When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his...
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Play Author
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1958
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Screenwriter
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1938
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G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric Father Brown was first brought to the screen in 1934, in the corpulent form of...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Three former POWs return home and find that they have been listed among the dead. This comedy follows their attempts to...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Screenwriter
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1935
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A remarried war widow's attempts to raise her son to be a pacifist are thwarted when a second world war (this film was made...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this football drama, a tough steelworker's son wins a scholarship to Yale and attempts to use his talent on the football...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Screenwriter
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1932
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MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this...
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Screen Story
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1931
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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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Supervisor/Manager
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1930
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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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Screenwriter
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1929
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Director Roland West was a moody and mysterious Hollywood character, who insisted upon making his pictures in utter secrecy...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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One of John Barrymore's best-remembered silent films (mainly because it is one of the few that has remained in constant...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Editor
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1928
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Long-reigning screen queen Norma Talmadge's last silent film (albeit with a synchronized musical score) was the exotic...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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One of the most readily available features of the silent era, The Yankee Clipper is happily also one of the best. A pre-...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1927
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Confined to two basic sets and six characters, White Gold may well be the most claustrophobic western ever made. This sense...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1927
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Screenwriter
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1927
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Sparrows, Mary Pickford's 1926 release, superbly combines the two elements--sentiment and adventure--that characterized...
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Screenwriter
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1926
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During WWI, two American doughboys, William Boyd and Jimmie Adams, volunteer to pose as deserters for a top-secret espionage...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1926
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One of the few surviving films of Leatrice Joy, the wife of screen heartthrob John Gilbert, The Clinging Vine is a typically...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1926
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A novel by Edna Ferber was the source for this Rod LaRocque vehicle. The story begins just before the outbreak of WWI, when...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1926
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Vera Reynolds is Corporal Kate in this WWI comedy-drama. Shipped off to the front to entertain the troops, Irish-Catholic...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1926
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Screenwriter
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1926
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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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Screenwriter
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1925
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Screenwriter
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1925
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There is nothing original about this drama -- it's the old tale of the small-town girl who heads for the bright lights of the...
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Screenwriter
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1925
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It's hard to tell at times whether director Roland West was aiming for laughs or thrills in The Monster, but this...
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Intertitle Writer
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1925
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Peter the Great was one of the dog stars to come in the wake of other successful canine luminaries as Rin Tin Tin and...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1925
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This satirical comedy-drama was C. Gardner Sullivan's first producing effort. To insure its success, he hired a veteran...
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Presented by
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1924
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Screenwriter
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1924
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Screen Story
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1924
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Although Norma Talmadge was at the height of her stardom, she was not immune to poor material, nor was veteran screenwriter...
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Screen Story
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1924
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This tale of small-town gossip and self-sacrifice was one of the last productions supervised by Thomas Ince (he died under...
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Screenwriter
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1924
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With a racy title and a South Seas backdrop, producer Thomas Ince put together a solid box-office picture, even if it wasn't...
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Screenwriter
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1924
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When the jazz era of the 1920s was in full swing, it seemed like every week several new pictures about the scandalous...
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Screenwriter
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1924
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This comedy-drama featured Madge Bellamy's most unusual co-star -- an elephant named Oscar. Ruth Lorrimore (Bellamy) works at...
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Screen Story
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1923
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Metro pulled out all the stops on this picture, which was based on the novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart and starred...
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Screenwriter
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1923
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In the early 1920s Fred Niblo was known for directing adventure films -- he had already done Mark of Zorro and The Three...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1923
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Deft light comedienne Constance Talmadge seems woefully out of place in this historical drama of 17th century England. It was...
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Continuity, Screenwriter
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1923
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Dorothy Davenport billed herself by her private name, Mrs. Wallace Reid, for this melodrama about drug addiction. She was...
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Screenwriter
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1923
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Dulcy--better known as Dulcinea--was the cliché-spouting young bride created by newspaper humorist Franklin Pierce Adams....
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Screenwriter
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1923
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This drama, produced by Thomas Ince, featured an excellent cast and a powerful story. Although she only had a second lead,...
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Screenwriter
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1921
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Hairpins stars Enid Bennett as Muriel Rossmore, a housewife who has let her appearance go to seed. Muriel's husband Rex...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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At first Louise Glaum, famed for her vamp roles, seems to be a bit miscast in this seven-reeler -- Mary Norwood (Glaum) is...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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Not only does Louise Glaum perform a seductive "Spider Dance" in this provocatively titled but deeply moralistic melodrama,...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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Cowboy hero William S. Hart tries something altogether different in this film. He plays Hairpin Harry Dutton, a burglar who...
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Screenwriter
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1919
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Actress Mignon (Louise Glaum) is the toast of Paris until she marries young American engineer John Stanley (Matt Moore). He...
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Screenwriter
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1919
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In this comedy/melodrama, Enid Bennett plays Nora, an actress with a struggling touring company. While they are performing...
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Screenwriter
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1918
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Drunk and disorderly cowpoke Robert Sands (William S. Hart) is banished from an Arizona frontier town and hops on a freight...
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Screenwriter
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1918
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When heroine Enid Bennett leaves the small rural community of her birth, she is the epitome of sweet innocence. When she...
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Screenwriter
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1918
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Hater of Men stars the versatile Betsy Barriscale as girl reporter Janice Salsbury. After covering a sensational divorce...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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An amusing picture which was shot at the brand new Ince Studios in Culver City, future home of MGM. William Desmond plays...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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In this light comedy, Charles Ray does a typical turn as a country bumpkin who makes good. Ray plays Joel Parker, who is sent...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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The Crab is sourpuss Frank Keenan, who lives alone and likes it. At least, he thinks he likes it, until cherubic little...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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Screenwriter
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1916
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An all-star cast (by Ince Productions standards, that is) distinguished the domestic drama Home. Bessie Barriscale plays...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Scroogelike William H. Thompson thinks nothing of exploiting and persecuting those financially beholden to him. Thompson's...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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The title of this 1916 5-reeler refers to the British lighthouse where most of the action unfolds. William H. Thompson plays...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Screenwriter
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1916
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In this silent drama, a socialite and her family lose their fortune. In order to make some fast money, she becomes a model...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Screenwriter
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1916
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In this silent romance a Yankee heads for Erin following the Easter Uprising to claim a recently inherited estate. Upon...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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This William S. Hart film would never pass muster with present day Native Americans! Hart plays half-breed Joe Elk who wavers...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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With American opinion divided over the European war in 1915, no fewer than three major motion pictures were conceived with...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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The quintessential William S. Hart western, Hell's Hinges stars two-gun Bill as gunslinger Blaze Tracy, "a man wholly evil."...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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With a price on his head, the notorious bandit "Draw" Egan (William S. Hart) is hired to bring law and order to the lawless...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Chorus girl Jane Wallace (Bessie Barriscale) has earned the soubriquet "Iceberg" because of her refusal to compromise her...
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Screenwriter
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1915
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Mary Boland, best known for her scatterbrained comedy roles in talkies, made her screen debut as romantic lead Alma Clayton...
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Screenwriter
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1915
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Before getting a "lock" on his "All-American Boy" screen persona, Charles Ray appeared in several films along the lines of A...
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Screenwriter
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1915
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A remarkably naturalistic and sophisticated film for its time, The Italian stars George Beban as a dirt-poor Italian farmer....
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Screenwriter
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1915
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Produced and co-written by Thomas H. Ince, The Wrath of the Gods (aka The Destruction of Sakura-Jima) was a major undertaking...
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Screenwriter
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1914
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Screenwriter
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1914
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Director, Screenwriter
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1912
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Screenwriter
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1912
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