Cat Creature is a heady Curtis Harrington combination of high-gloss production values and spinechilling terror. A curse...
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1973
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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1955
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This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous...
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1953
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This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of...
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1953
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Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate is a musical within a musical -- altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's...
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1953
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1952
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1951
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1950
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Judy Garland was originally slated to star in MGM's film version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, but she was forced to...
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1950
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Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders....
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1949
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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1949
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1949
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The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a...
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1948
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1948
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After 15 entries, MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series came to a quiet end with Dark Delusion. Although Dr. Leonard Gillespie...
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1947
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1947
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1947
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Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody...
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1946
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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Yolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at...
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1945
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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1944
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Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2,...
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1943
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In most of his movie vehicles, bandleader Kay Kyser played a bandleader named Kay Kyser. In Swing Fever, however, Kyser is...
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1943
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First filmed in 1914, Edgar Selwyn's venerable North Country yarn Pierre of the Plains was thawed out once more in 1942....
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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1942
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Some 25 years before his "discovery" in In Cold Blood, 9-year-old Bobby (later Robert) Blake made his feature-film starring...
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1942
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Four Mothers was the last of three films inspired by Fannie Hurst's sentimental novel Sister Act. As in the earlier...
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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This Warner Bros. 3-reeler was produced to commemorate the 12th anniversary of Hollywood's Academy Awards ceremony. With fine...
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1940
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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1940
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Olivia DeHavilland stars as a music student whose education is secretly subsidized by the aging owner of a phonograph factory...
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1940
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This comedy is the sequel of Brother Rat. The film begins with the three original protagonists after their graduation from...
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1940
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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1940
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In this comedy, a young woman is determined to spend a weekend with her lover before he takes off to Europe for his new job....
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1939
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Pat O'Brien is his usual likably obnoxious self in the Warner Bros. newspaper yarn Off the Record. While trying to smash a...
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running series, the Dead End Kids are freshly out of reform school when they find themselves...
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1939
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Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays...
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1939
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1938
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1938
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Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an...
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1937
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Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by...
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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1936
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Something of a precursor to 1947's A Double Life, Men Are Not Gods takes its title from a line in Othello -- aptly so, as...
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1936
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David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of...
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1936
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1935
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The third screen version of Jack London's classic adventure story was also the first with sound, and it toyed with the...
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1935
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The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to "MGM"'s early-talkie triumph...
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1935
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Outcast Lady is a heavily censored version of Michael Arlen's once-notorious novel The Green Hat, previously filmed by...
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1934
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Legendary "improvisational" director Gregory La Cava elected to stick to the script for his film version of the James M....
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1934
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The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life...
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1934
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With William Boyd in the cast, one would think that Flaming Gold was a "Hopalong Cassidy" western -- and one would be wrong....
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1934
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1934
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Our Betters is adapted from Somerset Maugham's play about the shallowness and hypocrisy of the idle rich. American heiress...
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1933
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Sidney Howard's once-controversial play about the smothering aspects of Mother Love, The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with...
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1933
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Released in Great Britain as Sealed Lips, this WWI melodrama stars Constance Bennett as Carla, aka Russian spy "K-14." Though...
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1933
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A former opera star loses her voice, her career evaporates, and she takes to drinking heavily and blaming her son for her...
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1933
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In this sassy dramatic comedy, two reform-school girls finally graduate and as soon as they get out decide to board a New...
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1933
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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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1932
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Constance Bennett suffers nobly in this outdated but fairly engrossing melodrama in which a seemingly hardened debutante...
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1932
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What Price Hollywood is often referred to as the "first" version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong...
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1932
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The patience of a long-suffering wife is finally rewarded in this drama. The devoted wife has known that her husband has...
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1931
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With a blonde wigged Joan Crawford offering one of her more high-handed performances, and veteran silent star Pauline...
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1931
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The continental-flavored comedy drama Beloved Bachelor was based on a play by Edward H. Peple. Unmarried sculptor Paul Lukas...
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1931
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Murder, blackmail and honor are the principal plot motivations of Silence. Clive Brook stars as Jim Warren, a gentleman thief...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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War Nurse was based on the anonymous memoirs of an American nurse who served with the French Army during WWI. Since the...
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1930
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In this WW I drama, an Austrian officer is injured and left behind while his troops attempt to leave an occupied town. The...
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1930
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Betty Balfour, who seemingly starred in every third movie made in London during 1930, heads the cast of The Vagabond Queen....
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1930
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Originally released as La Route est Belle, this French-produced comedy drama serves as a showcase for the talents of Paris...
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1930
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1930
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It says here that Elinor Glyn, the incredibly pretentious author of such bodice-rippers as Three Weeks, was the director of...
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1930
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Romance novelist and self-styled moral arbiter Elinor Glyn was credited for both the screenplay and direction of the...
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1930
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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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1928
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Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of...
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1927
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Mary Pickford stars as the "Miss Fix-it" for her eccentric family. Pickford's job at a dime-store keeps her postman dad...
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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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1926
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1925
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Even though director Ernst Lubitsch had only been in the U.S. for a little over a year, his soon-to-be-famous "touch" was...
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1924
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"Derr iss too many qveens and not enough qveens!" That was Ernst Lubitsch's response when he turned down the directing...
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1924
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This historical comedy-drama resulted from the unlikely collaboration of girlish silent star Mary Pickford and sophisticated...
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1923
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This tale of the Canadian Northwest was originally a stage play by Willard Mack and David Belasco. Belasco worked with Warner...
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1923
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Producer Joe Schenck reportedly paid seventy-five thousand dollars (an immense sum in those days) for the film rights to the...
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1922
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Mary Pickford had recently put out a couple of mediocre pictures and her latest, Little Lord Fauntleroy, wasn't an immediate...
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1922
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A visually stunning if somewhat overblown melodrama, The Love Light was directed by Mary Pickford's close friend and...
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1921
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Mary Pickford was at the height of her fame as "America's Sweetheart" when she took on the challenge of playing two roles --...
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1921
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For her fourth United Artists picture, Mary Pickford once again plays a poor little rich girl. This one, Jeanne, is so...
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1921
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For her first United Artists release, silent superstar Mary Pickford decided to play it safe, even though it galled her to do...
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1920
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1920
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This comic tale of buried treasure should have been a winner, but it turned out to be one on Mary Pickford's misses. The...
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1919
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This first of several cinematic adaptations of the Jean Webster play Daddy Long Legs stars "America's Sweetheart,"...
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1919
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This film was one of Mary Pickford's attempts to add at least a touch of maturity to her little girl characterizations. She...
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1919
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Amy Burke (Mary Pickford) is as spoiled, temperamental and contrary a lass as her grandfather, Alexander Guthrie...
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1919
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Paramount's silent matinee idol Wallace Reid plays John Craig, a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked...
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1919
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1918
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Perhaps one of Mary Pickford's lesser works, this film was nevertheless a funny, extremely well-produced comedy about a...
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1918
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One More American represented one more superb "ethnic" portrayal by the versatile George Beban. The star plays feisty Italian...
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1918
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Walsingham Van Dorn (Wallace Reid) has a fancy name but no money until he inherits 40 million dollars from a pair of wealthy,...
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1918
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1917
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Even popular Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa was swept up into the distinctly occidental intrigues of WWI in...
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1917
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1916
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At the circus, Piffles The Clown (Victor Moore) is seriously injured when he saves a crippled boy, Jackie (Jerold Ward), from...
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1916
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Dumb Girl of Portici is famous today as the film in which Boris Karloff made his movie debut. This "fact" is open to debate:...
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1916
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The Sowers was set in pre-Soviet Russia. Prince Paul Alexis (Thomas Meighan is supposed to marry Princess Tanya...
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1916
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Early in her screen career, former Follies sensation Mae Murray played a number of waif-like roles. Surprisingly, the formula...
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1916
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Produced quickly and cheaply by Picture Playhouse productions, this 5-reel actioner begins in Darkest Africa, as a young...
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1914
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