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1930
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1930
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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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1930
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In this comedy, a boozy Brit inherits an estate from his late American uncle. Unfortunately, he is too drunk to claim it and...
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Lady Tweedham
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1930
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In this crime drama a reformed safecracker is pressured by his ex-cellmate to pull off one last job. The cellmate gives the...
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1930
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Colleen Moore's starring vehicles were never as "naughty" as their titles suggested. In Synthetic Sin, for example, Moore is...
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Mrs. Fairfax
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1929
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In this comedy, a middle-class stenographer marries her wealthy boss. Her family is intimidated by his status and when the...
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1929
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The 1929 comedy Twin Beds was the second of three versions of the 1914 stage farce by Margaret Mayo and Salisbury Field. The...
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1929
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Veteran stage actor/playwright James Gleason made his film debut in the Universal comedy The Count of Ten. In fact, Gleason...
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Mother
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1928
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Lois Moran stars as Joan Robinson, the chorus-girl daughter of blue-collar workers Ma and Pa Robinson (Edythe Chapman and...
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Ma Robinson
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1928
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Ma Randall
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1928
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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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1928
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The dazzlingly gorgeous Billie Dove is appropriately cast as the title character in American Beauty. This is the story of...
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1927
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1927
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Even without the benefit of sound, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg seems to be inundated by Franz Lehar's unforgettable...
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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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Mrs. Carteret
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1927
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Previously filmed in 1920, Harold Bell Wright's "backwoods" novel Shepherd of the Hills was remade in 1928. The story is...
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1927
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Faithful Wives begins as condemned prisoner Tom Burke (Wallace MacDonald) contemplates his impending appointment with the...
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The Mother
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1927
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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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Grandmother Janeway
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1927
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Mrs. Bennett
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1926
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Real-life college gridiron hero Red Grange heads the cast of the football drama One Minute to Play. Though his father wants...
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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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Mrs. Murrell
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1926
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Based on a 1911 novel by Elinor Glyn, this melodrama seems at first to focus on the dilemma of whether to marry for material...
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Tancred's Mother
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1925
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Julian (Percy Marmont) is an artist with a restless soul. When he runs into Edith, his childhood sweetheart (Alice Joyce), he...
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1925
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This drama was based on the play by Henry Wallace. Two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter...
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1925
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Motion Picture News warned that this melodrama, which was sentimental to the point of "hokum," would be better appreciated in...
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Mother Moore
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1925
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Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte (Ricardo Cortez) travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood...
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1925
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Director John Ford was out of his element with this comedy, based on the hit Broadway play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon...
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1925
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1925
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Charles "Buck" Jones, normally a heroic Western star, takes a surprising turn by playing a shiftless rural character in this...
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1925
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This comedy was based on a novel by author Edna Ferber. Although she is merely a classified ads employee, Babs Comet (Corinne...
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1925
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Matt Moore stars as Judson Clark, a wealthy but idle young man who is in love with actress Beverly Carlysle (Nita Naldi). Her...
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1924
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1924
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Before he became a producer at MGM, Paul Bern showed a flair for directing, adding a sophisticated touch to this...
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Mrs. Lawson
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1924
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This mystical tale of India was based on the novel by E.M. Hull, the author of The Sheik, the book which became the film that...
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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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Mrs. Hadley
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1924
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1924
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Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
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1923
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Norma O'Neill (Katherine McDonald) is an aspiring actress who tries to prove a vampish screen persona does not interfere with...
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1923
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Charles Ray returns to playing a bashful rural boy in this character study, loosely based on the James Whitcomb Riley poem....
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Mother Middleton
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1923
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The "shocking" (by 1923 standards) title to this picture was just a smokescreen -- in reality, it was merely a domestic soap...
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Mrs. George Reed
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1923
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Gloria Swanson is My American Wife in this farfetched but entertaining romantic drama. Married to Argentinian horse rancher...
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1923
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The forty-ish Leah Baird was getting a bit too old to play ingenues, but she was still writing that type of role for herself....
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Mrs. Morfho Mansfield
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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This picture did great at the box office, and no wonder -- Paramount's biggest star of the day, Gloria Swanson, co-starred...
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Lady Bracondale
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1922
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From the beginning of her film career, Billie Dove showed a knack for playing chorus girls (it only made sense since she was...
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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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1922
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1922
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Because the drab Under the Lash failed at the box office, Paramount was more than happy to put their star, Gloria Swanson,...
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1922
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A young cowboy turns vigilante after his father is killed in this fine silent Western filmed on location in blistering...
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1922
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Although Charles Ray doesn't play one of his country boy roles in his first picture for United Artists, John Paul Bart could...
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Mrs. Nathan
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1922
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This average romantic melodrama is enhanced by the presence of Constance Binney and Jack Mulhall. After finishing her convent...
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1922
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Bunty Pulls the Strings was adapted from the immensely popular stage farce by Graham Moffat. Leatrice Joy stars as a Scottish...
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1921
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Bert Lytell stars in this delightful crook comedy. Because Rachel Stetherill (Edythe Chapman) disapproves of her daughter's...
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Rachel Stetherill
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1921
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Before he was known as "the man of a thousand faces," Lon Chaney had already become famous for portraying underworld...
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1921
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When she starred in this drama, Helene Chadwick was being referred to as "the most photographed girl in America." Phoebe...
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Mrs. Mabee
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1921
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This light comedy was based on the George Ade play, and Ade in turn seems to have been inspired by It Pays to Advertise,...
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Mrs. Pickering
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1921
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This is one of a number of silent pictures in which a young American is raised as a Chinese girl, and even though she has no...
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1921
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1921
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This minor dramatic programmer was an independent production. In spite of the fact that she's loved by Howard...
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1921
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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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This lively comedy was well suited for Bebe Daniels' talents. Daniels plays Pauline Hathaway, just turned 18 years old, who...
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Mrs. Dom
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1921
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There are no huge names attached to this silent version of the classic Mark Twain story (although director...
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1920
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Margaret Hill (Barbara Castleton) is a poor factory girl who plans to commit suicide when she loses her job. But she is saved...
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1920
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When the Llano Kid (Jack Pickford) shoots a man over a dispute at a gambling hall, he is forced to flee across the border. He...
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1920
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Allegory is a storytelling form little used in cinema today, but it popped up frequently during the silent era, especially...
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1919
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Wallace Reid could have appeared in a filmed version of the classified ads and made a fortune for his home studio of...
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1919
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Teddy Drake (Douglas Fairbanks) is an idle clubman who wakes up to the fact that he's incredibly selfish. He wants to see...
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1919
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This film, based on the stage play Saturday to Monday by William J. Hurlburt, made a nice vehicle for the charms of...
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1919
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Robert Warwick returned from World War I with the rank of major and wound up starring in this movie about the Civil War as...
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1919
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The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille...
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1918
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1918
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1918
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The "heroine" of The Countess Charming was actually the hero, played by legendary female impersonator Julian Eltinge. The...
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1917
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1917
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Blanche Sweet portrays Dr. Katherine Torrance, a woman doctor. Tom Forman is Leonard Sheldon, manager of a Mexican vineyard...
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1917
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Although this classic Charles Dickens tale was filmed at least twice previously, this Lasky version was the first to really...
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1916
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Early in her screen career, former Follies sensation Mae Murray played a number of waif-like roles. Surprisingly, the formula...
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1916
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1916
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The aptly-described title character is Alice Hale, played by Cleo Ridgely. Urged on by her mercenary mother and by her own...
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1916
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The Golden Chance was the last of 12 (!) films directed in 1915 by Cecil B. DeMille. Scripted by DeMille and...
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1915
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Set in Spain, Pretty Sister of Jose was based on a story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, an author better known for such...
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1915
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