This Australian film was produced and directed by an American (Norman Dawn), with an essentially all-American cast. Edith...
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1929
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Popular western star Ken Maynard crooned a couple of prairie tunes in this his first (part-)talkie, making Ken the screen's...
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Sue Smith
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1929
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Produced and directed by Poverty Row entrepreneur Harry S. Webb, this very low-budget silent Northwest melodrama starred...
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Doris Rayburn
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1929
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Countess Jalna
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1928
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There's very little jazz in Jazz Girl, and not a whole lot of logic, either. Edith Roberts stars as lady detective Janet...
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Janet Marsh
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1926
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1926
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This cheapjack melodrama gets under way when Harry Canby (Robert Agnew) commandeers a dilapidated taxi to rescue a "mystery...
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Nancy Cornell/Vera Norris
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1926
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Louisville gal Mary Santley (Edith Roberts) defies her father's wishes and heads to New York, seeking fame and fortune as a...
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Mary Santley
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1926
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Gawky American teenager Daphne Carroll (Edith Roberts) is shipped off to an expensive education in Paris. By the time she...
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Daphne Carroll
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1926
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The publicity packet for The Mystery Club boasted an "all-star cast" -- which, by 1926 standards, it was. Nat Carr,...
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Nancy
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1926
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William Fairbanks (no relation to Douglas) stars in this low-budget prizefight melodrama. An aspiring boxer, blacksmith Bob...
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Polly Brand
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1925
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1925
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Earl Derr Biggers' novel was made into a play by George M. Cohan and had already come to the screen twice before (once with...
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Mary Norton
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1925
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This film is based on the novel The Dear Pretender by Alice Ross Colver. A bank is robbed, and Rose Lore (Edith Roberts)...
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Rose Lore
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1925
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Reckless driver Bill Sanford (William Fairbanks) is finally thrown out of his wealthy father's home when his mania for speed...
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Betty Hampton
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1925
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This independently made melodrama was a decent programmer, even though it suffered from a hackneyed plot. When John Trent...
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1925
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Seemingly the only reason for this drama was its proliferation of cameos -- the gambling hall where the action takes place...
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Lois Carrington
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1924
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Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr, the featured players who made such an impression in The Prisoner of Zenda, reunite in this...
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1924
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Cowboy star Harry Carey occasionally appeared in films that weren't Westerns, and this heavily sentimental action-drama...
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Nora Burke
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1924
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The role of American millionaire turned office clerk was quite a turnaround from playing an Indian rajah in...
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Muriel Hart
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1924
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The upstart Warner Bros. took a whack at Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1920 novel about an American-born countess...
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1924
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Although he is forgotten today, Douglas MacLean was one of the best purveyors of light comedy during the 1920s. While there...
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1923
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The Big Brother organization hadn't yet gone national in 1923, but it had enough of a reputation to inspire the title to this...
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1923
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Respected stage star Alfred Lunt occasionally appeared in motion pictures; this curious and not terribly inspired mystery...
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Yvonne@Yvonne de Chausson
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1923
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Before becoming everyone's favorite supporting comedian, Edward Everett Horton was top-billed in several silent features. In...
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Virginia Hayward
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1922
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Although Frank Packard proved his talent by coming up with The Miracle Man, he was also responsible for the story to this...
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1922
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Even with its share of sumptuous sets and domestic mixups, this comedy-drama was not typical for director Cecil B. DeMille....
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Shamrock O'Day
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1922
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Future Judge Hardy Lewis Stone plays a restless middle-aged man in this drama. After 20 years of marriage, Mary Emerson (Cleo...
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Ruth Emerson
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1922
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Edith Roberts improbably stars as an Indian maiden in this Northwoods drama, based on the story by Jack London. Prospector...
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Chook-Ra
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1922
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It is a surprising and little-known fact that Louis J. Gasnier, who today is most well known for directing the...
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Violet Beaton
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1922
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Lon Chaney Sr. plays David Webster, an honest lawyer unjustly sentenced to a 15-year jail term. Upon his release, Webster...
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1922
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An erupting volcano (or at least the Hollywood version of one) was the special draw of this drama, even more so than its...
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Dulce
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1921
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The title, either by accident or design, is very similar to another film, Lying Lips, which had been released a few months...
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1921
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Sylvia Lacey (Edith Roberts) is sent to relatives in New England when her irresponsible artist father dies penniless. She is...
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Sylvia Lacey
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1921
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Isola Garcia
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1921
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Jeanne (Edith Roberts) works at a book bindery, and when she comes across a diary that Thomas Dodd (Johnnie Cook) has dropped...
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1920
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Edith Roberts stars in this lively comedy-drama. When Charles Wilshire died, he left his ranch in the Texas panhandle to his...
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1920
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After being educated in a convent, Aline Belame (Edith Roberts) comes to stay at the Southern home of her only living...
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1920
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After going to school in America Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) returns to her Fiji home to take care of the rubber...
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1920
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Roma (Edith Roberts) is a girl with too much energy and time on her hands. She becomes bored living with her staid aunt...
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1919
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Lasca (Edith Roberts) is a fiery young Mexican girl living near the border. Rich cattleman Anthony Moreland (Frank Mayo) has...
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1919
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In a odd bit of casting, the strong-willed, 20-year-old Edith Roberts starts out as a meek, 12-year-old ragamuffin in this...
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1918
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After finishing school, Betty Brewster (Edith Roberts) wants to go into business; her father (John Cossar), however, wants...
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1918
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Although Diana Rosson (Edith Roberts) is a rich, sophisticated young woman, she can't stand the eligible bachelors that her...
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1918
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