret Sones
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1924
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This Hawaiian romance was the last picture directed by Julia Crawford Ivers, who also penned the screenplay. Although it was...
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Konia Markham
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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King Charles (Henry Victor) flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell (Henry Ainley) close...
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1923
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Betty Compson traveled to England to star in this expensively-made society drama. Louise Boucher (Compson) is a Parisian...
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Deloryse
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1923
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Silent star Betty Compson had her own production company, and it was responsible for this exotic but somewhat overwrought...
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Celia Thaxter
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1922
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This epic historical romance, based on the novel by Mary Johnston, was one of Paramount's big releases for 1922, and it...
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Lady Jocelyn Leigh
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1922
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Angela Gaskill (Betty Compson) travels to the South Seas to help sailor John Somers (John Bowers) kick his addition to...
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Angela Gaskell
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1922
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Depending on the source, this is either the last or next-to-last picture directed by William Desmond Taylor, who was...
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Coralyn,Genelle,Joan Parker
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1922
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The Willard Mack stage play Kick In starred John Barrymore on Broadway and was made into a motion picture in 1917, with Ouida...
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Molly Brandon
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1922
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1922
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In the days before air-conditioned theaters, this action-packed tale of the frozen Northwest was a welcome summer release....
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1922
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This drama was based on Clyde Fitch's play The Woman in the Case, which was originally filmed in 1916 starring Pauline...
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Margaret Rolfe
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1922
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This drama was director George Loane Tucker's last film; in fact his health was failing as he completed it. Too bad the maker...
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Christine Bleeker
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1921
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A week after Vitagraph released its own version of the James M. Barrie story, Paramount came out with this one, starring...
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1921
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This drama was "personally produced" by film star Betty Compson. Berenice Arnold (Compson) spends her time trying to keep her...
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1921
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This dramatic adventure finds the flirtatious Cherry O'Day (Betty Compson) as the daughter of the Shanghai saloon keeper...
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Cherry O'Day
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1921
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When Blanche Davis (Betty Compson, in her first role as a star) comes between her father (Ralph Lewis) and his mistress, she...
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Blanche Davis
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1921
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"Campus Carmen," "As Luck Would Have It" and "Her Bridal Nightmare" are the silent short stories featured in this series from...
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1920
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In a post located in the far reaches of the frozen North, whiskey runner Dubec (Fred M. Malatesa) murders the wife of...
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1919
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A group of crooks in New York City's Chinatown hear about an old hermit (Joseph J. Dowling) in a small upstate village who's...
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1919
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Monroe Salisbury is Naval Lieutenant George Blenton, who has a fatal attraction to alcohol. His drinking causes him to lose...
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1919
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1916
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