How Dooo You Do? offers two refugees from radio's Eddie Cantor Show, Bert Gordon and Harry Von Zell, as an erstwhile comedy...
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1946
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Barefoot Boy is a throwback to the sort of bucolic family fare in which Monogram Pictures specialized in the early 1930s....
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Valerie Hale
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1938
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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Invincible Studios' Cross Streets is something of a watershed film, providing leading roles for fading silent stars...
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Anne Clement
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1934
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1933
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A young woman believes that her mother's gambling house is a hotel. When a gambler angry about being cheated there convinces...
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1933
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Annie Frayne
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1933
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1933
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In this romance, a wealthy old Wall Street financier falls in love with a younger woman. To win her heart, he decides to go...
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Helen Craig
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1929
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Virile Victor McLaglen goes shirtless throughout most of the late silent Captain Lash. After rescuing wealthy ship's...
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Cora Nevins
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1929
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The title of this "woman's picture" had little to do with its content. The story is set in an industrial town, where...
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1928
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The Grain of Dust was based on the best-selling novel by David Graham Phillips. Lillian Walker plays Dorothy Hallowell, known...
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1928
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1928
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In this silent crime drama, a police detective masquerades as a convict to befriend a young prison inmate who knows the...
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Mary
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1928
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Fashion Madness is The Taming of the Shrew, Roaring '20s style. Claire Windsor plays the spoiled-rotten daughter of a wealthy...
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1928
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Claire
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1928
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The Claw is set in Africa, where the wealthy but spineless Maurice Stair (Norman Kerry) has arrived to assume management of...
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Deidre Saurin
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1927
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1927
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Edward H. Griffith, whose list of directorial credits extended back to the Edison Studios days, was at the controls of...
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1927
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Small time mores were satirized in this low-budget comedy-drama from poverty row company Gotham Productions. Claire Windsor...
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1927
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Colonel Tim McCoy continued his string of successful historical Westerns with The Frontiersman, a muscular adventure set in...
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1927
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Taking time out from his fine series of historical westerns, Colonel Tim McCoy starred in this action melodrama set in China...
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Patricia Rutledge
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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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Julia Rutherford
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1927
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The fact that the advertising posters for Tin Hats were designed by John Held Jr. is the most memorable aspect of this minor...
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Elsa Von Bergen
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1926
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Long before becoming the talkie era's foremost screen sourpuss, Ned Sparks was seen as a double-dyed villain in such films as...
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Phoebe Starling
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1926
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May Anderson
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1926
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The mother
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1925
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Steel worker Robert Holden (Conway Tearle) becomes president of the corporation, thanks to his involvement in an invention...
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June Holton
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1925
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This drama was the type of feature that was very popular among typical filmgoers in the 1920s. Fred and Alice Garlan (Eugene...
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Alice Garlan
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1925
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Although MGM was known for its streamlined, quality pictures, that didn't mean all its product was glossy, high-budget stuff....
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Robinette
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1925
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This famous old stage melodrama by Owen Davis is directed with a lot of spirit by Emmett J. Flynn and features a first rate...
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Nellie
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1924
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This romantic drama only used half the clichés of the typical horse racing story. There's the impoverished Colonel (or in...
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The daughter
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1924
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First National dressed up this routine society melodrama with a good cast and a decently written story line. Harrison Bates...
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Eleanor Bates
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1924
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Before hitting his stride at MGM later in the 1920s, director Clarence Brown was contracted to make five "Super-Jewels" for...
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Madeline Ames
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1923
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Mrs Walters
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1923
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Author Anthony Hope's sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda had been filmed once before, in 1915. But filmgoers were far more...
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Countess Helga
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1923
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The Little Church Around the Corner is important as the first major financial success for the fledgling Warner Bros. studios....
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Leila Morton
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1923
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As his first picture for the Goldwyn studios, director Marshall Neilan decided to adapt Donn Byrne's sprawling novel to the...
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Derith Keogh
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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This crime thriller, "suggested by" the story by Hugh McNain Kahler, benefited from the fine directorial hand of Marshall...
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Ann Whittaker
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1922
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Veteran silent star Henry Walthall shines in this drama, based on the novel by Frances Nimmo Greene. In spite of the...
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Faith
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1922
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For a director with less-than-stellar talents, Louis J. Gasnier certainly led a charmed life for a while, something attested...
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Gay Davenport
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1922
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Eastern boy Malcolm McGregor takes a job in a Western lumber camp to improve his manliness. In his job as overseer, he meets...
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Hortense Allen
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1922
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Back in 1922, grand larceny meant theft of anything more than 50 dollars. In this tale of domestic turmoil, however, it...
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Kathleen Vaughn
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1922
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According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank...
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1921
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The rugged Franklyn Farnum stars in this tale of Northwest bootleggers. Two revenuers, Fitzgerald (Farnum) and Herrick (Bud...
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1921
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Too Wise Wives was an independent film produced and directed by prominent woman director Lois Weber. It is a pointed soap...
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1921
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The solid production (courtesy of director William Worthington) made this Universal programmer an above-average offering. Dr....
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Helen Keene
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1921
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Lois Weber was generally championing something or someone in her films; this time around it's underpaid white-collar workers....
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Amelia Griggs
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1921
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