The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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Columbia Pictures evidently felt that ex-boxer "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom was the funniest man on earth, despite the fact that...
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1942
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Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
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1941
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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1940
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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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Though now all but forgotten, early 20th Century actor Charles Ray once reigned as one of the most popular comedic film...
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1936
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In this emotional but fast-paced comedy, a husband/businessman creates an ingenious cure for his mid-life crisis. He suggest...
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1935
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1935
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In this comedy, a con artist gets elected to the chamber of commerce in his home town. He then goes there with three fellow...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a Parisian businessman heads for South American for a busman's holiday. There he hopes to have some...
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1934
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This bottom-barrel quickie is elevated by its cast, comprised chiefly of old silent-film favorites. Ralph Graves stars as...
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Courtney Mallory
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1934
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Having worn out his welcome in country-bumpkin roles, silent film star Charles Ray made an effort to re-establish himself in...
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Richard Spanyi
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1928
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Veteran stage actor/playwright James Gleason made his film debut in the Universal comedy The Count of Ten. In fact, Gleason...
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Prizefighter
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1928
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Although Vanity was one of Leatrice Joy's most successful films, it can hardly be considered one of her best. Joy is cast as...
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Lloyd Van Courtland
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1927
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1927
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Popular leading lady Leatrice Joy was copacetically teamed with "fading star" Charles Ray in Nobody's Widow. After a...
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Hon. John Clayton
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1927
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As a follow-up to the successful marital farce Up in Mabel's Room, PDC Productions came out with a film version of the...
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1927
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Ruined financially by a series of misguided business ventures, popular leading man Charles Ray was forced to relinquish his...
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Jerry
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1926
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The screen popularity of "All American Boy" Charles Ray was fading in the mid-1920s, forcing the 34-year-old actor to return...
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Ben Wilson
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1926
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The career of Charles Ray was on a downhill slide by the time he made this picture, based on a novel by Rex Beach. It had...
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Bob Wharton
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1926
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Arguably the best of Charles Ray's four MGM vehicles, The Fire Brigade casts Ray as the youngest in a large and rambunctious...
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Terry O'Neil
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1926
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After The Courtship of Miles Standish bombed, a bankrupted Charles Ray had to go back to working for other studios and trying...
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Lem Blossom
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1925
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Charles Ray's career had been declining for some time when he made this comedy-drama. Unfortunately, this attempt to return...
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Torii Corbin
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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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Percival Rogeen (grown up)
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1925
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Charles Ray returns to playing a bashful rural boy in this character study, loosely based on the James Whitcomb Riley poem....
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Producer, John Middleton
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1923
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Having achieved fame and fortune in a series of bucolic country-boy roles, Charles Ray decided he was ready to become his own...
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1923
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By directing his own features and straying from the rube character that brought him fame, Charles Ray had been slowly...
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Director, Stephen Stanton
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1922
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This comedy was one of Charles Ray's last for First National, and in it, Ray continues to do damage to his starring career....
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Joel Utility
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1922
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Bumptuous Charles Ray is again a "victim of circumstance" (to quote the immortal Curly Howard) in Alias Julius Caesar. While...
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Director, Billy Barnes
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1922
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Although Charles Ray doesn't play one of his country boy roles in his first picture for United Artists, John Paul Bart could...
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Producer, Screenwriter, John Paul Bart
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1922
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Charles Ray had been unintentionally destroying his career bit by bit by the time he got around to making this comedy-drama....
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Director, Amos
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1922
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Once Charles Ray began to take control of his career, it started to go downhill. He wanted to veer away from the country...
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Director, George Oliver Watson
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1922
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With the onslaught of the Roaring Twenties, there was a backlash instigated by people who were nostalgic for simpler times....
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Ezra
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1921
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Although the setting is rural, this mystery with its occasional comic overtones, was something of a departure for star...
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Martin Tripp
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1921
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When Charles Ray started taking control of his career, he tried -- unsuccessfully -- to steer his roles away from the "rube"...
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Richard Morgan
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1921
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John Steel (Charles Ray) is faithful to his invalid old mother (Lydia Knott), who makes him swear off fighting. This marks...
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Director, John Steel
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1921
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This football picture was not one of Charles Ray's best vehicles. Ray plays Chester Burnett, the star of the college football...
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Director, Chester Burnett
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1921
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1920
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With a title like this one, it's practically a given that this silent picture starred Charles Ray. But this time around,...
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1920
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Charles Ray's country bumpkin becomes an aspiring detective in this lightweight comedy. The inept attempts of farm boy...
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1920
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Charles Ray takes his country bumpkin to Paris, albeit briefly, in this comedy-melodrama. After fighting in World War I,...
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1920
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For the thousandth time (or so it seemed to non-fans), Charles Ray plays a bashful bucolic in Alarm Clock Andy. A humble...
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1920
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Film after film, Charles Ray played the same character: a country bumpkin who, more often than not, made good. For years,...
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1920
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Charles Ray was almost 30 when he played 19-year-old Andy Cavanaugh, a love-struck country boy. That alone goes a long way to...
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Andy Cavanaugh
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1920
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As might be guessed by the title, The Busher is a baseball film. Charles Ray plays Ben Harding, a country greenhorn who is...
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1919
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David Clary (Charles Ray), fed up with the old-fashioned way his father is running the family dry-goods store, decides to go...
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1918
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One of the great stars of the early silent era, Charles Ray, starred in this mild oater about an Eastern wastrel taking a job...
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1918
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Young millionaire Billy Bates (Charles Ray) is led to believe that he's inherited the family curse of alcoholism. His...
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1918
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This simple scenario is based on a story by Henry Irving Dodge which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Skinner...
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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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1917
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Larry Thomas (Charles Ray) is a country lad who comes to the city to work as an office boy for a friend of his father's....
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1917
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Everett Nelson (Charles Ray) escapes the cruel, miserly ways of his banker father (Charles French) by heading out for the big...
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1917
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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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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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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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1916
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At the suggestion of his father, Colonel Slocum Castleton (Frank Keenan), young Rodney Castleton (Charles Ray) leaves his...
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1916
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1916
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1915
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The Coward is the earliest extant starring vehicle of popular "boy next door" actor Charles Ray, though in fact the film was...
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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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1915
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1915
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