A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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1945
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This 1940s drama implies that children do indeed learn what they live as it tells the story of a teenage girl who runs away...
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1944
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In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is...
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1943
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1943
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1942
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A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great...
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1941
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1939
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Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared...
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1939
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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1939
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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1939
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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In this western, a lawman tries to help prove that his friend did not commit murder. He rides in and saves his pal from a...
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1937
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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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Alma Washburne
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1936
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One of Bela Lugosi's least remembered films, this ultra low-budget whodunit with science fiction overtones features the...
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1935
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A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise...
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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Mother
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1934
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1934
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Surprisingly original for an independent production, Two Heads on a Pillow is a fascinated precursor to the more celebrated...
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1934
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1934
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At age 26, Janet Gaynor was still playing "gamin" roles in such musical trifles as Paddy, the Next Best Thing. Gaynor stars...
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1933
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In this comedy drama, a wealthy shoe magnate is bored with his life. The trouble really begins when his chief rival dies....
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1933
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This earnest, socially-conscious road drama centers on two California teenagers who find their comfortable lives thrown into...
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1933
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When a patient dies of heart failure, society doctor Michael Travers (Lew Cody), takes an interest in her 14-year-old...
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1933
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Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally Eilers) loves...
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1933
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Not the best of Tim McCoy's 16 Westerns for Columbia (1931-1932), Cornered, directed by action specialist B. Reeves Eason,...
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1932
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It is all but impossible to dislike a film as gloriously corny as The Phantom Express. The title is derived from an early...
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1932
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Undoubtedly inspired by Charles Lindbergh's unprecedented sudden fame (but not the ensuing tragedy), Mary McCall's 1932 novel...
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1932
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Originally filmed with Mary Pickford in 1917, the Kate Douglas Wiggin children's classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was...
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1932
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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1932
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Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions....
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1931
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"There is never a suggestion of subtlety in this tale" was the New York Times' acidic but accurate assessment of the...
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1931
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Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, this film was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but it was held...
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Anna Pavlovna
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1930
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In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and...
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Aunt Hattie
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1930
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This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents. He soaks them...
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Mrs. Grayson
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1930
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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1930
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Released in both silent and sound versions, this lurid melodrama from Universal was based on the 1924 play Carnival by...
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1930
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An early talkie from then-poverty row company Columbia Pictures, Brothers features popular silent screen actor Bert Lytell in...
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1930
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The pain of raising children alone is presented in this tragedy that centers on the failure of a widowed mother of four...
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1930
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A typical silent outdoors melodrama from poverty row producer Trem Carr and action director Duke Worne, this film starred...
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Martha Shelby
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1929
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The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Two...
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The Woman
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1929
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Although a humble stable boy, Ben Lyon is a whiz when it comes to medical know-how. This endears Lyon to his boss, Fred...
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1929
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The racetrack provides the setting of this drama that tells the tale of a jockey who throws a race to impress a sexy girl....
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Mrs. Calhoun
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1929
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According to most sources, actress Lois Moran was the model for Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby....
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Aunt Abigail Bowen
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1928
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Marriage by Contract was produced and directed by John M. Stahl for his own Tiffany-Stahl Studio. Although only a...
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1928
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Neglected by shallow husband Dick (William Collier Jr.), young bride Paula Wayne (Patsy Ruth Miller) seeks male companionship...
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Mother
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1928
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This canine comedy-drama is based on The Bar Sinister, a whimsical tale by Richard Harding Davis. The story is told from the...
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1927
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Marion Davies has the lead role of Tillie in this adaptation of Russ Westover's popular 1920s comic strip. Tillie is bored by...
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1927
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Because of his impressive work in Brown of Harvard and Tell It to the Marines, William Haines had just achieved stardom when...
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Aunt Louise
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1927
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This family drama set in Argentina was filmed at low-budget Tec-Art Studios in Hollywood by fringe filmmakers Arthur Varney...
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1927
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Impoverished Southern belle Joslyn Poe (Joan Crawford) heads to New York, hoping to become a professional dancer. Unable to...
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1927
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Shield of Honor is predicated on the fact that, in 1927, several big-city police departments were contemplating formation of...
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1927
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1927
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Jewish comedian George Sidney stars as the title character in The Auctioneer. Sidney also doubles as a pawnbroker, which...
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1927
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Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne, the long-lost John Ford silent Shamrock Handicap begins in Ireland. Because he refuses to...
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Molly O'Shea
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1926
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1926
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Jean Paul Fippany (J. Farrell MacDonald) is so wrapped up in his horse, a filly named Marseillaise, that he neglects his...
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1926
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1926
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Mrs. Petersen
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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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Mother of Hur
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1925
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A young Bostonian (Johnnie Walker) travels West to expect his father's New Mexico estate, which has become a target for gun...
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1925
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Another variation on Abie's Irish Rose, the low-budget One of the Bravest focuses on the romance between Irish fireman Dan...
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Mrs. Kelly
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1925
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The Big Parade was designed as a modest programmer concerning one young man's disillusionment in the face of war. When the...
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Mrs. Apperson
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1925
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Mrs. Joyce
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1925
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Director Victor Sjostrom and stars Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer made an impressive team on He Who Gets Slapped. They came...
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Katrina
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1925
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After a series of less-than-stellar pictures, Norma Talmadge tried something a little different with this sentimental...
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1924
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The Palmer School of Photoplay Writing decided to try its hand at film production, and this drama was its first release. John...
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Mrs. Heath
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1924
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When Madame Zatianny appears, seemingly from nowhere on the social scene, everyone is taken by her beauty. The older ones say...
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1924
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The massacre of the Huguenots, previously dramatized in broad strokes by Griffith's Intolerance, served as the basis for...
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Margot's Aunt
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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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Mrs. Brown
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1923
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A classic melodrama is featured in this film that is listed as a romantic adventure. ~ Rovi...
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1923
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This old-fashioned drama was based on the novel Youth Triumphant by George Gibb. Patsy, a little slum girl (Virginia Lee...
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1923
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This sentimental drama was based on the novel by Gene Stratton Porter, and Porter herself supervised the filming. Michael...
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Nancy Harding
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1923
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Martha
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1923
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This drama was a rare directing effort from screenwriter Marion Fairfax. Sam Clairborne Sr. (Charles Mailes) wills his estate...
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1922
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Silent matinee idol Wallace Reid played a speed demon in quite a few popular light comedies for Paramount. Here he takes a...
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1922
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Although director Cecil B. DeMille was known for his Biblical spectaculars and florid comedy-dramas about domestic relations,...
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1922
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14-year-old boys are far more sophisticated now than they were during the 1910s and 1920s, so this picture, based on the...
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Mrs. Schofield
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1922
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After the success of the 1919 picture The Miracle Man, producers made quite a number of films about faith-healers in hopes of...
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May Caroline Laird
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1922
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Emory Johnson both directs and acts in this sentimental family drama. Patrick O'Hara (Ralph Lewis) is a kindly policeman who...
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Mrs. O'Hara
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1922
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Although this drama, "suggested by" the book by Stewart Edward White, takes place in the lawless post-gold rush San Francisco...
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1922
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Based on the popular novel of rural life by Charles Felton Pidgin, this motion picture featured most of the star names that...
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1922
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Parental indiscretions break up a marriage in this rare surviving melodrama directed by King Vidor. Upon learning that her...
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Liz Trott
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1921
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Cosmo Hamilton, a popular author of the era, wrote the novel on which this drama was based. During a train trip, Mary McLeod...
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1921
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Director William DeMille was stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place with this light comedy, based on the play by...
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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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Her Mother
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1921
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Robert Sheldon (Lloyd Hughes) is raised alone by his mother (Claire McDowell), who years before had been deserted by his...
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Mrs. Sheldon
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1921
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1920
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During the late teens and early '20s, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille reveled in much cinematic pomp and circumstance, mixing epic...
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1920
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An early directorial effort by King Vidor, The Jack Knife Man is based on a sentimental story by Ellis Parker Butler. Vidor...
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1920
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The careful direction of William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil) brought fresh life to Cosmo Hamilton's all-too-typical story,...
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1920
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In a clear case of typecasting, former follies girl Olive Thomas has the title role in this comedy-drama. Edward Woodruff...
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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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1918
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1918
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Although Rupert Julian was basically a journeyman director, he never saw himself in that light. He certainly liked to...
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1917
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That grand old Biograph actress Claire McDowell played a dual role in the Universal five-reeler The Gates of Doom. The story...
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1917
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Big Jim Burmister (Roy Stewart) is the sheriff of a rough border town. He is taken with new arrival, half-Mexican, half-Irish...
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1916
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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Old Stephen Rutherford (Gerald Griffin) is a wealthy curmudgeon who disowned his son when he married a poor girl. The son is...
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1912
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D.W. Griffith -- The Female of the Species and Selected Biograph Shorts, Vol. 3 is an intriguing collection of socially...
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1912
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A wagon train is attacked by marauding Indians in this typically grisly Biograph one-reel western melodrama preserved in the...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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Filmed during the Biograph Company's yearly winter excursion to sunny California, this one-reel Western melodrama features...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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This D.W.Griffith-directed Biograph melodrama is set during the Russian Revolution. No, not the successful 1917 coup, but...
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1910
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1910
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The Biograph melodrama Two Little Waifs was partially filmed on location in Greenwich, Connecticut. Placed in an orphanage,...
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1910
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Among the many villains in D.W.Griffith's 1916 epic Intolerance were those self-styled "social uplifters" who presumptuously...
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1910
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The outskirts of Paterson, New Jersey proved an interesting substitute for 18th-century Paris in Biograph's French Revolution...
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1910
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Always fascinated with Native American mythology and folklore, director D.W. Griffith turned out no fewer than six "Indian"...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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Peggy (Mary Pickford) is a strong-willed young woman who lives during the 18th century. She is not attracted to any of her...
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1910
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No relation to the 1910 D.W.Griffith production of the same name, the 1913 release The Iconoclast was a three-reeler from the...
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1910
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1910
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Long before his epic Birth of a Nation, D.W.Griffith was turning out such one-reel Biograph Civil War melodramas as...
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1910
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