Basically a silent picture for most of its 92-minute running time, Kitty switches to sound during its last 2 1/2 reels....
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Mrs. St. George
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1929
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Stage director Rouben Mamoulian jolted the (at the time) moribund sound-film industry with innovative sound experiments and...
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1929
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Frank Lloyd both produced and directed The Divine Lady, a Hollywood slant on the 19th century romance of Lord Horatio Nelson...
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1929
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In this drama, a junkman, Maurice Chevalier in his American film debut, rescues a drowning boy from the Seine. The boy's...
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1929
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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1928
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The Wind, Victor Sjostrom's final American film, is a western only in its locale: its symbolism-laden story of physical and...
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Cora
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1928
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Queen Alexia
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1928
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A prison melodrama with a heart, Life's Mockery starred Betty Compson as Kit Miller, the daughter of notorious gangster Wolf...
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1928
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Mme. Zizi Rouck, Marianne's Mother
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1928
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Mary, the Mother
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1927
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The Lovelorn was inspired by the popular "advice" column by Beatrice Fairfax, here played by Dorothy Cumming. Heroine Georgie...
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Beatrice Fairfax
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1927
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Legendary (and, to some, infamous) African-American comedian Stepin Fetchit made his first screen appearance in...
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Mrs. Brierly
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1927
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Ninety percent of the silent films of director Edward H. Sloman have been lost to the ages, and Butterflies in the Rain is no...
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1926
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For Wives Only was based on the stage play The Critical Year. The story takes place in Vienna, where handsome Dr. Rittenhaus...
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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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Mrs. Massarene
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1926
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Mademoiselle Modiste is based on the Victor Herbert-Henry Blossom operetta of the same name -- minus the music, of course....
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Marianne
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1926
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As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated...
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1926
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Although this isn't one of her top pictures, Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made it. She's excellent...
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Constance Fay
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1925
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Maria Maretti (Bebe Daniels) works as a manicurist at a posh hotel. She is in love with Tony Luca (Edmund Burns), and they...
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Flora
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1925
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Seven years after its end, there was a resurgence of films about World War I. This one, based on the novel Invisible Wounds...
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1925
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American engineer Robert Maury (Conway Tearle) travels to Paris with his wife, Elsie (Dorothy Mackaill). He leaves her there...
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1924
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Dalla (Betty Compson) is an untamed orphan of the South African veldt. She falls in love with Colonel Valentia, a noted...
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Clodah Harrison
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1924
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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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1924
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Although Richard Barthelmess was one of the bigger stars of the silent era, not all his films were worthy of his talents....
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Mrs. McCullough
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1923
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Paramount brought the exotic Pola Negri over from Europe, and then it seemed like they didn't know what to do with her. Bella...
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Lucy Hodge
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1923
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1922
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The Booth Tarkington-Harry Leon Wilson play was filmed once previously, in 1914, by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. For the...
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Princess Sabina
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1922
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According to trade paper Wid's, "If it happened that you got into your seat just after the introductory titles had been run...
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Jessica Ramsey
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1921
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1920
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When Geanor Lisle (Katherine MacDonald) is named as correspondent in a divorce case, her parents (Margaret Campbell and...
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1920
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Before becoming a silent screen star, Marguerite Clark played Snow White on the stage, and Famous Players eventually had her...
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1916
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