After making his first appearance as the title character in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series, John Lodge was rushed to...
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Doris
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1937
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Although released as an "Allied Pictures Special," Picture Brides revealed its Poverty Row origins in almost all departments,...
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Mame
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1934
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Before its absorption into the newly-formed 20th Century-Fox corporation in 1935, feisty little Majestic Pictures turned out...
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Lola Cresmer
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1934
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Formerly known as Allied Pictures, M. J. Hoffman's Liberty Pictures turned out quite a few potentially interesting...
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Mabel
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1934
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In this romantic melodrama, a woman tries to protect her sister-in-law from the advances of a bad boy out to take advantage...
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1933
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Somebody at MGM had the bright idea in 1933 to build a series of feature films around the talents of popular radio comedians....
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Dixie
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1933
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Kay Everly
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1932
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Based on a story by Ursula Parrott, this romantic drama from Columbia Pictures was one of Humphrey Bogart's first leading...
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Carol Owen
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1932
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In this marital drama, a wife fears that her checkered past will be revealed when she and her husband move to the city to...
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Diana Barry
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1931
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In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life...
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1931
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Based on a novel by Geoffrey Barnes, Party Husband is a weak-tea drawing room comedy utterly dependant upon the charms of its...
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Laura
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1931
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A young Barbara Stanwyck was considered for the starring role as the exiled call-girl in this extremely frank pre...
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Gilda Carlson
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1931
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In this drama, a blue collar steelworker marries a wealthy socialite. It all begins after he saves two workers during a...
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Dorothy "Dot" Parker
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1931
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In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her...
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Margaret Nichols
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1931
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Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to...
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1931
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In his next-to-last film, silent-screen favorite Milton Sills stars as a tough but good-natured Manhattan bootlegger. Saving...
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Joan
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1930
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Illicit office romances provide the basis of this melodrama. The story centers around an older man's secretary who drops her...
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Anne Murdock
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1930
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A successful female writer finally finds true love in this romance. The story begins as the writer's cousin prepares to...
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Kate
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1930
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Celia
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1930
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In this early musical western, Stephen Ghent (Ian Keith) is a businessman who, after the death of his partner, has been...
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Ruth jordan
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1930
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Taking Two Weeks Off for the first time in his life, plumber Dave Pickett (Jack Mulhall) spends his savings on a posh hotel...
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Kitty Weaver
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1929
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Children of the Ritz was based on a serialized magazine story by future suspense specialist Cornell Woolrich. Spoiled heiress...
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Angela Pennington
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1929
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In this drama, a woman finds herself abandoned when the man she assumed was her husband suddenly marches in, announces that...
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1929
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Milton Sills, one of the silent era's great matinee idols, starred in this follow-up to his sound debut in the part-talkie...
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Anna Bergen
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1929
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Bobby Martin
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1929
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Based on the oft-filmed play by Kenyon Nicholson, The Barker represented the talking-picture debut of silent-screen favorite...
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Lou
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1928
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Sadie Seastrom
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1928
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Unable to utilize the original George Gershwin score, this silent version of the Broadway musical Lady Be Good concentrates...
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Mary
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1928
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Helen Slocum
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1928
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Lady Diana
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1928
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Mildred Marvin
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1927
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Man Crazy is the rather blatant title of this cinemadaptation of Clarissa and the Post Road, a novel by Grace Sartwell Mason....
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Clarissa Janeway
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1927
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol is certainly well cast in Lunatic at Large. Offering a ride to a millionaire, Sam Smith...
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Beatrix
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1927
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Sylvia Dodge
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1927
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Dorothy Mackaill has been raised by her embittered mother to despise all men. A beautiful gal, Mackaill can't help but...
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Gita Carteret
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1927
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The fetchingly underdressed Dorothy Mackaill plays the title role in The Dancer of Paris. Betrayed early on by the degenerate...
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Consuelo
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1926
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The 1926 Ranson's Folly was the second screen version of the rough-and-tumble novel by journalist Richard Harding Davis....
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Mary Cahill
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1926
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Also released as Just Another Blonde, The Girl From Coney Island stars Dorothy Mackaill as the title character. The star...
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Jeanne Cavanaugh
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1926
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Bronx-born Sadie Herman (Dorothy Mackaill) works in the fur department of Sak's Fifth Avenue. Surrounded by so many expensive...
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Sadie Hermann
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1926
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Dorothy Mackaill is well-cast as a high-living flapper in this lively picture, which was based on the popular newspaper...
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Jounno Manners
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1925
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The silent Shore Leave was the first film version of the Hubert Osborne play of the same name (later musicalized as...
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Connie Martin
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1925
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With his masculine, upstanding good looks, Milton Sills was well-cast as a cop in this drama. Jim O'Malley (Sills) is too...
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Lucille Thayer
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1925
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Dr. Lucien LaPierre (Sam de Grasse) desperately wants to marry Elise Duchanier, the maid to a Parisian burlesque star...
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Marthe
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1925
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Chickie Bryce (Dorothy Mackaill) is a stenographer, who, encouraged by her mother (Gladys Brockwell), longs to marry a...
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Chickie
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1925
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When a young man confesses to theft, his wealthy and influential father has him "shanghaied" aboard one of the company ships...
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Linda Harper
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1925
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Marcelie
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1924
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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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Elsie Maury
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1924
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Jeanie Andrews (Dorothy Mackaill) wonders what to do when her husband loses his memory and she is left to fend for herself...
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Jeanie Andrews
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1924
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This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove...
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1924
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It was impossible for director Sam Wood to include all of Arthur Train's sprawling novel in this picture. Instead he seems to...
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Sheila
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1923
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Richard Barthelmess plays completely against type in this romantic costume drama. Instead of the usual homespun boy, here he...
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1923
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Just because movies before the late '20s were filmed without sound recording, it doesn't mean they were truly silent. This...
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Rose Duncan
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1923
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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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Lynnie Willis
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1923
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This low-budget action-thriller marked the film debut of "Arrow Collar man" (or, rather, the most famous of several Arrow...
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1923
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Ex-Follies girl Dorothy Mackaill was perfectly cast as what else -- a chorus girl -- in this light comedy. However, her...
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Camilla Van Dam
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1923
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The reviewer for Motion Picture News got a little too wrapped up in his own hyperbole when he gushed that Mary Alden as...
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Sally Plummer
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1922
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This melodrama is based on a play that was popular in the first decade of the 1900s. Unfortunately, it was quite dated by the...
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1922
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This comedy-drama, made by the obscure Syracuse Motion Picture Company, nevertheless had a stellar cast. Thurlow Barclay...
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1922
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This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine...
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1921
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1920
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