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2008
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Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are...
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1987
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This documentary about the history of popular music in America focuses on music hall style, taking a look back at the...
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1976
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One of producer Joseph Levine's earliest projects, Gaslight Follies is a compilation of silent film footage narrated by...
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1945
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Clara Bow, the saucy "It" girl of the silent screen, made her film farewell in the ragged musical drama Hoopla. Based on the...
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Lou
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1933
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In this melodrama with strong racist overtones, Clara Bow attempts to revive her failing career by playing a free-spirited...
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Nasa "Dynamite" Springer
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1932
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1922, Willard Mack's barnstorming stage melodrama Kick In was exhumed again in 1931 as a...
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Molly Hewes
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1931
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In this fluffy comedy, an innocent usherette falls for a customer whom she finally meets and eventually marries. Soon after...
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Helen "Bunny" O'Day
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1931
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Clara Bow's career as one of Hollywood's liveliest leading ladies was drawing to a close when she made this early sound...
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Norma Martin
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1930
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Clara Bow's flat Brooklynese voice seems perfectly suited for the rowdy goings-on in True to the Navy. The "It" girl plays...
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Ruby Nolan
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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Guest Star
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1930
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Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the silent screen, goes through the motions of the Cinderella yarn Love Among the Millionaires. A...
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Pepper Green
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1930
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In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying....
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Stella Ames
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1929
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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Mayme
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1929
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Circus life provides the framework of this drama that chronicles the love, life, and aspiration of a young circus waif. The...
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Pat Delaney
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1929
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Trixie Deane
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1928
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It was romance novelist Elinor Glyn who dubbed Clara Bow the "It" girl, so it was hardly a surprise when Bow starred in this...
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"Bubbles" McCoy
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1928
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The tiny but voluptuous chassis of Clara Bow is given ample display in the exotic romance Hula. The story takes place in...
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Hula Calhoun
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1928
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The Clara Bow vehicle Three Week Ends was based on a story by Elinor Glyn, the romance novelist who bestowed the "It Girl"...
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Gladys OBrien
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1928
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The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow goes to heck in a...
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Yvonne
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1928
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Contrary to popular belief, Clara Bow was already Paramount's biggest box-office draw when she starred in this delightful...
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Betty Lou
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1927
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Kitty Flanders (Yvonne Pelletier), Jean Waddington and Ted Larrabee (Don Marion) are all "children of divorce" -- the two...
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Kitty Flanders
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1927
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Nancy Worthington
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1927
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"Rough House Rosie" Reilly (Clara Bow) just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Hoping to become a Broadway actress, Rosie...
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Rosie O'Reilly
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1927
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Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is...
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Mary Preston
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1927
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Mary Brophy
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1926
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In one of her first Paramount vehicles, Clara Bow stars as Cynthia Meade, a movie actress on location in the hills of...
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Cynthia Meade
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1926
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Clara Bow plays an inveterate flirt who impulsively marries much-older mountain man Ernest Torrence. When city lawyer...
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Alverna
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1926
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Fascinating Youth was designed as a showcase for the winners of Paramount's Junior Star contest of 1926. Newcomer...
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1926
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Believe it or not, Betty Bronson, who starred in the title role of Peter Pan, was the first choice to play jazz baby Kittens...
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Kittens Westcourt
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1926
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Based on the musical comedy of the same name, Kid Boots was the first of two silent vehicles for irrepressible Ziegfeld...
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Jane Martin
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1926
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In one of her last films before joining Paramount Pictures, Clara Bow stars as Dorothy Hamis, the niece of conservative...
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Dorothy Hammis
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1926
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Clara Bow and Donald Keith were teamed in several low-budget romantic comedies of the 1920s, but only Bow made it to the big...
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Marie Anthony
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1926
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Grizette, Dubois' Secretary
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1925
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Clara Bow is the sole redeeming factor of the cheaply produced melodrama Lawful Cheaters. Actually, that's not a fair...
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Molly Burns
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1925
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Gene Stratton-Porter's 1875 novel was still very widely read 50 years later, when it was made into a motion picture. James...
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Lolly Cameron
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1925
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In her pre-Paramount days, Clara Bow was shoved into some pretty dismal pictures. This aimless drama was one of the worst....
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1925
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After cutting his teeth on Mack Sennett comedies, this drama became Roy Del Ruth's first serious film. Eve Burnside (Irene...
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1925
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Produced by Preferred Pictures on rental stages at FBO and on-location at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, The Plastic Age...
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Cynthia Day
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1925
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Few leading ladies appeared in as many films in 1926 as the vivacious Clara Bow. In My Lady's Lips, Bow plays the feisty...
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Lola Lombard
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1925
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner had no love interest. The 1925 movie adaptation, titled...
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Doris
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1925
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Financed to a great extent by local businessmen and historical societies, this Colorado-lensed silent western once again...
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Miriam
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1925
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Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent (Cyril Chadwick) is forcing...
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Peggy Swain
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1925
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The drama opens with a prologue in which an innocent boy (Eddie Phillips) is sent to the electric chair and executed before...
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Delia Tate
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1925
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Producer B. P. Schulberg put his top star, Clara Bow, through her paces in this silent melodrama of a girl (Clara of course)...
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1925
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Even though Clara Bow was close to achieving true stardom, she was still being cast in crass, low-budget fare. In fact, she...
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Marilyn Merrill
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1925
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My Lady of Whims was one of the last of Clara Bow's vehicles for Arrow Productions before the actress' upward move to...
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Prudence Severn
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1925
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This overwrought program drama was given a racy title to promote the up-and-coming Clara Bow, but all it really did for her...
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The Girl
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1925
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Irene Rich was one of Warner Bros.' new stars when she made this drama. Poverty-stricken singer Carol Drayton (Rich) attempts...
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1924
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Milt Kimberlin (John Bowers) is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and engaging...
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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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Janet Ogelthorpe
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1924
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Although Clara Bow was not yet a full-fledged star, she had already made a mark by mid-'20s. In this melodrama, said trade...
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1924
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In spite of its racy title, this society drama is really a down-to-earth look at the effects that sudden wealth has on a poor...
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Lila Millas
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1924
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Alice Tremaine
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1924
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Pictures starring dogs, especially German Shepherds, were quite popular in the early 1920s -- in addition to Strongheart and...
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Martha Larned
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1924
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1924
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This mediocre romantic drama was vastly improved by the presence of a certain WAMPAS Baby Star (a popularity award given by...
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1924
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was commissioned to write the story to this low budget crime drama for actor Glenn Hughes. In spite of...
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1924
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This epic production was the last film that producer and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst produced for Paramount...
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1923
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This independently made drama featured some notable cast members -- Charles Emmett Mack was a D.W. Griffith protégé (although...
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Mary
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1923
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This whaling drama is most famous as the screen debut of Clara Bow (Bow had actually made one previous film, Beyond the...
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"Dot" Morgan
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1922
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If her scenes had not ended up on the cutting-room floor, this uneven drama would have been the film debut of Clara Bow...
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1922
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